Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

Audi has set the goal of successively reducing vehicle-specific CO 2 emissions by 30% by 2025 compared with reference year 2015 and over the entire product lifecycle. In the long term, Audi is pursuing the vision of CO2-neutral mobility and aims to be climate-neutral throughout the company on balance by 2050. 97.9 - 111.9

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 12, 2022

Landsvirkjun , The National Power Company of Iceland, and German investment company PCC SE have agreed to explore the possibility of capturing and utilizing carbon emissions from PCC’s silicon metal plant in northeast Iceland. Carbon emissions will be utilized to produce green methanol that can, for example, replace fossil fuel in ships.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 22, 2021

Researchers at the Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) have designed a membrane-free (MF) Mg-CO 2 battery as an advanced approach to sequester CO 2 emissions by generating electricity and value-added chemicals without any harmful by-products. A paper on the work is published in the journal Nano Energy.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 13, 2023

United States Steel Corporation and CarbonFree Chemicals Holdings, LLC (CarbonFree) recently signed a non-binding Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) jointly to pursue the capture of CO 2 emissions generated from US Steel’s Gary Works manufacturing plant using CarbonFree’s SkyCycle technology. million net tons of raw steel per year.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 17, 2022

The rising CO2 levels in our atmosphere and their contribution to global warming is now common news. As researchers experiment with different ways to battle this problem, one efficient solution has emerged—converting excess atmospheric CO2 into energy-rich chemicals. FeOOH; geothite).

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Recent research in electrocatalytic CO 2 conversion points the way to using CO 2 as a feedstock and renewable electricity as an energy supply for the synthesis of different types of fuel and value-added chemicals such as ethylene, ethanol, and propane. Their paper is published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

The first project, Katingan Mentaya , a forest protection project on the Indonesian island of Borneo, compensates for the currently still unavoidable CO 2 emissions from the supply chain, production and delivery of the new Volkswagen e-vehicle ID.3, 3, as well as emissions from other areas.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 30, 2020

Grey emissions are below 10%, which means that out of 100 tons of carbon dioxide that the machines capture from the air, 90 tons are permanently removed and only 10 tons are re-emitted. Climeworks machines consist of modular CO 2 collectors that can be stacked to build machines of any size.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 26, 2022

DOE’s Advanced Manufacturing Office has selected seven projects in the HPC4Mfg program focused on the following topics: Reductions in CO 2 or CO 2 -equivalent emissions through electrification, improved carbon-capturing processes, and the integration of low-to-zero carbon fuels. and carbon emissions reduction of products of interest.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 8, 2023

Montauk Renewables —a renewable energy company specializing in the management, recovery and conversion of biogas into RNG—and its subsidiary Montauk Energy Holdings signed a Letter of Intent (LOI) with EE North America, a North American subsidiary of Denmark–based European Energy , to deliver all biogenic CO 2 volumes from all its Texas (..)

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 8, 2021

In a paper published in the journal Joule , they suggest that the results show great potential for the electrocatalytic conversion of CO 2 into value-added chemicals. Electrochemical reduction of carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) is a promising approach to solve both renewable energy storage and carbon-neutral energy cycle.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 5, 2016

A team from CoorsTek Membrane Sciences, the University of Oslo (Norway), and the Instituto de Tecnología Química (ITQ) (Spain) has developed a new process for the direct, non-oxidative conversion of methane to liquids—reducing cost, eliminating multiple process steps, and avoiding CO 2 emissions. Resources. Morejudo, R.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 3, 2016

They used currently achievable performance levels for the system components—electrolyzers and the Fischer−Tropsch process—to compute key metrics, including (i) cost of the synthetic fuel; (ii) well-to-gate CO 2 emissions; and (iii) overall energy efficiency. The major findings were: The final cost varies from $3.80 6b00665.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 25, 2023

The US Department of Energy (DOE) launched the Clean Fuels & Products Shot , a new initiative that aims to reduce greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs) from carbon-based fuels and products significantly. Biomass and waste conversion technologies designed to use green electricity and hydrogen to maximize carbon retention in products.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 30, 2020

This is an important development because there is little time available to reduce CO 2 emissions sufficiently to avoid the worst effects of climate change. The conversion of CO 2 to fuels in these inexpensive water-based systems has shown high faradic efficiencies for reduction of CO 2. —Rob McGinnis. —Rob McGinnis.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 21, 2014

40.7%, with total CO 2 emissions reduced by 82.0?88.4%, This results in a decrease in total CO 2 emissions to less than 5g CO 2 /MJ F-T product, compared to a range of 27.0 T synthesis catalysts are beneficial for CO 2 conversion. and thermal efficiency by 15.7?40.7%, 88.4%, compared to different conventional F-T processes.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 13, 2020

In addition to reducing carbon emissions, Yu believes this technology has the potential to generate clean energy in remote places or after natural disasters. In those areas, we can use this technology to capture CO2 from the air and then combine that with the hydrogen generated from solar energy in order to produce liquid fuel.

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CO2 Carbon Grant Solar 305

Green Car Congress

MARCH 4, 2022

Carbon transformation company Twelve and biotechnology company LanzaTech have transformed CO 2 emissions into ethanol as a part of an ongoing research and development partnership. This approach is highly scalable and could ultimately produce ethanol at an industrial scale, while simultaneously eliminating CO 2 emissions.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

The particles can be produced at an industrial scale at a low cost, and with minimal environmental impact, providing an attractive pathway toward reducing the world’s greenhouse emissions. Baddour from NREL and Richard Brutchey, professor of Chemistry at USC. Their work was published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society.

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Hydrogen Emissions CO2 Fuel 221

Green Car Congress

JUNE 29, 2019

The prize recognizes promising projects that reduce greenhouse gas emissions or promote carbon uptake. African Clean Energy (Lesotho) produces cookstoves that reduce smoke emissions and solar electricity for small electronics and LED lighting. Clean Energy Works (Washington, D.C.)

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 15, 2020

2020) “CO2 electrolysis to multicarbon products at activities greater than 1 A cm -2.” The researchers are now working on further increasing the efficiency of the system and its stability, which, although now at about tens of hours, is still far from the thousands of operating hours of the water electrolyzers. Resources. Science Vol.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

Bi 0.73 ) achieved 95% methane conversion at 1065°C in a 1.1-meter Under these conditions, the equilibrium conversion is 98%. When the temperature was reduced to 1040 °C, the CH 4 conversion decreased to 86%. Higher conversions, at higher temperatures, were not possible because of Mg evaporation. —Upham et al.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 24, 2022

AUDI AG and the Austria-based green tech company Krajete GmbH are jointly developing new technologies for filtering emissions from ambient air. In addition to robust adsorber materials, these direct air capturing technologies (DAC) are based, above all, on innovative processes. They make far-reaching energy and cost reductions possible.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 20, 2012

CO 2 per capita emissions from fossil fuel use and cement production from the top 5 emitting regions. Global emissions of CO 2 increased by 3% last year, according to the annual report “Trends in global CO 2 emissions”, released by the EC Joint Research Centre (JRC) and the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (PBL).

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 11, 2017

Our study confirms the highly promising potential of a photothermocatalytic strategy for the conversion of CO2 and potentially opens new vistas for the development of other solar-energy-driven reaction systems. —Jinhua Ye. Dr. Jinhua Ye has been working on advanced photocatalytic materials for 20 years.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 19, 2021

billion tons of CO 2 emissions per year and represents one of the hardest-to-abate sectors, since it is technically unfeasible to electrify long-haul planes at scale due to power density challenges. Global aviation produces 1.2 For the USAF project, Twelve and EFT upgrade the syngas to aviation fuel.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 7, 2020

Researchers at the University of Surrey (UK) are to begin work on a new lithium-ion battery technology that is capable of capturing CO 2 emissions, following a £243,689 award from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC).

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Li-ion CO2 Batteries Battery 333

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 25, 2021

The primary objective of carbon utilization technology development is to lower the near-term cost of carbon capture through the creation of value-added products from the conversion of carbon dioxide.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 11, 2023

The development of this new electrode material is a significant step towards achieving these goals, as it not only enhances battery performance, but also helps to mitigate the impact of carbon emissions on the environment.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

XPRIZE Chairman and CEO Peter Diamandis competition the $20-million NRG COSIA Carbon XPRIZE , a competition to address CO 2 emissions from fossil fuels. Carbon is a unique challenge in that as we move toward a low to zero-emission future, we’ll need to continue using fossil fuels to meet current energy demands.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 25, 2019

BASF researchers have developed a process to produce methanol without any greenhouse gas emissions. If it can be successfully implemented at an industrial scale, the entire production process – from syngas production to pure methanol – will no longer release any carbon dioxide emissions.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 19, 2022

Sixty percent of the carbon emissions in the cement production process come from the chemical reaction that occurs in cement kilns. To reach carbon neutrality, these emissions must be captured, stored, or repurposed in some way.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Vastly expanding sugarcane production in Brazil for conversion to ethanol could reduce current global CO 2 emissions by as much as 5.6%, according to a new study by an international team led by researchers from the University of Illinois. of net CO 2 emission globally relative to data for 2014. Gigatons yr −1.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 15, 2020

The calculations of reaction energetics suggest that Cu and Fe in the binary system can work in synergy to significantly deform the linear configuration of CO 2 and reduce the high energy barrier by stabilizing the reaction intermediates, thus spontaneously favoring CO 2 activation and conversion for methane synthesis.

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CO2 Carbon Solar Hydrogen 349

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 24, 2020

The results, reported in the journal Nature Energy , represent a new method for the conversion of carbon dioxide into clean fuels. Harvesting solar energy to convert carbon dioxide into fuel is a promising way to reduce carbon emissions and transition away from fossil fuels.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 3, 2020

During the 42-month project, innovative materials and efficient systems for capturing CO 2 from post-combustion industrial emissions were developed. In particular, materials such as modified-graphene aerogels and metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) have shown very good CO 2 capture capacities and greater selectivity than traditional adsorbents.

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CleanTechnica EVs

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Local governments in France are taking more and more action to lower CO2 emissions inside cities, driving demand for electric vehicles. Sales of new plug-in vehicles in January in France saw the market share grow by 50%. But with more than 1.5

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