Green Car Congress

JUNE 18, 2010

Researchers with the US Department of Energy (DOE)’s Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI) have identified a trio of bacterial enzymes that can catalyze key steps in the conversion of plant sugars into hydrocarbon compounds for the production of renewable transportation fuels. Click to enlarge. C=C bonds).

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 18, 2019

Researchers at Stony Brook University, with colleagues from The City College of New Tyork, Alloy Surfaces and Innoveering, explored the catalytic partial oxidation (CPOX) reforming of three potential transportation-relevant fuels—gasoline, diesel, and natural gas—for use in low-temperature combustion (LTC) engines. 2019.02.003.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 17, 2012

NO conversion versus ramp-up and ramp-down temperatures for MnCe-7:1 (?), The new material is active at temperatures as low as 120 °C with conversion maxima of ~45% higher than that achieved with Pt. Mullite is not only easier to produce than platinum, but also better at reducing pollution in diesel engines. SmMn 2 O 5 (?),

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 23, 2010

The company will be an engineering partner on each of six processes for biofuel production being evaluated under the program: fermentation, catalytic conversion, catalytic fast pyrolysis, hydropyrolysis, hydrothermal liquefaction, and a low-cost, one-step syngas-to-distillates process. .;

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Green Car Congress

MAY 15, 2021

As a result, there is a critical need to create new pathways for biofuel conversion that reduces carbon waste, prevents the loss of CO 2 emissions, and in turn, maximizes the amount of renewable fuel a conversion process yields. University of California, Davis. Carbon-Negative Chemical Production Platform - $4,160,262.57.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 8, 2010

Fort Lauderdale-Davis, Fla.) This facility will house energy research efforts including, but not limited to, studies of high efficiency combustion engines, biomass gasification kinetics, biochemical-enzymatic conversion of biomass, and carbon dioxide capture from sources including power plants and combustion engines; $10.3

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 14, 2010

The selected projects consist of leading scientists and engineers from universities, private industry, and government, and will facilitate sharing expertise and technologies. University of California, Davis; UOP LLC; Virent Energy Systems; and Washington State University. Low-cost one-step syngas to distillates. Ethanol Blend Fueling.

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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. Luca Comai, University of California, Davis. x giganteus (M.

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South Carolina Production St. Louis Missouri 239

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

The goal is to develop an optimal generator for current energy conversion. This research into underwater coatings that prevent biofouling has the potential to positively impact all MHK systems and improve the conversion efficiency for MHK systems. DOE Funding: $160,000. Total Project Value: $192,000. DOE Funding: $160,000.

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Electric Auto Association

JANUARY 5, 2023

“Palmer worked at General Electric’s Nuclear Energy Division back then, while Stan Skokan, our treasurer, was the engineer at Hewlett-Packard (HP) who measured BIll Hewlett’s shirt pocket to make sure their calculator would fit.” “So So many of our members have been practicing engineers, not just tinkerers,” Freund continued.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

These juvenile traits may reduce the recalcitrance of biomass to conversion into fermentable sugars. Unlike ethanol made from grains, such fuels could be used in today’s engines and infrastructures and would be carbon-neutral, meaning the use of these fuels would not exacerbate global climate change.

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2007 Fuel Davis Climate Change 220

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 18, 2020

Partners include Algenesis, BASF, Pepsi, Reef, and University of California – Davis. Battelle Memorial Institute (Columbus, OH) - Hybrid Approach to Repurpose Plastics Using Novel Engineered Processes (HARNESS) – DOE Funding: $1,999,778. Partners include Allonia and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 30, 2010

Engineering E. This project seeks to develop an “electrofuels chassis” by using engineered E. Novel Biological Conversion of Hydrogen and Carbon Dioxide Directly into Biodiesel. Johnson Matthey will investigate the catalytic conversion of this microbial biodiesel into additional fuel molecules, most importantly jet fuel.

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Plug In Partners

MAY 16, 2006

A small gasoline engine provides power for the vehicle over longer distances, much like the Toyota Prius. First customers for the conversions of several dozen SUVs would be cities, utilities, CEOs, entrepreneurs and celebrities. Plug-in hybrids can be charged from an outlet and have greater range in all-electric mode.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 19, 2023

DOE Funding: $1,249,997; Non-DOE Funding: $312,516; Total Value: $1,562,513 Oxygen Integrated Unit for Modular Biomass Conversion to Hydrogen — Palo Alto Research Center Inc., approximately 1400 °C).

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Conversions are mostly for the Prius, with a few for the Ford Escape/Mercury Mariner hybrid SUVs. At that point, we expect the aftermarket companies prices to have come down sufficiently so that their conversions will be attractive to owners of hundreds of thousands of hybrids already on the road. So far, most start as hybrids.

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Spirit of DC - PHEV3A

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

The electric power comes from either the gas engine or by plugging it in to a regular wall socket. On Saturday 2/21 Jerry joined us, Ward Davis and his wife Bracken for dinner. The ladies did not find the motorhead conversation all that amusing and Mary preferred to discuss her animals.

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DC Davis MPG Google 36

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

Notwithstanding its potential, however, the cost-effective conversion of woody feedstocks is limited by a single key factor, the recalcitrance of the lignocellulosic matrix to degradation by enzyme cocktails. Finding sustainable means to overcome this resistance to degradation is one of the main challenges faced by modern biorefineries.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 26, 2021

Highly Efficient Electrocatalysts for Direct Conversion Of CO2 To Chemicals, $250,000. Wireless Radio Frequency Signal Identification and Protocol Reverse Engineering (WiFIRE), $750,000. Unsupervised Physics-informed Machine Learning of Complex Natural and Engineered Geoscience Processes, $250,000. Framatome Inc. Caltrode, Inc.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 13, 2020

With this research, we looked to make a new biofuel conversion process that is relevant and applicable to renewable and waste-to-energy technology. Huq, Davis R. Last fall, NREL and Co-Optima identified a promising new bioblendstock, 4-butoxyheptane, that utilizes the oxygen within biomass to create a higher-performance diesel fuel.

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Waste Renewable Diesel Cleaner 221

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 19, 2013

While chemically converting natural gas to liquid fuels (GTL) is a proven technology that increases volumetric energy density, the current conversion approach through Fischer-Tropsch (FT-GTL) is challenged by both high capital costs and low conversion efficiencies. process intensification approaches for biological methane conversion.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

People routinely pay more for such options as sunroofs, automatic transmissions, V8 engines and leather seats. PHEV conversions are emerging at a frenzied rate (see the frequency of CalCars-News postings), to the point where its no longer feasible to track every instance of a PHEV. See What Carmakers Say about PHEVs for the latest.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 29, 2009

The piston has a shallow bowl designed to ensure stable combustion during engine cold-start operations. Ford’s turbocharged, gasoline direct injection EcoBoost engines are targeted to play a significant near-term role in Ford’s efforts to reduce fuel consumption by enabling downsizing. port fuel injected (PFI) V8 engine.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 22, 2009

Biofuel projects are going to have trouble getting financing from Wall Street this year because all of them have questions about the long term pricing of petroleum; most of them have concerns about the pricing stability of their feedstocks; and many of the cellulosic projects have concerns about the conversion technologies.

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Financing Renewable Stimulus Package Energy 150

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 28, 2010

Deploying the tools of synthetic biology, the JBEI researchers engineered a strain of Escherichia coli bacteria to produce biodiesel fuel and other important chemicals derived from fatty acids. Further, we engineered our E. Engineering E. —Jay Keasling. Normally E. coli to no longer eat fatty acids or use them for energy.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 21, 2018

The model, built on more than three decades of research led by Vincent Chiang of the Forest Biotechnology Group at North Carolina State University, will speed the process of engineering trees for specific needs in timber, biofuel, pulp, paper and green chemistry applications. Davis, Chris Smith, Fikret Isik, Ronald Sederoff & Vincent L.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 23, 2015

liter range extender engine. liter range extender engine. In designing the second-generation system, GM engineers built on the knowledge and data gained from the first-generation Volt. The major components of the propulsion system are the battery pack, the drive unit, and the engine. The range-extending engine is a 1.5-liter

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Volt GM 2016 Extended Range 150

Green Car Congress

JULY 19, 2012

Daniel Sperling, director of the Institute of Transportation Studies at the University of California, Davis, member of the California Air Resources Board, and one of the co-creators of the California LCFS. Oil sands production induces small LUCs associated with soil and forest carbon emissions from peatland conversion. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2015

and UC-Davis Emeritus and Catherine JJ DeMauro. The PHEV (Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle), a subset of the electric car, combines a primary electric motor with a much smaller back-up engine fueled with a hydrocarbon/biofuel mix. Engineering Advantages of PHEV. Engineering Advantages of the PHEV. Table of Contents.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 27, 2009

The focus of this work, reported online 25 June in the ACS journal Energy & Fuels , is to attempt to improve the production distribution toward higher chain hydrocarbons (HCs) and increase conversion rates using conventional Fischer-Tropsch catalysts (Co-Pt/Al 2 O 3 ). Davis and Heather D. Dorner, Dennis R. Hardy, Frederick W.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

Because of the complexity of the plant metabolome and the products of microbial conversion, successful development of biofuels and improvements in food quality and quantity will require highly sensitive and high-resolution metabolomics technologies, as well as comprehensive untargeted analysis and statistical approaches.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Several after-market companies have done PHEV conversions of the Ford Escape hybrid and one has done a retrofit of the F-150 pickup -- see Where PHEVs Are and ICE-Conversions.) Cischke, Ford senior vice president for sustainability, environment and safety engineering. "By Has shown some concept fuel-cell PHEVs.

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