Green Car Congress

JULY 22, 2010

The US Department of Energy has selected six projects for funding that aim to find ways of converting captured carbon dioxide emissions from industrial sources into useful products such as fuel, plastics, cement, and fertilizers. The host site for the pilot project is Cedar Lane Farms in Wooster, Ohio. DOE Share: $6,239,542).

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Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 18, 2012

Ohio-based AMP Electric vehicles will no-longer convert gasoline cars to electric, it announced yesterday. Instead, the company announced on a conference-call yesterday, it aims to focus on converting medium-sized commercial vehicles to all-electric operation.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 15, 2011

Acreage in Arkansas, Missouri, Ohio and Pennsylvania will be designated to grow giant miscanthus, a sterile hybrid warm-season grass that can be converted into energy to be used for heat, power, liquid biofuels, and bio-based products.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 21, 2015

The Ohio State University in collaboration with the University of Alabama and Green Biologics. Develop a cellulosic butanol production process with high productivities, yields, and carbon conversion through novel metabolic engineering of two different pathways. OPX Biotechnologies.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 3, 2021

A common farm weed could make a jet fuel with fewer production-related environmental impacts than other biofuels, according to a new lifecycle study by researchers at The Ohio State University. Energy allocation method was used for the analysis. million l/yr (5 million gal/yr) HRJ.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 11, 2013

Once harvested and processed, camelina oil and meal will be chemically converted to a variety of adhesives, coatings and composites. Ohio State University, $6,510,183. This project will convert lignocellulosic biomass to infrastructure-compatible renewable diesel, bio-lubricants, animal feed and biopower. Ceramatec, Inc.,

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

Pinto Energy LLC (Pinto), a developer of smaller scale Gas-to-Liquids (GTL) facilities, will build a 2,800 barrel per day (bpd) GTL plant at Pinto’s 80-acre industrial site to the east of Ashtabula, Ohio. Mechanical completion of the plant is expected in late 2015, with start-up in early 2016. Fuels Gas-to-Liquids (GTL)'

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

Ohio-based Advanced Mechanical Products, Inc. ( AMP ), a company engaged in the conversion of new vehicles to full battery-electric drive, unveiled its latest all-electric conversion platform, the GM Chevrolet Equinox. AMP will use the Remy HVH250 electric motors in their custom electric vehicle conversions.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 10, 2012

The analysis used the Ohio State University EcoCAR, a student prototype PHEV, as the basis for the preliminary fuel economy evaluation. This value represents the upper limit for waste heat recovery systems to convert thermal energy from the exhaust gases into mechanical energy. of the fuel energy on the NEDC cycle.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 17, 2015

WBG components—which control or convert electrical energy into usable power—operate at higher temperatures, voltages, and frequencies than silicon-based technologies. They are more durable and reliable, and can eliminate up to 90% of the power losses in electricity conversion compared to current technologies.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

Inspired by the damping mechanisms which sustain trees under wind and seismic loads, researchers at The Ohio State University and the University of Michigan are investigating the potential for the development of energy harvesting systems that efficiently convert the same motion- and wind-based excitations into electric power.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 15, 2021

As a result, there is a critical need to create new pathways for biofuel conversion that reduces carbon waste, prevents the loss of CO 2 emissions, and in turn, maximizes the amount of renewable fuel a conversion process yields. The awardees are: LanzaTech, Inc. Carbon-Negative Chemical Production Platform - $4,160,262.57.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

The project will develop a new device called the Galloping Hydrokinetic Energy Extraction Device that will convert fast-moving river currents into an oscillating motion that will drive a dielectric elastomer generator (DEG). The goal is to develop an optimal generator for current energy conversion. DOE Funding: $160,000.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 28, 2009

Additional hydroprocessing application opportunities include the processing of edible oils, specialty and fine chemicals, and conversion of natural oils and fats to transportation fuels. The grant is part of the Ohio Department of Development’s Third Frontier Project, a $1.6-billion, Velocys, Inc. billion, 10-year initiative.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 16, 2014

In electronic devices, WBG semiconductors can eliminate up to 90% of the power losses that currently occur during AC-to-DC and DC-to-AC electricity conversion, and they can handle voltages more than 10 times higher than Si-based devices, greatly enhancing performance in high-power applications.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 27, 2009

metric ton reduction in green house gases per vehicle conversion, this has the potential to reduce more than 125,000 metric tons of greenhouse gasses over this ten year period. This minimum number does not include a premium that is anticipated for electric vehicles, so actual revenue opportunity would be more. Also, based on a 2.45

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Green Car Congress

JULY 9, 2009

Discharging the metal-air cells entails the conversion of oxygen from the atmosphere to hydroxyl ions in the air electrode. Charging of metal-air cells converts hydroxyl ions to oxygen in the air electrode, releasing electrons. A separator between the anode and cathode prevents short circuits. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 3, 2014

Researchers at The Ohio State University have developed a novel strategy to improve the efficiency and performance of non-aqueous lithium-oxygen (Li-air) batteries. During the charging process, the reduced form of the redox shuttle, M red , is first converted to M ox on the oxygen electrode, which in turn oxidizes the Li 2 O 2.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 26, 2022

The investment includes construction of a new Ultium Cells battery cell plant in Lansing with LG and the conversion of GM’s assembly plant in Orion Township, Michigan for production of the Chevrolet Silverado EV and the electric GMC Sierra. Production of the Chevrolet Bolt EV and EUV will continue during the plant’s conversion.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2022

The new superjunction structure will surpass the theoretical trade-off between on- resistance and breakdown voltage observed in conventional unipolar GaN, leading to more efficient and cheaper power converters. The Ohio State University. Ultra Light-weight Bidirectional DC-DC Converters for Electric Aircraft - $1,195,345.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 30, 2010

Today’s technologies for making biofuels all rely on photosynthesis—either indirectly by converting plants to fuels or directly by harnessing photosynthetic organisms such as algae. This process is less than 1% efficient at converting sunlight to stored chemical energy. Ohio State Univ. Electrofuels: Biofuels from Electricity.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 30, 2014

First, a GTI-based Andritz-Carbona bubbling fluidized bed (BFB) biomass gasifier ( left ) converts wood into syngas. For the last step ( right ), the Haldor Topsøe Improved Gasoline Synthesis (TIGAS) process converted the syngas into gasoline blendstock. Earlier post.). Click to enlarge. Results will be available in September 2014.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

The Ohio State University, T-Type Modular DC Circuit Breaker (T-Breaker) for Future DC Networks – $2,309,950. These devices will provide highly efficient power conversion (such as from direct to alternating current) in medium voltage applications, including renewables like solar and wind power, as well as transportation.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Its fuel stores about 43 megajoules of energy per kilogram, and a current-model engine can convert that stored energy into thrust with an efficiency of around 40 percent. Advanced semiconductors, motors, and batteries are enabling energy conversion efficiencies above 90 percent and continuously improving the ratio of power to weight.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 19, 2023

DOE Funding: $1,249,997; Non-DOE Funding: $312,516; Total Value: $1,562,513 Oxygen Integrated Unit for Modular Biomass Conversion to Hydrogen — Palo Alto Research Center Inc., approximately 1400 °C).

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 26, 2021

Highly Efficient Electrocatalysts for Direct Conversion Of CO2 To Chemicals, $250,000. De Nora Tech, LLC (Concord, Ohio). Bio-based Insecticides from Thermochemical Conversion of Biomass, $100,000. High-Power Oak Ridge Converter (ORC) for Extreme Fast Charging (XFC) Applications, $750,000. Framatome Inc. Pune, India).

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 26, 2009

The project will convert local landfill gas (LFG), a renewable fuel source, to compressed natural gas and develop five CNG fueling stations throughout the metro-Atlanta area. Clean Fuels Ohio’s Ohio Advanced Transportation Partnership (OATP). Total DOE award: $14,994,183. The project also includes construction of a B20 station.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority, Ohio: $2,257,000. Energy Reduction Consolidated Projects: A variety of building energy-efficiency upgrades, hybrid vehicle upgrades, wind generator power systems, and the equipment needed to convert cooking oil to a blend with vehicle fuel to operate some of their buses.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 28, 2015

These latest two competitively selected research and development projects will focus on lowering biofuel production costs by converting lignin to valuable products other than heat and power. million to develop a single-unit process to convert lignin for increased utilization in the production of bioplastics.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 2, 2015

After debuting the first solar air battery—a photo-assisted charging Li-O 2 battery—last fall ( earlier post ), researchers at The Ohio State University led by Professor Yiying Wu have now developed a new system combining a solar cell and a battery into a single device. Credit: ACS, Yu et al. Click to enlarge. —Yu et al.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 23, 2019

Durable and affordable higher-temperature heat exchangers could make energy conversion much more efficient, which in turn could reduce fuel consumption, system footprint, capital and operational cost, and emissions. The Ohio State University. Additively Manufactured High Efficiency and Low-Cost sCO 2 Heat Exchangers – $1,500,000.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 26, 2009

RTI International will work with ADM, Albemarle and ConocoPhillips to develop a novel single-step catalytic biomass pyrolysis process with high carbon conversion efficiency to produce stable bio-crude oil with low oxygen content. Towards Scale Solar Conversion of CO 2 and Water Vapor to Hydrocarbon Fuels. DOE grant: $2,200,000).

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Creative Greenius

JUNE 11, 2009

To put that in perspective for you, if Los Angeles County were a state, it would rank ninth in population behind the states of California, New York, Texas, Florida, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Ohio, and Michigan. Convert your Prius to a plug-in hybrid and rock the world. Plug In Conversions Corp. NO PURCHASE!

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 12, 2012

Collaborators include Meridian Lightweight Technologies and The Ohio State University. Recovery, Waste-to-Energy Conversion, and Waste-to-Chemical Conversion with Industrial Gas and Chemical Manufacturing Processes. to the multi-piece, multi-step, stamping and joining process currently used to manufacture car doors.

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EV Central

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

General Motor eCrate conversion kits – by late 2021 GM plans to offer battery and motor kits for classic cars, allowing an easy EV conversion. Lordstown Endurance EV – to be built in an ex-GM factory in Ohio the new hulking double cab ute runs only on electricity and brings big grunt.

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