Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

Credit: ACS, Boot 2008. Researchers at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) are developing a small-scale demonstration reactor that will process 40 tons of wood waste per year from the university into replacements for diesel fuel and gasoline. In their 2008 paper, Boot et al. Click to enlarge. all of which are ?

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Clean Fleet Report

JULY 20, 2024

I’ve now been driving electric cars for years, but the cars at Autopia still sputter with their little gas engines, filling the surrounding air with noxious emissions. Like riding on rails The cars themselves were completely new in 2000 with three designs based on a Volkswagen Beetle convertible, a sports car and an off-roader.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 25, 2009

The California Energy Commission has awarded a $1-million grant to UC Riverside’s College of Engineering-Center for Environmental Research and Technology (CE-CERT) to build a process demonstration unit (PDU) to convert waste biosolids to synthetic diesel fuel. The fuel gas can also be converted into electric power.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

Celeroton AG, a leading manufacturer of ultra-high-speed electrical drive systems with speeds up to 1 million rpm, has launched its first turbo compressors with gas bearings—unique in their weight and performance, being wear- and oil-free, and obtaining the highest levels of energy efficiency. GB and CT-17-1000.GB,

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 12, 2010

Researchers at Fudan University (Shanghai, China) have converted the marine macroalgae Enteromorpha prolifera , one of the main algae genera for “green tide”—massive algal blooms caused by eutrophication of marine water bodies—to bio-oil by hydrothermal liquefaction in a batch reactor at temperatures of 220-320 °C. and Enteromorpha sp.,

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 19, 2013

Siemens Metals Technologies and LanzaTech, a producer of low-carbon fuels and chemicals from waste gases, have signed a ten-year co-operation agreement to develop and market integrated environmental solutions for the steel industry worldwide. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 22, 2018

Global Bioenergies was founded in 2008 to develop a process converting renewable resources (sugar, crops, agricultural and forestry waste) into isobutene, one of the main petroleum derivatives. When implanted into a host micro-organism, it can convert sugars into isobutene in a several-stage process.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 5, 2009

Vattenfall and Aalborg University are partnering with Danish startup SCF Technologies in a two-year project to design a demonstration plant based on SCF’s CatLiq process—an application of the firm’s supercritical fluid technology in the catalytic production of bio-oil from organic waste. SCF Technologies 2008 Annual Report.

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Oil Universal 2008 Waste 218

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 7, 2020

Since 2008, JetBlue has already offset more than 2.6 Neste MY Renewable Jet Fuel is produced 100% from waste and residue raw materials. Landfill Gas Capture (LFG): Landfill gas is a natural byproduct of the decomposition of organic material in landfills. billion pounds of CO 2 emissions in partnership with Carbonfund.org.

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Carbon 2020 Emissions San Francisco 150

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. Genifuel says it has no current plans to produce natural gas for motor fuel.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 5, 2013

A conventional internal-combustion engine combines with hydraulic units and an accompanying gas (e.g., In operation, hydraulic units compress a gas cushion using hydraulic fluid. Fluid and gas are kept separate from one another. The gas cushion stores energy by the gas being compressed rather like a coiled spring.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

The major sources of methane in California are livestock (~30% of the state’s methane emissions), followed by landfills and oil and gas production. Methane is 72 times more efficient at trapping heat in the atmosphere than CO 2 , which is the most prevalent global warming gas. CO 2 remains in the atmosphere for up to a century.

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Pollution California Emissions Climate 150

Green Car Congress

APRIL 25, 2016

The spin-Seebeck effect is a thermoelectric effect discovered in 2008 by Prof. Thermoelectric conversion technology that converts energy abandoned as waste heat back to electric power is strongly anticipated to be used for saving energy and reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Eiji Saitoh and Associate Prof.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 26, 2015

Global Bioenergies, founded in 2008, has developed a synthetic isobutene pathway that, when implanted in a micro-organism, enables the organism to convert sugars (e.g., The process to convert isobutene to isooctane is well-established. Earlier post.). Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

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Audi Renewable Solar Fuel 150

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 16, 2016

The average yield target of 3,700 gal/acre/yr of intermediate must be achieved under conditions that result in favorable life-cycle greenhouse gas reductions and techno-economic analyses. Micro and macro‐alga, as well as cyanobacteria are allowed. Food‐ and grain‐based sugars are not allowed. Heterotrophic systems are not eligible.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 13, 2010

Cobalt uses non-food feedstock, such as forest waste and mill residues, and its technology reduces greenhouse gas emissions by 85% compared to gasoline. It can be used as a standalone fuel; blended with gasoline, diesel and ethanol; converted into jet fuel or plastics, or sold as is for use in paints and coatings.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 30, 2010

Massachusetts Energy and Environmental Affairs (EEA) Secretary Ian Bowles has set the statewide greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions limit for 2020 required by the Global Warming Solutions Act of 2008 at 25% below 1990 levels, the maximum authorized by the Act, saying that measures already in place will get Massachusetts much of the way toward that goal.

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Massachusetts 2020 Emissions Auto 244

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 19, 2009

An important analytical issue that needs to be addressed, the report notes, is the lack of lifecycle assessment studies focusing on a wider set of environmental impact indicators than greenhouse gas emissions. Life-cycle assessments (LCA) of biofuels show a wide range of net greenhouse gas savings compared to fossil fuels.

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Ozone Water Emissions Oil 186

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 4, 2009

The USDA Biorefinery Assistance Program, authorized through the 2008 Farm Bill, promotes the development of new and emerging technologies for the production of fuels that are produced from non-corn kernel starch biomass sources. This project will use acid to break down biomass which can be converted to liquid fuels or energy.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

In an integrated system, stored hydrogen can be converted back to electricity or used as a feedstock with atmospheric or source carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) to produce a liquid fuel for heavy-duty vehicles including trucks and jet planes. Analysis of excess and/or waste hydrogen sources. transit buses or other heavy duty vehicles).

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Green Car Congress

MAY 10, 2011

77% is up from just under 13% of the total primary energy supply of around 490 Exajoules in 2008. The upper end of the scenarios assessed, representing a cut of around a third in greenhouse gas emissions from business-as-usual projections, could assist in keeping concentrations of greenhouse gases at 450 parts per million, the report said.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 5, 2012

natural gas vehicle. natural gas vehicle, previewed in a concept form in 2011 ( earlier post ) and revealed in its production version at the Geneva auto show in March this year, in Europe. The natural gas version produces its 50 kW output at 6,200 rpm and reaches its maximum torque of 90 N·m (66 lb-ft) at 3,000 rpm.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 5, 2009

RFS2 requires that US transportation fuel contain 36 billion gallons of biofuels in 2022; at least 16 billion of the 36 billion gallons of biofuels required in 2022 are to be made from such cellulosic feedstocks as perennial grasses, crop residue, and wood waste. Federal R&D mainly supports the development of advanced cellulosic biofuels.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 15, 2009

It first gasifies the feedstock to syngas (CO and H 2 ), then uses proprietary microorganisms—licensed from Oklahoma State University and the University of Oklahoma—to convert simultaneously both CO and H 2 into ethanol. Scale up lots of times makes things better—there is more residence time to convert the gas into ethanol.

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Commercial Oil-Sands Water Gasoline 150

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

The statute, amended by Assembly Bill 109 (Núñez, Chapter 313, Statutes of 2008), authorizes the Energy Commission to develop and deploy alternative and renewable fuels and advanced transportation technologies to help achieve the state's climate change policies. Natural gas-powered vehicle fueling. Natural gas will displace 1.5

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Plugs and Cars

APRIL 5, 2008

2008 required another tune up based on the opinion of the Air Board’s own independent technology review panel which said that fuel cells cars are not ready for mass commercialization. At the very least, CARB could have converted their hybrid requirements into a plug-in hybrid requirement, instead of taking from the small ZEV numbers.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 3, 2009

The SCOPE (Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment) International Biofuels Project, has published the full proceedings of its Rapid Assessment workshop on the environmental effects of biofuel technologies, 22-25 September 2008. SCOPE is part of the International Council for Science.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 3, 2009

In this study, BMW focused on Rankine A (exhaust gas only) and Rankine B (exhaust gas and coolant). BMW is exploring two pathways for waste heat recovery in vehicles: one thermoelectric, the other thermodynamic. System A used exhaust gas only as the heat source; System B used exhaust gas and coolant.

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Waste BMW Powered Power 150

Green Car Congress

MARCH 9, 2015

If realized, an efficient, low-temperature TIC could provide a supplementary or an alternative approach to thermoelectric devices for waste heat recovery using low grade waste heat—i.e, Thermionic energy converters are heat engines that convert heat directly to electricity at very high temperatures. W/cm 2 at 26.6%

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 2, 2009

An exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) system has also been added. Waste material from the construction of the 2010 Prius generator—most likely center cuttings from production of the generator’s stamped steel stator plates—is reused in the construction of the electric motor that drives the vehicle’s air conditioning compressor.).

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 7, 2013

It is non-toxic, non-carcinogenic, and can be made from a variety of sustainable domestic sources, as well as from North America’s abundant supply of natural gas. The company will also introduce its own proprietary LNG engine—North America’s first fully integrated natural gas solution—in VNL day-cabs and sleepers next year.

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 18, 2023

students a simple question: “What is the most efficient and practical way possible to convert chemical-bond energy into useful work?” The ammonia reacts with oxygen in air to produce nitrogen gas and water, and the resulting force pushes against the walls of the box. If compression stops too soon, the reaction never happens.

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Green Cars News

MAY 3, 2009

BMW is looking into ways to maximise waste heat recovery in vehicles with two pathways being explored - thermoelectric and thermodynamic. It has found, through bench test measurements that waste heat recovery can provide an additional power output of around 10 per cent. per cent. . per cent and 31.7

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

JANUARY 28, 2009

utilizing these ideas and instructions in an attempting to enhance national security, reduce gas consumption, vehicle "emissions", your carbon footprint, or smog, you do so at your own risk & peril. However they also retain the ability to travel long distances when utilizing the existing gas or diesel refueling infrastructure.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

The vision is fuelled by the fear of climate change and the need to find green alternatives to dirty coal, unpopular nuclear power and unreliable gas imports from Russia. Every scrap of waste food, garden trimmings and even sewage would be used to ferment gas. “There’s a relationship of trust already.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Next post States’ Proposals for Gas Taxes Sputter 11 Comments 1. To deal with this major special waste problem has to my knowledge never ever been brought to the attention of the readers of any paper around the world. April 10, 2009 10:06 pm Link I make, convert and drive EV’s and have for 13 yrs. In the U.S.

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