Green Car Congress

MARCH 12, 2014

Wave Energy Converter (WEC) Prize. ( million available to develop a new competition that challenges individuals, universities, and existing and emerging companies to improve the performance and lower the cost of energy produced by WEC devices. DE-FOA-0000979 ) The Energy Department will make $6.5

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 8, 2010

Researchers from BASF, Energie Baden-Württemberg AG (EnBW), Heidelberg University and Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) are seeking to develop a process for the photocatalytic conversion of CO 2 into methanol for use in fuel cells or internal combustion engines. Dr. Michael Grunze, Heidelberg University.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 25, 2014

EEB is produced from organic waste, including (and initially) sewage treatment bio-solids—the leftover, dirt-like organic material that remains after a community’s wastewater is treated. Data collected with colleagues at the University of Alabama have shown 70-90% conversion of feedstock to SCFAs (short chain fatty acids).

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Vastly expanding sugarcane production in Brazil for conversion to ethanol could reduce current global CO 2 emissions by as much as 5.6%, according to a new study by an international team led by researchers from the University of Illinois. The carbon-related costs of converting the land to sugarcane fields were included in the analysis.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

Using microalgae produced on site, plant biomass and organic waste, Muradel’s energy-efficient subcritical water reactor converts them in minutes to a crude oil that is functionally equivalent to fossil crude. Muradel expects production costs would be on par with the cost of producing fossil fuels for transport.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 9, 2014

million for five projects to develop advanced biofuels and bioproducts that will help drive down the cost of producing gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel from biomass. This dicarboxylic acid can be converted into an array of bioproducts, including fuel, plasticizers, and lubricants. The US Department of Energy (DOE) will award up to $13.4

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 7, 2010

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded $510,335 to a collaboration between North Dakota State University and Clarkson University researchers professors for a research project to improve conversion and reduce costs of making fuels from cellulosic biomass. was awarded $200,978.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 21, 2015

The Bioenergy Technologies Office is working to produce cost-competitive ($3/gallon of gasoline equivalent) advanced biofuels from non-food biomass resources that reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 50% or more versus petroleum-based alternatives. Organizations. Metabolix in collaboration with North Carolina State University.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 6, 2017

Researchers at Rutgers University-New Brunswick and Michigan State University have devised a way to reduce the amount of enzymes needed to convert biomass into biofuels by designing and genetically engineering enzyme surfaces so they bind less to the lignin in biomass. Enzymes cost about $0.50 —Shishir Chundawat.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 13, 2013

The California Energy Commission (CEC) is awarding $1,135,862 to 12 small-scale projects to research that will reduce the cost of producing electricity, save energy and improve the environment. The program provides up to $95,000 for hardware projects and up to $50,000 for modeling concepts. Lee Huang of Eneron Inc.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 12, 2010

The CBiRC is based at Iowa State University in partnership with Rice University, the University of California at Irvine, the University of Mexico, the University of Virginia, and the University of Wisconsin at Madison. —Paul Campbell, Chief Science Officer for Glycos Biotechnologies.

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Charged EVs

MAY 8, 2023

In recent testimony, Nuvve CEO Gregory Poilasne told the lawmakers that bidirectional charging can reduce the total cost of EV ownership, and that it’s essential for integrating more renewable energy into the grid. Then it takes the DC from the bus, or car, and converts it back to AC to provide power for the grid. That’s one way.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 30, 2010

Today’s technologies for making biofuels all rely on photosynthesis—either indirectly by converting plants to fuels or directly by harnessing photosynthetic organisms such as algae. This process is less than 1% efficient at converting sunlight to stored chemical energy. Lead organization. Description. Ginkgo BioWorks. (UC

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 30, 2013

Standardizing PEV batteries could reduce the purchase and ownership costs of PEVS, as well as addressing additional consumer issues such as maintenance and safety. University of California, Davis was awarded $900,000 to investigate emissions and leakages within California’s natural gas infrastructure.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Universal Display Corp. OLEDs—organic light-emitting diodes—convert electrical energy directly into photons. When heavy metals are added to the mix of organic compounds that make up OLEDs, Hack says, the spin states change, and even the triplet excitons emit light. The excess heat can eat away at a device’s life-span.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 16, 2010

Source: Dr. Shulin Chen , University of Washington. This phase of the BioJET program requires the delivery of larger quantities of jet fuel with a projected cost of production of JP-8 at commercial scale implementation (50Mgal/yr) at less than $3.00 Integrated Processes for Converting CO 2 and. Click to enlarge. per gallon.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

A team at the University of Kansas has demonstrated the feasibility of an integrated wastewater algae-to-biocrude process using hydrothermal liquefaction (HTL) that can sustainably cultivate algal biomass for biofuel production. HTL uses subcritical water as the chemical driving force to convert biomass to a carbon-rich biocrude.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 13, 2012

The increased thermal transfer allows a larger amount of the input energy to be efficiently converted. By reducing the capital and operating costs of compression, natural gas producers can continue to operate stripper wells at very low flow rates and low natural gas prices. natural gas that contains water vapor or hydrocarbon liquids.

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Cars That Think

MAY 24, 2022

A team at Columbia University, in New York City, has developed a wireless-communication technique for wearable medical devices that sends signals securely through body tissue. The same is true in reverse, when solar panels lose some of the energy in photons as heat instead of it all being converted into electrons.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 26, 2013

The CEMI announcement was made at the ribbon cutting of the Department’s Carbon Fiber Technology Facility in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, a new advanced manufacturing facility to reduce the cost of carbon fiber. Lead organization. University of Texas at Austin. Earlier post.) Clean Energy Manufacturing Initiative. Description.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 19, 2009

Researchers at the University of Calgary have developed a new membrane based on metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) ( earlier post ) that enables a polymer electrolyte membrane (PEM) fuel cell to operate at higher temperatures—an important step in terms of increasing the efficiency and decreasing the cost of PEM fuel cells.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 1, 2010

The city’s Santa Isabel Water Treatment Plant will utilize Terrabon’s AdVE technology, developed in partnership with Texas Engineering Experiment Station (TEES), a member of the Texas A&M University System. The AdVE process will remove impurities using advanced vapor compression evaporation to produce drinkable water for Laredo.

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Electric Auto Association

OCTOBER 28, 2021

The EAA is North America’s leading volunteer organization that accelerates the adoption of electric vehicles (EVs) by supporting our 100 chapters and members as they talk one-on-one about the benefits of driving electric. I would say my organization of EV events at community organizations. 2 and can register for the event.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Conventional CTL plant gasifies coal to produce a syngas which is then converted in a Fischer-Tropsch reactor to products. The IEA Greenhouse Gas R&D Programme (IEA GHG) is the organizer of the GHGT conferences which are held every two years. The liquids output capacity of CTL plants is 50,000 barrels/day. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 26, 2015

The Energy Commission also approved almost $16 million in research grants to help develop the next generation of energy efficient technologies for commercial and residential buildings; $11 million for projects to convert feedstock and waste into biofuels; and about $900,000 for natural gas innovations. Representing about 3.7%

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Electric Auto Association

OCTOBER 28, 2021

The EAA is North America’s leading volunteer organization that accelerates the adoption of electric vehicles (EVs) by supporting our 100 chapters and members as they talk one-on-one about the benefits of driving electric. I would say my organization of EV events at community organizations. 2 and can register for the event.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 13, 2012

Researchers at the University of Alberta (Canada) have quantified the transformation of the boreal landscape by open-pit oil sands mining in Alberta, Canada to evaluate its effect on carbon storage and sequestration. Converting from units of carbon to CO 2 equivalents, this is between 41.8 million metric tons of stored carbon.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 19, 2012

Fast pyrolysis—the rapid heating of biomass to intermediate temperatures (400-600 °C) in the absence of oxygen and the rapid cooling of the resulting vapors to bio-oil—is an efficient method to convert all fractions of biomass, including lignin, into a liquid product: pyrolysis oil. Catalysts, noted Iisa et al.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 22, 2011

The role of oxygen is expected to be an important aspect of the process development because the nature of the process will impact both the final product yields and operating costs of the upgrading process. DOE is encouraging partnering with other organizations having capabilities uniquely suited to the objectives of this FOA.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 26, 2012

By utilizing the captured carbon emissions to recover added oil and natural gas resources, CCUS provides an additional strong business and market case for companies or organizations looking to pursue the environmental benefits of CCS. DOE Investment: $988,000; Recipient Cost-Share: $828,000. University of Kentucky Research Foundation.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 22, 2010

million), with the remaining funding provided by the UK organizations taking part in the work. The small size, multi-fuel capability and potential low cost of the ULRE could also help speed adoption of electric vehicles. Ionotec Ltd (lead), Dynamic-Ceramic Ltd, Birmingham University, University College London, Aloxsys Inc.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 19, 2014

Lead organization. The team will dramatically lower system costs by reducing precious metals, such as platinum, from the electrodes and developing new catalysts based on carbon nanotubes and metal organic frameworks. Lead organization. The University of California Los Angeles. The University of South Carolina.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

The Department of Energy is working with industry, universities, national laboratories, and other groups to develop technologies capable of harnessing these resources to generate environmentally sustainable, cost-competitive power. The project will assess the cost of manufacturing these systems at various scales.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

The selected projects—spanning 22 states and coordinated at universities, national laboratories, and private companies—will advance technologies for a wide range of areas, including electric vehicles, offshore wind, storage and nuclear recycling. Cornell University. Stanford University. The Ohio State University.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 23, 2017

CIRCUITS project teams will accelerate the development and deployment of a new class of efficient, lightweight, and reliable power converters, based on wide-bandgap (WBG) semiconductors. Organization. data center energy consumption and operating cost while creating a high-volume commercial market for SiC-based power converters.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 30, 2011

Research from the Institute of Transportation Studies, University of California at Davis (ITS-Davis) suggests it will take more than a reasonable price and good information to get consumers to make more sustainable transportation choices, such as the purchase of a plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV). —Jonn Axsen. Dissemination.

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

s International Organization for Migration (IOM) reports 225,455 arrivals in 2014, and by 2019, numbers were below 125,000. The cost of shifting from rescue operations to border enforcement may be harder journeys for migrants and the deaths of some. Dan Fisher of the University of Glasgow, who has published on SIVE.

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