Green Car Congress

APRIL 30, 2023

A new approach developed by researchers from the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) in Austria and international colleagues proposes using solid air (nitrogen or oxygen) as a medium for recycling cooling energy across the hydrogen liquefaction supply chain. The Solid Air Hydrogen Liquefaction process © Hunt et al.

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Hydrogen Supplies Climate Change Economy 273

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MARCH 23, 2021

Snam was Europe’s first company to test the injection of a blend of hydrogen and natural gas in its network, and it is committed to get its infrastructure ready to transport increasing volumes of hydrogen. Through its international footprint Snam operates in Albania, Austria, China, France, Greece, India, Italy, UAE and UK.

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Hydrogen UAE Albania Greece 186

Green Car Congress

APRIL 21, 2012

Land management trade-off: maximizing productivity vs. carbon stocks. Large-scale bioenergy production from forest biomass is unsustainable and will increase greenhouse gas emissions, according to a group of international researchers in an invited analysis in the journal Global Change Biology/Bioenergy. NPP= net primary production.

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Gas Carbon Emissions Austria 261

Green Car Congress

MAY 28, 2020

Hydrogen researchers at Graz University of Technology (Austria), together with the Graz-based start-up Rouge H2 Engineering , have developed a cost-effective process for the decentralized production of high-purity hydrogen using chemical looping. Hydrogen is produced by converting biogas, biomass or natural gas into a syngas.

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Hydrogen Production Store Gas-Electric 248

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

The project, called “IPCEI Hy2Use” was jointly prepared and notified by thirteen Member States: Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Greece, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Spain and Sweden. The Member States will provide up to €5.2

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Hydrogen Slovakia Norway Greece 195

Green Car Congress

MARCH 3, 2013

SEAT, a member of the Volkswagen Group, is expanding its Mii family with the introduction of the Mii Ecofuel, which runs on natural gas. In the new SEAT Mii Ecofuel, the ECU also handles the management of the gas injector valves and the electronic gas pressure regulator. The SEAT Mii Ecofuel. Click to enlarge.

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Gas Czech Republic CO2 Gasoline 186

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 21, 2020

The first successful trial delivery of advanced cellulosic ethanol marks the start of the long-term cooperation between OMV, the integrated, international oil, gas and petrochemicals company headquartered in Vienna, and AustroCel Hallein GmbH. The Hallein-based bioethanol plant has an annual capacity of up to 35 million liters (9.2

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Supplies Renewable Austria 2001 243

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 13, 2012

A study by an international team of researchers, led by Drew Shindell of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) in New York City, has identified 14 measures targeting methane and black carbon (BC) emissions that could reduce projected global mean warming ~0.5°C All 14 would curb the release of either black carbon or methane.

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Carbon Ozone Emissions International 257

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MARCH 26, 2022

Austria-based OMV, an international, integrated oil, gas and chemicals company, announced its intention to become a net-zero (Scope 1, 2 and 3) company by no later than 2050. The gradual decline foresees a decrease in crude oil production by around 30% and natural gas production by around 15% by 2030.

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Oil Gas Production Austria 465

Green Car Congress

MARCH 5, 2019

Austrian Post is the largest logistics business in Austria. To accelerate climate action and to reach carbon neutral delivery, Post CH sees investing in a modern fleet of vehicles with energy-efficient, alternative drive systems and a well-designed logistics strategy as key.

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Fully Electric Fleet Climate Austria 279

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Global findings reveal more optimism for EVs—just 6% of Chinese respondents and 4% of Indian respondents will wait to buy an EV until gas-powered vehicles cease production. Japanese and UK respondents exhibit the same belief, while the rest of the regions surveyed are most concerned with carbon footprint reduction.

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Tax Credit Global Vehicles Tax 186

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

The green hydrogen generated there will be fed directly into the internal gas network, allowing the testing of the use of hydrogen in various process stages of steel production. —Wolfgang Hesoun, CEO of Siemens Austria. The technology supplier for the proton exchange membrane electrolyser is Siemens.

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Building Production Hydrogen Austria 150

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

The report finds that the greenhouse gas emissions of electric vehicles, with the current EU energy mix and over the entire vehicle life cycle, are about 17-30% lower than the emissions of gasoline and diesel cars. According to the briefing, the sector’s greenhouse gas emissions have been increasing in the EU since 2014.

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Climate Pollution Gasoline-Electric 2017 268

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 25, 2011

As a result, microchannel Fischer Tropsch (FT) processes can operate economically when producing just 500 barrels per day of oil equivalent (boe) from a wide variety of carbon-containing wastes, while achieving greater productivities than for conventional FT reactors ( earlier post ).

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Commercial Fuel Waste Austria 186

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 25, 2009

A team of 26 climate scientists from Australia, Austria, Canada, France, Germany, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the United States have published the “Copenhagen Diagnosis”, an interim synthesis report on developments in climate change science from mid-2006 to the present day. by Jack Rosebro.

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Climate Change Climate 2008 2009 239

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

Unlike crankshaft-driven superchargers and exhaust-gas-driven turbochargers, an electric supercharger is mechanically decoupled from the engine, meaning it can deliver the air almost instantaneously into the engine—spinning up to 70,000 rpm in less than a third of a second.

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Volt Hybrid Downsizing Lead Acid 207

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FEBRUARY 21, 2013

With the goal of reducing emissions, exhaust gas recirculation and an oxidation catalytic converter as well as a diesel particulate filter are used. Volkswagen is producing large parts of the XL1 in carbon fibre reinforced polymer (CFRP). A total of 32 exterior skin parts are painted on the XL1; six of them are visible carbon parts.

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Plug-in MPG Diesel Plug 382

Cars That Think

DECEMBER 3, 2021

A 1900 advertisement from General Electric (formed through the 1892 merger of Edison General Electric and Thomson-Houston Electric) touted the advantages of electric Christmas lighting over gas and candles: "No Danger, Smoke or Smell." Austria, Germany, and Japan became famous for exporting figural bulbs. branched out to bulbs of St.

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Light Kansas City New York Washington 144

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 31, 2015

The report, Projected Costs of Generating Electricity: 2015 Edition , also shows that new nuclear power plants generate electricity more cheaply than other established “baseload” sources—mainly coal- and gas-fired power plants—over the full lifetime of facilities when financing costs are relatively low.

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Cost Of Renewable South Africa Power 150

Green Car Congress

MAY 12, 2014

Results of a study by a team from the US and Austria suggest that the primary alcohol mixture (“AlcoMix,” comprising 75% ethanol, 11% 1-propanol, 8% 1-butanol, and 6% 1-pentanol) produced from biomass-based syngas could be used as a substitute for ethanol as a primary fuel or as an antiknock blending component. Credit: ACS, Rapp et al.

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Fuel San Diego Gasoline Austria 239

Green Car Congress

APRIL 22, 2011

Small-scale GTL facilities based on the use of microchannel reactors and designed for use on offshore platforms have the potential to turn unwanted associated gas into an energy asset and halt wasteful flaring or expensive re-injection. trillion cubic feet) of natural gas are being flared and perhaps the same amount is vented annually.

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Production Gas South America Waste 199

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 12, 2011

The Dangl team seeks to apply the genetic and genomic information toward applications in bioenergy and carbon cycling research. A team led by Michael Pester from the University of Vienna in Austria proposed one of the CSP 2012 portfolio’s smaller sequencing projects. —Dangl team proposal.

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Environment 2012 Climate North Carolina 239

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AUGUST 22, 2009

The downward emission trend of three main pollutants which cause ground-level ozone continued in 2007: carbon monoxide (CO) fell by 57%, non-methane volatile organic compounds (NMVOCs) were down by 47% and nitrogen oxides (NO x ) have dropped 36%. EU-27 emissions of all four pollutants were lower in 2007 than in 2006.

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Pollution Emissions Czech Republic United Kingdom 236

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MARCH 13, 2014

For example, we will offer more and more models with the entire range of state-of-the-art drive technologies, from highly efficient diesel and gasoline engines, through natural gas-powered engines, down to pure-play electric vehicles and plug-in hybrids. We leave it to our customers to chose the model they want to drive.

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Parts Plug-in MPH Gasoline-Electric 368

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 21, 2012

Evonik Industries is investing an upper single-digit million Euro amount in a plant producing SEPURAN hollow fiber membrane modules at its Schörfling, Austria, site. The novel membrane technology facilitates energy-efficient upgrading of biogas to biomethane which is fed into the public natural gas grid.

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Gas Energy Austria Grid 218