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AUGUST 30, 2022

Plans include importing green ammonia that can be readily transported and stored before it is converted into clean hydrogen with expectations of generating 1.2 The traditional thermal cracking of ammonia uses high heat and pressure to convert it to hydrogen gas. million tons of hydrogen per year domestically by 2030.

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JANUARY 31, 2019

As part of a strategy to continue providing low-emissions solutions for harsh offshore operating environments, Siemens has opened a fully robotized and digitalized plant in Norway that will develop and manufacture energy storage technologies for both marine and offshore oil and gas applications. Copyright: Neil Robertson.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2018

Toyota has introduced the fifth-generation 2019 Toyota RAV4. Gasoline models arrive next month, and RAV4 Hybrid models follow in late March 2019. 2019 RAV4 Hybrid. The 2019 RAV4 105.9-inch Power and efficiency both make a leap in the 2019 RAV4 with the new Dynamic Force 2.5-liter comes standard. inches (181.5

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JUNE 18, 2021

Canada-based Covenant Energy Ltd. Covenant Energy’s new facility will produce renewable diesel with a significantly lower—80% to 85%—carbon footprint than conventional diesel and will thereby support Canada’s goal of carbon neutrality by 2050 under the country’s clean energy diversification strategy.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 28, 2019

Raising the penetration of renewable —an intermittent—sources of energy into the grid will require large scale electrical energy storage and retrieval. We think biology plays a significant role in creating a sustainable energy infrastructure. —Farshid Salimijazi, first author.

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AUGUST 12, 2020

ExxonMobil has signed an agreement with Global Clean Energy Holdings to purchase 2.5 million barrels of renewable diesel per year for five years from a converted California refinery starting in 2022. As background, globally, in 2019, ExxonMobil sold some 1.9 million barrels per day of heating oils, kerosene and diesel oils.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 15, 2018

FCA pulled the wraps off the new 2019 Ram 1500 at the Detroit Auto Show. The eTorque mild hybrid system is one of several changes made to the powertrains for the 2019 Ram 1500. In addition to spinning the engine for restarts, the eTorque also recaptures energy during deceleration and braking to feed charge to the battery pack.

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APRIL 26, 2018

In the case of very small wire cross-sections and a lightweight wiring harness, the 48-V system enables a considerably higher amount of energy to be saved than the 12-V system, e.g. via recuperation when the vehicle brakes. The 48V Li-ion battery is supplied with energy during a number of operations, including recuperation—i.e.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 30, 2019

Scientists at ETH Zürich and oil and gas company Total have developed a new catalyst that efficiently converts CO 2 and hydrogen directly into methanol. It is possible to convert it into fuels and a wide variety of chemical products, including those that today are mainly based on fossil resources.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 16, 2018

Underpinned by the Toyota New Global Architecture (TNGA) K Sedan platform, the 2019 Avalon is powered by two new TNGA powertrains: a punchy 3.5-liter 2019 Avalon Hybrid. The converter contributes to low fuel consumption and passenger comfort, since engine revving is kept to a minimum. TMMK) in Georgetown, Kentucky, respectively.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Oberon Fuels, a producer of ultra-low-carbon, renewable dimethyl ether (rDME) transportation fuel, and SHV Energy, the world’s largest distributor of propane fuel, are partnering to accelerate the use of renewable DME to reduce the carbon footprint of transportation fuel. Additionally, the State of California in 2019 awarded Oberon a $2.9-million

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DECEMBER 23, 2019

Ørsted (formerly DONG Energy), Everfuel Europe A/S, NEL Hydrogen A/S, GreenHydrogen AS, DSV Panalpina A/S, Hydrogen Denmark and Energinet Elsystemansvar A/S have been awarded funding of DKK 34.6 million (US$5 million) for the H2RES project from EUDP’s second 2019 call for applications.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 22, 2022

Supercritical carbon dioxide is a non-toxic, stable material that is under so much pressure it acts like both a liquid and a gas. This carbon dioxide, which stays within the system and is not released as a greenhouse gas, can get much hotter than steam—1,290 degrees Fahrenheit or 700 Celsius. —Darryn Fleming.

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APRIL 23, 2018

Toyota estimates that the 2019 Avalon Hybrid will boost fuel economy by up to 10% over its MY 2018 predecessor, from 40 mpg (5.88 inches) and high compression ratio (14:1); multi-hole direct fuel injectors; a variable cooling system; cooled Exhaust Gas Recirculation (EGR) system; and a full variable oil pump. l/100 km) combined.

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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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OCTOBER 18, 2022

In a move that will expand and accelerate the growth of its strategic bioenergy business, bp will acquire Archaea Energy Inc. , a leading producer of renewable natural gas (RNG) in the US. bp is a leading marketer of natural gas in North America, with many customers looking to decarbonize. Renewable natural gas.

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DECEMBER 21, 2018

The US Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) announced approximately $21 million in funding for 7 projects in the next two cohorts of the agency’s OPEN+ program. Converting Hydrocarbons to Recyclable Materials for Metal Replacement with Positive Hydrogen Output, $3,300,000.

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JULY 2, 2022

In 2019 alone, emissions reached 144 million tonnes of CO 2. Shipping has been one of the fastest-growing sources of greenhouse gas emissions for many years now due to the sharp rise in the trade volume. Its energy density is twice as high as liquid hydrogen, so the on-board methanol tanks only need to be half the size.

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MAY 13, 2021

RevoTech will be applying its continuous pyrolysis technology to convert waste plastic into gas, while Doosan will be developing the main equipment and processes for reforming the product gas into hydrogen. Hydrogen gas turbines use either hydrogen or a hydrogen-natural gas mixture as fuel.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 31, 2023

Energy storage and nuclear fusion—two reliable crowd pleasers when the crowd you’re talking about is readers of IEEE Spectrum —are well represented among our most widely read energy stories of 2023. Mainspring calls its machine a linear generator, because it converts linear motion into electricity. Number one? Heat pumps.

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AUGUST 29, 2021

A team at MITEI (MIT Energy Initiative) has found that hydrogen-generated electricity can be a cost-competitive option for backing up wind and solar. However, the authors noted, the power prices required to justify investment in an HFGT to replace a natural gas-fired gas turbine are considerably higher than those seen in the market today.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 20, 2021

An international consortium comprising OQ, which is the Sultanate of Oman’s global integrated energy company, InterContinental Energy, the leading dedicated green fuels developer, and EnerTech, a Kuwait government-backed clean energy investor and developer, is developing an integrated green fuels mega project in Oman.

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MAY 16, 2018

In Germany, all Mercedes-Benz plants will be supplied with CO 2 -neutral energy. Thereby, we completely forego coal-based electricity and obtain our electrical energy from only renewable sources. Thereby, we completely forego coal-based electricity and obtain our electrical energy from only renewable sources.

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OCTOBER 8, 2020

The high-temperature (HT) PEM technology operates at 160-180 °C and has a high resistance to impurities in reformat gas—making it suitable to combine with fuel reformers. Methanol reforming is a relatively simple process that converts a mix of methanol and water into a hydrogen-rich gas. Methanol fuel cell production.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 28, 2020

Currently, hydrogen is mainly produced centrally from fossil resources and compressed or liquefied in an expensive and energy-intensive process in order to be able to supply it to filling stations. The technology makes it possible to produce high purity hydrogen in one compact unit without a complex gas purification step.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 28, 2018

liter inline-four-cylinder engine with VVT-iE mated to an 8-speed Direct-Shift Automatic Transmission, which motivates the five gas models; and the Dynamic Force 2.5-liter liter inline-four-cylinder engine with VVT-iE mated to an 8-speed Direct-Shift Automatic Transmission, which motivates the five gas models; and the Dynamic Force 2.5-liter

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 9, 2018

AkzoNobel Specialty Chemicals and Gasunie New Energy are partnering to investigate the possible large scale conversion of sustainable electricity into green hydrogen via the electrolysis of water. A final decision on the project is expected in 2019. —Marcel Galjee, Energy Director at AkzoNobel Specialty Chemicals.

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JANUARY 23, 2020

This enabled Bosch to start initial low-volume production of pilot fuel-cell systems in autumn 2019 in Germany. Solid oxide electrolysis (SOEC) is essentially the process of reversing fuel cells to produce hydrogen and e-fuels from renewable energy.

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DECEMBER 11, 2020

There are approximately 1,000 school buses operating in Westchester and 8,000 in New York City that could make a significant difference if converted to electric. We are innovating to help our state and region achieve a clean energy future in which electric vehicles will have a big role. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Since joining the Rice faculty in 2019, Wang has developed a catalytic reactor that uses carbon dioxide as its feedstock. There is still a lack of new redox-active carbon dioxide carriers for effective electrochemical carbon dioxide capture from such point sources as flue gas. —Haotian Wang.

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OCTOBER 20, 2019

The first unit comprises two electrolyzers which convert H 2 O and CO 2 to H 2 and CO. These product gases together with excess CO 2 are fed to the second unit, the gas fermenter, in which C. 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 29, 2019

Element Markets Renewable Energy (EMRE) has filed applications for certification of three California LCFS (Low Carbon Fuel Standard) Tier 2 pathways for biomethane (Bio-CNG, Bio-LNG, and Bio-L-CNG) from anaerobic digestion of swine manure produced by Valley View Farms located in Greencastle, Missouri. gCO 2 e/MJ, respectively.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 10, 2019

The modified photocatalyst converted sunlight to fuel with a maximum efficiency of 3.3% This photoconversion efficiency is an important milestone, the researchers report in their study published in the journal Energy and Environmental Science , as it means that large-scale use of this technology is becoming a more realistic prospect.

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JANUARY 20, 2015

IFP Energies nouvelles (IFPEN) and its subsidiary Axens have formed a strategic alliance to develop and to commercialize a new technology for the low cost production of bio-based benzene, toluene and paraxylene using Anellotech’s process of Catalytic Fast Pyrolysis (CFP) of non-food biomass. Anellotech Inc., Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 26, 2020

IDEALFUEL seeks to develop methods to convert woody residual and waste materials such as sawdust and wood chips into renewable marine fuels. This is cost competitive with Ultra-Low Sulfur Fuel Oil (ULSFO) which current, 2019, price level is €450-550/tonne. NL); Winterthur Gas & Diesel Ltd. (CH);

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

At the IAA Summit in Munich, HIF Global, together with Porsche AG, Volkswagen Group Innovation and MAN Energy Solutions, announced the development and installation of a Direct Air Capture (DAC) unit at the HIF Haru Oni Demonstration facility in southern Chile in 2024. MAN Energy Solutions provided the e-methanol reactor to the Haru Oni plant.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 5, 2019

Due to the low CO 2 concentration in the ambient air—today, the proportion is 0.038%—large quantities of air have to be treated in large filter systems in order to produce significant quantities of synthetic energy sources. In addition, ‘crowd oil’ could mobilize many new actors for the energy transition.

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