Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 8, 2020

A team from metals research institute SWERIM in Sweden reports on a smelting reduction process to recover cobalt, nickel, manganese and lithium simultaneously from spent Li-ion batteries. To provide a better reference for the industrial implementation, the proposed smelting process needs to be demonstrated on a pilot scale.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 6, 2015

Researchers at Lund University (Sweden) have developed an optimized two-phase enzymatic (lipase) system for the conversion of plant oils to biodiesel. For that reason, two-phase reaction media seem to be the most suitable environment for these particular enzymes. Under the mild conditions used, chemical catalysts were inefficient.

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Cars That Think

APRIL 9, 2022

Powered by electricity, they can “pump” heat from the environment at a colder temperature into a building at a warmer temperature. He regards it as misinformation “coming from an industry that is under threat.” The first of the IEA’s prescriptions for reducing demand is to “speed up the replacement of gas boilers with heat pumps.”

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