Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

When illuminated with light-emitting diodes rather than lasers, the photocatalytic efficiencies remain comparable, even when the scale of reaction increases by nearly three orders of magnitude. Unlike traditional catalysts, it doesn’t require heat; it harvests energy from light. —Peter Nordlander, co-author.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 10, 2023

This project will complete key engineering design and demonstration tests to enable cost-competitive, carbon-neutral production of synthetic jet fuel and diesel using nuclear energy from existing light water reactors. 3M Company will develop an isotope recovery process to enable commercial deployment of molten salt reactors.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 5, 2018

Boeing- and JetBlue-backed Zunum Aero has selected Safran Helicopter Engines as the turbine provider for its hybrid electric commercial aircraft, which will be available in the early 2020s. Zunum expects to light up thirty thousand airports around the world with frequent and affordable air service. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 30, 2022

Asphaltenes are thus deemed as low-value by-products with little to no real-world application and commercial use in today’s market. After successful conversion, we develop nanocomposites by dispersing AFG into a polymer effectively, which have superior mechanical, thermal, and corrosion-resistant properties compared to the bare polymer.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 8, 2013

Increasing the sugar yields from cellulosic biomass to help bring down biofuel production costs is essential for the widespread commercial adoption of these fuels. PALM is a technique in which target proteins are labeled with tags that fluoresce when activated by weak ultraviolet light. —Jerome Fox, lead author.

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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. One way to mitigate high feedstock cost is to maximize conversion into the bioproduct of interest. of two biological replicates is shown in black error bars. Jones et al.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 1, 2014

Ethanol conversion to hydrocarbons as a function of temp. Benefits of the catalyst technology include: A single step conversion of ethanol into a hydrocarbon blend stock without the addition of hydrogen. Production of minimal amounts of light gases. Zeolitic catalytic conversion of alcohols to hydrocarbons.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 1, 2013

developer of a low-cost hybrid electric powertrain designed specifically for class 1 to 4 commercial fleet use ( earlier post ), unveiled its third-generation XL3 product release for model year 2014 vehicles. The XL3 system features a patent-pending inline traction motor system design, the newest upgrade for its hybrid conversion system.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Researchers from the Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division (NAWCWD) have developed an efficient three-step process for the conversion of cellulosic feedstocks to both a valuable chemical precursor and high-performance jet fuel blendstock. Their paper appears in the journal ChemSusChem. Woodroffe & Harvey (2020).

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 7, 2014

In a 2012 presentation, the inventors said that the direct conversion process delivers a liquid hydrocarbon fuel yield of ~54-55% at 310°C, with ~6-7% ethylene and ~39% water byproducts, making the technology more cost-effective than previous approaches. Catalytic conversion of to hydrocarbons (2012). —Chaitanya Narula.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 19, 2013

The Government of Canada is supporting a three-year project that will result in the construction of a $19-million, demonstration-scale facility in Alberta that will use algae to recycle industrial carbon dioxide emissions from an oil sands facility into commercial products such as biofuels. Algae Algal Fuels Biorefinery Canada Oil sands'

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Green Car Congress

MAY 29, 2013

The program will provide an estimated $10 million in grants to help companies and organizations purchase or convert medium to light-weight natural gas vehicles. During last year’s natural gas vehicle seminars, we heard from many municipal, commercial and non-profit groups that wanted to convert their lighter-weight vehicles to natural gas.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

Groupe Renault has acquired the French company PVI (Power Vehicle Innovation), which specializes in the conversion of commercial vehicles to electricity or natural gas. to 7.5t (Renault Maxity commercial vehicle, Gépébus Oréos 2X minibus, the Aptinéo Vehixel minicoach, the DongFeng/Haide 7.5t Earlier post.). Master Z.E.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 20, 2012

developer of a low-cost hybrid electric powertrain designed specifically for class 1 to 3 commercial fleet use ( earlier post ), signed a one-year supply agreement with Johnson Controls, Inc. kWh Li-ion packs for use in XL’s aftermarket hybrid conversion system. XL Hybrids, Inc.,

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

Start-up Liquid Light, a developer of process technology to make major chemicals from low-cost, globally-abundant carbon dioxide ( earlier post ), has closed a $15-million Series B financing. New investors include Sustainable Conversion Ventures, which focuses on renewable fuels and chemicals investments.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 17, 2013

The OP4 light-duty opposed-piston diesel. Achates Power, which is developing a family of two-stroke, compression-ignition (CI) opposed-piston (OP) engines, has designed and is developing a light-duty diesel concept engine, the OP4. Light-duty OP4. In catalyst light-off mode, the OP4 showed a NO x flow rate of 0.9

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 18, 2012

eV, the lowest of any III-nitride solar cell to date, and made a wider range of wavelengths available for power conversion. Power conversion efficiencies were low—only 0.3% compared to a standard commercial cell at about 15%—but the demonstration took place on imperfect nanowire-array templates.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

Innovations in catalysts, separation processes, and reactor designs can enhance conversion efficiency and reduce carbon emissions. Reducing the footprint of plant-sized equipment will help to reduce capital investments and remove some barriers to commercialization. The Center will receive $19.75

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 13, 2012

The new engines are designed for light- to heavy-duty distribution transport and for service in light- and medium-duty construction and long-haul transport. This lightweight yet solid design was first seen in a commercial vehicle engine a year ago, in the OM 471. percent of the fuel consumption.

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DECEMBER 7, 2012

black boxes”)in all light passenger vehicles beginning 1 September 2014. NHTSA estimates that approximately 96% of model year 2013 passenger cars and light-duty vehicles are already equipped with EDR capability. EDRs do not collect any personal identifying information or record conversations and do not run continuously.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

At the IAA in Hanover (Germany), Continental is presenting new solutions for exhaust gas aftertreatment in commercial vehicles. —Wolfgang Gutbrod, Head of the commercial vehicles customer segment within the Continental Business Unit Engine Systems, Powertrain Division. SCR development progress.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

The largest scale example of the commercial application of this technology is its Secunda plant in Mpumalanga, which converts synthesis gas—a mixture of carbon monoxide (CO) and hydrogen (H 2 )—derived from coal gasification and supplemented by reformed natural gas into 160,000 bbl of products per day.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2012

Now, ARPA-E is seeking input from industry, academia, and other interested stakeholders on the steps and challenges necessary to scale-up and apply these and related technologies in a commercial-scale facility. Sub-categories include: CHP; HVAC; Building Energy Demand Management; Lighting; Building Envelope; and Building Efficiency - Other.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 11, 2017

Renewable chemicals company Avantium has acquired the assets of Liquid Light. Liquid Light has developed proprietary process technology to make major chemicals from low-cost, globally-abundant carbon dioxide. It will extend our capabilities beyond catalytic conversion of biomass. —Tom van Aken, CEO of Avantium.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 7, 2011

A commercially viable OCM process—which has been sought for some 30 years— would decouple the production of mainstream chemicals and fuels from crude oil and its current price instabilities, along with reducing energy consumed for processing. Methane is thermodynamically very stable, making activation difficult.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 8, 2017

Researchers at Argonne National Laboratory, Tufts University and Oak Ridge National Laboratory have shown that mononuclear rhodium species, anchored on a zeolite or titanium dioxide support suspended in aqueous solution, can catalyze the direct conversion of methane to methanol and acetic acid using oxygen and carbon monoxide under mild conditions.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 21, 2013

ALTe Powertrain Technologies (ALTe), developer of a range-extended plug-in electric hybrid vehicle (PHEV) powertrain for light commercial fleet vehicle applications ( earlier post ), will establish a new commercial vehicle manufacturing Joint Venture with the Henan Benma Company (Benma) in the Henan province of China.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 30, 2017

Researchers in Japan report that a commercially available TiO 2 with a large number of surface oxygen vacancies, when photo-irradiated by UV light in pure water with nitrogen—successfully produces ammonia (NH 3 ). Photocatalytic nitrogen reduction is an attractive pathway because it can use light energy, the team pointed out.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 1, 2018

At the Movin’On 2018 mobility summit in Montreal, hydrogen fuel-cell company Symbio intoduced a 40-kW fuel cell system—H2Motiv L—targeting range-extending conversion applications for heavy-duty electric vehicles. Auxiliary functions are optimized for system operation (power conversion, cooling, preheating, air compression).

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 25, 2012

reduction in fuel consumption achieved with XL Hybrids’ aftermarket hybrid electric powertrain ( earlier post ) on a light-duty cargo van on the UDDS cycle (urban conditions). The tests were conducted on ESWA’s light-duty chassis dynamometer test cell featuring a twin-roll Clayton dynamometer. engine and 6-speed transmission.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 2, 2020

Photovoltaic-powered water splitting (PV-electrolysis) systems that couple commercially-available photovoltaic and water electrolysis technologies have already been demonstrated in several pilot plants and hydrogen refueling stations.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 29, 2019

It’s a capital-light solution that takes advantage of technology that has been commercialized for decades. African Clean Energy (Lesotho) produces cookstoves that reduce smoke emissions and solar electricity for small electronics and LED lighting. Clean Energy Works (Washington, D.C.)

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

million in funding for three projects developing fuel cell and battery-electric drives for commercial vehicles. The conversion of heavy-duty trucks to fuel cell drives is the focus of the RWTH Aachen project, which is manufacturer-independent, for old and new vehicles alike. Funded projects: SeLv (Funding: around €16.9 A further €1.6

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 16, 2013

However, despite progress in the past decade, semiconductor water-splitting photocatalysts (such as (Ga 1-x Zn x )(N 1-x O )) do not exhibit good activity beyond 440 nm and water-splitting devices that can harvest visible light typically have a low solar-to-hydrogen efficiency of around 0.1%.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 5, 2011

The group owns and operates production facilities in Turkey and Italy for the conversion of light commercial vehicles into electric vehicles (EVs), automotive battery pack assembly, and a new recycling plant for lithium-ion and other industrial batteries.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 25, 2025

Co-packaged optics is an effort to boost bandwidth and reduce power consumption by moving the optical/electrical data conversion as close as possible to the switch chip. Optical Modulators One fundamental difference between Broadcoms scheme and Nvidias is the optical modulator technology that encodes electronic bits onto beams of light.

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MARCH 5, 2025

That connection emerged several years ago in a series of conversations between myself, Jayson Stewart , and my grandfather Rudolf Schultz. At the time, about a decade ago, I was helping to refine a system for fabricating chips using extreme ultraviolet (EUV) light.

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