Green Car Congress

AUGUST 23, 2016

By increasing the operational flexibility, this class of fuel cell can simplify the requirements for heat and water management, and potentially reduce the costs associated with the existing fully functional fuel cell systems. Currently, two main classes of polymer-based fuel cells exist.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 18, 2015

Platinum is an essential catalyst for the electricity-producing chemical reactions occurring between oxygen and hydrogen in fuel cell stacks. Fuel cells generate electricity through the chemical reaction of onboard hydrogen gas with airborne oxygen. Click to enlarge. Platinum also functions as the catalyst for this reaction.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 20, 2011

Fermentation requires no organic solvent, and the water used is recycled. Furthermore, the Bio-BDO fermentation process operates near ambient pressure and temperature, thus providing a safer working environment. Greener reaction conditions: Kraton Performance Polymers, LLC, Houston, Texas. The biggest benefits are during use.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 29, 2016

Regulating water content in polymeric membranes is important in a number of applications—such as in the proton-exchange fuel-cell membranes used in automotive fuel cell stacks. Water content in the membranes is regulated through nanometer-scale cracks (nanocracks) in a hydrophobic surface coating. —Park et al.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 3, 2020

Researchers at the University of Oregon have advanced the effectiveness of the catalytic water dissociation reaction in bipolar membranes. The technology behind bipolar membranes, which are layered ion-exchange polymers sandwiching a water dissociation catalyst layer, emerged in the 1950s. —Oener et al.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Praxair will complete an initial engineering design study for a Linde-BASF CO 2 capture system at a commercial steam methane reforming (SMR) hydrogen plant in Convent, LA. Engineering-Scale Test of a Water-Lean Solvent for Post-Combustion Capture. High-Performance, Hybrid Polymer Membrane for Carbon Dioxide Separation from Ambient Air.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 25, 2017

A team at University College London (UCL) has used a lung-inspired approach to designing flow fields to improve significantly the performance of polymer electrolyte fuel cells. poor flow-field design can lead to channels becoming clogged with liquid water and non-uniform reactant distribution. Trogadas, J. Neville, J. Marquis, B.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 27, 2015

Lignin is an alkyl-aromatic polymer present in plant cell walls for defense, structure, and water transport. 2015) “Adipic acid production from lignin” Energy Environ. However, it is critical for the viability of third-generation biorefineries to valorize lignin alongside polysaccharides. —Vardon et al. Vardon, Derek R.,

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Convert Renewable Polymer Energy 150

Green Car Congress

APRIL 30, 2010

Electrofuels approaches will use organisms able to extract energy from other sources, such as solar-derived electricity or hydrogen or earth-abundant metal ions. Novel Biological Conversion of Hydrogen and Carbon Dioxide Directly into Biodiesel. Reducing equivalent: Hydrogen; Organism: Cupriavidus necator; Product: Biodiesel.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 10, 2010

Algae cultures tend to be relatively dilute, and the energy requirement to remove water from the cultures can be a significant portion of the energy balance. saline water). Technologies to Address Internal Heating in DC Bus Capacitors Capacitors suitable for harsh automotive environments must suffer extreme environmental conditions.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 9, 2014

A new study by Berkeley Lab researchers at the Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis ( JCAP ) shows that nearly 90% of the electrons generated by a new hybrid photocathode material designed to store solar energy in hydrogen are being stored in the target hydrogen molecules (Faradaic efficiency). Earlier post.) Earlier post.)

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Solar Hydrogen Conversion Energy 236

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

A Zero-emission Process for Direct Reduction of Iron by Hydrogen Plasma in a Rotary Kiln Reactor - $1,200,000. The team estimates that the combination hydrogen plasma-rotary kiln process can improve energy efficiency and potentially reduce CO 2 emissions in the steel industry by more than one billion tons per year. Dimensional Energy.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 28, 2015

Researchers at EPFL in Switzerland have developed a system for producing hydrogen through a simplified membrane-less water electrolysis process. Two parallel plates are coated with hydrogen and oxygen evolution catalysts respectively and are separated by less than few hundreds of micrometers.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

ITM Power reported that a recently completed three-year collaboration project co-funded by the UK Technology Strategy Board (TSB) resulted in a new alkaline solid polymer membrane for an electrolyzer. The new electrolyzer membrane platform operates in a re-circulating liquid alkaline environment and transports OH - rather than H + ions.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 10, 2018

Water flow through the membranes was 1000 times higher than predicted by Hagen-Poiseuille flow, in agreement with previous CNT membrane studies. A) SEM image of the CNT membrane surface, showing CNT tips emerging from the polymer. The CNTs used in the membranes were arc discharge nanotubes with inner diameters of 0.67 Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 14, 2015

The algae uses CO 2 from air or industrial emitters with sunlight and saltwater to create fuel while reducing the carbon footprint, costs and water usage, with no reliance on food crops as feedstocks. The Plantrose Process: Supercritical Water as the Economic Enabler of Biobased Industry. Renmatix, For Small Business.

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EPA Green Polymer Water 150

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 17, 2016

The 16 REFUEL projects seek to develop scalable technologies for converting water and molecules from the air into energy-dense, carbon-neutral liquid fuels (CNLFs) using electrical energy from renewable sources. hydrogen or electricity). Earlier post.) REFUEL Projects. Organization. Description. Bettergy Corporation.

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Carbon Energy Fuel Hydrogen 150

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 4, 2011

UK-based ITM Power has released a summary of the results of a recently completed 9-month fuel cell project that evaluated the company’s proprietary hydrocarbon membrane materials in high power density hydrogen/air fuel cells. The project was supported by the Carbon Trust as part of the Polymer Fuel Cells Challenge.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

Vehicles powered by polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells (PEMFCs) are energy-efficient and eco-friendly, but despite increasing public interest in PEMFC-powered transportation, current performance of materials that are used in fuel cells limits their widespread commercialization.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

Their outer skin is made from aluminum-coated polymer and this in turn brings weight advantages. mi) on a single tank, with nothing more than a few drops of water leaving the tailpipe. Hydrogen is supplied to the anode, where it is broken down into protons and electrons. lb) of hydrogen per 100 kilometers (62.1

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 22, 2010

The funding also includes up to $9 million to conduct independent cost analyses that will assess the progress of the technology under current research initiatives and help guide future fuel cell and hydrogen storage R&D efforts. desulfurization); reactors to convert the raw fuel into a hydrogen-rich stream (e.g.,

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 26, 2009

Water (1 project). Recent academic research has created synthetic analogue molecules for elucidation of CA enzyme mechanisms which are more robust in harsh environments. Affordable Energy from Water and Sunlight. Towards Scale Solar Conversion of CO 2 and Water Vapor to Hydrocarbon Fuels. Direct Solar Fuels (5 projects).

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