Green Car Congress

MAY 11, 2018

Rio Tinto and Alcoa Corporation announced a revolutionary process to make aluminum that produces only oxygen as a by-product, eliminating all direct greenhouse gas emissions from the traditional smelting process. million metric tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions, if fully implemented at existing aluminum smelters in the country.

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Carbon Commercial Molten Salt Canada 186

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

ION Engineering , a start-up founded by scientists at the University of Colorado, is integrating room-temperature ionic liquid (RTIL) solutions into amine-based carbon capture and emissions control technology. Sour,” or contaminated natural gas, represents more than half of worldwide reserves.

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Molten Salt Gas Carbon Colorado 186

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 29, 2013

Molten Salt Gasification Process. Western Hydrogen Limited reported first production of hydrogen from its Molten Salt Gasification (MSG) pilot plant in Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta. The MSG process occurs in a single high-pressure reactor in which a carbon-based feedstock and water react with a molten salt bath.

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Molten Salt Hydrogen Oil-Sands Idaho 303

Cars That Think

MAY 31, 2024

South 8 Technologies Conventional Li-ion batteries use liquid solvents, such as ethylene and dimethyl carbonate , as the electrolyte. The electrolyte serves as a medium through which lithium salt moves from one electrode to the other in the battery, shuttling electricity. They can also freeze, which shuts down all conductivity.

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Li-ion Water Phoenix Waste 97

Green Car Congress

JULY 10, 2012

These batteries will ensure the continuous operation of telecom installations in Nigeria, and enable the customer to lower fuel consumption and emissions of the diesel generator powered telecom towers by up to 50%. The battery plant has received support from state and local government in New York, where GE has done business for 130 years.

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Sodium Molten Salt South Africa Batteries 255

Cars That Think

DECEMBER 30, 2021

2021 was a big year for energy-related news, what with the ongoing hunt for new forms of energy storage and cleaner if not carbon-free electricity and events and research that spotlighted the weak links in our power grid. The basic idea is to add particles of sea salt to the atmosphere to brighten clouds and cool the planet.

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Hydrogen Green Molten Salt China 106

Cars That Think

MARCH 14, 2022

Hyperlight claims that its storage system, called Tectonic Sun, could provide emissions-free electricity with an 80 percent capacity factor 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. During winter, he adds, they can pull up the energy and generate zero-carbon electricity based on the demand curve.

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Oil Solar Convert Molten Salt 121

Green Car Congress

JULY 22, 2016

Using carbon dioxide as a reversible method of controlling pH eliminates the need for separation and purification of the liquid after biomass pretreatment and before two other major steps used in biofuel production—saccharification and fermentation. They then conducted tests with various concentrations and pressures of carbon dioxide.

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Molten Salt Production CO2 Carbon 150

Green Car Congress

MAY 1, 2009

High temperature heat for biomass gasification is obtained from a molten-salt system in a solar concentrating tower. Hertwich and Xiangping Zhang, is to obtain an easy to handle fuel with near-zero CO 2 emission and reduced land-use requirements compared to first and second generation biofuels. Hertwich and Zhang (2009).

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Solar Molten Salt Fuel Production 186

Green Car Congress

JUNE 19, 2010

Almost one-quarter of global electricity could be generated from nuclear power by 2050, making a major contribution to cutting greenhouse gas emissions, according to the Nuclear Energy Technology Roadmap, published by the International Energy Agency (IEA) and the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA). Molten Salt Reactor (MSR).

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Global Power Powered Molten Salt 210

Green Car Congress

APRIL 10, 2013

Flowchart of molten salt gasification process. Major reduction in hydrogen consumption: MSU requires only a fraction of the hydrogen required in conventional upgrading, significantly reducing operating costs and the life cycle carbon dioxide emissions of hydrogen production and upgrading. Source: Field Upgrading.

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Sodium Oil-Sands Oil Molten Salt 199

Baua Electric

DECEMBER 30, 2023

Thermal Storage: Molten Salt Storage: This involves storing heat in molten salt and using it to generate steam, which then drives a turbine to produce electricity. Compressed Air Energy Storage (CAES): In CAES systems, excess electricity is used to compress air, which is then stored in underground caverns.

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Energy Energy Storage Grid Store 52

Green Car Congress

MARCH 21, 2013

Its benefits include the reduction of an estimated 32,000 tons of greenhouse gas emissions annually—roughly equivalent to the greenhouse gas emissions produced by 5,850 gasoline vehicles in a year. They are available only for new natural gas and propane vehicles that meet all California Air Resources Board emission requirements.

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San Diego California Energy Transportation 346

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 14, 2014

The largest single award ($10 million) goes to Delphi Automotive Systems to further the development of its Gasoline Direct-Injection Compression Ignition (GDCI) low-temperature combustion technology ( earlier post ) that provides high thermal efficiency with low NO x and PM emissions. developing beyond Li-ion battery technologies. Liox Power.

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Plug-in Li-ion Plug Vehicles 299

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

improved oilseed crop that uses carbon more efficiently than. streamline the process by which green plants convert carbon. several genes that allow the plant to use light more efficiently, increase its carbon uptake, and divert more energy to the. conferring hydrocarbon biosynthesis, enhanced carbon. traditional crops.

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