Green Car Congress

JUNE 1, 2016

Researchers in Sweden and Spain have devised a three-step process for the conversion of precipitated kraft lignin from black liquor into green diesel. Pöyry Forest Industry Oy in Finland, noted that: The magnitude of the recovery process is often not fully appreciated. Their paper appears in the journal ChemSusChem.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 7, 2021

In the context of the energy transition, hydrogen can make a valuable contribution to the decarbonization of energy-intensive industries such as chemicals, aviation, maritime transport and non-electrified railways, provided it is produced in a sustainable manner.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Synhelion has developed a solar thermal process for the production of syngas, which is then used in standard industrial processes to synthesize liquid fuels, such as kerosene, gasoline, or diesel, that are compatible with conventional jet engines and internal combustion engines. This ultra-clean solar fuel closes the carbon cycle.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Currently under development and designed to run as a mobile app on 4G/5G networks, Mobility Advisor uses IBM Watson Assistant to provide users with a conversational interface to plan and optimise routes and suggest the most suitable transportation options. —Juan Ramon Gutierrez Villar, Industry Solutions Leader, IBM Global Markets.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 15, 2018

The aim is to convert currently poorly valorized softwood residues into second-generation renewable isobutene for subsequent conversion into gasoline and jetfuel. We are thrilled by the opportunity to be part of industrial consortia which focus on softwood residue streams valorisation in novel value chains and end-use markets.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 7, 2017

EPFL scientists have developed an Earth-abundant and low-cost catalytic system for splitting CO 2 into CO and oxygen—an important step towards achieving the conversion of renewable energy into hydrocarbon fuels. It included a contribution from Abengoa Research in Spain. A paper on the work appears in the journal Nature Energy.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 18, 2013

Politécnica de Valencia (Spain) have found that noble metal nanoparticles supported on titanium dioxide or cerium dioxide can catalyze the industrially important water gas shift (WGS) reaction for hydrogen production at ambient temperatures using visible light irradiation. Researchers at the Univ.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 3, 2015

Joule heating refers to the conversion of the energy of an electric current into heat as it flows through a resistance; when current flows through a solid or liquid with finite conductivity, electric energy is converted to heat through resistive losses in the material. The aim of the €6.7-million million (US$7.5-million)

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Green Car Congress

MAY 25, 2014

A report prepared by ISIS (Institute of Studies for the Integration of Systems - Italy) together with Tecnalia (Spain) for the European Parliamentary Research Service (EPRS) discusses the technological, environmental and economic barriers for producing methanol from carbon dioxide, as well as the possible uses of methanol in car transport in Europe.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 25, 2024

“This is where material technologies and AI come together and offer simple and secure access to a wealth of information and suggestions for all industry professionals around the world via AI chat.” ’ can already be realised via voice control in the igusGO app,” says Tobias Vogel. At the time, this represented a 5.5-fold

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

A team at the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia (Spain) has designed a new simple, energy-efficient process (that also does not require any organic solvents) for the production of renewable diesel from biomass waste. The first step is the conversion of biomass into furfural—an established industrial process.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

The NEMESIS2+ hydrogen generation system consists of a desulfurization module for liquid feedstock (diesel/biodiesel) followed by a reformer module, where catalytic conversion is accomplished by steam reforming with subsequent water-gas-shift reaction. This figure is already close to the economic efficiency of the prototype. Source: DLR.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 3, 2022

ETH Zurich The current pilot-scale solar tower plant was set up at the IMDEA Energy Institute in Spain. The present pilot fuel plant is still a demonstration facility for research purposes,” says Steinfeld, “but it is a fully-integrated plant and uses a solar tower configuration at a scale that is relevant for industrial implementation.” “The

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 28, 2010

The completely integrated industrial process chain will enable various biomasses and fossil resources, in both liquid and solid form, to be applied to produce high-quality biofuels. Carbon conversion is greater than 99%, and typical composition of the raw syngas is more than 85 vol.% CO + H 2 , 6-8 vol.% CO 2 and less than 0.1

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 26, 2014

A team led by researchers at the University of Cordoba (Spain) have used a CaO alkaline heterogeneous catalyst to produce what they call a “second-generation biodiesel” blend composed of 2:1 molar mixture of conventional fatty acid methyl esters (FAME, or regular biodiesel) and monoglyceride (MG).

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 10, 2012

Researchers in Spain have obtained high-quality transportation fuels (gasoline with RON >80 and diesel with cetane number >70) from oil obtained by the thermal cracking of low-density polyethylene (LDPE) using a bifunctional catalyst comprising Ni (7 wt %) deposited on a hierarchical Beta zeolite (Ni/h-Beta). —Escola et al. Resources.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 18, 2021

Indeed, 2022 may be the year that neurorights becomes a hot topic, bringing the young neurotech industry and the human rights community into uncomfortable conversations. Spain’s new. The NeuroRights Foundation can claim much of the credit for the developments in Chile , Spain, and the U.N.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 2, 2017

However, the industrial synthesis route to produce cycloalkanes is high in cost and the precursor from hydrocracking of petroleum has low selectivity. … Spain, Brian J. Frost and Hongfei Lin (2017) “Highly efficient conversion of terpenoid biomass to jet-fuel range cycloalkanes in a biphasic tandem catalytic process” Green Chem.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

A team of scientists from CoorsTek Membrane Sciences, the University of Oslo (Norway) and the Instituto de Tecnología Química (Spain) have successfully completed laboratory testing of a ceramic membrane that generates compressed hydrogen from natural gas and electricity in a one-step process with near-zero energy loss. Malerød-Fjeld et al.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Standard AC charging takes seven hours, in-line with the industry standard for plug-in vehicles. AMF-Bruns, the European market leader in accessible vehicle conversions is collaborating with SAIC Mobility Europe to market the Maxus EV80 throughout Europe as a fully-electric accessible passenger vehicle, also with wheelchair access.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 3, 2012

A group of researchers from UNED (National Distance Education University) in Spain reports developing an optimized electrospray method for manufacturing the membrane electrode assembly (MEA) in PEM fuel cells with ultra-low platinum loadings that exceed US Department of Energy (DOE) targets. Source: UNED. Click to enlarge. Resources.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 3, 2016

Conventional devices with similar conversion efficiencies require cryogenically low temperatures. In 2012, a team from the US, Spain and Sweden (Matthews et al. Despite this, even the most promising applications to commercialize graphene in the electronics industry do not take advantage of this property.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 30, 2022

The technology behind this new ceramic membrane reactor for hydrogen production has been developed by researchers at CoorsTek Membrane Sciences, the University of Oslo and Instituto de Tecnologica Quimica in Valencia, Spain. The next stage in the development of this technology is already well underway. —Harald Malerød-Fjeld.

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Creative Greenius

MAY 14, 2009

I would have thought we would be beyond that point and further along in understanding the solar industry, but apparently I’m wrong. I want to change the industry here because I deal in a lot of cities, a LOT of cities. This is still an immature industry. We need a dynamic industry association. No, it’s still fresh.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 28, 2014

The Mercedes AMG PETRONAS (Petroliam Nasional Berhad) Formula One Team unveiled the F1 W05, its 2014 challenger, at the Circuito de Jerez in southern Spain. However, the automotive industry is focused not on air consumption but on fuel consumption—and the CO 2 emissions this generates. Conversion efficiency is now the key.

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