Green Car Congress

JANUARY 27, 2023

Captis Aire LLC, “Renewable Blending Components to Enable 100% Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF)”, $2,000,000. This project will demonstrate the conversion of gaseous carbon wood wastes (terpenes) to renewable Terpenes SAF blending components. Hundreds of millions of gallons of drop-in 100% SAF will be unlocked. Comstock Inc.,

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Production Carbon Conversion Mariner 225

Green Car Congress

MAY 26, 2015

Last week, Audi and its partner Global Bioenergies announced that the first batch of renewable isooctane—which Audi calls “e-benzin”—using Global Bioenergies’ fermentative isobutene pathway (sugar→isobutene→isooctane) had been produced and presented to Audi by Global Bioenergies. Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

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Audi Renewable Solar Fuel 150

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

Under the FOCUS program, projects will develop advanced solar converters that turn sunlight into electricity for immediate use, while also producing heat that can be stored at low cost for later use as well as innovative storage systems that accept both heat and electricity from variable solar sources. Lead organization.

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Solar Conversion Hybrid Molten Salt 300

Green Car Congress

MAY 25, 2017

Obtaining sustainable sources of chemicals and processing organic waste in an environmentally responsible manner remains a challenge. This proposal aims to solve these problems by converting organic waste into chemicals with widespread use in polymer and transportation industries. Trash2Cash-Energy LLC. Sepion Technologies.

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Grant Li-ion Waste Lithium Sulfur 150

Green Car Congress

MARCH 30, 2015

These plants convert biogas from sources such as anaerobic digesters and landfills into higher value methanol, one of the world’s most widely used industrial chemicals. The Maverick Oasis methanol plant uses proprietary technology to convert biogas into thousands of gallons per day of methanol that meets ASTM D1152 specifications.

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Gas Waste Gas-Electric Convert 150

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 15, 2016

Global Bioenergies is now entering the final phase of demonstrating its technology for converting renewable carbon into hydrocarbons. It can also be converted into isododecane, a compound found in jet fuel. Micro-organisms do not naturally produce isobutene. Earlier post.).

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Global Green Production Convert 150

Green Car Congress

MAY 16, 2018

Sierra will be the nation’s first commercial-scale plant converting a municipal solid waste (MSW) feedstock—i.e., household garbage that would otherwise be landfilled—into a low-carbon, renewable transportation fuel product. The prepared MSW is gasified using a ThermoChem Recovery International gasification system.

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Sierra Fuel Tahoe Convert 170

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 4, 2017

The PEM system uses heating from electrically conducting gas (a plasma) to convert the feedstock (usually waste) to valuable products. The PEM system is environmentally attractive based on its minimal environmental impact and ability to provide near-total destruction of organic materials (providing large volume and weight reduction).

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India Renewable MIT Carbon 170

Green Car Congress

JUNE 1, 2018

Researchers from three US national labs (Berkeley, Pacific Northwest and Sandia) has demonstrated a separation-free, ionic-liquid (IL)-based process to convert biomass to an advanced biofuel (the sesquiterpene bisabolene). —Sundstrom et al.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Now we are accelerating Direct Air Capture technology that enables efficient and low-cost CO 2 capture—the future of CO 2 recycling. This is the case when it is manufactured from wind energy, renewable generated CO 2 and hydrogen extracted from water.

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Chile Porsche Global Installation 195

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

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OCTOBER 15, 2013

Biosynthetic Technologies holds exclusive rights to patented technology that converts fatty acids into high-performance synthetic oils that can be used in lubricant, personal care and other chemical sectors. The new plant incorporates and validates every aspect of the low-cost continuous-flow manufacturing process.

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Oil Production Mariner Low Cost 220

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

Under the agreement, Genomatica will create proprietary, specially-designed organisms and complete manufacturing processes to efficiently and economically convert syngas into chemical products. —Tim Cesarek, managing director of Organic Growth at Waste Management.

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Waste Gas-Electric Renewable Convert 186

Green Car Congress

MARCH 4, 2015

This industry ultimately has the potential to provide fermentation processes with low-cost sugars derived from abundant resources. Global Bioenergies recently established collaborations with nine companies from three continents developing the most promising technologies to convert various resources (straw, bagasse, wood.)

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Global Waste Production Convert 150

Green Car Congress

MARCH 11, 2016

The department’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy is investing nearly $6.7 Organization. Big Delta will demonstrate that the new process at the core of its manufacturing technology is scalable, reliable and significantly reduces the cost of manufacturing high-performance Li-ion cells. Organization.

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Clean Cleaning Energy Li-ion 150

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NOVEMBER 9, 2009

INEOS Bio, a subsidiary of INEOS, the world’s third-largest chemicals company, has started a feasibility study for a plant in the UK to convert locally generated biodegradable household and commercial wastes into carbon neutral road transport fuel and clean electricity, using the INEOS Bio technology process. Click to enlarge.

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Waste Climate Change Clean Cleaning 281

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

US Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced five major agricultural research projects aimed at developing regional, renewable energy markets, generating rural jobs, and decreasing America’s dependence on foreign oil. The project aims to develop a regional source of renewable aviation fuel for Seattle-Tacoma International Airport.

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Louisiana Seattle Parts Iowa 230

Green Car Congress

APRIL 6, 2015

Toshiba Group has a range of hydrogen-related technologies, including photovoltaic, wind, hydro and other renewable generation systems, water electrolysis systems and fuel cells, which it will integrate in end-to-end solutions, extending from production to utilization of hydrogen.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 25, 2022

They’ve been studying up on renewable energy, hydrogen power, and electric vehicles, preparing for the big day in April when their remote-controlled vehicles will rumble for 4 hours in Gladstone, a port city in Queensland. Ark Energy expects to start exporting renewable energy around 2030. Exporting green hydrogen.

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Australia Hydrogen Green Renewable 145

Green Car Congress

JUNE 4, 2012

A 100 VAC inverter onboard the Prius PHV converts stored power into AC suitable for home use, while power flow is controlled according to communication between vehicle, charging stand and the home. Toyota’s newly developed V2H two-way electric power supply system can supply power from home to vehicle as well as from vehicle to home.

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Toyota Power Powered Prius 350

Green Car Congress

MARCH 10, 2016

They first have applied their technology to the production of a plastic—a promising alternative to polyethylene terephthalate (PET) called polyethylene furandicarboxylate (PEF)—but are now working to apply the new chemistry to the production of renewable fuels and other compounds from hydrogen and CO 2. —Banerjee et al.

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Molten Salt Carbon CO2 Fuel 150

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 1, 2020

Earth Energy Renewables, LLC. Integrated biochemical and electrochemical technologies (IBET) to convert organic waste to biopower via North American research and educational partnerships. Scalable CO 2 electrocatalysis technologies. Project title. Federal share. Topic 1:Scale-Up of Bench Applications. University of Alabama.

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Waste Conversion Universal San Diego 186

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APRIL 30, 2010

ARPA-E’s first solicitation awarded $151 million to 37 projects aimed at transformational innovations in energy storage, biofuels, carbon capture, renewable power, building efficiency, vehicles, and other areas. This process is less than 1% efficient at converting sunlight to stored chemical energy. Lead organization.

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Carbon Batteries Battery Li-ion 249

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

Joule has developed a highly modular system using highly engineered photosynthetic organisms to catalyze the conversion of sunlight and CO 2 directly to liquid hydrocarbons and ethanol ( earlier post ). —Peter Erich, President of Joule Fuels.

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Solar Fuel Commercial Companies 275

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JUNE 11, 2019

University of Colorado Boulder researchers have developed nanobio-hybrid organisms capable of using airborne carbon dioxide and nitrogen to produce a variety of plastics and fuels, a promising first step toward low-cost carbon sequestration and eco-friendly manufacturing for chemicals. Ding et al. —Prashant Nagpal.

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Light CO2 Power Powered 334

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 7, 2015

xF’s continuous production technology uses common materials (steel and plastic) at moderate operating conditions to convert a biomass feedstock into a chemical intermediate that is subsequently combined with an alcohol to form the furoate ester product. xF Technologies Inc.,

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APRIL 5, 2016

This project is funded by a ~$1-million grant from the California Energy Commission under the auspices of its Alternative and Renewable Fuels and Vehicle Testing Program. This reactor converts a portion of the volatile gases into a mixture of light olefins, predominantly ethylene and propylene. —US 9199889.

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Gasoline Coal Convert Conversion 150

Green Car Congress

JUNE 19, 2013

Calysta Energy and NatureWorks have entered into an exclusive, multi-year collaboration to research and develop a practical production process for fermenting methane into lactic acid, the building block for Ingeo , lactide intermediates and polymers made from renewable materials.

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Building Energy Asia Waste 170

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 1, 2010

Developed again in partnership with TEES, Terrabon’s MixAlco is an advanced bio-refining technology that converts low-cost, readily available, non-food, non-sterile biomass into valuable chemicals such as acetic acid, ketones and alcohols that can be processed into renewable gasoline fuels.

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Texas Water Waste Gasoline 210

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 13, 2013

The Energy Innovations Small Grant Program provides funding to small businesses, non-profit organizations, individuals, and academic institutions to conduct research that establishes the feasibility of new, innovative energy concepts. The project aims to increase the generation of clean, low cost, efficient energy.

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Gas-Electric California Gas Energy 230

Green Car Congress

JULY 4, 2013

The UCG process was developed for the production of low-cost synthesis gas from biomass. They calculated production cost estimates assuming n th plant economics and without public investment support, CO 2 credits or tax assumptions. Converted into gasoline-equivalent price per liter, the estimated production cost would be 0.5–0.7

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Carbon Fuel Finland Gasoline 218

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 7, 2009

ARPA-E’s first solicitation, announced earlier this year, was highly competitive and resulted in awarding $151 million to 37 projects aimed at transformational innovations in energy storage, biofuels, carbon capture, renewable power, building efficiency, vehicles, and other areas. Earlier post.)

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Carbon Plug-in Energy Fuel 199

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

The acquisition combines the fiber preparation and pretreatment technologies of SBI and the consolidated bioprocessing (CBP) technology of Mascoma, to create a company with comprehensive capabilities for converting non-food cellulose (wood chips, energy crops and organic solid waste) into ethanol and high value co-products.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 18, 2014

The US Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy’s (EERE’s) Vehicle Technologies Office (VTO) issued an Incubator Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOAs) for a total of approximately $10 million. ( The additional content which includes the motor, inverter, converter, and on?board DE-FOA-0000988 ).

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Carbon Fiber Engine Battery Powered Fuel 252

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 25, 2009

Genomatica’s research proves these chemicals can be manufactured inside organisms using renewable feedstocks. The process converts sugar and water into this valuable chemical, most prominently used as a solvent in paints and coatings for furniture. This represents about 15% of the country's ethanol production.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

These projects were selected under an Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) Advanced Manufacturing Office funding opportunity, focused on advanced materials, advanced processes, and modeling and analysis tools for materials and manufacturing. Organization. Individual awards vary between $250,000 and $2.5 DOE Funding.

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Manufacturer Waste Universal Dallas 150

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Researchers at the University of California, Riverside’s Center for Environmental Research and Technology (CERT) at the Bourns College of Engineering have received two grants to further explore a steam hydrogasification process they developed to convert waste into fuels. diesel, gasoline, jet) at low cost. Earlier post.).

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