Green Car Congress

MAY 17, 2011

With the creation of a 3-D nanocone-based solar cell platform, a team led by Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Jun Xu has boosted the light-to-power conversion efficiency of photovoltaics by nearly 80 percent. With this approach at the laboratory scale, Xu and colleagues were able to obtain a light-to-power conversion efficiency of 3.2%

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 7, 2011

At the Applied Power Electronics Conference (APEC), Transphorm Inc. is showcasing a GaN-based, dc-to-dc boost converter running at more than 99% efficiency. Energy loss that occurs during power conversion is equivalent to the daily output of 318 coal plants, and costs the US economy $40 billion per year. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

JULY 31, 2017

In a 2007 paper presented at the XI International Conference on Innovations in the Ferro Alloy Industry (Infacon XI), a team from the US EPA, the Norwegian Pollution Control Authority (SFT), and SINTEF Materials and Chemistry (Lindstad et al. Any CO emitted to the atmosphere is assumed to be converted to CO 2 within days afterwards.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 14, 2010

Biochemical conversion route for biomass to biofuels. OBP intends that the process operations to be included within this FOA are limited to pretreatment, hydrolysis, and conversion technologies leading to production of alcohols and other petroleum displacement products. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 10, 2009

Poway, California-based Plug In Conversions Corp. kWh NiMH plug-in hybrid (PHEV) conversion kit that enables all-electric mode driving at speeds of up to 70 miles per hour (until the battery pack is depleted) in a converted Prius. Ewert Energy Systems video (handheld) of driving a Prius PHEV conversion at highway speeds.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 26, 2021

A large-scale demonstration converting biocrude to renewable diesel fuel has passed a significant test, operating for more than 2,000 hours continuously without losing effectiveness. It addresses the need to convert biocrude, a mixture of carbon-based polymers, into biofuels. Biowaste to biofuel conversion process.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

Canada’s National Research Council (CNRC) showcased Canada’s first algal biorefinery demonstration project, a collaborative research effort between CNRC’s Algal Carbon Conversion (ACC) program, Pond Technologies and Votorantim Cimentos’ St Marys Cement.

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Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 18, 2012

Ohio-based AMP Electric vehicles will no-longer convert gasoline cars to electric, it announced yesterday. Instead, the company announced on a conference-call yesterday, it aims to focus on converting medium-sized commercial vehicles to all-electric operation.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 28, 2015

The US Department of Energy (DOE) opened the registration period for the new Wave Energy Prize competition that aims to double the state-of-the-art performance of wave energy conversion (WEC) devices over the next two years.

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Electric Auto Association

DECEMBER 6, 2021

EV chargers Take it with you British start-up ZipCharge introduced Go , its portable EV charger, at the COP26 climate conference in Glasgow. A truck from Flux Hybrids out to do a conversion. The Hyundai Seven. Both Kia and Hyundai unveiled large SUV concept vehicles with noteworthy features at the show. Lucid Big prize!

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F-150 Fisker Los Angeles North Carolina 84

Green Car Congress

JULY 5, 2017

The conversion yield and the productivity reached 87% of the theoretical yield and 0.18 Therefore, it is appealing to develop a technology platform that converts crude glycerol to the value-added products. g/L n-butanol from 20 g/L crude glycerol. g/L/h, respectively. In this study, E.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

Kreutz used two examples of CCTF systems in his analysis: biodiesel from microalgae and Sandia National Laboratory’s S2P process (an effort to utilize concentrated solar energy to convert waste CO 2 into synthetic fuels, earlier post ). Tags: Algae Algal Fuels Carbon Capture and Conversion (CCC) Emissions Lifecycle analysis.

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Plugs and Cars

JULY 31, 2008

Once again, a conference on plug-in cars. Plug-in 2008 in San Jose, California witnessed a noon-time address by new heavy-weight convert, Andy Grove, former CEO of Intel. Coming on the heels of the Google/Brookings event in Washington, D.C., Grove brings some needed high-profile gravitas to the community of electrification advocates.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 11, 2013

PNNL’s thermochemical conversion device is installed in front of a concentrating solar power dish. The system converts natural gas into syngas—with higher energy content than natural gas—using a thermochemical conversion device installed in front of a concentrating solar power dish. Photo: PNNL. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 23, 2010

Researchers at Columbia University’s Lenfest Center for Sustainable Energy, in collaboration with Risø National Laboratory for Sustainable Energy, DTU, are investigating the high-temperature co-electrolysis of CO 2 and H 2 O using solid oxide electrolysis cells (SOECs) to produce a syngas for conversion into liquid hydrocarbon fuels.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 17, 2012

In a presentation at the 1 st Conference on CO 2 as Feedstock , held last week in Essen, Germany, LanzaTech CSO Dr. Sean Simpson described the company’s progress on developing a CO 2 pathway. Accordingly, LanzaTech has begun look at the industrial conversion of acetic acid/acetate to lipids, and has demonstrated this. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 1, 2011

A 1966 article in ACS’ Chemical & Engineering News described a General Motors press conference at which the automaker outlined research work being done on non-gasoline-based automotive power sources, with a heavy emphasis on the electrical. Electrovan—a hydrogen-oxygen fuel cell-powered GMC van. 24, page 55).

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

At the recent 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference, the US joined a dozen other countries in signing onto new agreements to curtail shipping emissions, and zero-emissions solutions for freight rail transport will be part of that commitment. Popovich, N.D., Rajagopal, D., Nat Energy 6, 1017–1025 doi: 10.1038/s41560-021-00915-5.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 18, 2015

The batch will be presented to Audi by Global Bioenergies during a press conference to be held in Pomacle on 21 May. Subsequent isobutene batches have been converted into isooctane by the Fraunhofer Institute at the Leuna refinery near Leipzig where Global Bioenergies is now building its demo plant.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 5, 2009

CatLiq converts biomass and organic wastes in water at near or supercritical conditions (280-350 °C and 180-250 bar). The high reactivity of water results in high conversion rates of organic matter and a high throughput. Test results showed CatLiq converted 70-90% of the energy in the feedstream into energy in the bio-oil product.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

GE Energy Financial Services, a unit of GE, has joined an $8-million funding round for CoolPlanetBioFuels , a start-up company developing a technology that converts low-grade biomass into high-grade fuels, including gasoline, and carbon that can be sequestered. Click to enlarge. gallon to install—i.e., gallon over a five year life.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 20, 2011

The coal first decomposes into volatiles and char while CH 4 is converted into CO/H 2 mixtures; the char is converted into CO/H 2 mixtures via steam gasification on longer time scales. In conventional CTL approaches, energy is supplied by burning a portion of the coal feed, which then produces carbon dioxide. Process flow diagram.

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Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

Attending a conference in Detroit a couple of weeks ago, we had the chance to drive a converted "Amp'd Chevrolet Equinox" crossover, offered by AMP Electric Vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 3, 2014

In October, a Prins technology paper presented at the 2013 Global Technology Conference (GTC) in London “Development of Dual Fuel technology: Prins Dieselblend-2.0 Navigant Research indicates that in 2012, 1 million light-, medium- and heavy-duty vehicles were converted to run on LPG in the world, including 449,000 vehicles in Europe.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 7, 2022

Quantum transduction is the process of converting quantum signals from a low-energy photon to a high-energy photon to protect its state during transmission. “To To do this conversion, you need sophisticated technology,” Riel says. “We

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

This requires estimates of total reserves and resources of each fossil fuel, carbon conversion factors, estimates of historical emissions, and a model to convert carbon dioxide emissions into temperature changes. F of warming. The last several decades have seen limited global progress in tackling these policy problems.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 10, 2012

Their paper was presented at the ASME Internal Combustion Engine Division 2012 Fall Technical Conference by Marcello Canova, assistant professor at OSU; lead author was Philipp Skarke, from the University of Stuttgart Institute for Internal Combustion Engines and Automotive Engineering. of the fuel energy on the NEDC cycle.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 24, 2013

The hybrid material effectively catalyzes the conversion of liquid water to hydrogen gas while remaining stable in an acidic environment. This artificial photosynthetic process mimics how plants convert those same ingredients to energy in the form of sugars. Source: BNL. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 22, 2010

Total and selective conversion of highly-abundant tars, hydrocarbons, and other carbonaceous molecules into a supplementary amount of very clean synthesis gas using GlidArc-assisted partial oxidation. This step deals with all complex molecules and converts them into hydrogen and carbon monoxide. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

Wessels Reederei signed a letter of intent with MAN Diesel & Turbo regarding the conversion of three of its fleet to dual-fuel gas operation. The retrofit enables dual-fuel operation and is the first such conversion of its type. million) for 10 such LNG-retrofits at the international Our Ocean 2017 conference in Malta recently.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 1, 2022

To start the conversation around these questions, I appointed the 2022 IEEE Ad Hoc Committee on IEEE in 2050. Their work will aid IEEE in devising long-term strategies to prepare for the future, to adapt, and to convert uncertainty into opportunity. What issues will influence the development of technical standards?

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 12, 2011

Goal: Identify natural genetic variation in switchgrass that correlates with lignocellulose-to-biofuel conversion qualities. This project should enhance understanding of the qualities that critically impact the conversion efficiency of lignocellulose into biofuels. Genomic and Breeding Foundations for Bioenergy Sorghum Hybrids.

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Cars That Think

APRIL 25, 2024

At the 2021 Mine Action Innovation Conference in Geneva, we heard about a researcher named John Frucci at Oklahoma State University who directs the OSU Global Consortium for Explosive Hazard Mitigation. In light of those conversations, we developed a user-friendly Web application called SpotlightAI.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 2, 2010

The following list of companies presenting their pathways to hydrocarbon fuels at the BIO conference is not exhaustive; indeed, other companies at the same conference could take their platforms, which they are currently targeting at the lower-volume, higher-value chemical molecule market, to produce higher-volume, lower value transportation fuels.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 23, 2009

The conference was sold out; it was also essentially a PowerPoint-free zone; the basic format relied heavily on brief introductory remarks from sets of speakers representing the diverse stakeholders, followed by questions from attendees. Customers and customer reaction were also a recurrent theme at the conference. —Jon Lauckner.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 15, 2010

Osage Bio Energy (OBE) is a Virginia-based company that will use regional grain, primarily winter barley, to produce ethanol and high value co-products for East Coast markets via a fairly conventional pathway of converting starch to sugar, followed by fermentation.

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Plug In Partners

DECEMBER 22, 2006

Press was speaking to the Electric Drive Transportation Association (EDTA) conference in Washington D.C. where plug-in hybrids were a prime topic of conversation. Nissan, who was also represented at the conference, announced earlier in the year that they are working on a plug-in hybrid.

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