Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

As a first step of a structured and long-term collaboration, this agreement aims to develop common research on materials and processes based on eco-design principles and renewable raw materials. Opened in 2008, this laboratory employs more than a hundred researchers.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 28, 2010

Since early 2008 the two companies have been working together to develop sustainable fermentative technology to produce bio-based succinic acid. The formation of the joint venture is a new step following the successful cooperation between DSM and Roquette pursuant to a joint development agreement (“JDA”).

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 14, 2009

Polypropylene is the second most widely used thermoplastic with a global consumption in 2008 of 44 million metric tons. Novozymes is producing enzymes to turn agricultural waste into advanced biofuels and has partnered to convert renewable raw materials into acrylic acid. Tags: Bio-polymers Biomethane Brazil Enzymes Plastics.

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Brazil Polymer Waste Convert 210

Green Car Congress

MARCH 12, 2009

will jointly offer Vaperma’s Siftek polymer membrane technology, which is designed to lower energy consumption for reduce operational costs and emissions in the energy-intensive ethanol production process. Amar Anumakonda, manager of business development for UOP Renewable Energy and Chemicals. Siftek technology. Source: Vaperma.

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Polymer Water Climate Change 2006 150

Green Car Congress

JUNE 24, 2010

Soy foam has helped Ford reduce its annual petroleum oil usage by more than 3 million pounds, and is up to 24% more renewable than petroleum-based foam. One day I hope to see the automotive world go totally compostable, removing the use of petroleum-based parts 100 percent —Debbie Mielewski, Ford polymer technical leader.

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2010 Ford Mercury F-150 170

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 6, 2010

Global Bioenergies has engineered an initial series of bacterial strains that can produce isobutene—a key chemical building block that can be converted into transportation fuels, polymers and various commodity chemicals—by transforming glucose in vivo.( Earlier post.)

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Global Convert Polymer Light 170

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Lignin is a complex chemical compound (a cross-linked amorphous phenolic polymer) and is the biomass component with highest energy content (9,000 - 11,000 Btu/lb compared to 7,300 - 7,500 for cellulose, Johnson 2002). It has been our goal all along to make our process as integrated and sustainable as possible. —Dr. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 22, 2009

The technology needs little energy input, and can be completely renewable. During 2008, Virent produced more than 40 liters of biogasoline for engine testing and began fabrication of its first 10,000-gallon-per-year pilot plant to produce biogasoline. Also in 2008, Shell and Virent announced their collaboration.

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Green Fuel 2008 Water 150

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DECEMBER 22, 2009

A major focus of the program will be on the development, validation and field testing of synthetic fuels from a variety of feedstock, to include biofuels from renewable domestic energy sources such as seed and plant oils, animal fats and algae. Earlier post.).

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Grant Fuel Universal Polymer 199

Green Car Congress

JUNE 21, 2010

The JU publishes annual calls for proposals (from 2008-2013), on the basis of which funding is granted for research, technological development and demonstration projects. The European Commission Fuel Cells and Hydrogen (FCH) Joint Undertaking (JU) has published its 2010 Call for Proposals with a budget of €89.1 million (US$110 million).

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2010 Hydrogen Fuel 2009 239

Green Car Congress

JULY 4, 2010

Researchers at North Carolina State University are developing an ozone-based pre-treatment technique (ozonolysis) to release sugars from the energy grass miscanthus for production into renewable fuels or chemicals with minimal generation of chemical waste streams and degradation of the carbohydrate components. García-Cubero et al.

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Ozone North Carolina Energy 2010 170

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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. Elevance Renewable Sciences. Renewable Energy Institute International. Amyris Biotechnologies, Inc.

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Diesel Conversion Convert Fuel 170

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FEBRUARY 19, 2009

Source: DOE, ALBAA 2008. Mini-cells” Source: LG Chem, ALBAA 2008. Source: Alamgir and Sastry (2008). Compared with today’s NiMH batteries deployed in hybrids, the LG Chem lithium polymer batteries deliver the same power with 30% less weight, 50% less volume and 10% greater efficiency. Convergence 2008, 08CNVG-0036)

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Li-ion Power Powered Market 170

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 7, 2009

With the initiation of the EFRCs in April 2008, the Department of Energy (DOE) budgeted approximately $100 million for multiple EFRC awards starting in FY 2009. Polymer-Based Materials for Harvesting Solar Energy. $16. Use novel, self-assembled polymer materials in systems for the conversion of sunlight into electricity.

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Energy Energy Storage Conversion Solar 150

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OCTOBER 29, 2011

Research on organic electrodes has been underway for more than 25 years, as the technology in theory offers the possibility of building greener and more sustainable Li-ion batteries than those built from non-renewable, inorganic materials. However, such attempts have been characterized by low capacities or other limitations. Earlier post.).

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Li-ion Japan Batteries Battery 218

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MARCH 25, 2009

Soft Lithography is an umbrella term for methods that economically create nano- to millimeter-scale structures and allow nano-scale control of chemistries on flat, uneven, patterned, or curved materials, including metals, polymers, oxides, and ceramics. EJ O’Leary, Chief Operating Officer of Exide Technologies. Mountain Power Inc.

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Energy Storage Lithium Ion Energy Lead Acid 150

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

PLA is a type of biodegradable plastic that can be made from renewable plant sources such as corn, wheat or sugar. This new project will develop a selective catalyst that will build up a polymer of ‘left-handed’ and ‘right-handed’ building blocks in a structured order so that we can control the physical properties of the resulting plastic.

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Polymer Universal 2008 186

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Toyota’s radiator end tank from renewably sourced material is the first use of bio-plastic in a chemically aggressive and mechanically demanding application: in radiator end tanks. BMW’s door panel in the 2008 7 Series was compression molded from a new, high-performance, lightweight, cost-effective, and green composite.

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APRIL 21, 2009

Hyundai will in months offer 2 models that will leap frog toyota and honda by years - it will be based on a lithium POLYMER battery thats lighter, cheaper, and maintains charge many times longer than NiCad batteries and all at a price half that of Volt. Galbraith joined The New York Times in June 2008 to write about renewable energy.

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