Green Car Congress

AUGUST 1, 2011

Researchers at Justus Liebig University, Giessen, Germany, have improved the performance of sodium-ion batteries ( earlier post ) by using tailor-made carbon materials with hierarchical porosity for the anode instead of common carbon-based anode materials. Click to enlarge. Wenzel et al. Energy Environ.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

A team of researchers at the US Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory has synthesized amorphous titanium dioxide nanotube (TiO 2 NT) electrodes directly grown on current collectors without binders and additives to use as an anode for sodium-ion batteries. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 11, 2023

ARPA-E selected the following 12 teams from universities, national laboratories and the private sector to address and remove key technology barriers to EV adoption by developing next-generation battery technologies: 24M Technologies will develop low-cost and fast-charging sodium metal batteries with good low-temperature performance for EVs.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

These SCALEUP “Fast-Track” teams, Natron Energy and Bridger Photonics, will receive $19 million and $5 million, respectively, to further their commercialization efforts in sodium-ion battery development and methane detection technologies, respectively. Natron Energy: Domestic Manufacturing of Sodium-Ion Batteries - $19,883,951.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Ganfeng has participated in the formulation of a number of national industry standards such as “Lithium Hydroxide Monohydrate” (GB/T 8766-2013). produced during the production process.

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Teslarati

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

The first option is a 30 kWh LFP battery with an estimated range of 305 km based on China’s CLTC standard. The BYD Seagull was also rumored to be using a sodium-ion battery pack, but it has yet to be confirmed by the Chinese automaker. The second option is a 38 kWh LFP battery, offering an estimated 405 km range.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 11, 2014

The standard method for manufacturing porous silicon is a subtraction method, similar to making a sculpture. They then treat the material with a sodium potassium alloy. Micrograph of mesoporous silicon with sodium chloride and potassium chloride salts embedded in the matrix. Image: Donghai Wang/Penn State. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 25, 2018

The Safevolt project is an enabler for industry wanting higher Li-ion battery capacity above the level of standard graphite (exceeding maximum 372 mAh/g). In theory, a silicon anode is capable of providing approximately 10 times the gravimetric (or 3 times the volumetric energy) of the standard graphite anode Li-ion battery.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 29, 2012

Researchers at Wuhan University (China) have synthesized a Sb/C (antimony/carbon) nanocomposite for use as an anode material in a room-temperature sodium-ion (Na-ion) battery. A sodium disk served as the counter and reference electrode. Source: Yang et al. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 21, 2020

We identify an optimal flow regime range, broadly applicable to other liquid-fed fuel cells, in terms of the standard dimensionless Reynolds number (Re) and the Damkohler number (Da). DBFCs fulfilling these criteria provide a 2.4 times higher power density at 1.5

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

Purification of the lithium, then reaction with sodium carbonate to convert it to lithium carbonate. All Eramet’s CSR standards will be applied on the activity. Fresh water is then used to release the stored lithium. Once filtered again and washed, it achieves the chemical quality of the finished product.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 2, 2021

Bottom, secondary products recovered from the ash, from left to right: liquid sodium silicate or “water glass”, precipitated SiO 2 , precipitated ZnSO 4. Around three kilograms of carbon black—also known as industrial soot—are found in a standard car tire. © Fraunhofer IBP.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Jadar, one of the largest greenfield lithium projects in development, would be capable of producing approximately 55 thousand tonnes of battery grade lithium carbonate, as well as 160 thousand tonnes of boric acid (B 2 O 3 units) and 255 thousand tonnes of sodium sulfate as by-products per annum.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 9, 2024

The companies’ patented processes also eliminate the production of thousands of tons of sodium sulfate waste—a byproduct of traditional cathode production and recycling methods.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

The electrolyte is transformed into a sodium sulfate salt, which is then used in textiles, glass, and detergent manufacturing. The facility will adhere to the US EPA’s latest standards for ambient air, which reduced the acceptable concentration of lead in air by a factor of 10, changing the standard from 1.5

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

Besides achieving a significant technical and performance milestone for hydrogen-on-demand enabled fuel cells, it is also the first time that a fuel cell has moved beyond the prototype stage and entered the standard products list of a UAV manufacturer. It took HES several years to achieve this performance.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 1, 2016

The process produces a toxic byproduct referred to as black liquor—a primarily liquid mixture of pulping residues (such as lignin and hemicellulose) and inorganic chemicals from the Kraft process (sodium hydroxide and sodium sulfide, for example). tons of black liquor dry solids. —Löfstedt et al. Löfstedt, J., Meuzelaar, G.,

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 4, 2015

EPA’s newly released voluminous final Clean Power Plan rule ( earlier post ) has established the first national standards to limit CO 2 emissions from fossil-fuel-fired power plants (Electric Generating Units, EGUs), with a target of a 32% reduction against a 2005 baseline by 2030.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 13, 2023

MHI will oversee both the conceptual design as well as research and development (R&D) for the sodium-cooled fast reactor in partnership with Mitsubishi FBR Systems, Inc. MHI is also involved in the US-Japan cooperation program (signature of memorandum of cooperation on sodium fast reactor technology with TerraPower, LLC in 2022).

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My Electric Car

JANUARY 29, 2023

Lithium iron phosphate (LFP) batteries have been gaining market share especially in China over recent years and Tesla Model 3 Standard Range vehicles made in China are all kitted out with LFP packs. Another chemistry that is coming onstream is sodium ion. million kilometers.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

The eMSIL is based on the standard Winnebago J33SE all-electric commercial shell platform, which earlier this year won a Sustainability Award by the RV Industry Association (RVIA) for its efforts in bringing an all-electric option to this vehicle segment.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 9, 2018

In their paper on the work published in the journal Joule , the researchers reported that by using a reduced graphene oxide (rGO)/sodium lignosulfonate (SL) composite on the standard polypropylene (PP) separator (rGO@SL/PP), they demonstrated a highly robust Li-S battery with a capacity retention of 74% over 1,000 cycles. …

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 13, 2012

Salty soils are a major problem because if sodium starts to build up in the leaves it will affect important processes such as photosynthesis, which is critical to the plant’s success. The salt-tolerant gene (known as TmHKT1;5-A) works by excluding sodium from the leaves. Importantly, there was no yield penalty with this gene.

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

A specific challenge would-be-conversions must face is that the NRC’s standards—both for atmospheric pollution and for the amount of radiological material a reactor can release—are much tighter than federal standards for coal plants. Only one nuclear power plant is currently under construction in the United States, in eastern Georgia.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 18, 2011

The electrolyte is transformed into a sodium sulfate salt, which is then used in textiles, glass, and detergent manufacturing. The facility will adhere to the US EPA’s newly released, more stringent standards for ambient air, which reduced the acceptable concentration of lead in air by a factor of 10, changing the standard from 1.5

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

A team of researchers from Tufts University, the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Harvard University report that alkali ions (sodium or potassium) added in small amounts activate platinum adsorbed on alumina or silica for the low-temperature water-gas shift (WGS) reaction (H 2 O+CO→ H 2 +CO 2 ) used for producing hydrogen.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 14, 2011

Practical hydrogen storage materials must take up and give off hydrogen at standard pressure and room temperature; accommodate a large amount of hydrogen in as little space as possible; and release it rapidly and on-demand. to sodium formate in 96% yield at 70 °C in water/THF without additional CO 2.

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Clean Fleet Report

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Other ideas in development include sodium-ion batteries, batteries with solid-state electrolytes , seawater batteries and nickel-cobalt-manganese-aluminum batteries, which produce more stable cells. Right now, lithium-ion batteries are the standard for electric vehicles. The Rise of New Battery Technologies.

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Baua Electric

JUNE 5, 2023

Gotion’s manganese-added cells “will create real opportunity to compete with some NCM chemistries where standard LFP struggles to compete on energy density,” mentioned Victoria Hugill, battery analysis analyst at London-based consultancy Rho Movement. LMFP may pluck a 6 p.c

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EV Connect

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Qualifying projects can receive up to 80% of their costs from NEVI grants and must meet strict standards around charging experience, uptime, reporting, cybersecurity, and more. EV Connect conforms to the stringent standards set by the U.S. With one charger needed for every 10 to 15 EVs , there’s work to do and we’re doing our part.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 17, 2014

Unlike B&W’s Generation III++ small modular reactor (SMR) mPower which is based on PWR technology and standard fuel enriched to 5% ( earlier post ), TerraPower’s TWR is a larger reactor based on Generation IV technology and designed to use depleted uranium as fuel.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 17, 2017

The current process used to produce malonic acid requires sodium cyanide and chloroacetic acid; Lygos’ engineered yeast produces malonic acid from sugar and CO 2 , thereby decreasing the prodution cost and increasing the number of potential applications.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 29, 2014

In addition, physical properties (flash point, cloud point, and kinematic viscosity) of all biodiesel blends were measured following the American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) standard methods.

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Charged EVs

APRIL 1, 2024

However, as sustainability is central to the mission of the EV industry, we need to hold ourselves to much higher standards than those of past transportation technologies, and there’s a long way to go before we have a true circular supply chain for batteries. Developing and scaling more sustainable recycling methods is a high priority.

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Push EVs

APRIL 12, 2023

Revolutionary Blade Battery as a standard BYD DOLPHIN benefits from the ground-breaking Blade Battery, which is revolutionising safety, durability and performance in the EV industry, and can withstand the harsh punishment of the Nail Penetration Test, regarded as the ‘Mount Everest’ of battery safety tests.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 27, 2018

A similar battery using a standard electrolyte can only maintain its charge for about 100 cycles. They say the concept of using this novel fluorine-based diluent to manipulate salt concentration also works well for sodium-metal batteries and other metal batteries.

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Teslarati

MAY 11, 2022

Tesla, for example, started transitioning its Standard Range trim levels to LFP batteries last year. The LFP cell is a major part of many automakers’ plans for future electric vehicles as more cell chemistries are being utilized to combat excessive demand.

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