Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 26, 2011

Researchers from Tatung and National Cheng Kung Universities in China, and Case Western Reserve University in Ohio, report manufacturing a new oxygenate additive for diesels (bio or petroleum) using glycerol (a major byproduct of biodiesel production), dimethyl sulfate (DMS), and sodium hydroxide pellets as raw materials.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 3, 2016

Researchers from George Washington University and Vanderbilt University have demonstrated the conversion of atmospheric CO 2 into carbon nanofibers (CNFs) and carbon nanotubes (CNTs) for use as high-performance anodes in both lithium-ion and sodium-ion batteries. times above that of sodium-ion batteries with graphite electrodes.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 10, 2019

Industry-Informed Physics-Based Monitoring for Asset Management and Maintenance Optimization, $500,000 Electric Power Research Institute, Palo Alto, Calif. Novel chemical looping process for conversion of natural gas to pure hydrogen, $150,000 CanmetENERGY, Ottawa, Canada Glowink Inc., Madison, Wis. Amesbury, Mass.

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Charged EVs

APRIL 1, 2024

Aqua Metals has a pilot line up and running, and is selling materials to customers in the metals industry. That’s not to say that over the coming years, as we build a brand-new closed-loop recycling industry, that that doesn’t start to verticalize a little bit more. But one of the things the pyro process doesn’t recover is lithium.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 4, 2011

There is a tremendous amount of industrial and scientific interest in supercritical CO 2 systems for power generation using all potential heat sources including solar, geothermal, fossil fuel, biofuel and nuclear. The S-CO 2 system is also very compact, meaning that capital costs would be relatively low. Wright et al. SAND2010-0171 ).

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 25, 2013

Scientists at the University of New South Wales (Australia) have developed a new bio-inspired method for carrying out chemical reduction—an industrial process used to produce fuels and chemicals. A report on their work is published in the journal Angewandte Chemie. —Stephen Colbran.

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Setec Powerr

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Others solid battery types are nickel-cadmium and sodium-sulphur, while zinc-air is emerging. Energy storage with hydrogen, which is still emerging, would involve its conversion from electricity via electrolysis for storage in tanks. SETEC POWER is keenly aware of market demand and industry changes.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 6, 2015

Researchers at Lund University (Sweden) have developed an optimized two-phase enzymatic (lipase) system for the conversion of plant oils to biodiesel. Applied to the solvent-free ethanolysis of rapeseed oil, the system delivered a yield of 96% under mild conditions. Under the mild conditions used, chemical catalysts were inefficient.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 1, 2024

Aqua Metals has a pilot line up and running, and is selling materials to customers in the metals industry. That’s not to say that over the coming years, as we build a brand-new closed-loop recycling industry, that that doesn’t start to verticalize a little bit more. But one of the things the pyro process doesn’t recover is lithium.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 16, 2012

Researchers in the Netherlands have demonstrated the direct conversion of synthesis gas through a Fischer-Tropsch process to C 2 through C 4 light olefins with selectivity up to 60 wt.% using catalysts that constitute iron nanoparticles (promoted by sulfur plus sodium) homogeneously dispersed on weakly interactive ?-alumina

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 21, 2011

The first group, the Technifin patents, cover the basic use in lithium-ion cells of the LTO anodes invented in 1994 by Dr. Michael Thackeray (currently an Argonne Distinguished Fellow at the US Argonne National Laboratory) while at the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) in South Africa.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 26, 2014

The resulting blend exhibits properties similar to conventional biodiesel, while reducing waste and improving conversion. Biodiesel is produced from vegetable oils or animal fats via a transesterification reaction with a short chain alcohol and a basic catalyst such as sodium or potassium methoxide.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 5, 2014

The ECO-Jet process also removes other harmful substances from the exhaust of engines using bunker fuel, for instance poisonous hydrocarbons and metals including vanadium, iron, nickel, silicon and sodium. The solution can be combined with a scrubber process to remove sulfur from flue gases. Bunker fuel may contain as much as 3.5

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 29, 2018

While converting CO 2 to CO is already commercially possible, developing technology that can produce in-demand C 2 chemicals from CO on an industrial scale is still a challenge. 1 ), low cell voltages, and high single-pass CO conversion, leading directly to concentrated product streams. —Ripatti et al. —Matthew Kanan.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 27, 2021

He had discovered sodium, potassium, and several compounds and invented the. Faraday didn't work directly with Davy and Wollaston on their experiments, but he did overhear a conversation between them and understood the direction of their work. Davy, just 13 years older than Faraday, had already made a name for himself as a chemist.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 18, 2021

First, SciAps has developed the LIBS (laser) Z-901 Lithium analyzer, purpose-built for measuring Li in rocks and brines, and the Z-902 Lithium analyzer with an extended spectrometer range for those users who need to additionally measure boron (B), magnesium (Mg), sodium (Na) and perhaps other metals in brines.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 8, 2010

Two chemists at Brown University have streamlined the conversion of waste vegetable oil (WVO) into biodiesel, eliminating the need for corrosive chemicals to perform the reactions. Current techniques for the conversion of waste vegetable oil to biodiesel take time, are costly and are inefficient. WVO to Biodiesel. —Jason Sello.

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Get Electric Vehicle

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

In this article let us look at some of the trends that are being caught in the EV industry now and for the years to come. The batteries that use sodium instead of the pricey and rare lithium are the ones that are the closest to being on the market.

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Charged EVs

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Charged recently spoke with Graphex CEO John DeMaio, who gave us an explanation of graphite’s essential function, the current state of the industry, and some trends to watch for the future. Solid-state, lithium-sulfur, sodium batteries—would all of these still be using graphite in the anode? What exactly does graphite do in the anode?

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 15, 2011

published in the ACS journal Chemical Reviews , reviews in detail four stationary storage systems considered the most promising candidates for electrochemical energy storage: vanadium redox flow; sodium-beta alumina membrane; lithium-ion; and lead-carbon batteries. Sodium-beta alumina membrane battery. In their study, Yang et al.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 12, 2015

Other work focuses on sodium as an earth-abundant alternative to lithium, but while it could lower cost, sodium ions also carry just a single charge. This allows storage of charge at a higher volumetric or gravimetric density, which translates to a higher stored energy density or storage capacity for a given size or weight.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 26, 2009

Eagle Picher, in partnership with the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, will develop a new generation of high energy, low cost planar liquid sodium beta batteries for grid scale electrical power storage applications. Towards Scale Solar Conversion of CO 2 and Water Vapor to Hydrocarbon Fuels. DOE grant: $7,200,000).

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 28, 2019

Natron Energy , a developer of new battery cell technology based on Prussian Blue analogue electrodes and a sodium-ion electrolyte, has closed a strategic investment by Chevron Technology Ventures (CTV) to support the development of stationary energy storage systems for demand charge management at electric vehicle (EV) charging stations.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Jervois Mining Limited will acquire 100% of the Sao Miguel Paulista nickel and cobalt refinery (SMP Refinery) in the Brazilian State of Sao Paulo from Companhia Brasileira de Alumínio (CBA) (an investee company of Votorantim, one of the largest industrial conglomerates in Latin America). Background.

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