Green Car Congress

MARCH 22, 2014

liter TDI Clean Diesel engines fitted in Audi and Volkswagen TDI Clean Diesel models, and as such, is a strategically important engine. TDI is a turbocharged, common-rail, direct-injection four-cylinder engine based on the Volkswagen Group’s modular diesel toolkit (MDB, Modularen Diesel Baukasten). Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 6, 2012

Providing a possible new route to hydrogen-gas production, researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have devised a new manganese-based thermochemical cycle with a highest operating temperature of 850?°C Davis’ first paper as a graduate student dealt with the sulfur-iodine low-temperature water-splitting cycle.).

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

OPEN solicitations are an open call to scientists and engineers for transformational technologies across the entire scope of ARPA-E’s energy mission. Pinnacle Engines will electrify its four-stroke, spark-ignited, opposed-piston engine to improve fuel efficiency and reduce its cost.

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Clean Fleet Report

JUNE 17, 2024

Today, it is a cost-neutral way for fleet owners to achieve their goals by allowing them to convert an entire diesel-powered fleet to alternative fuel overnight. One challenge is feed pretreatment, which can be done with acid, high-pressure water and/or adsorbents, depending on the technology selection.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 18, 2023

By converting various types of local waste, such as green waste, municipal solid waste, organic waste, and methane from municipal solid waste, into clean fuels, Raven SR offers a sustainable solution for the reliable and long-term production of SAF.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 13, 2013

The California Energy Commission (CEC) is awarding $1,135,862 to 12 small-scale projects to research that will reduce the cost of producing electricity, save energy and improve the environment. The technology has the potential to increase the generation and efficiency of solar power in California. Lee Huang of Eneron Inc.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 20, 2022

The California Energy Commission is funding a separate demonstration program of four additional MPGs through its Mobile Renewable Backup Generation Systems program to show how hydrogen-based mobile power can help offset the loss of energy during the planned power shutoffs used to mitigate wildfires throughout the state.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 13, 2010

Cobalt Technologies, a company using strain development and bioprocess technology to optimize biobutanol production for commercially viable renewable fuels and chemicals, formally launched its pilot facility in Mountain View, California. California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and Silicon Valley cleantech leaders were on hand.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 27, 2023

Comstock proposes to build a pre-pilot scale system to demonstrate a novel new pathway to convert its biointermediates from forestry residues and other forms of lignocellulosic biomass into renewable diesel, sustainable aviation fuel, gasoline, and marine fuel at dramatically improved yield, efficiency, and cost. MicroBio Engineering Inc.,

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

Researchers at Loker Hydrocarbon Research Institute and Department of Chemistry, University of Southern California, have developed a highly efficient homogeneous Ru-based catalyst system for the production of methanol (CH 3 OH) from CO 2 and H 2 in an ethereal solvent (initial turnover frequency = 70 h −1 at 145 °C). Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 29, 2021

The California Air Resources Board (CARB) and the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) have similar actions planned for 2024 and 2027, respectively. Collectively, these new regulations will reduce tailpipe NO x limits by 90%, thus accelerating the need for global engine manufactures to employ additional emission reduction strategies.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 20, 2012

A team of scientists from Bio Architecture Lab (BAL) in Berkeley, California, ( earlier post ) has engineered a strain of Eschericia coli to break down and then to ferment alginate—one of the most abundant sugars in brown algae, but a sugar that industrial microbes can’t metabolize—into ethanol. Wargacki et al.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 31, 2017

Southern California Gas Co. The finding came out of ongoing research conducted at the University of California, Irvine (UCI) and funded by SoCalGas. The Southern California Gas Company system alone is made up of over 100,000 miles of pipeline. to 35% by implementing a power-to-gas strategy.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 18, 2014

liter EA288 diesel engine will power the 2015 Golf, Beetle, Beetle Convertible, Passat, and Jetta, all of which are set to arrive in dealer showrooms in the second half of 2014. The EA288 is based on the Volkswagen MDB, its modular diesel engine toolkit (Modularen Diesel Baukasten) ( earlier post ). The three cooling circuits.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

We only drove ’normal’ ICE (Internal Combustion Engine) cars before but those gave me a feeling of always being in a hurry. The gasoline engine only runs in reversing to power the batteries. petrol engine is not running. The Atkinson cycle petrol engine was made for regular stop-starts and is very reliable.

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Baua Electric

MAY 29, 2024

Hydrogen is the most abundant substance in the universe, and a crucial element in the creation of our most precious resource: water. Recently, industry has turned to green hydrogen, created by running an electric current through water with an electrolyte. Put this in a car and you have a fuel-cell electric vehicle. Hyundai Motor Co.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 27, 2015

Testing was also conducted at the DTNA Detroit engineering facility to demonstrate engine efficiency by achieving 50.2% engine brake thermal efficiency. liter engine, a hybrid system, a Waste Heat Recovery (WHR) system, along with a number of other upgrades. mpg (19.26

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Green Car Congress

JULY 31, 2012

Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego (Scripps) and Southern California Gas Co. Taking this research a step further, Scripps’ researchers hope to leverage algae’s natural ability to absorb CO 2 in the environment and convert it into oil rich biomass or biomethane or refined into fossil fuel replacements.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 25, 2014

This process when combined with a related technology to produce alcohols from complex feedstock can realize an integrated biorefinery that sustainably and cost effectively converts low-value, high-volume feedstocks into a suite of bioproducts and biofuels. These data have been generated and are awaiting publication in a journal.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 16, 2012

Other successful initiatives—highlighted in Ford’s 13th annual Sustainability Report—include reductions in water use, waste-to-landfill and CO 2 emissions as well as improvements in vehicle fuel economy and safety. The company also announced plans to reduce usage another 25% on a per-vehicle basis by 2016.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 31, 2012

The research alliance will use enzymes to convert seaweed-based carbohydrates to sugar, which can then be fermented to produce ethanol for fuel, fine chemicals, proteins for food, and fertilizers for plants. Seaweed is a natural complement to our efforts to convert other types of biomass to fuel ethanol.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 7, 2014

Toyota showcased both its latest fuel cell vehicle concept (the FCV Concept, earlier post ), showing what the four-door mid-size sedan will look like in Radiant Blue; and the camouflage-taped engineering prototype used for extensive and extreme on-road testing in North America for more than a year. the California Fuel Cell Partnership.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 4, 2013

Converting a corn ethanol plant to produce biobutanol requires changes to the fermentation step (mainly a new microorganism) and to alcohol recovery from the fermentation. vol% for use as an automotive spark-ignition engine fuel. Fermentation to convert the sugars to iso-butanol using a proprietary microorganism. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

DG) that converts natural gas and biomass to renewable liquid fuel and power. GE Aviation has already entered into a multi-year agreement with DG to purchase up to 10 million gallons annually of DG’s low CO 2 emissions jet fuel for production and development testing of GE jet engines. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 1, 2020

University of California - San Diego. MicroBio Engineering, Inc. Integrated biochemical and electrochemical technologies (IBET) to convert organic waste to biopower via North American research and educational partnerships. Arizona State University. ASU’s Polymer-enhanced Cyanobacterial Bioproductivity (AUDACity). 10,000,000.

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Plugs and Cars

JULY 26, 2007

Les Goldman wants you to convert (your hybrid.) So he proposed at the California Air Resources Board ZEV workshop on Tuesday. Add more batteries as they become cheaper and more energy-dense, dump the engine; or, for the more fantasy-minded and those receiving compensation, add hydrogen fuel cell and drop the engine.)

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Green Car Congress

JULY 8, 2014

California-based Aemetis, Inc. In September 2013, EPA granted Aemetis approval to produce ethanol using grain sorghum and biogas at its converted corn ethanol plant to generate D5 Advanced Biofuels Renewable Identification Numbers (RINs). esters and nearly no monoglycerides, water or other contaminants. Earlier post.).

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Researchers at the University of California, Riverside’s Center for Environmental Research and Technology (CERT) at the Bourns College of Engineering have received two grants to further explore a steam hydrogasification process they developed to convert waste into fuels. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 6, 2009

The first demonstration of a renewable method for hydrogen production from wastewater using a microbial electrolysis system is underway at the Napa Wine Company in Oakville, California. This is a demonstration to prove we can continuously generate renewable hydrogen and to study the engineering factors affecting the system performance.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 7, 2016

Siluria Technologies has entered into a strategic partnership with Air Liquide Global E&C Solutions, the engineering and construction business of the Air Liquide Group, to collaborate on the development of novel catalytic processes utilizing both companies’ expertise in gas conversion technologies. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 25, 2015

Leichter at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California at San Diego, and a team led by Douglas C. Part of the gas can also be used to produce the hydrogen (by steam reforming and water-gas shift) needed to upgrade the biocrude via hydrotreating. Elliott at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington.

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Mariner San Diego Water 2015 150

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 19, 2012

The Biofuels ISOCONVERSION process includes patented Catalytic Hydrothermolysis (CH) reactor technology, developed by Applied Research Associates (ARA), which utilizes water as a catalyst to quickly and inexpensively convert plant and algal oils into stable intermediate oil products, which are very similar to petroleum crude oil.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 7, 2014

Vertimass LLC, a California-based start-up company, has licensed an Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) technology that directly converts ethanol under moderate conditions at one atmosphere without the use of hydrogen into a hydrocarbon blend-stock for use in transportation fuels. —Chaitanya Narula.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 11, 2009

a Fischer-Tropsch process company, plans to build a plant in Rialto, California for the production of synthetic fuels and electric power from renewable waste biomass feedstocks. The power is anticipated to be sold to local utilities under the California RPS program. The Rentech Process is based on Fischer-Tropsch chemistry.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 20, 2015

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has awarded $8 million to communities in 21 states and Puerto Rico to reduce emissions from the nation’s existing fleet of diesel engines through the agency’s Diesel Emission Reduction Act ( DERA ) program. The full list of projects selected for 2014 DERA funds: California.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 17, 2013

At SAE World Congress in Detroit, Honda engineers presented several papers on the development of the new Accord plug-in hybrid, describing work on the new gasoline engine (which will also be featured in the coming full hybrid version of the Accord), and the development of the new two-motor system. gasoline engine. New engine.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 22, 2012

CH utilizes water to reduce hydrogen and catalyst consumption and quickly and inexpensively converts plant oils into stable intermediate oil products which are very similar to petroleum crude oil. operates a 55 million gallon per year ethanol plant in Keyes, California. a CBI Company.

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