Green Car Congress

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. —co-author Sathish Ponnurangam. 1802256115.

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JULY 20, 2023

MAN Energy Solutions will begin developing methanol retrofit solutions for medium-speed marine engines as part of a research association including WTZ Roßlau gGmbh and TU-Darmstadt. This is a crucial point as ship lifespans can last several decades in some cases and newbuildings demand a lot of resources.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 24, 2020

Motiv Power Systems announced the deployment of nine electric box trucks with Community Resource Project (CRP). This is an ideal solution for fleets as it requires little to no engineering or redesign and provides maximum vehicle configurations and compatibility with existing truck and bus body-builders.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 10, 2020

The average car stays on the road for over eight years; meaning that even if the whole world switched to buying 100% electric cars tomorrow, it would still take almost a decade for today’s internal combustion engines to be off the road. Clearly we aren’t switching to 100% electric vehicles tomorrow, so that’s not fast enough. 2020.01.002.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 18, 2023

Saudi Arabia-based Aramco, one of the world’s leading integrated energy and chemicals companies, and Linde Engineering, a global leader in the production and processing of gases, signed an agreement jointly to develop a new ammonia cracking technology. Resources Salvador Sayas, Natalia Morlanés, Sai P. —Savas et al.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

A team of scientists from LanzaTech, Northwestern University and the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory have engineered a microbe to convert molecules of industrial waste gases, such as carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide, into acetone and isopropanol (IPA). Abdalla, T. Nat Biotechnol doi: 10.1038/s41587-021-01195-w.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 12, 2019

Researchers in China have developed a one-pot process for the direct conversion of cellulose to ethanol with a yield of 43.2 While great progress has been made in engineering microbes for biofuel production, the economically viable production of cellulosic ethanol remains a great challenge because of the recalcitrance of lignocellulose.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

In it, Halas, Nordlander, Rice alumnus Hossein Robatjazi, Princeton engineer and physical chemist Emily Carter, and others show that antenna-reactor particles made of copper and iron are highly efficient at converting ammonia. The new study is a culmination of that work. Carter, Peter Nordlander, and Naomi J.

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AUGUST 19, 2022

A complete ammonia conversion to hydrogen was achieved at an economically feasible 450 ?C and 87.50% NH 3 conversion efficiency at 450 ?C this is the first Ru-free catalyst that exhibited outstanding performance, approaching complete NH 3 conversion at economically feasible 450 ?C Resources. Tabassum et al. Tabassum, S.

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JUNE 7, 2023

This project was a joint effort by DEC and a research team led by Academician Xie Heping from the Chinese Academy of Engineering. Dongfu One integrates on-site hydrogen production, smart energy conversion management, safety monitoring and control, as well as loading and unloading systems. Resources Xie, H.,

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 3, 2014

A team led by Dr. Janet Westpheling at the University of Georgia has engineered the thermophilic, anaerobic, cellulolytic bacterium Caldicellulosiruptor bescii , which in the wild efficiently uses un-pretreated biomass—to produce ethanol from biomass without pre-treatment of the feedstock. Earlier post.). Whereas wild-type C.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 21, 2018

XL received approval from the California Air Resources Board (CARB) to sell hybrid electric Ford F-250 pickup trucks in California, marking the 14 th CARB executive order achieved by the company. XL has earned the highest number of CARB executive orders for commercial vehicle electrification in the automotive industry. .

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 25, 2023

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 Lower grade, higher cost projects will be required to fill that growing demand gap, Albemarle said. to 2 years).

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 3, 2019

Researchers at the University of Oklahoma, in collaboration with the University of Tulsa, have a novel approach for the water-assisted upgrading of the renewable chemical furfural, doubling or tripling the rate of conversion. It is known that water plays an important role as an environmentally-friendly solvent, replacing organic solvents.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

Researchers from Newcastle University in the UK have engineered Escherichia coli bacteria to capture carbon dioxide using hydrogen gas to convert it into formic acid. coli host strain was engineered for the continuous production of formic acid from H 2 and CO 2 during bacterial growth in a pressurised batch bioreactor. 00299-21.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 23, 2023

The Topic Areas in the 2023 Conversion Research and Development (R&D) funding opportunity seek to address the following R&D needs: R&D on gasification technologies, with an emphasis on syngas contaminant removal approaches that enable effective upgrading of products derived from gasification of renewable resources to liquid transportation fuels.

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

The new IEEE Life Members website is a one-stop resource to keep the most experienced of members connected. IEEE Life Members and Friends community provides opportunities to connect and engage in conversations of mutual interest with others, regardless of their physical location. “In There are many benefits to being a life member.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 26, 2019

This survey sheds light on some of these challenges, and we hope it will kickstart a conversation on how to best address them to ensure the industry remains on a path to keep up with demand. When asked to note the biggest bottlenecks in their workflow, respondents’ answers fell into three main themes: Scarcity of expertise and resources.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 11, 2017

A Sandia National Laboratories-led team has demonstrated two new routes to lignin conversion that combine the advantages of earlier methods while minimizing their drawbacks. Conversely, harsh chemicals can deconstruct lignin in hours or even minutes. Instead, the team genetically engineered a tobacco plant. —Seema Singh.

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JUNE 26, 2014

One-pot process for conversion of cellulose to hexane, a gasoline component. In a paper in the journal ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering , the Tohuku team reports achieving a yield of n-hexane of 83% from ball-milled cellulose and 78% from microcrystalline cellulose. Credit: ACS, Liu et al. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 28, 2019

In an open-access paper published in the Journal of Biological Engineering , the team compiles performance data on biological and non-biological component choices for rewired carbon fixation systems and identifies research and engineering challenges. At the same time, having many options also creates too many engineering choices.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 5, 2017

Researchers at Feng Chia University in Taiwan have engineered the bacterium Escherichia coli to produce n-butanol from crude glycerol—a byproduct of the production of biodiesel. In an open-access paper in the journal Biotechnology for Biofuels , they report that under microaerobic conditions, the engineered strain produced 6.9

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JUNE 17, 2023

Controlled Thermal Resources Holdings Inc. CTR) has engaged Aquatech as its technology partner to deliver the engineering and process plants for the conversion of lithium chloride intermediate product to battery-grade lithium hydroxide monohydrate at the CTR’s Stage 1 Lithium Hydroxide Facility. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 25, 2014

certification from the California Air Resources Board (ARB) for the compressed natural gas (CNG) Dedicated conversion system for the 2014 Ford 6.2L V8 F-250/350 pickups with Ford-supplied CNG gaseous prepped engine. Altech-Eco says it is committed to the continued development of CNG conversion systems for the Ford product line.

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Green Car Congress

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.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 9, 2014

Omnitek Engineering Corp. has received a Certificate of Conformity from the US Environmental Protection Agency applicable for diesel-to-natural gas engine conversions of all Mack E7 electronic engines up to model year 2006. There is significant pent up demand for converting the popular Mack E7 engine model to natural gas.

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

From green energy to efficient transportation to artificial intelligence, engineers develop technologies that change our everyday lives. DiscoverE Engineers Week , being held this year in the United States from 20 to 26 February, celebrates engineers and the way they change the world.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 5, 2016

A team from CoorsTek Membrane Sciences, the University of Oslo (Norway), and the Instituto de Tecnología Química (ITQ) (Spain) has developed a new process for the direct, non-oxidative conversion of methane to liquids—reducing cost, eliminating multiple process steps, and avoiding CO 2 emissions. Resources. Morejudo et al.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 25, 2012

Werner Funk, president and chief executive officer of Omnitek Engineering, noted this customer’s nationwide commitment to convert all of its more than 18,000 refuse collection trucks to operate on natural gas through a multi-year program comprised of diesel engine conversions and the purchase of new natural gas trucks.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 1, 2018

Conversion efficiency improved with scale, demonstrating the feasibility of integrating all biomass conversion unit operations within the biorefinery. 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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Green Car Congress

JULY 30, 2014

Amin Salehi-Khojin, UIC professor of mechanical and industrial engineering, and his colleagues developed a novel two-step catalytic process for CO 2 reduction that uses molybdenum disulfide and an ionic liquid. Carbon Capture and Conversion (CCC) Catalysts Fuels' The new catalyst improves efficiency and lowers cost.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 16, 2018

A team from Stanford University is proposing continuous electrochemical heat conversion as a direct method of harvesting heat to electricity. The electrochemical heat engines can use any redox-active fluids, including gases, not just ones directly conducting electrical charge, and do not rely on fixed-temperature phase transitions.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 3, 2022

An open-access paper on their results is published in the journal ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering. Meanwhile, wet waste feedstocks, such as animal manure and fats, oils, and greases (FOG), represent another important category of resources that could be utilized to produce MCCI bioblendstocks due to its abundant availability.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 3, 2019

Plant cell walls resist chemical or biological degradation, making the breakdown of lignocellulosic biomass into renewable chemical precursors for conversion into chemicals and transportation fuels challenging and costly. As a result, economically viable methods of transforming biomass into biofuels have yet to be realized. Abhishek S.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 22, 2023

Singh, a power-electronics engineer, has been working to replace the internal combustion engines used in the company’s equipment with hybrid (diesel-electric) and all-electric versions. in engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi “I come from a long line of farmers. as a staff engineer.

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JANUARY 3, 2022

A team at the University of Pennsylvania is proposing the use of a liquid-organic hydrogen carrier (LOHC)—specifically, 1,2,3,4 -tetrahydroquinoline (THQ)—for use as an endothermic fuel for thermal protection of hypersonic aircraft engines. 1 were obtained, with conversions greater than 80% at 600 °C. earlier this year.

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JUNE 8, 2014

Colorado-based natural gas developer Escalera Resources Co. Escalera Resources has an 87.6% Under the Letter Agreement, WYGTL will assign all development and engineering plans, contracts, rights, technical relationships, among other rights to EGTL, and the company will fund up to $2 million to EGTL, subject to Board approval.

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