Green Car Congress

AUGUST 29, 2010

American Process Incorporated (API) recently launched a waste-to-cellulosic ethanol biorefinery project in Alpena, Michigan. The biorefinery will convert the process waste effluent from the plant into cellulosic ethanol, sodium acetate and clean, warm water.

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Michigan Waste San Antonio Sodium 225

Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

“Energy is something we take for granted, because we just plug things into the wall, and it feels as inevitable as air. Tohoku University Looking to the future more broadly, some researchers are focused on combining unique materials and creating energy-harvesting systems from more sustainable materials. They said, ‘We don’t know.

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Energy Solar Carbon Fiber Universal 136

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 17, 2014

A team of researchers from Vanderbilt University and Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) has discovered an entirely new form of crystalline order that simultaneously exhibits both crystal and polycrystalline properties, which they describe as “interlaced crystals.”. Materials Thermoelectrics Waste Heat Recovery'

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Sodium Waste Universal Grant 231

Green Car Congress

JULY 4, 2010

Researchers at North Carolina State University are developing an ozone-based pre-treatment technique (ozonolysis) to release sugars from the energy grass miscanthus for production into renewable fuels or chemicals with minimal generation of chemical waste streams and degradation of the carbohydrate components.

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Ozone North Carolina Energy 2010 170

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 8, 2010

Two chemists at Brown University have streamlined the conversion of waste vegetable oil (WVO) into biodiesel, eliminating the need for corrosive chemicals to perform the reactions. Current techniques for the conversion of waste vegetable oil to biodiesel take time, are costly and are inefficient. —Jason Sello.

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Waste Oil Sodium Conversion 210

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 26, 2009

The awarded grants will go to projects with lead researchers in 17 states. Waste Heat Capture (2 projects). Eagle Picher, in partnership with the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, will develop a new generation of high energy, low cost planar liquid sodium beta batteries for grid scale electrical power storage applications.

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Energy Grant Low Cost Li-ion 231