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MARCH 25, 2023

A study by MathPro Inc., The report estimates an incremental cost of 0.09 L) to hydrotreat fossil jet fuel at the conversion refineries that produce the bulk of aviation jet fuel worldwide. The report estimates an incremental cost of 0.09 USD/gallon (~€0.03/L) USD/gallon (~€0.03/L)

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JUNE 9, 2014

In a 21013 study, researchers found large air quality and associated health benefits accruing to the residents of Dhaka (the capital of Bangladesh) as a result of the rapid conversion of the motor vehicle fleet to CNG. Total vehicle travel increased by 4.4%, congestion costs increased by 9.6%. Earlier post.) 2014.04.017.

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JUNE 16, 2021

A study by a team of researchers from Technische Universität Berlin (TUB) and Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft has found that direct seawater splitting for hydrogen production has substantial drawbacks compared to conventional water splitting and offers almost no advantage. Additionally, H 2 O is needed for water splitting.

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AUGUST 29, 2021

A team at MITEI (MIT Energy Initiative) has found that hydrogen-generated electricity can be a cost-competitive option for backing up wind and solar. Nailing down the costs of hydrogen-fired electricity generation, however, was challenging. Much of this information was publicly available. 2021.117314.

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JULY 3, 2016

A study by a team at University of Illinois at Urbana−Champaign has found that, with currently achievable performance levels, synthetic fuels produced via the electrochemical reduction of CO 2 and the Fischer-Tropsch (FT) process system are not economically and environmentally competitive with using petroleum-based fuel. 6b00665.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2020

The chemical process employed by the scientists also could reduce costs and energy requirements for producing liquid hydrocarbons and other chemicals used by industry. The conversion normally requires significant amounts of energy in the form of high heat—a temperature of at least 700 ?C,

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Baua Electric

APRIL 25, 2024

EV conversion specialist Everrati announced reshuffling its business-to-business (B2B) strategy, rebranding the division as “Powered by Everrati.” It specializes in EV conversions of timeless classics like Porsche 911s and Land Rovers. Everrati Automotive Ltd. is a UK-based restoration company that has expanded its business to the US.

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JUNE 23, 2023

They used the model and the data to estimate the life cycle air pollution, greenhouse gas, and traffic externality benefits and costs of serving rides based on Chicago TNC trip data from 2019 to 2022 with fully electric vehicles. A paper on their work is published in the ACS journal Environmental Science & Technology. —Mohan et al.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2022

This discovery paves the way for sustainable, low-cost hydrogen that could be produced locally rather than in massive centralized plants. The new study is a culmination of that work. It also demonstrates that photocatalysis can be efficiently performed with inexpensive LED photon sources. —co-author Naomi Halas.

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JUNE 26, 2022

The rapidly growing space industry may have a greater climate effect than the aviation industry and undo repair to the protective ozone layer if left unregulated, according to a new study led by UCL and published in the journal Earth’s Future as an open-access paper. The space industry is one of the world’s fastest growing sectors.

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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. Such techniques can add to the financial cost of growing crops, but reduce their environmental footprints. million l/yr (5 million gal/yr) HRJ.

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DECEMBER 1, 2013

Now, researchers at Imperial College London have shown that bioethanol production from bamboo in China is both technically and economically feasible, as well as cost-competitive with gasoline. An open access paper on their study is published in Biotechnology for Biofuels. —Littlewood et al. Littlewood et al. Click to enlarge.

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JULY 13, 2019

Efforts to shift away from fossil fuels and replace oil and coal with renewable energy sources can help reduce carbon emissions but do so at the expense of increased inequality, according to a new study by researchers at Portland State University (PSU) and Vanderbilt University. —Julius McGee.

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JANUARY 25, 2023

Lower grade, higher cost projects will be required to fill that growing demand gap, Albemarle said. Bringin on new capacity requires extensive time and resources, starting with early exploration and target testing (3-6 years) to engineering and economic studies (6-7 years) to construction and initial production (0.5 to 2 years).

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JANUARY 7, 2013

The study task design steps. A recent study found that an aluminum electric vehicle can cost up to €635 (US$829) less than that its steel counterpart despite the higher cost of aluminum, given equivalent range targets. The next step was the conversion of that EV to a full aluminium space frame electric vehicle.

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JANUARY 25, 2021

Norwegian-based broad energy company Equinor, gas transmission system operator OGE and steel producer thyssenkrupp Steel Europe have concluded their joint feasibility study started in October 2019 and will continue their cooperation on the topic going forward.

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JULY 6, 2015

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has issued a funding opportunity announcement ( DE-FOA-0001342 ) for cost-effective CO 2 capture or conversion solutions for coal-relevant applications at low concentrations. Total funding is anticipated to be $3 million, with at least 20% cost-share.

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MAY 10, 2023

In collaboration with NE, DOE’s Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technologies Office will provide funding and project oversight for the two hydrogen production–related projects that were selected: General Electric Global Research, Scaled Solid Oxide Co-Electrolysis for Low-Cost Syngas Synthesis from Nuclear Energy.

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MARCH 2, 2018

If there were a sustainable, cost-efficient route to transform CO 2 to CO, it would benefit society greatly. A competing reaction, called the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) or “water splitting,” takes precedence over the CO 2 conversion reaction. This study was supported in part by the Rowland Institute at Harvard University.

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AUGUST 5, 2022

The new material is simple to make, requiring primarily off-the-shelf melamine powder—which today costs about $40 per ton—along with formaldehyde and cyanuric acid, a chemical that, among other uses, is added with chlorine to swimming pools. The low cost of porous melamine means that the material could be deployed widely.

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JULY 15, 2015

The projects conducted through this program are geared toward reducing the cost of coal conversion and mitigating the environmental impacts of fossil-fueled power generation. DOE: $650,000 Non DOE: $162,500 Total: $812,500 (20% cost share). DOE: $564,201 Non DOE: $141,148 Total: $705,349 (20% cost share). Description.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

The research, supported by DOE’s BioEnergy Technologies Office (BETO), has implications for the energy efficiency and cost of catalytic upgrading technologies proposed for use in bio-refineries. This has renewed interest in the conversion of ethanol to hydrocarbon blend-stock and other industrial chemicals. market penetration is low.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2017

Bi 0.73 ) achieved 95% methane conversion at 1065°C in a 1.1-meter Under these conditions, the equilibrium conversion is 98%. When the temperature was reduced to 1040 °C, the CH 4 conversion decreased to 86%. Higher conversions, at higher temperatures, were not possible because of Mg evaporation. —Upham et al.

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JUNE 23, 2023

Like its sister molecule methanol, DME can be produced particularly efficiently and cost-effectively as a climate-neutral energy source and is characterized by emission-reducing properties in diesel engine combustion (virtually soot-free when used as a pure fuel with simultaneous reduction of nitrogen oxides).

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AUGUST 26, 2021

ENEOS Corporation and Origin Energy signed a memorandum of understanding to conduct a study on a potential business collaboration for the development of a CO 2 -free hydrogen supply chain between Japan and Australia. Conversion of manufactured hydrogen into MCH, a form of efficient hydrogen storage and transport.

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JULY 30, 2014

Researchers from the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) have identified molybdenum disulfide as a promising cost-effective substitute for noble metal catalysts for the electrochemical reduction of carbon dioxide. The new catalyst improves efficiency and lowers cost. Carbon Capture and Conversion (CCC) Catalysts Fuels'

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 1, 2018

Lower cost and higher efficiency biomass deconstruction remains a critical hurdle towards large-scale deployment of affordable lignocellulosic biofuels. In the study, the team demonstrated bisabolene production from sorghum hydrolysate in a scalable one-pot process comprising IL pretreatment, saccharification, and fermentation.

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JULY 11, 2018

The results of this open-access study are published in the International Journal of Energy and Environmental Engineering. A Greyrock Flare Gas-to-Fuels conversion process at an Ohio oil well was used as the base case for this LCA. This fuel comprises 8,694 and 2,313 L/day of synthetic diesel and synthetic gasoline, respectively.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Researchers at Georgia Tech have developed a promising new conversion-type cathode and electrolyte system that replaces expensive metals and traditional liquid electrolyte with lower cost transition metal fluorides and a solid polymer electrolyte. A paper on their work is published in the journal Nature Materials. —Huang et al.

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MAY 1, 2023

The conversion rate reaches 32.9 ± 1.38 This one-step nitrogen-fixation strategy to produce ammonia is eco-friendly and low cost, which converts widely available starting materials into a value-added product. Xiaowei Song, a postdoctoral scholar in chemistry at Stanford, is the lead author of the study. —Song et al.

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DECEMBER 20, 2017

Lloyd’s Register and University Maritime Advisory Services (UMAS) released a new study— Zero Emission Vessels 2030 —that aims to demonstrate the viability of zero emission vessels (ZEVs) by identifying what needs to be in place to make them a competitive solution for decarbonization. Click to enlarge.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Recent research in electrocatalytic CO 2 conversion points the way to using CO 2 as a feedstock and renewable electricity as an energy supply for the synthesis of different types of fuel and value-added chemicals such as ethylene, ethanol, and propane.

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APRIL 8, 2022

Germany’s BMDV (Federal Ministry of Digital Affairs and Transport) has been funding the conversion to climate-friendly transport fleets as part of the "Directive for the Promotion of Alternative Drives in Passenger Transport". The second call for funding is currently being planned and is to be published in the second quarter of 2022.

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OCTOBER 26, 2019

A study by A.P. The joint study evaluates the interplay between economic performance of zero-emission vessels (ZEVs), technology readiness of fuels, associated machinery configurations, as well as safety and environmental considerations, all in the context of the wider energy system and the dependable production of future fuels.

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MAY 1, 2014

Researchers from the University of Cambridge have conducted a comprehensive environmental cost–benefit analysis of near-term alternative bus technologies. Although hybrid buses provide net GHG reductions and air quality improvements, associated costs are higher and more uncertain than emission retrofits. Cost-benefit.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

Converting CO 2 to usable fuels was the topic of a symposium— CO 2 Conversion: Thermo-, Photo- and Electro-Catalytic —on Sunday at the 246 th National Meeting & Exposition of the American Chemical Society in Indianapolis, Indiana. Recent studies have centered on CO 2 capture, secure storage, and chemical conversions.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Herein, we demonstrate a sulfur looping scheme in a one-reactor system using a low-cost and environmentally safe iron-based sulfur carrier. Compared with the undoped sulfur carrier, Mo dopant facilitates the surface hydrogen diffusion, thus promoting the overall H 2 S conversion. —Jangam et al.

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