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MAY 15, 2010

The WJ Daytech/AFVTech CNG Hot Rod made its debut at the recent Alternative Fuels and Vehicles ( AF&V 2010 ) show in Las Vegas. 2010 GM e-38 engine processor, calibrations via Fern at AFVTech. The “Gasser” CNG Hot Rod. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.) The team will be doing time trials and emissions testing for verified results.

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AUGUST 13, 2023

The new system mimics a natural chloroplast to convert carbon dioxide in water into methane, very efficiently using light. Photo credit: (left) Professor Ye Ruquan’s research group / City University of Hong Kong and (right) Biophysical Journal, 99:67-75, 2010. A paper on this team’s latest work was published in Nature Catalysis.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Deutsche Bahn and Tognum subsidiary MTU Friedrichshafen GmbH (MTU) have converted a diesel-mechanical powered car from the VT 642 series into a hybrid vehicle as part of a joint research project. The partners unveiled the vehicle to the public at InnoTrans 2012. Hybrid rail car VT642 with MTU Hybrid Powerpack. Credit: MTU. Click to enlarge.

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AUGUST 31, 2011

World ethanol and biodiesel production, 1975-2010. Global production of biofuels increased 17% in 2010 to reach an all-time high of 105 billion liters (28 billion gallons US), up from 90 billion liters (24 billion gallons US) in 2009. Source: Worldwatch Institute. Click to enlarge. billion liters abroad, a 300% increase over 2009.

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DECEMBER 20, 2013

The Propane Council is also offering incentives for vehicles converted to propane autogas up to $5,000. The Propane Council of Texas has been distributing business fleet incentives since 2010. Incentives are available for the purchase of new, dedicated original equipment manufacturer (OEM) propane autogas vehicles up to $7,500.

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JULY 25, 2011

BMW Manufacturing has launched the first phase of an integrated program of work with the intent to validate the economic and technical feasibility of converting landfill gas (LFG) into hydrogen. One of the challenges to be addressed in the project is determining if variations in composition of the incoming BMW LFG stream—i.e.,

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MAY 10, 2012

smart escooter concept shown at Paris Motor Show in 2010. In 2010, smart unveiled a comprehensive portfolio of electric products for urban transport at the Paris Motor Show. In addition to the smart fortwo electric drive as a coupé and a convertible, it included the smart ebike and the escooter. Click to enlarge.

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JANUARY 29, 2013

announced that Wuhan Kaidi, which purchased a Westinghouse Plasma gasifier design, and plasma torch systems, from Alter NRG in 2010, has successfully completed the commissioning of the unit at its demonstration facility in Wuhan, China. Alter NRG Corp. Under the contract, Alter NRG has access to operational data from the Kaidi facility.

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OCTOBER 9, 2022

To achieve our CO 2 emission reduction targets from products in use 50% by 2030 from 2010 levels, to achieve carbon neutrality by the end of 2050, we are looking for promising technologies from suppliers to accelerate our electric machine development.

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JUNE 9, 2012

In 2010, China’s coke output reached 387.571 million tons, accounting for 61.6% Their paper was published in the ACS journal Energy & Fuels. Coal tars—highly viscous liquids—are byproduct of the carbonization of coal to produce metallurgical coke and/or natural gas. million tons of coal tar was further processed.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2014

is advising the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) of plans to conduct voluntary safety recalls of approximately 701,000 Model Year 2010-2014 Prius vehicles to update the motor/generator control ECU and hybrid control ECU software. It also converts AC into DC during regenerative braking for storage in the HV battery.

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APRIL 29, 2011

Siemens is building power converter stations for a high-voltage direct current (HVDC) transmission system with a record capacity of 2 x 1,000 megawatts. A reactive power exchange is possible between each power converter and the three-phase alternating current network, which helps to stabilize overloaded grids.

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JUNE 25, 2021

The refinery’s parent company, PBF Energy, would make a $550-million capital investment to retrofit a hydrocracker unit—out of operation since 2010—with new technology to accommodate renewable diesel production.

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AUGUST 1, 2023

This Assessment is an update of assessments in previous Critical Materials Strategy reports, the first of which was released by DOE in 2010. Gallium (Ga) continues to be critical due to its use in light-emitting diodes (LEDs).

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AUGUST 9, 2012

A scatter plot of CO, as a tracer for pollution, versus CO 2 , as a tracer for the amount of combustion, for 2002 and 2010. Even though the CO 2 enhancements over background were comparable in the two years, about 25 ppm in 2002 and 35 ppm in 2010, the ?CO/?CO2 CO2 ratio for this flight track segment decreased from 24.5

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APRIL 29, 2023

billion in the Roseville site and convert the TSI Semiconductors manufacturing facilities to state-of-the-art processes. billion in total since 200-millimeter technology was introduced in 2010. Bosch intends to invest more than US$1.5 In its wafer fabs in Reutlingen and Dresden, Bosch has invested more than €2.5

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MAY 22, 2013

billion fundraising , Tesla Motors has paid off the entire loan awarded to the company by the US Department of Energy in 2010. In 2010, Tesla was awarded a milestone-based loan, requiring matching private capital obtained via public offering, by the DOE as part of the Advanced Technology Vehicle Manufacturing (ATVM) program.

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APRIL 26, 2011

In July 2010, Gevo successfully produced isobutanol from fermentable sugars derived from cellulosic biomass and also successfully converted the cellulosic isobutanol into isobutylene and paraffinic kerosene. The process technology for converting isobutanol to hydrocarbons is low-energy input and reduces greenhouse gas emissions by 85%.

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DECEMBER 6, 2012

European leader in the rubber industry, announced the discovery of a direct biological pathway to convert renewable resources into butadiene, a light olefin core to the petrochemical industry. billion revenues rubber manufacturer with the aim of developing a process to convert renewable feedstock into butadiene. Earlier post.).

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DECEMBER 8, 2014

After isobutene in 2010 and butadiene earlier this year, Global Bioenergies has created a proprietary prototype strain able to convert glucose into propylene at laboratory scale. Global Bioenergies is one of the few companies worldwide developing a process to convert renewable resources into hydrocarbons through fermentation.

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APRIL 19, 2018

In 2016, NTN provided five prototypes of converted EVs with its latest in-wheel motor drive system to both Mie Prefecture and Kuwana City in Japan. A 2010 version of NTN’s in-wheel motor. NTN began work on in-wheel motors in 2003, deploying and testing successive iterations on different types of compact, lightweight EVs.

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MAY 3, 2010

Approximate oil locations from April 29, 2010 to May 3, 2010 including forecast for May 4 based on trajectories and overflight information. Produced May 3, 2010. to convert these structures for use in deep waters. Source: NOAA. Click to enlarge. BP engineers have worked closely with the firm Wild Well Controls, Inc.

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APRIL 30, 2012

TMS unveiled a second-generation Toyota RAV4 EV demonstrator vehicle at the Los Angeles Auto Show in 2010. Toyota built 35 of these Phase Zero vehicles—essentially converted RAV4s—for a demonstration and evaluation program through 2011. Toyota Motor Sales, USA, Inc., Earlier post.).

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JULY 12, 2013

since 2010, making progress toward its 20 percent reduction commitment by 2020. GM also reduced the amount of energy required to build one vehicle by 7 percent and avoided $66 million in energy costs through conservation initiatives since 2010. MWh/vehicle in 2010. Note that the 2010 base year has been adjusted from 0.88

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AUGUST 6, 2014

The purpose of the GTL Pilot Plant is to commercially demonstrate converting stranded natural gas resources to synthetic crude oil. Since 2010, however, biofuel-fired power projects have not been economic due to declining prices for electricity, which are driven by lower natural gas prices.

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OCTOBER 3, 2014

The methanol feedstock for the MTG process will be fed through a series of MTG reactors, which convert the methanol first in a single reactor into dimethyl ether and then in five parallel reactors into a raw gasoline and liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) mixture. The HGT unit converts undesired components by hydrogenation.

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APRIL 27, 2012

Mha (20%) of the peatlands of Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra and Borneo in 2010, surpassing the area of Belgium and causing an annual carbon emission from peat decomposition of 230–310 Mt CO 2 e. 2012), Extent of industrial plantations on Southeast Asian peatlands in 2010 with analysis of historical expansion and future projections.

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OCTOBER 8, 2012

In 2010 alone, land-clearing for oil palm plantations in Kalimantan emitted more than 140 million metric tons of carbon dioxide— an amount equivalent to annual emissions from about 28 million vehicles. The study's researchers generated the first comprehensive maps of oil palm plantation expansion from 1990 to 2010.

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JANUARY 20, 2012

splendidus genes contributed to metabolizing the alginate oligomers and allowed them to be converted into chemical building blocks. In 2010, BAL and Statoil formed a strategic partnership for the production of ethanol derived from macroalgae grown off the coast of Norway. A pathway from Zymomonas mobilis turns that into ethanol.

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NOVEMBER 27, 2011

The converted Bit Viking. In August 2010, Wärtsilä signed a turnkey project with Tarbit Shipping to convert the Bit Viking to LNG operation. This is the first marine installation to involve converting Wärtsilä 46 engines to Wärtsilä 50DF engines, and the first 50DF marine installation with mechanical propulsion.

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MAY 6, 2021

And the new press shop is an important milestone on our “Way To Zero” journey, through which we are aiming to reduce the environmental impact of our production by 2025 in areas such as energy usage, CO 2 emissions, waste and the use of water by 45% per vehicle compared with the baseline year 2010.

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JUNE 7, 2013

Overview of the Cobalt/Navy pathway for converting butanol to renewable jet fuel (alcohol-to-jet, ATJ). The project, which will convert biomass into sugars for fermentation into butanol with subsequent conversion of that intermediate into JP5 jet fuel, is one of four biorefinery projects funded recently by the DOE. Click to enlarge.

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JANUARY 26, 2014

Importantly, the company said, the dissociation rate of the system was increased by a factor of 200 and the cost was reduced by a factor of 34, relative to the original dissociation apparatus demonstrated in 2010 at the laboratories of the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel. in power plants), or converted to liquid fuel (e.g.,

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JUNE 9, 2011

In 2010 they developed the first set of 260 kW vanadium redox flow battery energy storage systems for wind power, laying the foundation for the development of MW-class flow battery energy storage systems. To speed up the development of flow energy storage battery technology, the research team and the Industrial Investment Co.,

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DECEMBER 2, 2010

Researchers in Viet Nam and Belgium have developed a catalytic cracking process to convert vegetable oil sludge to renewable hydrocarbon fractions. Le Thi Hoai Nam, Tran Quang Vinh, Nguyen Thi Thanh Loan, Van Dinh Son Tho, Bao-lian Su (2010) Preparation of bio-fuels by catalytic cracking reaction of vegetable oil sludge.

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AUGUST 11, 2014

The State of Hawaii recently passed legislation to assist in funding a project that converts crops, crop residues, dedicated energy crops, and agricultural waste into biofuels and value-added co-products. BioTorks bioconversion development efforts in Hawaii date back to 2010 when it launched proof of principle research for its technology.

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AUGUST 8, 2012

The new certifications cover approximately 200 2010-2012 General Motors Chevrolet- and GMC-brand light-duty trucks and SUV platforms with 4.8- The EPA certifications allow Icom to convert these popular fleet vehicles in the US market for propane/autogas bi-fuel use. liter engines.

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