Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Research areas of focus include genome design; digitalization and automation; prescriptive intervention; and systems-based farm management. The benchmarks include: Food loss and waste: Advance our work toward the United States’ goal to reduce food loss and waste by 50% in the United States by the year 2030.

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United States Waste Renewable Carbon 373

Green Car Congress

MAY 30, 2022

Unlike much outdoor infrastructure—such as playground equipment and outdoor furniture—roads are not designed with any sun protection, making them prone to cracking and potentially unsafe to drive on. Australian states and territories spent nearly $2.9 Muhammad Jamal, Michele Lanotte, Filippo Giustozzi (2022). 2022.131372.

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Australia Cleaner Maintenance Universal 340

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APRIL 9, 2022

The design of the UK EPRs that will be built at Hinkley Point C represents a major development on previous PWRs, making them amongst the safest and most efficient civil nuclear power generators ever designed. The UK EPR design also marks significant progress towards sustainability.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 22, 2013

The European Union-funded PowerDriver project—a two-year, €3-million (US$4-million) research project initiated in February 2012 to turn exhaust gas waste heat into electricity using thermoelectric generator (TGEN) technology—has completed simulation work on on a potential automotive application.

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Exhaust Waste Land Rover Fuel 210

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 3, 2014

An article in the latest issue of IEA Energy: The Journal of the International Energy Agency reports that Estonia, which has the most developed oil shale industry in the world, is collaborating in pursuing wider use of oil shale in a cleaner, more sustainable manner. Different that shale oil—i.e.,

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 22, 2018

The cleaner sweeper has been adapted by retrofitting a standard EURO 6 DAF truck to run on both diesel and hydrogen fuel. This is designed to ensure that use of dual fuel is maximized throughout the day. In September 2017, ULEMCo reported completing the first hydrogen fuel conversion for a UK commercial waste company.

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Hydrogen Fuel Conversion Waste 255

Green Car Congress

JULY 31, 2017

South African engineering company Swayana has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with LanzaTech to collaborate on developing projects for the production of ethanol and higher value products from waste gases in the ferroalloy and titania smelting sectors.

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South Africa Convert Waste Production 150

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

Researchers at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) are developing a small-scale demonstration reactor that will process 40 tons of wood waste per year from the university into replacements for diesel fuel and gasoline. X1) from a biological feedstock, more specifically, from lignocellulosic biomass (also known as plant waste/residue).

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Waste Universal 2008 Diesel 218

Green Car Congress

JUNE 25, 2013

In terms of investment in innovation for cleaner energy, the plan calls for: Investment in advanced fossil energy projects. In addition, the President has directed his Administration to purchase cleaner alternatives to HFCs whenever feasible and transition over time to equipment that uses safer and more sustainable alternatives.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 7, 2021

Waste heat utilization for steam generation will also be assessed to further increase efficiency and cost effectiveness of hydrogen production. Baker Hughes is a leader in turbomachinery solutions designed for a wide variety of applications across the energy value chain and providing fuel flexibility.

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Hydrogen Energy Power Powered 186

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 18, 2020

The US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Reducing EMbodied-Energy and Decreasing Emissions (REMADE) Manufacturing Institute announced approximately $35 million to support research and development (R&D) that will enable US manufacturers to increase the recovery, recycling, reuse, and remanufacturing of plastics, metals, electronic waste, and fibers.

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Manufacturer Iowa Waste Plugin 207

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 13, 2021

British Airways will invest in LanzaJet’s first commercial-scale Freedom Pines Fuels facility in Georgia and acquire cleaner burning sustainable aviation fuel from the plant. In addition, the partnership will involve LanzaJet implementing early stage planning and design for a potential commercial facility for British Airways in the UK.

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Georgia Carbon Fuel Emissions 415

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AUGUST 20, 2009

Waste feedstocks are defined in the enabling legislation specifically as “ previously used or discarded solid, liquid or contained gaseous material with heating value resulting from industrial, commercial or household food service activities that would otherwise be stored, treated, transferred or disposed. The Clean Energy Biofuels Act.

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Massachusetts Waste Oil Diesel 225

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 17, 2019

The Bayou Fuels project will take waste woody biomass and convert it into transportation fuels—such as diesel for heavy trucks and sustainable aviation fuel—using Velocys’ proprietary Fischer Tropsch process.

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Fuel Mississippi Emissions Tax Credit 150

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 2, 2018

and INFRA Technology LLC, through its wholly-owned subsidiary, Greenway Innovative Energy (GIE), have signed a non-exclusive Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to jointly design and deliver Gas-to-Liquids (GTL) plants combining their respective proprietary technologies: INFRA’s xtl and GIE’s G-Reformer. Greenway Technologies Inc.

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Gas Convert Gasoline Coal 210

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 16, 2014

LPG already provides our customers with a cleaner rural energy choice to the high-carbon fuel alternatives many are dependent on in off-grid areas. Biopropane means this option will become even cleaner. Neste Oil’s Rotterdam refinery primarily produces premium-quality renewable diesel (NExBTL) from various bio-based inputs and waste.

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Market Energy Cleaner Fuel Alternative 218

Green Car Congress

MAY 7, 2019

Greyrock’s systems are designed to transform a variety of gas resources (including natural gas, flare gas, bio-gas, natural gas liquids, and other feedstocks) into premium transportation fuels. London-based AP Ventures has made a follow-on investment in Greyrock Energy , Inc. a provider of small-scale gas-to-liquids (GTL) technology.

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Companies Energy Gas-Electric Hydrogen 186

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FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Jaguar Land Rover is expanding its Ingenium engine family with a new six-cylinder gasoline engine designed and engineered in-house, and manufactured at its £1-billion Engine Manufacturing Centre (EMC) in Wolverhampton, UK. —Nick Rogers, Executive Director Of Product Engineering.

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Land Rover Gasoline Engine Gasoline-Electric 220

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2021

The UOP Ecofining process technology converts waste oils, fats, and greases into Honeywell Green Jet Fuel, a drop-in replacement for jet fuel. The renewable hydrogen is then injected back into the Honeywell Ecofining process to remove feed impurities and create a cleaner burning renewable fuel.

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Carbon Fuel Hydrogen Renewable 199

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

Vera is controlled and monitored via a cloud-based service, and has the potential to make transportation safer, cleaner and more efficient. They are designed to locate their current position to within centimeters, monitor in detail and analyze what is happening with other road users, and then respond with high accuracy.

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The Truth About Cars

DECEMBER 22, 2023

It apparently performed the same function but was of a different design as the unit installed on older trucks. We can visibly see them emitting more pollution than vehicles equipped with gasoline engines, though Europe had previously championed diesels as the cleaner option and even subsidized them due to diesel emitting less carbon dioxide.

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Emissions Diesel Installation Pollution 111

Green Car Congress

APRIL 12, 2018

The waste water treatment plant, the deionization system of the water (DI plant), and the shop ventilation are also included in the scope of services. The respective processes are designed around the consistent integration of smart solutions. The PT/EC area is designed to accommodate 60 vehicles per hour from the outset.

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BMW Mexico Industrial Industry 253

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

It completely removes the crankshaft constraint placed on piston movement that actually hinders efficient combustion, and allows piston motion to be optimized to deliver a cleaner, more efficient combustion process. However, motion control is a significant design challenge for free piston engines, Libertine notes. Click to enlarge.

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Waste Power Powered West Virginia 150

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AUGUST 29, 2012

Neste Oil plans to use yeast and fungi to convert waste into oil for NExBTL feedstock. The technology is designed to produce feedstock for NExBTL renewable diesel by using yeast and fungi to convert sugars from waste and residues into oil highly efficiently. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.)

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Oil Renewable Diesel Waste 231

Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2020

Announced by Secretary Brouillette in January 2020, the Energy Storage Grand Challenge is designed to create and sustain US global leadership in energy storage technology, utilization, and exports. Rational Electrolyte Design for Li-ion Batteries with Micro-Sized Silicon Anodes. University of Maryland. Enovix Corporation. 4,933,028.

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Lithium Ion Vehicles Li-ion Universal 236

Green Car Congress

MAY 22, 2020

Designed to work with a car’s existing fuel, the onboard separation technology is the first to use chemistry—not a physical membrane—to separate ethanol-blended gasoline into high- and low-octane fuel components. Reducing the amount of these particles is a priority for newer, cleaner-burning fuels.

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Fuel Economy Economy Fuel Gasoline 397

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 31, 2011

SoCalGas) and Oberon Fuels , a San Diego-based low-emission alternative fuels company, announced a joint research and development agreement to design and construct the first commercial facility in the United States to produce Dimethyl Ether (DME) from natural gas for use as a transportation fuel. Southern California Gas Co. —Hal D.

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Gas Transportation Fuel Commercial 231

Green Car Congress

JUNE 3, 2015

The team concluded that 3-D printing the lighter and higher performance parts could significantly reduce both manufacturing waste and the weight of the airplane, thus saving fuel and money and decreasing carbon emissions. Conventional manufacturing methods tend to be inefficient and wasteful. —Eric Masanet. 2015.04.109.

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Parts Fuel CO2 Cleaner 150

Green Car Congress

MAY 2, 2016

Fred Meyer is the first company in the State of Oregon to take advantage of the Oregon Clean Fuel Program, which calls for the reduction of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions through the use of cleaner fuels such as natural gas and renewable natural gas.

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Hawaii Clean Cleaning Gas 150

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 21, 2017

These include cleaner, more fuel-efficient cars and zero emission vehicles, low-carbon fuels, renewable energy, waste diversion from landfills, water conservation, improvements to energy efficiency in homes and businesses, and a Cap-and-Trade Program. Mobile Source Strategy (Cleaner Technology and Fuels Scenario).

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California Cleaner Emissions Pollution 150

Green Car Congress

JUNE 22, 2016

Ambient or low grade waste heat is used as an energy source with the cryogen providing both the working fluid and heat sink. In addition to being a cleaner method of refrigeration, the new engine has been designed with safety in mind. The Dearman Engine operates by the vaporization and expansion of cryogenic fluids.

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Engine Cleaner Emissions Diesel 170

Green Car Congress

MAY 1, 2014

million, $740,000 will go to the California Pollution Control Financing Authority (CPCFA), which provides financial assistance to projects aimed at reducing pollution and waste and encouraging the use of renewable energy. In addition to the $740,000 for the CPCFA, $2.22

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 19, 2019

The long-term objective of the project is to develop technology that can lead to cleaner, more efficient heavy-duty trucks, which haul 80% of goods in the United States and use about 28 billion gallons of fuel per year, accounting for around 22% of total transportation energy usage.

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Eaton Fuel Economy Exhaust Economy 199

Green Car Congress

APRIL 1, 2019

A significant share of emissions still originates from sources associated with poverty and underdevelopment such as solid fuel use in households and waste management practices. Less than 1% enjoyed air quality that met the World Health Organization (WHO) benchmark limit of 10 ?g/m³. of GDP, or 1.5%

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Pollution India Emissions 2015 268

Green Car Congress

JUNE 10, 2014

The activity reinforces TMUK’s status as one of Toyota’s five sustainable plants around the world which pioneer and share best practice in cleaner processes and greener technologies.

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Toyota Belgium Cleaner Waste 231

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 4, 2010

CO 2 -rich flue gas from a lignite-fired power station will feed the designer micro-organisms. Both lead to more efficient CO 2 conversion, using these powerful designer micro-organisms. RWE Power has made the Coal Innovation Centre at its Niederaussem site the center of its activities for cleaner power generation from coal.

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Conversion Power Powered Coal 186

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 23, 2011

By using it on the Cruze, for example, GM suppliers: Reduced solid and liquid waste (filters, cleaners, solvents and coatings) from 48 tons a year to less than one. Eliminated landfill waste like paint sludge and painted scrap material from 25 tons to nearly zero. It’s being used on the Chevrolet Cruze, Sonic, and Volt.

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