Green Car Congress

MARCH 29, 2011

Researchers from the University of Cambridge (UK) have developed a new high-yield process for recycling waste crankcase oil into gasoline-like fuel based on microwave pyrolysis—i.e., Transforming used motor oil into gasoline can help solve two problems at once. using microwave energy as the heat source.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 12, 2022

Phillips 66 made a final investment decision Wednesday to move forward with Rodeo Renewed, the project to convert its San Francisco Refinery in Rodeo, California, into one of the world’s largest renewable fuels facilities.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

The California Air Resources Board (CARB) has posted a revised draft of California’s proposed Short-Lived Climate Pollutant (SLCP) Strategy. SLCPs are a category of pollutants which remain in the atmosphere for a relatively brief period, but have global warming potentials that are much higher than those of CO 2.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 12, 2016

The California Air Resources Board released a new draft of California’s Short-Lived Climate Pollutant Strategy to significantly reduce the near-term climate impacts of these potent pollutants. Methane is the most abundant of the short-lived climate pollutants in California. Governor Edmund G.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

UBQ is a patented material converted from 100% unsorted household waste, containing food leftovers, mixed plastics, paper, cardboard, packaging materials and diapers. UBQ Industrial Grade is the preeminent environmental material which can substitute oil- and plant-based polymers as well as wood.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 5, 2009

Vattenfall and Aalborg University are partnering with Danish startup SCF Technologies in a two-year project to design a demonstration plant based on SCF’s CatLiq process—an application of the firm’s supercritical fluid technology in the catalytic production of bio-oil from organic waste. SCF Technologies 2008 Annual Report.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 10, 2020

Renewable natural gas and lactic acid production from wet waste feedstocks. The results show that both waste-derived RNG and LA production pathways bring significant GHG emission reduction benefits. Electricity generation efficiency and criteria air pollutant emission factors. Green ammonia. Methanol as marine fuels.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 14, 2017

With a $2-million grant from the California Energy Commission (CEC), Berkeley Lab is partnering with Alphabet Energy to create a cost-effective thermoelectric waste heat recovery system to reduce both energy use in the industrial sector and electricity-related carbon emissions.

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Clean Fleet Report

APRIL 19, 2023

Improving Air Quality Air pollution has been linked to numerous health conditions that lead to increased medical costs. Additionally, vehicle pollution is one of the largest contributors to climate change. Converting to an all-electric fleet of municipal vehicles vastly reduces noise levels within city limits.

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Plug In India

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

By PluginIndia In this article and video, we show the real truth on how Petrol and Diesel vehicles cause far more air pollution compared to electric vehicles. Some even say that it pollutes even more than a diesel or petrol burning car. Diesel or petrol starts as oil, on average 1,798 meters below the surface of the earth.

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Get Electric Vehicle

JUNE 5, 2023

from automobiles, environmental pollution, depletion of fossil fuels, etc. It takes really long to form fossil fuels They are air pollutants – Combustion of fossil fuels emits greenhouse gases causes air pollution Global warming – as a result of greenhouse gas emission, atmospheric temperature increases ( how? ).

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 13, 2012

The program is slated to invest approximately $90 million during this fiscal year to encourage the development and use of new technologies and alternative and renewable fuels, with the goal of reducing dependence on foreign oil and improving the environment. The award recipients are: Environ Strategy Consultants, Inc.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 5, 2010

Included in the 34 FY2010 SBIR Phase I awards are the following biofuel and emissions-reduction projects: Technology Specialists, “Thermochemical Biofuels Production from Biomass Waste Materials”, $70,000. This project will develop and evaluate a new process for converting biomass waste into diesel fuel.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 22, 2012

Menetrez of the US Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) National Risk Management Research Laboratory, Air Pollution Prevention and Control Division. microorganisms, enzymes, chemicals), will determine the quantity and nature of waste produced.It Pollution control and remediation. Risk association. —Menetrez 2012.

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Get Electric Vehicle

JUNE 7, 2023

It converts electrical energy from the battery into mechanical energy to drive the vehicle’s wheels. They include components such as inverters, converters, and motor controllers. 7 DC-DC Converter: A DC-DC converter converts high voltage DC supply from the battery to low voltage supply.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 12, 2022

The field included startups that aim to improve battery technology and solve the battery materials problem, coordinate energy flow from home and car batteries to the grid and back again, gather and use data for energy and carbon management, improve solar cell efficiency, and recycle agricultural waste. There are 2.6

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 22, 2010

This step deals with all complex molecules and converts them into hydrogen and carbon monoxide. The resulting wax should be easily hydrocracked and resulting fuels will be an order of magnitude less toxic than conventional Diesel oil. In urban areas, waste cooking oil from restaurants could be the raw material.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 17, 2021

Sinopec Capital, as the industrial investment arm of Sinopec Group—one of the world’s largest integrated energy and chemicals companies—announced an investment in LanzaTech with a focus on promoting direct production of chemicals from waste carbon.

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EV Info

AUGUST 13, 2021

Clueless ministers are scrambling to shore up a key part of the country’s net zero carbon strategy after the findings in a peer-reviewed study suggested that even hydrogen produced using allegedly low-emission methods can be more polluting than gas or coal. The report notes.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 26, 2011

The project also includes an educational outreach and awareness campaign, discussing how alternative fuels help create jobs, stimulate local economic development, reduce harmful emissions and reduce dependence on foreign oil. Waste Management of PA, Inc. Clearfield County Area Agency on Aging Inc.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 24, 2012

Producing fuels from algae could be done in many ways, including cultivating freshwater or saltwater algae, growing algae in closed photobioreactors or open-pond systems, processing the oils produced by microalgae, or refining all parts of macroalgae. Waste products from processing algae to fuels. Potential effects on local climate.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 7, 2010

Reduced transmission friction thanks to the use of low viscosity oils. Variable flow oil pump. Low pressure EGR technology calls for an engine architecture that minimizes the distance between the catalytic converter/particulate filter and the air intake, an arrangement known as a post-turbo after-treatment system. liter engine.

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Green Cars News

AUGUST 4, 2009

In laboratory tests, the seafood converted rapeseed oil to biodiesel faster (89 per cent conversion in three hours) and more efficiently than some conventional catalysts. The new catalysts also can be reused and the process minimizes waste production and pollution, the scientists noted.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 4, 2010

One of the things that we’re going to be talking about today is investing in the kind of technology that will allow us to use coal, our most bountiful natural resource here in the United States, without polluting our planet. Diesel produced from algal oils complies with the 50% GHG threshold for the biomass-based diesel category.

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Plug In Partners

JULY 7, 2006

By preparing now for a future of scarce world oil supplies, we can build an economy with a more resilient foundation for jobs and prosperity. the buffer between supply and demand is much too small to absorb shutdowns of even a small part of the world's oil demand." A flex fuel plug-in car could be nearly oil free.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 5, 2009

RFS2 requires that US transportation fuel contain 36 billion gallons of biofuels in 2022; at least 16 billion of the 36 billion gallons of biofuels required in 2022 are to be made from such cellulosic feedstocks as perennial grasses, crop residue, and wood waste. specifies this year. per year for conventional ethanol.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 23, 2024

A 2021 study published in the Marine Pollution Bulletin found that despite technical advances, cruising remains a major source of air, water and land pollution affecting fragile habitats and human health. a fossil fuel that the cruise industry has touted as a cleaner alternative to the commonly used heavy fuel oil.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 7, 2015

The report also finds that biofuel production—for example, harvesting biofuel feedstocks from renewable sources such as corn, sugarcane and food waste—could provide jobs and create revenue in economically challenged parts of the state. vs. 33% nationwide—just for tailpipe emissions.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

For people looking for the most effective way to end our addiction to oil, PHEVs have made sense because carmakers can build them now, with todays technology and using todays infrastructure. But theyve needed definitive proof that PHEVs wont increase pollution. Thats 20-25 cents a gallon. Why Pay More for a PHEV?

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

By combining several processes and companies under one roof, the Vertically-Integrated Facility for Electric Truck Manufacturing would combine the building of components like advanced converters or battery modules with their assembly into electric drive systems. Project partners will provide $1,000,000 to match the state grant.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 3, 2013

A team of researchers led by James Dumesic and George Huber, both now at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, have demonstrated how C 5 sugars derived from hemicellulose can be converted into a high-quality petroleum refinery feedstock via a four-step catalytic process. The new process can be tuned to adjust the size of the liquid alkanes.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 14, 2013

The first phase of this $32-million refinery is slated to be operating within a year of funding, producing 5 million gallons a year of biodiesel made from waste vegetable oils obtained from restaurants and commercial food producers, and animal fats obtained from rendering operations. CNG is much less polluting than conventional diesel.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 3, 2019

Furthermore, mild hybrids lower pollutant emissions by providing additional power during launch and acceleration processes—driving conditions in which conventional internal combustion engines emit a relatively high amount of pollutants in a short amount of time. This is clearly evident when it comes to the oil circuit.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 22, 2009

A new report from the National Research Council examines and, when possible, estimates, “hidden” costs of energy production and use—such as the damage air pollution imposes on human health—that are not reflected in market prices of coal, oil, other energy sources, or the electricity and gasoline produced from them. cents to about 1.7

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Green Car Congress

JULY 14, 2015

EPA’s Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention sponsors the Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Awards in partnership with the American Chemical Society Green Chemistry Institute and other members of the chemical community including industry, trade associations, academic institutions, and other government agencies.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

The dual-fuel diesel-biomethane powered bus is expected to reduce pollutant emissions and greenhouse gas emissions by around a half. The Hardstaff OIGI (Oil Ignition Gas Injection) is a dual-fuel system developed to substitute natural gas for diesel in light- and heavy-duty engines. Dual-fuel use is a very attractive option.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 7, 2013

However, notes Dr. Rebecca Boudreaux, Oberon’s president, oil was at $16 per barrel back then. Now, she says, the landscape has changed with the high price of oil. US Patent Nº 8,378,159: Process and system for converting biogas to liquid fuels T.H. DME engine in 2015. Volvo Trucks in North America will partner with Safeway Inc.,

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