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JULY 17, 2020

AOI 04: Platinum Group Metals (PGM) Content Reduction to Enable Cost-Effective Aftertreatment for Gasoline and Diesel Engines. Slashing Platinum Group Metals Content in Catalytic Converters: An Atoms-to-Autos Approach. Stoichiometric Spark Ignition Propane Engine with Diesel Efficiency Parity. General Motors LLC. 7,501,014. .

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OCTOBER 30, 2019

Lignin is a structural bio-polymer which contributes to the rigidity of plants. The advancement of new multifuel diesel engine technologies can potentially open the marine fuel market for bioethanol, but it will be decades before these technologies can be found in a larger number of the vessels.

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DECEMBER 13, 2019

Platinum group metals content reduction to enable cost-effective aftertreatment for gasoline and diesel engines. The objective of this potential area of interest is to research, develop, and validate engine enabling technologies that can deliver near diesel efficiencies in natural gas or LPG engines, while meeting future emission levels.

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JUNE 4, 2015

announced a development in its fermentation technology that will allow it to produce isobutanol from cellulosic feedstocks such as wood waste; the isobutanol can then be converted into Gevo’s alcohol-to-jet fuel. Earlier post.). Gevo currently makes isobutanol from corn at its plant in Luverne, Minn.,

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JULY 8, 2011

The funds will be used to start the industrialization of the company’s process to convert renewable resources into isobutene, a gas which can be converted into liquid fuels and various polymers. straw) into isobutene, one of the key building blocks of the petrochemical industry.

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MARCH 3, 2010

Hyundai staged the global debut of its i-flow diesel hybrid concept car at the 2010 Geneva Motor Show. Hyundai’s first diesel-electric hybrid powertrain uses the new U2 1.7-liter liter engine augmented by two-stage turbocharging and Hyundai’s Lithium Ion-Polymer battery partnered with a six-speed, dual-clutch transmission.

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APRIL 23, 2014

ATJ, like the Fischer-Tropsch pathway, has the potential to use lignocellulosic waste as feedstock, but promises to do so at less cost than Fischer-Tropsch. Bio-isobutanol producer Gevo, Inc. Earlier post.). Lufthansa’s testing is being supported through work with the European Commission. —Wilson et al.

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JANUARY 18, 2014

The additional content which includes the motor, inverter, converter, and on?board Temperature Combustion (LTC), (2) Dilute Gasoline Combustion, and (3) Clean Diesel Combustion. Technologies that enable LTC operation with either gasoline or diesel fuel, including control methodologies and technologies, especially for mixed?mode

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OCTOBER 17, 2012

Part of the challenge is locating sufficient quantities of hydrogen to enable large scale use of the CO 2 in waste gases. Lipids, in turn, are a proven pathway to jet, diesel and gasoline. LanzaTech envisions using partner technology to convert the acetic acid to lipids—i.e., Earlier post.).

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APRIL 12, 2019

Brightmark Energy , a San Francisco-based waste and energy development company, closed a $260-million financing package for the construction of the US’ first commercial-scale plastics-to-fuel plant, which will be located in Ashley, Indiana.

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DECEMBER 4, 2009

million through the Biorefinery Assistance Program for its project to demonstrate an integrated algal biorefinery process that will cultivate algae in ponds, and will use dewatering and oil extraction technology to produce an intermediate that will then be processed into drop-in green fuels such as jet fuel and diesel. 25,000,000. 10,489,763.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

The NARA project envisions developing a new, viable, aviation fuel industry using wood and wood waste in the Pacific Northwest, where forests cover almost half of the region. The company also successfully converted the cellulosic isobutanol into isobutylene and paraffinic kerosene (jet fuel).( Earlier post.).

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AUGUST 10, 2011

This project will optimize fuel-based control of novel combustion strategies in light- and heavy-duty vehicles to enable diesel-like efficiencies with ultra-low engine-out emissions. This project will demonstrate a robust thermoelectric exhaust waste heat recovery system that provides >5% fuel efficiency improvement for a light-duty vehicle.

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JANUARY 13, 2016

A high-efficiency heat pump absorbs the waste heat from the electrical components and a thermoelectric auxiliary heating element maintain pleasant temperatures inside the car. 3-way power DC/DC converter. One of the key features of the h-tron quattro concept is the 3-way power DC/DC converter. The car starts down to -28 ˚C.

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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. Conventional polymer electrolyte membrane (PEM) fuel cell technology requires high content of platinum electrocatalyst, which raises manufacturing costs.

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MAY 4, 2018

This FOA addresses gaps in current research and development (R&D) which hinder better utilizing waste streams (e.g. Although products of particular interest vary by topic area, fuels with potential as jet or diesel replacements as well as fuels identified by DOE’s Co?Optimization Optimization of Fuels and Engines (Co?Optima)

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AUGUST 30, 2009

kWh lithium-polymer battery pack. The output per liter of 80 kW (109 hp) achieved in this way sets a new record in diesel technology. Overall, BMW Vision EfficientDynamics comes with a total of 98 lithium-polymer cells, each offering a capacity of 30 Ah and developing continuous output of 600 Amps at a voltage of 3.7

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NOVEMBER 17, 2015

TDI, a highly efficient, latest-generation V6 diesel engine, delivers 190 kW (258 hp) of power and 600 N·m (442.5 Making their world premiere in a diesel engine are active engine mounts in the Audi Q7 e-tron 3.0 Their outer skin is made from aluminum-coated polymer and this in turn brings weight advantages. TDI quattro.

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APRIL 19, 2015

Freudenberg-NOK Sealing Technologies has developed an ethylene propylene diene monomer (EPDM) rubber compound from a polymer produced from sugarcane-based feedstock. The bio-renewable rubber, for which development began in 2012, is made from a polymer that is made via a process that begins with the sugarcane plant.

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JULY 2, 2010

As one example, while Elevance’s olefin metathesis platform can deliver renewable diesel and jet from renewable oils ( earlier post ), the company’s primary initial commercial focus is on higher-value chemicals. Avantium has a process to convert carbohydrates into Furanics on the basis of novel chemical catalytic technology.

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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. Earlier post.) Electricity from an Energy-Dense, Carbon-Neutral Energy Carrier (Category 1) The Sustainable Innovations, Inc.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2009

The CMT-380 features a lithium-polymer battery pack that supports an all-electric range of up to 80 miles. Capstone microturbines can run on a variety of fuels, including natural gas, waste methane from landfills, biodiesel, diesel, kerosene and propane. DOE and BIRD Grants.

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