Remove Carbon Fiber Remove Engine Remove Low Cost Remove Waste
article thumbnail

DOE issues $10M incubator FOA for batteries, power electronics, engines, materials, fuels and lubricants

Green Car Congress

Advanced Combustion Engine R&D. VTO is focused on critical barriers identified by joint government/industry research that are either unique to or common among three major combustion strategies: (1) Low? sizing passenger vehicle engines. duty engines. competitive waste heat recovery technologies. Stirling engines.

article thumbnail

US DOE awards more than $175M to 40 projects for advanced vehicle research and development

Green Car Congress

The selections announced focus on eight approaches to improving vehicle efficiency: Advanced fuels and lubricants : Eight projects awarded to improve fuels and lubricants that will enable optimal performance of advanced combustion engines. Wisconsin Engine Research Consultants LLC. Advanced fuels and lubricants. Grantee Description.

article thumbnail

Roadmap shows how to improve lignocellulosic biofuel biorefining with high-value products from isolated lignin

Green Car Congress

The resulting roadmap uses the integration of genetic engineering with analytical chemistry tools to tailor the structure of lignin and its isolation so it can be used for materials, chemicals and fuels, said lead author Arthur Ragauskas, a professor in the School of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the Georgia Institute of Technology.

article thumbnail

DOE to award up to $184M for advanced vehicle research and development in 8 areas of interest

Green Car Congress

The goal of this AOI is to support advanced fuels and lubricants technologies that will enable optimal performance of advanced combustion engines for passenger and commercial vehicle applications. For all subtopics, technologies may be applicable to compression ignition and/or spark ignition engines. Miller Cycle).

Li-ion 231
article thumbnail

UCalgary, Rice team uses flash joule heating to manufacture graphene from petroleum waste

Green Car Congress

To date, efforts have been invested in developing carbon fibers, carbon electrodes, porous carbon foam/scaffolds, and carbon nanosheets from asphaltenes. —Saadi et al.

Waste 492
article thumbnail

DOE to award up to $6.7M to projects to convert captured CO2 to useful products, including fuels

Green Car Congress

Mineralization concepts utilizing CO 2 with industrial wastes. Novel physical and chemical processes for beneficial use of carbon. Mineralization concepts utilizing CO 2 with industrial wastes. Mining waste also contains trace amounts of valuable materials (i.e., Biological based concepts for beneficial use of CO 2.

Convert 150
article thumbnail

DOE to issue FY14 Vehicle Technologies program-wide funding opportunity announcement

Green Car Congress

VTO focuses on a mix of near- and long-term vehicle technologies including advanced batteries, power electronics and electric motors, lightweight and propulsion materials, advanced combustion engines, advanced fuels and lubricants, and other enabling technologies. Broadly, VTO program activities are focused on achieving: Saving 1.4

Vehicles 246