Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 14, 2014

Audi’s latest e-fuels project is participation in a a pilot plant project in Dresden that produces diesel fuel from water, CO 2 and green electricity. The sunfire plant, which operates according to the “power-to-liquid” (PtL) principle, requires carbon dioxide, water and electricity as raw materials. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 15, 2022

Twelve has developed an efficient polymer-electrolyte membrane (PEM) CO 2 electrolyzer that uses proprietary CO 2 -reducing catalysts to split CO 2 with just water and renewable electricity as inputs, syngas (CO and hydrogen) as the output, and pure oxygen as the only byproduct. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

MAY 30, 2020

The researchers and engineers at ETH Zurich have developed innovative processes that make it possible to extract CO 2 from the atmosphere and, together with water and with the help of concentrated sunlight, convert it into a synthesis gas that can be used to produce jet fuel.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 16, 2022

million award from ARPA-E ( earlier post ), has developed a reactor and catalysts to convert CO 2 and hydrogen from water into syngas for use in the Fischer-Tropsch process. The company began construction on a CO 2 -to-fuels demo in Tucson, Arizona in 2021. Dimensional Energy, which recently received a $3.1-million

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 28, 2014

The EU-funded SOLAR-JET project has demonstrated the production of aviation kerosene from concentrated sunlight, CO 2 captured from air, and water. Red arrow indicates ceria reduction (oxygen evolution); blue arrow indicates oxidation (fuel production). Click to enlarge. —Professor Aldo Steinfeld, ETH Zürich.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 19, 2022

Waste-to-biogas company Anaergia Inc. The benefit for us is the ability to sell the biogenic CO 2 from our plants that is produced when we convert organic materials to methane and CO 2. Based in Copenhagen, Denmark, the company has a strong track record as a renewable energy operator across its 24 countries of operation.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 23, 2023

Germany-based RENK Group, a manufacturer of mission-critical drive technologies, is supplying three high-speed special gear units via RENK-Maag GmbH , a group company, for compressors for the production of green steel to Siemens Energy Compressors GmbH as part of the “SALCOS” (Salzgitter Low CO2 Steelmaking) project of the Salzgitter AG steel group.

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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

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 12, 2017

million investment in 2015) in Carbon Recycling International ( CRI ), an Icelandic company which produces renewable methanol using recycled CO 2 emissions sourced from a local thermal power plant and hydrogen made by splitting water with electrolysis (Power-to-Methanol). Geely is a shareholder ($45.5-million Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 11, 2019

Hydrogen generation: Hydrogen can be generated by water electrolysis using MW-scale electrolyzer technology, utilizing renewable electricity to produce pressurized high purity H 2 and O 2 gases. The company is currently developing commercial projects based on the ETL technology with partners in Europe and China.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 11, 2012

launched the Nissan Zero Emission Fund, a new fund for individual Nissan electric vehicle (EV) owners in Japan which converts the amount of CO 2 emissions that are offset by driving the 100% electric Nissan LEAF to generate credits. Flows for the Zero Emission Fund. Click to enlarge. Nissan Motor Co.,

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 9, 2017

The demo plant incorporates the entire process chain, and comprises four separate units: a solar power plant; equipment for separating carbon dioxide and water from the air; a section that uses electrolysis to produce hydrogen; and synthesis equipment for producing a crude-oil substitute from carbon dioxide and hydrogen.

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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

OCTOBER 31, 2011

high overpotentials are needed to convert CO 2 because the first step in CO 2 conversion is the formation of a “CO 2 ? formation is very negative in water and in most common solvents. for formation of the “CO2 ? Twenty years ago, Bockris and co-workers proposed that. intermediate. In this context the term “CO 2 ? ” inefficient.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Together with the partners Ineratec GmbH ( earlier post ) and Energiedienst Holding AG , the company has plans for a new pilot facility for the production of e-diesel in Laufenburg, in Canton Aargau (Switzerland). The company is now taking the next step in e-diesel production. Audi is systematically building on its e-fuels strategy.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 15, 2012

LanzaTech, a producer of low-carbon fuels and chemicals from waste gases, and Petronas, the national oil company of Malaysia, will work together to accelerate the development and commercialization of technologies to produce sustainable fuels and chemicals using CO 2 as the carbon source. —LanzaTech CEO, Jennifer Holmgren.

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Malaysia CO2 Carbon Oil 268

Green Car Congress

JULY 7, 2022

Researchers from the University of Michigan and McGill University in Canada report photochemical syngas synthesis using a core/shell Au@Cr 2 O 3 dual cocatalyst in coordination with multistacked InGaN/GaN nanowires (NWs) with the sole inputs of CO 2 , water, and solar light. The two companies are NS Nanotech Inc. —Rashid et al.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 7, 2012

A joint research project by RWE Power and biotechnology company BRAIN AG has discovered specialist micro-organisms that directly feed on CO 2 -containing flue gases from lignite-fired power stations and that can grow at temperatures of 60 °C (140 °F). by sewage water, the production of food or refinery processes.

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Electric Vehicles India

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

The only byproduct of this process is water, making FCEVs a zero-emissions vehicle option and emitting only water vapor. It starts with renewable energy and using water electrolysis technology, electricity produced by using renewable energy sources is converted into green hydrogen.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 9, 2018

The product, carbon nanotubes, worth about a quarter million dollars per ton, should be viewed as valuable materials for companies to consider using in their products. We have solved that problem by inexpensively transforming the CO 2 into a valuable product.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

With completion scheduled for December 2009, the company is now looking for an end-use for the concentrated CO 2. ERC, Mantra’s CO 2 recycling technology, converts concentrated CO 2 into useful products such as formic acid. Formic acid is used in numerous industry applications worldwide and has a current market value of $1,400/tonne.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 22, 2011

In oil fields such as Whiting’s, the injected CO 2 mixes with the oil that is left behind in the primary oil-well production and the secondary water-injection stage. geologically sequestered) deep underground many thousands of feet below the water table, with no leakage to the atmosphere. Earlier post.). produce urea.

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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

DECEMBER 22, 2014

Normally, it should go through waste water treatment, but to save money and because it is not very toxic, some companies dispose of it in rivers or feed it to livestock. Moreover, it does not burn well and is thus not a good energy source. Nobody knows what to do with this amount of waste glycerol.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 16, 2012

The company also announced plans to reduce usage another 25% on a per-vehicle basis by 2016. Other successful initiatives—highlighted in Ford’s 13th annual Sustainability Report—include reductions in water use, waste-to-landfill and CO 2 emissions as well as improvements in vehicle fuel economy and safety.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 21, 2010

Southern Company, El Paso Exploration & Production, the Geological Survey of Alabama, and the University of Alabama are all participating in the field test, known as the Black Warrior CO 2 Storage Project. The validation phase (2005–2010) generally involves small-scale field tests and includes the Black Warrior Basin CO2 Storage Project.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 23, 2015

The non-profit Bauhaus Luftfahrt is an internationally-oriented think tank created in November 2005 by the three aerospace companies EADS (today Airbus Group); Liebherr-Aerospace; and MTU Aero Engines as well as the Bavarian Ministry for Economic Affairs. The syngas is stored and finally converted into jet fuel via the FT process.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

In other words, CO 2 introduced at the air electrode is converted to carbonate ions and transferred through the electrolyte layer to the fuel electrode, where it is converted back to CO 2. Water vapor, residual oxygen, nitrogen and the CO 2 from the input fuel pass through the cathode to the system exhaust. Click to enlarge.

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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. A British company, ERM , plans to have a 10-megawatt demonstration project called Dolphyn up and running off the coast of Aberdeen, Scotland, in 2026.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 10, 2023

BMW Group Plant Dingolfing will use heat produced from regional biomass and its own waste wood to meet about 50% of its process hot water requirements from 2025 onwards. company Bayernwerk Natur through the joint subsidiary UP Energiewerke GmbH, in which both partners hold a 50% stake.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 23, 2019

Partners of the P2X Kopernikus project on the premises of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) in Germany have demonstrated the production of fuel from air-captured CO2 using—for the first time—a container-based test facility integrating all four chemical process steps needed to implement a continuous process.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 26, 2012

The oxy-combustion process replaces the air used for combustion with a mixture of oxygen and recycled plant emissions (flue gas) and/or water for temperature control. The CDCL process consists of a unique moving bed reactor where pulverized coal is fully converted using iron-based oxygen carriers. Southwest Research Institute.

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Green Cars News

JUNE 30, 2009

The Dow Chemical Company is planning to team up with Algenol Biofuels to build and operate an algae-based integrated bio-refinery to produce ethanol. The CO2 is supplied to the algae in the photo-bioreactors and serves as a carbon source for the ethanol produced.

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Green Cars News

JULY 2, 2009

In the autumn the company will need to recruit around 60 people for an entirely new plant in the region. The fuel cells will be charged with hydrogen gas, which is then converted into electricity, water and carbon dioxide (CO2) via a chemical reaction.

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Volvo Fuel Sweden CO2 39

Green Car Congress

MAY 13, 2011

Although this methane is also known as synthetic natural gas, the company refers to it as Audi e-gas. If there are strong sea winds, for instance, then surplus power supplies can be converted to e-gas and stored in the largest available energy-storage system: the public gas network. Rated at 3.6

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 1, 2009

The process is called “Microbially Enhanced Hydrocarbon Recovery,” (MEHR) and the program to investigate it is the 51 st research effort in the EBI, which is funded by BP, the global energy company. This includes water and rock geochemistry and hydrocarbon composition and will chart the geologic thermal burial history of each sample.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 12, 2015

solar and wind), water and CO 2 to produce liquid or gaseous fuels with a very low carbon intensity. to the realization of the renewable energy + water + CO 2 formula. The Audi e-gas plant can convert 6MW of input power. The process to convert isobutene to isooctane is well-established. Earlier post.)

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