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million from the US Department of Energy (DOE) to develop and validate technology that will reduce the cost of manufacturing high-performance carbonfiber by 25% to make composite natural gas or hydrogen fuel tanks to power cars and trucks. —IACMI CEO John Hopkins.
LeMond Carbon announced the results of an independent technical audit conducted by Bureau Veritas (BV) of its carbonfiber manufacturing process. The audit was conducted on a pilot line at Deakin University’s Carbon Nexus facility in Geelong, Australia. This is a significant milestone for our company.
The projects will feature collaborations with EERE’s Advanced Manufacturing Office on manufacturing reliable and affordable electrolyzers and with EERE’s Vehicle Technologies Office on developing low-cost, high-strength carbonfiber for hydrogen storage tanks. Carbon Composite Optimization Reducing Tank Cost.
The US Department of Energy Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy (ARPA-E) will award $30 million to 13 projects to advance natural gas vehicle technologies in its new program titled “ Methane Opportunities for Vehicular Energy ” (MOVE). Single-Piston Four-Stage Linear Home Natural Gas. Engine-Integrated Natural Gas Compressor.
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REPAIR teams will develop natural gas transmission pipeline retrofitting technology to rehabilitate existing cast iron and bare steel pipes by creating new, robust pipes inside of old ones. Natural gas is a crucial energy source for 75 million American households and businesses. —ARPA-E Director Lane Genatowski.
Eight projects are aimed at improvements including developing and demonstrating dual-fuel or dedicated natural gas engine technologies for high-efficiency medium and heavy-duty vehicles to reduce petroleum usage and developing advanced computational fluid dynamics models to accelerate the development of advanced engine technologies.
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burn and exhaust gas recirculation (EGR)?diluted CarbonFiber or Lightweight Materials. VTO is seeking projects that address the major challenges to developing and commercializing carbonfiber composites for lightweight structures. Most critical is the cost of the carbonfiber. mode operation.
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This project will develop a new process that enables low-cost, domestic manufacturing of magnesium. This project will develop a novel lowcost route to carbonfiber using a lignin/PAN hybrid precursor and carbonfiber conversion technologies leading to high performance, low-costcarbonfiber.
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Alternative fuels could include hydrogen or natural gas stored onboard the vehicle at sub-ambient temperatures as a compressed gas, liquefied gas or adsorbed onto a porous material. fleets, buses, etc.) as well, and not solely for light‐duty vehicles.
Most of the hydrogen that is used today is stored as a compressed gas (with pressures typically ranging from 150 to 700 bar) or a liquid (liquid storage requires cryogenic temperatures near 20 K). The FOA includes the following topics: Topic Area 1: Reducing the cost of compressed hydrogen storage systems. Click to enlarge.
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Topic areas include: Electrolyzer Manufacturing R&D (up to $15M): Lowering the cost of hydrogen produced from megawatt- and gigawatt-scale electrolyzers by improving large-scale, high-volume electrolyzer manufacturing in the US.
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Development of Low-cost, High Strength Automotive Aluminum Sheet (Area of Interest 1). Integrated Computational Materials Engineering (ICME) Development of CarbonFiber Composites for Lightweight Vehicles (Area of Interest 2). Description. Alcoa, Inc. Ford Motor Company. Brookhaven National Lab. 1,500,000 (DOE/Army).
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In a new departure, the A5 Sportback is also available as a bivalent g-tron, which customers can run on either Audi e-gas ( earlier post ), natural gas or gasoline. The tanks for the gas fuel in the A5 Sportback g-tron are located beneath the rearward structure. lb) of gas per 100 kilometers (62.1 Audi e-gas.
Materials Innovation Technologies will develop lowcostcarbonfiber composite manufacturing technology to address the need for cost-effective, high volume production, lighter-weight components for automobiles and other vehicles by designing, manufacturing and testing several target components.
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For future market acceptance of hydrogen fuel cell vehicles or portable devices an efficient, lowcost and practical hydrogen storage system and infrastructure suitable for all applications still needs to be developed. To achieve a driving range greater than 500 km in a fuel cell vehicle, about 5 kg of hydrogen is required.
The company is currently conducting verification tests for transporting large-quantity, low-cost hydrogen to Japan produced from Australian lignite. By the end of fiscal 2021, it plans to transport hydrogen using its in-house-constructed, first-in-the-world purpose-built liquefied hydrogen carrier, the Suiso Frontier.
Specifically, lowcost and energy-efficient processes are sought that can be demonstrated and validated under field conditions to meet needs of the nascent algal biomass industry. Algae cultures tend to be relatively dilute, and the energy requirement to remove water from the cultures can be a significant portion of the energy balance.
These new GaN power devices will enable the next generation of low-cost, fast, small, and reliable power electronics, which are key for efficient power conversion in data centers, solar farms, power grids, and electric vehicles. Stanford University. The Ohio State University. University of Washington. Pratt & Whitney.
Eaton Corporation will partner with ORNL to develop waste heat recovery (WHR) technology that can be applied to industrial manufacturing processes and vehicle operations in a project titled “High Performance Computing to Enable Next-generation Low- temperature Waste Heat Recovery.”. million tons of CO 2.
Some specific improvements which are of interest, but are not limited to, include: new low-cost materials, improvements in manufacturing processes, speed or yield, improved cell/pack design minimizing inactive material, significant improvement in specific energy (Wh/kg) or energy density (Wh/L), and improved safety.
VTO supports a broad technology portfolio aimed at developing and deploying advanced highway transportation technologies to reduce petroleum consumption and greenhouse gas emissions, while meeting or exceeding vehicle performance and cost expectations. high octane fuels), and advanced powertrain work.
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VTO supports a broad technology portfolio aimed at developing and deploying advanced highway transportation technologies that reduce petroleum consumption and greenhouse gas emissions, while meeting or exceeding vehicle performance and cost expectations. Advances for the Production of LowCost Electric Drive Vehicle Motors.
The proposed approach combines decades of knowledge in gas turbine engines with novel advances in additive manufacturing research and sCO 2 power generation experience to increase the overall power system efficiency and its power density. The system can operate with any carbon neutral liquid fuel to achieve net-zero GHG emissions.
Accelerated Development and Deployment of Low‐Cost Automotive Mg Sheet Components (Area of Interest 3). Demonstrate the joining of steel to aluminum and aluminum to carbonfiber reinforced thermoplastic composites using the existing spot welding infrastructure. Gas Technology Institute. Description. Description.
The new DOE funding opportunity announcement ( DE-FOA-0001622 ) focuses on the second of these pathways which is focused on securing applications for projects that will develop CO 2 -utilization technologies that produce useful products at lower cost than currently available technologies, without generating additional greenhouse gas emissions.
This is a low-volume, high-value market where aircraft will rely on high-cost and cutting-edge technologies to reach new heights with regard to performance and safety. For example, IDTechEx expects that lithium-metal and solid-state batteries, axial flux motors, and carbonfiber materials will play an important role in eVTOL markets.
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