Green Car Congress

AUGUST 6, 2010

Ballard’s CLEARgen fuel cell system will convert by-product hydrogen into clean load-following electricity that will partially offset power demand at the bleach plant. The production process starts by passing electricity through a brine solution using advanced bi-polar membrane cell technology. Tags: Brief.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 22, 2010

Peabody Energy will purchase a $15 million equity interest in Calera Corporation, which has proprietary technology that converts carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) into green building materials. Every ton of Calera building material is expected to store as much as a half-ton of CO 2. Tags: Brief. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

MAY 1, 2009

The concept’s key feature is the use of high-temperature heat from a solar concentrating tower to drive the chemical process of converting biomass to a biofuel, obtaining a near-complete utilization of carbon atoms in the biomass. Fuel productivity (kg fuel/100 kg resource). The purpose of the concept, said Edgar G.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

At the IAA 2010 in Hanover, DAF Trucks, a PACCAR company, presented the 12-tonne LF45 parallel hybrid truck, which will enter production at the end of this year. Energy released during braking is stored in the lithium-ion batteries for re-use during acceleration. Tags: Fleets Heavy-duty Hybrids.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 12, 2023

It may be a year—or two, or never—before they show up in products, but all are worth watching. BeFC’s paper batteries BeFC , a spinout of the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) , is ready to ramp up production of paper batteries for use in sensors and other IoT devices.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 1, 2009

Scheduled to come online in March 2010, the effort involves a set of Mazda vehicles specially converted to electric drive using EnerDel batteries and drivetrain components from EnerDel customer Think Global that will be offered to the public through a car-sharing service akin to Zipcar in the US. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 23, 2010

The purpose of the test plant is to gain experiences with production, distribution and use of hydrogen as an energy carrier and thereby investigate the opportunities for increasing the renewable energy share in the energy production from Nukissiorfiit. Tags: Brief. Svend Hardenberg, energy director from Nukissiorfiit.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 1, 2010

For engines ranging up to 170 PS in power, a BlueMotion Technology pack is implemented with a start-stop system and battery regeneration (recovery of kinetic energy by storing it in the battery). SCR catalytic converter. The AdBlue, stored in a 17-liter (4.5 Tags: Diesel Engines Fuel Efficiency Vehicle Systems.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 3, 2010

The system is designed to collect hydrocarbons from the well and pump them to a tanker at the surface, where they will be stored and shipped ashore. The oil will then be temporarily stored before being offloaded and shipped to a designated oil terminal onshore. to convert these structures for use in deep waters. Source: NOAA.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 27, 2010

Wegmans, a supermarket chain leader, has launched a fleet of 50 hydrogen fuel cell-powered pallet trucks fitted with Plug Power’s GenDrive hydrogen fuel cell power units and fueled using Air Products’ hydrogen and hydrogen fueling station technology at its Pottsville, Pa. Tags: Brief. Dave Allar, Wegmans’ RSC maintenance manager.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 17, 2010

Algae store chemical energy in the form of oils such as neutral lipids or triglycerides; the algal oil can be extracted and converted into biodiesel by transesterification with short-chain alcohols or by hydrogenation of fatty acids into linear hydrocarbons for drop-in fuel components. Characteristics of the ideal microalga.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 16, 2010

wt % hydrogen) is one of the major products formed in biomass processing such as fermentation, pyrolysis, and supercritical reactions; it can undergo selective decomposition to hydrogen and carbon dioxide in the presence of a catalyst. Tags: Biomass Catalysts Hydrogen Production Hydrogen Storage. Formic acid (HCO 2 H, 4.4

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 29, 2009

A*STAR is also conducting research in Solar Photovoltaics, Next Generation Power Grids, Intelligent Energy Distribution, Fuel Cells, Sustainable Production of Fuels and Chemicals and Sustainable Manufacturing. The by-products of this can be used as construction or landfill materials. Tags: Brief. Carbon Capture and Utilization.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 10, 2010

The process in the electrolytic cells corresponds to part of nature’s own photosynthesis, which takes CO 2 out of the air and transforms it into a store of chemical energy in the form of sugar. Low temperature cells for local production of synthetic fuel. Limestone in the production of sustainable synthetic fuels. Source: Risø.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

The diesel engine powers an electric generator, which provides direct power to the wheels, eliminating the torque converter, automatic transmission, transfer case and drive shafts. A regenerative braking function stores engine energy and then uses it to assist in the next braking operation, reducing wear and tear on the brake system.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

Researchers funded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) in the UK have discovered key plant enzymes that normally make the energy stored in wood, straw, and other non-edible parts of plants difficult to extract. Tags: Brief. One of the main components of lignocellulose is called xylan.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 19, 2010

It is the second such venture between the two companies, following the announcement last month that they are teaming up with Mazda Motor Corporation on a similar system using vehicles converted to electric drive using a platform designed and built by EnerDel and its partner THINK, which will be stationed at a Family Mart convenience store.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 13, 2009

BMW announced the production versions of the BMW ActiveHybrid X6 and the BMW ActiveHybrid 7. Power is transmitted via an 8-speed automatic transmission with the electric motor positioned between the engine and the torque converter. The ActiveHybrid 7 stores energy in a compact, high-performance lithium-ion battery. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 28, 2009

Petrobras will be the first company to operate an FPSO (floating oil production, storage and outflow) type platform in the American portion of the Gulf of Mexico (GoM), in the Cascade and Chinook fields. The vessel started being converted into an FPSO at the Cosco Shipyard, in Nantong, China, in March 2008. Tags: Brief.

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Mexico Singapore Water Oil 220

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

KTSi trackside flywheel systems provide voltage support to overtaxed sections of electric rail systems, eliminating slowdowns, as well as capturing, storing and reusing the regenerative braking energy of rail cars. Regenerative electric trains convert kinetic energy into electrical energy during braking. Tags: Batteries Rail.

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Energy Storage Energy DC London 249

Green Car Congress

MAY 12, 2010

Nocera pictures small-scale systems in which rooftop solar panels would provide electricity, with any excess going to an electrolyzer to produce hydrogen, which would be stored in tanks. By doing so, he aims to imitate the process of photosynthesis, by which plants harvest sunlight and convert the energy into chemical form. 1001859107.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 15, 2009

Redox flow batteries (RFB) are chemical energy storage devices, and use dissolved redox couples (an oxidizing agent and a reducing agent in an electron transfer process) held in separate external tanks; electricity is converted in a separate power module. Tags: Batteries. Experimental cell design for a Vanadium Redox Flow Cell.

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Green Car Congress

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. coli as an electrofuels chassis for isooctane production.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 14, 2010

On discharge, the metallic lithium (anode) is converted into lithium ions and the generated lithium ions diffuse from the organic solution across the LISICON film to the aqueous solution. In other words, energy from the sun can be “stored” in the metal, and then be used on demand by reacting the lithium in the fuel cell.

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Water Lithium Ion Li-ion Hydrogen 186

Green Car Congress

MAY 12, 2010

The SOFC APU system form factor and mission capabilities are comparable to commercially available diesel engine-based APU generators, highlighting the ability of the SOFC APU to be integrated into the same form factor as existing production hardware. Tags: Fuel Cells Fuel Efficiency Heavy-duty Vehicle Systems.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 24, 2009

Trees are a huge store of chemical energy that can be converted into liquid biofuel—but we need to identify the ideal method to produce these sugars economically. However, poplar wood is biochemically complex and more difficult than grains (like corn for example) to break down and liberate sugars for use in biofuel production.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 4, 2009

Renewable energy sources, left, are converted to electricity and transported to end-users, right. The basic site (purple) assists in proton abstraction or donation coupled to the redox chemistry occurring at the nickel site (orange), during either the oxidation or the production of hydrogen. Greenman/Science. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 21, 2009

The syngas is then in turn converted into liquid fuels (e.g., The roundtrip efficiency achievable for either a methanol or a liquid hydrocarbon cycle should be greater than that of a hydrogen cycle for storing energy from renewable sources, the researchers calculated. V yielded a syngas production rate of 7 sccm/cm 2.

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Water Renewable Energy CO2 150

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

The center wells in the Upper Freeport seam have now been converted to CO 2 injection wells, and a Class II underground injection control permit was obtained from the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection Office of Oil and Gas. When CO 2 is stored in a coal seam, the coal can swell. Tags: Brief.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 8, 2010

The selected projects will seek to improve component and system designs to extend operation to an average of about 18 hours per day, a level of production that would make it possible for these plants to displace traditional coal-burning power plants. Tags: Brief. SkyFuel, Inc. Albuquerque, NM – up to $4.3

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Green Car Congress

MAY 29, 2009

The system captures energy from braking, converts the energy to electricity, stores the electricity in lithium-ion batteries, and uses it to power the electric motor, which assists the MP7 diesel engine with propulsion of the truck. Tags: Heavy-duty Hybrids. Earlier post.) A 2 kWh Li-ion pack provides energy storage.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 13, 2009

BMW announced the production versions of the BMW ActiveHybrid X6 and the BMW ActiveHybrid 7. On brake application and/or on deceleration, kinetic energy is converted into electrical energy and is stored in the battery pack. Tags: Hybrids. The BMW ActiveHybrid X6. Click to enlarge. Braking and Energy Regeneration.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 31, 2010

BG Group has approved implementation of the first phase of a US$15-billion project to convert coal seam gas (CSG) to LNG—the first major commercial project to do so. In this form it can be transported and stored. More than half the emissions come from the LNG facility. Source: QCLNG EIS. Click to enlarge. mtpa of LNG.

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Coal Gas Australia Water 210

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

At least two technological advances have helped lower fossil fuel prices and expanded reserves: hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, which has unlocked abundant natural gas supplies, and production from oilsands. But the example of electric vehicles also shows how far battery technology must progress to make a large environmental impact.

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Chicago MIT Tax Carbon 150

Green Car Congress

MARCH 4, 2010

The new vehicle—Mercedes’ first production diesel hybrid, and based on its modular hybrid system ( earlier post )—pairs a 2.2-liter In this case, the electric motor functions as an alternator and converts the kinetic energy into electrical energy, which is stored in the high-voltage battery. A different rear axle ratio (2.47

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 17, 2010

The suppliers in the VIPER project will develop new technologies to harness, manage and store the heat energy and integrate these into a practical demonstrator with two of the biggest vehicle manufacturers in the UK. For vehicles to have minimal impact on air quality, catalytic converters have been fitted to modern engines.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 18, 2009

A hydraulic hybrid drivetrain uses hydraulic accumulators to store energy. There are also no torque converter spin losses. Freightliner Custom Chassis Product Update. Tags: Fleets Hybrids Hydraulic Hybrid. Hydraulic hybrid system in the FCCC chassis. Source: FCCC. Click to enlarge. Engine “Off” Strategy.

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