Green Car Congress

APRIL 8, 2014

Researchers at the US Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), Materials Science and Technology Division have demonstrated novel NRL technologies developed for the recovery of CO 2 and hydrogen from seawater and their subsequent conversion to liquid fuels. The gases are then converted to liquid hydrocarbons by a metal catalyst in a reactor system.

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JULY 11, 2013

Omnitek Engineering has been selected by the Puget Sound Clean Air Agency for a pilot project to demonstrate its diesel-to-natural gas engine conversion technology for drayage trucks serving the Port of Seattle, Washington, in support of the Port’s Clean Truck Program.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Logan Bus Company, the largest school bus provider for the New York City Department of Education is converting five of its diesel buses to electric buses to participate in this demonstration project. —Alicia Barton, President and CEO of NYSERDA. Once this is completed, bus routes will be determined.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2012

Cellulosic sugars will be converted into ethanol at the site, showcasing how sugarcane mills can increase ethanol production economically with Edeniq’s bolt-on technologies. Edeniq’s technologies efficiently break down biomass to liberate cellulosic sugars that can be converted into ethanol and other products.

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DECEMBER 11, 2022

This innovation gives our professional customers the choice to convert their current vans to electric, extend their vehicle’s life and meet legislative and mobility requirements. In a market boosted by last-mile demand, city access restrictions will soon require recent LCV owners to look for a solution to convert to zero emissions.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 5, 2013

Evonik Industries has demonstrated the use of bacteria to convert syngas to pure 2-hydroxyisobutyric acid (2-HIBA) under industrial conditions. Both the chemically-produced and biotech-produced products can be converted to methyl methacrylate (MMA). 2-HIBA is a precursor used in the manufacture of PLEXIGLAS.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 9, 2017

VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland and Lappeenranta University of Technology (LUT) are beginning testing of the Soletair demo plant, which uses air-captured carbon dioxide to produce renewable fuels and chemicals. The pilot plant is coupled to LUT’s solar power plant in Lappeenranta. kW solar PV power plant at LUT.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 2, 2015

Siluria’s OCM technology is the first commercially viable process to directly convert natural gas to ethylene, a key building block for the global petrochemicals industry and a new basis from which to produce transportation fuels. The oxidative coupling of methane (OCM) converts methane into ethane and ethylene (C 2 hydrocarbons).

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APRIL 8, 2022

Together, UAV and OLCV will fund development work at Cemvita to convert carbon dioxide into hydrocarbons for SAF. This includes funding projects such as pilot and demo plants, engineering studies, financing construction and operating SAF plants.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 3, 2019

Global Bioenergies has developed a conversion process based on fermentation for renewable resources (residual sugars, agricultural and forestry waste) into isobutene, one of the petrochemical building blocks that can be converted into ingredients for cosmetics, gasoline, kerosene, LPG and plastics.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 9, 2014

The D-EGR demonstrator is a converted 2012 Buick Regal with a 2.0-liter In their paper, the SwRI researchers reported that the conversion to D-EGR improved engine efficiency and fuel consumption at least 10% across the performance map, with some operating conditions seeing substantially higher improvements. The engine conversion.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2016

This breakthrough paves the way for GaN to become the technology of choice for power conversion circuits that are made in silicon today. Today, GaN transistors are being designed into radar systems, cellular base stations, and power converters such as those found in computer notebook power adaptors.

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DECEMBER 16, 2011

Six research institutions and seven industrial partners from Europe will participate in the new BioBoost project, aimed at converting residual biomass into energy carriers for the production of high-quality and engine-compatible fuels and chemicals as well as for the generation of electricity and heat. above 1000 °C.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 24, 2016

Large amounts of energy had to be used for these, which made a sustainable conversion of sunlight into chemically stored energy impossible. The two research groups of the Universities of Basel and Zurich are currently investigating how the charge accumulation can be converted into a chemical fuel. Resources. Orazietti, M.

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DECEMBER 30, 2016

Both Lanzanol and cellulosic ethanol will then be converted to jet fuel via the Alcohol-to-Jet" (ATJ) process developed by LanzaTech and the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL). Each gallon of ethanol is converted to produce ½ gallon of aviation fuel. Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

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MARCH 8, 2012

Our strain demonstration comes on the heels of the successful demonstration of our pretreatment technology, proving our ability to map performance at the smallest scales all the way through demo scale. Tests resulted in high sugar conversion and high yields of butanol. Pretreatment.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 8, 2012

The newly installed equipment for the conversion of Enerkem’s methanol into cellulosic ethanol is now used in combination with the larger methanol equipment already in operation at Westbury. —Vincent Chornet, President and CEO of Enerkem.

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DECEMBER 13, 2017

Global Bioenergies has started the scale-up phase of a process converting renewable resources into acetone and isopropanol. In a further process, these two compounds can be converted to propylene, a key petrochemical building block with a market valued in excess of US$100 billion. —Marc Delcourt, CEO of Global Bioenergies.

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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. The company began construction on a CO 2 -to-fuels demo in Tucson, Arizona in 2021. Dimensional Energy, which recently received a $3.1-million

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MAY 9, 2017

million (US$18-million) project to convert currently poorly valorized residual wheat straw into second-generation renewable isobutene for subsequent conversion into oligomers usable in lubricants, rubbers, solvents, plastics, or fuels. Global Bioenergies is partnering with Clariant, INEOS, IPSB, TechnipFMC and Linz University in a €16.4-million

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JANUARY 12, 2010

Converting biomass to renewable fuels via a pyrolysis pathway. The US Department of Energy has selected UOP, a Honeywell company, for negotiation of a $25 million award to build a demonstration unit in Hawaii to convert cellulosic biomass into renewable hydrocarbon transportation fuels. Source: UOP. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.).

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

Joule has developed a highly modular system using highly engineered photosynthetic organisms to catalyze the conversion of sunlight and CO 2 directly to liquid hydrocarbons and ethanol ( earlier post ). —Peter Erich, President of Joule Fuels.

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OCTOBER 17, 2012

Should the lab and pilot work prove successful and scalable, they will place a demo plant in Malaysia, Burton said. Accordingly, LanzaTech has begun look at the industrial conversion of acetic acid/acetate to lipids, and has demonstrated this. LanzaTech envisions using partner technology to convert the acetic acid to lipids—i.e.,

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JUNE 23, 2014

So far this year, the team has integrated the T2B2 aftertreatment in the dynamometer environment and is in the process of convert the demonstration vehicle to the T2B2 configuration. Further, the first demo vehicle has demonstrated T2B5 with margin without the aid of the full dCSC and LP EGR, while maintaining fuel economy above the target.

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APRIL 5, 2016

Altex Technologies has selected Unitel to provide engineering services to design and build a pilot system that will produce 1 BPD of synthetic gasoline from biomass (Biomass Conversion to Synthetic Gasoline System, BCSGS). Method and apparatus for conversion of carbonaceous materials to liquid fuel. —US 9199889.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2014

Bottom: 3D model of sunfire SOEC (left) and the demo plant (right). Nearly 80% of that can be converted into synthetic diesel. Carbon Capture and Conversion (CCC) Fuel Cells Fuels Power Generation' PtL = Power-to-Liquids. Source: sunfire. Click to enlarge. This fuel—Audi e?diesel—is

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

France-based Global Bioenergies, a company developing a processes to convert renewable resources into hydrocarbons through fermentation, has joined aireg (Aviation Initiative for Renewable Energy in Germany e.V.) The proprietary technology allows the conversion of sugars into jet fuel, including sugars derived from waste wood and straw.

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AUGUST 12, 2017

Funding will support pilot-scale demonstrations of a thermochemical platform using advanced thermochemical conversion methods successfully proven at the lab or bench scale to efficiently produce bio-based intermediate fuel and potential co-products.

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OCTOBER 31, 2018

Screenshots from the NO x Tracker, showing Live DeNO x performance data of the two demo vehicles. When heated, AdAmmine releases the gas, which is then accurately dosed to the exhaust and SCR catalyst, thereby converting NO x to nitrogen and water.

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MAY 18, 2015

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. Isooctane is an additive currently used to improve gasoline quality and could also be used as a standalone fuel.

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MAY 10, 2011

G2BioChem’s process design and patents, applied across the three phases of the planned demo plant. Other benefits of the process include: 90% of overall incoming C 5 /C 6 sugars are recovered after pre-treatment; 85% of recovered C 5 /C 6 sugars are hydrolyzed into fermentable monomers; 89% of the monomers are converted to EtOH.

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JUNE 29, 2009

Underground Coal Gasification (UCG) is a process through which coal is converted in-situ (i.e., The FT catalyst reduction process has been enhanced with resulting improvements over successive production campaigns in catalyst activity and CO and H 2 conversion. Peter Bond, Linc Energy CEO.

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JANUARY 24, 2017

STF first converts natural gas-based synthesis gas to methanol in an isothermal reactor; the methanol is then transformed into high-octane gasoline via the intermediate methanol. The Freiberg researchers will pilot test and demo a new Fischer-Tropsch synthesis process developed in South Africa for the production of kerosene.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

The City of Easthampton, Massachusetts announced in April that it is transitioning its city-owned vehicle fleet from gas to electric, and will be the first city to offer an EV adoption benefit to employees who convert. And large corporations like Amazon aren’t the only ones currently converting their fleets from gas to electric.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2010

a synthetic biology company focused on developing renewable hydrocarbon biofuels ( earlier post ), are partnering to explore potential business opportunities for the conversion of sugarcane into renewable jet fuel. The University of Queensland, Australia (UQ) and US-based Amyris Biotechnologies Inc., Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

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JUNE 29, 2011

The ATJ task force consists of technical experts from a wide stakeholder group including jet engine manufacturers, governmental bodies, fuel manufacturers, third-party testing laboratories, academics and airframe manufacturers investigating the requirements for a third major pathway to renewable drop-in jet fuel: the conversion of alcohols.

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MARCH 21, 2016

Hybrids and EVs have a substantial requirement for power conversion; a drive train can be operated up to 100s of kW. A typical silicon-based converter will be no more than 95% efficient, Pi Innovo says, therefore having at least a 5% loss. The GaN Demo PCB is capable of driving motors up to 1.5 With the heat sink applied.

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