Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

In fall of 2021, Honda will secure an additional 482,000 MWh/year from 200 MW of solar power generated from a Texas solar facility. Additional details of the Texas solar facility will be disclosed in 2020 when it is nearer to completion. will deliver to the grid by the end of 2020.

Purchase

Green Car Congress

JULY 22, 2011

Summit Power Group, LLC and Blue Strategies, LLC have signed a 15-year CO 2 offtake agreement with Whiting Petroleum Corporation for some of the CO 2 that will be captured by Summit’s Texas Clean Energy Project ( TCEP ), a coal gasification with carbon capture polygen project being developed in Penwell, Texas, outside Odessa.

Coal

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 12, 2017

Air Products and Chemicals designed, built, and is operating the state-of-the-art CO 2 -capture and storage system at their hydrogen-production facility located at the Valero Port Arthur Refinery in Port Arthur, Texas. The CO 2 captured from the Port Arthur facility is being used for EOR at the West Hastings Unit oil field in southeast Texas.

CO2

Green Car Congress

MARCH 26, 2014

The new Lobos Pipeline will have an initial capacity of 300 million standard cubic feet per day and will support current and future enhanced oil recovery (EOR) projects owned by Kinder Morgan and other operators in the Permian Basin of West Texas and eastern New Mexico.

CO2

Green Car Congress

MAY 25, 2011

A report from MIT and The University of Texas at Austin urges the US to accelerate efforts to pursue carbon capture and storage (CCS) in combination with enhanced oil recovery (EOR), a practice that could increase domestic oil production while significantly curbing emissions of carbon dioxide. -EOR System. common with CO 2. Click to enlarge.

MIT

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 8, 2011

Scientists from the University of Texas at Austin will analyze the environmental impacts of the process over its entire life span. The CO 2 will come from a pipeline operated by Texas-based Denbury Resources. The site’s three-kilometer deep reservoir has proven to be an ideal site for carbon sequestration.

Energy

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MARCH 6, 2017

Researchers with the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Texas A&M University, led by Dr. Ying Li, associate professor of mechanical engineering, are developing a photocatalyst to convert CO 2 into renewable hydrocarbon fuels.

Renewable

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AUGUST 25, 2009

Fusion Petroleum Technologies , The Woodlands, Texas. University of Texas at Austin, Bureau of Economic Geology , Austin, Texas. The model will be applied to the SACROC field site in Texas and two other known CO 2 geologic storage sites. University of Texas at Austin, Bureau of Economic Geology , Austin, Texas.

CO2

Green Car Congress

MAY 13, 2013

Air Products’ carbon capture project in Port Arthur, Texas captures 90% of the CO 2 via Vacuum Swing Adsorption from 2 steam-methane reformers (SMRs) yielding 1,000,000 tons CO 2 /year. The technology in the demo—the first of its kind operating at such a large scale—has not been accomplished anywhere else in the United States.

Oil

Green Car Congress

MAY 14, 2013

Topping the list for absolute emissions in 2010 was Texas (652.6 million tonnes CO 2 ), followed by Texas (194.9 million tonnes in Texas (8.3%). Factors such as size, population density, available fuels, types of businesses, climate, all play a role in both total and per capita emissions, the EIA noted. tonnes/person).

2010

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

The company has also proven the direct production of ethanol via the same process at a rate of 10,000 gallons/acre/year, 40% of its ultimate productivity target, and pilot operations are underway in Leander, Texas.

Diesel

Green Car Congress

JULY 14, 2009

A third proposed gasification plant with which Denbury has a CO2 purchase contract, was also selected by the loan guarantee program. The potential pipeline project would likely take from four to five years to complete. Denbury Resources Inc.

CO2

Green Car Congress

JULY 1, 2015

When considering GHG reductions alone, this would mean the western US and Texas (where there is high confidence that GHG emissions of the Nissan LEAF are lower than the best gasoline vehicles) and in Florida and New England (where the LEAF also likely has lower GHG emissions). Among the findings were that: delayed charging (i.e., Mili-Ann M.

Prius

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 12, 2010

The Woodlands, Texas) This study will evaluate the applicability of the experimental design/response surface method, sensitivity analysis, and optimization method on the many factors that affect the successful characterization, engineering design and operation of a saline formation site. Fusion Petroleum Technologies , Inc.

CO2

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JUNE 21, 2010

The validation phase (2005–2010) generally involves small-scale field tests and includes the Black Warrior Basin CO2 Storage Project. The characterization phase (2003–2005), which defined opportunities for carbon capture and storage, has been completed.

Alabama

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 7, 2016

Researchers at The University of Texas at Arlington have been the first to demonstrate that polyaniline (PANI), a member of the organic conducting polymer family, is a promising photocathode material for the conversion of carbon dioxide into alcohol fuels without the need for a co-catalyst.

Arlington

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Koch School of Chemical Engineering Practice at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; and Yuanyue Liu, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Texas at Austin. We intend to build an electrochemical modular system as a platform for a continuous conversion process of simulated flue gas to pure liquid fuels.

Conversion

Green Car Congress

JULY 22, 2010

cement manufacturing plant in San Antonio, Texas. Alcoa will demonstrate and optimize the process at their Point Comfort, Texas aluminum refining plant. Solid carbonates are ideal for long-term, safe aboveground storage without pipelines, subterranean injection, or concern about CO 2 re-release to the atmosphere.

Conversion

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

The Scuderi Group commissioned Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) in San Antonio, Texas, to generate a representative average vehicle in this class with technical data from these models and use this as the basis for a comparison simulation according to the new European driving cycle (NEDC).

MPG

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 7, 2009

Dow has posted a short video clip outlining its partnership with Algenol Biofuels to build a pilot-scale algae-based integrated biorefinery that will produce ethanol, located at Dow’s Freeport, Texas site. Earlier post.).

CO2

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 14, 2009

billion tons of CO2 in the coal seams while increasing natural gas production up to 2.5 The site was selected because it is representative of the Central Appalachian Basin, an area of about 10,000 square miles located in southern West Virginia and southwestern Virginia. trillion cubic feet.

Virginia

Electrek

APRIL 4, 2023

A leading pest control agency in Texas, SafeHaven, in collaboration with Merge Electric Fleet Solutions, announced Tuesday that its EV pilot program found that deploying a Ford F-150 Lightning reduced CO2 emissions by 78% compared to its current Ford pickup.

F-150

CleanTechnica EVs

OCTOBER 13, 2021

That's why Tesla's move to Texas seems so contradictory and is worrying environmental, social, and governance-focused investors. Tesla is a disruptive force that is changing the way the entire world engages in energy consumption.

Texas

Green Car Congress

JUNE 19, 2010

Parish Generating Station located in Thompsons, Texas. The University of Texas will contribute their expertise to the project by developing and testing an advanced solvent used to capture the carbon dioxide.

Carbon

Green Car Congress

JULY 30, 2011

The team includes four other universities, three national laboratories and five private sector companies and has experience with carbon storage projects in Washington, Wyoming, Canada, Illinois, Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi and internationally. Three companies, Vecta Oil and Gas, SR2020 Inc.

Montana

Green Car Congress

MARCH 2, 2010

Plano, Texas); the Geological Survey of Alabama (Tuscaloosa, Ala.); Project performers include the University of Alabama at Birmingham (Birmingham, Ala); Alabama Agricultural and Mechanical University (Normal, Ala.); Denbury Resources Inc. Southern Company, (Birmingham, Ala.); the University of Alabama (Tuscaloosa, Ala.);

Alabama

Green Car Congress

APRIL 23, 2015

in Port Arthur, Texas, is demonstrating a system to capture carbon emissions from two steam methane reformers used to produce hydrogen. The CO 2 , in compressed form, is then delivered by pipeline to enhanced oil recovery projects in eastern Texas. One DOE supported project alone has now captured nearly 2 million metric tons of CO 2.

Carbon

Green Car Congress

JULY 27, 2015

Researchers at Texas A&M have developed a two-step, one-pot conversion of CO 2 and epoxides (highly reactive compounds with a three-membered ring made of two carbon atoms and one oxygen atom) to polycarbonate block copolymers that contain both water-soluble and hydrophobic regions and can aggregate into nanoparticles or micelles.

Conversion

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OCTOBER 22, 2009

The Department of Energy (DOE) recently awarded The University of Texas at El Paso grants totaling nearly $1.3 million for research to improve the efficiency of engines and creating technologies for detecting, capturing and storing carbon emissions. Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering Chintalapalle V. Ramana, Ph.D.,

El Paso

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JUNE 7, 2012

Other co-authors of the paper are Allison Crimmins of UCSC and the US Environmental Protection Agency; Petra Dekens of UCSC and San Francisco State University; Heather Ford of UCSC; Mitch Lyle of Texas A&M University; and Michael Wara of UCSC and Stanford University. Jonathan P. LaRiviere, A. Christina Ravelo, Allison Crimmins, Petra S.

Water

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

the “Company”) and will be headquartered in Plano, Texas. Denbury Resources Inc. and Encore Acquisition Company have entered into a definitive merger agreement pursuant to which Denbury will acquire Encore in a transaction valued at approximately $4.5 The combined company will continue to be known as Denbury Resources Inc.

Oil

Green Car Congress

APRIL 22, 2016

24 ] Texas A&M-led team identifies synthetic hydrocarbon pathway in green alga B. | Greentech Media 12 May 2015. [ 20 ] EDI-Drive PHEV Powertrain - Efficient Drivetrains, Inc. [ 21 ] Cleaner Cars from Cradle to Grave - Union of Concerned Scientists, Nov 2015. [ braunii - Green Car Congress 07 April 2016. [

Clean

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OCTOBER 24, 2017

This would be a massive undertaking, involving the conversion of hundreds of thousands of square miles—at its most ambitious, more than the combined land area of Texas and California—to sugarcane fields.

Brazil

Green Car Congress

MARCH 27, 2017

Stuart Licht ( earlier post ) have developed a new process that transforms CO 2 into a controlled selection of nanotubes (CNTs) via molten electrolysis; they call the process C2CNT (CO2 into carbon nanotubes). This synthesis consumes only CO 2 and electricity, and is constrained only by the cost of electricity.

CO2

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

Researchers at the University of Texas at Arlington have demonstrated a new solar process for the one-step, gas-phase conversion of CO 2 and H 2 O to C 5+ liquid hydrocarbons and O 2 by operating the photocatalytic reaction at elevated temperatures and pressures.

Solar

Green Car Congress

APRIL 2, 2016

The team collaborated with Ankit Srivastava, an assistant professor at Texas A&M’s material science and engineering department to develop a simple mathematical model for explaining how the hierarchical nanostructure can result in the exceptionally high strength.

Fuel Economy

Baua Electric

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Photo: Enel North America Enel North America has signed a 12-year power purchase agreement (PPA) with food and beverage giant Tate & Lyle North America for clean power from Texas wind. It can power the equivalent of 94,000 US households annually, and helps avoid over 363,000 metric tons of CO2 annually.

Wind