Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

MAHLE is developing a modular fuel cell systems portfolio focused on commercial vehicles, based on its current range of components. New opportunities are opening up for heavy-duty commercial vehicles. The water balance of a polymer electrolyte fuel cell significantly affects efficiency and service life. Humidifier.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 25, 2012

Shengquan Group, a Shandong-based company specializing in furan resin and polymers, and Novozymes, a world leader in bioinnovation, have formed a partnership enabling Shengquan to start commercial-scale production of cellulosic ethanol for solvents in June 2012 using Novozymes’ technology. This would create 2.9

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Green Car Congress

JULY 25, 2021

Eastman is collaborating with the United States Automotive Materials Partnership LLC ( USAMP ) and automotive recycler PADNOS for a concept feasibility study to demonstrate a closed-loop project to recycle automotive-industry mixed plastic waste in the automotive supply chain. —Steve Zimmer, executive director of USCAR.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 10, 2014

volts (V) of water-splitting voltage with its novel low-cost electrolysis technology. Further, overcoming the corrosive degradation of these “artificial photosynthesis” systems remains a challenge and has thus far eluded commercialization. This lowers the system cost of what is essentially an electrolysis process.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 23, 2014

has come to an agreement with Lufthansa under which the carrier will evaluate Gevo’s renewable jet fuel with the goal of approving the alcohol-to-jet fuel (ATJ) for commercial aviation use. Renewable jet embodies the potential of cleaner, greener, and as we scale up, cost competitive drop-in fuels. Bio-isobutanol producer Gevo, Inc.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 3, 2014

Scientists in the Rice University lab of chemist James Tour have developed materials that offer a lower cost, less energy-intensive way to separate carbon dioxide from natural gas at wellheads. That’s a terrible waste of energy. Tour expected it will take time and more work on manufacturing and engineering aspects to commercialize.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 30, 2011

The final product is either a fine micro-fibrous polymer mat that resembles white tissue paper, or polymer micro-beads with a diameter of ~ 0.5 - 5µm, with the hydride material entrained in ~50 - 200nm pores within the polymer.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 27, 2023

Financing for novel biorefinery process systems can be a barrier to commercializing advanced biofuels, and this funding will reduce technological uncertainties and enable industry deployment. This project will demonstrate the conversion of gaseous carbon wood wastes (terpenes) to renewable Terpenes SAF blending components.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 23, 2016

These fuel cells exhibit stable performance at 80–160 ˚C with a conductivity decay rate more than three orders of magnitude lower than that of a commercial high-temperature PEM fuel cell. Currently, two main classes of polymer-based fuel cells exist. —Lee et al. It is very exciting that we have now found such materials.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 25, 2017

Production of C 5 hydrocarbons from waste biomass. Obtaining sustainable sources of chemicals and processing organic waste in an environmentally responsible manner remains a challenge. This proposal aims to solve these problems by converting organic waste into chemicals with widespread use in polymer and transportation industries.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

Researchers at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) are developing a small-scale demonstration reactor that will process 40 tons of wood waste per year from the university into replacements for diesel fuel and gasoline. X1) from a biological feedstock, more specifically, from lignocellulosic biomass (also known as plant waste/residue).

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Using a patented thermal solvolytic process (WO2019/053287), Vertoro cooks solid lignin in any commercially available polar organic solvent (e.g. Lignin is a class of complex organic polymers which form key structural materials in the support tissues of most plants. The company calls its lignin-based liquid products “Goldilocks”.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 16, 2016

Novomer is commercializing a proprietary catalyst system that transforms waste CO 2 into high performance, low-cost polymers for a variety of applications, including foam and plastic that are easily recyclable. These polymers contain up to 50% CO 2 by mass. Low Catalyst Cost. Low Finished Polymer Cost.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 13, 2019

Low-cost electric traction drive systems using no heavy rare earth materials. The objective of this potential area of interest is to research, develop, and test a heavy rare earth mineral free advanced motor and inverter drive system that costs ?$7/kW Utility-managed smart charging. construction, mining, forestry, etc.).

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Green Car Congress

MAY 13, 2014

If successful, the first commercialization of this technology is expected as early as 2018. In 2012, INVISTA and LanzaTech signed a joint development agreement focused on bio-based butadiene, with initial commercialization expected in 2016.

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JULY 17, 2020

AOI 02: Low Cost Electric Traction Drive Systems Using No Heavy Rare Earth Materials. Low Cost, High-Performance, Heavy Rare Earth-Free 3-In-1 Electric Drive Unit. Low-Cost Rare-Earth Free Electric Drivetrain Enabled by Novel Permanent Magnets, Inverter, Integrated Design and Advanced Thermal Management. Marquette University.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 27, 2016

The US Department of Energy (DOE) will award up to $70 million for a new Clean Energy Manufacturing Innovation Institute focused on improving technologies and processes to achieve cost parity of recycled and waste materials with primary feedstocks, while improving material efficiency in manufacturing processes. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 11, 2017

Liquid Light has developed proprietary process technology to make major chemicals from low-cost, globally-abundant carbon dioxide. The acquisition of Liquid Light is an important step in our strategy to create and commercialize breakthrough technologies in renewable chemistry.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 16, 2016

This uses carbon dioxide (CO 2 ), water, and light as the main inputs, and does not waste carbon and energy by limiting the amount of biomass produced. This type of increased production rate will significantly reduce the cost of enclosed algal cultivation systems and will boost total fuel potential, especially in the southwest United States.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 20, 2011

Genomatica is developing and commercializing sustainable basic and intermediate chemicals made from renewable feedstocks including readily available sugars, biomass, and syngas. Genomatica expects to begin commercial production of Bio-BDO in 2012. Greener reaction conditions: Kraton Performance Polymers, LLC, Houston, Texas.

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2018

Selected projects will be awarded up to $300,000 in federal funding to cover the costs associated with using the supercomputers and technical expertise provided by the laboratory partners. Industry partners will provide a participant contribution of at least 20% of the DOE funding for the project.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 10, 2018

Elemental sulfur, as one of promising cathode materials, can offer a theoretical capacity of 1672 mAh g -1 and high energy density of 2600 W h kg -1 at a low cost, when it is coupled with metallic Li anode. These main challenges plague the practical utilization of sulfur cathode in commercial battery market.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

Fuel cells with this membrane technology exhibit stable performance at 80–160 ˚C with a conductivity decay rate more than three orders of magnitude lower than that of a commercial high-temperature PEM fuel cell. Currently, commercial PEMs in most fuel-cell-powered vehicles use a water-swollen co-polymer film for the critical proton exchange.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 18, 2014

VTO is seeking projects that address the major challenges to developing and commercializing batteries for plug?in As described in multiple DOE reports, the main barriers to widespread PEV commercialization are the cost; performance and life; and abuse tolerance of high?energy Specifically: the current cost of high?energy

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 19, 2013

Calysta Energy and NatureWorks have entered into an exclusive, multi-year collaboration to research and develop a practical production process for fermenting methane into lactic acid, the building block for Ingeo , lactide intermediates and polymers made from renewable materials.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Under this cost-shared research and development (R&D), DOE is awarding $51 million to nine new projects for coal and natural gas power and industrial sources. will prepare an initial engineering design study to use commercial-scale membrane CO 2 capture technology at the CEMEX Balcones cement plant in New Braunfels, TX.

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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

MAY 19, 2014

Potential high-value products from isolated lignin include low-cost carbon fiber, engineering plastics and thermoplastic elastomers, polymeric foams and membranes, and a variety of fuels and chemicals—all currently sourced from petroleum. Ragauskas et al. courtesy of Oak Ridge National Laboratory.] Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 3, 2016

Researchers at Washington State University Tri-Cities have been awarded a $50,000 National Science Foundation I-Corps grant to explore the commercialization potential of their new pathway for biojet from biomass waste. Earlier post.). Yang currently holds a patent on the process. —Bin Yang.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 16, 2012

Malic acid is used as a flavor enhancer in the food industry and can be converted into other chemical derivatives used for a variety of plastic, polymer and resin products. This is our first biochemical building block and a major milestone towards building a biochemical industry together with partners. C 4 acids can be converted into 1.4-butanediol

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 30, 2012

The report defines bio-based materials as industrial products made from renewable agricultural and forestry feedstocks, which can include wood, grasses, and crops, as well as wastes and residues. These materials may replace fabrics, adhesives, reinforcement fibers, polymers, and other, more conventional, materials. Commercialization.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

The first hydrogen TTO is focused on durable, high activity electrocatalyst with low platinum content and low cost for polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cell applications. Conventional polymer electrolyte membrane (PEM) fuel cell technology requires high content of platinum electrocatalyst, which raises manufacturing costs.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

So the researchers bought a commercial microgenerator designed for wearable and IoT devices called the Kinetron MSG32. And where a traditional wildlife tracker costs €3,500 to €4,000, the Kinefox costs about €270 in materials, according to researchers at Max Planck. Kinefox is open source, with files published on GitHub.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 28, 2016

The method can be applied to other electrode materials, too, making energy-dense, low-cost battery materials a realistic possibility. Si is an attractive anode material for next-generation lithium-ion batteries, offering ten times the theoretical capacity of commercial graphite anodes. —Yi Cui. —Stanford postdoc Kai Yan.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 31, 2016

Additionally, many chemicals relied upon for transportation (such as oils and lubricants) as well as other commodity chemicals and polymer precursors are, and will likely remain, carbon-based. By 2027, demonstrate at least one biofuel and bioproduct production strategy that reduces capital cost by 30% from 2012 cellulosic ethanol baseline.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

Scanning electron microscopy images of the fracture surfaces indicate that the failure is primarily related to the debonding of the magnetic particles from the polymer binder. Bonded permanent magnets feature intricate shapes, low weight and cost, superior mechanical properties and corrosion resistance. —Li et al.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 19, 2014

Lignin is viewed as a waste stream that is typically burned to generate heat and electricity for the biorefinery, but if other uses for lignin could be found with higher economic value it would significantly improve the refinery’s overall economics. —Socha et al.

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