Green Car Congress

MARCH 9, 2020

Researchers from the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics and the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences have developed a photocatalyst for the selective decarboxylation of fatty acids to produce diesel- and jet-range molecules under mild conditions (30?°C, C, H 2 pressure ?0.2?MPa). Long-chain alkanes can be obtained in ?90%

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 21, 2016

In the journal Angewandte Chemie , Chinese scientists report on a new bifunctional catalyst that converts syngas to lower olefins (C 2 -C 4 ) with high selectivity. The first step in such a process would involve the conversion of these materials into syngas through either gasification or steam reforming.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 16, 2013

Researchers from the University of Houston (UH) have developed a cobalt(II) oxide (CoO) nanocrystalline catalyst that can carry out overall water splitting with a solar-to-hydrogen efficiency of around 5%. The generation of hydrogen from water using sunlight could potentially form the basis of a clean and renewable source of energy.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 26, 2010

Researchers from the University of Science and Technology of China and Chinese Academy of Sciences have demonstrated the conversion of levulinic acid (LA) to γ-valerolactone (GVL) by heterogeneous catalysts without using external hydrogen. Qing-Xiang Guo (2010) Conversion of Levulinic Acid and Formic Acid into ?-Valerolactone

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Baua Electric

JULY 9, 2023

A “Chinese storm” is looming over Europe’s rising electrical automobile sector, Renault Chairman Jean-Dominique Senard stated, as Asia’s superpower dominates key uncooked fabrics to manufacture batteries for 0 emission automobiles. Gallium is old in radar and radio conversation units, satellites and LEDs.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 26, 2009

Researchers at Zhengzhou University, China, have shown the enhanced production of hydrogen from pretreated corn stalk biomass by mixed culture using manure from the lesser panda as the source of the hydrogen-producing bacteria. The hydrogen content in the resultant biogas was 57.2% ml/g-TS h -1 ) were obtained at pH 5.5,

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

The companies aim to install the ammonia dual-fuel X72DF engine on a series of ten x 210,000 DWT bulk carriers to be built at a Chinese shipyard in 2025 and 2026. CMB.TECH has significant insight into alternative fuels and builds, designs, owns and operates large marine and industrial applications that run on hydrogen and ammonia.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 3, 2009

Researchers at the Chinese Academy of Sciences have developed a type of activated carbon with a high surface area of up to 3,190 m 2 g -1 and a gravimetric hydrogen uptake capacity of 7.08 Hydrogen uptake of different activated carbons. An enhanced hydrogen uptake of 7.08 Credit: ACS. Click to enlarge. Wang et al.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 30, 2022

The new regulations are driving interest in e-fuels, ammonia, and hydrogen as the industry scrambles to find multiple silver bullets. The greatest challenge is the same as that which is plaguing the adoption of fuel cells in the automotive market—the buildout of low-cost green hydrogen infrastructure.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

Researchers at the University of Science and Technology of China (Hefei, China) demonstrated the efficient production of hydrogen from bio-oil via an electrochemical catalytic reforming method over a CoZnAl catalyst. A paper on their work appears in the Chinese Journal of Chemical Physics. Shao-bin Lin et al.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 22, 2019

Finally, they reacted hydrogen with the 2,5-hexanedione from wheatgrass cellulose to obtain the final product: a mixture of C 12 and C 18 polycycloalkanes with a low freezing point and a density about 10% higher than that of conventional jet fuels. 2019.02.005.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 12, 2009

Plot of phenol conversion, cyclohexanol selectivity, and cyclohexanone selectivity for the aqueous-phase hydrogenation of phenol as a function of reaction time. A team of German and Chinese scientists led by Johannes A. Lercher (2009) Highly Selective Catalytic Conversion of Phenolic Bio-Oil to Alkanes. Zhao et al.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 5, 2012

Researchers at the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences have devised a one-step hydrotreatment process for vegetable oil that combines deoxygenation and isomerization directly to produce low cloud point, high quality diesel. Catalytic reactions are conducted in a fixed-bed reactor under a hydrogen atmosphere.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 25, 2014

This approach, supported by the promoters of the Open Fuel Standard Act in the US, would oblige the car industry to put a substantial number of vehicles in the market, which can run on natural gas, hydrogen, biodiesel, methanol, as well as flexible fuel or plug-in electric drive vehicles, among others. —Methanol report.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 8, 2013

SaaBre’s breakthrough is a process for the conversion of synthesis gas (carbon monoxide and hydrogen derived from hydrocarbons such as natural gas) directly to acetic acid in a proprietary, integrated three-step process, that avoids the need to purify carbon monoxide (CO) or purchase methanol. Olefins and derivatives (O&D).

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Green Car Congress

JULY 6, 2011

It is projected to produce 295,000 metric tons per year of ethylene and propylene for conversion to chemical products. Total Petrochemicals and UOP announced the successful conversion of ethylene and propylene from the demonstration unit to polyethylene and polypropylene in 2010. Wison (Nanjing) Clean Energy Co.,

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 9, 2010

Researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences report that the addition of FeCl 2 as a catalyst into an ionic liquid [1-(4-sulfonic acid) butyl-3-methylimidazolium hydrogen sulfate, (IL-1)] further enhances the hydrolysis of microcrystalline cellulose (MCC) and the production of chemicals such as 5-hydroxymethyl furfural (HMF) and furfural.

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EV Central

OCTOBER 27, 2023

GWM Ute EV 2021 GWM Poer EV unveiled in Beijing Unveiled at the Beijing auto show in September, the HiLux-sized Poer – it’s simply called the Ute here – is the electrified spin-off of the Chinese pick-up that will be sold as the GWM Ute in Australia. Australian sales are a definite possibility.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 10, 2012

The growth of LDPE demand can be attributed solely to the Chinese market which is the largest consumer of LDPE and accounted for 32% of the demand in 2010. Fernandez (2012) Conversion of Polyethylene into Transportation Fuels by the Combination of Thermal Cracking and Catalytic Hydroreforming over Ni-Supported Hierarchical Beta Zeolite.

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Green Cars News

JUNE 28, 2009

Leave it to the Chinese to make a potentially significant breakthrough in the production of hydrogen for use in fuel cell vehicles. The study was reported in Issue 54 of the Chinese Science Bulletin , and shows that the maximum cumulative H2 yield of 176ml/g-TS (total solids) and H2 production rate (14.5

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Green Car Congress

MAY 13, 2011

In a paper presented at the US Department of Energy (DOE) Coal Liquefaction and Gas Conversion Contractors Review Conference in 1995, Joo et al. In a paper presented at the US Department of Energy (DOE) Coal Liquefaction and Gas Conversion Contractors Review Conference in 1995, Joo et al. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

JULY 8, 2015

In late April 2015, Geely Auto deployed a first-of-its-kind fleet of 150 methanol-fueled taxis in the southern Chinese city of Guiyang in cooperation with the municipal government. Vulcanol is CRI’s brand name for renewable methanol, produced from CO 2 and hydrogen from renewable sources of electricity (hydro, geothermal, wind and solar).

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 16, 2009

Researchers at the US Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) led off a day-long symposium on advances in CO 2 conversion and utilization being held at the 238 th American Chemical Society (ACS) national meeting, which began today in Washington, DC. Earlier post.). This catalyst converts the feed gas predominantly to methane under all conditions (ca.

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EV Central

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Avatar E11 – a new brand with big dreams, Avatar has input from Huawei and CATL and is the product of Chinese car maker Changan. BMW X5 FCEV – hydrogen-powered version of large SUV is a pilot program for now, but expect things to grow. It’ll be on sale in 2025, possibly as the A9 e-Tron. Think iX3, but smaller.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 11, 2014

Much effort has recently gone into pathways to produce hydrocarbons with extended carbon chains by the hydrogenation of carbohydrate derivatives. These efforts include the aqueous phase reforming (APR) process, by which sugars are converted to alkanes by hydrogenation with noble metals as catalysts. doi: 10.1039/C4GC01792G.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 30, 2017

V, respectively, vs a reversible hydrogen electrode (RHE) in 0.1 Several approaches have been implemented to reduce the usage of Pt, such as dispersing the promising candidates for efficient and clean energy conversion. The conversion of O 2 to H 2 O is depicted. A paper on the work appears in the journal ACS Nano.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 17, 2009

Home About Minds in Motion Contact Us Left menu Community People say People do Themes Alternative Fuels Clean Buses Hybrid & Electric Hydrogen for Mobility Sust. ECE hopes the glamorous image of these conversions will help raise the profile of electric driving. Forgot your password? You dont see them in the street.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2015

In contrast, except for the PHEV, the alternative fuel vehicles—such as hydrogen, natural gas and battery electric vehicles—pose problems and limitations due to their single energy source and the lack of infrastructure for high-power energy distribution of their individualized fueling needs. The Hydrogen car and its issues.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 20, 2009

Apr 19th 2009 4:54PM Or fuel cells (ex: hydrogen). Now where to get that pesky hydrogen. Neutral Kaitou KID @ Apr 19th 2009 4:45PM not if the electricity is from ultra efficient solar panels, hydroelectric dams or wind. Neutral who? @ Some cars have them built-in, and they produce electricity too. In a word, no.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 28, 2009

Reply ↓ ↑ report 6 CaramelZappa 3:20AM (4/23/2009) Yea, you COULD convert a lotus for $10k but the conversion wouldnt be terribly satisfying. link] This guy has a very nice looking conversion, he managed to do it for about 25k. But where does Hydrogen come from? Its no tesla but its still a fantastic little car.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 28, 2009

Theres a company in Guernsey (a UK island) which does conversions (the Mk1 shape), but I want a current shape model and a 60 mile range is just fine. The first one was the Zytek design you mentioned, but this is a 2nd "new and improved" design from Tesla, with more power, higher speed and greater range.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 22, 2009

i would like to see maybe Smith America build a conversion of their current cars, maybe have a retrofit model so you dont have to get rid of the trucks at all, just upgrade! lots of stops and starts so plenty of options for regen braking too. Reply ↓ ↑ report Add your comments Email Confirm Autoblog Green AOL First time?

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Several after-market companies have done PHEV conversions of the Ford Escape hybrid and one has done a retrofit of the F-150 pickup -- see Where PHEVs Are and ICE-Conversions.) Continues promotion and development of hydrogen as long-term strategy. Company says its focusing on gasoline and hydrogen. No announced plans.

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EV Match

AUGUST 29, 2022

so-called “clean hydrogen,” including incentives for both its manufacture through less emissive processes (it has heretofore primarily been created using natural gas , which often comes from “fracking”) and for the purchase of vehicles – not only passenger cars such as the Toyota Mirai but commercial trucks and vans.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Third, I dont understand why people feel it available in message chatting to speak in a manner they would doubtless not use in personal conversation. Second, the statement "the rest of your claims" are unanswerably indistinct. Must you say "incredibly idiotic" and "mind numbingly dumb"? It does not reflect well upon you.

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