Green Car Congress

JUNE 17, 2019

In 2015, team leader Ken Motokura of Tokyo Tech’s Department of Chemical Science and Engineering and his colleagues found that formate salts show promising catalytic activity. The high reactivity of silyl formate enables its conversion into intermediates for the preparation of organic compounds such as carboxylic acids, amides and alcohols.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

Audi has set the goal of successively reducing vehicle-specific CO 2 emissions by 30% by 2025 compared with reference year 2015 and over the entire product lifecycle. In the long term, Audi is pursuing the vision of CO2-neutral mobility and aims to be climate-neutral throughout the company on balance by 2050.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 7, 2015

Researchers at Argonne National Laboratory have identified a new material to catalyze the conversion of CO 2 via hydrogenation to methanol (CH 3 OH): size-selected Cu 4 clusters—clusters of four copper atoms each, called tetramers—supported on Al 2 O 3 thin films. Image courtesy Larry Curtiss; click to view larger.)

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 21, 2015

Stuart Licht at The George Washington University in Washington, DC has developed a low-cost, high-yield and scalable process for the electrolytic conversion of atmospheric CO 2 dissolved in molten carbonates into carbon nanofibers (CNFs.) Now, the team, which includes postdoctoral fellow Jiawen Ren, Ph.D.,

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 12, 2015

Scientists from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) have discovered that a metabolic pathway previously only suggested to be functional in photosynthetic organisms is actually a major pathway and can enable efficient conversion of carbon dioxide to organic compounds.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 8, 2015

million in Carbon Recycling International (CRI). Geely’s CRI investment and work with renewable methanol is similar to the approach Audi is taking with its own e-fuels projects—producing very low carbon liquid or gaseous fuels using only renewable energy, water and CO 2. —Li Shufu, Chairman of Geely Group. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

Canada’s National Research Council (CNRC) showcased Canada’s first algal biorefinery demonstration project, a collaborative research effort between CNRC’s Algal Carbon Conversion (ACC) program, Pond Technologies and Votorantim Cimentos’ St Marys Cement.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 9, 2015

Results indicate that size-selected Cu 4 clusters are the most active low-pressure catalyst for catalytic CO 2 conversion to CH 3 OH. Density functional theory calculations reveal that Cu 4 clusters have a low activation barrier for conversion of CO 2 to CH 3 OH. …to —Liu et al.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 27, 2017

Stuart Licht ( earlier post ) have developed a new process that transforms CO 2 into a controlled selection of nanotubes (CNTs) via molten electrolysis; they call the process C2CNT (CO2 into carbon nanotubes). Molten carbonate electrosynthesized boron-doped CNTs exhibit high electrical conductivity. —Ren et al.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 14, 2013

LanzaTech, a producer of low-carbon fuels and chemicals from waste gases, has partnered with the Centre for Advanced Bio-Energy, a joint venture between Indian Oil Corporation, Ltd. India is projected to become the world’s second largest steel producer by 2015, providing a significant opportunity to produce biofuel. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

per kilogram of hydrogen at German natural gas prices—without taking the market value of the solid black carbon byproduct of the process into consideration. The main by-product of methane cracking—solid black carbon—is also an increasingly important industrial commodity. The final design is a 1.2-meter-high

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2015

Researchers from South Korea, the UK and Sweden have identified and prepared a new family of zeolites—crystalline aluminosilicates with frameworks that contain windows and cavities the size of small molecules—that can separate out carbon dioxide more effectively from fuel gases than those previously known.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 24, 2017

This process will enable the economically viable transformation of excess power and off-gas carbon dioxide into methanol in small-scale, decentralized production units. Funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), Bio-M ran from 1 October 2015 to 30 June 2017.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 23, 2015

According to their analysis, published in the ACS journal Environmental Science & Technology , favorable assumptions for all involved process steps (30% thermochemical energy conversion efficiency; 3000 kWh/(m 2 a) solar irradiation, low CO 2 and heliostat costs) result in jet fuel production costs of €1.28/L kg CO 2 ‐equiv /L. 5b03515.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 17, 2010

million) to six projects to further develop the UK’s low carbon vehicle capability. The HiUCV is targeted to halve the overall carbon emissions per tonne of waste collected of current best-in-class Refuse Collection Vehicles (RCVs) in the urban environment. Carbon Dioxide tailpipe emissions: Less than 75 g/km.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 16, 2015

In addition to reducing energy consumption, the dry reforming process also consumes recycled carbon dioxide. 2015), “Dry Reforming and Reverse Water Gas Shift: Alternatives for Syngas Production?” Producing the steam is energy-intensive; dry reforming requires far less water, and hence avoids the energy burden of steam production.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 10, 2015

Taking into account the 0.38% efficiency from CO 2 to acetic acid, the researchers calculated a solar energy-conversion efficiency of 0.20% from CO 2 to PHB biopolymer. The results reported here outline a solar-energy conversion process that combines the strengths of semiconductor nano-devices and bacterium-based biocatalysts.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 15, 2015

2015 ECS Toyota Young Investigator Fellows. Methanol Electrosynthesis at Carbon-Supported Molecular Active Sites: to synthesize a selective electrocatalyst for methane to methanol conversion by ligating single site transition metal compounds known to activate methane with graphitic carbon surfaces that allow for facile charge transfer.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 20, 2022

With all this, consumers and policymakers alike are hopeful that society will soon greatly reduce its carbon emissions by replacing today’s cars with electric vehicles. about 60 percent of its electricity from fossil fuels, primarily natural gas, which produces less carbon than coal does. falls somewhere in the middle, deriving.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

So imagine a million electric cars on US roads which all need to change these batteries in say 2015. In most conversions cost is about the same because of needless weight. Next: a carbon tax. The huge hill of used batteries represents a major problem with the toxic acid and lead inside. Lead batts are around 98% recycled.

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