Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 8, 2020

Blue World Technologies’ complete system includes a methanol reformer for fuel conversion, DC/DC for power conversion and fuel cell stack for power production. Methanol reforming is a relatively simple process that converts a mix of methanol and water into a hydrogen-rich gas.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 15, 2022

The combustion engine is based on the DTM unit used in the BMW M4 DTM in 2017 and 2018. The normally-aspirated P66/1 eight-cylinder engine used in the 2017 and 2018 seasons in the BMW M4 DTM was the one that got the nod. The BMW M Hybrid V8 is powered by the P66/3 eight-cylinder turbo engine with supplementary electric drive.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 7, 2018

Rice University nanoscientists have demonstrated a new catalyst that can convert ammonia into hydrogen fuel at ambient pressure using only light energy, mainly due to a plasmonic effect that makes the catalyst more efficient. Halas (2018) “Quantifying hot carrier and thermal contributions in plasmonic photocatalysis” Science Vol.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 3, 2021

Moscow started to replace outdated diesel buses with electric buses in September 2018. Over the next 4 years, the city authorities are going to purhase 2675 more units of e-transport; Moscow expects that by 2032, all the urban transport will have been converted to the electric traction. tons a year. thousand tons. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 8, 2019

At Zwickau, Volkswagen is converting an entire vehicle plant from 100% internal combustion engines to 100% electric vehicles for the first time. Our conversion work is proceeding entirely to schedule. Series production of Volkswagen’s ID.3 3 electric vehicle will start at the Zwickau vehicle plant in November. With the ID.3,

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Clean Fleet Report

MAY 14, 2023

Jaguar E-Type Concept Zero You might have caught the first electric Jaguar E-type in action if you watched Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s wedding in 2018. Experts retrofitted the baby blue 1968 model with an electric motor, which the company used to debut its conversion program. DeLorean really gets to the future 3.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 22, 2017

The 2018 Toyota Camry, the new eighth-generation of the most popular mid-size sedan in the world and the best-selling car in America for the past 15 years, will be going on sale in the US in late summer. Toyota unveiled the 2018 Camry at the North American International Auto Show (NAIAS) in January. 2018 Toyota Camry Hybrid XLE.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 14, 2018

World energy consumption projections expect coal to stay one of the world’s main energy sources in the coming decades, and a growing share of it will be used in CT—the conversion of coal to liquid fuels (CTL). The first stage in CTL is the conversion of coal to syngas—a mixture of carbon monoxide (CO) and hydrogen (H 2 ).

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APRIL 2, 2015

The demonstration plant is the final scale-up of the OCM process technology and paves the way for Siluria to deploy commercial-scale plants in the 2017/2018 timeframe. The oxidative coupling of methane (OCM) converts methane into ethane and ethylene (C 2 hydrocarbons). Earlier post.). Earlier post.) since November 2013.

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JUNE 1, 2018

At the Movin’On 2018 mobility summit in Montreal, hydrogen fuel-cell company Symbio intoduced a 40-kW fuel cell system—H2Motiv L—targeting range-extending conversion applications for heavy-duty electric vehicles. Auxiliary functions are optimized for system operation (power conversion, cooling, preheating, air compression).

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 12, 2020

China is the world’s largest user of lithium, accounting for 57% of global demand in 2019, and is also the biggest supplier of lithium converted products. However, the combined conversion capacities of these two market leaders is below 30% of total Chinese capacity. The rest of the lithium market is fragmented. Raw material oversupply.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 11, 2018

A “well-to-wheel” life cycle assessment (LCA) by a team from synthetic fuels producer Greyrock ( earlier post ), and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has determined the potential reduction of greenhouse gases and criteria pollutant emissions from the use of synthetic fuels directly converted from flare gas. Tan, E.C.D.,

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MARCH 21, 2018

In a paper presented at the 255 th National Meeting of the ACS, the team described an innovative integrated process to convert renewable and recycled carbon into High Octane Low Carbon Gasoline blends. Catalytic conversion of DME to High Octane Low Carbon Gasoline (HOLCG) hydrocarbon blends. Marie-Rose, D.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 4, 2019

In 2016, the AVTA board set a goal of becoming the nation’s first all-electric fleet and vowed to convert all of its aging diesel buses. AVTA will achieve that conversion milestone later this year. AVTA was one of BYD’s first customers.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

However, in a 2018 survey by Greenbiz and UPS, fleet operators cited high cost and complex infrastructure as main deterrents in expanding their electric truck and bus pilots to full deployment. AMPLY also performs onsite operations and maintenance services, and invests in technology upgrades as a fleet’s needs evolve.

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APRIL 2, 2021

If realized, the electrolyzer, which will produce the renewable hydrogen, can convert about 20% of the current hydrogen consumption in the region to renewable hydrogen. The SeaH2Land vision includes a renewable hydrogen production facility of 1 GW by 2030 to be developed by Ørsted.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2016

A microstructured, chemical reactor—the key component of the plant—converts the hydrogen produced from solar power together with carbon dioxide into liquid fuels. The SOLETAIR project will be completed in mid-2018. This reactor was developed by KIT. In 2017, operation is planned to be continued on the campus of LUT.

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JUNE 25, 2018

Conceptual drawing of the superlattice in which spread electrons are confined to a narrow space to enhance thermoelectric conversion. One way to address this problem is to convert the wasted heat into electricity, known as thermoelectric energy conversion. This method yielded higher voltage but did not improve conversion rates.

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MARCH 18, 2022

Valentino leads the Bioprocessing Separations Consortium, a group of researchers from six national laboratories that together research and develop separations processes and technology needed for the conversion of biomass to biofuel. At some point there is a conversion step followed by a separations process. 2018.02.024.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 19, 2017

The San Joaquin (California) Regional Transit District (RTD) is converting its existing Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) Express Route 44 to 100% battery-electric buses this month. RTD will launch a second all-electric BRT route in January 2018 along the MLK corridor in South Stockton.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 27, 2022

The Rice lab of chemist James Tour introduced flash Joule heating in 2020 to convert coal, petroleum coke and trash into graphene. The lab has since adapted the process to convert plastic waste into graphene and to extract precious metals from electronic waste. Wyss et al. Wyss et al.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 13, 2018

A common approach to reducing NO x emissions from diesel engines is the use of Selective Catalytic Reduction (SCR); the system converts NO x to nitrogen and water via the addition of ammonia. However, SCR only delivers satisfactory results at an exhaust gas temperature well above 200 ?C. —Marberger et al. Adrian Marberger, Andrey W.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 11, 2019

For the first time thyssenkrupp has produced ammonia from steel mill gases, marking the first time in the world that steel mill gases, including the CO 2 they contain, have been converted into ammonia. In September 2018, thyssenkrupp succeeded for the first time in producing methanol from steel mill gases.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

To produce it, the power-to-liquid plant converts surplus hydropower into synthetic fuel. The green power generated on site in the hydroelectric power station produces hydrogen and oxygen from water by means of electrolysis. This hydrogen, together with carbon dioxide, is converted in a two-step power-to-liquid process.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

They used natural sunlight to convert water into hydrogen and oxygen using a mixture of biological components and manmade technologies. Natural photosynthesis is not efficient because it has evolved merely to survive so it makes the bare minimum amount of energy needed - around 1-2 percent of what it could potentially convert and store.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Global Bioenergies has started the scale-up phase of a process converting renewable resources into acetone and isopropanol. In a further process, these two compounds can be converted to propylene, a key petrochemical building block with a market valued in excess of US$100 billion. We could reach ton scale production as early as 2018.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 6, 2018

A team of engineers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) recently discovered that a naturally occurring bacterium, Thermoanaerobacterium thermosaccharolyticum TG57, isolated from waste generated after harvesting mushrooms, is capable of directly converting cellulose to biobutanol. 3, e1701475 doi: 10.1126/sciadv.1701475.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

As a drop-in solution, Fit converts more sugar to ethanol versus other non-GM yeasts to improve plant profitability. Since 2018, Novozymes has released four yeast solutions as part of its Innova platform.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 16, 2013

The federal government and its partners hope to support the annual production of 1 billion gallons of drop in aviation biofuel by 2018. In October 2010, USDA and the FAA jointly announced a three-year agreement to develop aviation fuel from forest and crop residues and other “green” feedstocks in order to reduce dependence on foreign oil.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 8, 2017

Afterwards, carbon dioxide and hydrogen are first converted into reactive synthesis gas at high temperature and then into liquid fuels in a microstructured chemical reactor. The SOLETAIR project will expire in mid-2018 and is funded with EUR 1 million by the Finnish Funding Agency for Technology and Innovation (Tekes).

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 20, 2019

From the Supplementary Information for a 2018 paper in Nature Catalysis by the Evonik-Siemens team (Haas et al. The first unit comprises two electrolyzers which convert H 2 O and CO 2 to H 2 and CO. autoethanogenum converts the product gases of the electrolyzer (syngas) to acetic acid (reaction 1) and ethanol (reaction 2).

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 14, 2018

Platinum—which offers unrivaled activity and stability for electrochemical reactions, such as the conversion of hydrogen and oxygen into water and electricity in fuel cells—is both scarce and expensive. Argonne chemists have identified a new catalyst that maximizes the effectiveness of platinum. —Chong et al. Chong et al.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 30, 2019

Supply expansions in 2018 came in much lower than predicted and the tsunami of oversupply forecast by the likes of Macquarie Research proved to be little more than changing tides in the lithium supply chain. The firm has forecast lithium demand to expand by a brisk 21 percent annual clip between 2018 and 2025 with demand expected to grow 13.5

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DECEMBER 10, 2013

one of the world leaders in algae-based “Green Crude” oil production, and Phillips 66, an integrated energy manufacturing and logistics company, have entered a strategic joint development agreement aimed at taking production of algae crude oil a significant step toward commercialization. San Diego-based Sapphire Energy, Inc.,

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JULY 16, 2018

A team from Stanford University is proposing continuous electrochemical heat conversion as a direct method of harvesting heat to electricity. Fundamentally, a direct thermal-to-electric heat engine converts entropy to an electric potential, while allowing charge transport and irreversible thermal parasitics. Poletayev et al.

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MAY 8, 2013

million investment in convertible preferred stock with a 60% conversion premium to market and an 8% coupon. After the investment, Plug Power owns 20% of HyPulsion, but has the right to purchase a majority interest in 2018. Including this investment, the company has raised $12 million so far in 2013.

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MAY 28, 2018

Such a hierarchical, porous structure provided both good electrical conductivity and volume changes accommodation capability, which were desired for transition metal oxide based conversion reaction type electrode. Credit: ACS, Liu et al. Electrochemical performance of Mn 3 O 4 /C nanosphere as anode in LIBs. 2018.05.064.

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