Green Car Congress

MAY 5, 2020

Rice University researchers have created an efficient, low-cost device that splits water to produce hydrogen fuel. The current flows to the catalysts that turn water into hydrogen and oxygen, with a sunlight-to-hydrogen efficiency as high as 6.7%. It utilizes water and sunlight to get chemical fuels. —Jun Lou.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

The US Department of Energy (DOE) selected the National Alliance for Water Innovation (NAWI) to lead a US Department of Energy (DOE) Energy-Water Desalination Hub that will address water security issues in the United States. This suite of technologies will treat “non-traditional” water sources for multiple end-use applications.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 4, 2021

A team led by researchers at Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech) have discovered a new bimetallic electrocatalyst for the oxygen evolution reaction (OER) in electrochemical water splitting: CaFe 2 O 4. In addition, the new OER boosting mechanism found in CaFe2O4 could lead to the engineering of other useful catalysts.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 11, 2021

Both half reactions of water electrolysis—hydrogen and oxygen evolution—are unfortunately slow and require a lot of power. However, their large-scale use is impeded by high costs, limited abundance, and low stability. Sources of urea could include waste streams from industrial syntheses as well as sanitary sewage.

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Electrek

OCTOBER 2, 2023

MIT scientists have designed a solar-powered desalination system that turns saltwater into drinkable water at a higher volume – and lower cost. more… The post MIT scientists used solar power to make drinking water cheaper than tap water appeared first on Electrek.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Advanced materials technology company Sylvatex (SVX) announced a new proprietary waterless production method that delivers premium EV-grade cathode active materials (CAM) at lower costs and that allows for a broader material input supply base to enable demand growth.

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Using a new kind of hydrogel material, researchers at the University of Texas at Austin have pulled water out of thin air at temperatures low enough to be achieved with sunlight. Atmospheric water harvesting draws water from humidity in the air. The material is a hydrogel, a polymer network that naturally retains a lot of water.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 1, 2020

Researchers at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology are developing a new method to dissociate water vapor into hydrogen gas by microwave-generated plasma (plasmolysis). In this study, a unique novel system is designed to decompose water vapor in a commercial modified 2.45 —Chehade et al. 2019.116831.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 23, 2021

million to 16 water infrastructure projects. Modern technology has the potential to reduce energy use in aging water infrastructure, particularly in wastewater treatment, which demands up to 2% of domestic electricity use each year. The US Department of Energy (DOE) is awarding $27.5

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Iron and nickel, which are found in abundance on Earth, would replace precious metals ruthenium, platinum and iridium that up until now are regarded as benchmark catalysts in the water-splitting process. —Suryanto et al. —Prof Zhao. Iron and nickel are currently priced at $0.13 and $19.65 a kilogram. and $69.58 Suryanto et al.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 24, 2020

Researchers at the University of Cambridge, with colleagues at the University of Tokyo, have developed a standalone device that converts sunlight, carbon dioxide and water into formic acid, a carbon-neutral fuel, without requiring any additional components or electricity. —senior author Professor Erwin Reisner. Qian Wang et al.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Photoelectrochemical (PEC) water-splitting, which relies on sunlight to split water into oxygen and hydrogen, stands out as potentially one of the most sustainable routes to clean energy. PEC water-splitting was first noted in scientific publications in 1972. Photoelectrodes have demonstrated efficiencies from 10% to 20%.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Schlumberger has entered into a partnership with Gradiant , a global water solutions provider, to introduce a key sustainable technology into the production process for battery-grade lithium compounds. Proper natural resource management is essential in mineral production, and nowhere more so than in lithium.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 3, 2022

Green hydrogen, which is produced using an electrolyzer powered by renewable electricity to split water into hydrogen and oxygen, is expected to play an important role in the energy transition in coming decades with overall hydrogen demand expected to grow 5-7x over the next 30 years according to the Hydrogen Council.

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Electrek

MAY 31, 2021

Premium Swedish electric boat maker Candela has just unveiled the new Candela P-12, an electric hydrofoil water taxi. more… The post Candela’s P-12 electric hydrofoil water taxi unveiled, costs 85% less than gas boats to run appeared first on Electrek. Public transportation just got way cooler.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 6, 2020

thyssenkrupp’s proprietary water electrolysis technology for the production of. Our plants are thus making a significant contribution to ensuring both a stable power supply and the cost-effectiveness of green hydrogen. green hydrogen meets the requirements for participation in the primary control reserve market. thyssenkrupp and E.ON

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

A commercial Pt/C cathode-assisted, core–shell Co@NC–anode water electrolyzer delivers 10 mA cm ?2 V—70 mV lower than that of the IrO 2 –anode water electrolyzer. In electrocatalytic water splitting, oxygen gas generates in the anode due to the oxygen evolution reaction (OER). Researchers at S. 2 at a cell voltage of 1.59

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

By using a water-lean post-combustion capture solvent, (N-(2-ethoxyethyl)-3-morpholinopropan-1-amine) (2-EEMPA), they achieved a greater than 90% conversion of captured CO 2 to hydrocarbons—mostly methane—in the presence of a heterogenous Ru catalyst under relatively mild reaction conditions (170 °C and 2 pressure). Heldebrant, D.,

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Teslarati

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

The Strausberg-Erkner Water Association (WSE), which supplies water to Tesla Giga Berlin, complained about the factory’s wastewater. According to a DPA document, the local water association has submitted several requests and warnings about Tesla exceeding its wastewater limits.

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Green Car Reports

AUGUST 24, 2022

And EVs cost far less to “fuel” than gasoline vehicles. market EV costs less than $1,000 to. Polestar battery tech is going into some fast, efficient watercraft. Toyota and CARB are cooperating. This and more, here at Green Car Reports. According to recent estimates from the Department of Energy, every U.S.-market

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Hatch was commissioned to conduct a commercial-scale capital and operating cost comparison study, as well as a high-level evaluation of plant emissions and impacts to natural resources between NOVONIX’s patent-pending process and the conventional wet process.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 9, 2021

Hyundai Motor Company and Kia Corporation have signed a memorandum of understanding with Canada-based Next Hydrogen Corporation, a specialist in water electrolysis technology and a subsidiary of Next Hydrogen Solutions Inc., to bolster their efforts to usher in a global hydrogen society through cost-effective production of clean hydrogen.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 10, 2014

volts (V) of water-splitting voltage with its novel low-cost electrolysis technology. The theoretical minimum voltage needed to split water molecules into hydrogen and oxygen is 1.23 Nanosystem for water electrolysis. This lowers the system cost of what is essentially an electrolysis process. HyperSolar, Inc.

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JANUARY 29, 2021

Developing energy- and time-saving methods to synthesize active and stable oxygen evolving catalysts is of great significance to hydrogen production from water electrolysis, which however remains a grand challenge. That requires substantial amounts of energy and drives up the cost. —Yu et al. —Zhifeng Ren.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 27, 2016

Researchers at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm have developed a new cost-effective electrocatalyst for water-splitting to produce hydrogen. Water splitting is considered one of the most promising strategies to produce chemical fuels such as hydrogen. —Fan et al.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 18, 2022

Researchers in China report using air oxidation–water leaching to recover lithium selectively from spent LiFePO 4 (LFP) material, in which the high leaching efficiency of lithium and the good separation effect of lithium and iron were achieved simultaneously. An open-access paper on their work is published in the RSC journal Green Chemistry.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

Researchers at Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) and The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) have determined that biochar, a substance produced from plant matter, is a safe, effective and inexpensive method to treat flowback water following hydraulic fracturing, or fracking. —Maoqi Feng, SwRI. —Zhigang Feng, USTA.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Electricity accounts for nearly 80% of the cost of hydrogen from electrolysis. In addition, the ability to use heat, which is a much lower cost source of energy than electricity, further improves the economics of green hydrogen production. By using less electricity, hydrogen production is more economical and accelerates adoption.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 18, 2018

Berlin-based Graforce Hydro GmbH, the developer of a plasma electrolyzer—the Plasmalyzer —is applying its technology for the highly efficient generation of hydrogen from industrial waste water. The technology we’ve developed is capable of cleaning wastewater and producing a low-cost, low-emission fuel from it.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 2, 2017

A team of scientists from Penn State and Florida State University have developed a lower cost and industrially scalable catalyst consisting of synthesized stacked graphene and W x Mo 1–x S 2 alloy phases that produces pure hydrogen through a low-energy water-splitting process.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 31, 2023

A multi-institutional team led by the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) has developed a low-cost cobalt-based catalyst for the production of hydrogen in a proton exchange membrane water electrolyzer (PEMWE). Production of green hydrogen at that cost could reshape the nation’s economy.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 24, 2021

The Ondjaba-1 well will be drilled at a new world record water depth of 3,628 m (2.25 This eliminates the need to demobilize equipment at different stages in the operation, thus lowering costs and increasing safety because of the reduced need for rigging heavy equipment up and down.

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JANUARY 25, 2022

And chip fabs need a lot of water to operate. By some estimates , a large chip fab can use up to 10 million gallons of water a day, which is equivalent to the water consumption of roughly 300,000 households. to open up its plants to inspection to demonstrate their water conservation efforts.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 18, 2019

The US Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) announced $11 million in funding for 7 projects in the fourth and fifth cohorts of the agency’s OPEN+ program: Energy-Water Technologies and Sensors for Bioenergy and Agriculture. Energy-Water Technologies cohort.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 11, 2019

Researchers from the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory have combined two membrane-bound protein complexes to perform a complete conversion of water molecules to hydrogen and oxygen. The new cobalt or nickel catalysts could significantly reduce potential costs. Utschig, Sarah R. Soltau, Karen L.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

A team of researchers from the University of Houston and the California Institute of Technology has developed an active and durable earth-abundant transition metal dichalcogenide-based hybrid catalyst for water-splitting that exhibits high hydrogen evolution activity approaching the state-of-the-art platinum catalysts. —Zhou et al.

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MAY 10, 2023

In collaboration with NE, DOE’s Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technologies Office will provide funding and project oversight for the two hydrogen production–related projects that were selected: General Electric Global Research, Scaled Solid Oxide Co-Electrolysis for Low-Cost Syngas Synthesis from Nuclear Energy.

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