Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 6, 2010

Scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have constructed a low-cost, nanoscale composite hybrid thermoelectric material by wrapping a polymer that conducts electricity around a nanorod of tellurium—a metal coupled with cadmium in today’s most cost-effective solar cells. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 20, 2013

A team at Monsanto and colleagues at AVL Powertrain have successfully designed and demonstrated an onboard low-temperature ethanol reformer that can be driven by exhaust heat. Many papers have described high-temperature steam reforming of ethanol at around 600 °C but.this temperature is too high to be driven by engine exhaust.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 31, 2012

Borla Performance Industries , a leader in the design and manufacture of stainless steel performance exhaust, has an option to license a novel nanopore membrane technology developed at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL).

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Green Car Congress

MAY 18, 2021

Startup ClearFlame Engine Technologies announced a partnership with Alto Ingredients, a leading producer of specialty alcohols and essential ingredients, to conduct pilot demonstrations of ClearFlame’s solution for diesel engines using low-cost ethanol in Class 8 trucks.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 22, 2013

The European Union-funded PowerDriver project—a two-year, €3-million (US$4-million) research project initiated in February 2012 to turn exhaust gas waste heat into electricity using thermoelectric generator (TGEN) technology—has completed simulation work on on a potential automotive application.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

Earlier post.). In implementing this 50% downsizing by swept volume, the research team delivered zero degradation in driveability, performance or acceleration.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Low-sooting fuels allow for the elimination of diesel particulate filtration (DPF). Use of soot-free “Clear” Exhaust Gas Recirculation (EGR) can allow for lower NOx emissions without the competing soot constraint, meeting next-generation emissions standards without added aftertreatment complexity.

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APRIL 18, 2011

Coatings specialist Zircotec has developed a new low cost, fit and forget ceramic coating offering surface temperature reductions of 125 °C for diesel engine applications. —Peter Whyman, Zircotec’s sales director.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 14, 2019

As part of the Horizon 2020 research project CARES (City Air Remote Emission Sensing), an international research consortium is working on new contactless exhaust measurement methods that will enable municipalities to take emission-reducing measures. The aim is to detect the exhaust class of each individual vehicle using these measurements.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 30, 2021

Ammonia enables efficient, low-cost transport and storage of hydrogen. The demonstration project aims to establish ammonia co-firing technology by co-firing coal and ammonia at a large-scale commercial coal-fired power plant and evaluating both boiler heat absorption and environmental impact characteristics such as exhaust gases.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 27, 2009

Controlled Power Technologies (CPT) is a UK startup working with switched reluctance motor technology to deliver cost-effective CO 2 -reducing solutions for vehicles. It can also help minimize the need for expensive exhaust after-treatment. Earlier post.). Nick Pascoe, chief executive officer CPT. Nick Pascoe.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

Low-cost ceramics enable temperatures beyond the limitations of metals to deliver fuel efficiencies of power plants in small-scale distributed power. IPG‘s flameless combustor uses the turbine exhaust and high heat transfer effectiveness through the IPG regenerator unit.

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Electrek

MAY 28, 2021

They provide the same personal mobility convenience as a bicycle, yet use an electric motor to help riders travel faster, farther, up steep hills and without the same level of exhaustion. The higher build quality and more rugged components have a significant impact on the riding experience as well.

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Electrek

MAY 7, 2021

They provide the same personal mobility convenience as a bicycle, yet use an electric motor to help riders travel faster, farther, up steep hills and without the same level of exhaustion. The higher build quality and more rugged components have a significant impact on the riding experience as well. .

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Direct air capture systems and retrofits to existing industrial and power plant exhausts to capture carbon dioxide and use it to make alternative products or permanently sequester it deep underground.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

The KeyState Natural Gas Synthesis Plant proposed for Clinton County would use fracked gas from the Utica and Marcellus shale formations as a feedstock and power source for the onsite manufacturing of blue hydrogen, ammonia fertilizer, methanol, and diesel exhaust treatment.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 8, 2009

The NxtGen system uses a non-catalytic Syngas Generator to produce syngas—a mixture of hydrogen and carbon monoxide—from engine exhaust and diesel fuel. The collaborative development effort generates up to 40% savings as a result of optimizing the filter with up to 60% less precious metal. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Truck drivers have a higher risk of lung cancer that is associated with exposure to diesel exhaust. Diesel exhaust is a complex mixture of particles and gases and the specific component responsible for health effects has not been identified. Some of the gaseous compounds are known or suspected carcinogens.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 26, 2010

Because NO 2 constitutes less than 10% of NO x in the diesel engine-out exhaust, an oxidation catalyst is required to increase the NO 2 fraction. Platinum has been found to be especially active for NO oxidation; thus, Pt-based diesel oxidation (DOC) and LNT catalysts have been widely used for diesel exhaust aftertreatment. Science Vol.

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Electrek

JULY 22, 2021

They provide the same personal mobility convenience as a bicycle, yet use an electric motor to help riders travel faster, farther, up steep hills and without the same level of exhaustion. The higher build quality and more rugged components have a significant impact on the riding experience as well.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

CPT specializes in the development of cost-effective tailpipe emission reduction measures achieved through low cost electrification of conventional and hybrid vehicles—increasingly at 48 volts. Earlier post , earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 3, 2014

GMZ Energy, a market leader in the development of high-temperature thermoelectric generation (TEG) solutions, has successfully demonstrated a 1,000W TEG designed for diesel engine exhaust heat recapture in a Bradley Fighting Vehicle. Earlier post.) This announcement follows GMZ’s June 2014 demonstration of its 200W diesel TEG.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 9, 2019

This could be paired with combustion technologies with highly diluted combustion (stoichiometric with exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) as well as lean burn with excess-air ratios above 2). Further development of exhaust gas energy recovery systems with turbo-compounding and possibly chemical reforming should be encouraged. Gas exchange.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 25, 2021

Although energy storage systems with cabinet-type enclosures can be advantageous due to capacity, footprint and access, the cabinets leave little room for exhaust fans which would vent flammable gases that can result from failed cells and lead to explosion.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 20, 2019

The valve train is the “respiratory organ” of combustion engines: it manages the aspiration of fresh air and the discharge of exhaust gases (gas exchange). The basic principle of the valve train—for both intake and exhaust side—is an asymmetric hydraulic pendulum, which can be described as a mass-spring-system. Image: Empa.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 26, 2022

Teams selected through the High-Performance Computing for Materials (HPC4Mtls) Program will use high-performance computing to bolster the domestic materials supply chain needed for energy applications, including reduced material costs or improved carbon capture for power plants or clean hydrogen. All Selectees. PROJECT TITLE. DESCRIPTION.

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

One of the benefits of using print electronics is being able to mass-produce at a low cost, says Gregory Whiting at the University of Colorado, Boulder, one of the principal investigators of the team working on the sensors. First up is a 3D-printed, biodegradable soil sensor that checks moisture and nitrogen levels.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 13, 2016

Alphabet Energy, a startup commercializing low-cost, efficient thermoelectric materials for power generation leveraging technology initially developed at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory ( earlier post , earlier post ), has closed a $23.5-million million Series C round of financing.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 23, 2014

The claim that emissions from diesel engine exhausts from road transport are the main cause of lung cancer in humans thus “ needs to be seriously challenged, ” the paper concluded. —“Diesel Engines Exhausts: Myths and Realities”. The amount of diesel exhaust people are exposed to varies greatly.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 30, 2014

For this purpose, ARPA-E defines CHP as the distributed generation of electricity from piped-in natural gas fuel at a residence or a commercial site complemented by use of exhaust heat for local heating and cooling.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 9, 2012

The VEMB system uses a concentric camshaft, blow-down manifold and scavenge manifold to separate the exhaust event into two phases: high-energy blow-down to the turbo without pumping losses, and high-hydrocarbon scavenge to the EGR system. Source: Borgwarner. Click to enlarge. —Christopher Thomas. Virtual Cylinder Deactivation (VCD).

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 3, 2021

The project team’s technology will consist of a novel methane oxidation catalyst (MOC) formulation capable of high conversion efficiencies at the lower exhaust temperatures in ultra-lean burn engines. Typical MOCs have diminished methane conversion efficiency at low temperatures, limiting their synergies with ultra-lean burn NG engines.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 18, 2015

This project will develop a low cost, ultra-compact power module using innovative integrated-cooling to increase power density, improve performance, and reduce cost. This project will develop an integrated flame spray process for low cost production of battery materials for lithium ion batteries and beyond.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 21, 2010

By carefully tailoring the composition and structure of these new materials, the aim is to develop efficient thermoelectric materials that can be manufactured at large scales and low cost.

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Green Cars News

APRIL 28, 2009

Smoke emissions produced by turbocharged diesel engines under heavy load conditions - such as when accelerating from low engine speeds and other similar transient manoeuvres - can be all but eliminated by a relatively simple and low cost electric supercharger says automotive CO2 reduction specialist, Controlled Power Technologies (CPT).

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Green Car Congress

JULY 5, 2016

Whereas fuel cost used to be a major driver for fleet managers, the lowering of oil prices and the availability of low-cost natural gas has reduced this concern, Navigant notes. —“ Medium and Heavy Duty Vehicle Technologies ”.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 1, 2014

GMZ Energy’s proprietary platform technology enables the low-cost manufacturing of bulk thermoelectric materials. The unique properties of half-Heusler materials combined with proprietary module fabrication techniques enable scalable, low-cost manufacturing of half-Heusler modules yielding a cost per watt below $1.00

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