Green Car Congress

JUNE 14, 2010

We’re about to enact the “Home Star” and “Building Star” programs—putting people to work on “Cash for Caulkers” retrofits that will make buildings more comfortable and cut owners’ fuel costs. Cash for Conversions” will start by fixing many of our 100 million trucks, vans, and buses. Tags: Conversions Perspective Plug-ins.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 21, 2014

30 kW Modular DC-DC System using Superjunction MOSFETs This project will develop a new modular power conversion approach that utilizes both silicon and WBG devices to address the fundamental power conversion, loss, and component stress mechanisms. The Regents of the University of Michigan. University of Colorado Boulder.

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Engine Carbon Fiber Fuel Batteries 231

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

The team will apply atomic layer deposition technology to fabricate and modify the catalyst at the atomic level, with the goal of more than doubling catalyst lifetime, improving selectivity and conversion efficiency at reduced costs. Michigan State University. Bio2Electric, LLC d.b.a. EcoCatalytic Technologies. Zyvex Labs, LLC.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 19, 2011

Under the agreement, Cobalt Technologies and American Process will integrate Cobalt’s patent-pending continuous fermentation and distillation technology into American Process’s Alpena Biorefinery , currently under construction in Alpena, Michigan.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 30, 2016

The LanzaTech facility will recycle industrial waste gases from steel manufacturing to produce a low cost ethanol intermediate: “Lanzanol.” The LanzaTech award was one of six totaling $12.9 Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

Mascoma, through its affiliate Frontier Renewable Resources LLC, is currently developing a commercial scale production facility in Kinross, Michigan. In early 2010, SBI announced a major contract to supply its fiber preparation and pretreatment technology to one of the largest operators in the new energy sector in China.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

A team led by Dr. Michael Grätzel at EPFL (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) in Switzerland has developed a highly efficient and low-cost water-splitting cell combining an advanced perovskite tandem solar cell and a bi-functional Earth-abundant catalyst. Currently, perovskite instability limits the cell lifetime.) Credit: EPFL.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 14, 2010

These activities will accelerate the ability to overcome several key barriers identified in the Algal Biofuels Roadmap, including: feedstock supply (strain development and cultivation); feedstock logistics (harvesting and extraction); and conversion (production of fuels and co-products). Low-cost one-step syngas to distillates.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2017

UW-Madison has long been known for its expertise in biomass conversion. Spangler professor of chemical and biological engineering at UW-Madison, is working closely with ExxonMobil’s scientists to build a stronger understanding of the basic chemical transformations that occur during biomass conversion into diesel and jet fuels.

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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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Mariner Energy Alaska New Jersey 210

Green Car Congress

APRIL 30, 2010

Novel Biological Conversion of Hydrogen and Carbon Dioxide Directly into Biodiesel. This project will develop and optimize a novel, engineered microorganism that produces a biodiesel-equivalent fuel from renewable hydrogen and carbon dioxide, at costs of less than $2.50 Michigan State). OPX Biotechnologies Inc. per gallon.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2022

These new GaN power devices will enable the next generation of low-cost, fast, small, and reliable power electronics, which are key for efficient power conversion in data centers, solar farms, power grids, and electric vehicles. University of Michigan. Stanford University. The Ohio State University. Dimensional Energy.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 23, 2019

Durable and affordable higher-temperature heat exchangers could make energy conversion much more efficient, which in turn could reduce fuel consumption, system footprint, capital and operational cost, and emissions. HITEMMP projects include: Michigan State University. Michigan Technological University.

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Low Cost Universal Power Powered 207

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 22, 2013

The US Energy Department’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) has selected 14 projects for $27 million in funding to support the development of next-generation power conversion devices. High Quality, Low-Cost GaN Single Crystal Substrates for High Power Devices. High Quality, Low Cost GaN Substrate Technology.

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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. Enzyme Engineering for Direct Methane Conversion.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

High Performance, Low Cost Superconducting Wires and Coils. for High Power Wind Generators The University of Houston will develop a new, low-cost. American Superconductor will develop a new, low-cost. advanced low cost and efficient thermal storage for solar and. (National Renewable.

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Energy Clean Cleaning Grid 294

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JUNE 26, 2021

Highly Efficient Electrocatalysts for Direct Conversion Of CO2 To Chemicals, $250,000. Bio-based Insecticides from Thermochemical Conversion of Biomass, $100,000. Development of a Low-cost and Hardware Friendly Instantaneous Waveform Measurement Technology for Distribution System, $1,000,000. Framatome Inc.

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Commercial Energy Albuquerque New York 170

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 16, 2014

MBI, in close collaboration with Michigan State University (MSU), has developed and is scaling up its AFEX pretreatment technology. This technology was initially developed by Professor Bruce Dale of Michigan State University after more than 20 years of research on biomass conversion and industrialization. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 14, 2014

The Army will also test and evaluate fuel-efficient tires resulting from projects at its facilities in Warren, Michigan. Nineteen projects are aimed at reducing the cost and improving the performance of key PEV components. Development of Low-cost, High Strength Automotive Aluminum Sheet (Area of Interest 1). Description.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 10, 2015

In combination with unique power electronics, the new PTO will improve energy conversion efficiency and the reliability of ocean wave-energy harvesting. ADVANCED CONTROLS. the Wave Carpet developed at CalWave (UC Berkeley). INNOVATIVE STRUCTURES.

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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. Low Cost, High Energy and Power Density, Nanotube-Enhanced Ultracapacitors. DOE grant: $7,200,000).

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 17, 2014

Related to this, DOE seeks by 2020 to develop novel precursors and conversion processes capable of reducing the high-volume cost of high-strength carbon fiber by 25% from $13 per pound to ~$9 per pound. Projected costs, in 2013$, for BOP components for 700-bar compressed hydrogen storage systems produced at 500,000 systems per year.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 8, 2009

Mascoma Corporation has made major research advances in consolidated bioprocessing, or CBP, a low-cost processing strategy for production of biofuels from cellulosic biomass. This one-step conversion process lowers costs by limiting additives and enzymes used in other biochemical processes. Earlier post.)

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

BYD makes about 80% of Motorolas RAZR handsets, as well as batteries for iPods and iPhones and low-cost computers, including the model distributed by Nicholas Negropontes One Laptop per Child nonprofit based in Cambridge, Mass. Near the end of our conversation, I ask Wang about the company name. executive who has studied BYD.

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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.) The F6 DM uses ferrous batteries, with no lithium content, that BYD says are high-energy density and low cost. Bloomberg ).

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