Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

A University of Utah engineer has developed an inexpensive new method to remove oil sheen by repeatedly pressurizing and depressurizing ozone gas, creating microscopic bubbles that attack the oil so it can be removed by sand filters. Water from mining of oil sands and oil shale. Heavy metals in soil.

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Ozone Water Oil-Sands Oil 199

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 7, 2020

One year into the ERDC project, the team demonstrated a three-step approach that “cleans” the water, removes the algae and entrained nutrients such as nitrogen and phosphorus from the water, and transforms the algae into a potential energy source. Algae biorefinery concept through HTL. Figure from Tian et al.

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Water Florida Cleaner Concept 345

Green Car Congress

MARCH 25, 2013

Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar last week announced the Department of the Interior’s final plan for encouraging research, development and demonstration (RD&D) of oil shale and oil sands resources on Bureau of Land Management (BLM) lands in Colorado, Utah and Wyoming. Earlier post.).

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Oil-Sands Oil Wyoming Utah 225

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 31, 2021

Energy Vault’s advanced gravity energy storage solutions are based on the proven physics and mechanical engineering fundamentals of pumped hydroelectric energy storage, but replace water with custom-made composite blocks, or “mobile masses”, which do not lose storage capacity over time.

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Energy Storage Energy Fuel Louisiana 459

Green Car Congress

APRIL 27, 2012

The majority (62%) of the plantations were located on the island of Sumatra, and more than two-thirds (69%) of all industrial plantations were developed for oil palm cultivation, with the remainder mostly being Acacia plantations for paper pulp production. —Miettinen et al. Earlier post.).

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Oil-Sands Oil Emissions Climate 314

Green Car Congress

JULY 18, 2015

Findings by MIT researchers could help advance the commercialization of supercritical water technology for the desulfurization and upgrading of high-sulfur crude oil into high-value, cleaner fuels such as gasoline without using hydrogen—a major change in refining technology that would reduce costs, energy use, and CO 2 emissions.

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MIT Water Energy CO2 150

Electric Auto Association

JULY 5, 2021

Houston chapter leads toward clean energy in Texas. The outreach efforts of the Houston Electric Auto Association (HEAA), founded 34 years ago in the heart of American oil country, have not always been met with a positive response. “We They just have a different perspective on the future.” “We Everyone’s asking: How do we transition?

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Oil Houston Golf Cart Aptera 98

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 11, 2009

SOLVE adds a solvent to the steam in SAGD (basic operation depicted above) to reduce energy input and water consumption. The production well extracts the bitumen to surface heavy oil production facilities. SAGD is the predominant in-situ recovery method currently used in Canada’s oil sands. Source: StatoilHydro.

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Oil-Sands Oil Water Canada 218

Green Car Congress

JULY 22, 2011

Summit Power Group, LLC and Blue Strategies, LLC have signed a 15-year CO 2 offtake agreement with Whiting Petroleum Corporation for some of the CO 2 that will be captured by Summit’s Texas Clean Energy Project ( TCEP ), a coal gasification with carbon capture polygen project being developed in Penwell, Texas, outside Odessa. Earlier post.).

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Coal Texas Oil CO2 186

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 18, 2023

By converting various types of local waste, such as green waste, municipal solid waste, organic waste, and methane from municipal solid waste, into clean fuels, Raven SR offers a sustainable solution for the reliable and long-term production of SAF.

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Supplies Fuel Waste Hydrogen 210

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 22, 2012

CH utilizes water to reduce hydrogen and catalyst consumption and quickly and inexpensively converts plant oils into stable intermediate oil products which are very similar to petroleum crude oil. Aemetis, Inc., In May of this year, CLG joined ARA’s ReadiJet Alternative Fuel Initiative for drop-in biofuels.

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Chevron Oil Renewable Diesel 225

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

In a paper published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society , they reported demonstrating for the first time that CO 2 captured from air can be directly converted to CH 3 OH in 79% yield using the new homogeneous catalytic system. They then heated the solution, converting 79% of the CO 2 into methanol. Click to enlarge.

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Baua Electric

MAY 29, 2024

Existing oil suppliers and gas-station operators don’t seem keen to push into the fuel-cell era, especially since there’s barely any hydrogen vehicles on the road now. Hydrogen is the most abundant substance in the universe, and a crucial element in the creation of our most precious resource: water. Tesla Inc.’s Hyundai Motor Co.

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Future Auto South Korea Hydrogen 52

Green Car Congress

JUNE 8, 2015

The ethanol plant is fully integrated into the functions and logistics of St1 oil refinery in Gothenburg and has an annual production capacity of 5 million liters (1.3 In the hydrolysis stage, the feedstock is diluted with warm water in order to convert it into slurry. million gallons US) of advanced bioethanol.

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Waste Oil Finland Sweden 150

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. The cleaned distillates are then pumped to the storage tanks. (A

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 18, 2013

Researchers at the US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have created a continuous-flow process that produces useful crude oil less than one hour after receiving harvested algae. HTL converts wet algae slurries into an upgradeable biocrude. Clean water, which can be re-used to grow more algae.

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Commercial Production Water Green 239

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 16, 2013

Hydrogen is necessary in the upgrading of oil sands bitumen into synthetic crude, but it is a costly and carbon-intensive part of the process, given current hydrogen production technologies. MSG converts natural gas into hydrogen with a 23% reduction in GHG emissions compared to steam methane reforming. will receive a $C1.5-million

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Molten Salt Oil-Sands Hydrogen Oil 231

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

In a speech at the National Press Club, US Energy Secretary Steven Chu said that the success of China and other countries in clean energy industries represents a new “Sputnik Moment” for the United States, and will require a similar mobilization of innovation to enable the US to compete in the global race for the jobs of the future.

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Energy China Clean Cleaning 342

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 3, 2013

The plant and its nearly 1,100 employees now reuse, recycle or convert to energy all waste from daily operations. million-square-foot facility solve its final roadblock to achieve landfill-free status: separating a mucky mixture of metal, filter paper and oil produced by a machine that cuts metal for fuel injector and manifold components.

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GM Waste Oil General Motors 239

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

The Maverick Oasis system uses proprietary technology to convert a variety of methane-containing feedstocks—biogas, natural gas (including stranded gas and flare gas), coal bed methane, and landfill gas—into AA grade methanol that meets ASTM D1152 specifications. —Jeff Harrison, Maverick’s Chief Engineering Officer.

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Gas Affordable Waste Gas-Electric 210

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 14, 2018

Researchers from the National Institute of Clean-and-Low-Carbon Energy in Beijing and Eindhoven University of Technology have developed iron-based catalysts that substantially reduce operating costs and open the door to capturing the large amounts of CO 2 that are generated by CTL. —Wang et al. CTL catalysts are mainly iron-based.

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Coal CO2 Conversion Convert 249

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

The ROD and cooperative agreement between DOE’s Office of Fossil Energy (FE) and Summit Texas Clean Energy, LLC (STCE) sets in motion continued federal cost-shared funding for the Summit Texas Clean Energy Project, to be built just west of Midland-Odessa, Texas.

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Coal Texas Clean Cleaning 170

Green Car Congress

MARCH 22, 2014

liter TDI Clean Diesel engines fitted in Audi and Volkswagen TDI Clean Diesel models, and as such, is a strategically important engine. extension of the oil return and blow-by channels to the parting plane of the oil pan. The dual oil and vacuum pump unit. Oil and vacuum pump. The EA288 2.0-liter

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Diesel Engine Exhaust Water 384

Green Car Congress

JUNE 14, 2010

In a pre-response to that speech, having successfully advocated for plug-in hybrids like the forthcoming Chevy Volt, we propose that the President follow that speech up with a “realistic and conservative” roadmap to halve our oil use in 10 years. Oil is holding us all hostage, economically and physically. Finally, it’s time to begin.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 17, 2009

Water consumption or withdrawals per unit of energy produced, by energy type, in the United States. With increasing frequency ,” write the Pacific Institute researchers, “ we value energy production over water production. ”. by Jack Rosebro. Source: DHI Group. Click to enlarge. Climate change.

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Water Climate Change Energy Climate 150

Green Car Congress

JULY 10, 2009

Ignite Energy Resources supercritical water process diagram. IER’s proprietary supercritical water technology (SCW) transforms low-ranked coals, including lignite, directly into higher-valued oils and cleaner coal products. Source: IER. Click to enlarge. not via an indirect pathway (gasification) as in Fischer-Tropsch processes.

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Coal Water Energy Australia 150

Green Car Congress

MAY 4, 2014

BETO pursues a pathway approach for advancing R&D of converting biomass into renewable fuels and products. Biomass is rapidly heated in a fluidized bed reactor to yield vapors, which are condensed into a liquid bio-oil. This bio-oil is subsequently hydroprocessed to produce hydrocarbon biofuel blendstocks. Algal Lipid Upgrading.

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Oil Conversion Fuel Convert 231

Green Car Congress

MARCH 18, 2014

liter EA288 diesel engine will power the 2015 Golf, Beetle, Beetle Convertible, Passat, and Jetta, all of which are set to arrive in dealer showrooms in the second half of 2014. liter diesels currently fitted in Audi and Volkswagen TDI Clean Diesel models. With the small circuit, the water warms up very quickly.

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Diesel 2014 2015 Water 307

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 23, 2014

bigelovii is a leafless, C3, succulent annual salt marsh plant that produces an oilseed on seawater irrigation in coastal desert environments; the oil from the seeds is suitable for biofuel production. its lignocellulosic biomass as well as the the oil) can be turned into biofuel effectively. —Chaturvedi et al.

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UAE United Arab Emirates Renewable Fuel 294

Green Car Congress

JULY 31, 2012

(SoCalGas) have entered into an agreement focusing on the design of a novel system in which algae consume carbon dioxide emissions from natural gas combustion and cost-effectively convert it into valuable byproducts such as biomethane, biodiesel and animal feed.

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San Diego Gas CO2 Power 210

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 19, 2023

The US Department of Energy (DOE) awarded nearly $34 million to 19 industry- and university-led research projects that will advance technology solutions to make clean hydrogen a more available and affordable fuel for electricity generation, industrial decarbonization, and transportation. Earlier post.)

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Hydrogen Clean Cleaning Gas-Electric 150

Green Car Congress

MAY 21, 2009

Gerrit Voordouw at the University of Calgary, will sample and explore the biological processes at work in oil wells, oils sands, tailings ponds, and coal beds. 50% to 80% of the available oil is often left unrecovered in conventional oil wells and metagenomics can be applied to increase production while reducing environmental impact.

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Oil-Sands Oil Coal Production 150

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

Steam electrolyzers ( earlier post ) are excellent for converting electrical energy into chemical energy. Through the Clean Energy Partnership (CEP), the public and private sectors are jointly building a network of filling stations in Germany. Earlier post.).

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Hydrogen Solar Energy Water 250

Green Car Congress

JULY 10, 2012

Part of DOE’s “Clean Coal Power Initiative” (CCPI), the new polygeneration plant will incorporate CCS as well as utilize CO 2 for enhanced oil recovery. million tons per year of CO 2 will be transported via pipeline to Occidental Petroleum’s Elk Hills Oil Field, located less than 4 miles away. Approximately 2.6

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Coal Oil California Hydrogen 210

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 5, 2015

The EMS (Earth and Mineral Science) Energy Institute at Penn State has developed a conceptual novel process configuration for producing clean middle-distillate fuels from coal with some algal input with minimal emissions. Principal inputs are coal, water, non-carbon electricity, and make-up solvent. Schobert (2015) Click to enlarge.

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Coal Emissions Hydrogen Oil 150

Green Car Congress

APRIL 14, 2014

liter 150-horsepower (112 kW) EA288 TDI Clean Diesel engine offered in the 2015 Jetta already conforms to the upcoming LEV3/Tier 3 emissions standard ( earlier post ) in the USA. The Jetta TDI Clean Diesel with a manual transmission delivers a manufacturer-estimated 32 city/45 highway mpg (7.35/5.23

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New York 2015 Diesel Exhaust 220

Green Car Congress

JUNE 5, 2017

The use of a performance-regulated oil pump is also economically beneficial. The thermal management system segregates the circuits of the cylinder crankcase and cylinder heads from one another and supplies each with coolant after a cold start so as to bring the engine oil quickly up to its operating temperature.

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Diesel Hybrid Audi Exhaust 186