Remove Illinois Remove Pollution Remove Transportation Remove Waste
article thumbnail

DOE awards $4M to two DME projects

Green Car Congress

in Darrien, Illinois, for a project entitled “High Pressure Fast Response Direct Injection System for Liquified Gas Fuels Use in Light-Duty Engines”. As an energy-dense, cost-effective means to transport and store renewable hydrogen. WM International Engineering L.L.C. We are honored to partner with the recipients of DOE awards.

Waste 186
article thumbnail

Chicago Area Clean Cities names American Lung Association 2017 Clean Fuels Champion

Green Car Congress

The American Lung Association has been named the 2017 Clean Fuels Champion by Chicago Area Clean Cities (CACC), a nonprofit coalition dedicated to promoting clean-energy and clean-air solutions for transportation in the Chicago area impacting nearly 9 million people. Air pollution poses a serious threat to our nation’s health.

Chicago 150
article thumbnail

New tool provides upstream data data for lifecycle analysis of fuels

Green Car Congress

For solid fuels and natural gas, data is included from extraction of a raw fuel through its delivery to a power plant; for transportation fuels, data is provided from extraction through refining. To use the tool, a user first selects the energy source to be analyzed and the desired reporting units.

Fuel 236
article thumbnail

Diesel Brewing to Manufacture Cellulosic Biobutanol from Biomass and Manure With Thermochemical Process

Green Car Congress

Compared to ethanol, it has higher energy content, is substantially less corrosive, and can be transported utilizing existing fuel pipelines and containers. Results showed that butanol mixed with diesel can reduce emissions of criteria pollutants. We don’t want to merely make electric power from these waste products.

Diesel 150
article thumbnail

Rentech Planning to Build Biomass to Synthetic Fuels and Electric Power Plant in California

Green Car Congress

a Fischer-Tropsch process company, plans to build a plant in Rialto, California for the production of synthetic fuels and electric power from renewable waste biomass feedstocks. The low carbon footprint of RenDiesel would help the transportation sector meet targets established by the Low Carbon Fuel Standard. Click to enlarge.

article thumbnail

EBEI researchers shed light on how multiple cellulase enzymes attack cellulose; potential avenue to boosting sugar yields for biofuels

Green Car Congress

Synthesized from the sugars in the cellulosic biomass of grasses, other non-food crops and agricultural waste, advanced biofuels represent a sustainable, non-polluting source of transportation fuel that would also generate domestic jobs and revenue. —Harvey Blanch.

Light 292
article thumbnail

Perspective: Regional Greenhouse Gas Cap-and-Trade Programs May be the Solution

Green Car Congress

Cap-and-trade was first tried on a significant scale twenty years ago under the first Bush administration as a way to address the problem of airborne sulfur dioxide pollution–widely known as acid rain–from coal-burning power plants in the eastern United States. INTRODUCTION. Coverage: In 2012–50% of emissions. In 2015–nearly 90% of emissions.

Gas 244