Green Car Congress

JULY 18, 2015

Findings by MIT researchers could help advance the commercialization of supercritical water technology for the desulfurization and upgrading of high-sulfur crude oil into high-value, cleaner fuels such as gasoline without using hydrogen—a major change in refining technology that would reduce costs, energy use, and CO 2 emissions.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 16, 2012

Other successful initiatives—highlighted in Ford’s 13th annual Sustainability Report—include reductions in water use, waste-to-landfill and CO 2 emissions as well as improvements in vehicle fuel economy and safety. The company also announced plans to reduce usage another 25% on a per-vehicle basis by 2016.

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JUNE 5, 2017

By the end of 2016, the company had already improved its five major environmental indicators (energy and water consumption, as well as the generation of waste, volatile compounds and CO 2 ) by 33.6%. less waste and 16.2% Energy and water consumption have been reduced by 21.7% In addition, the company has generated 41.4%

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 3, 2016

Researchers at Washington State University Tri-Cities have been awarded a $50,000 National Science Foundation I-Corps grant to explore the commercialization potential of their new pathway for biojet from biomass waste. Earlier post.). Yang currently holds a patent on the process. Tucker, John R. 17, 5131-5135 doi: 10.1039/C5GC01534K.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 5, 2015

The water supply for the biomass sorghum crop was lower-quality pump water containing salts that typically damage crops. The project was located in the western San Joaquin Valley, which has received a low water allocation from state and federal sources for the past several years.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

The first synthesized highly porous carbon (1625 m 2  g −1 ) using waste tires as the precursor. Those tires will eventually need to be discarded, and our supercapacitor applications can consume several tons of this waste. 2015) “Waste Tire Derived Carbon–Polymer Composite Paper as Pseudocapacitive Electrode with Long Cycle Life.”

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

Steam electrolyzers ( earlier post ) are excellent for converting electrical energy into chemical energy. The steam required is provided in the form of waste heat from the processes of the smelting plant at Salzgitter Flachstahl GmbH and supplied to the steam electrolysis unit.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 18, 2015

Feedstocks including cellulosic biomass and municipal wastes are gasified. The resulting syngas (CO and H 2 ) is then processed with heat and catalysts to produce olefins or hydrocarbons that can be converted into fuel. For cellulosics and municipal and agricultural wastes, pretreatment breaks down plant matter to access plant sugars.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

That 10 years is now only applicable for the Generation 3 made from 2010-2015, but at least there are options. Sometimes the engine water pump might leak. The first sign of a leaking water pump is the absence of hot air when heating the cabin in cold temperature. One of our 2006s’ needed it changed but this fault is not usual.

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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., using just water, H 2 , CO 2 and sunlight. using just water, H 2 , CO 2 and sunlight. The process to convert isobutene to isooctane is well-established.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 24, 2013

CO 2 emissions by the European new vehicle fleet will be reduced by some 30% during the period from 2006 to 2015—emissions will be below the threshold of 120 grams CO 2 /km for the first time by 2015. 25% less energy and water consumption, waste and emissions. MW of DC power to 7.6 Protected 100 ft.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 26, 2015

The Energy Commission also approved almost $16 million in research grants to help develop the next generation of energy efficient technologies for commercial and residential buildings; $11 million for projects to convert feedstock and waste into biofuels; and about $900,000 for natural gas innovations. California Energy Commission.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 27, 2015

DTNA’s SuperTruck was unveiled at the 2015 Mid-America Trucking Show. DTNA unveiled its SuperTruck at the 2015 Mid-America Trucking Show (MATS) in the Freightliner Trucks booth. liter engine, a hybrid system, a Waste Heat Recovery (WHR) system, along with a number of other upgrades. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.) Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

Hydrogen produced by water electrolysis has the potential to be a useful means of storing excess electricity generated using wind, solar, and other intermittent renewable energy. Analysis of excess and/or waste hydrogen sources. The 2015 cost target was $2-$3/gge. Combined heat and power (CHP) fuel cell systems.

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My Electric Car

AUGUST 21, 2020

The only by products are water and a fair degree of heat, the latter indicating a degree of inefficiency and wasted energy. Second, while hydrogen can be otherwise produced through the electrolysis of water, this process requires huge amounts of clean and fresh water – a vital and highly valuable commodity of life that can’t be wasted.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 18, 2015

A prototype automotive waste heat recovery system has been fired up on a recently commissioned test rig at the University of Brighton. Libertine expects the results from rig tests to confirm the system’s potential to convert the high grade heat in the exhaust into electrical power, which can contribute to either powertrain or auxiliary loads.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2022

The selected projects will focus on technologies such as revolutionizing fuel cells for light- and heavy-duty vehicles, and technologies to generate less nuclear waste and reduce the cost of fuel. The system takes three main inputs: ambient air, water, and a sustainable energy source, and produces butanol with high selectivity.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 15, 2013

Joule has engineered photosynthetic biocatalysts that convert waste CO 2 into hydrocarbons through a patented, continuous process. The entire process takes place in a modular SolarConverter system, from photon capture to product creation and initial separation, with no requirement for arable land, fresh water or crops.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 14, 2015

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) honored the six 2015 Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award winners at a ceremony in Washington, DC. For 2015, EPA announced a new award category for a green chemistry technology that has a “Specific Environmental Benefit: Climate Change.”

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 3, 2009

In general, biofuels made from organic waste are environmentally more benign than those from energy crops. However very few studies include water use impacts. Nitrous oxide (N 2 O), a potent greenhouse gas, is formed as a byproduct of bacterial processing of nitrogen in soils, sediments, and waters. Ravindranath et al.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 23, 2023

The verb MacGyver , to design something in a makeshift or creative way, was added to the Oxford English Dictionary in 2015. What about a miniaturized water treatment plant? To analyze the performance of their AKVO system (named after the Latin word for water, aqua ), which is made from CDs, Eden Tech turned to multiphysics simulation.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 7, 2010

Scheduled for launch in 2012, it is expected to account for 85% of Renault’s gasoline engine sales in 2015. When the engine starts from cold, the valve is closed and prevents water from circulating around the combustion chambers. Pumping the oil the engine doesn'’ need through the relief valve wastes energy, however.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2013

They are among the first of 1,000 examples that Hyundai has committed to produce between now and 2015 and are built on the same production line in Ulsan, Korea as the Tucson. We also produce a huge amount of waste and we are looking at schemes that convert biomass into hydrogen. BOP components.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

By combining several processes and companies under one roof, the Vertically-Integrated Facility for Electric Truck Manufacturing would combine the building of components like advanced converters or battery modules with their assembly into electric drive systems. Project partners will provide $1,000,000 to match the state grant.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2017

Time-series trends in normalized upstream GHG intensities of twenty-five global oil fields (offshore and onshore) with dfferent extraction practices (water injection/flooding, gas injection/flooding/lifting, or steam flooding) over the course of production in the period of 1949–2015. a, Heavy oils. b, Medium oils. c, Light oils.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

Audi presented a range of its ongoing work on electromobility and efficiency—from fuels and systems to full vehicles—under the “Future Performance Days 2015” banner. This makes it possible for the waste heat from the electrical drive components to be made available to the interior of the Q7 e-tron quattro.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 22, 2010

Fuel processors (FPs) for stationary fuel cell systems convert raw fuel into hydrogen-rich streams suitable for use in fuel cells. desulfurization); reactors to convert the raw fuel into a hydrogen-rich stream (e.g., water-gas-shift); and. desulfurization); reactors to convert the raw fuel into a hydrogen-rich stream (e.g.,

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 27, 2015

Battelle, in a parallel program, has a great deal of experience and knowledge in waste water treatment—i.e., Zia Abdullah (2015) “ Upgrading of Biomass Fast Pyrolysis Oil (Bio-oil) ” DOE Bioenergy Technologies Office (BETO) 2015 Project Peer Review. people who understand how to clean liquids.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 11, 2015

Researchers at Kyoto University in Japan have proposed a novel two-stage process to convert low-rank coals or biomass wastes under mild conditions to high-quality liquid fuel. for biomass wastes. Solubles were almost free from water and ash. —Li et al. The carbon basis soluble yields were 19.4−31.2% —Li et al.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 10, 2013

The new Cascada mid-size convertible is the first Opel model available with the new engine. A lightweight, aluminum fuel pump with a suction control valve allows delivery of the exact amount of fuel requested, avoiding energy waste that is normally necessary in regulating fuel pressure. For durability, it is water-cooled.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2015

To ignore this potential is wasteful and foolish. Furthermore, even the older version PHEV can recharge at a slow rate using local solar, wind, water-derived or other net zero CO 2 fuel. It is wasteful and destructive to be burning this versatile molecule; we must stop. For an extended discussion see Appendix C).

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

Overall, the number of hybrid models on sale in the US has declined (from 47 in 2015 to 31 in 2016), but average sales per model has increased (up to 11,194 in 2016). The hybrid power control unit integrates two motor control units (traction motor and hybrid starter generator) and DC converter are all in the same package.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

Overall, the number of hybrid models on sale in the US has declined (from 47 in 2015 to 31 in 2016), but average sales per model has increased (up to 11,194 in 2016). The hybrid power control unit integrates two motor control units (traction motor and hybrid starter generator) and DC converter are all in the same package.

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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. 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. So why don’t journalist ever write the full story? — Kaare Nilsen 2.

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