Green Car Congress

AUGUST 26, 2016

Research has shown that CO 2 can be converted to a variety of commodities, but because of the low energy state of CO 2 , the production costs would be prohibitive in many cases. The funding opportunity announcement has three areas of interest: Biological based concepts for beneficial use of CO 2. —DE-FOA-0001622.

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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. United and United Airlines Ventures (UAV) announced an investment in and commercial agreement with Dimensional Energy. Dimensional Energy, which recently received a $3.1-million

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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. Source: Sandia. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.). Ellen Stechel, recycling CO 2 program development lead for Sandia National Laboratories.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 25, 2013

In order to finish the conversion to acrylate, that ring needs to be cracked open to allow the formation of a carbon-carbon double bond, a process called elimination. To prove the concept, they used the strongest acid that was easily available, one derived from boron. That step had proved elusive. But the research by Jin et al.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 22, 2010

The US Department of Energy has selected six projects for funding that aim to find ways of converting captured carbon dioxide emissions from industrial sources into useful products such as fuel, plastics, cement, and fertilizers. The six projects were initially selected for a first-phase funding in October 2009 as part of a $1.4

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 13, 2014

This new concept H 2 /CO 2 FPSO, however, uses steam reforming and water shift conversion to extract hydrogen (H 2 ) and carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) from the associated gas produced as a byproduct of oil well production.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 14, 2014

Top: Two cartoons of the basic sunfire concept and process. Nearly 80% of that can be converted into synthetic diesel. Carbon Capture and Conversion (CCC) Fuel Cells Fuels Power Generation' PtL = Power-to-Liquids. Bottom: 3D model of sunfire SOEC (left) and the demo plant (right). Source: sunfire. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 14, 2021

All these concepts have advantages and drawbacks in terms of energy, operation and economics. Empa researchers hope that this novel process engineering concept will lead to simpler process control, higher efficiency and better suitability for dynamic operation.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 9, 2017

The hydrogen gas can also be used as a chemical energy storage and can later be reconverted into electricity in a fuel cell, albeit with an additional penalty in terms of losses in conversion. The concept we are exploring is an example of how the chemical industry could be electrified in the future. kW solar PV power plant at LUT.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 20, 2011

These emissions estimates raise a question: is the energy content of shale effectively “off limits” in a GHG constrained world, or is there a way to extract the stored chemical energy from oil shale with greatly reduced CO2 emissions? Conversion to work via. Scale of conversion to work. Waste heat from conversion.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 14, 2011

Our concept has the following advantages: Compared to carbon dioxide, solid bicarbonates are easy to handle and highly soluble in aqueous media (96 g L -1 NaHCO 3. Most importantly, after full conversion of the formate, the bicarbonate solution may be recharged with hydrogen to close the cycle. at 20 °C in H 2 O).

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Green Car Congress

MAY 7, 2020

During CO 2 reduction, Ag converts CO 2 to CO and these CO molecules migrate to the Cu active sites for further reduction to hydrocarbons (ethylene) and alcohols (ethanol). The researchers varied the Ag/Cu ratio and the Ag particle sizes in the composites to increase the CO influx from Ag to the active sites on the Cu material. 9b05319.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 13, 2009

billion grant is for “Carbon Capture and Sequestration from Industrial Sources and Innovative Concepts for Beneficial CO 2 Use”. The FOA is seeking proposals for projects in two specific Technology Areas: (1) Large-scale industrial CCS projects from industrial sources and (2) Innovative concepts for beneficial CO 2 use. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 6, 2014

In the study, the team called fuels produced by the conversion of CO 2 into liquid hydrocarbon fuels using proven technologies “synthetic fuels”, and fuels produced via a production route that uses solar energy “solar fuels”. Producing fuels from CO 2 by using solar electricity converts solar energy into easily stored chemical energy.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 10, 2016

Although the concept of using CO 2 as a feedstock for renewable multi-carbon compounds and synthetic fuels is attractive, practical implementation has been hampered by the difficulty of forming carbon–carbon (C–C) bonds efficiently. One approach is to convert fructose from corn syrup into FDCA.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 10, 2015

Natural photosynthesis, which harvests 130 TW of solar energy to generate up to 115 billion metric tons of biomass annually from the reduction of CO 2 , provides motivation for the development of artificial systems that can capture the energy of the sun to convert CO 2 and H 2 O to value-added chemicals of societal benefit. —Liu et al.

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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

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

However, they currently operate using ethanol fuel, converted into hydrogen and carbon monoxide prior to entering the fuel cell in a process called reforming. Developments from the project may be useful for other energy conversion technologies, such as ammonia production and high-temperature direct liquid fuel cells.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 7, 2009

ARPA-E is seeking new ways to make liquid transportation fuels—without using petroleum or biomass—by using microorganisms to harness chemical or electrical energy to convert carbon dioxide into liquid fuels.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

An international research team has now copied this principle, and used nanoparticles to convert carbon dioxide into ethanol and propanol. In order to imitate this concept, the researchers synthesized a particle with a silver core surrounded by a porous layer of copper. However, they require considerably more energy.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 3, 2016

One way to mitigate high feedstock cost is to maximize conversion into the bioproduct of interest. This maximization, though, is limited because of the production of CO 2 during the conversion of sugar into acetyl-CoA in traditional fermentation processes. The concept of mixotrophy and its demonstration. (a,b)

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 20, 2009

Concept for hydrogen gas coproduction from cellulosic ethanol byproduct streams. Conventional steam reforming is not sufficiently reactive to convert biomass constituents to H 2 and CO 2. They found that: The carbon in xylose was completely reformed to H 2 -rich gas (62% H2, 34% CO2) by supercritical water at 250 bar.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 15, 2021

As a result, there is a critical need to create new pathways for biofuel conversion that reduces carbon waste, prevents the loss of CO 2 emissions, and in turn, maximizes the amount of renewable fuel a conversion process yields. The awardees are: LanzaTech, Inc. Carbon-Negative Chemical Production Platform - $4,160,262.57.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 16, 2009

Researchers at the US Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) led off a day-long symposium on advances in CO 2 conversion and utilization being held at the 238 th American Chemical Society (ACS) national meeting, which began today in Washington, DC. This catalyst converts the feed gas predominantly to methane under all conditions (ca.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 13, 2022

Vertimass and European Energy have completed a Letter of Intent (LOI) to integrate technologies for capturing carbon dioxide and converting it into hydrocarbon products around the world. The team completed an initial proof of concept laboratory research for coupling their technologies earlier this year.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 7, 2012

Walter Leitner at the RWTH Aachen University, Germany, has developed a new concept that can be used to produce pure formic acid from CO 2 in a continuous process using catalytic hydrogenation. A number of approaches for converting CO 2 to methanol (CH 3 OH) have been developed. Wesselbaum et al. Click to enlarge. A team led by Prof.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 11, 2016

The S-CO 2 Brayton cycle was proposed as a power conversion system to achieve a compact and lightweight module. The use of s-CO 2 as the working fluid in a Brayton cycle requires less work to convert a given thermal input to electricity. The core has long life (20 years) without refueling as well as inherent safety features.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 26, 2014

Israel-based NewCO2Fuels (NCF), a subsidiary of GreenEarth Energy Limited in Australia, reported completion of stage 1 testing of its proof-of-concept system for the conversion of CO 2 into fuels using solar energy. in power plants), or converted to liquid fuel (e.g., Concept of the NCF process. Click to enlarge.

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My Electric Car

AUGUST 21, 2020

In addition, it is subject to similar refining, storage and distribution costs currently associated with petrol and diesel, including upstream CO2 emissions where the electricity required is usually generated from fossil fuels. 2011,p66) [3] and Tesla’s Elon Musk has called the concept of hydrogen FCEVs as “incredibly dumb” [5].

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 25, 2009

During normal operation, the advantages of this concept can be seen in the absence of turbo lag, a good torque curve across the entire engine speed range, spontaneous throttle response and noticeably improved performance. 1 (Lambda = 1), which is important for emission control by means of three-way catalytic converter.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

streamline the process by which green plants convert carbon. production of oil, which is stored in seeds and is convertible to. plants, and it is a liquid that can be extracted readily, separated, and converted into biodiesel fuel. converted into a fuel mixture that is comparable to diesel or. The team will. field trials.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 17, 2009

The company is currently focusing on plans to plug the gap between the current market and a future when electric cars hit the mainstream, by converting Lotus Elises and Volkswagen (VW) Golfs to electric power. ECE hopes the glamorous image of these conversions will help raise the profile of electric driving.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 11, 2009

RegEnBoost integrates the three devices into a powertrain electrical power network (PEPN), which also incorporates a DC to DC converter and an enhanced lead acid battery, optimized for fast energy storage and release. A final key element of the RegEnBoost concept is the TIGERS turbo-generator.

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Get Electric Vehicle

APRIL 8, 2022

The concept of individual mobility grew during the pandemic. Though people like EVs, it is not get converted into sales. Most automakers have aggressive EV expansion goals in response to increasingly strict CO2 legislation and the expected large penalty for noncompliance. The Regulatory Landscape.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 28, 2009

Reply ↓ ↑ report 6 CaramelZappa 3:20AM (4/23/2009) Yea, you COULD convert a lotus for $10k but the conversion wouldnt be terribly satisfying. link] This guy has a very nice looking conversion, he managed to do it for about 25k. So, Nimrod, didnt you realize that FCVs would cause CO2 emissions as well?

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Audi Volkswagen-owned company exploring PHEVs Metroproject Quattro Sub-compact PHEV Concept Car shown October 2007; PHEV of A1 Sportback under consideration Bright Automotive For-profit spin off from Rocky Mountain Institute designing lightweight PHEVs, successor to RMIs 1990s "Hypercar" concept. Has shown some concept fuel-cell PHEVs.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Sven Thesen, the communication and technology director for Better Place , a start-up that is gaining traction (see this recent New York Times article ) in its effort to create a network for electric cars in various countries, likened the concept of electric cars to cellphones. Fifteen years ago, how many people had a cellphone?”

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