Green Car Congress

MARCH 6, 2022

QPM is developing its 100%-owned Townsville Energy Chemicals Hub (TECH) Project—a battery metals refinery, 40 km south of Townsville, in northern Queensland. The TECH Project will produce critical metals for the rapidly emerging lithium-ion battery and electric vehicle sector. Ni (typical 1.6%). 0.1 – 0.25% Co (typical 0.18%).

Supplies 243

Supplies Lithium Ion 2002 Purchase 243

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Olivine is a CO 2 -reactive waste product that can be returned as tailings after capture carbon from the air. Travertine will launch a transformative process that integrates strong acid treatment of mining waste or tailings with electrolytic acid recycling. Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. University of Nevada, Reno.

Supplies 345

Supplies Ni-Li Carbon Universal 345

Cars That Think

AUGUST 19, 2023

They are highly automated production islands that directly convert wind energy to hydrogen, with a few of them processing the gas into fuels and other goods. The upshot is that a portion of the green electricity will have to be converted to other types of energy appropriate for specific applications. Experts call this Power-to-X (PtX).

Wind 95

Wind Hydrogen Grid Gas-Electric 95

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 1, 2020

These projects will improve the performance and lower the cost and risk of technologies that can be used to produce biofuels, biopower, and bioproducts from biomass and waste resources. Scale-up and Qualification of Net-Zero Sustainable Aviation Fuels from Wet Waste. Topic 2: Waste to Energy Strategies for the Bioeconomy.

Waste 186

Waste Conversion Universal San Diego 186

Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 12, 2022

The field included startups that aim to improve battery technology and solve the battery materials problem, coordinate energy flow from home and car batteries to the grid and back again, gather and use data for energy and carbon management, improve solar cell efficiency, and recycle agricultural waste.

Climate 102

Climate Hydrogen Los Angeles Climate Change 102

Green Car Congress

JUNE 2, 2021

Chokri brings great leadership and commercial experience from a highly successful tech startup and will lead our work to accelerate the commercialization of our green hydrogen business. Topsoe contributes with know-how about technologies that convert captured CO 2 into sustainable methanol and jet fuel using green hydrogen.

Saudi Arabia 170

Saudi Arabia Hydrogen Green Denmark 170

Green Car Congress

JULY 30, 2013

General Motors’ Rayong engine plant in Thailand and Cheongna proving ground in Korea are now landfill-free , bringing the company’s total to 33 sites throughout Asia that recycle, reuse or convert to energy all of their daily waste. 70% of waste at GM manufacturing plants in Asia is packaging materials such as wood and cardboard.

Asia 236

Asia GM Thailand Waste 236

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 28, 2013

The Vanerco Varennes-Generation Project is a joint venture partnership formed by Enerkem Technologies, a Montreal-based waste-to-biofuels and chemicals company, and GreenField, a Canadian leader in ethanol production. The gasification capacity scale-up factor is seven times from Westbury to the Vanerco facility.

Canada 236

Canada Waste 2013 Convert 236

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 4, 2017

The PEM system uses heating from electrically conducting gas (a plasma) to convert the feedstock (usually waste) to valuable products.

India 170

India Renewable MIT Carbon 170

Creative Greenius

JUNE 30, 2009

I attended today’s Bryan Cave Clean Tech Roundtable at the Broad Stage at Santa Monica College – thanks to my pal Donna Gentry. We are the most wasteful nation on the planet and we need to get serious about recycling everything and converting it to fuel.

Clean 170

Clean Cleaning Saudi Arabia Long Beach 170

Green Car Congress

JULY 6, 2013

The first upstream component accounts for indirect energy input for the production and distribution of power generation fuel and the construction, maintenance, decommissioning, and waste disposal of the power plant. DC converter, inverter, and electric motor) efficiency and the loss in charging/ discharging.

Diesel 361

Diesel Georgia Energy Li-ion 361

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Waste to Energy Technology Ready for Prime Time. Cascadia believes that technologies capable of converting municipal solid waste to. focused on companies in the wind, solar, waste to energy and energy efficiency markets. Although natural gas is not as clean as renewable sources, it will continue to.

Congress 170

Congress 2011 Clean Cleaning 170

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 17, 2009

Researchers at Virginia Tech, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), and the University of Georgia have produced hydrogen gas in a spontaneous, “one-pot” process using an enzyme cocktail, cellulosic materials from non-food sources, and water. Hydrogen production from cellodextrin and water by a synthetic enzymatic pathway.

Water 150

Water Convert Hydrogen Virginia 150

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 3, 2013

Johnson-Matthey will produce the catalysts that turn the lipids in the methane into fuel, while Illinois-based Lanza Tech, a pioneer in waste-to-fuels technology, has signed on to take the bench-scale plan to the commercial level, if it is successful.

Washington 210

Washington Diesel Fuel Engine 210

Green Car Congress

APRIL 14, 2016

Given its drive to zero waste, all of GM’s global facilities recycle their water bottles. GM pursued this project after analyzing its impacts from a holistic business case: Sourcing recycled material costs the same while saving energy and reducing waste. Clean Tech Inc. washes the bottles and converts them to flake.

Water 150

Water GM Parts Chevrolet 150

Green Car Congress

JULY 15, 2011

However, notes Virginia Tech Prof. only 7% of the chemical energy in corn kernels is converted to the kinetic energy on wheels, implying a great potential in increasing biomass utilization efficiency. Conceptual hybrid power train system including on-board sugarto-hydrogen converter, PEM fuel cell and rechargeable battery.

Virginia 246

Virginia Fuel Hydrogen Gas-Electric 246

Clean Fleet Report

JULY 3, 2023

For starters, older cars that rely on mechanics more than computers are often easier to convert. Another consideration to keep in mind is that it’s easier to convert a car with a manual transmission since they use less power and are a lot less complicated than automatic cars.

Cars 71

Cars Conversion Convert Gasoline-Electric 71

Charged EVs

APRIL 1, 2024

Several companies are developing chemical processes, but these are still at pilot scale, and Aqua’s execs see serious challenges in delivering the required product purity and dealing with waste streams. Charged : Do different companies handle different steps of the process that converts spent battery packs to minerals?

Building 95

Building Batteries Battery Lithium Ion 95

Cars That Think

MARCH 23, 2022

Shown here is the setup the team used for this high-tech prestidigitation. One source that has been up for consideration is the accumulating mountain of e-waste that contains these rare-earth materials along with a smattering of precious metals. Walter Oppel/Fraunhofer Iof High-Voltage Recycling. Brandon Martin/Rice University.

Wind 101

Wind Coal Taxi Light 101

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 15, 2010

Dorsan uses proprietary technology to create fungal-based biocatalysts that can convert non-food biomass and waste streams into diesel fuel and a variety of food and fragrance products. Dorsan Biofuels , Inc., —ATI-Clean Energy co-director Mitch Jacobson.

Clean 210

Clean Cleaning Austin Energy 210

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 12, 2010

Converting biomass to renewable fuels via a pyrolysis pathway. The US Department of Energy has selected UOP, a Honeywell company, for negotiation of a $25 million award to build a demonstration unit in Hawaii to convert cellulosic biomass into renewable hydrocarbon transportation fuels. Source: UOP. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.).

Oil 210

Oil Renewable Oil-Sands Fuel 210

Green Car Congress

MARCH 22, 2010

Although plasma reactors can be used directly for gasification for the production of clean syngas—and ECP has developed its own such plasma gasification system, SynGen—for this application ECP is suggesting a different approach assisted by its GlidArc low-tech plasma: Gasification of any feed into as-dirty-as-possible producer gas.

Gas 220

Gas San Francisco Clean Cleaning 220

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 25, 2009

a developer of advanced catalyst materials, high-performance electrode systems, and related process chemistries for portable power and clean-tech applications, has been awarded a research grant from the California Energy Commission to develop a process using nanocatalysts to convert algae biomass into biofuels via gasification.

Grant 150

Grant Convert California Renewable 150

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 30, 2014

The best Formula One engine will be the one that converts energy the most efficiently and this has direct relevance to road car powertrains of tomorrow. In the course of this, it is paramount to pay maximum attention to every detail and, at the same time, deliver an integrated high-tech package.

Mercedes 270

Mercedes Hybrid Power Powered 270

Charged EVs

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

If you want to heat up a space that is cold, there are a number of options, from burning a fuel to directly converting electricity into heat (i.e. To convert between the two, the ratio is 1 W = 3.412 BTU / hr. A at 115 VAC, or 586 W, which works out to a COP of 3.0

Gas-Electric 90

Gas-Electric Waste Gas All-Electric 90

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 23, 2016

Natural gas is considered renewable when it is produced from sources of biogas such as organic waste or wastewater. This amendment will allow utilities to double the total pool of incentives available to convert commercial fleets to natural gas, when the new incentives go towards vehicles using 100% renewable natural gas.

Climate 150

Climate Tax Gas-Electric Carbon 150

Drive Electric

MARCH 25, 2021

Regenerative braking is built into all electric vehicles and is a feature that helps you maximise range, and makes the process of braking less wasteful. In comparison – a combustion engine car’s brakes convert kinetic energy into wasted heat to slow the vehicle. Are EVs suitable for business use?

Electric Cars 98

Electric Cars Cars Electric Electrical 98

Cars That Think

MARCH 26, 2023

Virtually everywhere that alternating current must be transformed to direct current or vice versa, there will be fewer wasted watts. In the effort to mitigate climate change, eliminating waste in power consumption is the low-hanging fruit, and these semiconductors are the way we’ll harvest it.

Green 110

Green Conversion Power Powered 110

Get Electric Vehicle

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Customers and staff are drawn to forward-thinking, tech-savvy, environmentally conscious businesses, so these traits help you appear suitable. At the same time, EVs assist you to accomplish your company’s waste reduction and environmental goals by allowing you to design a more energy-efficient fleet.

Fleet 52

Fleet Gasoline-Electric Maintenance Oil 52

Green Car Congress

APRIL 30, 2010

Today’s technologies for making biofuels all rely on photosynthesis—either indirectly by converting plants to fuels or directly by harnessing photosynthetic organisms such as algae. This process is less than 1% efficient at converting sunlight to stored chemical energy. Electrofuels: Biofuels from Electricity. Engineering E.

Carbon 249

Carbon Batteries Battery Li-ion 249

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 24, 2013

25% less energy and water consumption, waste and emissions. Ten SMA inverters and 5 transformers (rated at 1500 KVA each) convert the 9.58 In conjunction with Chattanooga State and Tennessee Tech, the Academy also offers an Industrial Technology degree and an apprenticeship program. MW of DC power to 7.6

Solar 268

Solar Phoenix 2012 Power 268

Green Car Congress

MARCH 14, 2010

With this high-tech package we are “best in class” with respect to fuel consumption, output and torque.” The wet start-up clutch replaces a conventional torque converter, and helps to save fuel. “For the first time we have combined spray-guided direct petrol injection with turbocharging.

Downsizing 186

Downsizing Standards Fuel Mercedes 186

Cars That Think

JANUARY 23, 2023

This is what a team of engineers and researchers are doing at Eden Tech, a company based in Paris, France, that specializes in the development of microfluidics technology. To analyze the performance of their AKVO system (named after the Latin word for water, aqua ), which is made from CDs, Eden Tech turned to multiphysics simulation.

Design 75

Design Water Pollution France 75

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

Methane Converter to Electricity and Fuel. Bio2Electric will develop a small-scale reactor that converts natural. Conventional large-scale gasto-liquid reactors produce waste-heat, reducing the energy. convert natural gas into transportable liquids in one step. Capturing this energy would reduce both waste.

2012 240

2012 Energy Lithium Sulfur Conversion 240

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Five of the 28 innovations will help protect the grid from wildfires/PSPSs, four of these five will provide climate and weather risk prediction to electric infrastructure and services, and one is a hard tech innovation to reinforce transmission lines.

Clean 371

Clean Cleaning Energy Solar 371

Green Car Congress

MARCH 21, 2013

The award recipients are: Buster Biofuels, LLC, based in the San Diego area, will receive $2,641,723 to convert a 7,300 square foot industrial warehouse building into a biodiesel manufacturing and fueling facility. The facility will create biodiesel from renewable waste-based materials such as used cooking oil from restaurants.

San Diego 346

San Diego California Energy Transportation 346

Green Car Congress

MAY 9, 2013

A new new forum for the advocacy and development of liquid air as an alternative technology to harness waste and surplus energy within power and transport—the Liquid Air Energy Network (LAEN)—has formed in the UK. The main potential applications are in electricity storage, transport and the recovery of waste heat.

Energy Storage 268

Energy Storage Transportation Energy Waste 268