Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

These renewable liquids could serve as a more sustainable replacement for today’s fossil fuels used to make everyday products such as plastic containers and bags, automobile parts, lubricants, and soaps. Wang et al. The biorenewable molecules that Professor Chang’s group made were perfect raw materials for catalytic refining.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 12, 2015

Scientists from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) have discovered that a metabolic pathway previously only suggested to be functional in photosynthetic organisms is actually a major pathway and can enable efficient conversion of carbon dioxide to organic compounds. —Jianping Yu.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 9, 2014

Integrated processing of hardwood to renewable jet and chemicals. Huber (2014) “Production of renewable jet fuel range alkanes and commodity chemicals from integrated catalytic processing of biomass,” Energy Environ. Click to enlarge. Murat Sen, Christos T. Maravelias, Robert Malina, Steven R. Barrett, Raul Lobo, Charles E.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 20, 2021

Blue World Technologies’ complete system includes a methanol reformer for fuel conversion, DC/DC for power conversion and fuel cell stack for power production. The fuel cell system, which will provide clean operation with no particulate emissions, will use carbon-neutral renewable methanol as fuel.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

High-temperature CO 2 electrolysers offer exceptionally efficient storage of renewable electricity in the form of CO and other chemical fuels, but conventional electrodes catalyse destructive carbon deposition. Using these insights, we demonstrate stable electrochemical CO 2 reduction with a scaled-up 16?cm

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

The resulting vapor products are condensed to form bio-oil which can be upgraded catalytically to renewable liquid fuels or chemicals. Dauenhauer says his team has used insight from studying the surrogate to make significant progress in understanding wood chemistry. —Paul Dauenhauer. Mettler, Samir H. Mushrif, Alex D.

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Green Car Congress

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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Green Car Congress

JUNE 4, 2012

Researchers at the Naval Air Warfare Center, Weapons Division (NAWCWD) at China Lake have developed a process for the synthesis of high energy density renewable fuels through the selective dimerization of α-pinene, camphene, limonene and crude turpentine using the heterogeneous catalysts Nafion, Nafion SAC-13, and Montmorillonite K-10.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Involving 16 further partners, the project, which is funded by the German Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), has over the past four years gathered fundamental insights into the conversion of steel mill process gases into chemical products.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 29, 2021

In a paper published in the journal Applied Energy , they report devising a methodology to estimate the levelized cost of energy (LCOE) of meeting the seasonal nature of variable renewable energy (VRE) resources with either a hydrogen-fired gas turbine (HFGT) or lithium-ion battery system (LI). Much of this information was publicly available.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 25, 2021

A research team has developed a new artificial photosynthesis device component with remarkable stability and longevity as it selectively converts sunlight and carbon dioxide into two promising sources of renewable fuels: ethylene and hydrogen.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 14, 2021

Such fuels, produced synthetically with renewable energy, can be transported via conventional routes and made available through the existing infrastructure. Methanization works by producing methane (CH 4 ) and water (H 2 O) by catalytic conversion from carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) and hydrogen (H 2 ).

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My Energi

OCTOBER 4, 2023

The UK’s leading exhibition for renewable energy will welcome more than 450 exhibitors, 300 speakers and tens of thousands of visitors. The conversation will take place in the ChargEV Theatre on 17 October at 2.50pm. Later this month (17-19 October), we’re heading to the NEC in Birmingham for Solar and Storage Live 2023.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 10, 2019

National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Denver, Colo. Novel chemical looping process for conversion of natural gas to pure hydrogen, $150,000 CanmetENERGY, Ottawa, Canada Glowink Inc., Novel thermal process for conversion of CO2 to CO using metal ferrite oxygen carriers, $150,000 CanmetENERGY, Ottawa, Canada Glowink Inc.,

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 19, 2023

Following the presentation of the V12 plug-in hybrid Revuelto ( earlier post ), the Lanzador gives an insight into the series model to be built from 2028. Every year, sheep grow a new fleece, making wool a completely renewable fiber, unlike synthetic fabrics, which are industrially produced from non-renewable fossil energy.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 26, 2022

The newly formed organization will host a series of meetings of its members to exchange research results, insights, and ideas. The core business is the production of renewable fuels and clean, efficient energy conversion technologies. ID-Technologies, Fribourg, Switzerland. Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 13, 2024

The Dholera unit will be powered by a 30,000 MW hybrid power project, which will be the largest continuous renewable plant at one place in the world, he said. On February 29, the cabinet approved Tata-PSMC’s INR 91,000 crore commercial foundry, INR 27,000 crore- Tata OSAT unit and INR 7,600 crore CG Power-Renesas joint venture OSAT unit.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 30, 2014

However, despite decades of effort, no lab-developed catalyst for achieving that conversion has been commercialized. If successful, these mechanical analogues of turbulence could transform the way energy-harvesting systems are designed, yielding much higher conversion efficiencies than achieved in traditional configurations.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 30, 2013

An Electricity/CO 2 Market Simulation Incorporating Renewables. Multiple controlled experiments may produce valuable insights for policymakers. The TomKat Center looks at generation and conversion, transmission and distribution, storage, and land and water as they pertain to energy for electricity and transportation.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 21, 2011

The carbon-iron-cobalt catalyst fuel cells also effectively completed the conversion of hydrogen and oxygen into water, rather than producing large amounts of undesirable hydrogen peroxide (hydrogen peroxide yield <1.0%).

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 11, 2014

The technology could fundamentally transform the way electricity is stored on the grid, making power from renewable energy sources such as wind and sun far more economical and reliable. Consequently they maintain peak discharge power for less than an hour before they are drained, and are therefore ill-suited to store intermittent renewables.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 27, 2016

Various device configuration powered by a renewable energy source perform electrochemical water splitting or CO 2 reduction. One such connects a photovoltaic (PV) to a separate electrolyzer with catalysts that drive the necessary conversion reactions (PV/electrolysis). —Montoya et al.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

But these past attempts were limited by issues such as carbon clogging and low conversion rates. In the most recent experiments in April 2015, our reactor operated without interruptions for two weeks, producing hydrogen with a 78% conversion rate at temperatures of 1200°C. The final design is a 1.2-meter-high

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 27, 2010

Primary energy sources in model include fossil fuels (crude oil, natural gas, and coal); non-renewable non-fossil sources (nuclear); and renewable sources (hydroelectric, wind, solar, and biomass). Wallington et al. Carbon capture and storage (CCS) was included as an option to decarbonize fuels derived from fossil sources and biomass.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 19, 2014

This can happen either after removal of most of the carbohydrates by hydrolysis and fermentation operations (top sequence) or by pretreatment before downstream carbohydrate conversion (bottom sequence). Such insights may help redesign lignin within its cross-linked complex biological matrix to meet subsequent process and end product goals.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 9, 2024

Electrolysis plants operate on renewable energy sources, such as wind, solar and hydropower. LLM for Advanced Mobility: Conversational AI assistant that enhances human-like interaction between SDVs and drivers/passengers. Visitors can also learn about green hydrogen that is produced by electrolyzing water.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Further, the system was designed for one-way power, not for distributed renewable-energy devices sending power back into the system. Without smart meters—that is, Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI), which will be introduced into Palo Alto in 2024—the utility has little to no household peak load insights.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

The investigation enabled them to identify the degradation mechanism during the cathodic ORR, and the insights guided the design of a nanocatalyst that uses gold to eliminate platinum dissolution. The dissolution of platinum occurs at the atomic and molecular scale during exposure to the highly corrosive environment in fuel cells.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

In an informational webinar in September, John Farrell, Laboratory Program Manager—Vehicle Technologies, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, and part of the Co-Optima leadership team observed that: Put most simply, the Co-Optima goal is to introduce better fuels and better vehicles sooner. New insights into the meaning of RON and MON.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 20, 2010

Georgia Tech will team with the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, Colo., The data will be used to develop a reaction mechanism and associated kinetic parameters that accurately describe the rate-limiting reaction pathways during conversion of the char to syngas. Georgia Institute of Technology (Atlanta, Ga.)

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

If we can manage to produce them from renewable resources, then we will also be able to synthesise all other kinds of fuel. A synthesis process that produces such fuels from renewable resources is thus highly sought after. The hydrogen required, in turn, is generated from water with the help of renewable electric power.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 3, 2023

However, for wide scale adoption, improvements in the efficiency of hydrogen-to-electricity conversion are required. The research team hopes that understanding the ORR reaction provides insights that help them identify alternative materials that may improve the performance and reduce the production costs of fuel cells.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 24, 2014

Ten of these projects are new while the rest received renewed funding based both on their achievements to date and the quality of their proposals for future research. Light-Material Interactions in Energy Conversion (LMI). National Renewable Energy Laboratory. Solid-State Solar-Thermal Energy Conversion Center (S3TEC).

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 26, 2009

The vehicles and infrastructure being funded include the use of natural and renewable gas, propane, ethanol, biodiesel, electricity, and hybrid technologies. 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.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 28, 2015

While a conventional cathode stores ions between the layers of its molecular structure (intercalation) the metal fluorides store them via a reversible electrochemical reaction, called a conversion reaction. Although poor electronic and ionic transport plague many conversion electrodes, recent studies show that the electronic conductivity in?FeF

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Get Electric Vehicle

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

The Evolution of Smart Grids Speaking of electric vehicle batteries, 2023 will mark a turning point in the use of used EV batteries to store renewable energy and feed it back into the grid when the sun isn’t out or the wind isn’t blowing. With better insights, you just pay for your driving behaviours, not those of other drivers.

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Creative Greenius

FEBRUARY 2, 2009

She graciously agreed to be interviewed for Creative Greenius and give me some insight into the vital job she’s been tasked with. Hopefully Heidi’s contract will get renewed and she’ll continue her work, but there are certainly no guarantees.

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