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LeMond Composites, founded by three-time Tour de France champion Greg LeMond, has licensed a low-cost, high-volume carbon fiber manufacturing process developed at the US Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). ORNL began accepting license applications in March 2016. Earlier post.)
The devices can be fabricated with as few as three parts (anode, cathode, and cell body), reflecting their simplicity and potential for low-cost manufacture.The researchers used 3D printing to fabricate prototype electrolyzers that they demonstrated to be electrolyte agnostic, modular, and capable of operating with minimal product crossover.
Owing to its high activity and lowcost, the catalyst shows significant potential for use in low-cost, high-performance fuel cells, the team suggested. This new hydroxide exchange membrane fuel cell can offer high performance at an unprecedented lowcost. —Zhuang et al. —Zhuang et al.
The systems operate at low pressure (up to 10bar), which provides superior safety. Hydrexia says that its ground storage products will be available for commercial deliveries starting Q1 2016. The solid-state trailer product is optimized for high hydrogen storage density and low delivery cost. Mobile Delivery Products.
Stanford University scientists have identified a new solid-state Li-ion electrolyte predicted to exhibit simultaneously fast ionic conductivity, wide electrochemical stability, lowcost, and low mass density. S system also has a low elemental cost of approximately 0.05 V and possibly as high as 3 V or greater.
M-KERS can recover up to 70% of braking energy for around a third the cost of battery electric hybrids, the company says. CFT KERS scales down very well so could open-up a new market for small, low-cost automotive hybrids. —John Hilton, Flybrid co-founder.
A Li-air battery, with its air cathode, is a low-cost system, Anandan said. However, key drawbacks to the Li-air system are its relatively low practical energy density, low cycle life and the complexity of the system, Anandan said. It also offers a high theoretical specific energy density.
However, Hurst adds that the primary challenge facing the hybrid truck market remains the cost of the system. While the typical operating cost of a diesel vehicle is significantly higher than that of other drivetrains ($0.72/mile mile for diesel versus $0.60/mile mile for hybrid and $0.22/mile mile for diesel versus $0.60/mile
Low-cost 14V micro hybrid systems and full (strong) hybrid (i.e., The first two parameters (cost and life), in combination, represent the economic cost of an energy-storage system capable of providing the hybridization function over the vehicle’s life. —“The 2014 xEV Industry Insider Report”. Source: AAB.
My team and I are excited to bring our high-performance low-cost carbon fiber to the global market, and look forward to expanding into new markets where the current high cost of carbon fiber has been a significant barrier to adoption. —Greg LeMond, founder and chairman of the board of LeMond Carbon.
HRL achieved a scientific breakthrough with pre-ceramic resins that can be 3D printed and converted to high-temperature ceramic that was first published in the journal Science on 1 January 2016.
Source: DOE workshop April 2016. The H2@Scale initiative will develop and enable the deployment of transformational technologies that produce and utilize green, low-cost hydrogen to achieve an economically competitive, deeply decarbonized future energy system across sectors. Click to enlarge. Click to enlarge.
According to a new forecast report from Navigant Research, global commercial alternative powertrain medium- and heavy-duty vehicle (MHDV) sales will grow from about 347,000 vehicles in 2016 to more than 820,000 in 2026, representing a CAGR of about 9%. A major factor has always been the cost of battery packs.
The cost of producing, delivering, and dispensing hydrogen in early markets for light duty vehicles during recent commercial station deployments was estimated to be $13-$16/gallon gasoline equivalent (gge). 2c) Breakthrough Infrastructure R&D: materials and component R&D to reduce cost and station footprint.
However, wide scale adoption of β-titanium alloys in transportation applications has been limited due to its high cost. The cost of β-titanium alloys can be lowered by replacing the expensive β stabilizers such as Mo, Cr and V (in full or in part) by lowcost Fe such as the case in Ti–1Al–8V–5Fe (Ti-185) alloy introduced in 1960s.
The US Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) will issue , on behalf of the Vehicle Technologies Office (VTO), a FY 2016 Vehicle Technologies Program Wide Funding Opportunity Announcement, with an estimated $56 million of total program funding, in the January 2016 timeframe.
Even if a refueling station is relatively complex, it is just another piece of equipment that has to have a small footprint, high uptime, and lowcost of ownership. H2 Logic will start to relocate to the new facility in the second half of 2016, and will complete the rebuild and relocation during 2017.
Eos Energy Storage announced the commercial availability of its MW-scale Aurora system for deliveries starting in 2016. The Aurora product employs Eos’s patented Znyth battery technology that uses a safe aqueous electrolyte and a novel zinc-hybrid cathode to enable extremely low-cost electricity storage and long life.
Department of Energy (DOE) reported earlier this month that the average price for a lithium-ion EV battery dropped 90 percent between 2008 and 2023 for light-duty vehicles, based on the cost of usable energy. Last year, it was found that Redwood Materials, a battery recycler founded by Tesla Board member and Co-Founder J.B.
OptiFuel has already developed and tested a high volume CNG/RNG refueling system at the Indiana Harbor Belt CNG locomotive program, utilizing low-cost CNG. The OptiFuel design will allow the railroads to repower existing Tier 3 and Tier 4 line-haul locomotives at half the cost of fully replacing older Pre-Tier 0 to Tier 2 locomotives.
Three factors—technology, regulatory mandates, and consumer cost of ownership—will shape the changeover, which BCG expects to play out over three phases and about a dozen years: Phase 1. The lowcost of gasoline in the US will yield similar results.
will twin the southern section of its Athabasca Pipeline from the Kirby Lake, Alberta terminal to the Hardisty, Alberta crude oil hub at an estimated cost of approximately C$1.2 The twin line will initially add approximately 450,000 barrels per day (bpd) of capacity between these points, with lowcost expansion potential to 800,000 bpd.
announced in January 2016. But as manufacturing ramps up and the efficiencies of these types of cells climbs to 35%, the researchers predict the cost per watt could fall to 66 cents for a GaInP-based cell and to 85 cents for the GaAs-based cell. An efficiency of 32.5% —just 2% below the overall triple-junction record.
Ce-Al does not require additional thermal processing during the casting process and takes advantage of abundant, low-cost cerium, said ORNL scientist Orlando Rios. The cost of heat treatment and the additional machining required due to thermal distortion can make up some 50-60% of the cost of casting traditional alloys.
Technical areas of interest include: Innovative Concepts: This topic area will support the research and development of SOFC technology that has the potential to significantly undercut current DOE cost targets in a SOFC system. Cathode air humidity should be at reasonable levels consistent with that expected in commercial deployment.
The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced approximately $30 million in available funding ( DE-FOA-0001647 ), subject to appropriations, for research and development of low-cost hydrogen production, onboard hydrogen storage, and proton exchange membrane fuel cells to advance the widespread commercialization of fuel cell electric vehicles.
The selected projects will focus on developing carbon capture technologies that can achieve at least 90% CO 2 removal and reduce the added costs at power plants with carbon capture systems to no more than a 35% increase in the cost of electricity produced at the plant. DOE share: $2,997,107; recipient share: $912,092.
Over the past three years, engineers from Honda and GM have been working as one team with each company providing know-how from its unique expertise to create a compact and low-cost next-gen fuel cell system. —Mark Reuss, GM executive vice president, Global Product Development, Purchasing and Supply Chain“.
Projected rates of fuel consumption improvement under different scenarios relative to past experience and the 2016 and 2025 CAFE standards. The committee supports consistent R&D to advance technology development and to reduce the costs of alternative fuels and vehicles. Source: NRC. Click to enlarge. —Douglas M.
The first trials on the demo plant in Leuna were successfully completed, within schedule, in the fall of 2016 and Global Bioenergies announced first production of green isobutene via fermentation. Global Bioenergies is now entering the final phase of demonstrating its technology for converting renewable carbon into hydrocarbons.
Ballard anticipates receipt of purchase orders under the ESA that will lead to delivery of these fuel cell modules to Van Hool in 2015 and 2016. The module will also utilize fuel cell stacks manufactured through a high-volume, low-cost process. Van Hool is a Belgium-based independent bus, coach and industrial vehicle OEM.
In 2016, DOE national laboratories identified the potential of hydrogen to decarbonize deeply a multitude of sectors in a proposal termed “H2@Scale”. For domestic institutions of higher education, domestic nonprofit entities, or US State, local, or tribal government entities, the cost-share requirement is 10%.
mpg by 2016. The market would focus, consolidate and find some very innovative ways to produce low-cost clean energy. Even ruling Hawaii out as an outlier, the cost of electricity in Connecticut was 17.79 In contrast, imagine the public outcry if the cost of gasoline varied from $3.00 cents/ kWh in Hawaii to 5.61
However, no specific model has existed to examine the costs of manufacturing these cylindrical cells. To date, manufacturing process research and cost models have focused exclusively on prismatic cells, and there is no specific model to address the costs of manufacturing cylindrical cells. —Rebecca Ciez. 2016.11.054.
Their hybrid approach combines the highly efficient light harvesting of inorganic semiconductors with the high specificity, lowcost, and self-replication and -repair of biocatalysts. thermoacetica–CdS system directs ~90% of photosynthetic products toward acetic acid, reducing the cost of diversifying to other chemical products.
For 20 years, researchers have shown that CNT membranes offer tremendous promise for a wide variety of uses including the low-cost production of ethanol fuel, precision drug delivery, low-energy desalination of seawater, purification of pharmaceutical compounds, and high-performance catalysis for the production of fuels.
Low-cost commercial production of PODE has recently been realized in China. In 2012, Tsinghua University developed an industrial technique for producing PODE with the capacity of 10 kton/year in China, and the cost of production is close to that of diesel. PODE can be synthesized from methanol. —Wang et al. 2016.06.033.
So far, many materials have been suggested until now, however, titanium dioxide (TiO 2 ) is still one of attractive photoelectrodes due to its strong optical absorption, high chemical stability, environmental benignity, and lowcost. Heon Lee (Korean University). 2016.01.004.
The US Department of Energy has announced the 2016 Small Business Innovation Research and Small Business Technology Transfer (SBIR/STTR) Phase I Release 2 Topics, covering eight DOE research program organizations. DOE plans to issue the full Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) on 30 November 2015.
Thus, one problem facing the production of advanced biofuels via large-scale fermentation of complex low-cost feedstocks (e.g., In theory you could operate a fermentation plant with much less expensive equipment and lower associated operating costs. —Jeff Lievense. Joe Shaw, Felix H. Brevnova, Emily Greenhagen, W.
More to the point, the cost of electric vehicles will only decline in real dollar terms over time, and adoption should continue to rise in a non-linear fashion. The industry cut upstream investment by $250 billion in 2015, and another $70 billion could be cut in 2016. That presents a significant threat to long-term oil sales.
The commercialization path in part will depend on the cost of cerium. At an alloy cost of less than $10.00/kg, Turchi (2016) “Cerium-Based, Intermetallic-Strengthened Aluminum Casting Alloy: High-Volume Co-product Development” JOM doi: 10.1007/s11837-016-1943-9. Image credit: Carlos Jones, ORNL. Click to enlarge. McCall, M.
The greatest challenge is the same as that which is plaguing the adoption of fuel cells in the automotive market—the buildout of low-cost green hydrogen infrastructure. Tier 1 cities in China were the first to adopt electric buses, driving rapid growth between 2012-2016, but now many of these markets are saturated.
While the MOF material has advantages in the simplicity and potentially lowcost of manufacturing, the materials used to make it are more expensive than conventional carbon-based materials, Dincă said. We have a new material to work with, and we haven’t optimized it at all. It’s completely tunable, and that’s what’s exciting.
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