Green Car Congress

APRIL 9, 2021

BETO is focused on developing technologies that convert domestic biomass and other waste resources (e.g., municipal solid waste, biosolids) into low-carbon biofuels and bioproducts. per gallon gasoline equivalent (GGE) by 2030, as well as associated renewable chemical co-products to achieve this target.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 13, 2021

Brookhaven National Laboratory, and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) will work over the next few years to bring to market high-temperature proton exchange membrane (HT-PEM) fuel cells. Artist’s concept of a heavy-duty vehicle equipped with high-temperature proton exchange membrane (HT-PEM) fuel cells.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

Neste and Genève Aéroport are partnering on the introduction of renewable jet fuel into aircraft operations from Geneva International Airport; the target will be at least 1% of the annual jet fuel consumption at Genève Aéroport starting late 2018. Aviation is the fastest growing means of transport and thus emissions will grow substantially.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 12, 2018

Dürr is building a paint shop in Mexico for the BMW Group that meets the requirements for connected Industry 4.0 This plant, featuring the first integrated smart factory concept from Dürr, is being built at the San Luis Potosí site. The waste heat is made available to the production plants as hot water using a waste heat boiler.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 30, 2014

ReShip concept. ReShip project will use low-quality wood waste, chippings and unmerchantable wood left in forests after logging has occurred for feedstock for the fast pyrolysis process. The US$537,000 project is funded by Norwegian industry partners and the Research Council of Norway and will run until 2017. Click to enlarge.

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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

SEPTEMBER 11, 2021

Electrolytic hydrogen production powered by renewable energy is seen as an environmentally friendly means to ameliorate global climate and energy problems. To reduce the overall voltage of the electrolysis cell, hybrid electrolysis concepts are also being researched. The new nanoparticles are also very useful for this half reaction.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 12, 2023

Aluminum is a critical element used in thousands of important products, but it can often interfere with quick and effective extraction of valuable rare earth elements (REEs) from coal waste byproducts. The film emits blue light in the presence of water and becomes significantly more intense in the presence of aluminum ions. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 22, 2015

SG Preston, a Philadelphia-based bioenergy company, is partnering with IHI E&C , a Houston-based engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) subsidiary of Japan’s IHI Corporation , to develop and to construct a series of commercial-scale renewable diesel and jet fuel manufacturing plants, initially in the US Midwest and Canada.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 23, 2014

The Dearman project is to deliver a production-feasible waste-heat recovery system for urban commercial vehicles, which offers life-cycle CO 2 savings of up to 40%; fuel savings of 25%, with the potential of up to almost 50%; and potential payback in less than three years. Earlier post. ). The IDP10-funded project will cost £3.25

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 1, 2010

An alliance of industry, academic and government organizations has formed to commercialize technologies that will utilize concentrated solar energy to convert waste CO 2 into synthetic fuels. Earlier post.). Sandia began working on research, development and demonstration of solar reforming technologies more than 20 years ago.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 11, 2021

The US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy intends to issue three sustainable transportation technologies funding opportunity announcements (FOAs) in Spring 2021. This will involve partnerships with industry to demonstrate these technologies at industrially-relevant scales.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Olivine is a CO 2 -reactive waste product that can be returned as tailings after capture carbon from the air. Travertine will launch a transformative process that integrates strong acid treatment of mining waste or tailings with electrolytic acid recycling. Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. University of Nevada, Reno.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 26, 2020

Due to environmental concerns and national as well as international regulations associated with fossil based HFOs, there is a considerable need for cleaner, renewable and economic alternatives for the maritime industry.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 25, 2013

The key to this Ocean Renewable Energy Storage (ORES) system is the placement of 30-meter-diameter hollow concrete spheres on the seafloor under the wind turbines. This could yield an estimated storage cost of about 6 cents per kilowatt-hour—a level considered viable by the utility industry. Slocum, A.H.; Fennell, G.E.;

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 11, 2023

REEs are relatively abundant in mine tailings, the waste products of some metal ores, such as aluminum. The researchers will collaborate with an industry partner, Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), a Xerox company, to bioprint a porous, sorbent material for use in the biofilter.

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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. Captis Aire LLC, “Renewable Blending Components to Enable 100% Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF)”, $2,000,000. Comstock Inc.,

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Cars That Think

MAY 31, 2024

South 8 swapped out the carbonate for some industrial liquified gases with low freezing points (a recipe the company won’t disclose). Emily Waltz Mining leaves behind piles of waste after the commercially viable material is extracted. Emrgy’s timing takes advantage of the groundwork laid by the solar power industry.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 23, 2021

Tenneco’s Powertrain business group is partnering with key academic and industry experts to examine the technical possibilities and commercial feasibility of synthetic fuels in the NAMOSYN project. The next process step converts the syn gas to synthetic fuels.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 26, 2018

In Japan, Aichi Prefecture, Chita City, Toyota City, Chubu Electric Power, Toho Gas, Toyota Motor Corporation, and Toyota Industries have launched the Chita City and Toyota City Renewable Energy-use Low-carbon Hydrogen Project. Hydrogen is a useful energy source for realizing a low-carbon society. The project.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 2, 2019

Through research and new developments in both energy efficiency and domestically-sourced fuel technologies, we can not only strengthen our energy security but also improve transportation affordability for our nation’s trucking industry—helping those who deliver American goods and those who use them.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 11, 2016

Preliminary analysis performed by the national laboratories on the H2@Scale concept indicated that nearly a 50% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions is possible by 2050 via such large-scale hydrogen production and use. commercial viability of fuel cell vehicle technology has been demonstrated (commercial vehicles being sold).

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 15, 2014

North European Bio Tech Oy (NEB) has made an investment decision concerning the construction of a bioethanol plant on the Renforsin Ranta industrial estate in Kajaani, Finland. The company is also building plant in Gothenburg to produce ethanol from food industry waste and residue; the plant will be delivered by St1 Biofuels.

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Drive Electric

APRIL 4, 2023

For batteries without any more usable life, The Motor Industry Association of New Zealand (MIA) members have pledged to adhere to a code of practice that outlines the proper systems for the use, capture, return, refurbishment, reuse, recycling, or disposal of EV and hybrid batteries, to ensure that no batteries end up in landfills.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

The Ricardo CryoPower concept aims to increase the fuel efficiency while reducing operating costs and CO 2 emissions for long haul trucks and other heavy-duty applications. This enables recovery of otherwise wasted exhaust heat to the working gas after the end of compression. It is thus readily available.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

Global emissions of CO 2 have increased by 45% between 1990 and 2010, and reached an all-time high of 33 billion tonnes in 2010 despite emission reductions in industrialized countries during the same period. Throughout the Kyoto Protocol period, industrialized countries have made efforts to change their energy sources mix.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 3, 2022

Ford is continuing to transform its global automotive business, accelerating the development and scaling of electric, connected vehicles, while leveraging its nameplates to strengthen operating performance and take full advantage of engineering and industrial capabilities. —Ford President and CEO Jim Farley.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 22, 2020

In proof-of-concept testing with three different chemistries, PNNL’s patent-pending onboard separation technology separated 95% of the ethanol out of commercial gasoline. The materials are also effective for separating butanol, a promising high-octane renewable fuel component. That’s where PNNL’s onboard separation technology comes in.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, have identified two main challenges for renewable biofuel production from cheap sources: lowering the cost of developing microbial cell factories; and establishing more efficient methods for hydrolysis of biomass to sugars for fermentation. —Eduard Kerkhoven. Zhou et al.

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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. In the first stage, which took place over the past four years, Battelle created a bench-scale machine that converted 50 pounds of woody waste per day, demonstrating the novel concept.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

The logistics industry is currently responsible for 11 percent of global carbon emissions. By investing not only in sustainable fuel but also in fleet renewal, engine retrofitting, and efficiency projects, we tackle the impact of the logistics supply chain. The Bio-LNG used by Shell in the test is produced from agricultural waste.

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Baua Electric

MAY 10, 2024

Fossil fuels currently meet this majority demand, raising concerns due to potential CO 2 (a major greenhouse gas) doubling compared to preindustrial levels (approximately 285 ppm for about 400 000 years before the industrial revolution and reached 376 ppm as of 2005 and is still increasing). Carbon dioxide cycle of biomass-based fuels.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 23, 2014

The ISEAS concept. Waste seawater from a fish and shrimp farm will nourish the halophytes that clean the water as they grow. Plants called halophytes show even more promise than we expected as a source of renewable fuel for jets and other vehicles. —Chaturvedi et al. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 29, 2012

Celtic Renewables Ltd, a spin-out company from from the Biofuel Research Centre (BfRC) at Edinburgh Napier University, has signed a memorandum of understanding with malt whisky producer Tullibardine for the use of its whisky by-products for feedstock for the production of bio-butanol. Celtic Renewables’ process. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 4, 2019

The FOA topics will advance DOE’s Bioenergy Technology Office’s (BETO) objectives to reduce the price of drop-in biofuels, lower the cost of biopower, and enable high-value products from biomass or waste resources. Corn stover and pine forest residues were selected as they are the target (“proof of concept”) feedstocks.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

These projects were selected under an Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) Advanced Manufacturing Office funding opportunity, focused on advanced materials, advanced processes, and modeling and analysis tools for materials and manufacturing. Argonne National Laboratory. Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 27, 2024

This project, unveiled by Prime Minister Narendra Modi during a video conference on February 24, 2024, marks a pivotal moment in India’s commitment to renewable energy adoption. The Challenge of Intermittency and the Role of Batteries The transition to renewable energy sources such as solar and wind power is gaining momentum globally.

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