Green Car Congress

MARCH 10, 2009

Researchers at Iowa State University are developing a new thermochemical system for the coproduction of ethanol and thermal energy, based on a new low-emissions burner and a new catalyst for ethanol production. million grant from the Iowa Power Fund , a state program to advance energy innovation and independence. —Robert C.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 31, 2023

Under the terms of the agreement, Dow is supporting the design of New Energy Freedom, a new facility in Mason City, Iowa, that is expected to process 275kt of corn stover per year and produce commercial quantities of second-generation ethanol and clean lignin.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 29, 2021

ClearFlame uses soot-free “Clear” Exhaust Gas Recirculation (EGR) to maintain this ratio under varying load conditions. Previously, ClearFlame has received $4 million in non-dilutive and grant funding from the Iowa, Minnesota, Kansas and Illinois Corn Growers Associations, the National Science Foundation, the Department of Energy, and others.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 24, 2010

Thomas Bobik, professor of biochemistry, biophysics and molecular biology at Iowa State University is heading an effort to redesign an enzyme for the bio-based production of isobutene, a gas that is currently used in the production of a variety of chemicals and in the manufacture of other fuel additives, adhesive, plastics and synthetic rubber.

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Green Car Reports

JUNE 4, 2019

My mind wandered because there’s not much else on Interstate 380 in Iowa in December. Three incredibly long days after my nearly 3-year-old son Seth doubled over and screamed his “tummy hurt” we were finally back on the freeway headed home. Three days earlier, my wife, kids, and I traveled from Minnesota to Reinbeck.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Clean Fuels said that it appreciates EPA’s final rule creating a pathway to produce renewable diesel, jet fuel, heating oil, naphtha, and liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) from canola oil, which will generate even more biomass-based diesel and advanced biofuel gallons for the program.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 4, 2021

The conversion is expected to reduce the facility’s greenhouse gas emissions by 50% and help California meet its lower-carbon objectives. New initiatives this year include: An investment in Shell Rock Soy Processing, a joint venture that plans to construct a new soybean-processing facility in Iowa.

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Conversion Renewable California Fuel 435

Green Car Congress

JUNE 18, 2021

million in additional financing from several investors, including the Iowa, Minnesota, Kansas and Illinois Corn Growers Associations. ClearFlame Engine Technologies , a growing startup dedicated to the development of clean engine technology ( earlier post ), secured $2.5

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Diesel Engine Fuel Iowa 321

Green Car Congress

JUNE 27, 2023

Iowa City, Iowa will receive nearly $23.3 The project will improve transit system conditions, create more reliable and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Natural gas. On the two extremes, coal and oil result in about 176 times the emissions from hydro. Energy source. Proportional amount of emissions relative to hydro. Geothermal. North Dakota. North Dakota. North Dakota. New Mexico. New Mexico Ohio.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 2, 2019

NG, natural gas. The deaths caused per bushel in western corn belt states such as Minnesota, Iowa, and Nebraska tend to be lower than in eastern corn belt states such as Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio. This paper also estimates life-cycle greenhouse gas emissions of corn production, finding total climate change damages of $4.9

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 22, 2013

The US Department of Energy (DOE) will award nearly $18 million to four innovative pilot-scale biorefineries in California, Iowa and Washington that will produce and test drop-in renewable biofuels that meet military specifications for jet fuel and shipboard diesel. The projects selected for negotiation are: Frontline Bioenergy LLC (up to $4.2

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Renewable Iowa Fuel Waste 231

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 4, 2010

Iowa State University (ISU) researchers and their colleagues at the Iowa Energy Center have developed a novel process for converting cellulose and related materials to high-value chemicals with low molecular weights. The Iowa State University Research Foundation Inc. has filed for a patent of the technology.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 30, 2013

Jerald Schnoor, also a professor in the departments of civil & environmental engineering and occupational & environmental health at the University of Iowa, has written an editorial for the journal in which he calls the Keystone XL pipeline a “ pipeline to nowhere ”. Use of coal, oil, and natural gas has to stop (in that order).

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Oil-Sands Iowa Coal Oil 286

Green Car Congress

MARCH 11, 2014

A study based on a spatial and longitudinal travel dataset by a team from Lamar University, Iowa State University and Oak Ridge National Laboratory found that whether plug-in hybrids (PHEVs) have lower energy costs that conventional gasoline vehicles (CGVs) or hybrid-electric vehicles (HEVs) depends on charger coverage.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 28, 2016

The Novus plant will process agricultural waste into fuel, natural gas, organic fertilizer and other bio-based products. million cubic feet of renewable natural gas, 350 gallons of liquid fertilizer, and 11.2 USDA has financed projects in Florida, Georgia, Iowa, Louisiana, Michigan, Nevada, New Mexico, North Carolina and Oregon.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

Fulcrum will gasify 147,000 tons of municipal solid waste to produce synthesis gas which it then will catalytically convert to synthetic paraffinic kerosene/jet fuel via a Fischer-Tropsch (FT) process. A venturi scrubber captures and removes any entrained particulate, and the syngas is further cooled in a packed gas cooler scrubber.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 10, 2014

It is expected that the ACE-Enogen offer will enable ethanol plants to make further progress in reducing natural gas usage and increasing ethanol throughput, thereby improving their carbon footprint. Use of the ACE technology is scheduled to begin at QCCP’s ethanol plant in Galva, Iowa in May 2014.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 18, 2020

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Iowa State University, Deere and Company, Green Electronics Council. Iowa State University, Danfoss. Iowa State University, John Deere & Company. Low-Concentration Metal Recovery from Complex Streams Using Gas-Assisted Microflow Solvent Extraction (GAME).

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 4, 2024

Electricity providers Madison Gas and Electric (MGE) and We Energies just brought Wisconsin’s largest solar farm – and one of the largest of its kind in the US Midwest – online. Wisconsin’s largest solar farm, which features 830,000 bifacial solar panels on trackers, is in Iowa County, west of Madison.

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Solar Wisconsin Iowa Installation 52

Green Car Congress

MARCH 16, 2013

The plant joins Air Liquide’s five other industrial gas liquefaction plants in California. Sioux City, Iowa; Wood River, Ill.; Air Liquide Industrial U.S. LP is opening a new carbon dioxide liquefaction plant in the California central valley. Those plants are located in: Delaware City, Del.; Martinez, Calif.; Washington, Ind.;

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 2, 2016

This will expand supplies of dispatchable, renewable energy and substantially reduce greenhouse gas emissions from domestic energy supplies. Trestle’s CERC pathway incorporates co-products to directly reduce biogenic emissions and displace fossil fuel combustion at power plants.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 10, 2014

Self-contained sunlight-driven water-splitting technology—“artificial photosynthesis”—typically produces hydrogen and oxygen gas bubbles in the same reactor. This hydrogen-oxygen gas mixture is potentially explosive and must be quickly separated.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

A typical gas pump delivers fuel with 10 percent ethanol, which limits the amount of renewable energy most consumers can purchase at the pump. With a more than 1:1 match from private and state resources, USDA estimates that the BIP grants will support nearly 5,000 pumps at over 1,400 fueling stations across the country. North Carolina.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

Low-cost advanced composites are also needed to make the storage tanks for vehicles that run on hydrogen and natural gas. .; Rockwell Collins; Rolls-Royce; Siemens; System Insights; The Dow Chemical Company; UPS. Rockwell Collins; Rolls-Royce; Siemens; System Insights; The Dow Chemical Company; UPS.

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Teslarati

AUGUST 30, 2021

hit the Cedar Falls Motorsports Park in Cedar Falls, Iowa. Electric cars have a comparative advantage over their gas-powered opposition, especially during 1/4-mile drags. On the heels of taking delivery of their own Mach-E GT in mid-August , Ford Mach-E Forum member 0t60-3.5 The all-electric Mach-E ran a 12.657-second 1/4-mile at 100.02

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Green Car Congress

JULY 11, 2011

Projects under this topic will develop frictional flow models for gas-solids applications and explore uncertainties inherent in models used to describe gas-solids reactors. Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa. Princeton University, Princeton, NJ. DOE Share: $300,000). DOE Share: $299,998).

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Bio2Electric’s project will demonstrate a novel conversion process to produce ethylene (a widely used commodity chemical) from natural gas, with the goal of reduced greenhouse gas emissions, lower reactor capital and lower operating expense compared to current industry practice. Iowa State University.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 28, 2012

other three plants are located in Iowa. All are Midwest, dry mill, natural gas-fired plants that utilize the raw starch hydrolysis (RSH) fermentation process. These values are lower than the corresponding reference pathway CIs from the LCFS Lookup table: two Midwestern, natural-gas-fired, pathways. gCO 2 e/MJ. gCO 2 e/MJ.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

The US Department of Energy (DOE) is [link] about $11 million to 20 new projects to help states and local governments to develop the infrastructure, training, and regional planning needed to help meet the demand for alternative fuel cars and trucks, including vehicles that run on natural gas, electricity, and propane. Gas Technology.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 24, 2012

Independent studies as well as Iowa State University research sponsored by POET, have shown that this amount of residue removal will not cause significant nutrient loss. A third party study commissioned by POET has shown that fuel from Project LIBERTY has greenhouse-gas intensity 111% below gasoline. Earlier post.) Earlier post.)

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Teslarati

AUGUST 20, 2021

First deliveries began on August 19th in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, according to Mach-E Forum member 0t60-3.5, Ford’s Mustang Mach-E is being manufactured more than its gas-powered sibling. who posted photos of their brand new car just after delivery.

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Ford F-150 Iowa Gas-Electric 94

Teslarati

APRIL 22, 2022

Calcite from 8 Rivers Capital from Durham, North Carolina aims to trap atmospheric carbon dioxide in calcium carbonate crystals, a process that is not unlike how gas dissolved in the ocean aids in the formation of seashells and limestone. California-based Global Algae, on the other hand, seeks to cultivate algae to help restore rainforests.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 14, 2010

Wisconsin Motors intends to certify these engines on traditional fuels (gasoline, natural gas and propane) while HEC intends to use alternative fuels such as hydrogen, ammonia, syngas, ethanol and methanol. Alternative fuel electrical generator systems will be built at HEC in Algona, Iowa. engines in the industrial market.

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Wisconsin Engine Hydrogen Motor 186

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

The US Department of Transportation (DOT) is awarding $100 million in Economic Recovery Act funding to 43 transit agencies for projects to reduce energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions from both vehicles and facilities. Ames Transit Agency, Iowa: $1,600,000. Buses will be powered by an Azure Dynamics hybrid system of Michigan.

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Emissions Gas Energy Maintenance 256

Electric Auto Association

JANUARY 5, 2023

EVs have distinct advantages over gas-powered vehicles in cold temperatures: An EV can be started and warmed up in a garage, even in sub-zero temperatures, as there are no harmful emissions, and this feature is often available and can be scheduled by smartphone app.

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Blink Charging

OCTOBER 6, 2023

As both EV adoption increases and internal combustion engine vehicles have become more fuel efficient, states are seeking to offset lost revenue from the gas tax. 6, supplemental or substitute forms of gas sources as defined in § 56-248.1, 6, supplemental or substitute forms of gas sources as defined in § 56-248.1,

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