article thumbnail

DOE awards $27.5M to 16 water infrastructure projects

Green Car Congress

million to 16 water infrastructure projects. Modern technology has the potential to reduce energy use in aging water infrastructure, particularly in wastewater treatment, which demands up to 2% of domestic electricity use each year. The US Department of Energy (DOE) is awarding $27.5

Water 186
article thumbnail

DOE announces $11.5M in Phase 1 funding for carbon capture and storage program; ARPA-E FLECCS

Green Car Congress

FLECCS project teams will work to develop carbon capture and storage (CCS) processes that better enable technologies, such as natural gas power generators, to be responsive to grid conditions in a high variable renewable energy (VRE) penetration environment. Flexible Oxy-Fuel Combustion for High-Penetration Variable Renewables - $717,658.

Carbon 333
article thumbnail

DOE to award $118M to 17 projects to accelerate domestic biofuel production

Green Car Congress

Captis Aire LLC, “Renewable Blending Components to Enable 100% Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF)”, $2,000,000. This project will demonstrate the conversion of gaseous carbon wood wastes (terpenes) to renewable Terpenes SAF blending components. Hundreds of millions of gallons of drop-in 100% SAF will be unlocked. Comstock Inc.,

article thumbnail

Extinguishing the EV Battery Fire Hype

Cars That Think

Kohl, a professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology’s School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering in Atlanta, “The media don’t treat EVs and ICEs with equal footing, because gasoline is not sensational anymore.” Yet, says, Paul A. The media don’t treat EVs and ICEs with equal footing, because gasoline is not sensational anymore.”

Battery 133
article thumbnail

USDA to award $11M loan guarantee to Oregon biorefinery

Green Car Congress

with an $11-million loan guarantee through the Biorefinery, Renewable Chemical, and Biobased Product Manufacturing Assistance Program. million cubic feet of renewable natural gas, 350 gallons of liquid fertilizer, and 11.2 The plant will return approximately 172,000 gallons of treated water to the Port of Morrow daily.

Oregon 150
article thumbnail

Waste Management and Renmatix to explore conversion of urban waste to low-cost cellulosic sugar via supercritical hydrolysis

Green Car Congress

The JDA aims to determine how these materials can be reduced to sugar and leveraged for production of renewable chemicals and fuels. The water-based Plantrose Process consists of two core steps: Fractionation of biomass and separation of the remaining solids which contain cellulose and lignin.

Waste 274
article thumbnail

BASF to partner with Renmatix for the production of industrial sugars from biomass; bio-based precursors for chemicals and fuels

Green Car Congress

wood, agricultural-residues or straw) into industrial sugars using supercritical water (water at high temperature and pressure). The water-based Plantrose Process consists of two core steps: Fractionation of biomass and separation of the remaining solids which contain cellulose and lignin. Source: Renmatix. Click to enlarge.