Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

SITA UK, one of the country’s leading recycling and resource management companies and a subsidiary of Suez Environment, has signed an exclusive agreement with Cynar Plc to build Britain’s first fully operational plants to convert end of life plastic into diesel fuel. Cynar’s first plant is built and operating in Portlaoise, Ireland.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Sasol and General Electric (GE: NYSE)’s GE Power & Water have together developed new technology that will clean waste water from Fischer-Tropsch plants used to produce synthetic fuels and chemicals, while also providing biogas as a by-product for power generation.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 21, 2020

Toshiba Energy Systems & Solutions Corporation (Toshiba ESS) announced that its hydrogen-based autonomous energy supply system H2One, which Toshiba ESS delivered and installed on the rooftop of Toranomon Hills Business Tower (Minato-ku, Tokyo), has started full-scale operation with the opening of commercial facilities.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 1, 2021

The shortlisted proposals include plants aiming to produce jet fuel from: Combining carbon dioxide captured from the atmosphere with hydrogen from water; Alcohol derived from wastes; Everyday household and commercial black bag rubbish; and. It could also increase UK fuel security. alfanar Energy Ltd. Lanzatech UK Ltd.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 31, 2022

The MSRE design used light water for cooling the containment atmosphere, containment vessel, reactor shield, drain tank, primary pump, and containment penetrations. million research agreement sponsored by Natura Resources to design and build a university-based advanced molten salt research reactor.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Extended road testing of the vehicle is underway in Asia and represents a significant step towards the commercialization of e1’s onboard hydrogen generation technology. The M-Series units are methanol reformers that use water plus methanol to make hydrogen. Source: e1.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 11, 2017

The US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Bioenergy Technologies Office has published a report, titled Biofuels and Bioproducts from Wet and Gaseous Waste Streams: Challenges and Opportunities. Spatial distribution and influent range of 14,581 USEPA 2012 Clean Water Needs Survey (CWNS) catalogued treatmenet plants.Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 13, 2021

Traditional PEM fuel cells have a relatively low operating temperature, which makes for a low tolerance to hydrogen fuel impurities and makes waste-heat rejection a challenge for vehicles. At high-temperature operation, we can build heavy-duty trucks with a much simpler design, which allows us to significantly reduce the weight.

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JANUARY 9, 2024

But now it says it will rely heavily on hydrogen fuel cells generated from plastic, food, and organic waste to power a whole new generation of EVs, from passenger cars to heavy-duty trucks. For the Nexo, a recharge can take you 380 miles, with its only emissions being water vapor. It has set its target as the far-away date of 2050.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

In a milestone for the low-carbon fuel project, LanzaTech has produced 1,500 gallons of jet fuel from waste industrial gases from steel mills via a fermentation process for Virgin Atlantic. Following a successful proving flight, the data collected will enable the partnership to seek approval to use the fuel on routine commercial flights.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 23, 2014

million) in the latest round of IDP10 funding from the UK’s Technology Strategy Board to support the development of a heat-recovery system for urban commercial vehicles. Ambient or low grade waste heat is used as an energy source with the cryogen providing both the working fluid and heat sink. million (US$3.12 Earlier post. ).

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Green Car Congress

MAY 29, 2019

The production facility will specialize in producing SAF, bioLPG and naphtha, primarily using regional waste and residue streams as feedstock. The feedstocks used for production will be waste and residue streams, such as used cooking oil, coming predominantly from regional industries. The plant will be the first of its kind.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

This is higher than the 3 to 5 percent U-235 concentration, or “assay,” of Low-Enriched Uranium that fuels the existing fleet of light water reactors. HALEU can also reduce the volume of waste generated. Advancing domestic capability to produce HALEU will set the stage for larger, commercial-scale HALEU production in the US.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 27, 2023

GM is scaling EV production in North America well past 1 million units annually and our direct investments in battery raw materials, processing and components for EVs are providing certainty of supply, favorable commercial terms and thousands of new jobs, especially in the US, Canada and free trade agreement countries like Australia.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 4, 2011

coal-cleaning plant in Alabama successfully reduced moisture from ultrafine coal waste. In some cases the water is evaporated to stabilize the deposits before they are recovered in surface reclamation; in others, the waste coal is not recovered for a variety of technological, operational, market, or other reasons.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

UK-based TMO Renewables Ltd, the developer of a novel thermophilic bacterium and process for converting biomass into fuel ethanol ( earlier post ), has entered into an exclusive contract with Fiberight LLC to design and build waste to bioethanol plants in the US.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 22, 2022

Because so much energy is lost turning steam back into water in the Rankine cycle, at most a third of the power in the steam can be converted into electricity. The compressor gets the supercritical CO 2 up to the necessary pressure before it meets up with waste heat in the recuperator and returns to the heater to continue the cycle.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 2, 2022

The two prevalent commercial methods for extracting lithium are hard rock mining and evaporation ponds. Mining is environmentally harmful—it scars landscapes, adversely affects ecosystems and habitat, is water- and energy-intensive, and can pollute air and water resources.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 27, 2023

Financing for novel biorefinery process systems can be a barrier to commercializing advanced biofuels, and this funding will reduce technological uncertainties and enable industry deployment. This project will demonstrate the conversion of gaseous carbon wood wastes (terpenes) to renewable Terpenes SAF blending components.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 18, 2021

With its ability to produce synthetic and renewable-fuels and chemicals from feedstocks such as natural gas, flared gas, biogas, biomass, municipal solid waste, carbon dioxide (CO?) EFT’s offering is open to both accredited and non-accredited investors. These projects have attracted more than $450 million of capital for their construction.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 29, 2019

million in Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II Release 2 grants to projects that demonstrate commercial feasibility for innovations during the second phase of their research. The US Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) is awarding $43.6 Awards include: Accustrata Inc.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 10, 2021

This strategic collaboration seeks to accelerate the restoration of the US rare earth supply chain at commercial scale with high resiliency and environmental sustainability. Mountain Pass is a closed-loop, zero-discharge rare earth production facility with a dry tailings process that recycles more than 1 billion liters of water per year.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 17, 2022

While this process still produces waste carbon, the process can be made cleaner by capturing the waste carbon and injecting it into permanent underground storage zones. There has also been growing interest and investment in making the electrolysis of water to release hydrogen more commercially available.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 20, 2024

Department of Energy commissioned the American Bureau of Shipping to conduct a study, recently concluded, to identify suitable reactors for a merchant ship and describe R&D challenges that would have to be overcome before nuclear-powered shipping could become a commercial reality. Why nuclear-powered ships?

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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 7, 2010

has entered into a joint development program with the Energy & Environmental Research Center ( EERC ) at the University of North Dakota (UND) in Grand Forks for converting a wide variety of biomass and waste into bio-butanol. Syntec Biofuel Inc. Earlier post.). This is concerning, as it uses food resources to produce fuel.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 6, 2012

The thermochemical production of hydrogen and oxygen from water via a series of chemical reactions is of interest because it directly converts thermal energy into stored chemical energy (hydrogen and oxygen), and thus can take advantage of excess heat given off by other processes. —Xu et al. NaMnO 2 at 850 °C; Na + extraction from ?-NaMnO

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 19, 2013

Calysta Energy and NatureWorks have entered into an exclusive, multi-year collaboration to research and develop a practical production process for fermenting methane into lactic acid, the building block for Ingeo , lactide intermediates and polymers made from renewable materials.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 30, 2016

The LanzaTech facility will recycle industrial waste gases from steel manufacturing to produce a low cost ethanol intermediate: “Lanzanol.” LanzaTech captures the waste gas from refineries and manufacturing plants and feeds the CO-rich gas to microbes that consume the gas and produce ethanol. Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

The pilot plant has been designed, building construction has been completed, and equipment installation is underway on the SwRI campus in San Antonio, TX. When completed, it will be the largest sCO 2 demonstration facility of its kind in the world, and will represent a significant step toward technology commercialization.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 15, 2009

Coskata’s semi-commercial facility in Madison, Pa. a syngas to ethanol company, officially launched its semi-commercial “Flexethanol” facility located in Madison, PA. A study earlier this year by researchers at Argonne National Laboratory examining consumptive water use in fuel production ( earlier post ) found that: 3.4

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Green Car Congress

JULY 10, 2022

The money will help projects further develop their greenhouse gas removal technologies, which include a machine that can pull carbon dioxide out of the air, a plant to convert household waste into hydrogen for use in the transport industry, and a system to remove carbon dioxide from seawater. Biohydrogen Greenhouse Gas Removal Demonstration”.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 20, 2021

Arriving in spring 2022, F-150 Lightning will be available in four series and two battery options at more than 2,300 EV-certified Ford dealers across the country, with the option for fleet customers to access Ford’s complete ecosystem of connected data and telematics services via Ford Commercial Solutions.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 2, 2014

Building upon precision agriculture innovations and data-intensive computational approaches, ARPA-E believes that it is now possible to accelerate plant breeding, using robust high-throughput precision phenotyping. To date, significant technical and market challenges have hindered the widespread use of dry-cooling technologies.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 10, 2016

This support works in concert with Alberta’s Renewable Fuels Standard which requires commercial fuel producers to blend renewable products into their fuels. The company’s next goal will be to build a full-scale commercial biorefinery that will produce up to 240 million litres/year (63 million gallons US) by 2018.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

The Maverick Oasis factory-built Gas-to-Liquids (GTL) methanol plants are modular, and can be rapidly deployed onsite to produce thousands of gallons per day of methanol from natural gas or methane-rich waste gas. The plants are designed to be low-cost, highly efficient facilities optimized to generate an attractive project rate of return.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 31, 2014

The company’s process also produces a biochar-based product called CoolTerra that has the capability of making the fuel “carbon negative,” reversing the consequences of CO 2 build-up from fossil fuels, the company says. This excess carbon is highly porous and has beneficial water and nutrient retaining capabilities. Click to enlarge.

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