Green Car Congress
JANUARY 16, 2021
Wärtsilä Finland, the energy companies Vaasan Sähkö and EPV Energia, and the City of Vaasa, Finland have signed a letter of intent to cooperate in a project aimed at utilizing emissions-free hydrogen in power generation, industry and transportation applications.
Green Car Congress
NOVEMBER 10, 2016
An international team of scientists led by a researcher at the University of California, Riverside has modified the energy spectrum of acoustic phonons—elemental excitations, also referred to as quasi-particles, that spread heat through crystalline materials like a wave—by confining them to nanometer-scale semiconductor structures.
Green Car Congress
SEPTEMBER 24, 2015
A number of engine and vehicle tests have been carried out across a number of research institutes such as VTT Technical Research Center of Finland Lt;, University of Vaasa in Finland; and at FEV. The production process was developed in the UPM Biorefinery Research and Development Center in Lappeenranta, Finland.
Green Car Congress
JUNE 1, 2016
The process produces a toxic byproduct referred to as black liquor—a primarily liquid mixture of pulping residues (such as lignin and hemicellulose) and inorganic chemicals from the Kraft process (sodium hydroxide and sodium sulfide, for example). Their paper appears in the journal ChemSusChem. tons of black liquor dry solids.
Green Car Congress
NOVEMBER 21, 2019
The goal is to use the pre-commercial facility as a reference for rolling out commercial refineries with a capacity of possibly hundreds of thousands of tons per year of an advanced sustainable marine biofuel for ships. —René Venendaal, CEO of BTG. According to Venendaal, the pilot will require a six-figure investment.
Green Car Congress
APRIL 19, 2016
Finland-based stainless steel expert Outokumpu is working on lightweight stainless steel solutions for electric vehicles in cooperation with Fraunhofer Institute for Laser Technology ILT, in Germany. Outokumpu has commercialized the new Forta H-Series as Forta H500, Forta H800 and Forta H1000; the designations refer to yield strength.
Cars That Think
JANUARY 18, 2023
It is a daunting question that a startup called Polar Night Energy, in the small and chilly nation of Finland (Figure 1), is attempting to answer. Today: Finland; Tomorrow: The World Since the Tampere system began operation during the winter of 2020–2021, the Polar Night Energy team has been gathering data to compare to their models.
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