Green Car Congress

AUGUST 8, 2012

GE’s Power Conversion business recently received a series of new orders from South Korean companies Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering and Hyundai Heavy Industries. The scope of GE’s contracts includes MV7000 converters, induction motors, transformers, generators, main and cargo switchboards and propulsion control systems.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 15, 2010

Researchers from the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), the National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) and the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) have formed the Clean Energy Partnership to accelerate the development and deployment of coal conversion, emissions capture and carbon storage technologies.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 28, 2018

With a carbon intensity under the California Low Carbon Fuel Standard of about negative 300, dairy biomethane is highly valuable, but needs to be collected at the dairy, pipelined to a central processing facility, then cleaned and compressed for use as Renewable Natural Gas in converted diesel trucks and other natural gas vehicles.

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Renewable Carbon Gas India 247

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 4, 2017

The gasification technology complements Aemetis’ current license with LanzaTech for syngas-to-ethanol conversion, providing Aemetis with a complete technology solution to produce locally-sourced, low-carbon cellulosic ethanol.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 14, 2012

ARA has developed a catalytic hydrothermolysis (CH) process to convert triglycerides (e.g., The cost-efficient CH PROCESS uses water to reduce hydrogen consumption, catalyst consumption, and carbon footprint compared to other alternative fuel conversion processes. Earlier post.). Overview of the ReadiJet process. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 31, 2019

Established in 2006, Circa Group converts waste biomass into bio-based chemicals with its proprietary Furacell process at its prototype plant in Tasmania—a joint venture with Norske Skog. One use of LGE is conversion into the alternative bio-solvent dihydrolevoglucosenone (Cyrene). straw, bagasse, sawdust).

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 30, 2010

Skutterudites are one of several promising novel thermoelectrics—materials that convert a heat differential to electricity—that have been developed and pursued for more than a decade, notes Ctirad Uher, co-author of the PRL paper and author of a chapter on Skutterudite-based thermoelectrics in the 2006 Thermoelectrics Handbook.

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Michigan 2006 Waste Conversion 186

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 4, 2013

Converting a corn ethanol plant to produce biobutanol requires changes to the fermentation step (mainly a new microorganism) and to alcohol recovery from the fermentation. Fermentation to convert the sugars to iso-butanol using a proprietary microorganism. Source: Butamax. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

On the way there, I made a pit stop at a gas station to buy a bottle of champagne as a gift, hoping to start out a conversation with a stranger on the right foot. One of our 2006 Prius’ pack needed servicing and it only cost a few hundred dollars to fix 7 modules and change the bus bars connecting the modules by a hybrid shop.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 4, 2013

The investigation was focused on gasification-based processes that enable the conversion of biomass to methanol, dimethyl ether, Fischer-Tropsch liquids or synthetic gasoline at a large (300 MW th of biomass) scale. This Ultra-Clean Gas (UCG) process has been at the focus of VTT’s biomass gasification R&D since 2006. 0.7 €/liter.

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Carbon Fuel Finland Gasoline 218

Green Car Congress

APRIL 7, 2010

Converting beetle-killed pine for biofuels is an extremely difficult process. If Cobalt can convert beetle-killed wood, it’s likely that the company can make biofuel from almost any cellulosic feedstock.”. Bioenergy options for woody feedstock”, 2006. Sugars do degrade over time, and the overall yield will go down.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 24, 2009

have launched a joint venture, Envergent Technologies, LLC, to offer technology and equipment to convert second-generation biomass into pyrolysis oil for power generation, heating fuel and for conversion into transportation fuels. UOP LLC, a Honeywell company and Ensyn Corp. Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

MAY 6, 2009

Battelle is granting an exclusive license to Genifuel Corporation for a process developed at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) to convert algae into renewable synthetic natural gas (SNG) for use in pipelines and power generation. Hydrothermal Gasification of Biomass (Elliott presentation, 2006). Genifuel President Jim Oyler.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 7, 2022

She and her team helped develop the first vertical surround-gate nanowire field-effect transistor in 2006. Quantum transduction is the process of converting quantum signals from a low-energy photon to a high-energy photon to protect its state during transmission. “To

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Electric Auto Association

JANUARY 5, 2023

Straubel ’s August 2006 preview of the company’s Roadster at a chapter meeting. “We When Straubel—also known for his 1984 Porsche 944 EV conversion—left Tesla, he founded Redwood Materials , a leading lithium battery recycling company in Carson City, Nevada. That was quite a conversion.” It’s a very strong spirit.”

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 14, 2013

The 96,000-bbl/d ExxonMobil Pegasus pipeline between Patoka, Illinois and Nederland, Texas, which originally shipped crude oil northward, was reversed in 2006 in order to ship Canadian heavy oil to the Gulf Coast. Another prominent project is Tallgrass’ planned Pony Express conversion. Pony Express.

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DIY Electric Car

NOVEMBER 28, 2010

During 2006 Oil was trading around $60/Barrel for most of that year going up and down but for the most part the oil price had been trending up since 2004?.but During 2004 and into 2006 the Federal Reserve was acting in the best interest of the American People by trying to control inflation. The Federal Reserve?s but gradually.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

JULY 9, 2012

As Portland, OR gears up for yet another screening of Revenge, local EV'er and filmmaker J Bills recounts the scene at the Portland premiere back in November: Here in Portland, we still talk about the last time Chris Paine rolled through town with a movie; an early screening of 2006’s seminal “Who Killed the Electric Car?”

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Conversions are mostly for the Prius, with a few for the Ford Escape/Mercury Mariner hybrid SUVs. At that point, we expect the aftermarket companies prices to have come down sufficiently so that their conversions will be attractive to owners of hundreds of thousands of hybrids already on the road. So far, most start as hybrids.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 1, 2009

Eventually, Hazen said the use of microbes might even result in “oil sweetening,” or converting its chemical structure to a more environmentally friendly and useful form, like methane. He and his co-principal investigators will direct teams in different aspects of the process. Earlier post.) Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

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Plug In Partners

OCTOBER 10, 2006

Turn on the Electric Road By DAVID MORRIS Published: October 8, 2006 Minneapolis LAST summer, New York State took a page from California’s playbook, using state policy to jump-start a 21st century automobile industry.

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Plug In Partners

AUGUST 4, 2006

New York to Convert 600 Hybrids to PHEVs New York Governor George E. Bruno today announced a new $10 million State program to convert vehicles in the State fleet to plug-in hybrids (PHEVs) and plans for the construction of a state-of-the-art alternative fuel research laboratory at the Saratoga Technology + Energy Park (STEP).

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New York Alternative Fuels PHEV Renewable 100

Green Car Congress

MARCH 28, 2013

STG+ technology converts syngas into drop-in high-octane gasoline and jet fuel with a conversion efficiency of ~35% by mass of syngas into liquid transportation fuels (the highest documented conversion efficiency in the industry) or greater than 70% by mass of natural gas. Primus Green Energy Inc.,

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Universal Gas Green Energy 239

Green Car Congress

MARCH 7, 2011

The oxidative coupling of methane converts methane into ethane and ethylene (C 2 hydrocarbons). In a presentation at the Spring 2006 AIChE national meeting, researchers from Mesoscopic Devices noted that today’s catalysts exhibit either high selectivity (>70%) coupled with low conversion ( 75%) with low selectivity.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

JANUARY 28, 2009

See also our EAA-PHEV:General disclaimer talk : Disclaimer edit Please visit the Conversion Interest page to help us gauge DIYers interest! Current Hybrids are natural donor platforms because they already have most of the needed electric propulsion components, so the conversion process deals primarily with integrating larger battery packs.A

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Revenge of the Electric Car

JANUARY 21, 2009

2006), and you’ll learn that those once-dead electric vehicles (EVs) are now exacting a shocking revenge. January 2009 | Conversations The Electric Car Returns (and This Time It’s Personal). 2006), and you’ll learn that those once-dead electric vehicles (EVs) are now exacting a shocking revenge.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Our PRIUS+ Project Photos PHEV Resources Global Warming Take Action News and Events Contact Us Where Plug-In Hybrid Conversions (mostly Priuses) Are This is a mirror of the map at Googles RechargeIt site (including icons for YouTube videos on both PHEVs and EVs). Hymotion, February 2006 Hymotion Toronto, Ontario info@hymotion.com 6.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

JANUARY 28, 2009

Batteries Included $142,000 Grant 2006 Archive GM Plug-in Series Hybrid? Westbrook, 2001 "Gasoline to Electric Conversion Manual: A Workshop Guide for High Schools", published by the Electric Vehicle Society of Canada, July 2005 "History of the Electric Automobile: Hybrid electric vehicles", by Ernest H. htm Advocates of the Th!

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Revenge of the Electric Car

JANUARY 22, 2009

3Prong Power converts existing Toyota Priuses into plug-in hybrids that can run entirely on electricity. They convert Toyota Prius hybrids into mostly electric vehicles that get 100 to 150 miles per gallon. The conversion can double or even triple fuel economy, thereby severely limiting carbon dioxide emissions.

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Prius Plug-in Plug Gasoline-Electric 100

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 26, 2017

Researchers at the US Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), the Swiss Center for Electronics and Microtechnology (CSEM), and the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) have created tandem solar cells with record efficiencies of converting sunlight into electricity under 1-sun illumination. 2017.144.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 28, 2009

The LTA-SOFC was able to convert the biodiesel to electricity at commercially viable power densities, i.e., greater than 100 mW cm -2. Electricity is produced by converting tin to tin oxide at the anode. cell and stack (2005-2006) achieved a power density of 40 mW cm -2 by direct JP-8 conversion to electricity.

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Bentley Fuel Connecticut Power 150

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 28, 2009

CBP involves the use of a single microorganism or group of organisms to break down plant matter through a one-step conversion process of biomass into biofuels—a single-step cellulose-to-ethanol method. The plant was funded in part by grants from the State of New York which were approved in December 2006.

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New York Production 2008 2006 150

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

Conversely, high coating thicknesses for the electrodes produce a high energy density. Under a venture with the motto “From Road to Grid”, Audi is therefore currently working on a concept to convert old batteries into stationary energy stores. The plate has an integrated primary coil and an inverter (AC/AC converter).

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Our PRIUS+ Project Photos PHEV Resources Global Warming Take Action News and Events Contact Us CalCars Frequently Asked Questions Jump to: Environmental Effects and Benefits Alternative Fuels Batteries PHEV Conversions Other Questions Note: This page is overdue for a major overhaul. PHEV Conversions to top What cars can be converted to PHEVs?

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 25, 2009

1 (Lambda = 1), which is important for emission control by means of three-way catalytic converter. Mercedes-Benz was the first car manufacturer to introduce the spray-guided combustion system into series production in 2006. The seven-speed automatic transmission is fitted as standard.

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Mercedes Engine CO2 Power 150

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 28, 2014

The fundamental challenge is to convert as much of the chemical energy in the fuel, into mechanical energy, as efficiently as possible at the prescribed flow rate. Conversion efficiency is now the key. liter, normally-aspirated V8 engine used from 2006 to 2013 is replaced by a turbo 1.6-liter The F1 W05. Click to enlarge.

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2014 Mercedes Fuel Power 252

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 11, 2009

RegEnBoost integrates the three devices into a powertrain electrical power network (PEPN), which also incorporates a DC to DC converter and an enhanced lead acid battery, optimized for fast energy storage and release. Formed in 2006, the company is a spin-out from the Honda Ecotechnology Centre at Cranfield University.

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