Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Sasol and General Electric (GE: NYSE)’s GE Power & Water have together developed new technology that will clean waste water from Fischer-Tropsch plants used to produce synthetic fuels and chemicals, while also providing biogas as a by-product for power generation. This then results in an overall efficiency improvement in the GTL process.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 1, 2021

The shortlisted proposals include plants aiming to produce jet fuel from: Combining carbon dioxide captured from the atmosphere with hydrogen from water; Alcohol derived from wastes; Everyday household and commercial black bag rubbish; and. It is being delivered with the support of Ricardo Energy and Environment and E4tech.

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Fuel Waste Production Convert 321

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Microbes (and/or biomolecules), including those from extreme or metal-rich environments, can be biologically engineered or adapted to bind, assimilate, and manipulate individual REEs. EMBER is targeting REEs from under-utilized domestic sources such as phosphate mine waste, acid mine drainage, and electronics recycling processes.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

The INEOS Bio waste-to-ethanol process, originally developed by BRI. Converting household organic wastes into bio-fuel and clean energy can deliver very attractive environmental and social benefits to the North East and the UK as a whole. The challenge now, in the current economic environment, is to commercialize in Europe.

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Waste Climate Change Clean Cleaning 281

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

A team at the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia (Spain) has designed a new simple, energy-efficient process (that also does not require any organic solvents) for the production of renewable diesel from biomass waste. The process described herein opens new routes for producing high quality diesel from waste biomass.

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Waste Renewable Diesel Energy 294

Green Car Congress

MAY 3, 2019

The heat and power plants, each of which has an output of around two megawatts, run exclusively on biogas and residual products produced from organic waste. They do not emit the heat generated as part of energy production into the environment, but use it for heating. These plants will also be switched to biogas.

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Porsche Waste Fully Electric Gas-Electric 281

Green Car Congress

MARCH 18, 2011

Ballard Power Systems has partnered with GS Platech, a subsidiary of GS Caltex, one of South Korea’s largest petroleum refiners, to demonstrate waste-to-energy power generation using zero-emission fuel cells and hydrogen produced from processing of municipal solid waste.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 6, 2020

Improvements in the lifecycle energy consumption of products of interest: This includes jet engine efficiency; materials and shape optimization for light-weighting in transport technologies; semiconductor electrical efficiency; and recycling and reuse for industrial-scale materials production and processing waste.

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Manufacturer Waste Conversion Universal 186

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

Researchers at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) are developing a small-scale demonstration reactor that will process 40 tons of wood waste per year from the university into replacements for diesel fuel and gasoline. X1) from a biological feedstock, more specifically, from lignocellulosic biomass (also known as plant waste/residue).

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Tire wear particles pollute the environment, the air we breathe, the water run-off from roads and has compounding effects on waterways and agriculture. Large particles are carried from the road by rain into rivers, where they may leach toxic chemicals into the environment, whilst smaller particles become airborne and breathed in.

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Pollution Transportation London Environment 243

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 7, 2021

The Suppliers Partnership for the Environment (SP) and the Automotive Industry Action Group (AIAG) have published a new guidance document, “ Measuring Recycled Content of Automotive Products.”. —Reeshemah Howard, Sustainability Mission Leader, General Motors.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 31, 2017

South African engineering company Swayana has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with LanzaTech to collaborate on developing projects for the production of ethanol and higher value products from waste gases in the ferroalloy and titania smelting sectors. This CO is either utilized for energy production in boilers, or it is flared.

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South Africa Convert Waste Production 150

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 23, 2022

They are everywhere in the environment but are highly dispersed and bound in minerals (“earths”); large deposits are rare. Reclaiming these elements from electronic waste is becoming more important. The name is misleading because the rare-earth metals are not actually rare.

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Water Wind Waste Hydrogen 273

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

BMW’s press shop in Dingolfing—the largest of the BMW Group worldwide—is the first in which all aluminum sheet waste is separated and recycled to make it reusable for industry. When producing components in the press shop, there is always a waste of sheet metal. The BMW Group has invested around €6.5

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BMW Waste Supplies Dealers 324

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

The membrane successfully protects the micro-organisms from the extractant, which, although ideal in other respects, is a metabolic inhibitor. Biofuels can be produced by fermenting waste biomass and recovering the fuel from the fermented solution using an extractant. MJ kg -1 , substantially less than other recovery processes (17.0–29.4

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Cheap Water Energy Environment 321

Green Car Congress

APRIL 25, 2018

The project—Building Genome-to-Phenome Infrastructure for Regulating Methane in Deep and Extreme Environments ( BuG ReMeDEE )—was awarded a $6-million grant by the National Science Foundation in October 2017. The BuG ReMeDEE consortium includes industrial partners LanzaTech (US) and Bijson Innovations Pvt. —Rajesh Sani.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

The DOE will undertake to: Continue investments and develop expertise in sustainable technologies to develop cost-effective low-carbon liquid fuels and enabling coproducts from renewable biomass and waste feedstocks. Work with standards organizations to ensure safety and sustainability of SAF. Promote end use of SAF.

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Fuel EPA Environment Renewable 294

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

Kohn and Seon-Woo Kim are faculty members at the University of Maryland where the organisms were first discovered. The patent describes using the microorganisms to produce ethanol from crop or waste biomass like food waste, crop residues (e.g. Inventors Richard A. Earlier post.) corn stalks), algae, or leaves.

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Maryland Waste Convert Environment 150

Green Car Congress

MAY 21, 2009

Waste Management, Inc. The joint venture is expected to process waste from the country’s increasingly segmented commercial and industrial waste streams to produce a range of synthetic fuels and chemicals as well as to generate electricity. Joe Vaillancourt, managing director at Waste Management. Click to enlarge.

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Teslarati

DECEMBER 22, 2023

A few days ago, Sweden’s Transport Workers union announced it would stop collecting waste from local Tesla workshops starting December 24, 2023, joining other labor groups organizing sympathy strikes with IF Metall. However, the union faces some challenges with the employers association in Sweden.

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Sweden Transportation Tesla Waste 110

Clean Fleet Report

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Digging Deep To Help the Environment Electrification is a conversation common among consumers who feel a responsibility to reduce fossil fuel consumption and carbon emissions through car purchase choices. Around 42% of organizations are ordering EVs because they believe it will make them industry leaders.

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Clean Fleet Report

MARCH 24, 2023

What Are the Environmental Impacts of Tires Questions & Answers from our Friends at EarthTalk® Dear EarthTalk : What happens to all the rubber waste that wears off tires as cars and trucks roll down the road? Is it bad for the environment? — Jack C., In total, more than 1.5 micrometers in size (PM2.5)

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Exhaust Pollution Environment Emissions 79

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

A stable charcoal-like solid that attracts and retains water, biochar absorbs impurities such as hydrocarbons, organics, biocides and certain inorganic metal ions. This project extensively studied the adsorption capacity of different biochar for potential inorganic ions and organic contaminants. —Maoqi Feng, SwRI.

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Water Low Cost Oil-Sands San Antonio 257

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 11, 2017

The consortium is being led by the Water Environment & Reuse Foundation ( WERF ). The technology, developed by Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) over a 40-year period, converts waste solids from a wastewater treatment plant into biocrude and methane gas using water, heat and pressure. Tesoro Corp.,

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Convert Oakland Fuel Water 150

Green Car Congress

MARCH 19, 2018

The biosensor uses exoelectrogenic bacteria in an anode that survive on organic matter and a photo or autotrophic, or sulfur reducing bacterial consortium in the cathode which will enable continuous transfer of electrons from one compartment (anode) to the other (cathode). We no longer have to wait until the leak is out of hand.

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Oil Water Mississippi Gas 170

Green Car Congress

MAY 22, 2018

Organic Rankine Cycle specialist Exoès and Saft Incubator have signed a cooperation agreement to do common tests to improve next generation battery thermal management. Harsh climatic environments and severe solicitations can rapidly degrade cells if their temperature is not correctly managed.

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Li-ion Batteries Battery Exhaust 150

Green Car Congress

JUNE 1, 2018

More than 40 proposals were submitted in collaboration with 62 organizations and spanned six Technical Areas of Interest that propose to bridge the gaps in smart manufacturing technologies facing US industries today. The selected organizations (and project descriptions) from this first call selection are: University of Connecticut.

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Manufacturer Clean Cleaning Energy 191

Cars That Think

JANUARY 29, 2024

Since its founding in 1995 at Purdue University , the Engineering Projects in Community Service (EPICS) in IEEE program has been providing nonprofit organizations with technology to improve and deliver services to their community while broadening undergraduate EE students’ hands-on experiences.

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Setec Powerr

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

This is particularly evident in the realm of charging depots, where effective cable management is not just a matter of organization, but a critical component of operational efficiency and safety. Cables that are well-protected and organized are less likely to suffer from environmental damage, physical stress, or vandalism.

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Charging Maintenance Connect Connected 52

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 19, 2013

Bacteria are widely used in sugar cane production, as well as with other crops, where they help to break down organic matter in the soil to make vital nutrients available to the growing plants or turn nitrogen from the air into nitrogen compounds that are essential for growth (so-called biological nitrogen fixation).

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Production Environment Australia Waste 210

Green Car Congress

JULY 22, 2016

The project involves a setup based on the circular economy in which the waste generated is used to provide nutritional components in the very process to cultivate microalgae.

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Waste Oil France Industrial 150

Green Car Congress

JUNE 2, 2013

This $15-million award is comprised of Air Force Advanced Power Technology Office and the US Army Tank Automotive Research, Development and Engineering Center funding and establishes CTC as the lead design and integration organization on the Department of Defense Plug In Electric Vehicle Program.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 2, 2018

The project took place in palm oil mills in Indonesia and Malaysia, and was conducted in collaboration with a palm oil company KLK, a Dutch sustainable trade organization IDH, and an international certification system ISCC (International Sustainability and Carbon Certification). The field work was conducted by Meo Carbon Solutions.

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Oil Emissions Malaysia Indonesia 244

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 26, 2017

At its palm oil factory, ABC will digest organic matter contained in factory wastewater to generate biogas, which will be subsequently refined by Osaka Gas into methane gas. ABC will use the refined methane gas as fuel in its own natural gas powered vehicles.

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Teslarati

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

As the world transitions to sustainable transportation through electric vehicles (EVs), some are considering ways to reduce EV battery waste. Repurposing the batteries in line with circular economy principles is good for the environment, good for the consumer, and good for the Volvo Group.

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Energy Storage Volvo Energy Batteries 99

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 14, 2016

Researchers with the US Department of Energy (DOE)’s Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI) have developed a “high-gravity” one-pot process for producing ethanol from cellulosic biomass that gives unprecedented yields while minimizing water use and waste disposal. Energy Environ. —Xu et al. —Blake Simmons.

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Fuel Waste Water Conversion 150

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 12, 2011

The partnership will investigate second-generation biofuels—biofuels derived from waste biomass such as straw, wood and sewage sludge—to create high performance cars with reduced CO 2 emissions. Current projects include the transformation of algae, wood waste and sewage sludge into new forms of energy.

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