Green Car Congress

JUNE 1, 2010

An alliance of industry, academic and government organizations has formed to commercialize technologies that will utilize concentrated solar energy to convert waste CO 2 into synthetic fuels. Tags: Catalysts Climate Change Emissions Fuels Solar. Source: Sandia. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

Scientists at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have developed a new electrocatalyst that can directly convert carbon dioxide into multicarbon fuels and alcohols using record-low inputs of energy. At top left are transmission electron microscope images of the copper nanoparticles.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 3, 2016

Researchers from George Washington University and Vanderbilt University have demonstrated the conversion of atmospheric CO 2 into carbon nanofibers (CNFs) and carbon nanotubes (CNTs) for use as high-performance anodes in both lithium-ion and sodium-ion batteries. Earlier post.) —Licht et al.

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Baua Electric

MAY 10, 2024

Fossil fuels currently meet this majority demand, raising concerns due to potential CO 2 (a major greenhouse gas) doubling compared to preindustrial levels (approximately 285 ppm for about 400 000 years before the industrial revolution and reached 376 ppm as of 2005 and is still increasing).

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

Canada’s National Research Council (CNRC) showcased Canada’s first algal biorefinery demonstration project, a collaborative research effort between CNRC’s Algal Carbon Conversion (ACC) program, Pond Technologies and Votorantim Cimentos’ St Marys Cement.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 9, 2018

The C2CNT process can utilize CO 2 captured directly from the air or from an industrial smokestack. In addition to developing economically viable products that utilize CO 2 emissions from power plants, the XPRIZE contest aims to scale up these technologies to a point that can truly impact climate change. Stuart Licht.

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MARCH 25, 2023

L) to hydrotreat fossil jet fuel at the conversion refineries that produce the bulk of aviation jet fuel worldwide. Hydrotreating, which is widely used in the refining industry in numerous applications, would remove the naphthalenes by converting them to other aromatics and other hydrocarbons. A study by MathPro Inc.,

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

GTI led a team of engineers and scientists to produce a blueprint for converting an existing biomass facility into an RNG production site, using the wood waste feedstock and some of the existing infrastructure. These companies are world experts in gasification, gas clean-up, and conversion technologies.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 9, 2014

The goal of this project is to develop a hybrid perovskite-silicon solar cell that significantly improves the light-to-energy conversion efficiency of conventional cells. Maximizing solar-to-fuel conversion efficiency in photo-electrochemical cells. Electrochemical conversion of carbon gases to sustainable fuels and chemicals.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 14, 2010

When he proposes steps to improve oil industry safety, we hope he won’t say, “Let’s make sure this never happens again.” We now have a sprinkling of promising companies working to get funded to convert gas-guzzlers. Well, America’s auto industry delivered over 100,000. That helped us become the world’s greatest industrial power.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 5, 2009

Stuart Licht ( earlier post ) at George Washington University is developing a solar-driven process that, he says, could efficiently replace current industrial processes for the production of certain energetic molecules such as hydrogen, metals and chlorine, which are responsible for a large component of anthropogenic CO 2.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2020

In the report, “ Getting to Neutral: Options for Negative Carbon Emissions in California ,” funded by the Livermore Lab Foundation (LLF) with grant support from the ClimateWorks Foundation, LLNL focused on three specific pillars of negative emissions: natural and working lands; carbon capture from biomass conversion to fuels; and direct air capture.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 16, 2009

Researchers at Singapore’s Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (IBN) have developed a catalytic process for the conversion of CO 2 to methanol under mild conditions (room temperature). Ying (2009) Conversion of Carbon Dioxide into Methanol with Silanes over N-Heterocyclic Carbene Catalysts. Click to enlarge. Yugen Zhang.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 8, 2015

Recognizing the need for substantial reductions in greenhouse gas emissions to reduce the risks of climate change, this year’s recipients of the Resonate Awards for sustainability have developed an array of technologies aimed at cutting the largest sources of them. In addition to Professor Cui, the other awardees are: Joel L.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 5, 2016

Altex Technologies has selected Unitel to provide engineering services to design and build a pilot system that will produce 1 BPD of synthetic gasoline from biomass (Biomass Conversion to Synthetic Gasoline System, BCSGS). Method and apparatus for conversion of carbonaceous materials to liquid fuel. —US 9199889. US 9199889 B2.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 27, 2012

Based on visual interpretation of high-resolution (30 m) satellite images, a new study in the journal Global Change Biology: Bioenergy determined that industrial plantations covered over 3.1 That number is in my opinion conservative, and consistent with a slight reduction in the rate of peat conversion. Chris Malins.

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AUGUST 4, 2015

The Algae Biomass Organization (ABO), an algae industry trade association, quickly issued an enthusiastic statement hailing the option as “ a huge win for the algae industry, and one we have been working towards for more than a year. Several commenters also suggested that algae-based CCU (i.e.,

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APRIL 11, 2019

CO 2 is available in abundance in high concentration in many industrial processes and thermal power plants (here CRI focusing on geothermal power and waste to energy). In many ethanol production and biogas processes. CO 2 is readily available. Compression: Reaction gas is prepared by mixing H 2 and CO 2. The reaction is highly exothermic.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 8, 2012

The study, published as an open access paper in the journal Nature Climate Change , shows that deforestation for the development of oil palm plantations in Indonesian Borneo is becoming a globally significant source of carbon dioxide emissions. The research study was supported by the NASA Land Cover/Land-Use Change Program, the John D.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 26, 2010

The 500 megawatt (MW) project is being put forward for the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) CCS demonstration competition. The project will offer greatly enhanced efficiency conversion of coal to electricity, whilst enabling upwards of 90% carbon capture.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 22, 2023

Inverters allow a machine’s power train to run power between the electrical machines, acting like a generator or motor, and they convert electricity from AC to DC and back again. The benefits of electric industrial vehicles Moving from diesel to hybrid and all-electric industrial vehicles offers many benefits, Singh says.

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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. And the Norwegian company H2Carrier recently received approval in principle for its concept for an industrial-scale floating production unit to make green ammonia at sea.

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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. Broader commitments to climate change are spurring some countries, like Norway and Holland, or companies, like Volvo, to set their own targets. Electric Vehicles in Construction - 1 GWh.

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AUGUST 3, 2022

As climate change edges from crisis to emergency, the aviation sector looks set to miss its 2050 goal of net-zero emissions. Syngas is produced by Fischer-Tropsch (FT) synthesis , in which chemical reactions convert carbon monoxide and water vapor into hydrocarbons.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 26, 2020

Inspired by naturally occurring processes, a team of Boston College chemists used a multi-catalyst system to convert carbon dioxide to methanol at the lowest temperatures reported with high activity and selectivity. The third catalyst in the system, which is typically incompatible with the first catalyst, then converts this ester to methanol.

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AUGUST 29, 2009

The funding from A*STAR’s Science and Engineering Research Council (SERC) will support research teams from A*STAR research institutes and local institutes of higher learning to develop solutions to manage environmental deterioration, pressures on natural resources and climate change brought on by rapid growth and urbanization.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 17, 2009

Climate change. The report “Water Scarcity and Climate Change: Growing Risks for Businesses and Investors” notes that drought conditions are currently causing water shortages in Australia, Asia, Africa, and the United States, and that drought patterns are in many cases mirroring previously predicted effects of climate change.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 15, 2010

The plant will gasify waste biomass, and use a Fischer-Tropsch process to convert the resulting syngas to biojet fuel and bionaphtha. Bionaphtha is used as a blending component in gasoline and also as a feedstock for the petrochemicals industry. Arcadis UK has been the lead consultant on this project.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 27, 2017

Humans consume more than 1 ton of concrete per person per year—10 12 kg of cement annually—and the cement industry releases 9kg of CO 2 for each 10kg of cement produced, emitting 36 Gt globally annually. This is a powerful economic incentive, rather than economic cost, to mitigate climate change through a carbon negative process.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 13, 2009

(Englewood, CO) up to $1,780,862: to develop a yeast fermentation organism that can cost-effectively convert cellulosic-derived sugars into isobutanol, a second-generation biofuel/biobased product. Yenkin-Majestic will use these products to demonstrate a distributed stand-alone system for the operation of a large industrial facility.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 11, 2012

The program, created by Assembly Bill 118 (Núñez, Chapter 750, Statutes of 2007), provides approximately $100 million annually to encourage the development and use of new vehicle technologies and alternative and renewable fuels to help attain the state's climate change policies. Earlier post.) million to 5 million gallons a year.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Scientists at Stanford University have developed electrochemical cells that convert carbon monoxide (CO) derived from CO 2 into commercially viable compounds more effectively and efficiently than existing technologies. Electrolysis must convert CO into products at a high rate with a low overall energy demand in order to be viable.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 20, 2012

tonnes per capita—within the range of 6 to 19 tonnes per capita emissions of the major industrialized countries. These shares are based on the BP convention of 38% average thermal power conversion efficiency for converting renewable electricity production to primary energy. tonnes per capita.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 3, 2009

The economic viability of this technology still needs to be proven, and potential conflicts with traditional wood-based industries should be considered. On the production side, options exist for improving technologies in terms of new feedstocks and conversion technologies as well as more efficient use of biomass. Ravindranath et al.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 17, 2021

Sinopec Capital, as the industrial investment arm of Sinopec Group—one of the world’s largest integrated energy and chemicals companies—announced an investment in LanzaTech with a focus on promoting direct production of chemicals from waste carbon. —Huang Wensheng, Chairman of Sinopec Capital.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 12, 2012

This goal will be facilitated by fundamental research to establish the basis for new concepts, design elements and tools performed through university/industry/national laboratory partnerships. The ICE is a complex system whose operation is controlled by a wide range of processes.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 31, 2023

We often converse on Friday afternoons about what he’s hearing from industry insiders and academics on whatever subject he’s currently investigating. Our conversations are jovial, sometimes alarming, and always edifying, at least for me. I’ve been fortunate to be Bob’s editor for many of his ambitious projects.

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