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APRIL 25, 2012

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has issued a Request for Proposals ( EPA-OAR-OTAQ-12-05 ) with up to $20 million in FY 2012 grant funding to establish clean diesel projects aimed at reducing pollution from the existing fleet of diesel engines. Engine Upgrades: up to 50% of the cost of eligible engine upgrades.

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AUGUST 17, 2022

PaxOcean Engineering Pte. The Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA) welcomes the formation of strong partnership among industry partners to develop, trial and test-bed new designs and innovative technologies needed to accelerate the transition to a clean economy.

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MARCH 7, 2013

Ballard Power Systems has signed an agreement with Volkswagen Group for a major Engineering Services contract to advance development of fuel cells for use in powering demonstration cars in Volkswagen’s fuel cell automotive research program. The contract term is for 4-years, with an option for a 2-year extension. Earlier post.) Earlier post.)

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JANUARY 12, 2011

Clean Air Power, the developer of Dual-Fuel combustion technology enabling heavy-duty diesel engines to operate on a combination of diesel and natural gas, will supply Volvo Bus Corporation with 11 Dual-Fuel systems. Earlier post.).

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OCTOBER 13, 2010

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has granted a waiver for fuel containing up to 15% ethanol (E15) for model year 2007 and newer cars and light trucks. The partial waiver was in response to a March 2009 application submitted by Growth Energy under the Clean Air Act. Earlier post.).

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JULY 11, 2013

Omnitek Engineering has been selected by the Puget Sound Clean Air Agency for a pilot project to demonstrate its diesel-to-natural gas engine conversion technology for drayage trucks serving the Port of Seattle, Washington, in support of the Port’s Clean Truck Program.

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JUNE 16, 2012

Mazda Motorsports will sell racing versions of its new SKYACTIV-D diesel engines ( earlier post ) to teams competing in the Le Mans Prototype 2 (LMP2) class of the 24 Hours of Le Mans. The Le Mans engine program will make its debut at the 2013 running of the race. The engines will be stock-block Mazda SKYACTIV-D 2.2-liter

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FEBRUARY 22, 2016

With immediate effect, Mercedes-Benz Trucks is granting approval for the use of Hydrotreated Vegetable Oil (HVO) renewable diesel for the in-line six-cylinder engine variants of the Mercedes-Benz OM 470, OM 471 (first generation) and OM 936 as well as the in-line four-cylinder variants of the OM 934 meeting the Euro VI emissions standard.

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JUNE 2, 2012

SKYACTIV-D racing engine. Mazda Motorsports will supply racing versions of the new SKYACTIV-D diesel engines ( earlier post ) to customer teams competing in GRAND-AM ’s newly announced GX Class for advanced/clean technologies, beginning with the 2013 season. The engines—stock-block Mazda SKYACTIV-D 2.2-liter

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JANUARY 27, 2015

exhaust from heavy-duty diesel engines meeting EPA 2007 and later emissions requirements—has found no evidence of carcinogenic lung tumors. The engine was run on a unique and strenuous operating cycle that represented more closely the behavior of modern engines than operating cycles used in older long-term studies of TDE.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

Wison Engineering Services Co. together with its subsidiaries, announced that Wison Engineering Ltd., an indirect non-wholly owned subsidiary of the Group, has been awarded a contract for the engineering of Erdos Jinchengtai coal-to-methanol Project (Phase II) for Erdos Jinchengtai Chemical Co., MTO start-up.

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MARCH 6, 2012

Four new corporate partners—Best Buy, Johnson Controls, Pacific Gas and Electric, and Veolia—are joining the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) 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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MAY 3, 2016

A compact, quiet-running 650cc 2-cylinder engine replaces the previous 2.4L 4-cylinder engine; charging capability remains the same, as does the electric range. The smaller engine will improve fuel economy, however. liter internal combustion engine (ICE) served as the genset engine. Earlier post.)

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NOVEMBER 24, 2009

The Clean Sky Joint Undertaking (JU) is now flying solo. The Clean Sky Joint Undertaking manages the corresponding JTI. billion) over 7 years, the Clean Sky JTI aims to develop cleaner and quieter aircraft. billion) over 7 years, the Clean Sky JTI aims to develop cleaner and quieter aircraft. Earlier post.).

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OCTOBER 4, 2012

liter natural gas engine designed to meet the increasing demand for on-highway vehicles powered by natural gas. G engine will be based on the Cummins ISB6.7 diesel engine and will use Cummins Westport’s proven spark-ignited, stoichiometric cooled exhaust gas recirculation (SEGR) technology. The base engine is.a

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APRIL 24, 2009

The California Air Resources Board approved $42 million in AB 118 Air Quality Improvement Program projects that will accelerate the commercialization of on-road and off-road clean engine technologies. Beginning this fall, Californians will be able to use these grants toward the purchase of zero-emission or hybrid engine technologies.

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OCTOBER 6, 2015

CWI) announced that its new ISL G Near Zero (NZ) natural gas engine is the first mid-range engine in North America to receive emission certifications from both US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Air Resources Board (ARB) in California that meet the 0.02 Since it was first introduced in 2007, the ISL G 8.9

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DECEMBER 20, 2010

The newly formed Engine Products Group (EPG)—comprising the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers (Alliance), The Association of International Automobile Manufacturers, Inc. The statute passed by Congress in 2007 states that fuels can’t be approved for the market that could cause any failures. Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

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OCTOBER 19, 2014

Nationally, 44% of the diesel transit buses meet or exceed the first EPA clean diesel standard—Model Year 2007 or newer—while 33% of the US truck fleet meet or exceed the standard. New clean diesel buses have reduced both NO x and particulate matter emissions by 98% compared to 1988 buses. —Ezra Finkin.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2018

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has launched the Cleaner Trucks Initiative (CTI) to further decrease NO x emissions from on-highway heavy-duty trucks and engines. From 2007 to 2017, US NO x emissions dropped by more than 40%. EPA last revised NO x standards for on-highway heavy-duty trucks and engines in January 2001.

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DECEMBER 4, 2013

2010 engines emissions reduction relative to 2010, 2007, and 2004 US emission standards. earlier post ), found that emissions of NO 2 and other nitrogen oxides—which can have direct health effects and contribute to the formation of smog—were approximately 61% below the 2010 EPA standard and 99% lower than in 2004 engines.

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JULY 22, 2011

Corning Incorporated will invest approximately $170 million to further increase the capacity of its clean air products plant in Shanghai, China. Corning first expanded the facility in 2007 and last year announced a $125-million second expansion of the facility.

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MAY 9, 2010

The strategy builds on the existing 2007 strategy to reduce CO 2 emissions from passenger cars and light-duty commercial vehicles, and complements ongoing and planned activities to decarbonize transport and to reduce their environmental impacts. Standardization. Energy, power generation and distribution.

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MAY 9, 2010

determined that for the 12-month period beginning January 2009, when both diesel and gasoline engine options were offered as options in a car, about 30% of the registrations had diesel engines. Bosch’s analysis of Polk data shows the average percentage of registrations for cars with clean diesel engines were: Audi A3 TDI: 20%.

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MARCH 31, 2009

Capstone Turbine Corporation has demonstrated with its 30 kW microturbine emission levels compliant with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and California Air Resources Board (CARB) 2010 requirements for Heavy Duty Diesel Engine (HDDE). a more than 80% NO x reduction from the current EPA and CARB 2007 standards.

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JANUARY 2, 2024

Engine manufacturer Cummins will pay a $1.67 billion fine for emissions cheating with diesel engines in Ram pickup trucks. Justice Department and the State of California claiming Cummins violated the Clean Air Act by installing so-called defeat devices that allowed its diesel engines to cheat emissions tests.

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OCTOBER 23, 2013

The specially equipped 2007 Chevrolet Equinox was part of GM’s 119-vehicle Project Driveway program, launched in 2007. After Project Driveway, it became an engineering development vehicle driven by as many as 10 GM engineers. By using renewable hydrogen, this vehicle has saved 5,260 gallons of gasoline. Earlier post.)

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MARCH 13, 2020

Preem has chosen Haldor Topsoe’s HydroFlex renewable fuel hydrotreating technology to produce clean renewable diesel and jet fuel at its Gothenburg refinery in Sweden. We have worked together on renewable fuels since 2007, and in 2010 we brought the first revamped co-processing unit on-stream to produce renewable diesel.

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JUNE 12, 2010

A coalition of environmental groups has filed a lawsuit challenging what it called the US Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) failure to address greenhouse gas emissions from ocean-going ships, aircraft and nonroad vehicles and engines used in industrial operations. Lisa Murkowski’s (R-Alaska), “disapproval resolution” (S.J.

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DECEMBER 7, 2017

The European Type Approval Regulation 715/2007 explicitly includes in its definition of “defeat devices” the engine speed (RPM) as a parameter for reducing the effectiveness of the emission control system during normal vehicle operation. The vehicle must have fully functional exhaust gas cleaning in all normal operating situations.

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MARCH 23, 2021

The first attempt to make a structural battery was made as early as 2007, but it has so far proven difficult to manufacture batteries with both good electrical and mechanical properties. Funding has come from the European Commission’s research program Clean Sky II, as well as the US Air Force. cell manufacture, and curing of the SBE.

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AUGUST 17, 2018

These newest trucks also offer significant clean air benefits: NO x emissions that are 99% lower than previous generations, along with 98% fewer emissions of particulate matter. established in 2007. increase in savings, despite higher average diesel prices. grams per brake horsepower hour (g/BHP-hr.).

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AUGUST 8, 2017

As part of the new technology to achieve this vision, the company disclosed plans to introduce a next-generation gasoline engine called SKYACTIV-X in 2019. This new proprietary combustion engine combines the advantages of gasoline and diesel engines to optimize environmental performance, power and acceleration performance.

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MAY 23, 2016

The dual-fuel engines are equipped with hydrogen injection and a separate ECU control system. The higher compression of the diesel engine improves thermodynamic efficiency; running the system throttle-less is ideally suited to hydrogen’s wide combustibility range (like diesel itself). million (US$6.2 InTech, doi: 10.5772/54613.

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JULY 21, 2010

Pratt & Whitney has completed testing on its full-scale PurePower engine core with more than 260 test hours, successfully validating performance and operability goals. The PurePower family of engines is designed to power the next generation of passenger aircraft with reduced fuel consumption and emissions. Earlier post.)

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

Assembly Bill 118 (Núñez, Chapter 750, Statutes of 2007) authorized the Energy Commission to provide approximately $100 million annually over seven years to encourage new fuels and technologies. 10 million to fund projects that establish commercial-scale clean transportation manufacturing facilities in California.

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MAY 14, 2024

Valuable metals including cobalt and nickel are collected and cleaned to be reused in new batteries. Lithium, copper, and other metals are collected and cleaned to be reused. She is an active member of the IEEE Power & Energy Society and is a former IEEE PES liaison to the Women in Engineering committee.

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