Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

A paper by a team from the University of Chicago and MIT suggests that technology-driven cost reductions in fossil fuels will lead to the continued use of fossil fuels—oil, gas, and coal—unless governments pass new taxes on carbon emissions. for oil, 24% for coal, and 20% for natural gas.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 12, 2016

Wellbores drilled to extract oil and gas can be significantly reinforced with a small amount of modified graphene nanoribbons added to a polymer and microwaved, according to Rice University researchers. Results of their study appeared in the American Chemical Society journal ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces. 6b01756.

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MARCH 8, 2016

A team led by researchers from the University of Oxford has developed a simple but highly selective catalytic process for the direct hydrodeoxygenation of vegetable oils (triglycerides) into diesel-range alkanes under mild conditions over a Pd/NbOPO 4 catalyst. —Tsang et al. Resources. Zhuang, M. Gong and Y.

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JANUARY 24, 2019

The Sustainable Bioenergy Research Consortium (SBRC), a non-profit entity established by Masdar Institute that is part of Khalifa University of Science and Technology, announced the world’s first commercial flight using locally produced sustainable fuel on an Etihad Airways Boeing 787 powered by GE’s GEnx-1B engines. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 25, 2016

A new study from University of Michigan researchers challenges the assumption that crop-based biofuels such as corn ethanol and biodiesel are inherently carbon-neutral—i.e., Policy rationales include agribusiness income, energy security, oil depletion and greenhouse gas (GHG) mitigation. —DeCicco et al.

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APRIL 9, 2019

A study by a team from North Carolina State University, with colleagues from the Urban Air Initiative and 3DATX Corporation, has shown that non-FFVs (flexible-fuel vehicles) can adapt to a mid-level ethanol blend—specifically E27. The study was commissioned by the Urban Air Initiative.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 11, 2010

The project selections are aimed at testing large-scale industrial carbon capture and storage, an important step in moving CCS technology toward eventual commercial deployment. Potential additional applications for funding of large-scale industrial carbon capture and storage projects are pending further review.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 7, 2016

The green microalga Botryococcus braunii is considered a promising biofuel feedstock producer due to its prodigious accumulation of hydrocarbon oils that can be converted into fuels. Now, a team led by researchers from Texas A&M AgriLife Research has identified the first committed step in the biosynthesis of hydrocarbon oil in B.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 14, 2020

In FY2017, IHI Group began, in partnership with Kobe University, the NEDO supported R&D project “Development of Production Technologies for Bio jet fuels / Pilot scale test on once through production process” to produce algae-based biofuel, using the hyper-growth Botryococcus braunii. IHI also began work with Showa Shell Sekiyu K.K.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 30, 2011

Obama was delivering a speech on energy policy at Georgetown University. Meeting the goal of cutting US oil dependence depends largely on two things, Obama said: finding and producing more oil at home, and reducing dependence on oil with cleaner alternative fuels and greater efficiency.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 12, 2017

Two projects will research, develop, and use integrated computation materials engineering (ICME) techniques to develop low cost carbon fiber from a variety of feedstocks and precursors that can be used to make carbon fiber with less energy and lower cost. University of Maryland: College Park. Penn State University Park.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 25, 2011

Avjet Biotech will sell stock and use the funds raised to reimburse the university for its investment in patent applications, as well as allocate development capital to create a continuous production model for the biofuel refining system. a C 18 free fatty acid yields a C 17 hydrocarbon).

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 21, 2015

Metabolix in collaboration with North Carolina State University. Develop a non-genetically modified, non-food feedstock, Camelina sativa , with significantly increased seed yield and oil content to maximize oil yields per acre, thereby enabling the widespread use of a currently underutilized non-food feedstock. Organizations.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 9, 2015

Using sustainably produced biofuel reduces lifecycle carbon dioxide emissions by 50-80% compared to conventional petroleum fuel, according to the US Department of Energy. —Shinji Suzuki, Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics, University of Tokyo.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 21, 2016

This could make it more attractive to make olefins from alternative sources of carbon, such as biomass, natural gas, or coal. Increasing demand and decreasing oil reserves are causing scientists to turn their attention to coal, natural gas, shale gas, and biomass as sources of raw material.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 4, 2010

In addition, President Obama issued a Presidential Memorandum creating an Interagency Task Force on Carbon Capture and Storage to develop a comprehensive and coordinated federal strategy to speed the development and deployment of advanced lower-emission coal technologies.

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MAY 11, 2016

The Consortium for Algal Biofuel Commercialization (CAB-Comm), led by the University of California, San Diego, has released its final report , detailing the accomplishments and contributions achieved in its six years of operation. Earlier post.)

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DECEMBER 18, 2015

An RFP for the infrastructure study will be issued in the spring of 2016, and the study is expected to be completed by late 2016. Using sustainably produced biofuel reduces lifecycle carbon dioxide emissions by 50 to 80 percent compared to conventional petroleum fuel, according to the US Department of Energy.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 29, 2016

Researchers at Durham University in the UK have developed a new approach to breaking down the base rubber in materials such as used tires by the catalytic disassembly of polymer chains—eliminating the need for energy intensive mechanical processes. We anticipate that other polymers which contain carbon double bonds (e.g.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2016

Researchers at Loker Hydrocarbon Research Institute and Department of Chemistry, University of Southern California, have developed a highly efficient homogeneous Ru-based catalyst system for the production of methanol (CH 3 OH) from CO 2 and H 2 in an ethereal solvent (initial turnover frequency = 70 h −1 at 145 °C). The work, led by G.K.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 16, 2016

Ford Motor Company is the first automaker to formulate and test new foam and plastic components using carbon dioxide as feedstock. Ford began working with several companies, suppliers and universities in 2013 to find applications for captured CO 2. Among these companies is Novomer. million pounds (1,088.62

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Cars That Think

JULY 30, 2023

Jonas Ekstromer/AFP/Getty Images In the early 1970s, Exxon scientists predicted that global oil production would peak in the year 2000 and then fall into a steady decline. Company researchers were encouraged to look for oil substitutes, pursuing any manner of energy that didn’t involve petroleum. But he found no takers.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 9, 2016

Rice University researchers have determined a more effective way to use natural gas to reduce climate-warming emissions would be in the replacement of existing coal-fired power plants and fuel-oil furnaces rather than burning it in cars and buses. —Cohan and Sengupta (2016). Graphic by Tanyia Johnson/Rice University.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

The acquisition will support the scale-up and commercialization of Virent’s BioForming technology for the production of low carbon bio-based fuels and chemicals. The APR technology was discovered at the University of Wisconsin in 2001 by Virent’s co-founder and chief technology officer, Dr. Randy Cortright. Earlier post.).

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OCTOBER 22, 2017

—Professor Xiu Guangli of East China University of Science and Technology. In 2016, the Callidus Technologies business inaugurated a new state-of-the-art facility for the testing of gas combustion flares at its manufacturing facility in Beggs, Okla.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 27, 2010

The European Union (EU) market, which is home to about 30% of algae activity, will be limited initially by the industry’s focus on university research, and later by insufficient access to water, land, and nutrient sources. Pilot- and demonstration-scale facilities are beginning to break ground across the country. the Synthetic Genomics Inc.

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APRIL 8, 2014

DOE will continue to pursue carbon capture and storage technologies as well as nuclear power. Conduct discovery-focused research to increase the understanding of matter, materials and their properties through partnerships with universities, national laboratories, and industry.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 22, 2016

The 2016 Chevrolet Volt with an electric range of 53 miles [ 2 ] is the first commercial car that almost qualifies as a PHEVLER. from University of California, Davis and years of experience as an agricultural researcher. Frank (2016) Using the Fleet of Long Range Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles. About the authors. Dr. Andrew A.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 30, 2016

Researchers at Nanjing Tech University in China have developed a new pathway for the production of liquid hydrocarbon fuels from lignocellulose. These routes usually deal with whole lignocellulose leading to upgradeable platforms such as bio-oil or syngas. —Zhu et al. 18, 2165-2174 doi: 10.1039/C5GC02414E.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 24, 2010

Following a mandate by the USAF to use 50% of its fuel from cleaner and domestic sources by 2016, Accelergy is the first to provide 100% synthetic fuel that can meet the JP-8 standards. Camelina oil. Production from this facility will commence in the 3 rd quarter of this year. Groenewold, Director of the EERC.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 9, 2014

In addition to seeking more heavy-duty applications for the RunWise hybrid system—such as transit—McGrew said that the company is working on a new generation of the product that should launch in 2016 for Class 4-6 delivery trucks—e.g., As pumps they use mechanical energy to deliver high-pressure oil. FedEx, UPS, etc.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 5, 2016

A new study by a team from Carnegie Mellon University’s College of Engineering has found that even large increases in lithium prices are unlikely to increase significantly the cost of batteries or battery packs for end users such as vehicle manufactures or consumers—although some manufacturers may see reduced profit margins.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 13, 2010

The bill establishes an annual tonnage limit on greenhouse gas emissions from specified activities and directs the EPA Administrator to establish allowances equal to the tonnage limit for each year (with one allowance representing the permission to emit one ton of greenhouse gases, measured in tons of carbon dioxide equivalent).

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 3, 2016

The production costs for most chemicals via microbial fermentation are currently high compared to oil-derived products primarily because of operating costs associated with feedstock and feedstock processing. Alternatively, syngas can be added to sugar fermentation to provide the necessary reducing power and carbon. … Jones et al.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 7, 2016

Today, the automotive industry faces three challenges regarding environmental and energy issues: finding a viable alternative energy source as a replacement for oil; reducing CO 2 emissions; and. Currently, oil remains the main source of automotive fuel; however, further research and development of alternative energies may bring change.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 20, 2017

reported a breakthrough in their joint research ( earlier post ) into advanced biofuels involving the modification of an algae strain that more than doubled its oil content without significantly inhibiting the strain’s growth. Slower growth has been an adverse effect of previous attempts to increase algae oil production volume.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

APRIL 6, 2010

The policy, intended to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and oil consumption, is geared to a nation where most people rely on cars for transportation. Would these vehicles truly help to lower carbon emissions. In 2008, transportation accounted for 22 percent of all city carbon emissions. Should the city encourage their use?

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