Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

million of funding to a Rio Tinto-led team to explore carbon storage potential at the Tamarack nickel joint venture in central Minnesota. Tamarack is a nickel, copper and cobalt project located in central Minnesota that is currently progressing towards feasibility studies. The US Department of Energy has awarded $2.2

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Carbon Iceland Minnesota Climate 150

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JULY 17, 2020

Regents of University of Minnesota. Municipality of Anchorage Department of Solid Waste Services. Pilot Heavy-Duty Electric Vehicle Deployment for Municipal Solid Waste Collection. Waste Not, Want Hot? Regents of the University of Minnesota. AOI 06a: Research to Transform the Efficiency of Off-Road Vehicles.

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Lithium Ion Vehicles Li-ion Universal 236

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OCTOBER 12, 2016

Gevo successfully adapted its patented technologies to convert cellulosic sugars derived from wood waste into renewable isobutanol, which was then further converted into Gevo’s Alcohol-to-Jet fuel (ATJ) fuel. Gevo produces isobutanol, ethanol and high-value animal feed at its fermentation plant in Luverne, Minnesota. Earlier post.).

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Renewable Commercial Alaska Fuel 150

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

Researchers at MIT, with colleagues at the University of Minnesota, have provided evidence and theoretical rate coefficients for new pathways in the low-temperature oxidation of hydrocarbons. That’s important, Green points out, since waste oil is among the largest hazardous waste streams in the United States. Click to enlarge.

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Minnesota Fuel MIT Green 218

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NOVEMBER 20, 2012

The Accelerating Alternatives for Minnesota Drivers project will provide safety and technical assistance and training related to Plug-in Vehicle (PEV) and natural gas fueling infrastructure; establish the Minnesota Natural Gas. vehicle implementation; establish a Minnesota green fleet recognition. Project lead. Description.

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Clean Cleaning Alternative Fuels Fuel 308

Teslarati

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Department of Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm will discuss its $140 million demonstration project, funded by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) “to recover rare earth elements and critical minerals from coal ash and other mine waste, reducing the need for new mining.” facing declining demand.

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Supplies America General Motors Minnesota 89

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MAY 21, 2010

The goal of this research area is to research and develop the next generation of nuclear reactors that will produce more energy and create less waste. University of Minnesota - $1,366,163. University of Minnesota - $854,542. Generation IV Reactor Research and Development (20 projects, $19,855,912).

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Universal Las Vegas Wisconsin North Carolina 186

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MARCH 1, 2016

dissipating energy due to deformation of the pavement structure)—results in wasted fuel because the dissipated energy does not contribute to the vehicle’s forward movement. Deflection-induced PVI—which results from a vehicle overcoming a resisting force (i.e.

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MIT California Fuel Vehicles 150

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NOVEMBER 13, 2009

Yenkin-Majestic Paint Corporation (Columbus, OH) up to $1,800,000: to demonstrate, at scale, the operation of a dry fermentation system that uses pre- and post-consumer food wastes from supermarkets and restaurants, waste sawdust, grass, leaves, stumps and other forms of wood waste to produce biogas, heat, and electrical power.

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Grant Tennessee Waste North Carolina 199

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NOVEMBER 3, 2016

Since stop-and-go operation wastes a large amount of energy, optimizing these maneuvers for an urban transit bus presents significant opportunities for improving energy efficiency. University of Minnesota.

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Connect Connected Vehicles Universal 150

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

The NARA project envisions developing a new, viable, aviation fuel industry using wood and wood waste in the Pacific Northwest, where forests cover almost half of the region. Other NARA members include Weyerhaeuser, Catchlight Energy, Oregon State University, Pennsylvania State University, and the University of Minnesota. DLA contract.

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Fuel Supplies Universal Grant 210

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JUNE 24, 2010

Woody biomass, municipal waste potential. Delaware, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Missouri, Ohio, Oklahoma, Maryland, Minnesota, Nebraska, North Dakota, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Wisconsin, Virginia. 0.3% (this is only for dedicated energy crops and woody biomass from logging waste). 2.0% (mostly woody biomass).

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Renewable Standards Fuel Rhode Island 210

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OCTOBER 18, 2020

BOTTLE Consortium Collaborations to Tackle Challenges in Plastic Waste: Create collaborations with the BOTTLE Laboratory Consortium to further the long-term goals of the Consortium and the Plastics Innovation Challenge. Skokie, IL) - Upscaling of Non-Recyclable Plastic Waste into CarbonSmart Monomers – DOE Funding: $1,890,001.

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San Diego San Jose Iowa Oklahoma 321

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OCTOBER 16, 2011

After more than a decade of research, a University of Minnesota team of researchers has devised a means for developing free-standing, highly crystalline zeolite nanosheets that could make the production of gasoline, plastics and various chemicals more cost-effective and energy-efficient. Source: Varoon et al. Click to enlarge.

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Minnesota Energy Production Fuel 199

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

In a challenge to the current prototype for ethanol production from waste cellulose, this team will focus on a recently emerging biotechnology for direct production of hydrocarbons from plant material. The fungus Gliocladium roseum produces and excretes a series of hydrocarbons known as “mycodiesel.”

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Grant Puerto Rico Conversion Montana 170

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NOVEMBER 1, 2011

ORegen is the largest organic rankine cycle single unit available in the market for gas turbines waste heat recovery. ORegen will produce 14 megawatts of electricity, using waste heat from the existing APL compressor station, avoiding associated CO 2 emissions and maximizing energy efficiency.

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Waste North Dakota Gas-Electric Iowa 255

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DECEMBER 18, 2013

The six new pathways are: Heron Lake BioEnergy , LLC (HLBE) produces ethanol from corn at a dry mill plant in Heron Lake, Minnesota. Because the Sabine Process desires free fatty acids, all natural fats or oils are accessible but those fats or oils that are waste in nature are preferred.

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Oil California Gas Gas-Electric 247

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

The project will allow these 3rd rail heaters to be remotely monitored and turned on and off from a central control location depending on weather conditions, thus minimizing electricity use and eliminating wasted energy. Paul Metropolitan Council, Minnesota: $1,100,000. Productive Alternatives/Transit Alternatives, Minnesota: $845,000.

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Emissions Gas Energy Maintenance 256

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APRIL 9, 2016

All vehicles have higher emissions in Minnesota, a colder state, compared to California. Both batteries and engines are less efficient when cold, but gasoline vehicles are able to use waste heat from the engine to heat the cabin, while BEVs and EREV PHEVs need to draw energy from the battery to heat the cabin.

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Gasoline Plug-in Prius Plug 150

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MAY 15, 2021

These fermentation processes create carbon as a byproduct, with some processes wasting more than 1/3 of this carbon as CO 2 emissions. University of Minnesota. The University of Minnesota will design a cell-free biocatalytic system that will reduce CO 2 efficiently into formate, a C 1 feedstock, with energy supplied from electricity.

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Carbon Production Conversion Universal 303

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DECEMBER 31, 2011

Plaintiffs in the consolidated action are Rocky Mountain Farmers Union (RMFU); Redwood County Minnesota Corn and Soybean Growers; Penny Newman Grain, Inc.; Goldstene is a consolidated action, combining several lawsuits arguing similar points. Dep’t of Envtl. Quality of Or.,

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California Oil Emissions Carbon 247

Creative Greenius

FEBRUARY 5, 2012

And in the next three months he’ll be in Cambridge, Massachusetts; back in Minneapolis; the Port of Los Angeles; Long Beach, California; Long Island, New York and Denver Colorado for the latest batch of environmental projects EcoAds have helped to fund.

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Solar Minneapolis Water Grant 150

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JUNE 26, 2021

Honeywell (Plymouth, Minnesota). Robust Carbonic Anhydrases for Novel Biological, Sustainable and Low Energy CO2 Scrubbing Process from Waste Gases, $250,000. Carl ZEISS Industry Metrology (Maple Grove, Minnesota). Field Testing and Validation of Hybrid Optimization and Performance Platform (HOPP) , $500,000. Buffalo, New York).

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Commercial Energy Albuquerque New York 170

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NOVEMBER 28, 2012

Conventional large-scale gasto-liquid reactors produce waste-heat, reducing the energy. Capturing this energy would reduce both waste. areas to convert otherwise wasted gas into usable chemicals that. The University of Minnesota will develop an ultra-thin separation. technology with advanced catalysts. BTUs worldwide).

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2012 Energy Lithium Sulfur Conversion 240

Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 19, 2022

For example, output from the only nickel mine in the US, the Eagle mine in Minnesota, is sent to Canada for smelting. Another solution may be recycling both EV batteries as well as the waste and rejects from battery manufacturing, which can run. Energy and information are two basic currencies of organic and social systems.

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Battery Batteries Lithium Ion Nickel Metal Hydride 88

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

wasted energy in plants into energy-dense fuel molecules. University of Minnesota. BCT) Metastable Fe-N Anisotropic Nanocomposite Magnet—A Path to Fabricate Rare Earth Free Magnet A joint University of Minnesota and Oak Ridge National. University of Minnesota. light energy. Lawrence Berkeley. National Lab.

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Energy Clean Cleaning Grid 294

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DECEMBER 17, 2016

The Sustainable Innovations team seeks to take waste carbon dioxide from industrial or chemical processes and—using an electrochemical cell and water—convert it to methanol, with subsequent conversion to DME producing only oxygen and water as byproducts. University of Minnesota Twin Cities.

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Carbon Energy Fuel Hydrogen 150

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OCTOBER 26, 2009

Waste Heat Capture (2 projects). The University of Minnesota and BioCee, Inc. General Motors will develop a shape memory alloy (SMA) energy recovery device that will convert waste heat from car engines to electricity. WASTE HEAT CAPTURE. Biomass Energy (5 projects). Carbon Capture (5 projects). Water (1 project).

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Energy Grant Low Cost Li-ion 231

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JULY 19, 2009

Lead author is David Tilman of the University of Minnesota. Municipal and industrial wastes. The biofuels industry should focus on five major sources of renewable biomass: Perennial plants grown on degraded lands abandoned from agricultural use. Crop residues. Sustainably harvested wood and forest residues.

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2009 Minnesota Gas Environment 150

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APRIL 10, 2010

states (Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin) and one Canadian province (Manitoba). Another potential use of allowance value is to provide the general public a “dividend” related to the public’s having granted firms the right to make use of the waste-disposal services of the atmosphere through their emissions.

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Gas Climate Change Emissions Climate 244