Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 16, 2013

Hydrogen is necessary in the upgrading of oil sands bitumen into synthetic crude, but it is a costly and carbon-intensive part of the process, given current hydrogen production technologies. MSG converts natural gas into hydrogen with a 23% reduction in GHG emissions compared to steam methane reforming. will receive a $C1.5-million

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Molten Salt Oil-Sands Hydrogen Oil 231

Green Car Congress

JULY 6, 2021

The four-cylinder unit realizes enhanced fuel efficiency through a new and optimized combustion process, new cooling technologies and key friction reduction measures, including an advanced integrated thermal management system and the use of a low-friction ball bearing. From launch, a 1.6-liter 265 N·m) torque.

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PHEV Kia Gasoline Diesel 435

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 25, 2016

The plants will be based on BTL’s Fast Pyrolysis Oil (FPO) technology which converts biomass to oil through a rapid pyrolysis process. The fast pyrolysis technology mixes biomass particles and hot sand in a reactor which transforms the material into pyrolysis oil.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 6, 2011

Increasing crude processing intensity and energy intensity with worsening oil quality. OQ: Crude feed oil quality. Switching to heavy crude oil and synthetic crude oil derived from oil sands bitumen in refineries could double or triple refinery emissions and add 1.6-3.7 PI: Crude processing intensity.

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Oil Oil-Sands Emissions Hydrogen 287

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 12, 2010

Converting biomass to renewable fuels via a pyrolysis pathway. The US Department of Energy has selected UOP, a Honeywell company, for negotiation of a $25 million award to build a demonstration unit in Hawaii to convert cellulosic biomass into renewable hydrocarbon transportation fuels. Source: UOP. Click to enlarge.

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Oil Renewable Oil-Sands Fuel 210

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 8, 2012

Phillip Savage at the University of Michigan has found that with appropriate parameters, hydrothermal liquefaction (HTL) can convert 65% of wet algae (a Nannochloropsis species) into biocrude in one minute. milliliters of wet algae, capped it and plunged it into 1,100-degree Fahrenheit sand. Credit: Savage Lab. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

A University of Utah engineer has developed an inexpensive new method to remove oil sheen by repeatedly pressurizing and depressurizing ozone gas, creating microscopic bubbles that attack the oil so it can be removed by sand filters. Water from mining of oil sands and oil shale. —Professor Andy Hong.

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Ozone Water Oil-Sands Oil 199

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

RFDiesel, a drop-in diesel transportation fuel, is created by processing Ensyn’s renewable crude (RFO), a liquid cellulosic feedstock, with customary petroleum feedstocks in conventional petroleum refineries (RFO Coprocessing). There, Ensyn’s RFO is used as a feedstock in Fluid Catalytic Crackers (FCCs).

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Renewable Diesel Oil-Sands EPA 150

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 4, 2012

have formed a strategic alliance that includes the establishment of an equally-owned joint venture for the production of cellulosic liquid fuels and chemicals in Brazil, as well as a US$20-million equity investment in Ensyn Corporation by Fibria. approx 75 wt%) of liquid bio-oil from residual forestry or agricultural biomass.

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Brazil Oil-Sands Fuel Chevron 236

Green Car Congress

JUNE 14, 2010

In a pre-response to that speech, having successfully advocated for plug-in hybrids like the forthcoming Chevy Volt, we propose that the President follow that speech up with a “realistic and conservative” roadmap to halve our oil use in 10 years. Oil is holding us all hostage, economically and physically. Finally, it’s time to begin.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 25, 2015

RFGasoline, a drop-in gasoline transportation fuel, is created by processing Ensyn’s renewable crude (RFO), a liquid cellulosic feedstock for refiners, with customary petroleum feedstocks in conventional petroleum refineries (RFO Coprocessing). Earlier post.).

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Gasoline Renewable Grant Parts 150

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 30, 2011

UOP LLC, a Honeywell company, has begun construction in Hawaii of a demonstration unit that will convert forest residuals, algae and other cellulosic biomass into renewable drop-in transportation fuels via a rapid pyrolysis process integrated with a catalytic upgrading process. UOP, Ensyn and Envergent. In 2009, UOP and Ensyn Corp.

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Hawaii Gasoline Oil-Sands Diesel 225

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

XPRIZE Chairman and CEO Peter Diamandis competition the $20-million NRG COSIA Carbon XPRIZE , a competition to address CO 2 emissions from fossil fuels. Teams are challenged to develop breakthrough technologies that convert the most CO 2 into one or more products with the highest net value.

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Conversion CO2 Production Oil-Sands 150

Green Car Congress

APRIL 28, 2011

Comparison with fossil fuels. Water is required for crude oil recovery by water flooding, enhanced oil recovery via steam injection, and steam extraction of bitumen from oil sands and during refining of crude oil to produce gasoline. —Mishra and Yeh. and from 0.29 L/VKT, respectively. and from 0.29

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Water Davis Oil-Sands Nebraska 199

Green Car Congress

JUNE 19, 2011

The National Advanced Biofuels Consortium (NABC) is pursuing two insertion points for leveraging existing refinery and fuel distribution infrastructure to produce finished fuels from biomass. This information will aid in the down-selection of optimal catalytic materials for improved hydropyrolysis oil quality. Earlier post.

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Production Fuel Oil-Sands Oil 218

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 3, 2010

The National Petrochemical & Refiners Association (NPRA) filed a legal challenge to California’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) with the US District Court, Eastern District of California, Fresno Division. 1492, and the federal Renewable Fuels Standard. By regulating the fuel pathway of transportation fuels—i.e.,

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California Oil-Sands Oil 2005 199

Green Car Congress

JULY 11, 2016

The renewable aromatic chemical can be used use in making plastics such as polyester, nylon, polycarbonate, polystyrene, or for renewable transportation fuels. Dried and ground biomass is rapidly heated, and the resulting gases are immediately converted into hydrocarbons by a proprietary, reusable, sand-like zeolite catalyst.

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Toyota Companies Oil-Sands Corporation 150

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 20, 2015

The biomass is rapidly heated, and the resulting gases are immediately converted into hydrocarbons by a proprietary, reusable, sand-like zeolite catalyst. In the process, biomass (wood, sawdust, corn stover, sugar cane bagasse (byproduct), and other non-food materials) is dried and ground. Biomass Biorefinery'

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2019 Industrial Industry Production 150

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 24, 2009

Underground Coal Gasification (UCG) converts deep seam coals into a combustible syngas used for power generation or as a feedstock for the manufacture of hydrogen, chemicals, or transportation fuels. This agreement marks the commencement of CCL’s strategy to develop multiple UCG projects in Canada with Stealth and other partners.

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Clean Fleet Report

DECEMBER 11, 2023

The Natural Bridge to an EV Escaping the High Price of Fuel The natural bridge from a gasoline-powered car to an electric vehicle is a plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV). Charging The Escape PHEV uses regenerative braking, which converts kinetic energy into electric energy and stores it in the battery when applying the brakes or coasting.

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Escape PHEV Ford Gasoline-Electric 84

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 15, 2009

Depending on the feedstock and with the cogeneration of bioelectricity or steam export, the Coskata process can result in up to a 96% reduction of CO 2 in the production of the fuel and is up to 7.7 gallons of water are required to produce one gallon of gasoline from Saudi Arabian Conventional Oil. Earlier post.). Wes Bolson.

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Commercial Oil-Sands Water Gasoline 150

Clean Fleet Report

APRIL 5, 2022

Escaping High Fuel Prices; a Natural Bridge to an EV. Running on 87 octane, the front wheels (all-wheel drive is not available) are driven through a Continuously Variable Transmission (CVT) that has five driver selectable drive modes of Eco, Normal, Sport, Slippery and Snow/Sand. 244 total miles, with 144 all-electric miles.

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Escape PHEV Ford Plug-in 93

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 29, 2013

The MSG process, under license from Idaho National Laboratory, uses a combination of molten sodium salts (sodium carbonate and sodium hydroxide) to convert a carbon feedstock and water into hydrogen. In synthesis gas mode, a mixture of hydrogen and carbon monoxide can be fed to a Fischer-Tropsch unit to produce synthetic liquid fuels.

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Molten Salt Hydrogen Oil-Sands Idaho 303

Clean Fleet Report

JULY 12, 2022

To maximize performance and efficiency there are five driver selectable drive modes of Conserve, Normal, Excite, Slippery and Snow/Sand. The Environmental Protection Agency rates the Corsair’s fuel economy at 33 mpg highway and combined when running in hybrid mode only. Your numbers may differ. The first Lincoln with a plug.

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PHEV Plug-in Plug MPG 106

Green Car Congress

JULY 19, 2012

The National Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) Project has released two major reports that synthesize its findings from the past several years of work: a Technical Analysis Report (TAR) and Policy Design Recommendations. We did not shy away from controversy. We are not advocates.

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Carbon Oil-Sands Standards Design 247

Green Car Congress

MARCH 17, 2009

Among the increasing challenges is that while the sourcing, processing, and delivery of clean water is becoming more energy-intensive, the extraction and refining of fossil fuels and their substitutes is trending towards increasing water requirements per unit of fuel produced as energy companies work with progressively lower grade resources.

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Clean Fleet Report

JANUARY 11, 2022

Clean Fleet Report perks up when we hear about a vehicle not known for getting good fuel economy being reimagined to be more efficient and easier on the environment at the same time. With no battery charge the gasoline engine kicks-in resulting in the lower fuel economy number. A More Efficient (And Quiet) Propulsion System.

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Jeep Plug-in Gasoline-Electric PHEV 80

Green Car Congress

JUNE 25, 2015

turbo is SAE-certified at 113 kW (153 hp) and 240 N·m of torque (177 lb-ft), using regular unleaded fuel (RON 91). Variable-flow oil pump enhances efficiency. Piston-cooling oil jets contribute to optimal performance, efficiency and refinement. A die-cast aluminum oil pan contributes additional structural strength.

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Chevrolet Diesel 2017 Oil-Sands 150

Green Car Congress

APRIL 13, 2009

The newly introduced GMC Terrain ( earlier post ) became the latest GM North American model that will feature a fuel-efficient gasoline direct injection (DI) engine in 2010. The direct-injection fuel injectors inject fuel directly into the combustion chamber and are located beneath the intake ports, which transfer only air.

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Gasoline Engine Oil-Sands Saturn 170

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 22, 2009

Health and other non-climate damages by life-cycle component for different combinations of fuels and light-duty automobiles in 2005 (top) and 2030 (bottom). GHG emissions (grams CO 2 -eq)/VMT by life-cycle component for different combinations of fuels and light-duty automobiles in 2005 (top) and 2030 (bottom). Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Peabody Energy and GreatPoint Energy signed an agreement to pursue development of coal-to-gas and coal-to-hydrogen projects in the United States and around the world with carbon capture and storage (CCS) that would achieve near-zero carbon emissions, while increasing the production of stranded oil via enhanced oil recovery.

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Coal Gas Carbon Energy 186

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 8, 2014

GREET 2014 provides a fully graphical toolbox with which users can perform life cycle analysis simulations of alternative transportation fuels and vehicle technologies with just a few clicks. A well-to-product explorer allows the navigation of fuel production pathways. Rapid building of complex pathways.

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2014 Oil-Sands Emissions Carbon 225

Green Car Congress

MARCH 18, 2009

In 2007, BP and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) have signed a technical agreement to work cooperatively on the development of UCG technology for the in-situ conversion of coal deposits into fuels and other products. Earlier post.). Start-up is planned for 2012. Earlier post.) Earlier post.)

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Cars That Think

APRIL 23, 2022

highlights the small-but-growing phenomenon of people converting fossil-fueled cars to run on electricity. Their rarity only fueled a desire for Defenders among U.S. Farther down the line are somewhat newer Defender body panels waiting to be refurbished, hand-sanded, and then covered with Ferrari-quality.

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Land Rover Tesla Conversion Ferrari 101

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 28, 2009

Think has even shown a convertible prototype. will become less common over the next 10-years and that a mix of alternative fuel vehicles including electric, biofuel, hydrogen and solar will and is now seeing tremendous market growth. The fuel was kerosine or anything else that would burn to heat the boiler.

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Manufacturer Electric Cars Cars i-MiEV 34

My Energi

APRIL 13, 2021

The Energy Company Obligation is a government energy efficiency scheme in Great Britain to help reduce carbon emissions and tackle fuel poverty. Scout out some furniture in the house or on a marketplace that needs some TLC, give it a sand down, change the handles, try painting it a different colour, or maybe even multi coloured!

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