Cars That Think

JANUARY 18, 2023

When we turn up the heat in our homes and workplaces, we must balance our personal need for warmth with the global impact of burning fossil fuels like oil, gas, coal, and biomass. This means that storing and distributing energy is as important as its generation. The apparent contradictions do not end there.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 31, 2021

The system uses proprietary technology to autonomously orchestrate the lifting and lowering of the bricks, storing the potential energy in the elevation gain, and generating then discharging electricity as the bricks are lowered. The Louisiana facility is the company’s first major project. barrel per ton of feedstock.

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Energy Storage Energy Fuel Louisiana 459

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

—Joe Gorder, Valero Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, To produce renewable diesel, Diamond Green Diesel first pretreats used cooking oil and inedible animal fats to remove impurities. billion pounds of used cooking oil annually. The US restaurant industry generates an estimated 2.3

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Diesel Renewable Green San Antonio 397

Green Car Congress

MARCH 2, 2018

Crude palm oil is one of the more than ten renewable raw materials that Neste uses to produce a range of renewable products, including renewable diesel. Palm oil represents approximately 20% of Neste’s renewable raw material usage annually. Increased pressure is created as the belt passes over rollers which decrease in diameter.

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Oil Emissions Malaysia Indonesia 244

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 20, 2009

Waste feedstocks are defined in the enabling legislation specifically as “ previously used or discarded solid, liquid or contained gaseous material with heating value resulting from industrial, commercial or household food service activities that would otherwise be stored, treated, transferred or disposed.

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Massachusetts Waste Oil Diesel 225

Green Car Congress

MARCH 22, 2021

Following several years of research and development, Central & East European (CEE) oil and gas corporation MOL has stepped up the value chain and has become a biofuel producer through the realization of an investment in the Danube Refinery. Vegetable oils, used cooking oils and animal fats can also be used for this purpose.

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Production Diesel Oil Waste 186

Green Car Congress

JULY 2, 2022

The remaining carbon dioxide is stored in the tank and reused in onshore methanol production. As a result, shipbuilders and operators around the world are seeking environmentally friendly alternatives to conventional ship engines powered by fuel oil or diesel. The top part of the graphic shows onshore methanol production. © Fraunhofer.

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Hydrogen Engine Fuel Carbon 480

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 9, 2011

has entered into an agreement with Rock-Tenn Company to convert mill by-product waste into fuel using JBI’s Plastic2Oil technology. The products of the P2O process are naphtha, fuel oil, and an off-gas similar to natural gas. Naphtha is similar in many respects to gasoline, and fuel oil is similar in many respects to diesel fuel.

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Waste Conversion Fuel Commercial 218

Green Car Congress

APRIL 20, 2011

A team at Stanford University is proposing using solid oxide fuel cells as the basis for a method for electricity production from oil shale with in situ carbon capture (EPICC) as a means to provide transportation services from oil shale with greatly reduced CO 2 emissions. secondary use of waste heat. Waste heat from conversion.

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Oil Carbon Emissions CO2 220

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 3, 2018

Planned feedstocks include a mix of waste fats, oils and greases, including regionally-sourced vegetable oils, animal fats and used cooking oil. The plant would utilize REG’s proprietary Bio-Synfining technology for the production of renewable diesel fuel.

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Renewable Diesel Energy Washington 278

Green Car Congress

MARCH 17, 2011

Separation of bitumen from a Canadian oil sand sample using an ionic liquid. A team of researchers at Penn State has developed a new, more environmentally friendly method of separating bitumen from oil sands utilizing ionic liquids (IL). The separation takes place at room temperature without the generation of waste process water.

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Oil-Sands Oil Saudi Arabia Water 257

Green Car Congress

JULY 11, 2017

Indian Oil Corporation Limited (IndianOil), India’s flagship national oil company and LanzaTech signed a Statement of Intent to construct the world’s first refinery offgas-to-bioethanol production facility in India. The basic engineering for the 40-million liter per year (10.6

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India Production Waste Oil 150

Baua Electric

MAY 29, 2024

Existing oil suppliers and gas-station operators don’t seem keen to push into the fuel-cell era, especially since there’s barely any hydrogen vehicles on the road now. An alternative to electrolysis is to use organic waste by extracting hydrogen from rotting food or sewage. Put this in a car and you have a fuel-cell electric vehicle.

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Future Auto South Korea Hydrogen 52

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 26, 2012

The Utah Water Quality Board, in a 9-2 vote this week, agreed with the August 2012 recommendations of an administrative law judge (ALJ) upholding a permit-by-rule issued by the Division of Water Quality (DWQ) for the proposed PR Spring an oil sands mine on state land in eastern Utah. Much of the oil sands resource (5% - 14% ore grade by wt.)

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Oil-Sands Utah Water Oil 210

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 14, 2013

The US Energy Department’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) is working with Ecopetrol, the largest oil company in Colombia, to process the residue from sugar cane and palm oil harvesting into fuel ethanol for blending with gasoline. The plant spoils quickly if the sugars aren’t squeezed out.

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Conversion Colombia Juice Waste 186

Green Car Congress

APRIL 16, 2014

While any project that meets the eligibility requirements is eligible to apply, the Department has identified five key technology areas of interest: advanced grid integration and storage; drop-in biofuels; waste-to-energy; enhancement of existing facilities; and efficiency improvements. Waste-to-Energy. Drop-in Biofuels.

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Renewable Energy Grid Waste 281

Green Car Congress

APRIL 6, 2011

WVO collects and removes water, food particles and other impurities from waste vegetable oil then ships the bio feedstock to a processing company that produces an 80/20 diesel/biodiesel blend (B20) that will be used to fuel hundreds of food delivery trucks at the US Foodservice-Columbia Division in Lexington, SC.

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Fleet Companies Waste Oil 199

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 27, 2011

A University of Maine chemical engineer and his research team have developed a new process—thermal deoxygenation (TDO)—to transform biomass, including forest residues, municipal solid waste, grasses, and construction wastes, into a hydrocarbon fuel oil. This produces a reaction resulting in a dark amber-colored oil.

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Hydrogen Fuel Convert Oil 247

Green Car Congress

JUNE 23, 2011

Neste Oil is continuing its research into the potential for using algae oil as a feedstock for producing NExBTL renewable diesel by taking part in two research projects starting this summer to test various methods for growing algae in outdoor conditions. —Markku Patajoki, the Head of Neste Oil’s Biotechnology Group.

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Oil Renewable 2020 Fuel 186

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

Flowback water treatment is a critical sustainability issue for the oil and gas industry. Once the water is used, the flowback, or wastewater, must be treated to remove hazardous chemicals before it is stored, reused or disposed, which can be a costly endeavor. —Maoqi Feng, SwRI.

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Water Low Cost Oil-Sands San Antonio 257

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OCTOBER 16, 2014

Neste Oil and SHV Energy have agreed that SHV Energy will market and sell biopropane to be produced at Neste Oil’s Rotterdam refinery. Neste Oil’s Rotterdam refinery primarily produces premium-quality renewable diesel (NExBTL) from various bio-based inputs and waste. Earlier post.) A €60-million (US$76.5-million)

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Market Energy Cleaner Fuel Alternative 218

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 3, 2009

A new study released by Global Forest Watch Canada finds that significant amounts of greenhouse gases are emitted through the disturbance and/or removal of biocarbon (trees, shrubs, peats), which overlay Alberta’s oil sands. These areas store 579 megatonnes (million tones) of biological carbon, mostly in peatlands.

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Oil-Sands Oil Emissions Gas 191

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 13, 2021

This proposed project will significantly (1) reduce Si anode costs; (2) improve efficiency and reduce waste in production; (3) reduce engineering and cost risks; and (4) reduce EV battery costs and accelerate the move to clean transportation and renewable energy. 24M Technologies, Inc. LongPath Technologies Inc. AutoGrid Systems, Inc.

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Li-ion Battery Batteries Polymer 199

Clean Fleet Report

MAY 27, 2022

The organization announced steps recently, along with Shell and Pennzoil, the official fuel, motor oil and lubricant sponsors of the NTT IndyCar series. KERS is where kinetic energy, which is present in the waste heat created by the car’s braking process, is stored and converted into power that can be called upon to boost acceleration.

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Cleaner Green Fuel Cars 71

Green Car Congress

MARCH 30, 2018

BioLPG is identical to conventional LPG, so it can be blended, stored and used as a drop-in replacement for all existing applications with no modification. However, the biggest environmental gain from the use of this very low carbon, clean fuel is when it replaces solid and liquid fuels such as coal and heating oil.

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Renewable Market Grid Coal 170

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

Waste heat recovery. Renault Trucks has developed a system to recover the waste heat contained in exhaust gases. To this end, they used an original solution which constantly adapts the level of oil in the drive axle according to its needs for lubrication and cooling. Driver aids.

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2015 Vehicles Solar Waste 247

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

Kreutz used two examples of CCTF systems in his analysis: biodiesel from microalgae and Sandia National Laboratory’s S2P process (an effort to utilize concentrated solar energy to convert waste CO 2 into synthetic fuels, earlier post ). emissions. their CO 2 (e.g. ~90%) natural gas, nuclear energy, renewable energy, etc.).In

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Transportation Convert Waste CO2 231

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 19, 2021

When decelerating, energy is recovered through regeneration and stored in the Lithium-ion battery. When coasting to a stop, at speeds of less than 18 km/h, and ‘brake on’, the engine will switch off and the stored energy is used to power the vehicle’s electrical equipment.

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Europe Nissan Power Powered 243

Green Car Congress

APRIL 7, 2014

Surplus electricity generated from renewables could be stored in batteries or could be converted via power-to-gas technology into synthetic methane (SNG), liquid fuels or hydrogen. Liquid Air technically does not store any energy, as energy has been removed to create it. Liquid Air. Earlier post.) Earlier post.) Click to enlarge.

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Gas Energy Power Powered 246

Green Car Congress

JUNE 2, 2013

The effort is in parallel with an ongoing technology development to store hydrogen affordably. Ad Astra is developing this system in collaboration with Costa Rica’s state-owned oil refinery, RECOPE. The teams also designed a reliable process to mix and control hydrogen and biogas, and use together as an efficient energy source.

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Costa Rica Hydrogen Companies Power 218

Green Car Congress

MARCH 6, 2013

The Energy Department also announced today that three new corporate partners—AMP Americas, Kwik Trip and Waste Management—are joining the National Clean Fleets Partnership, a broad public-private partnership that assists the nation’s largest fleet operators in reducing the amount of gasoline and diesel they use nationwide.

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Charging Alternative Fuels Fleet Clean 199

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 16, 2011

The BioBoost project concentrates on dry and wet residual biomass and wastes as feedstock for de-centralized conversion by fast pyrolysis, catalytic pyrolysis and hydrothermal carbonization to the intermediate energy carriers oil, coal or slurry. The fast pyrolysis and HTC processes of demo-size (0.5-1

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Conversion Energy Kits Fuel 225

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 13, 2012

These include differences in processing configuration, technologies used in the production facility, key parameters such as algal biomass productivity and oil content, the system boundary definition, the co-products that are produced, the methodology used to value co-products, and the end-product (i.e., the functional unit) being assessed.

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MIT Oil Water Minneapolis 250

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. There are 2.6

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Climate Hydrogen Los Angeles Climate Change 87

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 2, 2009

Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. Wal-Mart uses Class 8 trucks to haul its trailers and deliver product to its stores. Energy that is generated during braking is captured and stored using regenerative braking. distribution center will operate on an 80/20 blend of biodiesel made of waste yellow cooking oil. Earlier post.).

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Peterbilt Eaton Hybrid Fuel 150

Cars That Think

JUNE 29, 2023

My visit starts in Helion’s capacitor “kitchen,” so-called for the various processes involving in coating, testing, and baking the thousands of oil-filled capacitors Polaris will need. Zap’s capacitor bank will store 1.5 The startup’s prototype reactor will need enough capacitors to store 50 megajoules of energy.

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Fusion USA Energy Power 145

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

The energy input needed to keep the process going, Wu says, is heat, which could be provided by solar energy or by waste heat, some of which could come from the power plant itself and some from other sources. Essentially, the process makes it possible to store that heat in chemical form, for use whenever it’s needed. and Ghoniem, A.

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MIT Convert CO2 Carbon 186