Green Car Congress

MARCH 9, 2016

Researchers at Argonne National Laboratory have analyzed the water consumption for transportation fuels in the United States using an extended lifecycle system boundary that includes the water embedded in intermediate processing steps. Increases in population, energy and food demand now strain previously abundant sources of water.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 18, 2016

The four-year projet ORCNext , aimed at developing knowledge and design tools for next generation of Organic Rankine Cycles (ORCs), has concluded that waste heat recovery efficiency can be increased by 20 to 25% through appropriate cycle selection, efficient expanders, appropriate control and less oversizing of the heat exchangers.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 29, 2023

The US Department of Energy (DOE) Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) announced up to $5 million in funding ( DE-FOA-0002784 , Topic E) to evaluate the feasibility of extracting rare earth and other high-value trace critical minerals from macroalgae.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

In 2016, Rio Tinto launched RenewAl, the world’s first certified low CO 2 primary aluminum brand. It helps offset greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the aluminum supply chain including transportation activities. Such carbon credits are created by GHG reduction and/or absorption activities in Japan and abroad.

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Cars That Think

JUNE 12, 2023

The shipping containers, which house a Frankenstein-like assortment of machine parts—motors repurposed from Volvo truck engines, giant tanks of compressed air, huge silos of piping hot sand—are produced by a company called Cheesecake Energy. Despite its name, Cheesecake Energy isn’t in the food business.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

UPS announced an agreement with Big Ox Energy (a wholly owned subsidiary of Environmental Energy Capital LLC) to purchase 10 million gallon equivalents of renewable natural gas (RNG) per year. In addition to the agreement with Big Ox, UPS signed a five-year agreement earlier this year with AMP energy for 1.5

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Green Car Congress

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%

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

Heating energy and water consumption per car are reduced by 20%. This is the only way for us to live up to our high demands in terms of quality, environmental compatibility and energy efficiency. Five‑percent less waste (paint sludge) is created for each car that is painted. —Prof. was in April 2014.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 22, 2017

In May 2016, with full technology support from Henkel China, the paint shop upgraded its pretreatment process with zirconium thin film treatment which went into mass production after only a one-week commissioning. —Kevin Cunningham, Pretreatment & Elpo Global Subject Matter Expert at General Motors.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 30, 2020

The researchers and engineers at ETH Zurich have developed innovative processes that make it possible to extract CO 2 from the atmosphere and, together with water and with the help of concentrated sunlight, convert it into a synthesis gas that can be used to produce jet fuel.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 31, 2017

South African engineering company Swayana has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with LanzaTech to collaborate on developing projects for the production of ethanol and higher value products from waste gases in the ferroalloy and titania smelting sectors. In all cases, however, the production of ferroalloys is energy-intensive.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Five criteria flow into the assessment of environmental impact per vehicle: CO 2 emissions, Energy use. Generated waste. The Group is also making good progress towards attaining the target of improving manufacturing productivity by 30% over the period 2016 to 2025. Solvent use.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

The BMBF provided more than 60 million euros in funding for the first phase of the project in 2016. To pave the way for climate-neutral production, a 2MW alkaline water electrolyzer from thyssenkrupp Uhde Chlorine Engineers was operated in the pilot plant. In addition to the CO 2 from these gases, Carbon2Chem also uses hydrogen.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 5, 2014

Ford Motor Company’s Oakville Assembly plant in Canada now sends no operational waste-to-landfill, an achievement that gives Ford Motor Company the distinction of becoming landfill-free at all its manufacturing facilities in Canada. A total of 21 Ford facilities around the globe maintain zero waste-to-landfill status.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 12, 2019

Long-term copper fundamentals remain strong—with supply challenged and demand driven by the adoption of electric vehicles, the electrification of industry and a growing share of renewables in the energy mix. A tailings storage facility would house the waste material left over after processing.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 25, 2017

has received more than 30 awards—including the National Energy Globe as the best project in Germany, the GreenTec Award for energy efficiency and water-saving measures in production and the Sustainovation Award. As of the end of 2016, Volkswagen had achieved an average reduction of 29.2%

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 11, 2022

The six companies are CIMC ENRIC, European Energy, Green Technology Bank, Orsted, Proman, and WasteFuel. That is why these partnerships mark an important milestone to get the transition to green energy underway. European Energy. European Energy (Denmark). Moller - Maersk. Production Capacity Estimation Table. CIMC ENRIC.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 27, 2023

The US Department of Energy (DOE) will award some $118 million in funding for 17 projects to accelerate the production of sustainable biofuels. This project will demonstrate the conversion of gaseous carbon wood wastes (terpenes) to renewable Terpenes SAF blending components. MicroBio Engineering Inc.,

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 25, 2011

NCSU had earlier licensed the technology to Diversified Energy ( earlier post ). Diversified Energy’s license agreement was terminated, according to Dr. Terry Bray at NCSU’s Office of Technology Transfer. Two product streams exit this reactor, free fatty acids (mixed with water) and sweet water (glycerol mixed with water).

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 18, 2022

Researchers at the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory have turned to a process called capacitive deionization that uses the electric charges of nickel, manganese and cobalt to select them out from the waste stream. At some point there is a conversion step followed by a separations process.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 7, 2015

As a result, Horn says, Volkswagen has withdrawn the application for certification of its model year 2016 vehicles. In recognition of the plant’s efficiency, Volkswagen Chattanooga received a platinum certification from the US Green Building Council’s Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (“LEED”) program.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

A paper describing the Sandia-patented technology is published in the journal Nature Energy. By increasing the operational flexibility, this class of fuel cell can simplify the requirements for heat and water management, and potentially reduce the costs associated with the existing fully functional fuel cell systems, the researchers said.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 14, 2016

Researchers with the US Department of Energy (DOE)’s Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI) have developed a “high-gravity” one-pot process for producing ethanol from cellulosic biomass that gives unprecedented yields while minimizing water use and waste disposal. Energy Environ. —Seema Singh. Scown, Blake A.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 10, 2016

The first deployments are scheduled to be installed in the fourth quarter of 2016 at a new site for one of Plug Power’s existing customers. In the process, steam produced from waste heat is added to desulfurized methane or biogas and introduced into the reformer. Fuel cell system manufacturer Plug Power Inc.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 5, 2016

RNG is produced from organic materials or waste streams; the lifecycle emissions for RNG have the potential to be lower than the emissions of fossil natural gas. from waste-water treatment, 1.75 from municipal solid waste (MSW), and 4.3 bcf from waste-water treatment, 16.3 bcf from waste-water treatment, 16.3

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 23, 2016

The research is published in the journal Nature Energy. By increasing the operational flexibility, this class of fuel cell can simplify the requirements for heat and water management, and potentially reduce the costs associated with the existing fully functional fuel cell systems. —Yu Seung Kim, the project leader at Los Alamos.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 19, 2015

made progress in reducing CO 2 emissions and improving sustainability in its global corporate activities in fiscal year 2014 while simultaneously increasing vehicle production and plant energy efficiency. Nissan is utilizing a number of proven forms of sustainable energy generation to help minimize its corporate carbon footprint.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

On 29 September 2016, the HY4 aircraft took off on its first official flight from Stuttgart Airport. The fuel cell converts hydrogen directly into electrical energy. The only waste product from this process is water. The HY4 is the world’s first four-seat passenger aircraft powered solely by a hydrogen fuel cell system.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 5, 2014

Reformate enhances the energy content of gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel; biofuels such as ethanol are fuel additives that are instead blended into a finished product to oxygenate fuel. Cool Planet’s sources of biomass include corn stover, wood chips, and fast growing, non-food energy crops such as miscanthus. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 13, 2015

Hydrexia’s solid-state ground storage product is a scalable skid-based solution designed for industrial and energy customer sites that currently use multi-cylinder packs or tube trailers for hydrogen supply or backup. Hydrexia says that its ground storage products will be available for commercial deliveries starting Q1 2016.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 8, 2016

Among its benefits, the technology reduces greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by lowering the amount of energy needed to remove heavy oil from the ground. Nsolv’s process uses zero water and very little natural gas to heat the solvent, resulting in an 80% reduction in GHG emissions compared to existing extraction methods.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 21, 2017

Achieving the 2030 target under the proposed plan will continue to build on investments in clean energy and set the California economy on a trajectory to achieving an 80% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. Achieve 50% Renewables Portfolio Standard (RPS) by 2030; doubling of energy efficiency savings by 2030.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 24, 2013

The new solar park is an integral part of Volkswagen’s worldwide sustainability strategy, which includes generating more power within the Group from renewable energy sources, said Volkswagen Group Officer for the Environment, Energy and New Business Areas, Wolfram Thomas. We are increasing the share of green energy in a modular way.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 13, 2016

The US Department of Energy is soliciting applications ( DE-FOA-0001542 ) for the formation of a Consortium to pursue five identified R&D topic areas related to improving the operating efficiency of medium- and heavy-duty trucks. Waste heat recovery. Overall energy management (system level efficiency improvements). Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 15, 2016

Early this month, Ford and Techstars Mobility, driven by Detroit introduced its 2016 class of startup businesses that will develop future mobility solutions. The automaker has consistently reduced its global water usage per vehicle produced for several years. Numerous Ford facilities send no waste to landfills. Earlier post.).

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Clean Fleet Report

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Just be careful to conserve your water consumption because if you leave your hose running and spray water for hours on end, you’ll waste so much water that you’ll have a net loss on your going green efforts. They have been carbon-neutral since 2016. Earth-Friendly Auto Insurance.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 27, 2015

Daimler Trucks North America’s (DTNA) SuperTruck program has achieved 115% freight efficiency improvement (gallons of fuel consumed per ton of goods moved per mile traveled)—surpassing the Department of Energy (DOE) program’s goal of 50% improvement and exhibiting the best results of all reporting OEMs. Earlier post.) Click to enlarge.

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