Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 12, 2016

has completed production of the world’s first cellulosic renewable jet fuel that is specified for commercial flights. Gevo successfully adapted its patented technologies to convert cellulosic sugars derived from wood waste into renewable isobutanol, which was then further converted into Gevo’s Alcohol-to-Jet fuel (ATJ) fuel.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 11, 2015

Researchers at Washington State University (WSU) Tri-Cities have developed a catalytic process to convert corn stover lignin into hydrocarbons (C 7 –C 18 )—primarily C 12 –C 18 cyclic structure hydrocarbons in the jet fuel range. The work is featured on. the cover of the December issue of the RSC journal Green Chemistry.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 2, 2015

Siluria Technologies held a grand opening event heralding the successful start-up of its demonstration plant located in La Porte, Texas. The demonstration plant is the final scale-up of the OCM process technology and paves the way for Siluria to deploy commercial-scale plants in the 2017/2018 timeframe. Earlier post.) Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 1, 2010

Texas Governor Rick Perry has awarded $2.75 million from the Texas Emerging Technology Fund (TETF) to Terrabon for its work in biofuel technology development. Further, the project will demonstrate the commercial viability of the desalination technology that also reduces the capital and operating costs of water purification.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

Terrabon, a company commercializing a waste-to-biogasoline technology developed at Texas A&M, ( earlier post ), has filed for bankruptcy protection under Chapter 7 of the Federal bankruptcy laws. The MixAlco technology converts biomass to bio-gasoline. In January 2011, Terrabon, Inc. Earlier post.). Terrabon, Inc.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 23, 2015

IH 2 technology is a continuous catalytic thermochemical process which converts a broad range of forestry/agricultural residues and municipal wastes directly into renewable hydrocarbon transportation fuels and/or blend stocks. Zeton is the preferred engineering services provider for IH 2 facilities at demonstration scale.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 21, 2014

Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin’s Cockrell School of Engineering have rewired the native metabolism of the yeast Yarrowia lipolytica for superior production of lipids (lipogenesis). At 90% lipid levels, the platform produces the highest levels of lipid content created so far using a genetically engineered yeast cell.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

The assistant professor and William Marsh Rice Trustee Chair of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering has proposed the development of a modular electrochemical system that will provide “a sustainable, negative-carbon, low-waste and point-source manufacturing path preferable to traditional large-scale chemical process plants.”.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 16, 2022

IEEE FOUNDERS MEDAL Sponsor: IEEE Richard and Mary Jo Stanley Memorial Fund of the IEEE Foundation RODNEY ALLEN BROOKS MIT “For leadership in research and commercialization of autonomous robotics, including mobile, humanoid, service, and manufacturing robots.” IEEE RICHARD W. HAMMING MEDAL Sponsor: Qualcomm, Inc. IEEE JACK S. MULLIGAN, JR.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Enel, with a record of project commercialization, extensive development pipeline and large renewable operations footprint in the US, will leverage NextChem’s hydrogen technology and engineering expertise to grow its green hydrogen business in the US. —Salvatore Bernabei, CEO of Enel Green Power.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 25, 2011

has exceeded its target yield threshold of 70 gallons of biogasoline per dry ton of garbage received from the cafeteria dumpsters and paper shredders at Texas A&M University. SoluPro is a bio-products process that converts inexpensive protein-bearing waste material into animal feed and green commercial adhesives. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 7, 2016

The green microalga Botryococcus braunii is considered a promising biofuel feedstock producer due to its prodigious accumulation of hydrocarbon oils that can be converted into fuels. Now, a team led by researchers from Texas A&M AgriLife Research has identified the first committed step in the biosynthesis of hydrocarbon oil in B.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 25, 2011

Started in April of 2011, a customized production process for DARPA will be engineered, constructed and operated at Terrabon’s Bryan, TX demonstration facility in an effort to yield 6,000 liters of jet fuel through the use of the company’s MixAlco technology in preparation for commercialization of this technology. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 2, 2014

The fuels are designed for engines that are required to use an EPA-approved fuel but suffer from problems involving ethanol. Gulf Racing Fuels include high octane unleaded and leaded fuels (for classic racers, in how lead (100 Motor Octane) and leaded (120 Motor Octane versions)) as well as marine and small engine fuels featuring isobutanol.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 27, 2015

To measure freight efficiency, DTNA ran vehicle testing on highway routes in Oregon and Texas; one city route in Portland, Ore.; Testing was also conducted at the DTNA Detroit engineering facility to demonstrate engine efficiency by achieving 50.2% engine brake thermal efficiency. engine brake thermal efficiency.

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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.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

Researchers in the Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin have developed a new family of anode materials that can double the charge capacity of lithium-ion battery anodes. Eutectic alloys are fusible: upon cooling they convert from liquids to intimately mixed solids. Earlier post.). 7b00844.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 10, 2011

The US Department of Energy is awarding up to $36 million to fund six small-scale projects in California, Michigan, North Carolina, Texas, and Wisconsin, that will advance the technology improvements and process integration needed to produce drop-in advanced biofuels and other valuable bio-based chemicals. Virent (up to $13.4

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Green Car Congress

MAY 12, 2014

Biosynthetic Technologies utilizes a chemical reaction process to convert fatty acid into a new molecule structure called an estolide. One of the key benefits to these biosynthetic oils is their ability to keep engine surfaces cleaner and reduce wear on bearing surfaces as compared to petroleum-based oils.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 1, 2011

The contract is one of the first major commercial agreements in the US for the sale of liquid transport fuels made from coal. Initial commercial operation of up to a 20,000–22,000 barrels per day project is expected to start in 2014. Medicine Bow, Wyoming. Earlier post.) We have received front end. project.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

The plant will convert abundant low-cost natural gas from the Utica and Marcellus shale region into high-value specialty products (solvents, lubricants and waxes), as well as transportation fuels. The company has agreed to commercial license terms with Velocys and made a down payment towards the FT reactors.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

liter V6 engine is available with a factory-installed, gaseous-fuel prep package that includes hardened valves, valve seats, and pistons and rings so it can operate on either natural gas or gasoline through separate fuel systems. When equipped with a bi-fuel CNG/LPG engine package, the 3.7-liter The 2014 Ford F-150 with 3.7-liter

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 25, 2015

Ensyn is developing and commercializing RFO Coprocessing in a strategic alliance with Honeywell UOP, a global leader in technology solutions for the refining industry. An FCC system circulates catalyst in a closed loop between two key vessels in order to convert vacuum gas oil to gasoline.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

The isooctene will be produced at Gevo’s biorefinery in Silsbee, Texas, derived from isobutanol produced at Gevo’s plant in Luverne, Minn. Isobutanol converts readily to isobutylene, which can be dimerized to form isooctene. Higher octane ratings in fuel are important for high performance engines to minimize engine knock.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

The project would convert wood biomass into drop in biofuels such as gasoline and diesel fuel. The first two plants are expected to be in Mississippi, with additional sites planned in Georgia and Texas. This project accelerates KiOR’s commercialization strategy. KiOR, Inc., Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 3, 2011

The University of Texas at Arlington has licensed technology for converting natural gas to synthetic liquid fuels (GTL) in portable units at a cost lower than current market rates to 1 st Resource Group Inc. of Fort Worth for commercialization. 1 st Resource has partnered with UMED Holdings Inc. ,

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2020

Rationally Designed Lithium Ion Batteries Towards Displacing Internal Combustion Engines. AOI 04: Platinum Group Metals (PGM) Content Reduction to Enable Cost-Effective Aftertreatment for Gasoline and Diesel Engines. Slashing Platinum Group Metals Content in Catalytic Converters: An Atoms-to-Autos Approach. Solid Power Inc.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 19, 2014

The resulting roadmap uses the integration of genetic engineering with analytical chemistry tools to tailor the structure of lignin and its isolation so it can be used for materials, chemicals and fuels, said lead author Arthur Ragauskas, a professor in the School of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the Georgia Institute of Technology.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 21, 2014

The successful scale-up of a commercially-ready process for producing fuels from natural gas represents another key milestone in our strategy. We have already demonstrated how our technology can be employed to produce gasoline, an achievement that paves the way for first commercial facilities producing liquid fuels in the 2017 timeframe.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 21, 2010

million to CALSTART in Pasadena, CA to coordinate research among fuel cell manufacturers, engineering firms and transit agencies throughout the country for fuel-cell powered buses. Funded projects include: Next Generation Fuel Cell Power System Development Towards Transit Bus Commercialization (Phase I). Amount: $7,200,000.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

The contract, worth a possible total of $600,000, provides that Gevo will supply the USAF with up to 11,000 gallons of “alcohol-to-jet” (ATJ)-based jet fuel, which will be used to support engine testing and a feasibility flight demonstration using an A-10 aircraft. NARA award. Earlier post.). Earlier post.)

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Among the most articulate and almost certainly the wonkiest is Jesse Jenkins , a professor of engineering at Princeton University, where he heads the ZERO Lab—the Zero-carbon Energy systems Research and Optimization Laboratory, that is. But there needs to be some infrastructure to support more commercial or public sector uses.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 14, 2016

SAE International is working to ensure that electric vehicle wireless power transfer systems from different manufacturers can interoperate seamlessly with each other to prepare for commercialization in 2020. The tests allowed those engineers to adjust their company’s systems in real time to improve interoperability performance.

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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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Cars That Think

JULY 30, 2023

Whittingham, a young British chemist, joined the quest at Exxon Research and Engineering in New Jersey in the fall of 1972. The University of Texas at Austin It was the first of many false starts for the rechargeable lithium battery. Whittingham’s battery was unlike anything that had preceded it. Still, there were problems.

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EV Central

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Being built at a new Gigafactory in Austin Texas, first US Cybertruck deliveries are scheduled for production late in 2023, having been delayed on multiple occasions. litre turbocharged four-cylinder petrol engine with two electric motors, providing about 100km of EV range as well as the ability to travel further on petrol.

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Charged EVs

MAY 11, 2022

We drove several F-150 Lightnings, in various trims, with and without payloads or trailers, out of San Antonio and through the winding roads of Texas hill country during the first week of May. With the battery pack below the cabin and bed, the Lightning has a much lower center of gravity than any F-150 powered by an engine.

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