Green Car Congress

JULY 23, 2023

Toyota is developing a regenerative fuel cell for the manned pressurized rover (nicknamed the “ Lunar Cruiser ”) for the lunar polar exploration mission (LUPEX), part of projects led by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). Earlier post.) Others are off-road driving performance, automated off-road driving, and the user experience.)

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 30, 2020

At SEMA360, Chevrolet will showcase a 1977 K5 Blazer converted to all-electric propulsion. The new K5 Blazer-E retains as much of the stock Blazer as possible; approximately 90% of the new parts installed for the eCrate package are factory components from the Chevrolet Bolt EV. DC-to-DC power converter to power low-voltage systems.

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Chevrolet Convert DC Installation 221

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 28, 2022

E) will award $39 million in funding to 16 projects across 12 states to develop market-ready technologies that will increase domestic supplies of critical elements required for the clean energy transition. The projects were selected as part of ARPA-E’s Mining Innovations for Negative Emissions Resource Recovery (MINER) program.

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Supplies Ni-Li Carbon Universal 345

Green Car Congress

APRIL 14, 2016

General Motors is turning its employees’ recycled water bottles into a noise-reducing fabric insulation that covers the Chevrolet Equinox engine. Given its drive to zero waste, all of GM’s global facilities recycle their water bottles. Given its drive to zero waste, all of GM’s global facilities recycle their water bottles.

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Water GM Parts Chevrolet 150

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 27, 2020

Researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), with colleagues at Yale University, have developed a photochemical process to convert acetone derived from plants (bio-acetone) into a mixture of polycyclic alkanes, the high energy density of which is appropriate for high-perfomance aviation applications. Ryan et al. —Ryan et al.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 15, 2022

Twelve has developed an efficient polymer-electrolyte membrane (PEM) CO 2 electrolyzer that uses proprietary CO 2 -reducing catalysts to split CO 2 with just water and renewable electricity as inputs, syngas (CO and hydrogen) as the output, and pure oxygen as the only byproduct.

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Alaska Renewable Fuel CO2 221

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 14, 2014

Audi’s latest e-fuels project is participation in a a pilot plant project in Dresden that produces diesel fuel from water, CO 2 and green electricity. The sunfire plant, which operates according to the “power-to-liquid” (PtL) principle, requires carbon dioxide, water and electricity as raw materials. Click to enlarge.

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Audi Water Diesel Fuel 400

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 27, 2020

Evonik and Siemens Energy commissioned a pilot plant—sponsored by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)—that uses carbon dioxide and water to produce chemicals. The necessary energy is supplied by electricity from renewable sources. The pilot plant is located in Marl, in the northern Ruhr area.

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Conversion Energy CO2 Water 243

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 7, 2014

Initially, oil from the plants seeds will be converted into jet fuel. In October 2013, Boeing and SAA said they would work together to develop a sustainable aviation biofuel supply chain in Southern Africa. Earlier post.)

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South Africa Convert Africa Energy 287

Green Car Congress

APRIL 28, 2021

As part of the agreement, Hyzon is acquiring a minority interest in Raven SR. At the hubs, which can be built at or near landfills, Raven SR will convert mixed and multiple organic wastes, including municipal solid waste, greenwaste, food waste, medical, paper, etc. Raven SR , a renewable fuels company, and Hyzon Motors Inc.,

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Waste Hydrogen Building Motor 459

Green Car Congress

MARCH 30, 2022

Raven supplies all the needed endothermic heat from sources outside of the reformer by recycling waste heat and/or electrical heat up to 1,200 °F (649 ?C). This permits the control of the rotary reformer when there is water content or chemical makeup variation in the feedstock, such as in MSW.

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Spain Waste Hydrogen Building 298

Green Car Congress

JULY 15, 2014

The water-cooled aluminum turbine housing. Water-cooling enables the use of the lightweight material and thus enables a significant weight reduction by nearly 30% while simultaneously providing cost and system benefits. Click to enlarge. Integration of the unit in the three-cylinder, 1.5L

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Supplies Water Exhaust BMW 230

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 24, 2020

It was just another element of our philosophy to not just do the right thing, but make doing the right thing a normal part of doing business. Argent has a fleet of about 20 pieces of equipment comprising wheel loaders, excavators, bobcats and a couple of water trucks. —Bill Crotinger, president of Argent Materials Inc.<>/div>.

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Renewable Diesel Fleet Building 448

Green Car Congress

MAY 16, 2018

In Germany, all Mercedes-Benz plants will be supplied with CO 2 -neutral energy. Today, new plants in Europe are already planned with a CO2-neutral energy supply from the start. As part of the electric offensive, Mercedes-Benz Cars counts on local emission-free vehicles. The decision also fits with our overall strategy.

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Germany Mercedes CO2 Supplies 170

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 15, 2018

Continental is supplying the 48V belt-starter generator with integrated power electronics that is at the heart of the mild-hybrid (MHEV) system that is standard on Audi’s new A8. This is made possible by a water-cooling system that protects the motor, and particularly the power electronics, from overheating. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 25, 2013

The Audi e-gas plant, which can convert 6MW of input power, utilizes renewable electricity for electrolysis to produce oxygen and hydrogen. Water and oxygen are the only by-products. In return, this plant supplies the highly concentrated CO 2 required as a basic building block for the e-gas. Earlier post.).

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Gas-Electric Audi Gas Water 296

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 20, 2022

GM is supplying HYDROTEC fuel cell power cubes to Renewable Innovations of Lindon, Utah to build the Mobile Power Generator. EMPOWER rapid chargers can be installed at existing fuel stations or along corridors frequented by travelers only part of the year, such as near national parks or vacation destinations. Mobile Power Generator.

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GM Commercial Fuel MPG 448

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 22, 2022

Because so much energy is lost turning steam back into water in the Rankine cycle, at most a third of the power in the steam can be converted into electricity. For this test, the engineers heated up the CO 2 using an electrical heater, fairly similar to a home water heater. Importance of advanced power electronics.

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Grid Power Powered CO2 396

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 18, 2023

This also represents significant progress towards enabling domestic European supply chain independence for lithium as a critical raw material and enabling a more sustainable EV battery production industry in Europe. This milestone represents a major step forward by Vulcan and its Zero Carbon Lithium Project. Earlier post.)

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Germany Lithium Ion Europe Commercial 195

Green Car Congress

JULY 2, 2014

plans to invest more than $1 billion to install a new delayed coker unit at its Antwerp refinery to convert heavy, higher sulfur residual oils into transportation fuels products such as marine gasoil and diesel fuel. The investment addresses an industry shortfall in capability to convert fuel oil to products such as diesel.

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Convert Oil Diesel Production 225

Green Car Congress

JULY 31, 2017

The energy produced is assumed to be used internally at the site and the carbon content of the CO subsequently converted to CO 2 in-plant. Any CO emitted to the atmosphere is assumed to be converted to CO 2 within days afterwards. The CO gas produced in open or semi-closed furnaces is burnt to CO 2 above the charge level.

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South Africa Convert Waste Production 150

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 12, 2018

The increased carbon efficiency is possible because the water gas shift reaction is avoided and instead a reversed water gas shift is introduced to convert CO 2 to CO. The use of high-temperature electrolysis allows some of the required energy to be supplied by available heat. with the same amount of biomass.

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Hydrogen Renewable Carbon Fuel 244

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

ElringKlinger AG supplied the fuel cell stacks, which reportedly achieved excellent results. As part of the GiantLeap project, a total of six corporations and institutions developed and established a fuel-cell-powered range extender for full-electric buses as partners. The range extender includes a system with two stacks.

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Hydrogen Fuel Range Electric 435

Baua Electric

MAY 29, 2024

Hydrogen is the most abundant substance in the universe, and a crucial element in the creation of our most precious resource: water. Recently, industry has turned to green hydrogen, created by running an electric current through water with an electrolyte. Building and driving the vehicle is the easy part. Hyundai Motor Co.

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Future Auto South Korea Hydrogen 52

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

There are currently 11 commercial plants at the Salton Sea field producing geothermal energy, a process in which hot fluids are pumped up from deep underground and the heat is then converted to electricity. —Pat Dobson, the Berkeley Lab scientist who is leading the project. —Maryjo Brounce. —Michael McKibben.

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Bolivia California South America Hawaii 259

Green Car Congress

MARCH 19, 2021

Blue hydrogen is produced by converting natural gas into hydrogen and CO?, bp has agreed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Venator, one of the largest global producers of titanium dioxide pigments and performance additives, to scope the supply of clean hydrogen to its flagship Teesside plant. renewable power.

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Hydrogen Carbon Clean Cleaning 311

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 14, 2010

Researchers at Applied Research Associates’ (ARA) Florida Research Laboratory are developing a catalytic hydrothermolysis (CH) process to convert triglycerides (e.g., To overcome these shortcomings, a novel technical approach based on high-temperature water chemistry, known as catalytic hydrothermolysis (CH), has been proposed.

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Oil Convert Water Conversion 199

Green Car Congress

MARCH 17, 2009

Water consumption or withdrawals per unit of energy produced, by energy type, in the United States. With increasing frequency ,” write the Pacific Institute researchers, “ we value energy production over water production. ”. by Jack Rosebro. Source: DHI Group. Click to enlarge. Climate change.

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Water Climate Change Energy Climate 150

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

Located thousands of meters under water, these factories will need to operate reliably for several decades. As an example, beginning in 2020, Statoil plans to build oil and gas extraction facilities deep under water. Subsea facilities are currently only set up in relatively shallow waters.

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Cars That Think

MAY 31, 2024

This unit transfers the heat outside and supplies cooled liquid back to the servers. Chilldyne optimized the cold plate using corkscrew-shaped metal channels, called turbulators, that force water around them “like little tornadoes,” maximizing the heat absorbed, says Harrington.

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Li-ion Water Phoenix Waste 94

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

Legacy vehicles will also have to play their part in cutting CO? Bosch outlines seven reasons why renewable synthetic fuels should be part of tomorrow’s mobility mix: Time. First, apply electricity generated from renewable sources to obtain hydrogen from water. Then add carbon. Finally, combine CO? Potential applications.

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Renewable Climate Fuel Gasoline-Electric 300

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

The US Department of Energy (DOE) is awarding $35 million to 11 projects as part of the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy’s (ARPA-E) Submarine Hydrokinetic And Riverine Kilo-megawatt Systems (SHARKS) program. SHARKS teams will develop new economically competitive Hydrokinetic Turbines (HKT) designs for tidal and riverine currents.

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Mariner Universal Grid Water 418

Green Car Congress

JULY 2, 2015

The company also showcased the use of direct water injection to enhance the efficiency of combustion engines at higher performance levels while also significantly reducing fuel consumption and emissions in key driving cycles. Direct water injection. Bosch and water injection. Top: full powertrain. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.

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Water BMW Engine Fuel 150

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 16, 2015

The hydricity process entails integrating solar water power (SWP) cycle and solar thermal hydrogen production technologies and a turbine-based hydrogen power cycle with suitable improvements of each for compatibility and beneficial interaction. coproduced hydrogen has alternate usages in transportation/chemical/petrochemical industries.

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Solar Production Energy Concept 150

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 14, 2018

Platinum—which offers unrivaled activity and stability for electrochemical reactions, such as the conversion of hydrogen and oxygen into water and electricity in fuel cells—is both scarce and expensive. Argonne chemists have identified a new catalyst that maximizes the effectiveness of platinum. Chong et al. —Di-Jia Liu. ?.

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Fuel Hydrogen Water Convert 294

Green Car Congress

MAY 13, 2018

A methanation plant expansion to the existing power-to-gas (PtG) facility in Falkenhagen, Germany has officially opened as part of the international €28-million (US$33.5-million) In this second stage, hydrogen from regenerative energy sources is converted into methane (CH 4 ), i.e. synthetic natural gas, using CO 2 from a bio-ethanol plant.

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Store Gas Green Power 258

Green Car Congress

MARCH 15, 2012

A desulfurizer removes the sulfur odorant in the utility gas to prevent the cell stack and other parts from deterioration. The inverter converts DC generated by the cell stack into AC. The hot-water storage tank stores heat exhausted from the power generator as hot-water. Click to enlarge.

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