Green Car Congress

JULY 30, 2019

Scientists at ETH Zürich and oil and gas company Total have developed a new catalyst that efficiently converts CO 2 and hydrogen directly into methanol. Offering realistic market potential, the technology paves the way for the sustainable production of fuels and chemicals. Methanol is regarded as a commodity or bulk chemical.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

An actuator in the exhaust system, as fitted to the first SQ5 TDI, gives the V6 a sonorous sound. The intercooler has been changed over from an air/air cooler in the bumper to an indirect water/air cooler in the inside V of the engine. This offers the advantage since exhaust gas cleaning responds more quickly. liters (0.2

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 8, 2020

This technology has applications to the automotive industry and other sectors covered by regulations that control methane emissions. NRCan said the ideal licensee would be a Canadian distributor for this technology and would have the capacity for commissioning, manufacture, marketing, and sales.

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Canada Commercial Exhaust Gas 150

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 28, 2014

A new ceramic hollow fiber substrate for catalytic converters designed by Dr. Benjamin Kingsbury and colleagues at Imperial College London could cut the size and precious metal loading of the devices in automobiles while reducing fuel consumption and and manufacturing costs. as a spin-out to commercialize the technology.

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Convert Manufacturer Fuel Exhaust 246

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

kWh/100 km) brings advanced technologies from motorsport to the road. This compact design has numerous advantages: The electric motor acts directly on the rear axle and can therefore convert its power more directly into propulsion for extra boost when moving off, accelerating or overtaking.

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Mercedes Hybrid Engine Exhaust 259

Green Car Congress

APRIL 26, 2016

The US Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) announced up to $30 million in funding for a new program for technologies that use renewable energy to convert air and water into cost-competitive liquid fuels. ( DE-FOA-0001562 ). hydrogen or electricity). Click to enlarge. —DE-FOA-0001562.

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Renewable Water Energy Fuel 150

Green Car Congress

MARCH 25, 2023

Aircraft consume fuels and emit a range of emissions, including carbon dioxide and water vapor in the form of condensation trails (contrails). The ice crystals in condensation trails form by the condensation of water vapor on small particulate matter (e.g., soot) present in the engine exhaust.

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Fuel Exhaust Conversion Water 170

Green Car Congress

JUNE 2, 2017

The high-performance, three-way catalytic (TWC) converter is one of the workhorses of emissions reduction for gasoline engines. The TWC reduces NO x to nitrogen and oxygen; oxidizes CO to CO 2 , and oxidizes unburnt hydrocarbons to carbon CO 2 and water. —Machida et al. Adapted with permission from Machida et al.

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Convert Conversion Exhaust Gasoline 170

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 5, 2014

France’s CEA LITEN (Laboratory for Innovation in New Energy Technologies and Nanomaterials) has developed a new high-temperature electrolysis system for more efficient hydrogen production. The performance of this system was measured and exceeds 90%, confirming the potential of this technology, CEA said. Nm 3 /h of hydrogen.

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

To reduce emissions, diesel vehicles use filters that catch exhaust particles and other contaminants. Looking to make replacement filters more environmentally friendly and affordable, a team of engineering students from the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology , in Dhaka, designed a carbon-based version with bamboo.

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Carbon Diesel Emissions Bangladesh 107

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 10, 2018

At the USNA, the Power+ will capture the waste heat from an existing helicopter turbine used to train the USNA Midshipmen, using a custom designed exhaust gas heat exchanger provided by Creare. ElectraTherm utilizes Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC) and proprietary technologies to generate power from low temperature heat ranging from 170-252°F.

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Waste Exhaust Maryland Gas-Electric 186

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

This is helping to reduce technological barriers and improve the suitability of vehicles with fuel cell drives for the mass market. The water balance of a polymer electrolyte fuel cell significantly affects efficiency and service life. As a result, the charge air coolers used must be resistant to ionized water. Water separators.

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Commercial Fuel Vehicles Water 223

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 31, 2018

As the first Euro VI RCV fleet retrofit, the combination of Amminex, a Faurecia company ( earlier post ), and Eminox technology ( earlier post ) has removed the blocking point for upgrading this vehicle type. Even though the slow driving means very low exhaust temperatures, the DeNO x performance is still exceptionally good.

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London Vehicles Exhaust Emissions 207

Green Car Congress

JULY 18, 2022

A team from Central South University, Changsha, China and Shaanxi University of Science & Technology, Xi’an, China, has proposed a mechanochemistry-based process to recover metals from waste cathode materials of LiCoO 2 (LCO) and LiFePO 4 (LFP) in spent Li-ion batteries (LIBs).

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Waste Ni-Li Li-ion Green 170

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 16, 2020

The components, such as manifold, thermostat housing, check valve, ejector as well as exhaust pipes, require stable material properties across varying temperatures. This approach allowed us to help Nuvera develop these challenging new applications with optimized performance for one of the key technologies of the future.

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Fuel Engine Hydrogen Water 243

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 6, 2009

Engineers from the University of Sunderland (UK), in collaboration with Shanghai’s Shen Li High Technology, ComeSys Europe and AVID vehicles, have launched ECO2Trans, a project to convert two buses to a fuel cell, battery and capacitor combination. Click to enlarge. —Dirk Kok.

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Convert Fuel Battery Batteries 199

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Southwest Research Institute recently opened a new fully automated, multi-fuel burner facility designed to rapidly and cost-effectively age and evaluate exhaust catalyst equipment for a wide range of engines. The ECTO-Lab can simulate lean and stoichiometric exhaust gas conditions utilizing gasoline, diesel, natural gas, or propane fuels.

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Emissions Exhaust Production Gasoline 150

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 28, 2016

SDCmaterials, a developer of advanced catalyst products based on a novel materials fabrication and integration platform, announced a partnership and formalized a supply agreement with Car Sound, a leading manufacturer of catalysts and catalytic converters for the automotive aftermarket. Source: SDCmaterials. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 18, 2015

The US Department of Energy (DOE) is awarding nearly $55 million for 24 projects to develop and deploy advanced vehicle technologies, supporting the Energy Department’s EV Everywhere Grand Challenge to make plug-in electric vehicles as affordable to own and operate as today’s gasoline-powered vehicles by 2022. Description. Federal funding.

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Fuel Carbon Fiber Lithium Ion Vehicles 150

Green Car Congress

APRIL 5, 2010

million to 34 small businesses to develop innovative, sustainable technologies to protect human health and the environment. EPA’s Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program was established to ensure that new technologies are developed to solve priority environmental problems. Essentially any biomass material or solid waste (e.g.,

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Emissions EPA Waste Exhaust 225

Green Car Congress

MARCH 31, 2021

Mercedes-AMG laid out its new electrified drive strategy , which is based on two pillars: Performance hybrids with a completely independent drive concept under the technology label E PERFORMANCE. Battery-electric AMG derivatives based on the new Mercedes Electric Vehicle Architecture (EVA) for luxury and premium-class vehicles.

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Mercedes Hybrid Battery Batteries 448

Green Car Congress

MARCH 15, 2012

The inverter converts DC generated by the cell stack into AC. The hot-water storage tank stores heat exhausted from the power generator as hot-water. A back-up boiler supplies hot-water and heating in case the hot-water storage tank is empty. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 28, 2022

E) will award $39 million in funding to 16 projects across 12 states to develop market-ready technologies that will increase domestic supplies of critical elements required for the clean energy transition. Specifically, the program investigates the potential CO 2 -reactive ores to unlock net-zero or net-negative emission technologies.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 17, 2019

Scientists from Tokyo Metropolitan University have developed a low-temperature catalyst for removing NO x gas from industrial exhaust using ammonia. A key technology for removing nitrogen oxides is their reaction with ammonia via selective catalytic reduction (SCR), where NO x is rendered harmless via reduction to nitrogen and water.

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Exhaust Universal Conversion Gas-Electric 186

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

Theoretically, cars operating on higher ethanol blends than the design point could emit greater concentrations of pollutants in exhaust gas. In the cylinder where combustion takes place, the fuel evaporates before it is burned, and this evaporation helps cool off the air/fuel mixture and exhaust gas.

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Gasoline Exhaust Water Fuel 230

Green Car Congress

MARCH 18, 2014

liter EA288 diesel engine will power the 2015 Golf, Beetle, Beetle Convertible, Passat, and Jetta, all of which are set to arrive in dealer showrooms in the second half of 2014. With the small circuit, the water warms up very quickly. Unlike many air coolers, this is not cooled by ambient air, but by water. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 9, 2014

Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) announced preliminary test results of its Dedicated-Exhaust Gas Recirculation (D-EGR) demonstration vehicle ( earlier post ) at the SAE 2014 World Congress in Detroit. The D-EGR demonstrator is a converted 2012 Buick Regal with a 2.0-liter Hydrogen-enriched exhaust is routed to the intake.

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Gasoline Emissions Diesel Exhaust 317

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 26, 2012

The vehicles are also equipped with an eight-speed sports automatic gearbox and the intelligent all-wheel-drive system BMW xDrive tuned to suit each model, as well as BMW EfficientDynamics technologies, including Auto Start-Stop and ECO PRO mode. The vehicle meets Euro 6 exhaust standards. Average fuel consumption is 6.3

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BMW Diesel Exhaust Engine 325

Green Car Congress

JUNE 7, 2010

In terms of powertrain technologies, Renault focused on the introduction of new technologies for internal combustion engines and conventional transmissions, as well as outlining its commitment to electric powertrains. Thanks to turbocharging and the use of new technologies, performance hasn’t suffered. Variable swirl technology.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

The US Department of Energy’s (DOE) National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) has selected eight projects to receive almost $25 million in funding to construct small- and large-scale pilots for reducing the cost of CO 2 capture and compression through DOE’s Carbon Capture Program. FuelCell Energy Inc.

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Fuel Coal CO2 Exhaust 150

Green Car Congress

JULY 10, 2017

liter diesel engine employed Selective Catalytic Reduction (“SCR”) technology to reduce NO x emissions. As part of the SCR technology, exhaust stream emissions were dosed with a mist of a urea substance, commonly known as “AdBlue,” which converted NO x into nitrogen, water, and small amounts of carbon dioxide.

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Audi Emissions Diesel Exhaust 150

Green Car Congress

JULY 1, 2010

For engines ranging up to 170 PS in power, a BlueMotion Technology pack is implemented with a start-stop system and battery regeneration (recovery of kinetic energy by storing it in the battery). SCR catalytic converter. Both TDIs are fitted with an SCR (Selective Catalytic Reduction) exhaust aftertreatment system.

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MPG Fuel Battery Batteries 210

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

BlueHDi technology has been tried and tested in Peugeot saloons and SUVs since 2013, treating up to 90% of NO x and 99.9% The engines are paired with a 6-speed manual gearbox and Stop & Start technology is available across all of the versions. Peugeot is completing the roll-out of its range of Euro 6 engines with the large van segment.

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Diesel Engine Commercial Exhaust 150

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

OPEN solicitations are an open call to scientists and engineers for transformational technologies across the entire scope of ARPA-E’s energy mission. Pinnacle’s proposed technology will reduce fuel consumption beyond that of state-of-the-art series hybrid electric vehicles. Georgia Tech Research Corporation.

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Engine San Diego Polymer Lithium Ion 247

Green Car Congress

APRIL 14, 2014

Many components of the MDB engines are used in a modular way, such as the exhaust system components and the injection system, turbocharging systems, and forced induction cooling within the intake manifold module. A complex exhaust gas recirculation system is also used. Close-coupled exhaust gas aftertreatment in the EA288 diesel.

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New York 2015 Diesel Exhaust 220

Green Car Congress

APRIL 27, 2017

Our range of technology, especially that available for the Golf, now covers all customer preferences. A key factor in its low emissions is the optimum conversion of the methane in the exhaust gas. An important component of the technology here is the so-called lambda probe with no dew-point end.

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Gas Engine Motoring Motor 207

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 19, 2019

The high-voltage battery is water-cooled and weighs approximately 150 kg. An innovative exhaust system enables ingenious packaging: rather than extending to the end of the vehicle, the exhaust ends in a centrally positioned outlet under the vehicle floor, with the rear silencer housed in the transmission tunnel.

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