Green Car Congress

MAY 4, 2019

The FOA topics will advance DOE’s Bioenergy Technology Office’s (BETO) objectives to reduce the price of drop-in biofuels, lower the cost of biopower, and enable high-value products from biomass or waste resources. Anaerobic digestion is a proven technology for the conversion of heterogeneous and dynamic mixtures of wet wastes to biogas.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 4, 2021

The world has not yet cracked the problem of cost-effective conversion of lignocellulosic biomass into higher value products, and we intend to do just that with CE+P as applied to sugarcane non-food waste streams.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 11, 2020

H2NEW includes National Renewable Energy Laboratory and Idaho National Laboratory as co-leads, and focuses on R&D to enable affordable, durable and efficient large-scale electrolyzers, which produce hydrogen from electricity and water (at both high and low temperatures). This would be coordinated with the H2NEW consortium.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 11, 2021

Notice of Intent - Bioenergy Technologies Office Scale-Up and Conversion ( DE-FOA-0002416 ): The Bioenergy Technologies Office (BETO) is focused on developing technologies that convert domestic biomass and other waste resources into low carbon biofuels and bioproducts.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 9, 2009

Researchers from Idaho National Laboratory (INL) and GE Global Research are collaborating on a two-year, public-private partnership project designed to optimize an Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC) process to convert low-temperature waste heat (below 500 °) from gas turbine or reciprocating engine exhaust to produce electricity. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 25, 2017

Production of C 5 hydrocarbons from waste biomass. Obtaining sustainable sources of chemicals and processing organic waste in an environmentally responsible manner remains a challenge. This proposal aims to solve these problems by converting organic waste into chemicals with widespread use in polymer and transportation industries.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 13, 2021

In addition to their scarcity, extracting and processing these materials has environmental consequences, leaving behind a significant amount of toxic waste. Most electric motors for electric vehicles rely on permanent magnets made with rare-earth metals, which are a limited resource. —Paul Ohodnicki. Nolte, Gaoyuan Ouyang, Kevin W.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 14, 2010

We’ve already decided we’re going to fix already-built houses, offices and factories that waste energy. Cash for Conversions” will start by fixing many of our 100 million trucks, vans, and buses. Our effort will inspire other startups to accelerate development of liquid fuels from algae and agricultural waste products.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 10, 2018

Heat exchangers are critical to efficient thermal energy use in numerous industrial and everyday applications, including electricity generation, nuclear reactors, transportation, petrochemical plants, waste heat recovery, and much more.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 25, 2021

This project directly addresses those issues as we seek to advance technologies that can enable ports as high-throughput clusters for affordable, low-carbon hydrogen and achieve scaled demand across multiple applications. —Ted Barnes, Director of R&D at GTI.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 8, 2013

Each combination of enzymes will be tested on pretreated agricultural waste that can first be converted into sugars and then into bio-based products and advanced biofuels. Novozymes’ work will support the DOE’s focus on research, development and demonstration efforts to achieve affordable, scalable and sustainable advanced biofuels.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 31, 2016

By 2027, verify at pilot scale, a $1/gge fuel reduction cost for the production of biofuels and bioproducts by valorizing conversion-process waste streams (such as lignin and pyrolysis aqueous streams) and producing novel bioproducts that capitalize on the highly oxygenated nature of biomass (functional replacements).

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 7, 2018

In 2017, engineers from Achates presented a paper (2017-01-0638) at the SAE World Congress (WCX 17) describing the development of a 55% brake thermal efficiency (BTE) commercial heavy-duty opposed-piston engine without the use of a waste heat recovery system or turbocompounding. Zermeno, R.,

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 14, 2017

The system operates under visible light, is stable beyond six days and is even able to reform unprocessed lignocellulose, such as wood and paper, under solar irradiation at room temperature, presenting an inexpensive route to drive aqueous proton reduction to H 2 through waste biomass oxidation.

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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. —Xu et al. —Seema Singh. Feng Xu, Jian Sun, N. Scown, Blake A.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 16, 2013

The economics afforded by Sweetwater’s cellulosic sugar and the patented hub-and-spoke distributed model will ultimately determine the pace and volume with which Front Range’s corn ethanol facility will migrate to Sweetwater’s cellulosic feedstocks. million gallons of ethanol per year during the initial phase of the relationship.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 12, 2019

These insights into how the beetle and its distinct microbiome have co-evolved provide a roadmap for the production of affordable, nature-derived fuels and bioproducts. This wood passes through the beetle’s complex digestive tract and is finally excreted as its waste product, politely termed frass.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Unlike biomethane produced by anaerobic digestion, Bio-SNG is formed by the conversion of thermally-derived syngas—i.e., via the gasification of biomass waste—into methane. Feedstocks can include more durable material such as woody biomass and wastes that are not broken down in traditional anaerobic digester plants.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 15, 2021

These fermentation processes create carbon as a byproduct, with some processes wasting more than 1/3 of this carbon as CO 2 emissions. The LT team will develop a gas fermentation process that leverages affordable, renewable hydrogen to capture and fix CO 2 directly into valuable fuels and chemicals. University of Delaware.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 18, 2014

The components to enable electric drive vehicles must be more affordable. competitive waste heat recovery technologies. based systems for waste?heat If an unconventional solution can be found to reducing the cost for either conventional oxidation or conventional conversion of the fiber, the cost could be reduced.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 3, 2009

Energix Research executed the GTL process via the syngas and Fischer-Tropsch synthesis route at a high conversion rate (87%) and selectivity rate (99%). Energix expects to develop affordable, micro GTL plants to monetize underutilized resources, such as abandoned natural gas fields, coal bed methane (CBM) fields, flared gases, etc.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 24, 2015

Therefore, the efficient and selective conversion of liquid FA into H 2 and CO 2 under mild conditions, without CO generation, will enable the use of FA as an ideal hydrogen carrier. The catalyst affords the highest turnover frequency (TOF; 7256 h –1 at 60 °C) for the selective decomposition of FA in heterogeneous systems.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 12, 2011

Deploy innovative and scalable GTL processes to convert natural gas into a room temperature, tank-ready, liquid transportation fuel that can be blended with existing supplies of gasoline and diesel or used as a stand-alone replacement product that is cleaner and more affordable. conversion premium. The convertible debt carries a 7.5%

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 10, 2009

The simulations assume technological progress in the conversion technologies, which results in average biomass conversion yields of over 95 gallons of ethanol per dry ton of biomass by 2030. Conversion technologies are linked to feedstocks. In the study, conversion technologies are linked with specific feedstocks.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 4, 2018

This FOA addresses gaps in current research and development (R&D) which hinder better utilizing waste streams (e.g. led research and development consortium dedicated to identifying and overcoming catalysis challenges for biomass conversion processes. Topic Area 4: Biofuels and Bioproducts from Wet Organic Waste Streams.

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Waste Renewable Conversion Carbon 170

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 16, 2010

Subtopic 6A: Solid State Thermoelectric Energy Conversion Devices. Some specific technologies which are of interest include (but are not limited to) battery cells (minimum 2Ah capacity) that incorporate one or more of the following: High voltage (5V) and/or high capacity (>300 milliamp-hour/gram (mAh/g) active material) cathodes.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 19, 2023

The US Department of Energy (DOE) awarded nearly $34 million to 19 industry- and university-led research projects that will advance technology solutions to make clean hydrogen a more available and affordable fuel for electricity generation, industrial decarbonization, and transportation. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 4, 2010

Second, the US Department of Agriculture proposed a rule on the Biomass Crop Assistance Program (BCAP) that would provide financing to increase the conversion of biomass to bioenergy. Biodiesel from soy oil and renewable diesel from waste oils, fats, and greases complies with the 50% GHG threshold for the biomass-based diesel category.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 28, 2015

This quality control device will help to drive down the costs of fuel cells by reducing waste and improving the process efficiency of roll-to-roll manufacturing of polymer electrolyte membranes. Successful commercialization of its technology will contribute to more affordable electric vehicles. 149,871.44. US Hybrid Corporation.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 18, 2009

Researchers from MIT, with colleagues from IISc in Bangalore, India and HiPi Consulting in Maryland have experimentally demonstrated the conversion of heat to electricity using thermal diodes with efficiency as high as 40% of the Carnot Limit. There’s a gold mine in waste heat, if you could convert it. Source: Hagelstein, 2007.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 23, 2023

We need to make sure that we have a diverse set of people at the table to be able to ensure that when these models are put out there, there’s a degree of transparency that we can help review and be part of that conversation. I’ve been troubled by that too, especially the sort of vitriol that seems to come out in some of these conversations.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 27, 2009

The anaerobic digester is fed the waste from the distillation process and the wastes from 2,000 dairy cattle and 10,000 beef cattle being raised on the site. Madson identified several ethanol plants that were built in industrial settings that were able to use the waste heat, i.e. from an adjacent refinery, to produce their ethanol.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 5, 2021

Lower engine-out emissions can be cheaper to operate and potentially a little more efficient, and using blendstocks made from biomass and waste means lower well-to-wheels GHG emissions. (Figure by Dan Gaspar | Pacific Northwest National Laboratory). The work is sponsored by DOE’s Vehicle Technologies Office and Bioenergy Technologies Office.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 21, 2013

Researchers at Wake Forest University and Virginia Tech report on their development of sulfonated carbon catalysts for the conversion of low-quality fats and oils containing high concentrations of free fatty acids into biodiesel in a paper in the journal Bioresource Technology. Deshmane, Marcus W.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 26, 2021

The TCF was created by the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to help catalyze the agency’s research, development, demonstration, and deployment efforts into affordable, market-ready energy solutions, by strengthening partnerships between DOE’s National Labs and American entrepreneurs. Framatome Inc. Lynchburg, Virginia). Beam Suntory, Inc.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

The second goal is a more affordable battery cell. What troubles me is that we don’t yet have a truly affordable car. Tesla believes it can reduce investment by 66% and the process cost by 76%—and yield zero waste water—by directly consuming raw nickel metal powder, and simplifying the entire process.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 28, 2015

This work supports the Energy Department’s efforts to make drop-in biofuels more accessible and affordable, as well as to meet the cost target equivalent of $3 per gallon of gasoline by 2022. The projects selected include: Texas A&M University will receive up to $2.5 Ohio University will receive up to $1.5

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