Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 30, 2014

For this purpose, ARPA-E defines CHP as the distributed generation of electricity from piped-in natural gas fuel at a residence or a commercial site complemented by use of exhaust heat for local heating and cooling.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 18, 2015

This project will develop a low cost, ultra-compact power module using innovative integrated-cooling to increase power density, improve performance, and reduce cost. Vehma International of America. This project will develop improved computer models for simulating fuel vaporization in internal combustion engines.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Oh presented a paper on the work, which was the result of two years of research activity in conjunction with Bombardier Recreational Projects, at the ASME 2012 Internal Combustion Engine Division Fall Technical Conference. Everything else—pistons, porting and crankcase, bearings, exhaust, etc.—were Oh and Plante.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 14, 2018

Funded projects are: Colorado School of Mines; High Efficiency, Low Cost & Robust Hybrid SOFC/IC Engine Power Generator – $3,006,864. The Colorado School of Mines (Mines) team will develop a hybrid power generation system using a solid oxide fuel cell stack combined with an internal combustion engine. FuelCell Energy, Inc.;

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Green Car Congress

JULY 15, 2020

Enhancing Responsiveness of Gas Turbine Generators through Retrofitting with Exhaust Gas Recycle and a Phase-Change CO 2 Capture Process - $1,178,453. The team’s approach uses a novel and low-cost heat-pump thermal storage system. RTI International. Advanced CO 2 Capture Solvent Systems for Dynamic Power - $999,470.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 1, 2014

GMZ Energy’s proprietary platform technology enables the low-cost manufacturing of bulk thermoelectric materials. The unique properties of half-Heusler materials combined with proprietary module fabrication techniques enable scalable, low-cost manufacturing of half-Heusler modules yielding a cost per watt below $1.00

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

Ultra-High Temperature Anode Recycle Blower for Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Mohawk Innovative Technology aims to develop an oil-free anode recycle blower capable of using uncooled SOFC exhaust gas directly at temperatures up to 700 °C. DOE: $299,055; Non-DOE: $74,764; Total: $373,819. Montana State University. Tennessee Technological University.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 11, 2016

A range of aftertreatment technology options are available to automakers seeking to achieve compliance with the impending EU Real Driving Emissions (RDE) regulations, according to the results of a Ricardo research project presented recently at the SIA Powertrain international conference and exhibition in Rouen, France. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 19, 2014

(LPI) the developer of engines based on its High Efficiency Hybrid Cycle (HEHC) ( earlier post ), has unveiled the alpha prototype of the X Mini—a power-dense, low-vibration, quiet, 70cc spark-ignited, non-Wankel rotary embodiment of the HEHC. Water may be injected to internally cool the engine. Conference today in Pisa, Italy.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

In addition, Pinnacle will employ high rates of exhaust gas recirculation and a low temperature combustion strategy, which will improve knock tolerance and reduce heat loss, pumping work, and NO x emissions. Georgia Tech will develop a new approach to internally cool permanent magnet motors. Georgia Tech Research Corporation.

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Green Cars News

APRIL 28, 2009

Smoke emissions produced by turbocharged diesel engines under heavy load conditions - such as when accelerating from low engine speeds and other similar transient manoeuvres - can be all but eliminated by a relatively simple and low cost electric supercharger says automotive CO2 reduction specialist, Controlled Power Technologies (CPT).

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 10, 2011

This project will develop a new process that enables low-cost, domestic manufacturing of magnesium. This project will develop a novel low cost route to carbon fiber using a lignin/PAN hybrid precursor and carbon fiber conversion technologies leading to high performance, low-cost carbon fiber. 10,000,000. .

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

The Scuderi split-cycle design divides the four strokes of the conventional combustion cycle over two paired cylinders: one intake/compression cylinder and one power/exhaust cylinder, connected by a crossover port. An internal combustion engine can be used not only for mobile applications (cars) but for stationary power generators as well.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

The idea is to take as little energy as possible from the internal combustion engine. We then multiplied the sources of electrical energy for power units by adding solar panels and installing an exhaust gas heat energy recovery system based on the Rankine cycle. The more energy there is available at low cost, the more it will be used.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 28, 2015

Developing Robust all-Solid-State Li Battery with a Ceramic Electrolyte and Interfacially Engineered Lithium Metal Anode A next generation of a low cost and high energy density advanced solid state rechargeable lithium battery will be developed through the proposed project for use in the next generation of PHEV and EV rechargeable batteries.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 29, 2017

km) off-road test loop; fuel consumption was one-third that of the conventional gasoline version under the same conditions; and the fuel cell vehicle had no detectable nitrogen oxide emissions (a key component of smog) in contrast to the 100+ parts per million of nitrogen oxides in the exhaust from the gasoline vehicle. Tripled power density.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 18, 2013

In order to further reduce its CO 2 emissions in this vehicle class, the gasoline engine will require a low-cost, basic hybrid solution. Even with optimized internal-combustion engines, large vehicles will not achieve the CO 2 target. By 2020, such vehicles will need to be equipped with higher-performance hybrid systems.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 16, 2016

Accelerated Development and Deployment of Low‐Cost Automotive Mg Sheet Components (Area of Interest 3). Advances for the Production of Low‐Cost Electric Drive vehicle Motors (Area of Interest 5). valve faces, piston crowns, and exhaust ports) to improve fuel economy. Description. Federal funding. Description.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 6, 2014

The two projects are part of a larger multi-year DOE-funded project to develop and to apply innovative simulation strategies and tools to maximize benefits of predictive information from high performance computing (HPC) for internal combustion engines. reciprocating and gas- turbine internal-combustion engines) are widely recognized.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 9, 2014

The developed prototype must be capable of demonstrating a net 10% fuel economy improvement, and cost to manufacture on a production basis must not exceed $200/unit. Alternative Crank Mechanisms for Internal Combustion Engines Leading to Improved Energy Efficiency. Reciprocating internal combustion (e.g. are desired.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 3, 2016

If, for example, the new alloys find a place in internal combustion engines, they could quickly transform cerium from an inconvenient byproduct of rare earth mining to a valuable product in itself. That heat tolerance makes aluminum–cerium alloys very attractive for use in internal combustion engines, Rios noted. —Orlando Rios.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

Kreutz presented the paper at the 10 th International Conference on Greenhouse Gas Control Technologies ( GHGT-10 ) earlier this fall in The Netherlands. In the near-term pre-CCS era, with a low cost of carbon, the economical solution for power providers is to vent the CO 2 and pay the fees, passing on the costs to customers.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

Unlike crankshaft-driven superchargers and exhaust-gas-driven turbochargers, an electric supercharger is mechanically decoupled from the engine, meaning it can deliver the air almost instantaneously into the engine—spinning up to 70,000 rpm in less than a third of a second.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 4, 2009

The electro-hydraulic variable valve actuation technology developed by Fiat was selected for its relative simplicity, low power requirements, intrinsic fail safe nature and low cost potential.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 20, 2013

Possible areas of interest for the EV Everywhere Grand Challenge include, but are not limited to: Development of low-cost, high-strength automotive aluminum sheet. Possible areas of interest for technology to improve fuel efficiency include: Development of high-performance low-temperature catalysts for exhaust aftertreatment.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 30, 2011

The hydride beads would then pumped to a hot cell where waste heat from the engine exhaust is used to drive the hydrogen into a small buffer volume. The hydrogen buffer is maintained at a pressure suitable for the internal combustion engine ICE or fuel cell and which is sufficient in volume to be able to restart the vehicle.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 16, 2010

The successful market implementation of these materials in vehicles requires that they be low cost and available in sufficient abundance to make a compelling business case. For this reason the focus of this AOI includes the development of low-cost approaches to the manufacturing of both magnesium and carbon fiber.

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 12, 2021

So he returned to Dayton and got an engineering job at the AFRL's Air Vehicles Directorate working on air acoustics and designing exhaust systems for military airplanes. The other was to create a low-cost launcher that could quickly loft satellites into outer space.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 29, 2010

Because of that, soot’s contribution to global warming has been ignored completely in national and international global warming policy legislation, he said. The most immediate, effective and low-cost way to reduce soot emissions is to put particle traps on vehicles, diesel trucks, buses, and construction equipment.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 5, 2015

Aluminium should be an attractive anode material for rechargeable Li-ion batteries for many reasons, such as low cost (~$2,000 ton −1 ), high theoretical capacity (2,235 mAh g −1 if Li 9 Al 4 , low potential plateau (~0.19–0.45 V V against Li + /Li 3 ), high electrical conductivity and so on. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 3, 2014

GMZ Energy, a market leader in the development of high-temperature thermoelectric generation (TEG) solutions, has successfully demonstrated a 1,000W TEG designed for diesel engine exhaust heat recapture in a Bradley Fighting Vehicle. Earlier post.) This announcement follows GMZ’s June 2014 demonstration of its 200W diesel TEG.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 15, 2015

The projects are funded through ARPA-E’s two newest programs, Advanced Research In Dry cooling (ARID) and Accelerating Low-cost Plasma Heating and Assembly (ALPHA), which both seek to develop low-cost technology solutions. SRI International. Advanced Research In Dry cooling (ARID): $30 Million.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

Fuel Efficiency Improvement Technologies for Conventional Stoichiometric Gasoline Direct Injection Multi-Cylinder Internal Combustion Engine. Further, a technology transfer opportunity is the use of a new Argonne catalyst for reducing NO x. The fuel cell topics: Innovative Materials and/or Technologies for Bipolar Plates for PEM Fuel Cell.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 26, 2023

At COP27, he said that even though the first legally binding international treaty on climate change, known as the Paris Agreement , was adopted nearly a decade ago, countries have yet to come to a consensus on how to stop burning fossil fuels, among other issues. Another efficient option he pointed out is the combined cycle power plant.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

The cars, two of which were produced in association with major OEMs (Ford and Hyundai/Kia), exhibit substantial environmental and fuel-efficient benefits through low-cost hybridization. The problem is, while needing to reduce emissions, it is necessary to keep production at a relatively low cost. 48V Batteries Hybrids'

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 19, 2015

Breeding High Yielding Bioenergy Sorghum for the New Bioenergy Belt Clemson University, along with the Carnegie Mellon Robotics Institute and partners, will phenotype an exhaustive set of international germplasm and plant varieties. Single-Cylinder Two-Stroke Free-Piston Internal Combustion Generator Aerodyne Research, Inc.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 10, 2012

Some specific improvements which are of interest, but are not limited to, include: new low-cost materials, improvements in manufacturing processes, speed or yield, improved cell/pack design minimizing inactive material, significant improvement in specific energy (Wh/kg) or energy density (Wh/L), and improved safety.

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