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MAY 16, 2018

has started site construction for Phase 2 of its first waste-to-fuels project, the Sierra BioFuels Plant (Sierra). Sierra will be the nation’s first commercial-scale plant converting a municipal solid waste (MSW) feedstock—i.e., Fulcrum BioEnergy, Inc. —Jim Macias, Fulcrum’s President and CEO.

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JULY 10, 2022

The money will help projects further develop their greenhouse gas removal technologies, which include a machine that can pull carbon dioxide out of the air, a plant to convert household waste into hydrogen for use in the transport industry, and a system to remove carbon dioxide from seawater. Project funding: £4,750,429.16.

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JULY 29, 2019

will use Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS) and machine learning to rapidly improve catalysts which are imperative to the efficiency and economy of the United States by making energy production, manufacturing and transportation more efficient and eco-friendly. Awards include: Accustrata Inc. TDA Research Inc.

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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.

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JUNE 14, 2010

million) construction costs for the first commercial plant in Europe using its waste-to-ethanol BioEnergy Process Technology. million gallons US) of carbon-neutral road transport fuel and generate more than 3MW of electricity for export from over 100,000 tonnes per year of biodegradable household and commercial waste.

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JULY 17, 2020

VTO research pathways focus on fuel diversification, vehicle efficiency, energy storage, lightweight materials, and new mobility technologies to improve the overall energy efficiency and affordability of the transportation system. AOI 02: Low Cost Electric Traction Drive Systems Using No Heavy Rare Earth Materials. Cummins Inc.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

The Maverick Oasis factory-built Gas-to-Liquids (GTL) methanol plants are modular, and can be rapidly deployed onsite to produce thousands of gallons per day of methanol from natural gas or methane-rich waste gas. The plants are designed to be low-cost, highly efficient facilities optimized to generate an attractive project rate of return.

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Gas Affordable Waste Gas-Electric 210

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FEBRUARY 26, 2010

Reaction pathways for conversion of GVL to butenes and CO 2 , and the integrated conversion of GVL to both a liquid stream of alkenes for use in transportation fuels and a gaseous stream rich in CO 2 that is appropriate for further processing options. Valerolactone to Liquid Alkenes for Transportation Fuels. Credit: Bond et al.,

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Wisconsin Convert Hydrogen Transportation 210

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MAY 25, 2017

Among the awards of interest from a fuels and transportation perspective are: AWARD TABLE. Production of C 5 hydrocarbons from waste biomass. Obtaining sustainable sources of chemicals and processing organic waste in an environmentally responsible manner remains a challenge. Description. Visolis, Inc. Trash2Cash-Energy LLC.

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JANUARY 23, 2020

Electrolysis with Ceres’ technology could use low-cost electricity and, unique to higher temperature electrolyzers, waste heat to convert water and carbon dioxide to high value chemicals such as hydrogen and other synthetic transport fuels, precursors for fertilizers and replacements for other petrochemical products.

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Power Powered Hydrogen Fuel 300

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DECEMBER 13, 2013

Vilupanur Ravi of California State Polytechnic University, Pomona will receive $95,000 to identify the most effective catalyst materials to lower capital and operating costs of hydrogen production. The project aims to increase the generation of clean, low cost, efficient energy. Lee Huang of Eneron Inc. Lee Huang of Eneron Inc.

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Gas-Electric California Gas Energy 230

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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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JULY 19, 2021

Selected projects will use HPC to address complex challenges, from improving additive manufacturing processes to increasing the lifecycle energy efficiency of jet-engine components to improving the performance of materials used to convert CO 2 into high-value chemicals and products. 3M Company. DOE award: $297,000. Opus 12 Inc.

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JANUARY 27, 2023

Made from widely available domestic feedstocks and advanced refining technologies, energy-dense biofuels provide a pathway for low-carbon fuels that can lower greenhouse gas emissions throughout the transportation sector and accelerate the bioeconomy. Comstock Inc., RTI International and partners at POET Research, Inc.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Electrical energy can readily be converted into hydrogen via electrolysis. Monash University low-cost robust, high-activity water splitting electrodes – $1,054,209. The University of Melbourne (UOM) enabling efficient, affordable and robust use of renewable hydrogen in transport and power generation – $2,594,747.

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DECEMBER 13, 2019

Low-cost electric traction drive systems using no heavy rare earth materials. The objective of this potential area of interest is to research, develop, and test a heavy rare earth mineral free advanced motor and inverter drive system that costs ? Transportation and energy analysis. construction, mining, forestry, etc.).

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DECEMBER 30, 2022

A team from the University of Calgary and Rice University has used flash joule heating (FJH) ( earlier post ) to convert low-value asphaltenes—a by-product of crude oil refining—into a high-value carbon allotrope, asphaltene-derived flash graphene (AFG). Flash graphene from asphaltenes. (A)

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Waste Manufacturer Carbon Fiber Polymer 492

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AUGUST 4, 2017

The gasification technology complements Aemetis’ current license with LanzaTech for syngas-to-ethanol conversion, providing Aemetis with a complete technology solution to produce locally-sourced, low-carbon cellulosic ethanol. —Eric McAfee, Chairman and CEO of Aemetis.

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India Renewable MIT Carbon 170

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MAY 10, 2018

Elemental sulfur, as one of promising cathode materials, can offer a theoretical capacity of 1672 mAh g -1 and high energy density of 2600 W h kg -1 at a low cost, when it is coupled with metallic Li anode.

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Lithium Sulfur Batteries Battery Engine 186

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NOVEMBER 10, 2009

Accenture has identified 12 technologies that it concludes have the potential to disrupt the current views of transport fuels supply, demand and GHG emissions over the next 10 years. The biggest challenge is in the deconstruction stage, with high costs for pretreatment and enzymes. Waste-to-fuel. Source: Accenture.

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Transportation Supplies Emissions Fuel 262

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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

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AUGUST 10, 2011

This project will develop a new process that enables low-cost, domestic manufacturing of magnesium. This project will develop a novel low cost route to carbon fiber using a lignin/PAN hybrid precursor and carbon fiber conversion technologies leading to high performance, low-cost carbon fiber. 3,500,000. .

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Carbon Fiber Lithium Ion Li-ion Vehicles 268

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DECEMBER 7, 2009

ARPA-E is seeking new ways to make liquid transportation fuels—without using petroleum or biomass—by using microorganisms to harness chemical or electrical energy to convert carbon dioxide into liquid fuels. Batteries for Electrical Energy Storage in Transportation (BEEST).

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AUGUST 31, 2016

Nzyme2HC has novel acellular biological approach to scalable/clean/potentially low-cost H 2 generation. Combining minimal electric current, bacterially-extricated hydrogenase, and industrial waste as the feedstocks/production materials. Nzyme2HC LLC. Proton Energy Systems.

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Fuel Companies Hydrogen Water 150

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MAY 10, 2011

The group is committed to making transportation fuel from agricultural waste, energy crops and forest biomass. Also, our process technology results in a low-cost-per-litre, which is essential to the viable commercialization of next-generation ethanol. —Barry Wortzman.

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Canada Companies Waste Conversion 218

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APRIL 30, 2010

Today’s technologies for making biofuels all rely on photosynthesis—either indirectly by converting plants to fuels or directly by harnessing photosynthetic organisms such as algae. This process is less than 1% efficient at converting sunlight to stored chemical energy. Electrofuels: Biofuels from Electricity. OPX Biotechnologies Inc.

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Carbon Batteries Battery Li-ion 249

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APRIL 27, 2017

The new 'Coasting - Engine off' micro hybrid system represents a low-cost level of electric-powered motoring on a 12-volt basis. A key factor in its low emissions is the optimum conversion of the methane in the exhaust gas. e-gas is ideal for making renewable power usable for the transport sector and for storing it.

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JULY 15, 2011

η TDL is the fuel loss efficiency during its transport and distribution. η TDL can be calculated as fuel consumed for its transport and distribution from biorefineries to vehicles [E C /(E C +E T )]. Conceptual hybrid power train system including on-board sugarto-hydrogen converter, PEM fuel cell and rechargeable battery.

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Virginia Fuel Hydrogen Vehicles 246

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MAY 19, 2014

Potential high-value products from isolated lignin include low-cost carbon fiber, engineering plastics and thermoplastic elastomers, polymeric foams and membranes, and a variety of fuels and chemicals—all currently sourced from petroleum. —Arthur Ragauskas.

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JANUARY 24, 2015

Areas of emphasis could include, but are not limited to, development of microbial strains or co-cultures with improved hydrogen yields; reactor designs to improve hydrogen production yields or reduce costs (e.g., Fuel Cell Technologies R&D: Low Platinum Group Metal Catalysts and Supports. 2 to 5 awards between $1M and $3M.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2022

The selected projects will focus on technologies such as revolutionizing fuel cells for light- and heavy-duty vehicles, and technologies to generate less nuclear waste and reduce the cost of fuel. This would eliminate the ionomer, which conducts ions, but also poisons catalyst sites and obstructs oxygen transport.

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JANUARY 18, 2014

VTO is seeking projects in this area not represented by, or similar to, current R&D projects at DOE) that focus on the following key barriers: Cost Reduction. The additional content which includes the motor, inverter, converter, and on?board board charger must be offset by the cost savings in operational costs as seen by the customer.

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AUGUST 7, 2022

Bluecity, a company working to transform transportation infrastructure through the use of real-time, multimodal traffic data, aims to help cities achieve Vision Zero—a strategy to eliminate traffic fatalities and severe injuries while increasing safe, healthy and equitable mobility. Bluecity ($100,000).

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Michigan Oakland Grant Detroit 435

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MARCH 21, 2013

The California Energy Commission (CEC) approved $5,580,773 for clean-energy transportation projects including biodiesel production, power control electronics for medium-and heavy-duty battery electric vehicles, and buydowns for propane vehicles. The facility is slated to produce nearly 5 million gallons of transportation fuel per year.

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San Diego California Energy Transportation 346

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AUGUST 19, 2023

The US Department of Energy (DOE) awarded nearly $34 million to 19 industry- and university-led research projects that will advance technology solutions to make clean hydrogen a more available and affordable fuel for electricity generation, industrial decarbonization, and transportation. Earlier post.)

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Hydrogen Clean Cleaning Gas-Electric 150

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JUNE 14, 2010

In the key area of transportation, we submit our Drive Star proposal. For $100 million in one year, we’ll demonstrate how to rapidly reduce use of oil in transportation with safe, warrantied retrofits of tens of millions gas-guzzlers. We now have a sprinkling of promising companies working to get funded to convert gas-guzzlers.

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Oil Conversion 2020 Oil-Sands 252

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AUGUST 23, 2017

CIRCUITS project teams will accelerate the development and deployment of a new class of efficient, lightweight, and reliable power converters, based on wide-bandgap (WBG) semiconductors. data center energy consumption and operating cost while creating a high-volume commercial market for SiC-based power converters.

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