Green Car Congress

JANUARY 4, 2010

Possible applications, now being explored, include building and isolation materials and the production of fine and specialty chemicals. Working with RWE Power, we want to advance into a new era of CO 2 conversion. Both lead to more efficient CO 2 conversion, using these powerful designer micro-organisms.

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JANUARY 17, 2020

The energy conversion rate of this system is higher than that of biomaterial-based systems, but the production pathway cannot tap into potential energy sources such as waste biomass. This builds on the technology development pathway that MAN ES presented at the NH3 Energy+ Topical Conference at Pittsburgh in October 2018.

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OCTOBER 12, 2021

Recently, GREET was expanded to cover the building sector. The other seven pathways, representing a combination of biochemical and thermochemical conversion technologies, produce bio-blendstocks capable of reducing engine-out emissions for mixing-controlled compression ignition (MCCI) engines in heavy-duty vehicles.

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JUNE 21, 2023

The company aims to build an app ecosystem through the application of an open operating system and controller integration, including Level 3 and higher autonomous driving capabilities, high-performance semiconductors and over-the-air (OTA) update advancements. It plans to convert additional lines as market demand dictates. trillion (US$7.4

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Clean Fleet Report

JULY 3, 2023

It is definitely possible to retrofit an old internal combustion engine car with an electric vehicle (EV) drivetrain, but the process can be complicated and expensive. Likewise, lighter vehicles make better candidates for conversions given that less weight translates into greater range.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 14, 2010

When our country was attacked at Pearl Harbor, no one believed we could build 30,000 planes and tanks in just one year. But it will take decades to shift most freight from trucks to trains, design walkable communities, shorten our commutes, and build better mass transit and high-speed rail networks. And no one asked what it would cost.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

From a proof-of-concept stage, where preliminary pathway engineering results in low titers on a small scale, the titer, rate and yield are improved through multiple rounds of the design-build-test-learn (DBTL)-cycle. The other main barrier is efficient conversion of biomass to the sugars that are used by the cell factories. Zhou et al.

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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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FEBRUARY 19, 2015

UK startup Libertine LPE has developed a free piston linear power generator technology that it says overcomes the key challenges faced by earlier free piston engine schemes of motion control, emissions and power conversion efficiency. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

JULY 24, 2018

Our conversations with end users suggest the market for battery grade lithium hydroxide and lithium carbonate remains very tight. Whabouchi mine site is under construction and prep work is underway for crushing and ore sorting buildings as well as surrounding areas of concentrator. Further to the recent completion of a CAD1.1-billion

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 7, 2018

The project will build and install diesel-fueled two-stroke compression-ignition Achates Power Opposed-Piston Engines into Class 8 demonstration trucks that will be road-road ready in 2019 and operate in fleet service in California in 2020. liter Opposed-Piston Gasoline Compression Ignition (OPGCI) engine. Earlier post.). Zermeno, R.,

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 20, 2024

At a July meeting of the International Maritime Organization , the U.N. How new reactor technology could change shipping The first step in making nuclear merchant ships a reality will be to build the right kind of nuclear reactors. We needed to get the conversation started.” Fourth-generation SMRs avoid all that.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 5, 2016

Altex Technologies has selected Unitel to provide engineering services to design and build a pilot system that will produce 1 BPD of synthetic gasoline from biomass (Biomass Conversion to Synthetic Gasoline System, BCSGS). Method and apparatus for conversion of carbonaceous materials to liquid fuel. US 9199889 B2.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 26, 2015

The MefCO2 consortium consists of Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems Europe; the Laboratory of Catalysis and Reaction Engineering of the National Institute of Chemistry Slovenia; the Cardiff Catalysis Institute; Carbon Recycling International; the University of Genoa; the University of Duisburg Essen; i-Deals; and Hydrogenics.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 20, 2009

Renewable Energy Institute International (REII), Toledo’s Red Lion Bio-Energy , the University of Toledo, Midwest Terminals/Port of Toledo, SolarTurbines/Caterpillar, and other partners are working to build a biomass-to-liquids demonstration plant in South Toledo, Ohio.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 13, 2016

These are: Advanced internal combustion engine and powertrain systems. High conversion efficiency NO x after-treatment and particulate filters. Waste heat recovery. Building Energy Efficiency. In parallel, and with equivalent resources, Chinese funding will support a collaborative counterpart Chinese Consortium.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 21, 2011

By 2050, biofuels could provide 27% of total transport fuel and contribute in particular to the replacement of diesel, kerosene and jet fuel, according to a new report from the International Energy Agency (IEA). This projected use of biofuels could avoid around 2.1 gigatonnes of CO2) of emission reductions in the transport sector.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 10, 2011

This project will develop a novel low cost route to carbon fiber using a lignin/PAN hybrid precursor and carbon fiber conversion technologies leading to high performance, low-cost carbon fiber. Vehma International of America, Inc. Miltec UV International, LLC. DENSO International America, Inc. Zoltek Companies, Inc.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 19, 2023

Sweden’s Vattenfall is aiming to build an offshore, hydrogen-producing wind-turbine demonstrator in the same area. In mid-2022, the International Renewable Energy Agency counted 32 countries that had adopted hydrogen strategies and 11 others that were preparing such plans. Conventional, or gray, hydrogen: $1.50

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Wind Hydrogen Grid Gas-Electric 93

Green Car Congress

JUNE 24, 2009

Rentech, the developer of a Fischer-Tropsch process for the conversion of syngas derived from biomass and fossil resources into synthetic fuels, specialty waxes and chemicals, has acquired a 25% stake in ClearFuels Technology Inc. through a strategic investment.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 8, 2017

Most importantly for this project, acrylonitrile is also the primary building block in carbon fiber composites, which are used for lightweighting applications in automotive and air transportation. Moreover, this new high-yield process can utilize non-food biomass, such as agricultural wastes, as a feedstock instead of propylene.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

Magnetocaloric materials have great potential to lower the energy consumption and carbon footprint of technologies used in building cooling, refrigeration, and gas liquefaction. Variable compression ratio or variable stroke internal combustion engine with real- time controllability. Reciprocating internal combustion (e.g.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 17, 2021

Sinopec Capital, as the industrial investment arm of Sinopec Group—one of the world’s largest integrated energy and chemicals companies—announced an investment in LanzaTech with a focus on promoting direct production of chemicals from waste carbon.

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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 carbon-optimized conversion technology developed under this project can be integrated with multiple CO 2 sources, such as corn grain ethanol refining (near-term) and direct air capture (mid-long term).

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DECEMBER 25, 2011

There is no minimum or maximum funding amount that may be requested for the proposed research, ARB’s annual research budget generally ranges from $5 million to $7 million, typically funding between 20 and 25 projects, including internally generated ideas, with individual budgets ranging from $50,000 to $500,000.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 5, 2011

Major investments will be needed worldwide in the developing and scaling up of clean energy technologies; sustainable farming and forestry techniques; climate-proofing of infrastructure; and in technologies reducing non-biological degradable waste production, according to the report. The report comes out yearly.

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Global Energy Green Coal 338

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 16, 2010

This effort shall design, build and validate a light-weight material prototype vehicle that is 50% lighter through reduction in weight of the vehicle when compared to a baseline light-duty vehicle commercially available in 2002. Subtopic 6A: Solid State Thermoelectric Energy Conversion Devices.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Gas Technology Institute (GTI) will design and build an engineering-scale CO 2 capture system using the Ohio State University transformational membrane process. RTI International plans to develop two different novel materials, metal organic frameworks (i.e., DOE Funding: $4,129,607; Non-DOE Funding: $1,032,411; Total: $5,162,018.

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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. Rob Kurtz, a project manager for BBI International, was another keynote speaker and an authority on biofuels plants. Earlier post.). Financing challenges.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 13, 2011

TCX is the company’s new proprietary technology for ethanol production that builds on its acetyl platform and integrates new technologies to produce ethanol using basic hydrocarbon feedstocks—natural gas, coal and pet coke now, with biomass and waste planned for the future. Earlier post.). Source: Celanese.

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My Electric Car

AUGUST 21, 2020

There has been much discussion for over thirty years or more around the use of hydrogen fuel cells as an alternative to the internal combustion engine. Fuel cells had been promoted in some sectors as the best alternative to the internal combustion engine. So why haven’t FCEV becoming as prolific as other electric cars?

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 3, 2015

Subtopics include Microbial Biomass Conversion. Subtopic 1a: Microbial biomass conversion. One renewable, low carbon pathway that has not been included in recent funding opportunities is biological biomass conversion. integrating systems where the waste product of one process is utilized as the feedstock of the next); and/or.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 19, 2023

DOE Funding: $1,249,997; Non-DOE Funding: $312,516; Total Value: $1,562,513 Oxygen Integrated Unit for Modular Biomass Conversion to Hydrogen — Palo Alto Research Center Inc., The team intends to address the requirement of advancing modular air separation to support modular gasification-based hydrogen production. approximately 1400 °C).

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Hydrogen Clean Cleaning Gas-Electric 150

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 15, 2009

Coskata’s biological fermentation technology is ethanol-specific and enzyme independent, contributing to high energy conversion rates and ethanol yields. GM announced its strategic partnership, including an investment, with Coskata at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit in January 2008. 9-10 for every one we build.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 30, 2012

The report defines bio-based materials as industrial products made from renewable agricultural and forestry feedstocks, which can include wood, grasses, and crops, as well as wastes and residues. These feedstocks are usually fermented and go through a series of conversions to produce polymers that can be used in plastic composites.

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Polymer Cars Automobile Standards 218

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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Conversion MIT 2007 Convert 247

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 3, 2009

ConocoPhillips will demonstrate new advancements that improve conversion efficiency and economies of scale for carbon capture systems at a petcoke-based 683-megawatt integrated gasification combined cycle (IGCC) power plant adjacent to its existing refinery in Sweeny, Texas. DOE Share: $2,723,512). University of Utah. DOE Share: $1,480,656).

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