Green Car Congress

JUNE 10, 2020

BMW i Ventures has invested in Prometheus Fuels ( earlier post ), a company removing CO 2 from the air and turning it into zero-net carbon gasoline that it will sell at gas stations, at a price that competes with fossil fuels, starting as early as this year. to C 2 fuel products such as ethanol.

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Gasoline Carbon Conversion BMW 321

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Rolls-Royce and easyJet report the world’s first run of a modern aero engine on hydrogen. It marks a major step towards proving that hydrogen could be a zero carbon aviation fuel of the future and is a key proof point in the decarbonization strategies of both Rolls-Royce and easyJet. Aviation H2.

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Hydrogen Engine Concept Mariner 431

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

The assistant professor and William Marsh Rice Trustee Chair of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering has proposed the development of a modular electrochemical system that will provide “a sustainable, negative-carbon, low-waste and point-source manufacturing path preferable to traditional large-scale chemical process plants.”.

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Conversion Fuel CO2 Polymer 236

Green Car Congress

JUNE 11, 2020

In Germany, BSE Engineering and the Institute for Renewable Energy Systems at Stralsund University of Applied Sciences (IRES) have demonstrated the conversion of wind power into renewable methanol. In the future, the fuel-cell-suitable crude methanol as well as the cleaned methanol will be sold industrially as e-fuel.

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Wind Conversion Powered Power 357

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 3, 2022

An open-access paper on their results is published in the journal ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering. estimated that with conversion by hydrothermal liquefaction (HTL) and upgrading, the wet waste resource availability in the United States could be converted to jet fuel that is equivalent to about 24% of the U.S.

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Waste Diesel Renewable Convert 434

Green Car Congress

JUNE 3, 2023

Rio Tinto has successfully completed the full transition of its heavy machinery from fossil diesel to renewable diesel at its Boron, California operation, making it the first open pit mine in the world to achieve this milestone. Rio Tinto US Borax used Neste MY Renewable Diesel during the trial. billion gallons (5.5

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Renewable Diesel Singapore California 221

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

DG Fuels (DGF), a provider of cellulosic drop-in sustainable aviation fuel (SAF), signed a multi-year SAF offtake agreement with Air France KLM for up to 60,408 metric tons (21 million gallons) per year from DGF’s initial plant to be located in Louisiana. Schematic of DGFuels Sustainable Aviation Fuel Process.

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France Fuel Louisiana Water 426

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 31, 2021

MEYER NEPTUN Engineering, a new startup within the Meyer Group focused on green innovations in the maritime industry, plans to work with the Leibniz Institute for Catalysis (LIKAT Rostock) on the establishment and operation of a development platform for power-to-liquid fuels from renewable energy and CO 2.

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Climate Engine Fuel Powered 186

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Ferguson Enterprises is collaborating with Ford Motor Company to place a first-of-its-kind F550 Fuel Cell Prototype Chassis Work Truck in service within Ferguson’s daily fleet operations for six months. —Jim Buczkowski, executive director, Ford Research and Advanced Engineering. An image of the prototype is not yet available.

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Ford Fuel Charlotte Fleet 360

Green Car Congress

MAY 26, 2022

Several organizations, encompassing companies, research labs, and academia, have formed the Hydrogen Opposed Piston Engine Working Group. The Working Group consists of members undertaking research and development in the field of hydrogen combustion in an opposed-piston engine. with an air/fuel equivalence ratio (lambda) ?

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Hydrogen Engine Saudi Arabia Universal 353

Green Car Congress

MARCH 25, 2022

In its Annual Energy Outlook 2022 (AEO2022) Reference case, which reflects current laws and regulations, the US Energy Information Administration (EIA) projects that renewable diesel supply (domestic production and net imports) will exceed biodiesel supply in the near term. Source: U.S.

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Diesel Renewable Supplies Parts 221

Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

Traditional steel production—which requires a significant amount of energy to burn fossil fuels at temperatures exceeding 1,600 °C to convert ore into iron—currently accounts for about 10 percent of the planet’s annual CO 2 emissions. The conversion is an essential step in steel production and the most emissions-spewing part.

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Engine Production Cleaner Wind 101

Green Car Congress

MARCH 2, 2022

The joint venture will produce renewable diesel following a conversion project of Marathon’s refinery in Martinez, California (the Martinez Renewable Fuels project). The project is expected to increase Neste’s renewable products capacity by slightly more than 1 million tons (365 million US gallons) per annum.

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Renewable California Production Fuel 150

Green Car Congress

APRIL 26, 2011

a renewable chemicals and advanced biofuels company, signed an engineering and consulting agreement with Mustang Engineering, LP for the conversion of Gevo’s renewable isobutanol to biojet fuel. Once completed successfully, the company will initiate jet engine testing with engine manufacturers.

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Renewable Conversion Engine Fuel 278

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 27, 2023

Topsoe and Steeper Energy , a developer of biomass conversion technologies, signed a global licensing agreement for a complete waste-to-fuel solution. The end-products include Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF), marine biofuel, and renewable diesel from waste biomass.

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Waste Energy Oil Conversion 293

Green Car Congress

MAY 30, 2020

Representatives of the Lufthansa Group and Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zürich), with ETH spin-offs Climeworks and Synhelion , have signed a joint Letter of Intent for a possible cooperation to accelerate the market launch of Sustainable Aviation Fuels (SAF).

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Solar Conversion Fuel CO2 269

Green Car Congress

JULY 15, 2021

Universal Hydrogen ( earlier post ) has signed LOIs with Icelandair Group (Iceland), Air Nostrum (Spain), and Ravn Air (Alaska) for aftermarket conversion of aircraft to hydrogen propulsion and for the supply of green hydrogen fuel using Universal Hydrogen’s modular capsules. Icelandair.

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Hydrogen Universal Iceland Kits 476

Green Car Congress

JUNE 6, 2022

direct-injection (DI) turbocharged hydrogen engine that delivers clean, efficient, and high-power performance. A paper on the study appears in the journal Fuel. Hydrogen, as clean and renewable energy, is an ideal fuel for internal combustion engines. High conversion efficiency of NO x emissions of more than 99.5%

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Hydrogen Engine 2000 Power 240

Clean Fleet Report

JUNE 17, 2024

A Fuel Switch for Today Continues To Evolve In the past, renewable diesel was considered a niche product that failed to attract mainstream investor interest. Today, it is a cost-neutral way for fleet owners to achieve their goals by allowing them to convert an entire diesel-powered fleet to alternative fuel overnight.

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Renewable Diesel Oakland Fleet 78

Green Car Congress

MAY 31, 2019

Rotterdam The Hague Airport and a European consortium led by EDL Anlagenbau Gesellschaft mbH signed a cooperation agreement to develop a demonstration plant that produces renewable jet fuel from air. This plant aims to be the first worldwide to offer renewable jet fuel from air to the market.

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Renewable Fuel Production Carbon 230

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 9, 2014

million for seven research projects designed to advance a broad range of renewable energy technologies, including solar cells, batteries, renewable fuels and bioenergy. Investigators: Zhenan Bao, Chemical Engineering; Yi Cui, Materials Science and Engineering. Light trapping in high?efficiency,

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Renewable Solar Zinc Air Fuel 225

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Electrocatalysis and photocatalysis (artificial photosynthesis) are among the most promising ways to achieve effective storage for renewable energy. Understanding the nature of the first reaction intermediate is a critical step toward commercialization of the electrocatalytic CO 2 conversion to useful chemicals.

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Conversion CO2 Universal Engine 199

Green Car Congress

MARCH 6, 2017

Researchers with the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Texas A&M University, led by Dr. Ying Li, associate professor of mechanical engineering, are developing a photocatalyst to convert CO 2 into renewable hydrocarbon fuels. We may think in the current stage that this technology is not competitive with fossil fuels.

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Renewable Texas Fuel CO2 170

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 5, 2021

bp plans to invest $269 million investment in three projects at its Cherry Point Refinery in Washington state, aimed at improving the refinery’s efficiency, reducing its carbon dioxide emissions and increasing its renewable diesel production capability. Renewable Diesel Optimization. million barrels a year.

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Renewable Diesel Emissions Production 221

Green Car Congress

JUNE 23, 2023

A research consortium led by Ford Research and Innovation Center Aachen is currently investigating the technical conditions under which diesel vehicles can run on dimethyl ether (DME) as an alternative fuel. Hardware-in-the-loop test bench for the qualification of the liquefied gas dimethyl ether as a fuel.

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Diesel Alternative Fuels Fuel Gas 367

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 16, 2021

Rolls-Royce is further developing its mtu gas engine portfolio for power generation and cogeneration to run on hydrogen as a fuel and thus enable a climate-neutral energy supply. Already today, gensets powered by mtu Series 500 and Series 4000 gas engines can be operated with a gas blending of 10% hydrogen.

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Hydrogen Power Powered Climate Protection 435

Green Car Congress

JUNE 28, 2021

A study by researchers at RWTH Aachen University in Germany has found that synthetic dimethoxymethane (DMM) is not only a promising fuel or blend component because of its outstanding combustion characteristics, but that it could be very attractive from a production point of view as well. —Burre et al. Their volumetric energy density (?20

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Fuel Diesel Renewable Hydrogen 255

Green Car Congress

JUNE 25, 2020

OCTA has already gradually transitioned its fleet over the years, from diesel-burning buses to clean-burning renewable compressed natural gas (CNG) buses with near-zero-emission engines. OCTA hydrogen fuel-cell bus. The hydrogen fuel-cell buses continue to be tested on routes throughout Orange County. million investment.

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Fleet Emissions Fuel Conversion 269

Green Car Congress

JUNE 10, 2020

UK-based ULEMCo has worked with Yorkshire Water to produce what is believed to be the first water tanker anywhere to operate on hydrogen fuel. tonne bowser has been converted from a standard truck to use hydrogen dual fuel, an approach that allows fleet managers to transition more quickly to low carbon operation. Injection system.

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Water Hydrogen Convert Fuel 243

Green Car Congress

MARCH 23, 2023

The Topic Areas in the 2023 Conversion Research and Development (R&D) funding opportunity seek to address the following R&D needs: R&D on gasification technologies, with an emphasis on syngas contaminant removal approaches that enable effective upgrading of products derived from gasification of renewable resources to liquid transportation fuels.

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Affordable Production Conversion Renewable 210

Green Car Congress

JULY 12, 2018

Global Bioenergies and Audi signed a new agreement focused on the implementation of biomass residue feedstock usage, preparation of a path to commercialization and engine testing of new blends of renewable gasoline. The renewable gasoline is essentially a liquid isooctane and is currently produced from biomass in a two-step process.

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Renewable Gasoline Audi Global 170

Green Car Congress

JUNE 12, 2019

Researchers in China have developed a one-pot process for the direct conversion of cellulose to ethanol with a yield of 43.2 The increasing concerns over global climate change have motivated great interest in the utilization of renewable biomass for the production of fuels and chemicals.

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Conversion China Climate Change 2019 223

Green Car Congress

JUNE 13, 2017

Most current bio-jet fuels consist primarily of linear or branched chain alkanes; they suffer from low densities (~0.76 g/mL) and low volumetric heating values compared with those of petro-jet fuels. As a result, most alternative fuels have to blend with petro-jet fuels to meet the energy density requirements.

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Conversion Fuel Range Oil 170

Green Car Congress

APRIL 3, 2019

Researchers at the University of Oklahoma, in collaboration with the University of Tulsa, have a novel approach for the water-assisted upgrading of the renewable chemical furfural, doubling or tripling the rate of conversion. Energy and water are interconnected in the production of renewable fuels. —Zhao et al.

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Water Conversion Tulsa Hydrogen 207

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 14, 2017

Researchers at the Naval Air Warfare Center, China Lake have synthesized a new class of renewable diesel fuels from a methyl ketone and diols including 2,3-butanediol, 1,2-propanediol, and ethylene glycol. These values are 20–30 units higher than conventional biodiesel and 40–50 units higher than petroleum-derived diesel fuel.

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Diesel Renewable Fuel China 207

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 3, 2019

Plant cell walls resist chemical or biological degradation, making the breakdown of lignocellulosic biomass into renewable chemical precursors for conversion into chemicals and transportation fuels challenging and costly. As a result, economically viable methods of transforming biomass into biofuels have yet to be realized.

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Conversion Transportation Fuel Water 191

Green Car Congress

JUNE 26, 2020

In an EU-funded research project, an international consortium is aiming to develop new production methods for sustainable marine fuels to replace heavy fuel oils in shipping. OWI Science for Fuels gGmbH and TEC4FUELS GmbH are involved in the project as research partners.

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Mariner Oil Fuel Cleaner 273