Green Car Congress
AUGUST 27, 2021
They were able to convert amorphous polypropylene and everyday bags and bottles effectively to lubricants with yields up to 80+%. Quantification of critical properties, including pour point, kinematic viscosity, and viscosity index, indicates that the products are promising alternatives to currently used base or synthetic oils.
Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 27, 2021
With tuning, the catalyst can achieve a selectivity of 80% toward motor oil (C 21 –C 45 ). Following this strategy, the selectivity of 80% toward motor oil (C 21 –C 45 ) can be achieved. Martin, Javier Pérez-Ramírez (2021) “Direct Conversion of Polypropylene into Liquid Hydrocarbons on Carbon?Supported Shibashish D.
Green Car Congress
SEPTEMBER 21, 2020
Novozymes launched Fiberex, a comprehensive platform based on novel enzymes and yeast strains to convert corn fiber into ethanol. The technology converts a low-value by-product into high-value, low-carbon fuel while also enabling the production of significantly more corn oil.
Green Car Congress
DECEMBER 28, 2020
Researchers at the University of Oxford have developed a method to convert CO 2 directly into aviation fuel using a novel, inexpensive iron-based catalyst. The conversion reaction also produces light olefins—ethylene, propylene, and butenes—totalling a yield of 8.7%. and selectivity to C 8 –C 16 hydrocarbons of 47.8%
Green Car Congress
JUNE 28, 2021
So far, renewable diesel and jet fuels are mainly derived from plant oils, but the EU Renewable Energy Directive limits the use of biofuel from food and feed crops since they do not meet sustainability requirements when produced at large scale.
DIY Electric Car
MARCH 21, 2021
I have been asked to convert a farm tractor to electric. The farming couple chose it thinking the hydrostatic drive would make it easier to convert as the motor can run continuously just pumping oil. Hydrostatic tractor conversion. New project! The tractor is a Russell 3-D tool carrier with hydrostatic drive.
Cars That Think
MARCH 14, 2022
A possible answer, though, might lie in oil wells. The California-based Hyperlight Energy will be piloting an installation where they plan to use existing oil wells as solar thermal wellsprings, with the stored energy being converted back to clean electricity when required. But we can still reduce the carbon [cost] of that oil.”
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