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NOVEMBER 8, 2021

WM International Engineering L.L.C. Oberon Fuels has developed proprietary skid-mounted, small-scale production units that convert methane and carbon dioxide to DME from various feedstocks, such as biogas from dairy manure and food waste. We are honored to partner with the recipients of DOE awards.

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APRIL 23, 2014

The Dearman project is to deliver a production-feasible waste-heat recovery system for urban commercial vehicles, which offers life-cycle CO 2 savings of up to 40%; fuel savings of 25%, with the potential of up to almost 50%; and potential payback in less than three years. Engines Vehicle Systems Waste Heat Recovery' Earlier post. ).

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MAY 27, 2022

The Rice lab of chemist James Tour introduced flash Joule heating in 2020 to convert coal, petroleum coke and trash into graphene. The lab has since adapted the process to convert plastic waste into graphene and to extract precious metals from electronic waste. That’s with only 0.1% by weight or less of graphene.

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OCTOBER 21, 2020

Neste produces these ISCC Plus certified hydrocarbons (ISCC: International Sustainability and Carbon Certification) entirely from renewable raw materials. Neste produces its renewable hydrocarbons entirely from renewable raw materials, such as waste and residual oils and fats.

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APRIL 1, 2021

Western Economic Diversification Canada, Future Energy Systems, CanmetENERGY Devon and Edmonton International Airport, are also providing funding toward this $7.4-million The EIP recognizes that innovations in clean energy technologies must be affordable, reliable and sustainable to support Canada’s transition toward a low-carbon economy.

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OCTOBER 11, 2021

Cities are expanding, economies are growing, and life expectancy has almost doubled. Regulate the open burning of waste by households and firms and place restrictions on agricultural burning, including burning forest to convert to agricultural land as well as crop residue burning. billion in 2020 to 4.3 billion by 2100.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2010

Kreutz used two examples of CCTF systems in his analysis: biodiesel from microalgae and Sandia National Laboratory’s S2P process (an effort to utilize concentrated solar energy to convert waste CO 2 into synthetic fuels, earlier post ). In CCTF, the source of CO 2 determines the net carbon intensity of the fuel, Kreutz says.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2017

Internal combustion engines in vehicles use only about one-third of the potential energy in the fuel for propulsion; the remaining two-thirds are lost as waste heat. Thermoelectric generators use this heat and convert it into electricity.

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DECEMBER 8, 2018

Nominations will be judged by a panel of industry experts based on the idea’s carbon reduction potential, as well as its innovation, value to the UK economy and feasibility to implement. The challenge is being launched as part of British Airways’ Centenary celebrations.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Commercial truck fleet operators with Hydra-converted semi-trucks can access green hydrogen at a fixed price, five percent below the price they typically pay for diesel. In Hydra’s case, the company applies a circular economy approach using hydrogen gas already vented as a by-product of manufacturing to fuel fleets.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2009

Darling International and a subsidiary of Valero Energy Corporation are taking initial steps towards the formation of a joint venture to build a facility capable of producing more than 10,000 barrels/day or (135 million gallons per year) of renewable diesel on a site adjacent to Valero’s St. Darling International Inc. Earlier post.)

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OCTOBER 28, 2022

Global demand for critical minerals needed to decarbonize the nation’s economy is expected to increase by 400-600% over the next several decades and the US is increasingly dependent on foreign sources, some adversarial, for many of the processed versions of these minerals. Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. University of Nevada, Reno.

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APRIL 11, 2019

Carbon Recycling International has been awarded a €1.8-million The project is referred to as “CirclEnergy” as CRI’s technology is designed to support and enable the transition to circular economy. The technology allows partners to valorise CO 2 and hydrogen from waste streams or electrolysis as a chemical feedstock or liquid fuel.

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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. This project will demonstrate the conversion of gaseous carbon wood wastes (terpenes) to renewable Terpenes SAF blending components. Comstock Inc.,

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Clean Fleet Report

APRIL 19, 2023

That makes them much better for the environment than traditional internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles. Reducing Noise Pollution Waste management vehicles like street sweepers and garbage trucks improve public health and the environment but aren’t known for being quiet. That makes it easier to work and sleep in a busy urban area.

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Get Electric Vehicle

JUNE 7, 2023

An electric vehicle is a type of vehicle that uses one or more electric motors for propulsion instead of an internal combustion engine that runs on fossil fuels like gasoline or diesel. BEVs do not have an internal combustion engine and produce zero tailpipe emissions. . #2 What are electric vehicles and what are their classifications?

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JUNE 21, 2023

With IMA, the company expects to standardize modules and parts between the models to further expand economies of scale and significantly reduce EV development complexity and costs. It plans to convert additional lines as market demand dictates. For its battery-wise competitiveness, Hyundai Motor plans to invest KRW 9.5 trillion (US$7.4

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DECEMBER 14, 2009

Novozymes, an international enzymes and microorganisms company, has entered two new research partnerships in Brazil. Today, bagasse is often discarded or burned in power plants, but more energy and value could be derived by converting it into advanced biofuel and biogas. —Steen Riisgaard, CEO of Novozymes.

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JULY 12, 2013

GM’s fuel-economy plan through the 2016 model year focuses on a reduction in vehicle mass and aggressive investment in advanced materials, such as high-strength steel, carbon fiber and aluminum, enabled in part by our industry-first aluminum welding technology. GM has reduced total waste 25 kilograms, or 55 pounds, per vehicle since 2010.

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Get Electric Vehicle

JUNE 5, 2023

The fossil fuels are highly significant in the global economy. Methanol can be used in internal combustion engines either directly or as a blend with gasoline. Bioethanol is being produced converting carbon-based agricultural feedstock such as sugar cane, bagasse, grain, barley, potatoes. You can guess it easily.

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JULY 17, 2020

Rationally Designed Lithium Ion Batteries Towards Displacing Internal Combustion Engines. Slashing Platinum Group Metals Content in Catalytic Converters: An Atoms-to-Autos Approach. Improving Network-wide Fuel Economy and Enabling Traffic Signal Optimization Using Infrastructure and Vehicle-based Sensing and Connectivity.

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AUGUST 22, 2012

The US Department of Agriculture (USDA), through its Rural Development Biorefinery Assistance Program (Section 9003 of the 2008 Farm Bill), approved a $99-million, 80% loan guarantee to Chemtex International, Inc. to construct a 20 million gallon per year cellulosic ethanol refinery in Sampson County in eastern North Carolina.

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AUGUST 10, 2011

This project will develop boron-based lubricant additives to achieve higher fuel economy, longer durability, and better environmental compatibility in future and legacy engines. Increased availability of low cost carbon fiber can enable vehicle weight reduction and improvement in fuel economy. Vehma International of America, Inc.

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AUGUST 16, 2013

Among the technologies available to convert hydrocarbon-based resources (which include not only fossil fuels but also, potentially, biomass and municipal solid waste) to electricity, SOFCs are unique in their potential efficiency. University of Maryland Professor Eric Wachsman describes how solid oxide fuel cells work.

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APRIL 17, 2021

Sinopec Capital, as the industrial investment arm of Sinopec Group—one of the world’s largest integrated energy and chemicals companies—announced an investment in LanzaTech with a focus on promoting direct production of chemicals from waste carbon. LanzaTech represents the world-leading carbon recycling company.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 19, 2023

They are highly automated production islands that directly convert wind energy to hydrogen, with a few of them processing the gas into fuels and other goods. Department of Energy has spent over US $9 billion on developing a hydrogen economy, with many of its initiatives specified in the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 12, 2009

Among the projects discussed were reducing cold starts; using waste heat for different heating applications in the car; and a new implementation of a thermoelectric generator (TEG) for waste heat recovery. Heating with waste heat. Encapsulating the engine for heat retention. Click to enlarge. No more cold starts.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

seconds; its EPA estimated fuel economy rating is 42 mpg US (5.6 In conventional four-cycle gas engines, fuel enrichment is sometimes necessary to cool the exhaust gases, preventing degradation or destruction of the catalytic converters. With a total system output of 134 hp (100 kW), the CT 200h will accelerate from 0-60 mph in 9.8

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 2, 2009

The Pennsylvania Alternative Fuels Incentive Grant (AFIG) program has awarded Axion Power International, Inc. The tankers will collect waste vegetable oil from 750 of Ettline’s customers and deliver it to a processor for conversion to SVO. Ettline Foods Corp. 588,000 for a demonstration project to produce ethanol without distillation.

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DECEMBER 20, 2013

Developing cost-effective technologies to improve new vehicle fuel efficiency and achieve or exceed corporate average fuel economy (CAFE) standards of 144 gCO 2 /mi (61.6 Broadly, VTO program activities are focused on achieving: Saving 1.4 million barrels per day); and. mpg) for cars and 203 gCO 2 /mi (43.7 mpg) for light trucks by 2025 (54.5

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

Variable compression ratio or variable stroke internal combustion engine with real- time controllability. DOE is seeking a commercially viable control system design, including hardware and software, to enable the dynamic control of the compression ratio and/or piston stroke of operating internal combustion engines in passenger vehicles.

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JANUARY 28, 2014

These technologies include, but are not limited to, advanced aftertreatment and waste heat recovery; lean-burn plus lean-NO x emissions traps; integration of zero-emission miles technologies; further refinements in reducing friction and parasitic energy losses; and widespread utilization of renewable and natural gas and hydrogen blends.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2015

In addition, battery internal resistance increases, decreasing the power that can be drawn from the battery. Air conditioning (A/C) use during hot days is an important factor affecting the fuel economy in all types of vehicles, since A/C is the largest auxiliary load in many vehicles. The red curve is the polynomial fit.

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JUNE 14, 2010

We now have a sprinkling of promising companies working to get funded to convert gas-guzzlers. That’s too long to wait to improve energy security, protect our economy, and address climate change. Using existing technology, we can convert many of them into plug-in hybrids and electric vehicles.

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OCTOBER 8, 2019

Currently being sold to the road transport market in a low-carbon fuel blend, ethanol from this facility will now be converted into PET to be used for production of CarbonSmart consumer goods (T-shirts, bottles, packaging). Ethanol is a clean, easily transported and easily convertible liquid that can displace fresh carbon resources.

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MARCH 14, 2010

In addition to its twin turbos, the new eight-cylinder unit—known internally as the M 157—features gasoline direct injection with spray-guided combustion and twin turbochargers. The wet start-up clutch replaces a conventional torque converter, and helps to save fuel. AMG has developed a 5.5-liter The new AMG 5.5-liter

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JULY 15, 2011

internal combustion engine vehicle (ICE); hybrid electric vehicle-gasoline (HEV-gas); hybrid electric vehicle-diesel (HEV-diesel); (hydrogen) fuel cell vehicle (FCV); battery electric vehicle (BEV); and sugar fuel cell vehicle (SFCV). safety, toxicity, waste treatment, greenhouse gas emissions, military expenditures, etc.). Zhang 2009.

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