Green Car Congress

MARCH 23, 2022

The International Lithium Association ( ILiA ), the not-for-profit industry association representing the global lithium value chain, announced a wide-ranging agreement with TDi Sustainability to explore standards and environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues in the lithium industry. —ILiA Founding Chairman Anand Sheth.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

More than one in three health care organizations around the world reported ransomware attacks last year, according to a survey of IT professionals by security company Sophos. The new season features experts from around the world who discuss measures that can help organizations minimize and even prevent attacks.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 4, 2014

Siemens recently introduced an Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC) module for industrial plants or power stations for the conversion of waste heat to electricity. The new Siemens Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC) module. In this case, however, organic silicone oils are used as the work medium. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

Innovations in catalysts, separation processes, and reactor designs can enhance conversion efficiency and reduce carbon emissions. Industrial and university partners will contribute additional funding and critical resources, augmented with expertise from national laboratories and national and international research organizations.

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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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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 10, 2023

What is the digital afterlife industry? T oday, a “digital afterlife industry” is already making it possible to create reconstructions of dead people based on the data they’ve left behind. Consider that Microsoft has a patent for creating a conversational chatbot of a specific person using their “social data.” Others may recoil.

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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. It is known that water plays an important role as an environmentally-friendly solvent, replacing organic solvents.

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OCTOBER 25, 2020

2 ethylene at 1.54% light to ethylene conversion efficiency. fold improvement in the light to ethylene conversion efficiency as compared to the cell suspension. Ethylene ( earlier post ) is one of the most important organic commodity chemicals with an annual global demand of more than 150 million tons. —Vajravel et al.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

PCC 6803—and demonstrated that the organism remained stable through at least four generations, producing ethylene gas that could be easily captured. The organism produced ethylene at a high rate and is still being improved. into a cyanobacterium— Synechocystis sp. —Ungerer et al.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 1, 2013

Experts in the field, including government researchers, university specialists, and industry leaders, will provide instruction in this two-day course covering various aspects of biomass conversion including sessions on technology, economics, operations, and policy issues. CE/PDH credits are available for participants. System Scale-Up.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

Bloom Energy and Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI), a part of Samsung Group, today are collaborating to design and develop ships powered by Bloom Energy’s solid oxide fuel cell technology. If the global marine shipping industry was a country, it would be the sixth-largest producer of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the world.

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OCTOBER 29, 2013

ITRI (Industrial Technology Research Institute), a Taiwan-based high-tech applied research institution, is introducing ButyFix, a technology for cellulosic bio-butanol production with a negative carbon footprint. g/g-sugar, which is 94% of carbon conversion yield. total sugar yield. ITRI says that ButyFix is the leader in yield.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 23, 2021

This approach will enable GM to expand its reach to a larger, more diverse group of commercial customers, helping organizations meet the growing demand for zero-emissions technology while achieving their own sustainability targets. —Travis Hester, GM vice president of Electric Vehicle Growth Operations. Proof of concept vehicle shown.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 11, 2017

A Sandia National Laboratories-led team has demonstrated two new routes to lignin conversion that combine the advantages of earlier methods while minimizing their drawbacks. Conversely, harsh chemicals can deconstruct lignin in hours or even minutes. You want the organisms to make kilogram amounts in less than an hour, ideally.

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JANUARY 11, 2014

Researchers at Harvard have demonstrated a metal-free organic–inorganic aqueous flow battery—a quinone–bromide flow battery (QBFB)—as an example of a class of energy storage materials that exploits the favorable chemical and electrochemical properties of a family of molecules known as quinones.

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DECEMBER 11, 2020

Topic Areas include: Characterization of Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) to Enable Production of Conversion-Ready Feedstocks (up to $15M). The importance of any particular MSW characteristic is defined by the conversion technology specifications. Measurement of variability of key MSW characteristics within and across unique MSW streams.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2021

The UK’s National Nuclear Laboratory (NNL) and DNV are partnering to explore the potential of nuclear-derived hydrogen to support the conversion of UK gas networks to hydrogen. This will enable consumers to continue using gas in homes, businesses and industry, in an effective way that is net-zero compliant.

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JUNE 3, 2014

The UGA research group engineered a synthetic pathway into the organism, introducing genes from other anaerobic bacterium that produce ethanol, and constructed a pathway in the organism to produce ethanol directly. This is the first step toward an industrial process that is economically feasible. Whereas wild-type C. 1402210111.

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DECEMBER 16, 2013

Calysta intends to use the Series A investment to advance development of biological routes to high value industrial chemicals and fuels based on methane, an advantaged feedstock from natural gas. Calysta Energy completed a Series A financing round totaling $3 million. Earlier post.). The financing was led by Pangaea Ventures Ltd.,

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JANUARY 26, 2020

GTI, a research, development and training organization focused on natural gas and energy markets, is launching a hydrogen technology center. GTI has expertise in new storage and conversion technologies with materials development and testing.

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OCTOBER 22, 2012

Start-up Calysta Energy plans to use methane as a feedstock for engineered organisms to produce liquid hydrocarbon fuels and high value chemicals that are cost-effective, scalable and reduce environmental impact. Conversion method. the largest US-based provider of synthetic genes for industrial and academic customers.

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JUNE 28, 2021

Thanks to the expertise of several project partners, HyFlexFuel proved that HTL biocrudes can be successfully upgraded to drop-in fuels in an industrially-relevant environment, achieving hundreds of hours of continuous operations. —Daniele Castello of Aalborg University.

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DECEMBER 19, 2022

Ammonia is obtained industrially using the Haber–Bosch process, which requires a lot of energy and hydrogen gas. This conversion takes place in solution, at room temperature, and without the need for metals or hydrogen gas. An open-acess paper on their work is published in the journal Angewandte Chemie. Bennaamane et al.

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OCTOBER 6, 2016

This is the beginning of the conversation. We plan to build on this meeting and organize smaller working groups focused on specific topics such as understanding the broader trends on the grid and the roadmap of where storage technologies need to be in the next five, 10, and 20 years. Advanced Battery Consortium (USABC).

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JUNE 13, 2017

However, industrial synthesis is costly, and the precursor from hydrocracking of petroleum has low selectivity. Using 1,8-cineole as a model terpenoid compound, the researchers attained a ~100% conversion of 1,8-cineole and a ~100% selectivity to p-menthane at 120°C within one hour. Cyclic hydrocarbons (i.e. —Yang et al.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

To overcome these limitations, research efforts to store hydrogen chemically in liquid carriers, such as liquid organic hydrogen carriers (LOHCs) or ammonia, have been conducted. Various organic compounds have been suggested for LOHCs. Credit: Korea Institute of Science and Technology(KIST). 2021.114124.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

Lead organization. The team will adapt semiconducting materials used in today’s light-emitting diode (LED) industry to enable high-temperature operation. Earlier post.). The term “dispatchable” indicates availability as needed. Source: ARPA-E. Click to enlarge. Description. Arizona State University. General Electric Global Research.

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APRIL 22, 2020

The US Department of Energy (DOE) will issue a spring 2020 solicitation for high performance computing projects that improve manufacturing processes, address products’ lifecycle energy consumption, and increase the efficiency of energy conversion and storage technologies. All DOE National Laboratories are eligible to participate.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2015

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) awarded 2015 Climate Leadership Awards to 16 organizations and one individual representing a wide array of industries from finance and manufacturing to retail and technology for showing what the agency said was exemplary corporate, organizational, and individual leadership in response to climate change.

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MAY 6, 2020

Improvements in the lifecycle energy consumption of products of interest: This includes jet engine efficiency; materials and shape optimization for light-weighting in transport technologies; semiconductor electrical efficiency; and recycling and reuse for industrial-scale materials production and processing waste.

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JANUARY 7, 2012

A joint research project by RWE Power and biotechnology company BRAIN AG has discovered specialist micro-organisms that directly feed on CO 2 -containing flue gases from lignite-fired power stations and that can grow at temperatures of 60 °C (140 °F). They examined more than 3,000 micro-organisms. More than €2 million (US$2.54

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MAY 19, 2013

The Government of Canada is supporting a three-year project that will result in the construction of a $19-million, demonstration-scale facility in Alberta that will use algae to recycle industrial carbon dioxide emissions from an oil sands facility into commercial products such as biofuels. Click to enlarge.

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AUGUST 30, 2020

It will be the first-of-its-kind in Canada and will begin to establish a Rare Earth Element (REE) supply chain in Saskatchewan, forming an industry model for future commercial REE resource expansion in the province. This facility will allow the REE industry to grow and create both immediate and long-term jobs. —Premier Scott Moe.

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OCTOBER 25, 2020

Ethylene is widely used in the chemical industry; its worldwide production exceeds that of any other organic compound. Ethylene is the raw material used in the manufacture of polymers such as polyethylene (PE), polyethylene terephthalate (PET), polyvinyl chloride (PVC) and polystyrene (PS) as well as fibers and other organic chemicals.

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JULY 25, 2020

Scientists from ExxonMobil, University of California, Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have developed a new material that could capture more than 90% of CO 2 emitted from industrial sources using low-temperature steam, requiring less energy for the overall carbon capture process. UC Berkeley graphic by Eugene Kim).

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OCTOBER 28, 2022

They developed a system where hydrogen is separated and stored in liquid organic hydrogen carriers by catalysis of triaryl boranes in one seamless process. In the midterm future, a huge amount of H 2 will be produced from a variety of hydrocarbon sources through conversion and removal of contaminants such as CO and CO 2.

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MAY 3, 2021

In particular, the EDF and Rosatom agreement aims to develop initiatives in the sectors of mobility and industrial complex decarbonization, and anticipates research and development cooperation on new CO 2 -neutral hydrogen technologies. Rosatom employs over 260,000 people in more than 400 enterprises and organizations.

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