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. PtL = Power-to-Liquids.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

MIT researchers have developed a new system that could potentially be used for converting power plant emissions of carbon dioxide into carbon monoxide, and thence into useful fuels for cars, trucks, and planes, as well as into chemical feedstocks for a wide variety of products. Ghoniem’s lab is exploring some of these options.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 30, 2019

Scientists at ETH Zürich and oil and gas company Total have developed a new catalyst that efficiently converts CO 2 and hydrogen directly into methanol. It is possible to convert it into fuels and a wide variety of chemical products, including those that today are mainly based on fossil resources.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 25, 2013

The Audi e-gas plant, which can convert 6MW of input power, utilizes renewable electricity for electrolysis to produce oxygen and hydrogen. Water and oxygen are the only by-products. At this facility, microorganisms use water (brackish, salt or wastewater) sunlight and carbon dioxide to produce high-purity fuels.

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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. At the Tucson site, they are using electricity from the Arizona grid, which gets an increasing amount of power from local solar panels.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 15, 2022

Through the first-of-its-kind agreement, Twelve, Alaska, and Microsoft will work to advance production and use of Twelve’s E-Jet, a low-carbon jet fuel produced by a power-to-liquids process leveraging the company’s carbon transformation technology. 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

JULY 10, 2020

Air Products, ACWA Power and NEOM signed an agreement for a $5-billion world-scale green-hydrogen-based ammonia production facility powered by renewable energy. We are honored and proud to partner with ACWA Power and NEOM and use proven technologies to make the world’s dream of 100 percent green energy a reality.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 13, 2018

A methanation plant expansion to the existing power-to-gas (PtG) facility in Falkenhagen, Germany has officially opened as part of the international €28-million (US$33.5-million) In this second stage, hydrogen from regenerative energy sources is converted into methane (CH 4 ), i.e. synthetic natural gas, using CO 2 from a bio-ethanol plant.

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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. Power-matching electronics allow the system to operate over a range of sun conditions.

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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. This is potentially a very interesting novel pathway to liquid hydrocarbon fuels using focussed solar power. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

The pilot facility offers scope for sector coupling, in other words combining the energy sectors power, heat and mobility, and makes it possible to store renewable energy. Audi e-diesel has the potential to make conventional combustion engines operate almost CO2-neutrally. synthetic methane—for the g-tron models A3, A4 and A5.

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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 3, 2016

In a paper published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society , they reported demonstrating for the first time that CO 2 captured from air can be directly converted to CH 3 OH in 79% yield using the new homogeneous catalytic system. They then heated the solution, converting 79% of the CO 2 into methanol. Click to enlarge.

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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 measures are supported by efficient control of the electrical power supply.

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Germany Mercedes CO2 Supplies 170

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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Iceland CO2 Gasoline Renewable 170

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 19, 2022

Moller - Maersk, the green e-methanol will be used to power the first container vessel that A.P. 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. Under the terms of an agreement European Energy had previously entered into with A.P.

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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.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Over the past few months, we have converted it to DME together with our partner FPT. In addition, the valves and valve seat inserts were converted to materials suitable for DME. The researchers are starting with a medium-load driving style that is common in highway operation, where the engine must deliver 100 kW of power.

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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

APRIL 11, 2019

CO 2 is available in abundance in high concentration in many industrial processes and thermal power plants (here CRI focusing on geothermal power and waste to energy). Methanol purification: In distillation column(s) the crude methanol is separated into methanol (at design purity/quality) and water for re-use or disposal.

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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

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). Johannes Heithoff, Head of Research and Development at RWE Power.

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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. Fuels Hydrogen Production Solar Solar fuels'

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 6, 2017

Ying Li, associate professor of mechanical engineering, are developing a photocatalyst to convert CO 2 into renewable hydrocarbon fuels. One of the challenges with this technology is that the current conversion efficiency of converting CO 2 and water into renewable solar fuels remains low, less than a few percent.

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Renewable Texas Fuel CO2 170

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

JUNE 9, 2017

The pilot plant is coupled to LUT’s solar power plant in Lappeenranta. The total installed power is 206.5 Proton exchange membrane (PEM) water electrolysis is used for hydrogen production. kW solar PV power plant at LUT. Operating temperature of the electrolysis unit is controlled to 70 °C by water cooling.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

Scientists at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have developed a new electrocatalyst that can directly convert carbon dioxide into multicarbon fuels and alcohols using record-low inputs of energy. At top left are transmission electron microscope images of the copper nanoparticles.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 22, 2012

Researchers at the KAIST Graduate School of EEWS (Earth, Environment, Water and Sustainability) in South Korea have demonstrated the direct recovery of methane from massive methane hydrates (MHs), artificial MH-bearing clays, and natural MH-bearing sediments using either CO 2 or a CO 2 /N 2 gas mixture (20?mol?% of CO 2 and 80?mol?%

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

Toshiba has developed a prototype of a highly efficient molecular catalyst that converts carbon dioxide into ethylene glycol, a useful industrial raw material, without producing other and unwanted by-products. Toshiba’s new molecular catalyst converts carbon dioxide into ethylene glycol via multi-electron reduction.

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EV Adoption

MAY 25, 2021

One of the common arguments you hear from people in America who are not fans of the idea of electric vehicles is that they are mostly charged from electricity produced from coal power plants. The argument that EVs are powered mostly from coal simply isn’t true. of EV sales in 2020. of electric vehicle sales in the US.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 11, 2014

volts versus the reversible hydrogen electrode) in CO-saturated alkaline water. For the Nature study, Kanan and Li built an electrochemical cell: two electrodes placed in water saturated with carbon monoxide gas. The challenge was to find a cathode that would reduce carbon monoxide to ethanol instead of reducing water to hydrogen.

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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

JUNE 23, 2013

carbon monoxide evolving catalyst (Bi-CMEC) that can be used in conjunction with ionic liquids to convert CO 2 to carbon monoxide (CO) using electricity. CO can then be reacted with H 2 O via the water?gas Carbon Capture and Conversion (CCC) Fuels Power Generation'

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 9, 2017

Moreover, it is a cheap carbon source which can increase the atom utilization of CO 2 hydrogenation due to the stoichiometric ratio of C and O atoms, as well as reducing the formation of water. … The DBD reactor was connected to an AC high voltage power supply with a maximum peak voltage of 30 kV and a variable frequency of 7-12 kHz.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 8, 2011

The CO 2 will then be pulled to the surface and fed into a turbine that converts heat into electricity. Between five and ten percent of the water injected in these systems is lost as it travels through the pore spaces. As this happens, more water must be added, perhaps from municipal sources that have little to spare.

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Electric Vehicles India

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

” FCEV Technology The FCEV technology uses hydrogen and oxygen to produce electricity that powers an electric motor. The only byproduct of this process is water, making FCEVs a zero-emissions vehicle option and emitting only water vapor. The fuel cell technology reduces CO2 emissions achieving clean energy.

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