Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2022

Researchers in Europe led by a team from ETH Zurich have designed a fuel production system that uses water, CO 2 , and sunlight to produce aviation fuel. The aviation sector is responsible for about 5% of global anthropogenic emissions causing climate change. An open-access paper on the work is published in the journal Joule.

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JUNE 30, 2023

Moreira’s technology also helps to track the effects of climate change. For his “leadership and innovative concepts in the design, deployment, and utilization of airborne and space-based radar systems,” Moreira is this year’s recipient of the IEEE Dennis J. Picard Medal for Radar Technologies and Applications.

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MAY 21, 2013

PowerCell, a Swedish energy technology company with roots in the Volvo Group, unveiled a functioning full-scale prototype of its PowerPac fuel cell system, which combines an autothermal reformer and a PEM fuel cell stack to convert diesel fuel into electricity. The PowerCell fuel cell design allows for carbon monoxide impurities up to 25ppm.

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JULY 26, 2022

The climate crisis and the war against Ukraine are forcing us to push ahead with the energy transition at top speed. Storing electricity converted to hydrogen is important for balancing supply and demand fluctuations in the future. It has long been clear that the energy transition cannot be achieved with electrons alone.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 30, 2022

Among other climate-focused goals, the company is setting the stage to advance the hydrogen economy in Korea. Plans include importing green ammonia that can be readily transported and stored before it is converted into clean hydrogen with expectations of generating 1.2 million tons of hydrogen per year domestically by 2030.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

At COP26 in Glasgow, US Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg announced the US Aviation Climate Action Plan , published by the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), which sets out to achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emissions from the US aviation sector by 2050. Source: US Aviation Climate Action Plan.

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JULY 8, 2021

The partnership will see the two companies convert the Dornier 328 aircraft for hydrogen flight, with the demonstrator aircraft expected to take to the skies in 2025. The project is designed to complement the German Federal Government’s Aviation Strategy. Josef Kallo, co-founder and CEO, H2FLY.

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OCTOBER 25, 2022

When driven by green hydrogen, these powertrains are virtually climate-neutral. This is another area in which robustness and reliability combined with a compact design are crucial to efficient operation. The product platform is designed specifically for the off-highway sector and its demanding environmental conditions.

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JUNE 20, 2023

MTU’s Flying Fuel Cell (FFC) converts liquid hydrogen into electricity to power an electric motor driving the propeller. We’ve identified converting liquid hydrogen into electricity using a fuel cell as the area with the greatest potential for achieving this.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 1, 2020

A hydrogen exchange, similar to electricity and gas exchanges, could act as a catalyst for a market for climate-neutral hydrogen, according to an exploratory study, “A Hydrogen Exchange for the Climate”, presented to Eric Wiebes, the Netherlands Minister of Economic Affairs and Climate Policy.

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The Truth About Cars

MAY 30, 2023

Back in February, I purchased an old Z4, one of the prior decade’s smattering of folding hardtop convertibles. The Z’s simple interior design helps it age well, as do the circular climate controls that are unique to the model. Ringed in chrome, climate controls are easy to understand.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 17, 2021

TotalEnergies R&D program on Carbon Capture and Utilization is developing approaches for the economically viable reuse of CO 2 which is in line with the climate ambition of the company. e-CO 2 Met is the first pilot project for TotalEnergies to convert CO 2 with renewable electric energy to methanol.

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DECEMBER 9, 2021

The market leader in SiC power MOSFETs, ST has incorporated new and advanced design know-how to open up even more of SiC’s energy-saving potential. The packages offer innovative design features such as specially placed cooling tabs that simplify connection to base-plates and heat spreaders in EV applications.

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OCTOBER 21, 2022

NMG is also has entered into unsecured convertible note subscription agreements with each of Mitsui, Pallinghurst and Investissement Québec pursuant to which NMG has agreed to issue to each holder an unsecured convertible note for aggregate gross proceeds of US$50 million.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 11, 2022

The project will convert spodumene concentrate sourced principally from Piedmont’s international project investments to expand significantly the US supply of lithium hydroxide, a key component in the manufacturing of EV batteries. Conceptual design of the 30,000 TPY Tennessee Lithium plant.

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JULY 14, 2016

is black carbon (BC)—a pollutant with large positive radiative forcing on the climate due to its ability to absorb incoming sunlight and reduce surface albedo on snow. A new study by a team at the University of Toronto has made a preliminary assessment of the climate trade-off (i.e., A significant fraction of the GDI PM 2.5

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JULY 20, 2023

The three-year research project, ‘ CliNeR-ECo ’, is funded by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action (BMWK) with initial work having already commenced at the beginning of 2023. For us, the path to the decarbonization of the maritime economy begins with the switch to climate-neutral fuels.

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NOVEMBER 23, 2022

The process, known as BioIron, uses raw biomass instead of metallurgical coal as a reductant and microwave energy to convert Pilbara iron ore to metallic iron in the steelmaking process. Finding low-carbon solutions for iron and steelmaking is critical for the world as we tackle the challenges of climate change. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 3, 2015

A trans-European collaboration aims to develop a novel energy efficient climate control system to help reduce the energy used for passenger comfort in electric vehicles by at least 50%. The aim of the €6.7-million million (US$7.5-million) The main objective is the reduction of at least 50% of energy used for passenger comfort (.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 8, 2019

A traditional solar panel converts between 18 to 20% of the solar energy into electricity. The KU Leuven bioscience engineers solved this problem by designing a solar panel of 1.6 m² that converts 15% of the sunlight straight into hydrogen gas. Add another twenty panels, and you can drive an electric car for an entire year.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Designed to be flexible enough to meet the needs of a wide variety of OEM truck makers, the new fuel cell electric system in the latest prototypes has been adapted to a Kenworth T680 chassis. Converting the drayage trucks that currently serve these ports to electric drivetrains would move us closer to that goal. Port fleet rollout.

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JULY 2, 2022

The methanol is mixed with water, then evaporated by applying heat and fed into the preheated reactor, where the mix of methanol and water is converted into hydrogen and CO 2. The process concept used in the project includes two additional design elements that optimize the system. The system’s technical centerpiece is the reactor.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 20, 2021

The facility will convert waste-based ethanol to sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) at a scale of more than 30,000 tons/yr. The FLITE (Fuel via Low Carbon Integrated Technology from Ethanol) consortium, led by SkyNRG and with LanzaTech as the technology provider, will build the first-of-its-kind LanzaJet Alcohol to Jet (AtJ) facility.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

UBQ is a patented material converted from 100% unsorted household waste, containing food leftovers, mixed plastics, paper, cardboard, packaging materials and diapers. By diverting landfill-destined waste, UBQ prevents the emission of methane, groundwater leakage and other environmental harms. Every ton of UBQ produced prevents 11.7

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 15, 2021

After reaching the limits in terms of the supply of waste oils that can be converted into SAF using existing technologies, the next most more abundant source of sustainable feedstock consists of lignocellulosic residues and wastes such as the biogenic fraction of municipal solid waste (MSW), agricultural residues & forestry residues.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 23, 2021

To advance the joint project, the CEOs of BASF and RWE have signed a letter of intent covering a wide-ranging cooperation for the creation of additional capacities for renewable electricity and the use of innovative technologies for climate protection. These plans could result in the avoidance of around 3.8

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Green Car Congress

MAY 7, 2023

We’re claiming that proper engineering can solve 100% of the climate crisis, at manageable cost. The researchers have compiled a list of more than 50 high-productivity plants capable of being grown in diverse climates worldwide and with dry biomass yields in a range from 4 to more than 45 dry tonnes per hectare. 2217695120

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 3, 2016

STEP is an efficient solar chemical process, based on a synergy of solar thermal and endothermic electrolyses, designed to convert greenhouse gas carbon dioxide into a useful carbon commodity. This presents a sustainable route to convert carbon dioxide into materials relevant to both grid-scale and portable storage systems.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 3, 2020

By switching from diesel-fueled propulsion to fully electrically powered transport, an important step can be taken towards realizing the Paris Climate Agreement goals. The emphasis during the initial stage will be on converted and newly-built container carriers. These will be charged using energy from renewable sources.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Looking to make replacement filters more environmentally friendly and affordable, a team of engineering students from the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology , in Dhaka, designed a carbon-based version with bamboo. Our project,” Afrin says, “is based on a modified air filter for incoming air into the catalytic converter.”

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 10, 2021

We have joined the global battle to defeat climate change. Our aim is to provide the two “missing links” in the climate change battle, to create both the demand and the supply of green hydrogen. Conducting trials to use renewable energy in the Pilbara to convert iron ore to green iron at low temperatures, without coal.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2022

In doing so, the designers are drawing on a vehicle platform that has proven itself hundreds of times over in Asia’s largest electric bus markets in recent years. A Valeo heat pump/air conditioning unit with a cooling capacity of 33 kW provides the right climate on board, and the driver also has a front box.

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JUNE 9, 2011

The top graph depicts CTL in a no policy scenario; the bottom graph, for CTL in a world climate policy scenario. However, the viability of CTL becomes quite limited in regions with climate policy due to the high conversion cost and huge carbon footprint. Credit: Chen et al., 2011 Click to enlarge.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2010

Kreutz used two examples of CCTF systems in his analysis: biodiesel from microalgae and Sandia National Laboratory’s S2P process (an effort to utilize concentrated solar energy to convert waste CO 2 into synthetic fuels, earlier post ). Kreutz used what he called a bifurcated climate regime—i.e.,

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Green Car Congress

JULY 23, 2019

Tritium, an Australian company that designs and manufactures fast-charging solutions for electric vehicles, will install its Veefil-PK 175kW DC High Power Chargers (HPCs) to power SSA Marine’s fleet of terminal tractors. Stäubli QCC. ZANZEFF funds transformative emissions reduction strategies at freight facilities throughout the state.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Solar heat is used to convert a mixture of methane, CO 2 , and water into syngas, which is then processed into any type of fuel. Sustainable fuels are becoming increasingly significant as the mobility sector strives to decarbonize, not least to meet climate targets of net zero carbon emissions by 2050. Earlier post.).

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OCTOBER 10, 2022

Air Products has announced plans to convert its global fleet of approximately 2,000 trucks to hydrogen fuel cell zero-emission vehicles. The low-carbon intensity liquid hydrogen product from the facility is expected to be sold to the mobility market in New York State as well as other potential northeast industrial markets.

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