Baua Electric

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

This week, Daimler Truck and Linde Engineering presented sLH2, a jointly developed refueling technology for sub-cooled liquid hydrogen – and they’ve made the technology openly available to anyone who wants it. sLH2 can do all of that for less money than “conventional” hydrogen solutions. The best part? Another huge step?

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Green Car Congress

JULY 31, 2019

However, the scale of biofuels is limited by their environmental footprint, considering the land and water usage. Carbon-neutral fuels are needed for sustainable transportation to overcome the range and recharge limitations of batteries and the scale limitations of biofuels. —Zhao et al. Zhao et al. —Zhao et al. Zhao et al.

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Delaware Transportation Fuel Hydrogen 278

Green Car Congress

JULY 8, 2015

million in Carbon Recycling International (CRI). Geely’s CRI investment and work with renewable methanol is similar to the approach Audi is taking with its own e-fuels projects—producing very low carbon liquid or gaseous fuels using only renewable energy, water and CO 2. Earlier post.). Earlier post.) Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 12, 2016

A research team from University of Western Ontario, McMaster University and Beijing Computational Science Research Center has developed an effective synthesis method to produce isolated single platinum (Pt) atoms and clusters for use as catalysts for the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) in water splitting to produce hydrogen.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 4, 2013

ITM Power, with its partners Mainova Aktiengesellschaft and NRM Netzdienste Rhein-Main GmbH, has injected hydrogen into the German gas distribution network from the Thüga Group’s power-to-gas demonstration plant. The electrolyzer supplies the hydrogen-methane mixture at the same pressure as the gas distribution network—3.5

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 14, 2011

Reversible hydrogen storage cycle based on the redox system bicarbonate/formate. Researchers at the Leibnitz Institute for Catalysis (Rostock, Germany) have introduced a new approach to hydrogen storage that is based on simple salts of formic acid and carbonic acid. Source: Boddien et al. Click to enlarge. wt % (FA) and 2.35

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

Promising avenues include weight savings and extension of the cruising range in comparison with battery-powered solutions; fuel cell concepts may represent an attractive option for long-distance hauling, which requires heavy loads and large cruising ranges. As a result, the charge air coolers used must be resistant to ionized water.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 20, 2011

Researchers from SRI International (SRI) are developing a methane-and-coal-to-liquids process that consumes negligible amounts of water and does not generate carbon dioxide. Lifecycle GHG comparison. In conventional CTL approaches, energy is supplied by burning a portion of the coal feed, which then produces carbon dioxide.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 20, 2024

The shipping industry has been trying to cut its carbon emissions for years, and with little to show for it. Nearly all of the world’s ship fleet still runs on diesel fuel, with about a quarter of new ships on order being built to run on somewhat lower-carbon alternatives like liquefied natural gas, methanol, or hybrid propulsion.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 11, 2013

Fe hydrogenase mimic immobilized on graphite surfaces) for electrocatalytic hydrogen generation in an aqueous medium. V vs NHE (normal hydrogen electrode, an early standard for zero potential). 3 moles) of hydrogen over a period of 8 h in 0.5 Comparison of H 2 Evolving Electrocatalysts (from other work cited in Dey et al.).

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 11, 2015

The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced up to $35 million in available funding to advance hydrogen and fuel cell technologies ( earlier post ) to support research and development, early market deployments, and domestic manufacturing. AOI 1 Topic 1: Hydrogen Production R&D: Advanced High‐Temperature Water Splitting.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 11, 2014

Researchers at Stanford University have developed a nanocrystalline copper material that produces multi-carbon oxygenates (ethanol, acetate and n-propanol) with up to 57% Faraday efficiency at modest potentials (–0.25?volts volts versus the reversible hydrogen electrode) in CO-saturated alkaline water. volts to –0.5?volts

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 16, 2015

Researchers from Purdue University and École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland are proposing a new integrated process involving the co-production of hydrogen and electricity from solar thermal energy—a concept they label “hydricity”.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 30, 2012

Ranges of automotive fuel cell system costs at mass manufactured volume using technology from three UK companies supported by the Carbon Trust. Source: Carbon Trust. It would also reduce global carbon emissions from vehicles by an additional 260 million tonnes per year by 2050—equivalent to the current annual emissions of Taiwan.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 17, 2010

The new catalyst is applied in a hybrid photocatalytic-electrolysis system that uses the photocatalytic reaction converting solar energy to lower the electrolysis voltage required for the hydrogen production by water electrolysis. Potential diagram of various reaction mechanisms for hydrogen production via water decomposition. (a)

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 3, 2014

Scientists from Stanford University, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and the Technical University of Denmark have identified a new nickel-gallium catalyst that converts hydrogen and carbon dioxide into methanol at ambient pressure and with fewer side-products than the conventional catalyst.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

Researchers of the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies ( IASS ) in Potsdam and the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) have achieved the proof-of-principle for a innovative technique to extract hydrogen (H 2 ) from methane (CH 4 ) without the formation of CO 2 as a byproduct.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 19, 2014

Qiang Dai and Christian Lastoskie found that BEVs and FCVs in particular offer significant reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, especially if carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) technologies are implemented at the fuel conversion facilities. water depletion potential (WDP). water depletion potential (WDP).

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 13, 2014

A catalyst made from a foamy form of copper has different electrochemical properties from catalysts made with smooth copper in reactions involving carbon dioxide, according to a new study by a team from Brown University. The foams are made by depositing copper on a surface in the presence of hydrogen and a strong electric current.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 1, 2010

is installing Air Products’ hydrogen fueling technology for the material handling market at its Sarasota, Florida distribution center. Air Products will supply the hydrogen as well as its compression, storage and two indoor hydrogen dispensing units. United Natural Foods, Inc.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

Guide G205 is a step toward the creation of an industry-wide standard test to measure the corrosivity of different crude oils under pipeline conditions, since it describes test methods that enable a direct comparison of the corrosivity of crude oils from various sources. In the absence of water, the crude oil is noncorrosive.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 17, 2020

The RWD layout also allowed for increased hydrogen storage to boost EPA-estimated range to 402 miles (Mirai XLE grade), a 30% increase over the first-generation Mirai. In comparison, the first-gen Mirai was FWD, and the larger stack was placed under a raised section of the passenger compartment floor.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 18, 2015

Bottom: The dotted lines show the coarsening of platinum nanoparticles on top of a carbon carrier. Platinum is an essential catalyst for the electricity-producing chemical reactions occurring between oxygen and hydrogen in fuel cell stacks. Click to enlarge. Click to enlarge.

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Toyota Fuel Hydrogen Carbon 150

Green Car Congress

APRIL 21, 2011

A) Mixing of high–surface area carbon with aniline oligomers and transition-metal precursor (M: Fe and/or Co). (B) Their approach uses polyaniline (PANI) as a precursor to a carbon-nitrogen template for high-temperature synthesis of catalysts incorporating iron and cobalt. mgPt cm -2 ) is shown for comparison (dashed line).

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 26, 2010

However, the resulting bio-oils are typically high in oxygen, water, solids and acids. In the new UMass approach, the hydroprocessing increases the intrinsic hydrogen content of the pyrolysis oil, producing polyols and alcohols. The width of the vertical arrows represents the product carbon yield from a particular field.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 5, 2018

Nitrogen-doped carbon nanotubes or modified graphene nanoribbons may be suitable replacements for platinum for fast oxygen reduction, the key reaction in fuel cells that transform chemical energy into electricity, according to Rice University researchers. electrons which are beneficial for electron-demanding reduction reaction. .

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

The US Department of Energy’s (DOE) National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) has selected eight projects to receive almost $25 million in funding to construct small- and large-scale pilots for reducing the cost of CO 2 capture and compression through DOE’s Carbon Capture Program. FuelCell Energy Inc. Source: FuelCell Energy.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 18, 2013

(These attributes reflect the presence of up to 50 wt% asphaltenes—very high molecular weight hydrocarbon molecules incorporating many heteroatoms—atoms other than carbon or hydrogen, e.g., sulfur—in their lattices.). Location of the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 27, 2017

Stuart Licht ( earlier post ) have developed a new process that transforms CO 2 into a controlled selection of nanotubes (CNTs) via molten electrolysis; they call the process C2CNT (CO2 into carbon nanotubes). Molten carbonate electrosynthesized boron-doped CNTs exhibit high electrical conductivity. —Ren et al. Licht (2017).

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 17, 2012

Splitting Water at High Temperatures. Most solar-driven water-splitting experiments are conducted at room temperature. The long-term goal of this project is to develop a water-splitting device that operates at high temperatures (up to 400 °C), dramatically improving solar-to-hydrogen conversion efficiencies.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 1, 2009

Hydrogen for reverse water gas shift reaction to avoid producing CO 2 during the process is produced by electrolyzing water, driven by solar power. For comparison, they also modeled the production of methanol using only biomass as a fuel and also using coal as source of both carbon and energy.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 7, 2010

The electrochemical reduction of CO 2 can produce several products, including formic acid, carbon monoxide, methane, ethylene, and methanol. must be renewable, or at least from a carbon-neutral source such as nuclear; otherwise, more CO 2 would be emitted in producing the electricity than would be reduced in the process.

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AUGUST 31, 2022

H2Carrier is the designer and owner of the proprietary floating energy production and storage system P2XFloater—the first industrial-scale floating green hydrogen and ammonia facility of its kind in the world. Green hydrogen is produced by pumping seawater onboard, purifying the water and feeding it to electrolyzers.

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Plug In India

MARCH 15, 2023

Using low-carbon fuels or biofuels as the source of heat energy to process lithium and manufacture li-ion batteries would cut carbon emissions by half as per world banks study. [4] Thier technical development unit has examined how the carbon footprint of electric cars in compares with that of internal combustion engines.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

Surya Prakash and George Olah of the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, is part of a broader effort to stabilize the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere by using renewable energy to transform the greenhouse gas into its combustible cousin. The work, led by G.K. Credit: ACS, Kothandaraman et al. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 15, 2011

Comparison of biomass-to-wheel (BTW) efficiency for different biomass utilization scenarios. internal combustion engine vehicle (ICE); hybrid electric vehicle-gasoline (HEV-gas); hybrid electric vehicle-diesel (HEV-diesel); (hydrogen) fuel cell vehicle (FCV); battery electric vehicle (BEV); and sugar fuel cell vehicle (SFCV).

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Green Car Congress

JULY 8, 2013

A promising aqueous cathode can be determined from the redox couples possessing high solubility and a suitable redox potential avoiding the electrolysis of water. Li metal with 1 M of LiPF 6 in ethylene carbonate (EC)/dimethyl carbonate (DMC) electrolyte was used for the anode. The specific energy density (~0.33

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