Green Car Congress

JANUARY 22, 2021

The method makes green ammonia from air, water and renewable electricity and does not require the high temperatures, high pressure and huge infrastructure currently needed to produce this essential compound. Once we generated that intermediary in water, designing a selective catalyst and scaling the system became significantly easier.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 2, 2022

In this concept, the ship is refueled with methanol at port. The methanol is mixed with water, then evaporated by applying heat and fed into the preheated reactor, where the mix of methanol and water is converted into hydrogen and CO 2. The system’s technical centerpiece is the reactor. © Fraunhofer.

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EV Central

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Most EV-converted classics roll out of home workshops, but when manufacturers join the party it’s recognition of how a brand’s heritage can blend with very modern propulsion. Enter Jeep’s CJ Surge 4×4 electromod concept. Electromodding is cool. The CJ Surge’s electric off-road abilities.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 24, 2014

An EU-funded project, Biogas2PEM-FC , has developed a system to convert the toxic waste from olive oil production into electricity. The goal of the project has been to develop a technology to convert waste from the olive oil production into electricity. With this concept we solve two problems at once.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 7, 2020

One year into the ERDC project, the team demonstrated a three-step approach that “cleans” the water, removes the algae and entrained nutrients such as nitrogen and phosphorus from the water, and transforms the algae into a potential energy source. Algae biorefinery concept through HTL. It was a great proof of concept.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 14, 2014

Audi’s latest e-fuels project is participation in a a pilot plant project in Dresden that produces diesel fuel from water, CO 2 and green electricity. The sunfire plant, which operates according to the “power-to-liquid” (PtL) principle, requires carbon dioxide, water and electricity as raw materials. PtL = Power-to-Liquids.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 10, 2014

volts (V) of water-splitting voltage with its novel low-cost electrolysis technology. The theoretical minimum voltage needed to split water molecules into hydrogen and oxygen is 1.23 Nanosystem for water electrolysis. HyperSolar, Inc. announced that it had reached 1.25 V (at 25 °C at pH 0). Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

Under illumination for 6 hours, the optimized reduced titania-Cu 2 O photocatalyst enables 0.13% photoreduction of highly diluted CO 2 with water vapors to 462 nmol g ?1 What if we drew inspiration from photosynthesis, the process by which plants use sunlight to convert CO2 and water into useful chemicals?

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

Scientists from a team spanning Harvard University’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard Medical School and the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University have developed a scalable, integrated bioelectrochemical system that uses bacteria to convert solar energy into a liquid fuel. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Volkswagen opted for a dual strategy: detailed measures optimized the combustion process and reduced raw emissions, while twin dosing technology in the exhaust gas system converted the majority of NO x into harmless substances. The first SCR catalytic converter is installed directly downstream of the engine. As previously, the 2.0

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 13, 2022

Able to convert waste heat directly into electrical power, the E-PowerPack uses Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC) technology to reduce ship fuel consumption and CO 2 emissions. Basic ORC concept. Alfa Laval is introducing the E-PowerPack waste heat recovery system for ships. All can make a sizeable difference.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 22, 2016

The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced the award of up to $40 million, subject to appropriations, to design, permit, and construct an open-water, grid-connected national wave energy testing facility.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 16, 2012

Mercedes-Benz will present a fuel-cell powered design study of an off-road SUV, the Ener-G-Force, based on the concept of a future police car developed for the Los Angeles Design Challenge. The Ener-G-Force design concept. The Ener-G-Force emits nothing but water and has an operating range of about 500 miles. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 19, 2015

Researchers at North Carolina State University have developed a highly effective new perovskite-promoted iron oxide redox catalyst for a hybrid solar-redox scheme they had proposed earlier for partial oxidation and water-splitting of methane. To further enhance this effect, they proposed a layered reverse-flow reactor concept.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 14, 2021

All these concepts have advantages and drawbacks in terms of energy, operation and economics. Empa researchers hope that this novel process engineering concept will lead to simpler process control, higher efficiency and better suitability for dynamic operation. Construction of the plant is planned for mid-2021. Schröter K.,

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 27, 2015

Published in the RSC journal Energy & Environmental Science , the research demonstrates how lignin-derived compounds can first be converted to muconic acid via a biological process. Muconic acid can then be separated from the biological culture and catalytically converted into adipic acid. —Vardon et al.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 25, 2016

As the V OC of the presented c-Si cells is only ∼600 mV, four cells need to be connected in series to achieve stable water splitting performance. We demonstrate in this study that, thanks to their high V OC , three series-connected SHJ cells can already stably drive the water splitting reaction at unprecedented SHE. Schüttauf et al.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

From QUANTRON’s point of view, this combination, which has so far been rather rare in Europe, represents the optimal team for converting the energy on board into propulsion as safely and efficiently as possible. This range is fully sufficient for most transport operators, saving them greater expense on charging infrastructure.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 8, 2013

Battelle researchers have developed a mobile catalytic pyrolysis unit that converts biomass materials such as wood chips or agricultural waste into bio-oil. As currently configured, the Battelle-funded unit converts one ton of pine chips, shavings and sawdust into as much as 1,300 gallons of wet bio-oil per day.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

It selectively filters the hydrogen while blocking other gases, allowing it to be used as a fuel and converted as needed, at the time of re-fueling. million) proof-of-concept facility showcased an ammonia-based energy storage system that turned electricity, water and air into ammonia without releasing carbon emissions.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Algae are photosynthetic, carbon sequestering organisms that have the ability to grow in fresh to saturated saline water, at a broad range of pH, and in many growth configurations including open unlined ponds, enclosed photobioreactors, attached growth systems, and in the open ocean.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

The University of Michigan proposes the RAFT concept as a solution for hydrokinetic energy harvesting. The innovative new turbine designs, along with distributed load control and regulator concepts, significantly reduce the levelized cost of energy. University of Washington. University of Alaska Fairbanks. Emrgy, Inc.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 11, 2009

Start-up Bright Automotive, which in May unveiled its IDEA concept series plug-in hybrid light commercial van ( earlier post ), will convert VW Transporter vans with the series hybrid Bright powertrain as a bridge between the concept and the production version of the IDEA. The IDEA concept. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 3, 2012

The advance paves the way for researchers to convert biomass molecules such as glucose into hexanes, which are significant components of gasoline currently derived by refining crude oil. Unlike other technologies that use large quantities of hydrogen gas to convert biomass to biofuels, the team’s process is driven by electricity.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 12, 2018

The increased carbon efficiency is possible because the water gas shift reaction is avoided and instead a reversed water gas shift is introduced to convert CO 2 to CO. Energy flow of the staged PBtL concept. kW (el) , the levelized cost of producing advanced biofuel with the PBtL concept is $1.70/liter Resources.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 1, 2020

The Wind Hunter Project combines wind propulsion sailing technology and wind energy converted to generate a stable supply of hydrogen. As a first step, the project team will demonstrate the feasibility of such a concept using a sailing yacht. .; Nippon Kaiji Kyokai (ClassNK); and Miraihene Planning LLC.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

The first vessels with engines that can run on these fuel alternatives are in production and expected to hit the waters in 2024. Aker Clean Hydrogen and Kuehne+Nagel are already in advanced discussions with container ship owners who share the ambition of fossil-free shipping and who want to convert to hydrogen, ammonia and methanol engines.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 22, 2022

Because so much energy is lost turning steam back into water in the Rankine cycle, at most a third of the power in the steam can be converted into electricity. —Rodney Keith, manager for the advanced concepts group working on the Brayton cycle technology. Now that we can get across the river, we can get a lot more going.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 16, 2015

Researchers from Purdue University and École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland are proposing a new integrated process involving the co-production of hydrogen and electricity from solar thermal energy—a concept they label “hydricity”.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 26, 2019

Researchers at EPFL have patented a new concept that could cut trucks’ CO 2 emissions by almost 90%. The patented concept is the subject of an open-access paper published in Frontiers in Energy Research. First, the vehicle’s flue gases in the exhaust pipe are cooled down and the water is separated from the gases.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 7, 2023

A key role is played by dual layers of high density polyethylene adding up to 4 mm thickness, as a water diffusion barrier. This is measured by “water activity,” a quantity similar to relative humidity. A simplified version of the bio-landfill technology. It is essential to keep the biomass dry. In 1 y, PNAS.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 26, 2020

However, HFOs are banned in the national waters of many countries. In addition, the International Maritime Organization (IMO) is seeking to ban HFO use in Arctic waters. IDEALFUEL seeks to develop methods to convert woody residual and waste materials such as sawdust and wood chips into renewable marine fuels.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 14, 2010

Processing train of integrated triglyceride-biofuel concept. Researchers at Applied Research Associates’ (ARA) Florida Research Laboratory are developing a catalytic hydrothermolysis (CH) process to convert triglycerides (e.g., Water also functions as an effective heat-transfer and catalytic reaction medium. —Li

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

—President and CEO of HIF Global, Cesar Norton eFuels are produced by combining green hydrogen and recycled CO 2 , obtaining eMethanol which is then converted into eGasoline, eSAF, or other synthetic fuels. Together with Porsche and other partners, we now want to build a prototype plant and test the concept as a whole.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 2, 2015

The company also showcased the use of direct water injection to enhance the efficiency of combustion engines at higher performance levels while also significantly reducing fuel consumption and emissions in key driving cycles. Direct water injection. Bosch and water injection. BMW 2 Series Active Tourer plug-in hybrid prototype.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 16, 2022

million award from ARPA-E ( earlier post ), has developed a reactor and catalysts to convert CO 2 and hydrogen from water into syngas for use in the Fischer-Tropsch process. United and United Airlines Ventures (UAV) announced an investment in and commercial agreement with Dimensional Energy.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 5, 2019

Researchers at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and the University of Toronto have proposed a method enabling air conditioning and ventilation systems to produce synthetic fuels from CO 2 and water from the ambient air. The team presents this “crowd oil” concept in Nature Communications.

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