Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 10, 2009

is commercializing a reactor technology based on heterogeneous catalysis for the production of high-quality biodiesel plus a cosmetics/food grade glycerol, with practically no waste streams. This process can be adjusted to various types of feedstock, including low-quality oils, waste oils and fats.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 11, 2011

Sumitomo had earlier said that it intended to commercialize the battery around 2015 for commercial-vehicle fleet operators and stationary applications, and was targeting revenue of more than ¥1 trillion (US$13 billion) from it. Sumitomo Electric Industries Ltd. A drawback to the general class of molten salt batteries (e.g.,

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 10, 2020

The project under study consists of an underground mine, sustainable industrial processing and waste facilities as well as associated infrastructure. The campaigns successfully produced unrefined lithium carbonate, boric acid and sodium sulfate at target recoveries without the build-up of detrimental species.

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Carbon Serbia Sodium Batteries 170

Green Car Congress

MARCH 11, 2010

The New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) will award $8 million to help develop or commercialize 19 advanced energy storage projects. Funding will support projects in two categories: Industry-led near-term commercialization partnerships (two major awards), and technology development. General Electric.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2023

The cathode pilot line’s first product, a mid-nickel grade of single-crystal cathode material (NMC622), produced using NOVONIX’s patent-pending, all-dry, zero-waste synthesis technology, matches the performance of leading cathode materials from existing suppliers in full-cell testing.

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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. But the other piece about pyro is that it’s inefficient.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 3, 2012

Led by VantagePoint Capital Partners, a global investor in energy innovation and efficiency, the financing also included existing Ostara investor, London-based Frog Capital and a group of new investors including Waste Resources Fund L.P., a fund managed by FourWinds Capital Management.

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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. But the other piece about pyro is that it’s inefficient.

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Building Batteries Battery Charging 52

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 29, 2014

In sum, they recommended that governments consider using blends of biodiesel in urban and commercial vehicles to enhance air quality. Calcium (Ca), sodium (Na), and iron (Fe) were the major elements found in the PM emissions in both the field experiments (77 to 85 wt %) and the lab experiments (up to 90 wt%). Kumar et al.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 6, 2012

The new thermochemical cycle devised by the team has four main steps: Thermal treatment of a physical mixture of Na 2 CO 3 (sodium carbonate) and Mn 3 O 4 (manganese (II, III) oxide) to produce MnO (manganese (II) oxide), CO, and ?-NaMnO recovery of Mn 3 O 4 by thermally reducing the sodium ion extracted solid produced in step 3 at 850 °C.

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Water Davis Sodium Engine 210

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

JUNE 12, 2013

Lithium-intercalation compounds and sodium-intercalation compounds are used for anode and cathode, respectively. Sodium-ion based rechargeable batteries (SIBs, e.g., earlier post ) are of interest due to sodium’s abundance, far lower prices, and a greener synthesis while maintaining a similarity in ion-insertion chemistry.

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Cars That Think

APRIL 15, 2022

They used nickel and aluminium as materials for the cathode and anode respectively, with sodium aluminium tetrachloride (NaAlCl 4 ) as the molten-salt electrolyte—all relatively cheap, earth-abundant materials. However, in the PNNL team’s demonstration, the freeze–thaw mechanism of the molten salt is able to circumvent that problem.

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Molten Salt Energy Batteries Battery 110

Green Car Congress

JULY 4, 2010

Researchers at North Carolina State University are developing an ozone-based pre-treatment technique (ozonolysis) to release sugars from the energy grass miscanthus for production into renewable fuels or chemicals with minimal generation of chemical waste streams and degradation of the carbohydrate components. García-Cubero et al.

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Ozone North Carolina Energy 2010 170

Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

So the researchers bought a commercial microgenerator designed for wearable and IoT devices called the Kinetron MSG32. The group fabricated their device using CFRP, sodium potassium niobate (KNN) nanoparticles, and epoxy resin. The team tested their devices with three species: four domestic dogs, an Exmoor pony, and a European bison.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 22, 2020

The LDH sorbent is made up of layers of the materials, separated by water molecules and hydroxide ions that create space, allowing lithium chloride to enter more readily than other ions such as sodium and potassium. In a bench-scale demonstration, the LDH sorbent recovered more than 91% of lithium from a simulated brine.

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Waste Water United States Davis 314

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Cyclonatix, Inc is developing an industrial-sized motor/controller to operate with either DC or AC power sources, for applications in electric vehicles, solar-powered pumps, HVAC&R, gas compressors, and other commercial and industrial machines which require high efficiency, variable speed/torque, and low cost.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

Wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs), waste streams from food and beverage processing plants, crop farms and animal feed facilities, and municipal landfills are all biogas sources. Analysis of excess and/or waste hydrogen sources. Combined heat and power (CHP) fuel cell systems.

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Congress Hydrogen Market Fuel 150

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 26, 2009

Waste Heat Capture (2 projects). Eagle Picher, in partnership with the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, will develop a new generation of high energy, low cost planar liquid sodium beta batteries for grid scale electrical power storage applications. Scaling and Commercialization of Algae Harvesting Technologies.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 19, 2015

will advance improved commercial seed cultivars. Compared to conventional electricity generation and transmission, CHP captures the otherwise wasted heat and makes it available for useful application. The C-TEC uses an array of electrochemical cells to produce electricity in a sodium ion expansion cycle driven by external combustion.

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Transportation Energy West Virginia Engine 150

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Jervois intends for the SMP acquisition to transform it into a vertically integrated producer when the Idaho Cobalt Operations (ICO) commences commercial production. The technology is robust, well understood and commercially proven. SMP Refinery restart scenarios.

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