Green Car Congress

JUNE 9, 2014

Production costs per barrel of oil equivalent. The cost of electrofuels—fuels produced by catalyst-based systems for light capture, water electrolysis, and catalytic conversion of carbon dioxide and hydrogen to liquid fuels—remains far away from viable, according to a new analysis by Lux Research.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 6, 2017

Researchers from China and the US have synthesized gold layered clusters on an α-MoC substrate to create an interfacial catalyst system for the ultra-low-temperature water-gas shift (WGS) reaction for the production of high-purity hydrogen and concomitant utilization of carbon monoxide (CO). —Yao et al.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 28, 2021

At the hubs, which can be built at or near landfills, Raven SR will convert mixed and multiple organic wastes, including municipal solid waste, greenwaste, food waste, medical, paper, etc. This permits the control of the rotary reformer when there is water content or chemical makeup variation in the feedstock, such as in MSW.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 30, 2013

Researchers at Wakayama University in Japan have produced a mixture of hydrogen and carbon monoxide gas by irradiating a mixture of carbon powder and distilled water with intense nanosecond laser pulses at room temperature. The carbon or charcoal powders were dispersed in distilled water at a ratio of 25.8

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Water Hydrogen Carbon Gas 230

Green Car Congress

MARCH 19, 2021

The project would capture and send for storage up to two million tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO?) Blue hydrogen, integrated with carbon capture and storage, can provide the scale and reliability needed by industrial processes. —Dev Sanyal, bp’s executive vice president of gas and low carbon energy.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 27, 2023

Made from widely available domestic feedstocks and advanced refining technologies, energy-dense biofuels provide a pathway for low-carbon fuels that can lower greenhouse gas emissions throughout the transportation sector and accelerate the bioeconomy. Comstock Inc., per GGE, with lifecycle emissions reductions exceeding 80% over petroleum.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 11, 2020

DE-FOA-0002423 ) Topic Areas ins the FOA support DOE’s Bioenergy Technologies Office’s (BETO’s) objectives to reduce the minimum selling price of drop-in biofuels, lower the cost of biopower, and enable high-value products from biomass or waste resources. Improvements in productivity with traditional carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) supply.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 31, 2015

RJ Lee Group has signed an agreement to license an invention developed at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory that converts waste rubber into a valuable energy storage material. The carbon composite material can be incorporated in batteries, supercapacitors, and catalysis and water filtration technologies.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 28, 2014

A new ceramic hollow fiber substrate for catalytic converters designed by Dr. Benjamin Kingsbury and colleagues at Imperial College London could cut the size and precious metal loading of the devices in automobiles while reducing fuel consumption and and manufacturing costs. Kingsbury has founded MicroTech Ceramics Ltd. 2011.11.009.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

The project consists in extracting brine from the salar and processing it into lithium carbonate. Fresh water is then used to release the stored lithium. Purification of the lithium, then reaction with sodium carbonate to convert it to lithium carbonate.

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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. In conventional CTL approaches, energy is supplied by burning a portion of the coal feed, which then produces carbon dioxide. Bottom: SRI process.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

An Ohio State University team has demonstrated the successful operation of Coal-Direct Chemical Looping (CDCL)—which chemically harnesses coal’s energy and efficiently contains the carbon dioxide produced before it can be released into the atmosphere. The carbon dioxide is separated and can be recycled or sequestered for storage.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 3, 2020

The concept is supported by the Dutch Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management. Within the Netherlands transport sector, inland navigation accounts for 5% of carbon dioxide emissions. The emphasis during the initial stage will be on converted and newly-built container carriers.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 25, 2023

The report estimates an incremental cost of 0.09 That incremental cost represents a 4 to 5% increase from today’s jet fuel prices, compared to the 2 to 5x cost premium typically quoted for sustainable aviation fuels (SAF). A study by MathPro Inc., USD/gallon (~€0.03/L) Earlier post.) soot) present in the engine exhaust.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 26, 2010

However, the resulting bio-oils are typically high in oxygen, water, solids and acids. As a result, there is high interest in cost-effective pathways for the upgrading of bio-oils to more useful transportation fuel or commodity chemical components. (E.g., earlier post.). Credit: Science , Vispute et al. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

The technologies in Alcoa’s roadmap, including a new, proprietary post-consumer scrap recycling process, have the potential to decarbonize a significant portion of the upstream aluminum supply chain and provide a competitive advantage in a carbon-constrained world. The Refinery of the Future: Targeting zero-carbon emissions alumina refining.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

SITA UK, one of the country’s leading recycling and resource management companies and a subsidiary of Suez Environment, has signed an exclusive agreement with Cynar Plc to build Britain’s first fully operational plants to convert end of life plastic into diesel fuel. Non-plastic materials fall to the bottom of the chamber.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 29, 2021

A team at MITEI (MIT Energy Initiative) has found that hydrogen-generated electricity can be a cost-competitive option for backing up wind and solar. If we’re to achieve zero-carbon electricity, we must replace all greenhouse gas-emitting sources. —Emre Gençer, co-author. —Drake Hernandez. —Emre Gençer.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 26, 2012

The US Department of Energy (DOE) selected eight projects to advance the development of transformational oxy-combustion technologies capable of high-efficiency, low-cost carbon dioxide capture from coal-fired power plants. DOE Investment: $988,000; Recipient Cost-Share: $828,000. Gas Technology Institute.

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Coal Carbon Gas-Electric Gas 250

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

First, apply electricity generated from renewable sources to obtain hydrogen from water. Then add carbon. Renewable synthetic fuels will become considerably more affordable when production capacities are expanded and the cost of electricity generated from renewable sources comes down. Finally, combine CO? a liter (US$5.00

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 13, 2012

Researchers at the University of Alberta (Canada) have quantified the transformation of the boreal landscape by open-pit oil sands mining in Alberta, Canada to evaluate its effect on carbon storage and sequestration. million metric tons of stored carbon. Converting from units of carbon to CO 2 equivalents, this is between 41.8

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 30, 2010

ARPA-E’s first solicitation awarded $151 million to 37 projects aimed at transformational innovations in energy storage, biofuels, carbon capture, renewable power, building efficiency, vehicles, and other areas. This process is less than 1% efficient at converting sunlight to stored chemical energy. Water will be the primary byproduct.

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Baua Electric

MAY 10, 2024

Leveraging biomass presents a potential avenue to contribute to the global objective of achieving a carbon-neutral human society. By cycling carbon through energy generation systems as biomass, it offers a means to address climate change. Carbon dioxide cycle of biomass-based fuels.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

Awardees will receive approximately $16 million to advance the gasification process, which converts carbon-based materials such as coal into syngas for use as power, chemicals, hydrogen, and transportation fuels. Advanced Gasifier and Water-Gas Shift Technologies for Low-Cost Coal Conversion to High-Hydrogen Syngas.

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Coal Hydrogen Conversion Gas 218

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 26, 2010

Researchers at the University of Wisconsin, led by Dr. James Dumesic, have developed a process to convert aqueous solutions of ?-valerolactone Not requiring hydrogen or precious metal catalysts could contribute to a lower cost for a commercial-scale version of the process than some other renewable hydrocarbon fuel technologies.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 1, 2013

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has selected four research and development projects designed to bring next-generation biofuels on line faster and to drive down the cost of producing gasoline, diesel, and jet fuels from biomass. The projects represent up to a combined $13-million Energy Department investment.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

HTL uses subcritical water as the chemical driving force to convert biomass to a carbon-rich biocrude. 30% greater than the initial algae lipid content because other cellular components (beyond only lipids) are converted to biocrude. 29% dry weight (dw)] and low carbon (30?37% ash-free dry weight (afdw) carbon, 37.5%

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 13, 2017

The D3MAX process converts both five- and six-carbon sugars in wet cake to cellulosic ethanol. Starch, cellulose, xylose and arabinose are all converted to cellulosic ethanol with higher yields, lower energy consumption, and lower capital cost per gallon than other cellulosic ethanol producers. Click to enlarge.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 3, 2022

Using concentrated solar energy, they were able to produce kerosene from water vapor and carbon dioxide directly from air. Fuels derived from synthesis gas (or syngas)—an intermediate product that is a specific mixture of carbon monoxide and hydrogen—is a known alternative to conventional, fossil-derived fuels.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

UK-based ITM Power has been awarded a grant by the UK Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) to undertake a £100k (US$160k), 12-month engineering feasibility study of producing synthetic methane using carbon dioxide from industrial processes and hydrogen produced by electrolysis.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

million demonstration plant at Whyalla, South Australia (on the north-western coast of Spencer Gulf, northwest of Adelaide) will produce 30,000 liters of green crude a year using the company’s trademarked technology called Green2Black—a suite of advanced harvesting, extraction and sub-critical water reactor technologies.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 30, 2016

In these trials, wood residue streams from Canfor Pulp’s kraft process were successfully converted into a stable biocrude oil. Under elevated heat and pressure, water approaches the supercritical state to process pulverized waste biomass, breaking down the ether linkages in the polymeric structure of the feedstock.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 25, 2014

It can be used as a fuel additive to displace and clean up existing fossil fuels, and to lower their carbon footprint. million per year at a 200,000 person WWTP when the crude product is further separated into purified chemicals, these are then sold and the chemical sales’ revenues are used to subsidize the cost of the biofuel.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 3, 2021

Pennycress also requires fewer farm operations, such as soil tilling, than other potential biofuel crops, reducing the associated environmental costs, include carbon dioxide emissions and other emissions. Such techniques can add to the financial cost of growing crops, but reduce their environmental footprints.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 18, 2013

HTL converts wet algae slurries into an upgradeable biocrude. Catalytic hydrothermal gasification is applied for HTL byproduct water cleanup and fuel gas production from water soluble organics, allowing the water to be considered for recycle of nutrients to the algae growth ponds. —Douglas Elliott.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 24, 2017

The carbon-related costs of converting the land to sugarcane fields were included in the analysis. Most models used to predict future crop production are statistical models that really don’t take full account of the way changes in water, carbon dioxide and temperature interact to affect sugarcane production.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 8, 2018

Velocys is pursuing a USDA loan guarantee that could apply up to $200 million of debut as part of the total installed cost of the project. The site will be home to a biorefinery that will use Velocys’ technology to produce low-carbon transportation fuels from the wood wastes of lumber operations and tree plantations.

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