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. Researchers will design self-healing polymers that can stretch to accommodate large volume changes in the battery during charge and discharge.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 27, 2023

The goal of the project is to continue to develop a circular carbon economy that replaces the petroleum-based chemicals in consumer products with algae-derived and biodegradable polymers. The pilot will consist of a low cost, easy to operate, air blown gasifier coupled with LanzaTech’s second generation bioreactor (2GBR).

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Production Carbon Conversion Mariner 225

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. This potentially could reduce enzyme costs in biofuels production.

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Engine Production Michigan Universal 170

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JUNE 1, 2015

The design results in a class of hierarchically porous graphitic (HPG) carbons at temperature as low as 800 °C with record-high surface area (4,073 m 2 g –1 ); large pore volume (2.26 The process begins with conducting hydrogel, a water-based polymer with a spongy texture similar to soft contact lenses.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 1, 2020

Transforming High pH/High Alkalinity Cultivation through Beneficial Microbiomes and Improved Pond Design. ASU’s Polymer-enhanced Cyanobacterial Bioproductivity (AUDACity). Simulation-Driven Design Optimization and Automation for Cordwood-Fueled Room Heaters. Scalable CO 2 electrocatalysis technologies. Project title.

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Waste Conversion Universal San Diego 186

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 2, 2011

Technologies supported include ultra lightweight engine designs, advanced battery management systems and the next generation of electric motors. Low Cost, Scalable Low Rare Earth Electric Motor. Rapid Design and Development of a Switched Reluctance Traction Motor. Light and Sound (LANDS).

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Land Rover Carbon Aston Martin Vehicles 240

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

AK Steel Corporation’s Research & Innovation Center will conduct alloy design, lab validation, manufacture, and testing of novel low density steels that possess mechanical properties exhibited by currently available advanced high strength steels. Individual awards vary between $250,000 and $2.5 Advanced Manufacturing Awards.

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Manufacturer Waste Universal Dallas 150

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 10, 2011

This project will develop a new process that enables low-cost, domestic manufacturing of magnesium. This project will develop a novel low cost route to carbon fiber using a lignin/PAN hybrid precursor and carbon fiber conversion technologies leading to high performance, low-cost carbon fiber. 10,000,000.

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Carbon Fiber Lithium Ion Li-ion Vehicles 268

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

The US Department of Energy (DOE) Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) will award up to $30 million to fund a new program focused on the development of transformational electrochemical technologies to enable low-cost distributed power generation. DE-FOA-0001026 ). Source: ARPA-E. Click to enlarge. Source: ARPA-E.

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Fuel Power Powered Gas-Electric 231

Green Car Congress

MARCH 11, 2016

Altergy will create a multi-physics model of its proton exchange membrane (PEM) fuel cell stack design using computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulation modeling. This work will contribute to design improvements for increased power density/current density uniformity. Amsen Technologies, working with LANL. Organization. Description.

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Clean Cleaning Energy Li-ion 150

Green Car Congress

MARCH 22, 2012

Polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells (PEMFCs) are being developed worldwide as clean energy conversion devices. Long-Lived, High-Energy-Density and Low-Cost Lithium-Ion Batteries for Automotive, Grid Energy and Medical. GM Canada, and Hydrogenics. APC Investment: $4,176,005 (through NSERC and CFI).

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Canada Li-ion Fuel Batteries 262

Green Car Congress

MARCH 10, 2016

The new Stanford approach was inspired by ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase (RuBisCO)—an enzyme involved in the first major step of carbon fixation, a process by which atmospheric carbon dioxide is converted by plants and other photosynthetic organisms to molecules such as glucose. —Banerjee et al.

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Molten Salt Carbon CO2 Fuel 150

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

The first hydrogen TTO is focused on durable, high activity electrocatalyst with low platinum content and low cost for polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cell applications. The second TTO is focused on safety sensors for hydrogen infrastructure applications.

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Hydrogen Engine Fuel Electric Vehicles 150

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 18, 2014

Sample topic areas that might address one or more of these barriers include: Novel cell, module or pack designs that significantly improve the thermal or safety performance, or significantly reduce the weight, volume, and cost of non? The additional content which includes the motor, inverter, converter, and on?board active (non?energy

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Carbon Fiber Engine Battery Powered Fuel 252

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

First, it can accommodate the significant volume changes of S as it is converted to Li 2 S on discharge, and back to elemental S on recharge. The team concludes that the same design strategy could be helpful to explore and develop new porous carbon or conductive polymer-based sulfur nanocomposite cathodes for advanced Li/S cells.

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Lithium Sulfur Li-ion Batteries Battery 186

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 27, 2011

The process was able to convert aqueous carbohydrate streams derived from maple wood (produced using both hot water and acid hydrolysis) into gasoline-range products with carbon yields of up to 57% and an estimated octane number of 96.5.

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Gasoline Renewable Production Water 257

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 13, 2009

for an award of up to $1,200,000 to further its development of Biomass-to-Gasoline (BTG) technology—a novel thermochemical process that converts biomass into a clean, high-octane gasoline-compatible fuel. It also has developed ExSyM, a new low-cost styrene monomer production technology based on new chemistry. ARPA-E Award.

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Gasoline Convert Waste Conversion 170

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Synteris’ technology would substantially improve the design, manufacturability, and function of power modules used in electric vehicles, aircraft, and other applications. PCI) will demonstrate a fundamentally new solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) architecture that permits a power dense, lightweight design ideal for transportation applications.

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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. Electrofuels: Biofuels from Electricity. Engineering E.

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Carbon Batteries Battery Li-ion 249

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AUGUST 19, 2023

plans to develop a novel membrane system from Osmoses’ proprietary polymer composition that can produce enriched oxygen from air for integration into modular gasification systems for low-cost hydrogen production. The team intends to demonstrate high-purity (greater than 98% by volume, preferably above 99.5%

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Hydrogen Clean Cleaning Gas-Electric 150

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

The Williams design uses two different types of cell chemistry, arranged in two separate blocks within a module. Each module uses a bi-directional DC/DC converter to deliver high energy and high power density, including the transfer of energy between the two types of cell (e.g.,

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Engine Batteries Battery Carbon Fiber 191

Green Car Congress

APRIL 29, 2015

The papers provide technical details on the high performance fuel-cell (FC) stack; specific insights into FC separator, and stack manifold; the newly developed boost converter; and the new high-pressure hydrogen storage system with innovative carbon fiber windings. Conventional flow field structure. —Konno et al. Konno et al.

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Congress Toyota Fuel Carbon Fiber 150

Green Car Congress

MAY 4, 2018

Virtually all technology pathways that convert biomass into a hydrocarbon fuel require a catalytic process. The high costs associated with these processes are one of several issues that plague the commercial viability of biofuels and bioproducts. These efforts are incorporated into a Design?Build?Test?Learn

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Waste Renewable Conversion Carbon 170

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 17, 2016

The 16 REFUEL projects seek to develop scalable technologies for converting water and molecules from the air into energy-dense, carbon-neutral liquid fuels (CNLFs) using electrical energy from renewable sources. MSRI) team will develop a new solid oxide fuel cell design that generates power directly from ammonia at temperatures under 650 °C.

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Carbon Energy Fuel Hydrogen 150

Green Car Congress

JULY 14, 2015

In collaboration with Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Algenol has applied hydrothermal liquefaction technology to convert the spent biomass into green crude. Waste industrial gases often do not contain H2 and therefore cannot be converted using conventional synthetic pathways.

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EPA Green Polymer Water 150

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 17, 2013

1 , natural abundance and low cost, and low working potential 0?0.4 In addition, all of the binders were converted into graphitic carbon, which should give the electrode much better durability in the electrochemical environment. The high ramp results in carbonization of the polymer matrix starting at ?450

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Li-ion Batteries Battery GM 294

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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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

The stator converts its thrust force and torque into longitudinal and meridian motions of the torus wheel, respectively, making the torus work as an omnidirectional wheel on a plane. The Kuka website doesn't say how much this thing costs, which means it's almost certainly not something that you impulse buy. Paper ] Thanks, Ayato!

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Turkey MIT Georgia North Carolina 108

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 22, 2014

Area Of Interest (AOI) 1: Development of Low-Cost, High-Strength Automotive Aluminum Sheet. This AOI is to address two major technical gaps in the performance of automotive aluminum alloys: Low strength among cost competitive automotive sheet alloys such as 5xxx and 6xxx series. Click to enlarge.

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Emissions Vehicles Fuel Economy Carbon Fiber 252

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 14, 2009

Global Bioenergies , a French startup located on the Genopole campus close to Paris, announced the proof-of-concept of a synthetic metabolic pathway for producing isobutene, a key chemical building block that can be converted into transportation fuels, polymers and various commodity chemicals. C 4 H 8 + 2 CO 2 + 2 H 2 O.

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