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MAY 22, 2020

Designed to work with a car’s existing fuel, the onboard separation technology is the first to use chemistry—not a physical membrane—to separate ethanol-blended gasoline into high- and low-octane fuel components. Aromatics are gasoline components derived from crude oil. —Tim Bays.

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JANUARY 22, 2016

BMW Brilliance Automotive (BBA) opened a new engine plant with a light metal foundry in Shenyang today. The new location will produce the latest generation of the BMW TwinPower Turbo three and four-cylinder gasoline engines and forms part of the BBA production network based in Shenyang in Northeastern China. Light metal foundry.

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AUGUST 22, 2015

Neste, currently largest producer of renewable drop-in fuels (primarily diesel) with its NEXBTL platform ( earlier post ), has filed a patent ( US20150144087 ) on a gasoline composition (and the method for making it) comprising up to 20 vol% (preferably from about 10-15 vol.%), of paraffinic bio-hydrocarbons originating from the NEXBTL process.

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MARCH 9, 2022

liter in-line four-cylinder Skyactiv-G gasoline engine with a 100 kW electric motor and a 355V, 17.8 liter e-Skyactiv X gasoline engine, both featuring Mazda’s 48V mild hybrid system. liter e-Skyactiv X gasoline engine, both featuring Mazda’s 48V mild hybrid system. kWh battery pack. liter e-Skyactiv D diesel unit and a 3.0

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MAY 4, 2012

Engineers at Transonic Combustion, a start-up developing a fuel efficient supercritical (SC) fuel injection and combustion system—Transonic Combustion, or TSCi ( earlier post )—have demonstrated the TSCi process using gasoline fuel at low load without EGR, medium load with EGR, and high speed low load with EGR.

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MARCH 5, 2013

Bosch, in collaboration with PSA Peugeot Citroën, is developing a hydraulic full-hybrid powertrain to reduce fuel consumption and CO 2 emissions in light-duty vehicles. Like electric hybrids, the hydraulic hybrid system is able to support gasoline and diesel engines in ranges where they do not work at optimum efficiency. Earlier post.)

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APRIL 9, 2016

A US-wide county-level study comparing lifecycle greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from several light-duty passenger gasoline and plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) has found that PEVs can have larger or smaller carbon footprints than gasoline vehicles depending on regional factors and the specific vehicle models being compared.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

CHrysler’s current research efforts include various strategies to warm engines and transmissions faster; to have the vehicles run at an ideal set point; and to recapture waste heat. Chrysler plans to initiate fleet-wide integration of this fuel-saving start/stop technology on a global basis, including certain models in North America.

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MAY 6, 2021

These include renewable domestic biomass, such as forestry and agricultural waste, which can be combined with petroleum-based fuels to improve vehicles’ carbon footprint and engine performance. LanzaTech and Pacifc Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) are demonstrating the production of a gasoline-range fuel with advanced fuel properties.

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OCTOBER 10, 2020

Blended with a petroleum gasoline blendstock, these bio-blendstocks are designed to improve engine efficiency for light-duty, boosted-spark ignition (BSI) engines. Renewable natural gas and lactic acid production from wet waste feedstocks. These MCCI fuels are both diesel-like bio-blendstocks blended with conventional diesel.

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OCTOBER 12, 2021

One pathway produces methanol from biomass gasification, which is blended with a petroleum gasoline blendstock and designed to improve engine efficiency for light-duty multi-mode (MM) engines. Co-Optima).

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DECEMBER 3, 2014

The company integrated five of its 200W TEGs into a single 1,000 W diesel engine solution that directly converts exhaust waste heat into electrical energy to increase fuel efficiency and lower costs. An automotive TEG is intended to improve fuel economy by power from waste heat to reduce the electric generator load on the engine.

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APRIL 24, 2010

A spinout from Warwick University (UK), Sorption Energy , is commercializing vehicle air conditioning systems based on waste heat-driven adsorption heat pump technology developed by Professor Robert Critoph and his team at University of Warwick School of Engineering. kW with 2-kW peaks.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2009

for an award of up to $1,200,000 to further its development of Biomass-to-Gasoline (BTG) technology—a novel thermochemical process that converts biomass into a clean, high-octane gasoline-compatible fuel. The product is the high-octane blend of gasoline-compatible alcohols. Earlier post.).

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2018

INFRA Technology group has developed and patented a proprietary Gas-to-Liquids (GTL) technology (INFRA.xtl), based on the Fischer-Tropsch synthesis process, for the production of light synthetic oil—which is close to a product, characterized by Shultz-Flory alpha of 0.77—and

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MARCH 28, 2011

They are light, but very strong—30% lighter and 3-to-4 times stronger. These include greater resistance to damage from heat, spilled gasoline, water, and oxygen. The properties of these plastics are incredible.

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MAY 3, 2009

BMW is exploring two pathways for waste heat recovery in vehicles: one thermoelectric, the other thermodynamic. Based on bench test measurements, BMW has concluded that waste heat recovery can provide an additional power output of about 10% at typical highway cruising speeds. Earlier post.). Earlier post.). Ringler et al. Resources.

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JANUARY 19, 2021

DiG-T gasoline engine equipped with mild hybrid technology, but also e-POWER, Nissan’s non-plug-in series-hybrid electric powertrain in its European debut. DiG-T gasoline engine that was introduced to Qashqai in 2018. gasoline engine charging the battery unit, and a final power output of 108PS.

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JUNE 10, 2009

Area 2: Advanced Technology Powertrains for Light-Duty Vehicles. The improvement is based on comparison to a baseline state-of-the-art port fuel-injected gasoline vehicle maintaining comparable vehicle performance. Demonstration requirements for light-duty vehicles. Click to enlarge.

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JUNE 10, 2012

Researchers in Spain have obtained high-quality transportation fuels (gasoline with RON >80 and diesel with cetane number >70) from oil obtained by the thermal cracking of low-density polyethylene (LDPE) using a bifunctional catalyst comprising Ni (7 wt %) deposited on a hierarchical Beta zeolite (Ni/h-Beta). —Escola et al.

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JULY 23, 2021

Synthetically produced, climate-neutral e-fuels can be used in today’s gasoline and diesel engines with only minor modifications for most of e-fuels and in blends with conventional fuels. In addition to light vehicles, internal combustion engines are also popular in trucks, marine propulsion, construction equipment and agricultural machinery.

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DECEMBER 2, 2010

The results of vegetable oil sludge cracking reaction show that the product consists of fractions such as dry gas, liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), gasoline, light cycle oil (LCO), and (heavy cycle oil) HCO, which are similar to those of petroleum cracking process. —Nam et al.

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JANUARY 3, 2014

WTW energy demand and GHG emissions for EV and PHEV drivetrains for various electricity sources; gasoline ICE vehicle is solid square, hybrid the hollow square. Included in the analysis are fuel cell, electric, hybrid-electric and conventional ICE drivetrains; energy carriers include gasoline, diesel, CNG, biogas, hydrogen and electricity.

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MARCH 7, 2018

Achates Power, founded in 2004, currently has a number of development projects underway spanning a variety of applications of its opposed-piston engine architecture, from light-to-heavy duty. liter Opposed-Piston Gasoline Compression Ignition (OPGCI) engine. Earlier post.). Earlier post.). Zermeno, R.,

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JUNE 11, 2015

France-based Global Bioenergies, the developer of a one-step fermentation processes for the direct and cost-efficient transformation of renewable resources into light olefins, has obtained new €1.4-million million (US$1.6-million) million) financing from Bpifrance on the isobutene program. Earlier post.).

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JANUARY 13, 2012

The intent of this solicitation is to encourage production of alternative and renewable transportation fuels such as biomethane, renewable gasoline and diesel substitutes in California that can significantly reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and petroleum fuel demand, and stimulate economic development in the state. gCO 2 -eq/MJ).

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AUGUST 14, 2014

The largest single award ($10 million) goes to Delphi Automotive Systems to further the development of its Gasoline Direct-Injection Compression Ignition (GDCI) low-temperature combustion technology ( earlier post ) that provides high thermal efficiency with low NO x and PM emissions. developing beyond Li-ion battery technologies.

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MAY 12, 2015

In 2014, Global Bioenergies signed a collaboration agreement with Audi on the development of bio-isooctane—a high-performance drop-in biofuel for gasoline engines—derived from bio-isobutene. These compounds are associated with large markets: Isooctane is the gold standard for gasoline engines, and corresponds to unleaded 100 when used neat.

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APRIL 24, 2014

Offering a higher-octane gasoline to the consumer market in the US as the standard grade could deliver an incremental 4.5% Offering a higher-octane gasoline to the consumer market in the US as the standard grade could deliver an incremental 4.5% Gasoline at US pumps is labeled with AKI (anti-knock index), the average of RON and MON.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2017

The IH 2 (Integrated Hydropyrolysis and Hydroconversion) process converts virtually any type of non-food biomass feedstock—such as wood, agricultural residues, algae, aquatic plants and cellulosic fractions of municipal waste—to gasoline, jet and diesel range hydrocarbon fuels and/or blend stocks.

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JANUARY 11, 2010

These projects will receive more than $115 million in funding to develop and demonstrate systems-level fuel efficiency technologies by 2015, including improved aerodynamics, reducing engine idling technologies, waste heat recovery to increase engine efficiency, advanced combustion techniques, and powertrain hybridization. 38,831,115.

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APRIL 2, 2012

billion gallons of fuel in 2011, approximately 5% of all the gasoline used. Studies show drivers encounter an average of 10 to 15 red lights and stop signs on a typical 20 mile commute, which can add 5 to 15 minutes of idle time and wasted gas. Some communities—such as Denver, Colo. and Ann Arbor, Mich.—are

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JULY 17, 2020

AOI 04: Platinum Group Metals (PGM) Content Reduction to Enable Cost-Effective Aftertreatment for Gasoline and Diesel Engines. Municipality of Anchorage Department of Solid Waste Services. Pilot Heavy-Duty Electric Vehicle Deployment for Municipal Solid Waste Collection. Waste Not, Want Hot? General Motors LLC.

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DECEMBER 13, 2012

will receive $1,211,370 to design and install a new system to pre-process solid food waste for use in two existing anaerobic digesters at a solid waste facility in Chino. The digesters will use the waste to produce biomethane to be converted into renewable compressed natural gas fuel.

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OCTOBER 27, 2017

According to a recent SAE paper—“Developing a 55% BTE Commercial Heavy-Duty Opposed-Piston Engine without a Waste Heat Recovery System,”—these gains can have a direct and multiplied impact on the heavy-duty vehicle market. It has proven industry-best fuel economy gains of up to 30 percent and significant emissions reductions.

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JUNE 11, 2013

While most of the light-duty fleet and rail transportation could be electrified, liquid fuels would still be required for aviation, marine, and heavy duty transportation. The near-term biofuel scenario uses cellulosic ethanol blended at 85% with fossil gasoline (E85) to meet the gasoline demand.

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MARCH 21, 2013

The facility will create biodiesel from renewable waste-based materials such as used cooking oil from restaurants. Its benefits include the reduction of an estimated 32,000 tons of greenhouse gas emissions annually—roughly equivalent to the greenhouse gas emissions produced by 5,850 gasoline vehicles in a year.

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