Green Car Congress
APRIL 5, 2021
Rice University scientists and their colleagues at C-Crete Technologies have optimized a process to convert waste from rubber tires into graphene that can, in turn, be used to strengthen concrete. After useful oils are extracted from waste tires, this carbon residue has until now had near-zero value, Tour said. —James Tour.
Green Car Congress
MARCH 7, 2023
This innovative technology eliminates up to 85% of embodied CO 2 emissions compared with conventional well cementing systems, which include portland cement. In addition to its embodied CO 2 emissions, portland cement creates significant transportation-related emissions from manufacture to deployment.
Green Car Congress
AUGUST 16, 2021
Scientists of Ural Federal University and the Institute of Metallurgy of the Ural Branch of RAS (Russian Academy of Sciences) have developed and successfully tested the technology of joint non-waste processing of electric furnace and ladle slag to obtain pig iron and Portland cement clinker. —Oleg Sheshukov, lead author.
Green Car Congress
DECEMBER 14, 2015
As part of the agreement, emissions (or offtake gas) from various HeidelbergCement factories could provide Joule with the waste CO 2 required to feed its advanced Helioculture platform that effectively recycles CO 2 back into fuel. This initial relationship fits well with Joule’s strategy of turning waste CO 2 into liquid fuel.
Green Car Congress
JUNE 19, 2015
NESCO’s area of focus will expand to include waste water loss and waste reduction, in addition to energy loss and CO 2 reduction. NESCO has also been used at five Renault and Alliance plants, including AVTOVAZ, UAG and RSM, which have already seen excellent results. Electric vehicle penetration.
Green Car Congress
MAY 4, 2018
Enough jet fuel will be produced by the plant to fuel 1,800 round trips per year from Portland, Oregon to San Francisco. By using forest and sawmill residues, RRB’s biorefinery will not only avoid competition for agricultural resources, but also reduce the risk of catastrophic wildfires by removing waste biomass from overgrown forests.
Green Car Congress
NOVEMBER 18, 2010
The initiative is based on projects that promote energy savings, renewable energy, responsible use of natural resources and conservation in communities across the United States. Chevy will be making investments through third-party organizations such as Bonneville Environmental Foundation, a nonprofit organization based in Portland, Ore.
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