Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

Lux Research has investigated the trends of corporate financing of alternative fuels from oil majors, based on a non-exhaustive database of more than 1,000 deals and partnership engagements from 2000 through September, 2014. Valero has a strong focus on drop-in fuel production either by bioconversion or catalysis.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 10, 2012

Researchers in Spain have obtained high-quality transportation fuels (gasoline with RON >80 and diesel with cetane number >70) from oil obtained by the thermal cracking of low-density polyethylene (LDPE) using a bifunctional catalyst comprising Ni (7 wt %) deposited on a hierarchical Beta zeolite (Ni/h-Beta). in the period 2000-2010.

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Transportation Fuel Production Gasoline 240

Green Car Congress

JUNE 23, 2015

IH 2 technology is a continuous catalytic thermochemical process which converts a broad range of forestry/agricultural residues and municipal wastes directly into renewable hydrocarbon transportation fuels and/or blend stocks. Ongoing research indicates a high probability to achieve EN specification fuels or high-quality blend stocks.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

Aquaflow chair Barrie Leay says wild micro algae, wood waste, bagasse and other green municipal waste can now all be converted to the next generation of biofuels, including bio-gasoline, bio-diesel and jet fuel. He says the unique chemical qualities of algae can be maximized within a mix of other biomass streams. Earlier post.).

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Australia Energy New Zealand Waste 210

Green Car Congress

JULY 15, 2017

In a study published in the ACS journal Energy & Fuels , a team from the University of Vermont reports that particulate matter from the combustion of biodiesel blends may be 50–80% less toxic per unit PM mass emitted than PM from petroleum diesel, depending on feedstock. This may be possible using fuel additives beyond antioxidants.

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B0 Diesel Exhaust Vermont 186

Green Car Congress

MAY 4, 2012

Engineers at Transonic Combustion, a start-up developing a fuel efficient supercritical (SC) fuel injection and combustion system—Transonic Combustion, or TSCi ( earlier post )—have demonstrated the TSCi process using gasoline fuel at low load without EGR, medium load with EGR, and high speed low load with EGR.

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Fuel Economy Gasoline MPG Economy 262

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Since 2000, electricity has been the only economic sector that has seen continuous and significant improvements in reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. This year’s Index finds that 2017 marked the first time that a greater portion of California’s power mix came from renewable sources such as wind and solar than it did from fossil fuels.

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California Climate Transportation 2017 274

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

The research also confirmed REG Life Sciences technology is capable of achieving substantial reductions of full-lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions compared to traditional diesel fuel. Since 2000, ExxonMobil has spent about $8 billion to develop and deploy lower-emission energy solutions across its operations.

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Renewable Energy Connecticut Waste 150

Green Car Congress

MARCH 16, 2017

UPS plans to build an additional six compressed natural gas (CNG) fueling stations and add 390 new CNG tractors and terminal trucks and 50 liquefied natural gas (LNG) vehicles to its alternative fuel and advanced technology fleet. In 2016, UPS invested $100 million in CNG fueling stations and vehicles. Greensboro, N.C;

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Gas West Virginia Alternative Fuels Vehicles 150

Creative Greenius

APRIL 3, 2010

In August 2009 a state-of-the-art rig using “new technology&# spilled 2000 barrels of oil a day for 10 weeks into the fragile East Timor Sea. Tags: Environmental Politics Ocean carbon producers climate change environment environmental legislation fossil fuels greenwashing politics 350.org New technologies will prevent oil spills.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 26, 2019

The production of air pollution from motor vehicles, industrial power plants, and fossil fuel emissions are determined by complex chemical reactions. Stockwell, Emily Saunders, Wendy S. Goliff & Rosa M.

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Emissions El Paso Pollution Ozone 170

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

The dual-fuel diesel-biomethane powered bus is expected to reduce pollutant emissions and greenhouse gas emissions by around a half. The dual-fuel vehicle is a standard Optare Solo single-deck diesel midibus from the Anglian Bus fleet. Diesel is required as the ignition source in dual fuel engines.

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Emissions Fuel Conversion Cleaner 246

Green Car Congress

MAY 19, 2015

Founded in 2006, GMZ commercialized technologies that were developed at the labs of MIT and Boston College, and launched the first commercial high temperature modules overcoming significant challenges in integration and packaged for waste heat applications in cars, furnaces and other industrial applications. Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

MAY 26, 2010

Chemists at Brown University have synthesized novel core and shell palladium/iron-platinum (Pd/FePt) nanoparticles that use far less platinum yet perform more efficiently and last longer than commercially available pure-platinum catalysts for the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) in hydrogen fuel cells. Article ASAP doi: 10.1021/ja1024436.

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Fuel Hydrogen Tennessee Commercial 199

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 13, 2010

General Motors said that 52% of its worldwide facilities are now landfill-free; i.e., all waste generated from normal operations is reused, recycled or converted to energy. GM employees focus first on decreasing the amount of waste generated, and then work to recycle the unavoidable waste.

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GM Waste Convert Sierra 186

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 17, 2011

Microalgae can grow in waste or sea water and offer vastly superior biomass yields per hectare; furthermore, CO 2 removed from the atmosphere during photosynthetic growth of the plant offsets CO 2 released during fuel combustion. and GHG emissions around 182 g CO 2eq /MJ fuel. tons/ha/year). They noted that an EBR of 1.2

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Oil-Sands Production Grid Saudi Arabia 236

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

California has already cut anthropogenic black carbon emissions by more than 90% since the 1960s, and existing measures are projected to cut mobile source emissions by 75% and total anthropogenic emissions by nearly 60% between 2000 and 2020.

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Pollution California Emissions Climate 150

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

A paper on their work is published in the ACS journal Energy & Fuels. Lipid extraction requires extensive dewatering and organic solvents, diminishing the economics of fuel production and increasing environmental concerns. Energy & Fuels doi: 10.1021/ef3020603. The yield of biocrude was 44.5 ± 4.7% carbon, 10.1% hydrogen, 4.4%

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Conversion Water Carbon Oil 285

Green Car Congress

MARCH 14, 2010

mpg US) (NEDC combined consumption, provisional figure)—a fuel savings of 25% compared to the current S63 AMG. With this high-tech package we are “best in class” with respect to fuel consumption, output and torque.” With the provisional NEDC fuel consumption of 10.5 The new AMG 5.5-liter

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Downsizing Standards Fuel Mercedes 186

Green Car Congress

MAY 10, 2011

The group is committed to making transportation fuel from agricultural waste, energy crops and forest biomass. The demo plant will have a capacity of 5 MT per day and has been designed so that it can be scaled up to 2000 MT per day. The objective of G2BioChem is to produce cellulosic ethanol for less than $2.25

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Canada Companies Waste Conversion 218

Green Car Congress

APRIL 22, 2009

They can also be used as intermediates for the chemical synthesis of more complex carbon compounds such as fuel hydrocarbons. A method to convert biomass to methyl halides thus enables the transformation of biomass into drop-in chemicals and liquid fuels—e.g., cerevisiae for metabolism of toxic waste products. Redeker, N.-Y.

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Setec Powerr

APRIL 10, 2024

This form of resilience is increasingly critical—over the 20 years following 2000, the frequency of major outages increased by 67%, with expectations for further increases due to extreme weather conditions. Beyond the obvious lost revenue costs, there are also hard-to-quantify costs such as non-productive labor and waste.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

In particular, without additional actions, off-road mobile, fuel combustion in the industrial and power sectors, and residential fireplaces will account for more than three-quarters of black carbon emissions in California in 2030. The largest source of black carbon emissions in California, by far, is wildfire.

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Pollution Climate California Carbon 150

Green Car Congress

MAY 21, 2010

IHS CERA’s earlier comparison of 11 publicly available life-cycle analysis studies found that fuel produced from oil sands mining has average well-to–retail pump greenhouse gas emissions 1.3 times the average for fuel consumed in the United States. times larger than the average fuel consumed in the United States.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

When one thinks about what automakers can do to help the environment, the immediate thought is about improving fuel efficiency and developing alternatives to gasoline. But there’s much more automakers can do beyond fuel efficiency to reduce our environmental impact by adopting energy efficiency and renewable energy throughout our operations.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 19, 2016

Implementation of a detailed plan for reducing waste gas to flares. combustion efficiency at all times when waste gases are vented. Strict internal leak definitions: 500 ppm for valves and 2000 ppm for pumps. Installation of flare gas recovery systems. A refinery-wide flare cap. Operate with a minimum of 96.5%

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Emissions EPA Pollution Hawaii 150

Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2009

The standard FedEx trucks used in the retrofit program were 2000 or 2001 models with 300,000 to 500,000 miles driven. An added benefit of the conversion program is that it not only reduces pollution but also extends the life of the vehicles, helping to eliminate waste production and creating a reduce-and-reuse program.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 20, 2016

As a leader in the sustainability space, we are developing new technologies to efficiently employ discarded materials and fibers, while potentially reducing the use of petrochemicals and light-weighting our vehicles for desired fuel economy. There are about 400 pounds of plastic on a typical car.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 19, 2009

Increased eutrophication is a key characteristic of biofuels from energy crops when compared with fossil fuels. World ethanol production for transport fuel tripled between 2000 and 2007 from 17 billion to more than 52 billion liters (13.7 of the world’s transport fuel. billion gallons US) liters.

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Ozone Water Emissions Oil 186

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 13, 2013

Intentional-use sectors: Disposal and incineration of product waste, cremation emissions, chlor-alkali industry. Contaminated sites, including old mines, landfills, and waste disposal locations, release 8 - 33 tonnes per year. Source: UNEP. Click to enlarge. Resources.

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Mercury Emissions 2013 Global 262

Green Car Congress

JULY 28, 2009

SAMULET will focus on productivity and environmental improvements including reductions in raw material usage, efficient advanced manufacturing processes and lower engine fuel consumption. Further support is under discussion with regional bodies.

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Engine Carbon Universal 2000 150

Green Car Congress

MARCH 4, 2013

If offshore installation and maintenance costs are to some considerable degree attributable to the burning of fuel oil in vessels, associated pollution is important. As for toxic releases from waste handling, disposal of tailings in relation with mineral resource extraction and disposal of smelter slag are dominant pollution sources.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 4, 2010

Estimated carbon emissions and uptake, 1850-2000, including the Earth’s as yet unidentified carbon sink. petagrams of carbon (PgC) during the 1990s (about three-fourths from combustion of fossil fuels and the remainder from changes in land use). Source: Woods Hole. Research Center Click to enlarge.

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Green Cars News

JULY 22, 2009

These standard trucks used in the retrofit programme were models from 2000 or 2001 with 300,000-500,000 miles on the clock. The aim of the conversion programme is not only to reduce pollution but also to extend the life of the vehicles, helping to eliminate waste production. The powertrain equipment was replaced with a Cummins 6.7l

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Fleet Hybrid San Diego Eaton 36

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 14, 2009

A neglected fast-action strategy presented in the paper is reducing black carbon soot, an aerosol produced largely from the incomplete combustion of diesel fuels and biofuels, and from biomass burning. A recent study reported that ozone’s damage to crop yields in 2000 resulted in an economic loss of up to $26 billion annually.

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Climate Change Climate Pollution Ozone 186

Green Car Congress

APRIL 10, 2010

Power plants would face an overall cap on emissions that would become more stringent over time; motor fuel may be subject to a carbon tax whose proceeds could help electrify the U.S. In 2015–expanded to emissions from residential, commercial, and other industrial combustion, and transportation fuels. Coverage: In 2012–50% of emissions.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Its like having a second fuel tank that you always use first -- only you fill up at home, from a regular outlet, at an equivalent cost of under $1/gallon. Finally, looking at the non-electric fuel, instead of using gasoline for long-trips, PHEVs could run on bio-diesel, cellulose ethanol, or other bio-fuels to further reduce greenhouse gases.

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