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OCTOBER 17, 2014

The running total is 122 manufacturing and non-manufacturing operations spanning Asia, Europe, and South and North America that recycle, reuse or convert to energy all waste from daily operations. Grand Rapids Operations (Michigan). Burton Warehouse and Distribution Center (Michigan). GM Heritage Center (Michigan).

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OCTOBER 28, 2022

Olivine is a CO 2 -reactive waste product that can be returned as tailings after capture carbon from the air. Travertine will launch a transformative process that integrates strong acid treatment of mining waste or tailings with electrolytic acid recycling. Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. University of Nevada, Reno.

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Supplies Ni-Li Carbon Universal 345

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AUGUST 1, 2020

These projects will improve the performance and lower the cost and risk of technologies that can be used to produce biofuels, biopower, and bioproducts from biomass and waste resources. Scale-up and Qualification of Net-Zero Sustainable Aviation Fuels from Wet Waste. Topic 2: Waste to Energy Strategies for the Bioeconomy.

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Waste Conversion Universal San Diego 186

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DECEMBER 30, 2016

The LanzaTech facility will recycle industrial waste gases from steel manufacturing to produce a low cost ethanol intermediate: “Lanzanol.” Both Lanzanol and cellulosic ethanol will then be converted to jet fuel via the Alcohol-to-Jet" (ATJ) process developed by LanzaTech and the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL).

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Carbon Diesel Audi Fuel 186

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DECEMBER 30, 2010

At that level of efficiency, TE materials become useful in practical applications such as waste heat recovery in vehicles, Kaviany noted. One such place is the pipe system of a car between the motor and the catalytic converter. Example of the structure of a partially filled CoSb skutterudite. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.).

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MARCH 23, 2021

With the right technology, it’s possible to convert wastewater into renewable power, along with chemicals, fertilizers, and reusable water. They are based out of California, Colorado, Connecticut, Georgia, Hawaii, Illinois, Kansas, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, Ohio, and Virginia.

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AUGUST 7, 2022

Michigan will enable four new mobility services to help address challenges across the state related to sustainable transit, roadway safety, parking and staffing shortages in the service industry. In partnership with key universities, four companies—Bluecity, GEKOT Inc., Bluecity ($100,000).

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Michigan Oakland Grant Detroit 435

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OCTOBER 19, 2015

General Motors is partnering with DTE Energy to build a new 800-kilowatt solar array at its Warren Transmission plant that will be GM’s largest solar installation in Michigan. The facility is also landfill-free, meaning it reuses, recycles or converts to energy all waste from daily operations. DTE Energy will own the array on 4.25

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OCTOBER 28, 2009

Concept diagram of an SMA heat engine for power generation from waste engine heat. million (subject to final negotiation with DOE) to support building a prototype thermomechanical waste heat recovery system using a Shape Memory Alloy (SMA) heat engine to generate electricity from the heat in automotive exhaust. Source: GM.

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Waste GM Engine Michigan 186

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MAY 22, 2014

Researchers at Michigan State University have developed a microbial electrolysis cell (MEC) which will allow biodiesel plants to eliminate the creation of hazardous wastes while reducing their dependence on fossil fuel. Geobacter removes any waste produced during glycerol fermentation to generate electricity. Click to enlarge.

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Production Las Vegas Waste Michigan 252

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AUGUST 21, 2012

IH 2 is a new thermochemical process that employs a catalyzed fluidized bed hydropyrolysis step followed by an integrated hydroconversion step to directly convert biomass into high-quality, fungible hydrocarbon fuels. GTI anticipates full-scale commercial plants converting 2,000 tons a day will be operating by 2014. Earlier post.).

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Commercial Fuel Convert Houston 373

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JUNE 16, 2012

Other successful initiatives—highlighted in Ford’s 13th annual Sustainability Report—include reductions in water use, waste-to-landfill and CO 2 emissions as well as improvements in vehicle fuel economy and safety. At Michigan Assembly Plant in Wayne, Mich.,

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2016 Ford Manufacturer Energy 256

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JANUARY 8, 2013

Each combination of enzymes will be tested on pretreated agricultural waste that can first be converted into sugars and then into bio-based products and advanced biofuels. MBI is a Lansing, Michigan-based not-for-profit company with 30 years of experience in accelerating the commercialization of bio-based technologies.

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JUNE 10, 2011

The US Department of Energy is awarding up to $36 million to fund six small-scale projects in California, Michigan, North Carolina, Texas, and Wisconsin, that will advance the technology improvements and process integration needed to produce drop-in advanced biofuels and other valuable bio-based chemicals. Virent (up to $13.4

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MAY 31, 2024

You lose about half of your range in an electric vehicle if you drive it in the middle of winter in Michigan,” says Cyrus Rustomji, cofounder of South 8. Emily Waltz Mining leaves behind piles of waste after the commercially viable material is extracted. Phoenix Tailings —a startup based in Woburn, Mass.—extracts

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Li-ion Water Phoenix Waste 65

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APRIL 19, 2011

Under the agreement, Cobalt Technologies and American Process will integrate Cobalt’s patent-pending continuous fermentation and distillation technology into American Process’s Alpena Biorefinery , currently under construction in Alpena, Michigan.

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Building Convert Michigan Grant 231

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MAY 2, 2011

The additional capital will enable Cobalt to build out its new 470,000 gallon per year demonstration plant in Alpena, Michigan, which will be the first cellulosic biorefinery for the production of the industrial chemical n-butanol. Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

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Michigan Convert Renewable Waste 199

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NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Actions such as the debt tender offer and the issuance of 0% convertible notes earlier this year, together with anticipated broader access to capital from the new sustainable financing framework, are consistent with Ford’s objectives to further strengthen its balance sheet and financial flexibility and return its credit ratings to investment grade.

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AUGUST 20, 2013

A team from the University of Michigan, Michigan State, and UCLA has designed synthetic fungal-bacterial consortia for the direct production of isobutanol from biomass. coli bacteria that had been engineered to convert sugars into isobutanol. James Liao’s lab at the University of California-Los Angeles provided E.

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Production Michigan Los Angeles Conversion 252

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DECEMBER 1, 2015

million to a project to develop a high-efficiency engine system that integrates a compact micro-hybrid configuration of a supercharger with an electric waste heat recovery system and employs high rates of recirculated exhaust gases. An engine’s response depends on its ability to take in fresh air and convert it to power.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 20, 2011

The process leverages proprietary microorganisms and efficient bioreactor designs in a three-step conversion process—gasification, fermentation, separation—that can produce fuel-grade ethanol from virtually any carbon-based feedstock, including wood and wood waste, agricultural waste, energy crops, and municipal solid waste.

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Waste 2008 Alabama Renewable 199

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FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Colorado State University will develop a novel, low-cost turbo-compression cooling system that utilizes the ultra-low-grade waste (less than 150°C) heat available in many industrial processes, the energy from which is not traditionally recovered. Michigan State University. Colorado State University. Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.

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Manufacturer Waste Universal Dallas 150

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APRIL 14, 2016

The bottles—collected from five of its Michigan facilities—are also being turned into air filtration components and insulation in coats for the homeless community. Given its drive to zero waste, all of GM’s global facilities recycle their water bottles. washes the bottles and converts them to flake. Clean Tech Inc.

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Water GM Parts Chevrolet 150

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JANUARY 13, 2011

Longyear LLC, have signed a non-binding letter of intent to support the construction of one of the first commercial-scale wood-based cellulosic ethanol biorefineries, slated to break ground in 2011 in Kinross Charter Township, Michigan. Mascoma recently announced the acquisition of SunOpta BioProcess Inc.

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Commercial Michigan Corporation Financing 199

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JULY 17, 2020

Slashing Platinum Group Metals Content in Catalytic Converters: An Atoms-to-Autos Approach. Michigan Technological University. Municipality of Anchorage Department of Solid Waste Services. Pilot Heavy-Duty Electric Vehicle Deployment for Municipal Solid Waste Collection. Waste Not, Want Hot? General Motors LLC.

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Lithium Ion Vehicles Li-ion Universal 236

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 1, 2011

LanzaTech’s proprietary gas fermentation technology enables low cost production of sustainable alcohols and chemicals from waste gas resources that are completely outside the food value chain. The use of lignin opens up a new biomass waste stream for making economic renewable jet fuel. Earlier post.). Source: FAA.

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Alternative Fuels Renewable 2011 Waste 265

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. Earlier post.).

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Oil Renewable Oil-Sands Fuel 210

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 22, 2012

Once operational, the facility is expected to convert 600,000 tons of energy grasses per year into an estimated 20 million gallons of cellulosic ethanol using the Beta Renewable’s PROESA enzymatic hydrolysis process. to construct a 20 million gallon per year cellulosic ethanol refinery in Sampson County in eastern North Carolina.

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North Carolina Energy Renewable 2008 236

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 14, 2009

Addressing methanol marketers at the conference, LeBlanc noted that converting methanol into DME offers the methanol industry a new market for its product. DME is synthesized from methanol, whether produced from coal, natural gas or biomass such as harvested forestry wastes. Earlier post.).

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North America America Sweden Milwaukee 218

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 18, 2011

Two separate research collaborations have recently reported advances in the efficiency of thermoelectric materials in converting heat to electricity. for the materials and possibly good enough for consideration for waste heat recovery in automotive exhaust systems. The study by Yan et al. was published in the ACS journal Nano Letters.

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Conversion Boston Waste Universal 231

Green Car Congress

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

OCTOBER 18, 2009

The hydraulic hybrid is able to recover and reuse about 70% of the energy that otherwise would have been wasted during the braking process. There are also no torque converter spin losses. The hydraulic hybrid improves fuel economy in three ways: recovered braking energy; improved engine efficiency; and its engine-off feature.

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Hybrid Commercial North America Vehicles 150

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

The group investigating the production of bio-hydrocarbons will produce hydrocarbons by pioneering processes for chemically converting plant material and by natural microbial and fungal processes that are even less-explored. They will also investigate methods for making hydrocarbon production fast, continuous, scalable, and cost-effective.

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Grant Puerto Rico Conversion Montana 170

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AUGUST 26, 2009

The project will convert local landfill gas (LFG), a renewable fuel source, to compressed natural gas and develop five CNG fueling stations throughout the metro-Atlanta area. Clean Energy Coalition’s CEC Michigan Green Fleets Initiative. A CNG fueling station will be constructed at 2 of the recipient’s, Allied Waste, locations.

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Alternative Fuels Clean Cleaning Grant 236

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

Buses will be powered by an Azure Dynamics hybrid system of Michigan. Thunder Bay Transportation Authority – TBTA, Michigan: $2,590,000. Flint Mass Transportation Authority, Michigan: $2,200,000. Statewide Paratransit Bus Hybrid Program: Purchase 31 paratransit hybrid buses to replace 31 gas and diesel vehicles.

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Emissions Gas Energy Maintenance 256

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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. Engineering E.

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Carbon Batteries Battery Li-ion 249

Green Car Congress

JUNE 14, 2010

We now have a sprinkling of promising companies working to get funded to convert gas-guzzlers. Using existing technology, we can convert many of them into plug-in hybrids and electric vehicles. We’ve already decided we’re going to fix already-built houses, offices and factories that waste energy. We’ll pre-fund your prototypes.

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