Green Car Congress

JULY 13, 2022

Grants will be disbursed from the Innovation Fund to help bring technologies to the market in energy-intensive industries, hydrogen, renewable energy, carbon capture and storage infrastructure, and manufacturing of key components for energy storage and renewables. capture and liquefaction at a cement plant to storage in offshore sites.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 27, 2018

The plant, which will produce chemicals used in electric vehicle batteries (EVB), will be located at the company’s current industrial site in Sotkamo, Finland. Our production technology enables low carbon footprint of nickel and cobalt sulfates needed for electric vehicle batteries. —Janne Palosaari, Chief Commercial Officer.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 23, 2022

Power-to-Liquids technologies are on their way to commercialization in scale. E-fuels offer a way to expand the carbon-neutral transport fuel pool beyond biomass-based renewable fuels to replace fossil fuels in existing internal combustion engines.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 7, 2022

Metsä Fibre, part of Metsä Group, and Veolia recently signed a long-term partnership agreement on the refining of crude methanol generated in pulp production at the Äänekoski bioproduct mill into commercial biomethanol. The refinery, owned and operated by Veolia, will be adjacent and partly built into Metsä Fibre’s Äänekoski plant in Finland.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

The goal is to use the pre-commercial facility as a reference for rolling out commercial refineries with a capacity of possibly hundreds of thousands of tons per year of an advanced sustainable marine biofuel for ships. GoodFuels intends to market the pilot volumes produced to further strengthen the commercial business case.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

Partners from Germany and Finland in the SOLETAIR project are building a compact pilot plant for the production of gasoline, diesel and kerosene from solar energy, regenerative hydrogen and carbon dioxide. A direct air capture unit developed by the Technical Research Center of Finland (VTT) extracts carbon dioxide from air.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 20, 2021

FREYR Battery, a developer of clean, next-generation battery cell production capacity, has executed its inaugural offtake agreement for at least 31 GWh of low-carbon battery cells with an undisclosed, leading global publicly listed manufacturer and provider of energy storage systems (ESS). —Tom Jensen, the CEO of FREYR.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 4, 2013

A study by researchers at Finland’s VTT has concluded that it is possible to produce sustainable low-carbon fuels from lignocellulosic biomass for as estimated gasoline-equivalent production cost of 0.5–0.7 The technology is now ready for its first commercial-scale demonstration. Source: VTT. 0.7 €/liter (app. Resources.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 26, 2021

The first facility in Poland is under construction and will be completed in 2022, for commercial production in 2024. A second eLNO plant is also planned in Finland. Already in pilot production and being trialed by customers, eLNO will be supplied to customers in Europe from two new production facilities.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 1, 2023

In an open-access paper in the journal Energy & Fuels, a team from VTT Technical Research Center of Finland, with colleagues from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) and Ghent University, provides an overview of co-processing options for such bio-liquids.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 25, 2013

Finland-based Forest BtL Oy has licensed Carbo-V biomass gasification technology from Linde Engineering Dresden GmbH. The Carbo-V technology will be implemented in a new Biomass–to-Liquid (BtL) plant in Kemi, Northern Finland. The project will be funded by the European Union’s NER300 program for innovative, low-carbon technologies.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

Both Wärtsilä and ENGIE are committed to working for a low-carbon economy, and shifting the focus towards LNG-solutions is seen as being an important step in this direction. The cooperation covers four work streams: LNG for ships; LNG distribution in islands and remote areas; LNG to Power solutions; and small-scale LNG and bio-liquefaction.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

Boskalis, a leading global dredging and marine expert, and GoodFuels Marine, a leading provider of sustainable marine biofuels to the global commercial shipping fleet, have successfully performed live tests on a sustainable wood-based drop-in biofuel called UPM BioVerno. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

The new business model will result in the creation of the only battery materials park on the continent, providing North American automakers with direct access to a secure domestic source of low-carbon raw materials. —Michael Insulan, Vice President, Commercial. To better reflect the company’s vision, First Cobalt Corp.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

A number of pre-treatment and subsequent conversion technologies will be demonstrated, including delivering commercialization routes for the most promising value chains. Feedstocks will be benchmarked with crop residues and energy crops.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 2, 2021

Neste is piloting its first electric vehicle charging service targeted to logistics companies in Finland. at their site in the Konala area in Helsinki, Finland. The pilot project supports Neste’s and Niemi’s climate strategies and helps Niemi, the leading moving and logistics company in Finland, to reduce its climate emissions.

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

So while researchers and companies large and small invest in the zero-carbon future of the field, others are beginning to study what supplies and infrastructure on the ground would also be needed to make hydrogen aviation a reality. Hydrogen may be a good thing, but you gotta look at it from the full system level, right?

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 22, 2011

Researchers at Aalto University in Finland have developed a new and significantly cheaper method of manufacturing direct alcohol fuel cells (DAFCs) fuel cells by preparing a palladium nanoparticle catalyst using atomic layer deposition (ALD). times higher mass activity for alcohol oxidation compared with a commercial catalyst.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 19, 2016

Finland-based stainless steel expert Outokumpu is working on lightweight stainless steel solutions for electric vehicles in cooperation with Fraunhofer Institute for Laser Technology ILT, in Germany. Outokumpu has commercialized the new Forta H-Series as Forta H500, Forta H800 and Forta H1000; the designations refer to yield strength.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 29, 2012

Neste Oil—the world’s largest producer of renewable diesel—has launched the commercial production and sales of renewable naphtha for corporate customers; the company is one of the first to supply bio-naphtha on a commercial scale. Neste Oil recently started a study on the feasibility of commercializing NExBTL propane.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 23, 2016

In a first for commercial aviation, Air BP, together with Norwegian airport operator Avinor, and sustainable biofuel specialist SkyNRG, announced that all airlines landing at Oslo Airport can have jet biofuel delivered from the airport’s main fuel farm, via the existing hydrant mechanism. —David Gilmour, CEO for Air BP.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 30, 2011

Under the agreement, K2 Energy will provide Galaxy with battery technology expertise, licensing and commercial support for the construction and operation of Galaxy’s proposed Jiangsu plant in China. Flow diagram, Jiangsu lithium carbonate plant. Earlier post.) —Galaxy Resources Managing Director, Iggy Tan. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 26, 2017

The 57,565 GT M/S Viking Grace currently operates in the archipelago between Turku (Finland) and Stockholm (Sweden), and is already one of the most environmentally-friendly cruise ferries in the global maritime industry. for the Estraden.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 20, 2013

The Carbon Trust also issued a report highlighting promising UK efforts that, according to the report, have the potential to achieve $36 per kW. The US, Germany, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Japan, and other countries bolstered efforts to deploy hydrogen fueling infrastructure. 2012 Fuel Cell Technologies Market Report. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

MAY 30, 2012

The higher share of gas led to an improved carbon intensity of fossil fuel consumption in many Member States. Among the greenhouse gases reported to the United Nations Framework Convention for Climate Change (UNFCCC), carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) accounted for the largest increase in emissions in 2010.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 19, 2021

Eventually, they’ll add equipment to spray tiny aerosol particles of calcium carbonate, the compound found in limestone, blackboard chalk, and Tums antacids. Keith is also the founder of Carbon Engineering, a Canadian firm building a sprawling facility in West Texas that will pull carbon dioxide directly from the air.).

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 12, 2012

Use of new technologies to reduce friction losses should be able to lower automotive fuel consumption and emissions by 18% within the next 5 to 10 years and by up to 61% within 15 to 25 years, according to a joint study by VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland and Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) in the US.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 20, 2010

In support of those targets, the ministers are launching the Electric Vehicles Initiative (EVI), which will provide a forum for global cooperation on the development and deployment of electric vehicles, and accelerating their commercial uptake. Carbon Capture, Use, and Storage (CCUS) Action Group. Clean Energy Solutions Centers.

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Charged EVs

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

The company expects the first commercial applications to appear around 2027. However, at the start of its useful life an EV tends to come with a higher “carbon backpack” because of the battery. Recycling, when done properly, reduces a battery’s carbon backpack considerably compared to mining. How do we do this?

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 30, 2017

The design was patented during the project and is now commercially available from UK company Flexitallic. Companies and research organisations from Estonia, Finland, Italy, Sweden, Belgium, Germany and the UK were involved. With hydrocarbon fuels, these are hydrogen (H 2 ) and carbon monoxide (CO). NELLHI received €1.6

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Baua Electric

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

The company expects the first commercial applications to appear around 2027. However, at the start of its useful life an EV tends to come with a higher “carbon backpack” because of the battery. Recycling, when done properly, reduces a battery’s carbon backpack considerably compared to mining. How do we do this?

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 18, 2015

Researchers in Finland and Russia report the development of a non-noble-meal catalyst for the Hydrogen Evolution Reaction (HER) that exhibits catalytic properties superior to previously studied non-precious materials and comparable to those of platinum. Their paper is published in the journal Angewandte Chemie. —Tavakkoli et al.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 26, 2017

A group of Aalto University (Finland) researchers led by professors Tanja Kallio and Kari Laasonen has developed a manufacturing method for hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) electrocatalysts that use only one-hundredth of the amount of platinum generally used in commercial products. Click to enlarge. 7b00199.

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