Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 22, 2015

A researcher at The University of Texas at Austin will receive two grants totaling $15 million to study switchgrass ( Panicum virgatum ), with a focus on how it can become a sustainable source of bioenergy. Additionally, the National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a four-year grant of $4 million to Juenger and his team. Kathrine D.

Austin 150

Austin Grant South Dakota North America 150

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 21, 2014

Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin’s Cockrell School of Engineering have rewired the native metabolism of the yeast Yarrowia lipolytica for superior production of lipids (lipogenesis). lipolytica by both removing and overexpressing specific genes that influence lipid production. —Blazeck et al.

Austin 220

Austin Texas Florida Grant 220

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

Estimated inventories of methane emissions from the natural gas production sector, excluding processing and transmission. The relative contributions of different production components differ, however. Source: UT Austin. The way in which wells are drilled and brought into production has been evolving. Click to enlarge.

Austin 218

Austin Gas Emissions Production 218

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 22, 2014

A research team led by The University of Texas at Austin has been awarded approximately $58 million to analyze methane hydrate deposits under the Gulf of Mexico. Prior programs in Alaska have explored gas hydrate reservoir potential and alternative production strategies, and additional testing programs are in development.

Mexico 294

Mexico Austin Oil-Sands Mariner 294

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 14, 2021

The Port of Corpus Christi Authority (Port of Corpus Christi) and Howard Midstream Energy Partners, LLC (Howard/HEP) have executed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) stating their intention to convert Howard’s Javelina refinery services facility into the region’s first blue hydrogen production facility.

San Antonio 170

San Antonio Hydrogen Convert Mexico 170

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 24, 2015

Professor John Goodenough, the inventor of the lithium-ion battery, and his team at the University of Texas at Austin have identified a new cathode material made of the nontoxic and inexpensive mineral eldfellite (NaFe(SO 4 ) 2 ), presenting a significant advancement in the quest for a commercially viable sodium-ion battery.

Sodium 150

Sodium Austin Li-ion Lithium Ion 150

Green Car Congress

MAY 3, 2021

The US Department of Energy (DOE) awarded $19 million for 13 projects in traditionally fossil-fuel-producing communities across the country to support production of rare earth elements and critical minerals essential to the manufacturing of batteries, magnets, and other components important to the clean energy economy.

West Virginia 305

West Virginia Wyoming Coal North Dakota 305

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 13, 2022

million to establish new geothermal energy and heat production from abandoned oil and gas wells. This work also supports the creation of new clean energy jobs, helping transition some of the oil and gas workforce to the production of renewable energy. University of Oklahoma (Norman, OK). ICE Thermal Harvesting (Houston, TX).

Oil 199

Oil Oklahoma Gas Houston 199

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 28, 2022

The selected projects, led by universities, national laboratories, and the private sector aim to develop commercially scalable technologies that will enable greater domestic supplies of copper, nickel, lithium, cobalt, rare earth elements, and other critical elements. Columbia University. Harvard University. Earlier post.)The

Supplies 345

Supplies Ni-Li Carbon Universal 345

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

Researchers in the Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin have developed a new family of anode materials that can double the charge capacity of lithium-ion battery anodes. An alternative processing strategy uses an eutectic alloy microstructure to accommodate the volume change.

Austin 150

Austin Lithium Ion Li-ion IDEA 150

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 21, 2021

Critical materials are used in many products important to the US economy and energy technologies, such as rare-earth elements used to manufacture high-strength magnets for offshore wind-turbine generators and lithium and cobalt in lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles. Partners: American Lithium Corporation, DuPont Water Solutions.

Li-ion 321

Li-ion Wyoming Lithium Ion Corporation 321

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

University researchers also concluded that many reports of contamination can be traced to above-ground spills or other mishandling of wastewater produced from shale gas drilling, rather than from hydraulic fracturing per se, said Charles “Chip” Groat, an Energy Institute associate director who led the project. Earlier post.).

Austin 199

Austin Connect Connected Texas 199

Cars That Think

JUNE 28, 2023

CRAWFORD EMPLOYER Purdue University, West Lafayette, Ind. TITLE ‘Professor of civil engineering, agronomy, and electrical and computer engineering MEMBER GRADE Fellow ALMA MATERS University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Ohio State University, Columbus But her engineering path eventually led her back to agriculture.

Production 75

Production Columbus Illinois Universal 75

Green Car Congress

JULY 24, 2020

Researchers from the University of California San Diego (UCSD) and the University of Texas at Austin, with colleagues at the US Army Research Laboratory and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, have developed a thick cobalt-free high voltage spinel (LiNi 0.5 O 4 (LNMO)) cathode material with high areal capacity. Resources.

Ni-Li 307

Ni-Li Li-ion San Diego Energy Storage 307

Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Humanoids 2023 : 12–14 December 2023, AUSTIN, TEXAS Cybathlon Challenges : 2 February 2024, ZURICH, SWITZERLAND Eurobot Open 2024 : 8–11 May 2024, LA ROCHE-SUR-YON, FRANCE Enjoy today’s videos! Fourier Intelligence has just announced the mass production of their GR-1 humanoid, and they’ve got at least a dozen of them.

Universal 122

Universal Washington Switzerland Boston 122

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Currently, liquid products generated by electrochemical carbon dioxide reduction-reaction systems have been mixed with liquid electrolytes/soluble solutes, which requires energy- and cost-intensive separation processes to recover pure liquid fuel solutions. We address both materials-level design and device-level engineering.

Conversion 236

Conversion Fuel CO2 Polymer 236

Cars That Think

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Humanoids 2023 : 12–14 December 2023, AUSTIN, TEX. Gravis Robotics ] Universal Robots introduced the UR30 at IREX, which can lift 30kg- not the 63.5kg that it says on the tire, that’s the weight of the UR30 itself. Universal Robots ] IREX is taking place in Japan right now, and here’s a demo of Kaleido, a humanoid robot from Kawasaki.

France 92

France Universal Switzerland MIT 92

Green Car Congress

JUNE 5, 2015

A team from the University of Texas at Austin led by Professor John Goodenough has achieved significantly enhanced activity and durability for the oxygen reduction reaction under alkaline conditions in a hybrid Li-Air battery using a new ordered Pd 3 Fe/C catalyst. Credit: ACS, Cui et al. Click to enlarge.

Austin 150

Austin Li-ion Hybrid Batteries 150

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 4, 2021

The partnership is currently focusing on two separate initiatives: The University of Texas at Austin will host a first-of-its-kind integration of commercial hydrogen production, distribution, storage and use. At the Port of Houston, the project team will conduct a feasibility study for scaling up hydrogen production and use.

Texas 199

Texas Energy Companies Hydrogen 199

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 16, 2017

The CISTAR team will develop innovative process designs for economic production of liquid chemicals and transportation fuels from shale gas hydrocarbons. Research will also occur at all of the universities involved. Inform the public about safe and environmentally responsible ways to use U.S. hydrocarbon resources.

Convert 170

Convert Gas Transportation Engine 170

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 15, 2010

an early-stage biotechnology company developing drop-in fuels and chemical products, has joined the Austin Technology Incubator (ATI), a not-for-profit unit of The University of Texas at Austin. ATI is a key program of the IC2 Institute at The University of Texas at Austin. Dorsan Biofuels , Inc.,

Clean 210

Clean Cleaning Austin Energy 210

Green Car Congress

JUNE 4, 2023

Austin, TX). Realta, spun out of a $10-million ARPA-e funded project at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is targeting industrial heat and power as an early application for its fusion technology in which the ability to operate at a wide range of scales is a significant advantage. Focused Energy Inc. Realta Fusion Inc. Madison, WI).

Fusion 305

Fusion Commercial Energy Companies 305

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 18, 2010

The basis of the technology is Clostridium Beijerinckii BA 101, a mutant (non GMO) organism discovered by Professor Hans Blaschek of the University of Illinois which produces solvents (acetone-butanol-ethanol, ABE) at elevated levels. In addition, TetraVitae has demonstrated product purification.

Renewable 186

Renewable Production 2001 Illinois 186

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 1, 2017

Scientists at Rice University and the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory have predicted and created new two-dimensional electrocatalysts—low-cost, layered transition-metal dichalcogenides (MX 2 ) based on molybdenum and tungsten—to extract hydrogen from water with high performance and low cost. —co-author Jun Lou.

Hydrogen 150

Hydrogen Production San Diego Low Cost 150

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Unifrax recently broke ground on its first production line located in New Carlisle, IN, which is expected to come online in early 2022. The SiFAB technology becomes part of a Unifrax battery portfolio that also consists of thermal management products and separator media.

Batteries 186

Batteries Battery Lithium Ion 2003 186

Cars That Think

JULY 13, 2023

Goodenough, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Texas at Austin , authored more than 800 technical papers during his career. Starting in the 1990s, his lithium cobalt oxide cathode was used in many electronic products including camcorders, laptop computers, and mobile phones.

Lithium Ion 93

Lithium Ion Batteries Battery Austin 93

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 8, 2011

A team led by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) scientists is developing a way to combine underground CO 2 storage and geothermal energy production. Schematic of system for coupling CCS with geothermal energy production. Earlier post.). Click to enlarge.

Energy 244

Energy CO2 Production Water 244

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 7, 2015

Improving the capacity and efficiency of the Hydrogen Evolution Reaction (HER) is an enduring challenge of green energy production and artificial photosynthesis. As the material is pulled apart, its molecular lattice changes into different forms; the end product, as it turns out, is catalytically active like the edge structure.

Low Cost 150

Low Cost Hydrogen Water Production 150

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

Cooking, cleaning and other routine household activities generate significant levels of volatile and particulate chemicals inside the average home, leading to indoor air quality levels on par with a polluted major city, according to a study by researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder.

Pollution 207

Pollution Ozone Clean Cleaning 207

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

In May 2012, the Energy Department, alongside its Japanese partners, announced a successful field trial of methane hydrate production technologies on Alaska’s North Slope. The University of Texas at Austin. Geological Survey and the University of New Hampshire on the project. University of Washington.

Oregon 230

Oregon Water Universal Washington 230

Teslarati

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Tesla Production Engineering Supervisor, Nicholas Shafer, shared thoughts about the MT1 course and how it’s helped his Junior technicians. During the construction of Gigafactory Austin, it worked closely with several schools and universities in the area. Note: Johnna is a Tesla shareholder and supports its mission. .

Nevada 98

Nevada Tesla Austin Grant 98

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

The long-term goal of the LM3I Institute will be to expand the market for and create new consumers of products and systems that utilize new, lightweight, high?performing There are significant challenges for new lightweight and modern metals to reach widespread commercial production. ThermoCalc; TIMET; Trumpf, Inc.;

Manufacturer 249

Manufacturer Obama Illinois Chicago 249

Teslarati

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Tesla’s often partnering with colleges and universities to recruit students for its workforce. Tesla has also worked closely with the Austin Community College and Del Valle Independent School Districted (ISD) to help students train for manufacturing careers at Giga Texas. Here in the U.S.,

Nevada 98

Nevada Austin Tesla Texas 98

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 13, 2011

have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to establish a joint venture for high-volume production of superior quality Lithium Iron Phosphate (LFP); LFP is a cost-effective, safe and eco-friendly cathode material for use in rechargeable lithium-ion batteries. Süd-Chemie AG and LG Chem, Ltd.

Li-ion 281

Li-ion Lithium Ion Manufacturer Batteries 281

Green Car Congress

JULY 4, 2011

LFP material was discovered at the University of Texas in Austin in 1995 and licensed to Hydro-Québec. The basic LMP/LFP material technology was invented and patented by Dr. John Goodenough of the University of Texas in Austin. Such a layer must be thin enough to permit the passage of lithium ions. Ltd (ALEEES).

Austin 210

Austin Canada Batteries Battery 210

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 28, 2011

John Goodenough from the University of Texas as Austin, has found one of the most effective catalysts yet discovered for the oxygen evolution reaction (OER) for use in water-splitting to produce hydrogen or in rechargeable metal-air batteries. A team of MIT researchers lead by Prof. Yang Shao-Horn, in collaboration with Prof.

MIT 326

MIT Recharge Hydrogen Batteries 326

Green Car Congress

JULY 8, 2015

Mika Järvinen (Aalto University, Finland): Resonate Award recipient for pioneering a CO 2 sequestration process that converts a low-value steel-manufacturing by-product into a valuable resource for industry.

Batteries 150

Batteries Battery USA Finland 150