Green Car Congress

JANUARY 14, 2022

Researchers at MIT have identified , quantified, and modeled a major reason for the poor performance of electroreduction processes to convert CO 2 to fuel or other useful chemicals. The findings could spur progress on developing a variety of materials and designs for electrochemical carbon dioxide conversion systems.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

Scientists at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have harnessed the power of photosynthesis to convert carbon dioxide into fuels and alcohols at efficiencies far greater than plants. The initial focus of JCAP research was tackling the efficient splitting of water in the photosynthesis process.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 11, 2017

Researchers in Japan and China developed an efficient method for CO 2 reduction over elemental boron catalysts in the presence of only water and light irradiation through a photothermocatalytic process. At this temperature it reacts with water, forming hydrogen and boron oxides in situ.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 2, 2018

An international research team has developed a new single-atom electrocatalyst that efficiently converts CO 2 to carbon monoxide (CO). The anion membrane electrode assembly prevented the direct contact between the catalyst and liquid water, maximally suppressing the H 2 evolution side reaction and facilitating the CO 2 mass transport.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 31, 2017

An international research team led by scientists at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore have developed a light-activated material that can chemically convert carbon dioxide into carbon monoxide without generating unwanted byproducts.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

Duke University researchers have engineered rhodium nanoparticles that can harness the energy in ultraviolet light and use it to catalyze the conversion of carbon dioxide to methane, a key building block for many types of fuels. An open-access paper on the work is published in Nature Communications. —Zhang et al.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 3, 2014

Toshiba Corporation has developed a new technology that uses solar energy directly to generate carbon compounds from carbon dioxide and water, and to deliver a viable chemical feedstock or fuel with potential for use in industry. Mechanism of the technology. Source: Toshiba. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 10, 2019

The modified photocatalyst converted sunlight to fuel with a maximum efficiency of 3.3% Carbon dioxide gas and water vapor moved through the chamber, passing over the catalyst. over 30-minute periods. The team developed a novel set-up to measure accurately the catalyst’s photoconversion efficiency. Credit ©DGIST. Grimes, Craig A.

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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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Green Car Congress

APRIL 10, 2015

Researchers at UC Berkeley have developed an artificial photosynthetic scheme for the direct solar-powered production of value-added chemicals from CO 2 and water using a two-step process involving a biocompatible light-capturing nanowire array with a direct interface with microbial systems. —Liu et al. —Liu et al.

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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

MAY 16, 2018

Today, new plants in Europe are already planned with a CO2-neutral energy supply from the start. With a CO2-neutral energy supply of the plants, we are consistently pursuing this approach and are actively driving sustainability in production. The decision also fits with our overall strategy.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 21, 2014

At this moment, it is very important to render the GTL technology more efficient because we do not need to disturb ourselves to change the energy-related infrastructure and the transportation vehicles already fitted to petroleum if we can effectively convert natural gas to the clean liquid fuels and useful basic chemicals. —Zhang et al.

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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. under concentrated solar light illumination.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 1, 2016

They also applied this catalyst in a light-harvesting artificial leaf platform that concurrently oxidized water in the absence of any external potential. In the first step, incoming photons are converted to pairs of negatively-charged electrons and corresponding positively charged “holes” that then separate from each other.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 4, 2014

This system allowed the researchers to very efficiently convert CO 2 to CO and methane (CH 4 ), as well as other hydrocarbons. Under UV/Vis-light illumination, a CO production rate of 138.6 If water is used as the hydrogen source instead, the catalytic system is rapidly deactivated. ppm cm -2 h -1 (3.77 ppm cm -2 h -1 (725.4

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 8, 2010

In this project, the carbon in carbon dioxide is converted into climate neutral fuels with the aid of sunlight. Jan Schoeneboom to develop an air-and light-stable combination of dyes and functionalized nanoscale semiconductor particles. Photocatalysis is used to convert the carbon dioxide together with water into methanol.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 11, 2019

By using light-activated quantum dots to fire particular enzymes within microbial cells, the researchers were able to create “living factories” that eat CO 2 and convert it into products such as biodegradable plastic, gasoline, ammonia and biodiesel. Therefore, these resting cells function as nano-microbial factories powered by light.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 31, 2014

For example, the iron demand is less because the share of steel is less, while the bauxite demand increases because of the higher light alloy share. Electric water pump, which makes on-demand operation possible (C 180 and C 200). Where energy resources are concerned, lignite, hard coal and uranium figure principally in car production.

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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

SEPTEMBER 5, 2009

Light harvesting can use various optical concentrators and beam splitters can redirect sub-bandgap radiation away from the PV onto the electrolyzer. It can also convert captured anthropogenic CO 2 , generated by burning fossil fuels, to CO and O 2 via high-temperature electrolysis. Licht, 2009. Click to enlarge. Licht, 2009.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

If successful, the proposed technology will offer light- and heavy-duty vehicle manufacturers a cost-effective solution to improve vehicle fuel efficiency and reduce transportation carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) emissions. In this project, UC San Diego will develop a modular power converter matrix to control power flow to connected battery modules.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 19, 2015

In a study investigating the effect of the water and free fatty acid (FFA) content in waste chicken fat from poultry processing plants on the production of renewable diesel (not biodiesel), researchers in Thailand have found that both higher FFA and water content improved the biohydrogenated diesel (BHD) yield. 1, a water content 0?4

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Low Cost Waste Diesel Renewable 150

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 26, 2009

The conversion of biomass into bio-oil using fast pyrolysis technology is a promising alternative to convert biomass into liquid products—either for direct use or for easier transport and upgrading into higher value products. Multi-stage condensation achieved a good separation of the oil fraction and water. Credit: ACS, Zhang et al.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 29, 2010

Soot could be further reduced by converting vehicles to run on renewable electric power. Black carbon converts sunlight to heat and radiates it back to the air around it. Black carbon can also absorb light reflecting from the surface, which helps make it such a potent warming agent. Dessler et al.,

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EV Info

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Note the clarification of Zero Co2 at the point of use. Most of the hydrogen on Earth exists in molecular forms such as water and organic compounds. We can’t just dig Hydrogen up from the ground we must create hydrogen from either Water or from organic compounds, and this requires a lot of energy. Zero CO 2 at point of use.”

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

For decades, Sasol has been using its Fischer-Tropsch (FT) technology to convert low-grade coal and gas into synthetic fuels and chemicals. There are two ways to convert CO 2 into a useful range of products using FT chemistry. The synthesis gas is then reacted over a suitable FT catalyst, to produce hydrocarbons and water.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 12, 2009

Even a highly efficient combustion engine converts only about one-third of the energy in the fuel into traction actually propelling the car. The remaining two-thirds are lost as waste heat going into the environment through the car’s exhaust emissions and through the radiator.

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Get Electric Vehicle

APRIL 18, 2022

To put it another way, instead of splitting water into hydrogen and oxygen with electricity, these two components are joined to make water and electricity The electricity is then utilized to power the car’s drive train, leaving just water as a waste product. Green Hydrogen & Its Production.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 25, 2016

CH 4 in this case) from CO 2 in one enzymatic step using light energy. An essential process for life and an important step in the biogeochemical nitrogen cycle is nitrogen fixation by nitrogenase, in which nitrogen gas (N 2 ) is converted to ammonia (NH 3 ).… Fixen et al. Metabolic route of CH 4 production by an engineered strain of R.

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Light Engine CO2 Carbon 150

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

Includes replacement of lighting fixtures, control systems, and roof upgrades at selected facilities. Ultra-light Zero Emissions Buses: Replaces two of Flint MTA diesel buses with advanced all-electric Zero-Emissions GTB-40 buses from Fisher Coachworks. Flint Mass Transportation Authority, Michigan: $2,200,000.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 3, 2016

Consequently, first and second generation bioproduct manufacturing processes are economically challenged, particularly in light of recent low oil prices. The percentage of acetate labelled with 13 C is shown in light blue for each time point. of two biological replicates is shown in black error bars. Jones et al. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

We are the first to use both light and heat to synthesize liquid hydrocarbons in a single stage reactor from carbon dioxide and water. Hydrogen, carbon monoxide, C 1 hydrocarbons, and syngas are the most commonly produced fuels and are derived from water or water and CO 2.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 16, 2009

Robert Dorner and his colleagues are looking at converting CO 2 and hydrogen (both won from sea-water) over catalysts, using the CO 2 as a building block to form synthetic fuel. This catalyst converts the feed gas predominantly to methane under all conditions (ca.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

Significantly to reduce the CO 2 intensity and water use of its manufacturing operations. At the Suzuka Factory, they solved this problem by developing a new paint specifically for the middle coat that allows a conventional water-based base coat to be applied wet-on-wet after a short pre-drying period. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

By combining several processes and companies under one roof, the Vertically-Integrated Facility for Electric Truck Manufacturing would combine the building of components like advanced converters or battery modules with their assembly into electric drive systems. Project partners will provide $1,000,000 to match the state grant. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 30, 2009

A water-cooled Thermo-Electrical Generator (TEG) is integrated in the exhaust system of BMW Vision EfficientDynamics, serving to convert a lot of the thermal energy contained in the exhaust emissions into electric power. Earlier post.). Performance and fuel consumption. Anticipated acceleration from a standstill to 100 km/h is 4.8

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