Green Car Congress

MARCH 23, 2021

The 16 projects selected by DOE will help provide sustainable water sources and affordable treatment options to industry, municipalities, agriculture, utilities, and the oil and gas sector. With the right technology, it’s possible to convert wastewater into renewable power, along with chemicals, fertilizers, and reusable water.

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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

DECEMBER 4, 2014

The company powered its ecoDemonstrator 787 flight test airplane with a blend of 15% NExBTL renewable diesel from Neste Oil and 85% petroleum jet fuel in the left engine. Neste Oil can also produce a NExBTL synthetic paraffinic kerosene as a discrete, and already approved, commercial aviation fuel.).

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 14, 2010

In a pre-response to that speech, having successfully advocated for plug-in hybrids like the forthcoming Chevy Volt, we propose that the President follow that speech up with a “realistic and conservative” roadmap to halve our oil use in 10 years. Oil is holding us all hostage, economically and physically. Finally, it’s time to begin.

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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

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Super-emitters are facilities, equipment, and other infrastructure, typically in the fossil-fuel, waste, or agriculture sectors, that emit methane at high rates. In Turkmenistan, EMIT identified 12 plumes from oil and gas infrastructure east of the Caspian Sea port city of Hazar. kilometers) long, from a major waste-processing complex.

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Clean Fleet Report

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Our communities and planet can’t afford to wait—we need “today solutions” to cut GHG emissions from these vehicles. Even better, some cities and businesses are taking a step further to create a circular economy, so their vehicles can run on renewable diesel made from their own waste. Figuring Out Where to Start.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 28, 2018

While the EU remains on track to meet its 2020 emissions reduction target, updated data shows Member States cannot afford to take progress beyond that date for granted. The rise is mostly due to the increase of oil consumption from road transport. We know it can be done. in 2017 from 2016.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 2, 2013

The effort is in parallel with an ongoing technology development to store hydrogen affordably. Ad Astra is developing this system in collaboration with Costa Rica’s state-owned oil refinery, RECOPE. The teams also designed a reliable process to mix and control hydrogen and biogas, and use together as an efficient energy source.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 18, 2015

Findings by MIT researchers could help advance the commercialization of supercritical water technology for the desulfurization and upgrading of high-sulfur crude oil into high-value, cleaner fuels such as gasoline without using hydrogen—a major change in refining technology that would reduce costs, energy use, and CO 2 emissions.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 19, 2021

The 12V ALiS (Advanced Lithium-ion battery System) mild hybrid system available on new Qashqai is a more affordable hybrid technology that provides torque assist, extended idle stop, quick restart and coasting stop [CVT only], with improvements to both fuel economy and CO 2 output (-4g/km). DiG-T 140PS/160PS 12V ALiS Mild Hybrid.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 19, 2009

Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne and Alberta Energy Research Institute (AERI) of Canada are working together to develop advanced gasification technology aimed at decreasing the cost and environmental impact of processing Alberta’s oil sands. Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne is a United Technologies Corp.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 31, 2016

Additionally, many chemicals relied upon for transportation (such as oils and lubricants) as well as other commodity chemicals and polymer precursors are, and will likely remain, carbon-based. Strategic Goal: Meet early-adoption market demands and catalyze new markets that support sustainable, affordable living.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 19, 2014

Researchers at MIT and King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM) in Saudi Arabia have devised a robotic system that can detect leaks in gas, oil and water pipelines at a rapid pace and with high accuracy by sensing a large pressure change at leak locations.

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The Truth About Cars

JANUARY 25, 2024

But it also played a role in killing demand for affordable diesel vehicles in both Europe and the United States. Similar arguments can certainly be made about the oil industry. At the end of the day, too much of this just feels like a colossal waste of time and money without any noteworthy advantages trickling down to the consumer.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 12, 2016

Our industry can meet aggressive efficiency targets at affordable prices. Medium- and heavy-duty vehicles currently account for about 20% of GHG emissions and oil use in the US transportation sector, but are only about 5% of the vehicles on the road.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 3, 2009

The lower bulk gas temperature reduces the capital costs typically associated with exotic metals and energy recovery equipment in GTL refineries while increasing energy efficiency, making Energix’s micro GTL and other chemical plants more affordable. —Juzer Jangbarwala, CEO of Energix Research, Inc.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 12, 2011

Chesapeake is the second-largest producer of natural gas, a Top 15 producer of oil and natural gas liquids and the most active driller of new wells in the US. Chesapeake Energy Corporation plans to create a $1.0-billion Chesapeake also announced $305 million in two initial investments for CNGV: $150 million to Clean Energy Fuels Corp.

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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 Novel lubricant formulations (additive package and/or base oil modification) expected to improve the mechanical efficiency of light?, duty engines. Thermoelectric?based

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 18, 2023

When we turn up the heat in our homes and workplaces, we must balance our personal need for warmth with the global impact of burning fossil fuels like oil, gas, coal, and biomass. For combustion-based heating, fuels like oil and gas are stored and moved to where they can be burned.

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Clean Fleet Report

APRIL 4, 2024

While yes, there is a huge push for EVs, realistically speaking, not that everyone can afford them. Even though you might not be able to afford something new that’s more eco-friendly, you don’t have to instantly think that all hope is lost, especially if you’re passionate about the environment and truly want to make a difference.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 13, 2010

The new venture, which will be called “Rotrak”, will add Torotrak’s variable speed traction drive to Rotrex’ supercharging technology to address the automotive industry’s need for affordable, effective engine downsizing technologies. As part of the agreement, Torotrak will acquire a 15% stake in Rotrex and a seat on the company’s board.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 30, 2016

For the longer-term (beyond 2030), the study indicates that the only fuel and vehicle combinations technically suited to achieving “ultra-low carbon emission mobility” are: Highly-efficient conventional powertrains (Mild- and full-Hybrid) fueled with advanced and waste based biofuels/-gases (for passenger cars (PC) and commercial vehicles (CV)).

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 10, 2009

Cellulosic biofuels can compete with oil at $90/bbl without subsidy assuming: average conversion yield of 91 gallons per dry ton of biomass; average conversion plant capital expenditure of $3.60 Sensitivity analyses varying these assumptions individually gave potential cost-competitiveness with oil priced at $70/bbl to $120/bbl.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 28, 2024

Sectoral expansion The PLI scheme is anticipated to drive growth in key industrial sectors such as construction, oil and gas, metals, electronics, pharmaceuticals, textiles, and energy. However, in June 2023, there was a revision in the demand incentive for 2ws.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 17, 2023

Member States will need to adopt and implement national measures to improve the collection of critical raw materials rich waste and ensure its recycling into secondary critical raw materials. Lithium is the new oil and Europe needs to act quickly to source it responsibly.

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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

JUNE 21, 2016

Process intensification breakthroughs can dramatically shrink the footprint of equipment needed on a crowded factory floor or eliminate waste by using the raw input materials more efficiently. quadrillion BTU of energy annually, equivalent to 280 million barrels of oil, or a month’s worth of that nation’s oil imports.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 4, 2010

So today I’m announcing a Carbon Capture and Storage Task Force that will be charged with the goal of figuring out how we can deploy affordable clean coal technology on a widespread scale within 10 years. Diesel produced from algal oils complies with the 50% GHG threshold for the biomass-based diesel category.

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Get Electric Vehicle

JUNE 7, 2023

Electric motors have higher efficiency rates compared to internal combustion engines, which waste a significant amount of energy as heat. EVs convert a higher percentage of electrical energy from the battery into actual propulsion, resulting in less energy waste.

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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. Topic Area 4: Biofuels and Bioproducts from Wet Organic Waste Streams. Wet organic waste streams represent valuable potential feedstocks for the bioeconomy. scale operations.

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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

OCTOBER 13, 2015

As it implements more driver-assistance technologies, Ford is working on the global development of fully autonomous vehicles, with the ultimate goal of creating an accessible and affordable solution for consumers in China and around the world. Smart Mobility.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 16, 2010

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

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 25, 2013

The Department of Housing and Urban Development’s efforts include a $23-million Multifamily Energy Innovation Fund designed to enable affordable housing providers, technology firms, academic institutions, and philanthropic organizations to test new approaches to deliver cost-effective residential energy. Nuclear Power.

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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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