Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

BASF is launching the pilot platform reciChain in the province of British Columbia (BC), Canada, as a response to plastic waste. According to a report produced by Deloitte for Environment and Climate Change Canada , Canada disposed of nearly 3.3 million tons of plastic waste in 2016. million tons of plastic waste in 2016.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Recognized in the category of Sustainable Facility, the plant is located at Waste Management’s Altamont Landfill and Resource Recovery Facility near Livermore, California. We are closing the loop in the waste disposal business. Waste Management is proud to be recognized for this achievement. By displacing 2.5

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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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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 30, 2011

The company says that some of the most promising projects are the Turbosteamer ( earlier post ); the Thermoelectric generator (TEG) ( earlier post ); engine encapsulation; and a waste heat exchanger for oil heating. Research project Turbosteamer: comparison of the heat exchanger generation 1 (top) and generation 2 (bottom). Click to enlarge.

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Creative Greenius

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

City Council, board members of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power Commission and long term colleagues from the climate justice action community to be part of a historic announcement. Garcetti was ready for clean power NOW. At 9am on Tuesday morning this week I stood with Los Angeles Mayor, Eric Garcetti, members of the L.A.

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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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Baua Electric

JANUARY 4, 2024

New Delhi: Tesla Power India introduced ReStore , a refurbished battery brand supporting self-reliance, skill development, and green technology. This initiative is led by the Gurgaon-based Tesla Power India Private Limited, with global headquarters in Delaware, USA.

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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.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 23, 2012

Siemens is researching technologies that would allow waste heat from vehicles and industrial facilities to be used efficiently. For example, the gas turbines in natural gas power plants produce exhaust gas that is used to generate steam for the operation of a steam turbine.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 2, 2011

Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC) can be used to recover low-grade waste heat. Defining the operational conditions of the ORC that achieve the maximum utilization of waste heat is important. The results from the nine fluids were compared in the regions when net power outputs were fixed at 10 kW. Zhang, B.Y. Zhao and Q.H.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

Brazil’s Minister of Environment Izabella Teixeira and Brazilian National Development Bank (BNDES) President Luciano Coutinho announced the launch of a new credit line to support projects focused on greenhouse gas reduction and climate change solutions. Waste with energy potential. In 2011, approximately R$230 million (US$133.7

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Environment Climate Change Carbon Emissions 210

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

This product is the industry’s first EV charging system to house all necessary electrical infrastructure components that power EV chargers in an above-ground, enclosed, and low carbon structure. The busway power distribution equipment is manufactured at Siemens’ 540-person manufacturing hub in Spartanburg, South Carolina.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

Dearman, the clean cold technology company, will double the size of its technology center ahead of further trials of its engine powered by liquid nitrogen. The first application of the technology is a zero-emission alternative to diesel powered transport refrigeration units (TRUs). Earlier post.). Earlier post.)

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Engine Power Powered Diesel 150

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. In contrast to conventional power plants, cogeneration plants are used to generate heat and power in parallel. These plants will also be switched to biogas.

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Porsche Waste Fully Electric Gas-Electric 281

Green Car Congress

MARCH 22, 2023

Volvo Trucks and mining company Boliden are joining forces to implement electric truck transport in underground environments. In mining environments, the electric trucks can deliver several big advantages—including no exhaust emissions, a safer workplace, and quieter working conditions.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 1, 2023

Europe’s growing use of animal fats to power its cars and planes is becoming increasingly unsustainable, according to a new study by Cerulogy funded by European NGO Transport & Environment (T&E). Like all waste biofuels, the availability of animal fats is limited. Details of the exact feedstocks used in SAFs are often vague.

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Fuel Oil Waste Transportation 397

Green Car Congress

JULY 2, 2022

The EU-funded HyMethShip project developed a system that innovatively combined a membrane reactor, a CO 2 capture system, a storage system for CO 2 and methanol as well as a hydrogen-fueled combustion engine to power ships. The top part of the graphic shows onshore methanol production. © Fraunhofer.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

MW solar park at Chattanooga is owned and operated by Silicon Ranch; VW has signed a 20-year power purchase agreement. Volkswagen Chattanooga has received a 2013 Green Power Leadership Award from the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)—the only automaker to be so recognized. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.). Think Blue KPIs.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 12, 2016

The transformation will integrate sustainability and innovation throughout the built environment, including a new Sustainability Showcase building on the product campus, which will aim to meet Living Building Challenge standards, the highest level of sustainability certification today. More than 7.5 No combustion is allowed.

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Environment Ford Building Water 150

Green Car Congress

APRIL 9, 2022

Currently, low-carbon nuclear supplies 15% of power as a steady source of generation to complement intermittent renewables. The design of the UK EPRs that will be built at Hinkley Point C represents a major development on previous PWRs, making them amongst the safest and most efficient civil nuclear power generators ever designed.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 14, 2022

With the 4in1 electric axle, Schaeffler is now going one step further by integrating the thermal management system as well as the electric motor, power electronics, and transmission into the axle drive. This makes the axle drive more compact and lighter and ensures greater comfort. Axles like these are more than two meters wide.

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Electric Electrical Automobile Manufacturer Hungary 369

Green Car Congress

APRIL 29, 2020

The ULTIMATE program will develop and demonstrate ultrahigh-temperature materials that can operate in high temperature and high stress environments of a gas turbine blade. Projects will specifically target gas turbine applications in the power generation and aviation industries.

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Gas Gas-Electric Environment 2000 269

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. Even if all our vehicles eventually become powered by electricity instead of fossil fuels, we will still have harmful pollution from vehicles because of tire wear. Klöckner, P.,

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Pollution Transportation London Environment 243

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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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 6, 2022

The result is a more affordable battery from a faster, less wasteful process that uses less toxic material. A paper on the new method is published in the Journal of Power Sources. Using the toxic chemical increases costs, heightens health and environmental concerns, and wastes large amounts of water to reduce acidity.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 15, 2014

A team led by researchers from the University of Alberta (Canada) Scientists has developed a hybrid sodium-ion capacitor (NIC) using active materials in both the anode and the cathode derived entirely from peanut shells—a green and highly economical waste globally generated at more than 6 million tons per year. doi: 10.1039/C4EE02986K.

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Drive Electric

APRIL 4, 2023

In New Zealand, the Ministry for the Environment and the New Zealand Automobile Associatio n are working together to ensure that old EV batteries are handled in an environmentally responsible way. If you want to learn more about whether EV’s are good for the environment, check out our previous resource here. How would the scheme work?

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

A consortium, led by Dearman, the clean cold and power technology company, has been awarded £6 million (US$7.9 Ambient or low grade waste heat is used as an energy source with the cryogen providing both the working fluid and heat sink. Applications of Dearman Engine technology can have a significant impact on the environment.

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Clean Cleaning Engine Power 150

Green Car Congress

MAY 8, 2019

The Mack LR BEV is powered by Mack’s integrated electric powertrain consisting of two 130-kW AC motors producing a combined 496 peak horsepower and 4,051 lb-ft (5,492 N·m) of torque available from zero RPM. Power is sent through a two-speed Mack Powershift transmission and put to the ground by Mack’s proprietary S522R 52,000-lb.

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Batteries Battery New York City Fully Electric 366

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Volvo Trucks delivered its first all-electric vehicles on 19 February: a refuse truck to waste and recycling company Renova, and a distribution truck to the logistics company DB Schenker and partner haulier TGM, operating in Sweden. We will continue to develop our electrified offering. —Roger Alm, President Volvo Trucks.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 25, 2021

The project involves the integration of advanced hydrogen fuel cell, hydrogen storage, advanced battery and systems control technologies to provide an alternative to less environmentally friendly diesel-powered locomotives. The overall project goals and objectives are: To design a safe and reliable hydrogen fuel cell powered locomotive.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 16, 2010

Their study, they write in a paper published online 2 March in ACS’ Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters , provides a simple and cost-effective technology that may generate hydrogen fuels by scavenging energy wastes such as noise or stray vibrations from the environment. Tags: Hydrogen Production Power Generation.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 13, 2022

Lithium-ion battery markets will increase tenfold in the next decade, fueled by growth in EVs, as well as supporting critical infrastructure for telecom back-up, data centers, and power plants. 6K is the only company capable of battery material production at costs lower than Asia, while also reducing impact on the environment by 70%-90%.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 19, 2009

The US Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) has recently made two awards to researchers to support multi-year projects on the development of thermoelectric (TE) waste heat recovery technologies. Such devices can recover some of the energy embedded in waste heat, such as that produced by exhaust gas from an engine.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 30, 2014

Mercedes-AMG High Performance Powertrains (HPP) for the design of the PU106A Hybrid Formula One Power Unit. PU106A Hybrid Formula One Power Unit. the best engine will be the one that obtains the most power from that specified quantity of fuel and thus, for the first time, performance is aligned with thermal efficiency.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 27, 2021

The Torslanda plant, the company’s oldest, has been powered by climate-neutral electricity since 2008. Half of the plant’s heating comes from biogas, while the other half is predominantly sourced from district heating through industrial waste heat. It now also has climate-neutral heating.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 2, 2009

PetroCard , a fuels distributor, and Waste Management, a provider of comprehensive waste management services, announced the grand opening of a “Clean N’ Green Fuel” compressed natural gas (CNG) fueling station in South Seattle— the first public-access CNG facility in the city.

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