Green Car Congress

JULY 20, 2023

The project is focusing on the climate-neutral fuel methanol, which is produced from green hydrogen with the intention being that results should quickly spawn other developmental projects for series production. This transfer of basic research into practical application is a strength of engineering research.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Researchers from Stanford University and the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) have engineered and demonstrated a solid-oxide electrochemical cell (SOC) with a porous ceria electrode that achieves stable and selective CO 2 electrolysis beyond the thermodynamic carbon deposition threshold. This could also reduce production costs.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2012

A team of chemical engineers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst has identified a small molecule surrogate for cellulose—?-cyclodextrin—in The resulting vapor products are condensed to form bio-oil which can be upgraded catalytically to renewable liquid fuels or chemicals. —Mettler et al.

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MAY 26, 2022

—James Turner, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Clean Combustion Research Center, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST). The newly formed organization will host a series of meetings of its members to exchange research results, insights, and ideas. Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India.

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MAY 14, 2010

The US Department of Energy has selected 7 projects to participate in the University Coal Research (UCR) program. The projects aim to improve the basic understanding of the chemical and physical processes that govern coal conversion and utilization, by-product utilization, and technological development for advanced energy systems.

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Baua Electric

MAY 10, 2024

Lignocellulosic biomass, a renewable and abundant resource, holds great promise for sustainable production of valuable chemicals and fuels, currently derived mainly from oil. Extracted from trees, grasses, and other biomass, cellulose finds applications in products like paper and ethanol.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 22, 2014

Researchers at Michigan State University have developed a microbial electrolysis cell (MEC) which will allow biodiesel plants to eliminate the creation of hazardous wastes while reducing their dependence on fossil fuel. The ethanol replaces petrochemical methanol in the biodiesel production. Credit: ACS, Speers et al. Click to enlarge.

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MAY 19, 2014

A new review article in the journal Science highlights emerging opportunities to increase the transformation of lignin to value-added products—i.e., Each product stream, however, has its own distinct challenges. lignin valorization. Simplified process flow diagram illustrating paths to recover lignin. Ragauskas et al.

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AUGUST 21, 2014

In working to elucidate the chemistry of hydrodeoxygenation (HDO) for the catalytic upgrading of pyrolytic bio-oil to fuel-grade products, researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) have discovered that water in the conversion process helps form an impurity which, in turn, slows down key chemical reactions.

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JULY 20, 2011

Researchers at the US Department of Energy’s Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL, the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center (GLBRC) and Michigan State University (MSU) have developed a new biomass pretreatment method that reorganizes the hydrogen bond network within crystalline cellulose. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.).

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JUNE 14, 2014

With its prodigious growth habit, the eucalyptus tree, one of the world’s most widely planted hardwood trees, has the potential to enhance sustainable biofuels and biomaterials production, and to provide a stable year-round source of biomass that doesn’t compete with food crops. —Alexander Myburg. —Dario Grattapaglia.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

Most of the world’s hydrogen production is currently based on conventional technologies such as steam methane forming (SMR), which also uses natural gas as feedstock but releases significant amounts of carbon dioxide in the process. Its value as a marketable product therefore enhances the economic viability of methane cracking.

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DECEMBER 12, 2017

A team led by researchers from the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) have gained new insights into how glycosylation—the natural attachment of sugars to proteins—affects a key cellulase enzyme. —co-author Antonella Amore, a postdoc at NREL. Antonella Amore, Brandon C. Knott, Nitin T.

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AUGUST 20, 2010

Awards are in three areas: Reprocessing and Conditioning of Coal/Biomass Mixtures for Simultaneous Co-Feeding Systems; Reactive Properties of Coal/Biomass Mixed Fuels; and Design Concepts for Co-Production of Power, Fuels and Chemicals. CoalTek, teaming with the University of Kentucky Center for Applied Energy Research in Lexington, Ky.,

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Green Car Congress

MAY 9, 2014

A team from seven US universities and the Korea Institue of Science and Technology, led by George Huber, Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has developed an integrated catalytic process for the conversion of whole biomass into drop-in aviation fuels with maximal carbon yields.

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JULY 10, 2019

Concentric Ring Gas Atomization Die Design for Optimized Particle Production, $150,000 Praxair, Indianapolis, Ind. Purdue University, West Lafayette, Ind. Commercializing 3D Printable Feedstocks for the Advanced Manufacturing of Energy Products, $300,000 MilliporeSigma, St. Argonne National Laboratory. Pipersville, Pa.

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OCTOBER 15, 2018

Researchers at Changchun University of Science and Technology in China have developed a nanobox strategy to improve the performance of lithium-sulfur batteries. Finally, the resulting black products were collected through centrifuging, washed with deionized water and ethanol, and dried in a vacuum at 60°C overnight. —Song et al.

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MAY 4, 2018

nm), the energy conversion efficiency and apparent quantum yield reaches ~8.75% and ~20%, respectively—the highest values ever reported for one-step visible-light driven photocatalytic overall pure water splitting. in neutral (pH?~?7.0) overall water splitting reaction. In part of the visible spectrum (400–485?nm),

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JULY 7, 2015

The second part of the process uses a newly discovered enzymatic system discovered by the group of team member Vincent Eijsink, professor at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences. BioMim seeks to acquire new insights into how brown rot fungi degrade wood. Yoshida began a nine-month sabbatical in Goodell’s lab this month.

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JULY 20, 2014

Clean Energy Systems/Technologies under the FOA are systems and technologies that improve the efficiency of power generation and conversion systems to liquids and chemicals from fossil-based fuels, enabling affordable CO 2 capture, increasing plant availability, and maintaining environmental standards.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 7, 2018

Rice University nanoscientists have demonstrated a new catalyst that can convert ammonia into hydrogen fuel at ambient pressure using only light energy, mainly due to a plasmonic effect that makes the catalyst more efficient. Photo by LANP/Rice University). —,Rice Laboratory for Nanophotonics (LANP) Director Naomi Halas.

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Clearpath ] Cognitive Pilot's autonomous tech is now being integrated into production Kirovets K-7M tractors, and they've got big plans: "The third phase of the project envisages a fully self-driving tractor control mode without the need for human involvement. ROAM Lab ] The AirLab at CMU has been hosting an excellent series on SLAM.

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DECEMBER 27, 2016

In a new paper in the journal Nature Materials (in an edition focused on materials for sustainable energy), a team from Stanford University and SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory has reviewed milestones in the progress of solid-state photoelectrocatalytic technologies toward delivering solar fuels and chemistry. —Montoya et al.

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

The company's programs aim to make companies more productive, reducing costs and eliminating inefficiencies. for 33 years before he joined Rutgers University in New Brunswick, N.J., He left England to pursue a doctorate in electrical, electronics, and communications engineering at Purdue University , in West Lafayette, Ind.

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OCTOBER 30, 2013

Stanford University’s Precourt Institute for Energy, the Precourt Energy Efficiency Center and the TomKat Center for Sustainable Energy have awarded 11 seed grants totaling $2.2 The seed funding supports early work on concepts that have the potential for very high impact on energy production and use. PIs: Mark C. Wolak, Economics.

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DECEMBER 9, 2012

Researchers at the University of Calgary (Canada) have developed the Petroleum Refinery Life-cycle Inventory Model (PRELIM). process unit efficiencies), nor do they develop a consensus on the impact of allocation (how environmental impacts are split across products in a multiproduct industry), the authors said. Click to enlarge.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

Through these processes, fuel cells produce electricity to power electric motors in vehicles and other applications, emitting water as the only by-product. —Vojislav Stamenkovic, a senior scientist and group leader for the Energy Conversion and Storage group in Argonne’s Materials Science Division (MSD). Lopes, P.P.,

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JUNE 24, 2014

The US Department of Energy (DOE) is awarding $100 million in the second round of funding for Energy Frontier Research Centers (EFRCs); research supported by this initiative will enable fundamental advances in energy production, storage, and use. Light-Material Interactions in Energy Conversion (LMI). Northwestern University.

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Teslarati

AUGUST 13, 2021

After moving from the East Coast to teach at the University of California, it became pertinent for the 38-year old engineer and scientist to have his own driver’s license again. Insights from CA’s Clean Air Protectors. The Professor was looking forward to getting a new US driver’s license. He drove a Tesla.

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JUNE 20, 2021

Couple this with Elon Musk noting that Autopilot was not involved, and it was no surprise that the crash became a topic for analysis and conversations among Tesla supporters. For professional insights on how misinformation becomes accepted, Teslarati reached out to Stephen Benning , a Professor of Psychology at the University of Las Vegas.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

JANUARY 15, 2009

Chevrolet S-10 :Brian has a new and very nice conversion. Chevrolet S-10 :Jim Coates very clean conversion Chevrolet S-10 :Mark Brueggemanns neat project, and more. Comutacar : Scott HullsC-cars and upgrades DaihatsuFellow Van : Interesting Japanese conversion. FordExpress : Svein Medhus has the first EV conversion in Norway.

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AUGUST 26, 2009

Fleets include transportation authorities, cities, school districts, the University of Michigan, FedEx, and Meijer. The fleets include two utility fleets, five cities and towns, three counties, ten private companies, two state fleets, ten school districts, and two universities. Total DOE award: $14,970,144.

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OCTOBER 1, 2011

Fluid catalytic cracking (FCC) is the major conversion process used in oil refineries to produce valuable hydrocarbons from crude oil fractions. Unfortunately, there is limited insight into the distribution and activity of individual zeolitic domains at different life stages. Our collaboration with the group of Prof.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 2, 2011

Damsgaard, Thomas Pedersen and Ole Hansen, Technical University of Denmark. The current densities at the reversible potential match the requirement of a photo-electrochemical hydrogen production system with a solar-to-hydrogen efficiency in excess of 10%. Image courtesy of Christian D. Click to enlarge. —Hou et al.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 8, 2013

Researchers with the Energy Biosciences Institute, University of California, Berkeley have provided insight into how multiple cellulase enzymes attack cellulose, potentially yielding a way to improve the collective catalytic activity of enzyme cocktails that can boost the yields of sugars for making fuels. Source: Berkeley Lab.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 21, 2017

Researchers at Standford University have designed large-format, thin-film copper catalysts for the electroreduction of CO 2 to ethanol. The problem is that it also makes 15 other compounds simultaneously, including lower-value products like methane and carbon monoxide.

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MAY 15, 2015

ARPA-E’s ARID program will fund transformative new power plant cooling technologies that enable high thermal-to-electric energy conversion efficiency with zero net water dissipation to the atmosphere. University of Missouri, Lehigh University, and Evapco). Colorado State University. Stony Brook University.

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