Green Car Congress

APRIL 10, 2013

Flowchart of Molten Sodium Upgrading process. A new company, Field Upgrading (Calgary, Alberta), has been formed dedicated to developing and commercializing the Molten Sodium Upgrading (MSU) technology. Source: Field Upgrading. Click to enlarge. Click to enlarge. Background.

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NOVEMBER 24, 2009

Prototype sodium silicate hydrogen generation system as presented earlier this year at DOE merit review. The H300 utilizes real-time swappable cartridges that generate hydrogen on demand using SiGNa’s proprietary sodium silicide (NaSi) powder. Sodium-Silica-Gel: 2Na-SG + H 2 O → H 2 + Na 2 Si 2 O 5. Click to enlarge.

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MAY 6, 2020

Several opportunities will be evaluated over the coming months that could enhance project economics further, including alternative approaches to managing elevated sodium concentrations prior to returning process water to the environment. Sodium Treatment. Tailings Capacity, Phase 1. Capital Requirements. 56 million. Feed Grade.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

In the mid-20 th century, chemical companies successfully created magnesium feedstock from seawater by mixing it with sodium hydroxide, commonly known as lye. For example, the sodium hydroxide used to extract the magnesium salt can be generated on site using seawater and marine renewable energy. —Wang et al. 2c00229.

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DECEMBER 16, 2021

The plant uses natural gas instead of coal as the main energy source; realizes 100% recycling and recycling of condensed water; encourages the utilization of by-products, and transports products such as calcium silicate slag, sodium sulfate, calcium sulfate slag, etc. produced during the production process.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 26, 2022

This is where Audi and its partner companies Reiling Glas Recycling, Saint-Gobain Glass, and Saint-Gobain Sekurit are now doing pioneering work as part of a joint pilot project. The partner companies want to turn the damaged auto glass into recyclable material for model production and have drawn up a multi-stage process for that purpose.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

China’s Tsingshan , the world’s largest producer of stainless steel, will invest $375 million to build a lithium plant in Argentina with French multinational mining and metallurgy company Eramet. The two companies have partnered before, with the Weda Bay Nickel project in Indonesia.

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JULY 2, 2021

Bottom, secondary products recovered from the ash, from left to right: liquid sodium silicate or “water glass”, precipitated SiO 2 , precipitated ZnSO 4. tons of fossil resources and vast quantities of water; the process generates up to three tons of carbon dioxide. © Fraunhofer IBP.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Proton exchange membrane (PEM) electrolyzers use a solid polymer electrolyte, and alkaline electrolyzers use an electrolyte solution, such as potassium hydroxide or sodium hydroxide mixed with water. Cummins currently manufactures both PEM and alkaline electrolyzers.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

The hot brine that comes up from the subsurface as part of geothermal power production at the Salton Sea in California is a rich stew of minerals, including iron, magnesium, calcium, sodium, and lithium. We’ve asked the geothermal companies to share their brine data with us. Credit: Jenny Nuss/Berkeley Lab).

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 28, 2013

million for four advanced nuclear reactor projects that go beyond traditional light water designs. Westinghouse Electric Company. Westinghouse’s project will conduct analysis on sodium thermal hydraulics to support advanced nuclear reactor design. The US Department of Energy (DOE) is awarding $3.5

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FEBRUARY 17, 2014

The Babcock & Wilcox Company (B&W) and TerraPower have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to support the development of TerraPower’s Generation IV traveling wave reactor (TWR). The TWR commercial reactor plant design is a 1,150 MW liquid-sodium-cooled fast reactor that uses depleted uranium as fuel. Source: TerraPower.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 8, 2024

Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates’ national oil companies plan to extract lithium from brine in their oilfields, in line with efforts to diversify their economies and profit from the shift to electric vehicles (EVs), three sources told Reuters. The kingdom has established its own EV brand Ceer, and built an EV metals plant.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 26, 2010

A key innovation is the use of sodium silicide to liberate hydrogen from water as needed by the hybrid fuel cell. a green chemical technology company, has developed a suite of heterogeneous reagents and catalysts that make reactive metals more efficient, safer, and cost effective. Earlier post.) SiGNa Chemistry, Inc.,

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JULY 10, 2019

Extension of Core Restrain Design Code NUBOW-3D to Lead Cooled Fast Reactor Systems, $75,000 Westinghouse Electric Company, Cranberry Township, Pa. Hydroscanner: Instrumentation for water ingress imaging in photovoltaic module packaging materials, $250,000 D2Solar Inc., New York, N.Y. Madison, Wis. TerraPower LLC, Bellevue, Wash.

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Plug In India

MARCH 15, 2023

For example - the process of obtaining lithium from brines can be more sustainable by condensing evaporated water so it can later be returned to the ground. A completely new method is to filter lithium directly out of the brine using membranes, thus avoiding water-intensive evaporation [8]. Graphite and Silicon are used in the Anode.

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DECEMBER 13, 2016

a bio-based specialty chemicals company, closed $13 million in Series A financing led by IA Ventures and OS Fund. The current process used to produce malonic acid requires sodium cyanide and chloroacetic acid; Lygos’ engineered yeast produces malonic acid from sugar and CO 2. Lygos , Inc., Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

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FEBRUARY 5, 2023

As the core of electric vehicles, batteries have naturally become the focus of research and development by global car companies. 3) Sodium-sulfur battery: The specific energy of the sodium-sulfur battery is high, its theoretical specific energy is 760W.h/kg, It can meet the power requirements of electric vehicles. (2)

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 29, 2010

The biorefinery will convert the process waste effluent from the plant into cellulosic ethanol, sodium acetate and clean, warm water. Michigan Technical University will contribute research to improve fermentation processes and also on the use of sodium acetate for novel de-icing applications.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 28, 2022

First, an electric potential will be applied to water to simultaneously produce acidity and alkalinity. The technologies use electricity to extract valuable metal ions from the surrounding mineral matrix at sub-boiling temperatures. Feedstocks will include Li/Ni/Ca/Mg-rich igneous and sedimentary minerals.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Which seems plenty attractive to a range of companies and researchers. Using built-in fuel cells, the device absorbed the lactate in the sweat and combined it with atmospheric oxygen to generate water and pyruvate. The group fabricated their device using CFRP, sodium potassium niobate (KNN) nanoparticles, and epoxy resin.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 21, 2009

tall), sealed and self-contained, simple-to-operate nuclear power reactor, euphemistically referred to by the company as a “fission battery”. Each module will cost $50 million; initial deliveries, slated to begin in the second half of 2013, are being scheduled, the company says. Company Product Power rating. General Electric.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 22, 2022

The US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) will award $38 million to 12 projects that will work to reduce the impacts of light-water reactor used nuclear fuel (UNF) disposal. Upon discharge from a nuclear reactor, the UNF is initially stored in steel-lined concrete pools surrounded by water.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 28, 2021

Following ramp-up to full production in 2029, the mine will produce ~58,000 tonnes of lithium carbonate, 160,000 tonnes of boric acid (B 2 O 3 units) and 255,000 tonnes of sodium sulfate annually, making Rio Tinto one of the top ten lithium producers in the world. million tonnes of lithium carbonate over the expected 40-year life of mine.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

Sodium-ion batteries (Na-ion, NIBs) are seen as an alternative to lithium-ion batteries for large-scale applications due to their lower cost and abundant supply of sodium. Yissum is the technology transfer company of the University. The study on the material was recently published in Nature Communications. Mason, Sudip K.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 25, 2009

Smart grid regional demonstrations involving plug-in vehicles include (ranked by DOE funding): Columbus Southern Power Company (doing business as AEP Ohio). Los Angeles Department of Water and Power. Pacific Gas & Electric Company (CA). 355,938,600 Southern California Edison Company. The Detroit Edison Company (MI).

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 29, 2013

The MSG process, under license from Idaho National Laboratory, uses a combination of molten sodium salts (sodium carbonate and sodium hydroxide) to convert a carbon feedstock and water into hydrogen. Western Hydrogen Limited is a privately owned company, formed in 2006. CO + H 2 ) at similar pressures.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 24, 2023

There is only so much salt you can dissolve in a glass of water. Importantly, the nanofluids are engineered to remain suspended indefinitely, unlike other suspensions—for instance, sand in water. If you don’t want to wait for it to dry, he adds, you can add more water to reduce the acidity, “then you just shop-vac it up.”

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 17, 2014

EO28), were identified in hydraulic fracturing flowback and produced water using a new application of the Kendrick mass defect and liquid chromatography/ quadrupole-time-of-flight mass spectrometry. The Kendrick mass defect differentiates the proton, ammonium, and sodium adducts in both singly and doubly charged forms.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

Government agencies such as the Defense Logistics Agency (for material handling equipment) and the Federal Aviation Administration (for backup power), as well as private sector entities including grocers, distribution companies, and others, are starting to incorporate fuel cells into their operations, according to DOE.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 15, 2020

The California Sustainable Energy Entrepreneur Development (CalSEED) program announced that the fourth cohort of innovative clean energy concepts has been approved by the California Energy Commission (CEC); 28 companies out of 212 were selected to receive grants of $150,000 each. Details of the 28 companies awarded a total of $4.2

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Green Cars News

OCTOBER 30, 2009

The largest ever study of the sustainability of car manufacturing of 17 of the world’s leading car companies found that Asian car manufacturers are outperforming their North American, and many of their European competitors, in using their economic, environmental and social resources more efficiently.

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Teslarati

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

The Tesla Powerpacks were switched on by the Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA). According to the public service infrastructure company, it is looking to expand the renewable energy project to a whopping 5 GW by the end of the decade. . The system features a sodium sulphur (NaS) energy solution, and it has a capacity of 1.2

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

The 55kW E-Drive fits neatly onto the existing engine mounting points with just three additional connections (water, high voltage electrics and low voltage electrics). Power is provided by two air-cooled sodium nickel chloride battery packs, integrated under the floor of the vehicle so they don’t compromise luggage space or vehicle stability.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Jervois Mining Limited will acquire 100% of the Sao Miguel Paulista nickel and cobalt refinery (SMP Refinery) in the Brazilian State of Sao Paulo from Companhia Brasileira de Alumínio (CBA) (an investee company of Votorantim, one of the largest industrial conglomerates in Latin America).

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