Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 22, 2012

Renewable cellulosic fuels and chemicals startup Hyrax Energy has licensed an ionic liquids hydrolysis technology developed in the laboratory of Ron Raines, a University of Wisconsin–Madison biochemistry professor and a Hyrax founder, from the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation ( WARF ). Earlier post.) —Ron Raines.

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DECEMBER 28, 2021

MADNI University of California, Los Angeles “For pioneering contributions to the development and commercialization of innovative sensing and systems technologies, and for distinguished research leadership.” IEEE JUN-ICHI NISHIZAWA MEDAL Sponsor: The Federation of Electric Power Companies , Japan UMESH K. IEEE FRANCES E.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

There are significant challenges for new lightweight and modern metals to reach widespread commercial production. Obama also launched a competition for a new manufacturing innovation institute to build US strength in manufacturing advanced composites, the first of four new competitions to be launched this year. ThermoCalc; TIMET; Trumpf, Inc.;

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 16, 2014

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has announced the 5 winners of the 2014 Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Awards, including biotechnology companies Amyris and Solazyme, Inc. While some companies have engineered traditional biotechnology organisms, such as E. coli bacteria and Saccharomyces (e.g. Professor Shannon S.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 7, 2016

These funds and partnerships will allow Silatronix to capitalize on the commercial value of its portfolio of OS materials in the high-growth LIB market. The capital comes from the company’s existing investors and two strategic partners in Japan with strong business interests in the LIB market: Hitachi Chemical Co.,

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 24, 2013

University of Wisconsin-Madison invests $5 million+ in new institute for materials. Moreover, the DOE Basic Energy Sciences (BES) Program has an active university and national laboratory research portfolio in Predictive Theory and Modeling, with 19 awards made in FY 2012. Harvard debuts database of 2.3

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 18, 2015

Fuel Efficiency Improvements in Passenger Vehicles and Commercial Trucks. Clemson University. The Curators of The University of Missouri. This project will demonstrate a commercially scalable process to fabricate nanocomposite silicon anodes. Analysis and Design Application Company. Boulder Ionics. Ford Motor.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 22, 2010

Azure Dynamics Corporation, which partners with Ford commercial truck dealerships across North America to market its hybrid technology to fleet operators, reports sales of 16 additional Balance Hybrid Electric vans and buses. 1 Balance bus to Bay Area Rural Transit in Ashland, Wisconsin. The bus was sold by Atlas Bus Sales, Inc.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

In 2011, Achates CEO Dave Johnson told Green Car Congress : If you think about Rolf Reitz from the University of Wisconsin, and his reactivity controlled compression ignition [RCCI, earlier post ], basically the industry has looked at the academic studies around dual fuel and said, really cool.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 26, 2021

The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced more than $30 million in federal funding, matched by more than $35 million in private sector funds, for 68 projects that will accelerate the commercialization of promising energy technologies—ranging from clean energy and advanced manufacturing, to building efficiency and next-generation materials.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 10, 2011

Ford Motor Company. Wisconsin Engine Research Consultants LLC. Ford Motor Company. Light-weighting materials : Five projects awarded to accelerate commercial availability of lighter weight vehicles using advanced materials that dramatically reduce vehicle weight while maintaining the highest safety standards. 3M Company.

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JULY 17, 2017

The University of Wisconsin-Madison and ExxonMobil announced a two-year renewal of an agreement to research the fundamental chemistry of converting biomass into transportation fuels. —Vijay Swarup, VP R&D, ExxonMobil Research & Engineering Company. UW-Madison has long been known for its expertise in biomass conversion.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 18, 2019

Researchers from the University of Wisconsin Madison and ExxonMobil Research and Engineering have devised a two-stage process by which an alcohol such as ethanol or 1-butanol can be converted with high yields into distillate-range ethers and olefins by combining Guerbet coupling (the coupling of two alcohol molecules) and intermolecular dehydration.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 26, 2009

Selected projects, by size of award, are: State of Wisconsin’s Wisconsin Clean Transportation Program. Team partners will purchase a total of 191 commercially available light- to heavy-duty alternative-fuel and advanced-technology vehicles. The project also includes construction of a B20 station. Total DOE award: $14,983,167.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 12, 2011

Warburg Pincus LLC, a leading global private equity firm, will invest up to $355 million in First Green, a newly formed enterprise focused on commercializing early-stage advanced technologies in the carbon value chain. commercialize them. commercialize them. and expertise to make these emerging technologies a commercial reality.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 23, 2017

Smart, Compact, Efficient 500kW DC Fast Charger Cree Fayetteville (operating as Wolfspeed, A Cree Company) and its project team will build a DC fast charger for electric vehicles using a solid-state transformer based on silicon carbide (SiC). Marquette University. Northeastern University. Teledyne Scientific Company.

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JUNE 4, 2015

Consolidated bioprocessing technology company Mascoma LLC and the US Department of Energy’s BioEnergy Science Center (BESC) have developed a new strain of yeast that could help significantly accelerate the development of biofuels from nonfood plant matter. —BESC Director Paul Gilna.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 13, 2012

JP-8 is a kerosene-base jet fuel, similar to Jet-A for commercial aviation. Usually large companies are not willing to develop engines specific for JP-8 because it requires significant effort and funding while the market for the military is relatively small and unstable. Currently, notes Kweon, who received his Masters and Ph.D.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

efficiency advantage in June, and a 19% efficiency advantage presented at the SAE Commercial Vehicle Engineering Congress (ComVEC) in September. Earlier post.). Specs for medium-duty Achates engine. 47 kW/cylinder @ 2400 rpm. Max torque. 240 N·m/cylinder @ 1600 rpm. Brake thermal efficiency of 45.1% fuel-specific oil consumption; and.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 18, 2011

Achates has been running single-cylinder research engines in its lab since 2005, racking up some 1,700 hours, Johnson said, noting that the company has demonstrated all of the attributes of the engine, including the ability to meet emissions requirements and controlling oil consumption. of fuel over the majority of the operating range.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2015

It solves the storage problems faced by the electric utility companies in absorbing and adapting to the highly variable power and energy generated by solar and wind. He was formerly with the University of Wisconsin and Rockwell International, and holds a Ph.D. One PHEV company, Efficient Drivetrains Inc.,

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 10, 2010

But in trying to assemble a majority to pass it, Mr. Waxman and Mr. Markey dished out a cornucopia of concessions and exemptions to coal companies, utilities, refiners, heavy industry and agribusinesses. In 2015–expanded to emissions from residential, commercial, and other industrial combustion, and transportation fuels.

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