Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Eastman and Gruppo Maip, a leading international plastics formulator and compound producer based in Turin, Italy, will partner to formulate new sustainable polymer solutions for automotive interior applications. In addition, Tr?va

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 11, 2021

The new companies are focused on creating electrochemical systems that can help reduce carbon emissions in hard-to-decarbonize sectors and represent the program’s fourth cohort. Applications include green hydrogen production, hydrogen fuel cells and carbon capture and utilization (CCU).

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Green Car Congress

MAY 20, 2023

Supporting an increased use of renewable and recycled materials such as recycled carbon black from end-of-life tires; synthetic rubber derived from recycled plastic bags and bottles; renewable soybean oil; and rice Husk Silica derived from rice husks, which gives a meaningful purpose to a typically discarded byproduct of rice harvesting.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 26, 2021

Arkema has launched its new sustainable Kynar PVDF range. These new grades will claim 100% renewable attributed carbon derived from crude tall oil (CTO) bio-feedstock, according to a mass-balance approach. Arkema has been a leader in advanced bio-circular polymers for many years.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 21, 2015

Solvay Specialty Polymers introduced Veradel 3300 SL 30 polyethersulfone (PESU). The new Veradel grade is a tough, high-performance resin designed to meet growing global demand for advanced polymers that can improve automotive powertrain efficiency and reduce carbon emissions.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 7, 2015

A team from the University of Rome Sapienza has developed a rechargeable lithium-ion polymer battery based on the combination of a high capacity sulfur-carbon cathode, nanostructured Li x Sn-C anode and polysulfide-added PEO-based gel membrane. mAh g S -1 , depending on the cycling rate. —Agostini & Hassoun (2015).

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

This year, Asahi Kasei will put a special focus on its broad range of materials for lightweight, compact, and safe electric vehicle battery solutions. AZP is a transparent polymer that overcomes the disadvantages of conventional optical plastic materials. Thermoplastic composites for EV battery applications.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 6, 2023

Origin Materials, a carbon negative materials company ( earlier post ), has begun startup of Origin 1, the first commercial CMF plant, located in Sarnia, Ontario, in-line with prior guidance. The Origin platform converts C-6 cellulose into four isolated building-block chemicals in one chemo-catalytic step with almost zero carbon loss.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 17, 2013

Top: The stress of repeated swelling and shrinking shatters a conventional silicon electrode and its polymer binding. Bottom: An electrode coated with stretchy, self-healing polymer remains intact. (C. To make the self-healing coating, the scientists deliberately weakened some of the chemical bonds within polymers. Wang et al.,

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 8, 2019

Compared to gasoline, combustion of natural gas emits 25% less CO 2 due to the lowest carbon content of all hydrocarbons. Just as before, there are two tanks made of glass fiber-reinforced polymer (GFRP/CFRP) beneath the luggage compartment floor of the five-door car, each of which hold roughly seven kilograms (15.4 lb) of gas.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

BASF and the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research (MPI-P) opened their joint research and development platform, the Carbon Materials Innovation Center (CMIC), at BASF’s Ludwigshafen site. There is a wide range of ideas for applications, including displays or batteries with a vast market potential for these applications.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 16, 2012

Biopolymers company NatureWorks (invested in by Cargill and PTT Chemical) and BioAmber, a next-generation chemicals company and a market leader in the commercialization of bio-succinic acid ( earlier post ), have formed AmberWorks, a joint venture to bring new performance bio-based polymer compositions to market.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 10, 2020

Novvi LLC announced the successful start-up of its Deer Park, TX plant, where it is manufacturing and marketing 100% renewable base oils ( NovaSpec Base Oils ) for the lubricants industry, and 100% renewable process oils for polymer, adhesives, and personal care industries. Novvi is a joint venture of Amyris, Inc.,

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 19, 2022

The membranes are also advantageous for their low-carbon footprint properties and suitability to promote the circular carbon economy (CCE). I'm always looking for polymers that can take challenges that are not possible with a very simple membrane. A paper on the work is published in Science.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

With full gas tanks, the car has an NEDC range of up to 495 (307.6 mi) kilometers and a WLTP range of up to 445 kilometers (276.5 This is supplemented by the additional range offered by the reserve gasoline tank with a net usable volume of 9 liters (2.4 Average NEDC fuel consumption for the four-cylinder is 3.6 – 3.5

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Green Car Congress

JULY 18, 2020

With this application in mind, we created spirocyclic polymers with N-aryl bonds that demonstrated noninterconnected microporosity in the absence of ladder linkages. The resulting glassy polymer membranes demonstrated nonthermal membrane fractionation of light crude oil through a combination of class- and size-based “sorting” of molecules.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 20, 2019

Researchers at the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics in China report a two-step method for the synthesis of jet-fuel-range high-density polycycloalkanes from polycarbonate waste under mild conditions. Plastics are a family of organic polymers which are widely used in our life. Since 1950s, about 6.3 —Tang et al. Tang et al.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 1, 2017

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) researchers have become the first to 3D-print aerospace-grade carbon fiber composites, opening the door to greater control and optimization of the lightweight, yet stronger than steel material. Click to enlarge. —fluid analyst Yuliya Kanarska.

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Carbon Fiber Carbon Polymer Parts 150

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 28, 2021

DiviGas’ membrane, Divi-H, effectively tackles these two problems, with a new polymer composition inside modules containing tens of thousands of polymeric hollow fibers. The polymeric membrane, Divi-H, can be used in a wide range of applications, from fuel gas recovery to loop optimization through H 2 /CO adjustment and carbon capture.

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Commercial Hydrogen New York Polymer 418

Green Car Congress

JUNE 5, 2014

Woven carbon fiber can act as an electrode for lithium ion batteries. Researchers in Sweden are exploring the use of carbon fiber as an active electrode in a multifunctional structural Li-ion battery in an electric car; i.e., electrical storage is incorporated into the body of the car. Photo: Peter Larsson) Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

A team of researchers from the US NSF Center for Sustainable Polymers based at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities has demonstrated the use of a dual cellular–heterogeneous catalytic strategy to produce olefins from glucose. Wang et al. Koleski, E.J.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

The US Department of Energy (DOE) will award ( DE-FOA-0000996 ) up to $12 million in funding to advance the development of a cost-competitive pathway to produce high-performance carbon fiber for vehicle lightweighting from renewable non-food biomass. Reducing a vehicle’s weight by just 10% can improve fuel economy by 6% to 8%. Background.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 20, 2013

MIT scientists demonstrated two approaches for growing CNTs on carbon fiber without degrading the fiber strength. Researchers at MIT have demonstrated two approaches for producing carbon fibers coated in carbon nanotubes without degrading the underlying fiber’s strength. Credit: ACS, Steiner et al. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 1, 2015

Stanford University scientists have created a new ultrahigh surface area three-dimensional porous graphitic carbon material that significantly boosts the performance of energy-storage technologies. The maximum surface area achieved with conventional activated carbon is about 3,000 m 2 g –1. cm –3 ), and hierarchical pore architecture.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 12, 2012

Ford Motor Company is partnering with Dow Automotive Systems, a business unit of The Dow Chemical Company, to research the use of advanced carbon fiber composites in high-volume vehicles. However, it’s particularly critical to improving the range of plug-in hybrid and battery electric vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 18, 2013

EnerG2 , a manufacturer of advanced carbon materials for next-generation energy storage (generally for batteries and ultracapacitors), has leveraged its polymer chemistry technologies to develop materials for adsorbed natural gas (ANG) applications. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 27, 2013

EnerG2, a manufacturer of advanced carbons for next-generation energy storage ( earlier post ), has begun production of nano-structured hard carbon for Li-ion battery anodes that it says can boost anode capacity by more than 50% over standard graphite. — Dr. Aaron Feaver, CTO and Co-Founder of EnerG2.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 3, 2022

Through DOE’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E), the Department is launching the Electric Vehicles for American Low-Carbon Living (EVs4ALL) program to develop more affordable, convenient, efficient and resilient batteries. The EVs4ALL program structure acknowledges the existence of different market needs in terms of EV range.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 19, 2018

Zap&Go Ltd has been selected to contribute its unique Carbon-Ion (C-Ion) technology to a consortium led by Williams Advanced Engineering to develop next-generation battery systems for electric vehicles. range, which has the potential to improve the energy density of the C-Ion cells. These electrolytes can operate in the 4.0V

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 7, 2022

H-Mat is a national laboratory consortium co-led by SNL and PNNL, conducting cross-cutting R&D on the compatibility of metallic and polymer materials for hydrogen service. R&D will assess the impact of hydrogen on durability of pipeline materials, using unique high-pressure test facilities at the H-Mat labs. renewable natural gas).

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Hydrogen Gas Renewable Polymer 448

Green Car Congress

MAY 20, 2022

Soelect’s SEM (Solid Electrolyte Membrane) is a non-PEO based polymer electrolyte membrane and can be applied on any electrode materials. It can also free-stand itself without sacrificing its superior ionic conductivity at various temperature range and high voltage stability. Earlier post.)

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Production Polymer Global Batteries 218

Green Car Congress

JUNE 17, 2022

This new solution increases the driving range of the vehicle by reducing its weight compared to the metallic, usual housings. In this way, less energy will be needed for the same displacement reducing energy cost and carbon footprint. —Begoña Galindo, a Sustainable Mobility Researcher at AIMPLAS.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

The ORNL technology will enable cost-competitive production of jet fuel and co-production of butadiene for use in renewable polymer synthesis. The mission of Prometheus Fuels, a startup based in Santa Cruz, California, is to remove carbon dioxide from the air and turn it into net-zero carbon gasoline and jet fuel.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 11, 2015

Researchers at Washington State University (WSU) Tri-Cities have developed a catalytic process to convert corn stover lignin into hydrocarbons (C 7 –C 18 )—primarily C 12 –C 18 cyclic structure hydrocarbons in the jet fuel range. The work is featured on. the cover of the December issue of the RSC journal Green Chemistry. Tucker, John R.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 30, 2022

Ehmes, who has a long track record of industrializing battery production at companies such as Leclanché, will lead the commercialization of Theion’s innovative lithium-sulfur cathode technology, which is targeting triple the range and usage time compared to conventional lithium-ion cells. Ulrich Ehmes, Theion CEO.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 29, 2022

The Hoeller technology will form the basis of a new range of mtu electrolyzer products from the Rolls-Royce Power Systems division. It is needed for fuel cells and hydrogen engines, for the production of synthetic drop-in fuels and for industrial processes that currently use hydrogen that is not created in a carbon neutral process.

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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. Our new analysis shows that the future is bright but innovation is essential to unlock the market potential by driving down the costs of new polymer fuel cells.

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