Green Car Congress

JUNE 15, 2019

In a major new report on hydrogen, the International Energy Agency says that the time is right to tap into hydrogen’s potential to play a key role in a clean, secure and affordable energy future. A wide variety of fuels are able to produce hydrogen, including renewables, nuclear, natural gas, coal and oil. —Dr Birol.

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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. Background.

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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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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. tonnes of high-ranked coal. Source: IER. Click to enlarge. Source: IER. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 22, 2011

The TCEP would integrate coal gasification, combined-cycle power generation, CO 2 capture, and. This is another important milestone for the Texas Clean Energy Project, coming on the heels of last month’s power purchase announcement with CPS Energy in San Antonio. urea production. CO 2 capture and shipment via pipeline shown at top.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 30, 2013

Researchers at Wakayama University in Japan have produced a mixture of hydrogen and carbon monoxide gas by irradiating a mixture of carbon powder and distilled water with intense nanosecond laser pulses at room temperature. Photographs of a bottled mixture of Bincho-tan powder and water (a) before, (b) during, and (c) after irradiation.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 21, 2012

Overview of the Bluegas catalytic coal methanation process. billion from Wanxiang to finance and construct the first phase of a coal-to-natural gas facility that ultimately will have an annual production capacity of one trillion cubic feet (1 Tcf) (30 billion cubic meters) per year. Click to enlarge. pure methane).

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

the developer of a process for harvesting algae and cleaning up oil & gas water, announced that its second original equipment manufacturer’s (OEM) agreement will target oil service companies in the Canadian oil sands market. OriginOil, Inc., LH was an early private investor in Athabasca Oil Corporation.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 26, 2012

The US Department of Energy (DOE) selected eight projects to advance the development of transformational oxy-combustion technologies capable of high-efficiency, low-cost carbon dioxide capture from coal-fired power plants. The Energy Department’s $7 million investment—leveraged with recipient cost-share to support approximately $9.4

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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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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 19, 2009

Beijing Guoneng Yinghui Clean Energy Engineering Co., The contract award marks China as the site for the first worldwide commercial implementation of the TRIG technology with the goal of producing low-emission, coal-based electricity. TRIG coal gasification technology was co-developed developed by Southern Company, KBR Inc.,

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FEBRUARY 4, 2010

In addition, President Obama issued a Presidential Memorandum creating an Interagency Task Force on Carbon Capture and Storage to develop a comprehensive and coordinated federal strategy to speed the development and deployment of advanced lower-emission coal technologies. Biomass Crop Assistance Program. Regulatory compliance – EPA and USDA.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 22, 2010

Peabody Energy will purchase a $15 million equity interest in Calera Corporation, which has proprietary technology that converts carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) into green building materials. The Calera technology mixes CO 2 with water from a variety of sources, causing the minerals to bond and release as synthetic limestone. Earlier post.)

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Baua Electric

MARCH 5, 2024

The plant has two General Electric boiling water reactors within a Mark II containment building that are licensed through 2042 and 2044. Amazon moves in; it powers up on 100% clean energy. Talen Energy formed Cumulus Data Assets in 2020 for precisely this reason – to converge “digital infrastructure and clean power.”

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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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Green Car Congress

JUNE 26, 2010

Natural gas will play a leading role in reducing greenhouse-gas emissions over the next several decades, largely by replacing older, inefficient coal plants with highly efficient combined-cycle gas generation, according to a major new interim report out from MIT. The first two reports dealt with nuclear power (2003) and coal (2007).

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JULY 2, 2009

The selection of the two projects is part of the third round of the Clean Coal Power Initiative (CCPI). The CCPI is a cost-shared collaboration between the federal government and private industry to increase investment in low-emission coal technology by demonstrating advanced coal-based, power generation technologies.

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JULY 10, 2012

The US Department of Energy (DOE) and the California Energy Commission (CEC) are working together to advance a coal-based polygeneration plant with carbon capture and storage (CCS) simultaneously through the federal National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) review and a complementary California Energy Quality Act process.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 25, 2022

The carbon-free rigs will pack 50 kilos of hydrogen zapped from water using electricity from the refinery’s dedicated solar power plant. And while coal plants still supplied over half of Australia’s power in 2021, change is afoot. And green hydrogen is the centerpiece of its clean-economy growth plan. Why a hydrogen truck?

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 6, 2009

HECA, which is owned by Hydrogen Energy International, BP Alternative Energy, and Rio Tinto, plans to construct an advanced integrated gasification combined cycle (IGCC) plant that will produce power by converting fuel—a blend of 75% coal and 25% petroleum coke—into hydrogen and carbon dioxide (CO 2 ).

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 25, 2015

In an event in Bern, Switzerland, Swiss National Council member and president of the Clean Fuel Now initiative Thomas Böhni filled up his Audi A2 with 100% synthetic diesel (Audi e-diesel) produced by sunfire GmbH to draw attention to the need to remove what he terms unjustified Swiss restrictions on synthetic fuels. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

The selected projects focus on advancing the development of a suite of post-combustion CO 2 capture and supersonic compression systems for new and existing coal-based electric generating plants, specifically: (1) supersonic compression systems; (2) small pilot-scale (from 0.5 FuelCell Energy Inc. Source: FuelCell Energy. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 1, 2009

Hydrogen for reverse water gas shift reaction to avoid producing CO 2 during the process is produced by electrolyzing water, driven by solar power. For comparison, they also modeled the production of methanol using only biomass as a fuel and also using coal as source of both carbon and energy. Hertwich and Zhang (2009).

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 21, 2014

Thanks to the improved exploring, boring, and retrieving skills, the extremely abundant nontraditional natural gas resources such as shale gas and coal-bed methane are recently being discovered and utilized. In this case, about 30% CO is converted to CO 2 due to WGS reaction. CO 2 /MJ F-T product for the conventional processes.

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Get Electric Vehicle

JUNE 5, 2023

How does it affect the sustainability of the clean environment? It is a liquid alcohol fuel produced from a variety of feedstocks, including natural gas, coal, biomass, or even carbon dioxide. Bioethanol is being produced converting carbon-based agricultural feedstock such as sugar cane, bagasse, grain, barley, potatoes.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

Methanol, like ethanol, is an alcohol with inherent issues such as its solubility in water and corrosiveness. About two-thirds of China’s methanol feedstock is produced from coal and the remainder from coking gas (a by-product of steel production) and natural gas. Methanol in China.

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EV Info

AUGUST 13, 2021

Clueless ministers are scrambling to shore up a key part of the country’s net zero carbon strategy after the findings in a peer-reviewed study suggested that even hydrogen produced using allegedly low-emission methods can be more polluting than gas or coal. Hydrogen can also be generated by electrolysis of water.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 3, 2014

We believe that clean distributed power generation from fuel cells will be one of the key technologies that drive our country toward a cleaner energy future. Heat and water vapor (H 2 O) exit the cathode. NRG Energy now owns approximately 17.0 million shares of the FuelCell Energy’s common stock, or 6.0%, including 2.4

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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. The project hopes to decrease water use and lower the emission of greenhouse gases of oil sand production, and enhance the extraction of clean burning natural gas from coal beds.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 19, 2023

They are highly automated production islands that directly convert wind energy to hydrogen, with a few of them processing the gas into fuels and other goods. The upshot is that a portion of the green electricity will have to be converted to other types of energy appropriate for specific applications. Experts call this Power-to-X (PtX).

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 4, 2010

Researchers from the Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT) in Germany have shown that hydrocarbon yield and energy efficiency can be increased in a Fischer-Tropsch (FT) biomass-to-liquids (BTL) process through the use of a hydrophilic membrane enabling the in situ removal of water from the catalyst bed. Unruh et al.

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APRIL 18, 2022

To put it another way, instead of splitting water into hydrogen and oxygen with electricity, these two components are joined to make water and electricity The electricity is then utilized to power the car’s drive train, leaving just water as a waste product. Hydrogen as Clean Energy. Why Fuel cells are Preferred?

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

The thermochemical process does not require enzymes or microorganisms; instead, the biomass is gasified under certain heat and pressure conditions producing synthesis gas, a carbon monoxide and hydrogen-rich gas that can be converted into high quality synthetic fuels, intermediate chemicals or electricity. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 31, 2009

The reaction chamber is enclosed by a membrane wall, cooled with pressurized water and can accommodate feed with much ash. 1,200 °C), the raw syngas is practically tar-free and has a low CH 4 content; thus simplifying downstream syngas cleaning. Because of the high gasification temperature (above ca.

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Plug In India

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

And pumping oil is not clean, crores of litres are spilled into the ocean every year creating havoc for fish and other wildlife! Even if electricity is produced from burning coal, the power plant is far away from population centers, transferred over power lines keeping any direct pollution away from the population. In India 39.1%

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 5, 2010

This project will develop and evaluate a new process for converting biomass waste into diesel fuel. The biomass waste will first be converted into pyrolysis oil and then upgraded to diesel. can be converted to fuel in high yield in the proposed process. Essentially any biomass material or solid waste (e.g.,

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Thousands of tons of the gas are made each year by refineries, petrochemical plants and other industries as a byproduct of processes that remove sulfur from petroleum, natural gas, coal and other products. Known as the Claus process, it produces sulfur but no hydrogen, which it instead converts into water.

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