Green Car Congress

JUNE 9, 2017

Switzerland-based Climeworks, a spin-off from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETH), recently launched the world’s first commercial plant that captures atmospheric CO 2 for supply and sale to a customer. In comparison to other carbon capture technologies, a modular Climeworks plant can be employed almost anywhere.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 26, 2023

Unconventional REE sources such as domestic coal and coal waste could yield the materials needed for the strong magnets necessary to turn wind into electricity and operate electric vehicles. Fritz added that published information on aspects of the stages of commercial REE production is inconsistent.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 16, 2015

Researchers from A*STAR in Singapore have developed a fungal culture for use in a cheap and efficient method to transform waste oil palm material into biofuels and environmentally friendly plastics. The palm oil waste contains cellulose and hemicellulose that can be broken down into sugars for use in fuel and plastic production.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced up to $44 million in funding ( DE-FOA-0002707 ) to support projects developing commercial-ready technologies that give the United States a net-zero or net negative emissions pathway toward increased domestic supplies of critical elements required for the transition to clean energy.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 4, 2009

Comparisons of NO x , CO, soot, and engine brake power using different PS blends with the factory-set injection timings. Researchers at Iowa State University are proposing dissolving waste polystyrene (PS) in biodiesel for use as a diesel engine fuel as a mechanism for energy recovery from the waste plastic. Credit: ACS.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 22, 2022

In comparison, the Brayton cycle has a theoretical conversion efficiency upwards of 50%. We’ve been striving to get here for a number of years, and to be able to demonstrate that we can connect our system through a commercial device to the grid is the first bridge to more efficient electricity generation. —Darryn Fleming.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 16, 2020

The scalable nature of the X-Engine will enable LiquidPiston to grow and tailor our ground power platform to meet the changing needs of the US Army as well as commercial partners. Comparison of LPI systems with currently fielded generators in size and weight. —Alec Shkolnik, CEO and co-founder of LiquidPiston. 2 kW 28VDC.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 15, 2009

Coskata’s semi-commercial facility in Madison, Pa. a syngas to ethanol company, officially launched its semi-commercial “Flexethanol” facility located in Madison, PA. By comparison, the theoretical yield of ethanol from a dry ton of corn is 124.4 Click to enlarge. Coskata Inc., A 1,500-gallon bioreactor at the Madison facility.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 18, 2022

Nearly all commercial hydrogen is produced from natural gas. The low efficiency of available electrolyzers means that most of the energy in the water-splitting step is wasted as heat, rather than being captured in the hydrogen. —Ted Sargent, senior author.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 26, 2016

DOE’s Office of Fossil Energy is seeking these projects as part of the Department’s Carbon Storage program, which has the goal of developing and advancing technologies to improve the effectiveness of carbon storage, reduce the cost of implementation, and be ready for widespread commercial deployment in the 2025–2035 timeframe.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 19, 2010

For all crops, the entire plant was used to facilitate comparison on a total energy basis. Colosi (2010) Environmental Life Cycle Comparison of Algae to Other Bioenergy Feedstocks. The large environmental footprint of algae cultivation is driven predominantly by upstream impacts, such as the demand for CO 2 and fertilizer, they found.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

Ricardo is advancing its work with two novel technologies to improve the efficiency of heavy-duty goods vehicles: a cryogenic split-cycle engine “ CryoPower ” ( earlier post ), and a low-carbon waste-heat powered microwave fuel reformer “ HeatWave II ”. Diesel Engines Fuels Heavy-duty Vehicle Systems Waste Heat Recovery'

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

The first plants start commercial production of advanced biofuels this year. With our new product, Cellic CTec3, and the first plants starting commercial production, this is a huge step forward in the transition from an oil-based economy to a bio-based economy. Both plants will convert municipal solid waste into biofuel.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 20, 2024

The IMO’s previous goal was a 50 percent reduction by 2050 in comparison with 2008 levels. Based on the number of players in the United States that are quite far advanced in their development, like TerraPower, my rough guess is that in 10 years we will see the first commercial civilian vessel with [next-generation] nuclear power,” says Lien.

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Charged EVs

APRIL 1, 2024

Several companies are developing chemical processes, but these are still at pilot scale, and Aqua’s execs see serious challenges in delivering the required product purity and dealing with waste streams. There’s nothing that’s really running at commercial scale. That lowers our costs and lowers our waste streams.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2010

New Zealand-based waste gas and syngas to fuels company LanzaTech ( earlier post ) has attracted US$18 million in Series B financing from investors led by China-focused venture capital firm Qiming Ventures. LanzaTech uses proprietary bacteria to convert industrial waste gases into fuels and chemicals. Gary Reischel.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 8, 2017

Acrylonitrile, a petroleum-derived commodity chemical, is one of the most widely used monomers in the chemical industry with many commercial applications. Moreover, this new high-yield process can utilize non-food biomass, such as agricultural wastes, as a feedstock instead of propylene.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 16, 2010

Cellulosic ethanol produced by grain ethanol producer POET’s Project LIBERTY ( earlier post ) first commercial cellulosic ethanol plant will reduce greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) by 111% relative to gasoline, an independent lifecycle analysis (LCA) compiled by Air Improvement Resource , Inc., gCO 2 eq/MJ. gCO 2 eq/MJ.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 20, 2012

It is also unusual by international comparison in the separation between the rolling stock leasing companies, passenger service and freight operators, and the ownership of the infrastructure and permanent way. The DMU fleet comprises in excess of twenty individual classes of vehicle.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 23, 2020

Approximately 6 billion gallons of fuel are wasted in the US each year as vehicles wait at stop lights or sit in dense traffic with engines idling, according to US Department of Energy estimates. That was a bit of an effort, too, but that’s what it’s all about. —Thomas Karnowski.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 5, 2018

Mercedes-Benz will introduce its 12m battery-electric Citaro bus in September at the IAA Commercial Vehicles show, with the start of series production also taking place this year. F), the energy consumption of a city bus doubles by comparison with journeys where no heating is required—thereby halving the range. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 9, 2016

Navy engineers monitored the performance of the gas-turbine engines and generators while running on petroleum F-76 prior to taking on the ReadiDiesel to establish a baseline for comparison. While operating on 100% ReadiDiesel, the ship successfully completed multiple engine starts and speed changes.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 5, 2010

Included in the 34 FY2010 SBIR Phase I awards are the following biofuel and emissions-reduction projects: Technology Specialists, “Thermochemical Biofuels Production from Biomass Waste Materials”, $70,000. This project will develop and evaluate a new process for converting biomass waste into diesel fuel.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 1, 2024

Several companies are developing chemical processes, but these are still at pilot scale, and Aqua’s execs see serious challenges in delivering the required product purity and dealing with waste streams. There’s nothing that’s really running at commercial scale. That lowers our costs and lowers our waste streams.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 13, 2012

Well-to-wheel GHG estimates for palm hydrotreated renewable diesel (HRD) fuel, with and without direct LUC, and diesel fuel included to enable comparisons. It is important to note that none of the oil recovery processes described in this paper are currently practiced at the commercial scale with algae feedstock. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 5, 2014

Gas chromatography comparison of Conoco fuel and a Conoco-CoolPlanet blend. As each of the following stages heat and compress the biomass, it will outgas commercially viable bio-intermediary compounds that are then taken off to catalytic reaction chambers. Cool Planet’s biogasoline blendstock is 100% compatible with pump gasoline.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 6, 2010

Forest resources (forest thinnings, wood chips, wood wastes, small diameter trees, etc.); Urban wood wastes; Oilseed crops; Animal waste; and. Feedstocks or combinations of feedstocks that will be considered include: Agricultural residues; Energy crops (switchgrass, miscanthus, energycane, sorghum, poplar, willow, etc.);

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Green Car Congress

MAY 26, 2010

Chemists at Brown University have synthesized novel core and shell palladium/iron-platinum (Pd/FePt) nanoparticles that use far less platinum yet perform more efficiently and last longer than commercially available pure-platinum catalysts for the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) in hydrogen fuel cells.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 13, 2011

Although algae can also be grown in salt water and covered ponds, the authors focused on open, freshwater ponds as a benchmark for this study; much of today's commercial algae production is done in open ponds. That means algae can also grow in—and clean— municipal waste water. gallons of water per mile driven.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 21, 2010

IHS CERA’s earlier comparison of 11 publicly available life-cycle analysis studies found that fuel produced from oil sands mining has average well-to–retail pump greenhouse gas emissions 1.3 Oil sands mines produce waste material called tailings; the waste materials have been difficult to reclaim and have grown larger than projected.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 8, 2017

Clean Air Choice actions taken by consumers and by commercial and government fleets to decrease vehicle emissions are vitally important to addressing these public-health issues and improving the quality of life in our communities. Clean transportation plays an important role in improving air quality and lung health.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 25, 2014

Comparison of power loss and fuel consumption among BD, HVO and iso-HVO. For the study, the biodiesel (Fatty Acid Methyl Ester) consisted of a mixture of 80% palm-based methyl ester (PME) and 20% biodiesel derived from waste cooking oil—a typical blending ratio of commercial biodiesel in Korea. Source: Kim et al.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 16, 2010

The goal of this AOI is to support advanced fuels and lubricants technologies that will enable optimal performance of advanced combustion engines for passenger and commercial vehicle applications. Such fuels should be currently available, or have the potential to become, commercially practical within the next 10 years.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

Slowly decompressing the gases would waste less of that energy and make for a much quieter engine. Shedd says the prototype will allow detailed testing of the engine’s actual capabilities, and bring the technology closer to commercialization. —Timothy Shedd. —Tim Shedd.

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Baua Electric

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Electrical Car batteries, moveable batteries, automobile batteries and commercial batteries. Commercial Programs Impaired EV batteries can discover a moment lifestyles in commercial packages, specifically in powering electrical forklifts and subject matter dealing with apparatus in warehouses and factories.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 12, 2012

of the energy output of the fuel is used to actually move the car; the rest is wasted. By comparison, an electric car has only half the friction loss of that of a car with a conventional internal combustion engine. With current technology, only 21.5%

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 6, 2009

In June, Boeing and a team from across the aviation industry high-level elements of a study that shows that sustainable biofuels analyzed in a series of test flights performed favorably in comparison to petroleum-based fuel. Billy Glover, managing director of Environmental Strategy for Boeing Commercial Airplanes. Earlier post.).

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