Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 16, 2017

We’re not isolating a natural system to generate energy from sunlight, but rather we are constructing a completely man-made system for designed-protein expression without the need for biological cells, and then combining them with semiconductor particles. Peng Wang, Angela Y. Chang, Valentyn Novosad, Vladimir V. Chupin, Richard D. 7b01142.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 10, 2017

Optimizing the copper/zinc oxide interface will become the driving principal for designing a new catalyst, the scientists say. Rodriguez, Ping Liu (2017) “Active sites for CO 2 hydrogenation to methanol on Cu/ZnO catalysts” Science Vol. So there’s a synergy between the copper and zinc oxide that accelerates the chemical transformation.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 22, 2019

Velocys is leading the development of the project and has assembled all the technology components into a standardized integrated design. University College of London students were crowned as the winners of its BA 2119: Future of Fuels challenge. million gallons US) of cleaner-burning sustainable jet and road fuel each year.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 31, 2019

An international team of researchers led by a group from the University of Manchester in the UK has used a biological technique which won the 2017 Nobel Chemistry Prize to reveal 3D atomic-scale chemistry in metal nanoparticles used as catalysts. —Professor Sarah Haigh, from the School of Materials, University of Manchester.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

An electrolysis unit developed by Lappeenranta University of Technology (LUT) produces the required hydrogen by means of solar power. A microstructured, chemical reactor—the key component of the plant—converts the hydrogen produced from solar power together with carbon dioxide into liquid fuels.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 6, 2017

Researchers at Rutgers University-New Brunswick and Michigan State University have devised a way to reduce the amount of enzymes needed to convert biomass into biofuels by designing and genetically engineering enzyme surfaces so they bind less to the lignin in biomass. Enzymes cost about $0.50 —Whitehead et al.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 1, 2013

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has selected four research and development projects designed to bring next-generation biofuels on line faster and to drive down the cost of producing gasoline, diesel, and jet fuels from biomass. University of Oklahoma (up to $4 million). Virent, Inc. (up up to $4 million).

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Green Car Congress

MAY 7, 2019

A team of Fraunhofer researchers has significantly enhanced the functionality of GaN power ICs for voltage converters: the researchers at Fraunhofer IAF integrated current and temperature sensors onto a GaN-based semiconductor chip, along with power transistors, freewheeling diodes and gate drivers. © Fraunhofer IAF. —Stefan Mönch.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 24, 2017

Researchers at Rice University and the University of Houston created an efficient, simple-to-manufacture core/shell photoanode with a highly active oxygen evolution electrocatalyst shell (FeMnP) and semiconductor core (rutile TiO 2 ) for the photoelectrochemical oxygen evolution reaction (PEC-OER) for solar water splitting.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Researchers at Washington State University and the University of Nevada developed a novel process for synthesizing dense jet fuel from mint, pine, gumweed, eucalyptus or other plants. Herein, we design a novel biphasic tandem catalysis process (biTCP) aiming to highly efficiently convert terpenoids to cycloalkanes.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 21, 2017

Simona Onori, an assistant professor at Clemson University, has received a $500,000 Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) award from the National Science Foundation to advance her work to develop integrated modeling and control for aftertreatment systems to reduce fine-particle emissions from gasoline direct injection (GDI) engines.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

By 2030, aluminum demand from Electric Vehicles (EVs) will near 10 million tonnes, a ten-fold increase from 2017, according to analysis by mining and metals business intelligence firm CRU. From a share of 4% in 2017, CRU expects electric vehicles to account for approximately 30% of the global vehicle fleet by 2030.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 1, 2016

The GDL in polymer electrolyte membrane (PEM) fuel cell provides a steady supply of gas to the catalyst layers, which are located on both sides of the ion exchange membrane and which convert hydrogen and oxygen into electrical energy and water. W/cm 2 at 0.6 CNRS Montpellier, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd., 2011.12.148.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 7, 2017

Earlier this month, GM outlined its electric path to zero emissions, and introduced SURUS—the Silent Utility Rover Universal Superstructure (SURUS)—a fuel-cell-powered, four-wheel steer concept vehicle on a heavy-duty truck frame that’s driven by two electric motors. Earlier post.) Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 2, 2017

Researchers from the University of Minnesota, with colleagues at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, have developed a new high-yield process—a hybrid of fermentation followed by thermochemical catalysis—to produce renewable isoprene from biomass. Joseph McAuliffe ( earlier post ).

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 21, 2017

As part of its partnership with CNL—a group of fifteen of Austria’s largest companies in the retail, logistics and production sectors—MAN will be making test vehicles available to nine CNL member companies for practical trials from the end of 2017. At the same time, the system is also designed for opportunity charging.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 10, 2017

CIRCUITS seeks to accelerate the development and deployment of a new class of efficient, lightweight, and reliable power converters based on wide bandgap (WBG) semiconductors through transformational system-level advances that enable effective operation at high switching frequency, high temperature, and low loss. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 12, 2017

This work could be used to improve enzyme performance to better break down biomass and convert waste plant matter to renewable fuels and products. Gaining a deeper understanding of the basic structure, function, and relationships of proteins is fundamental to helping design new strategies to improve overall enzyme performance.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 7, 2017

Engineering researchers at The University of Texas at Austin and colleagues have. The study included co-authors from the University of Washington, University of British Columbia, Utrecht University, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Aclima and EDF. Apte, Kyle P. Messier, Shahzad Gani, Michael Brauer, Thomas W.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

AMEC technology is an advanced hard real-time, determinist and parallel interface which combines an embedded programmable logic area (AMEC FLU), designed for automotive constraints, and a specialized actuator/sensor peripherals unit (AMEC PrP). Engineering samples will be available to customers during the first quarter of 2017.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 12, 2017

Researchers at Oklahoma State University are developing a novel natural Gas and Biomass to Liquids (GBTL) technology that will synergistically use biomass (e.g. Bio-oil produced from biomass fast pyrolysis technology can be converted into hydrocarbons; however, this process is challenging due to the instability of bio-oil.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 30, 2017

Economic appeal, relative to alternative land uses, is a sine qua non for landowners to be willing to convert their lands to bioenergy crop production. Looking forward, however, the team calls for more research on designing landscapes to provide the optimal suite of energy, climate and environmental benefits. —Robertson et al.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Geely is now working on a new design, eliminating the need for the small gasoline tank. It burns without soot and has a high octane number which enables car manufacturers to design lighter, powerful engines with more efficiency than can be achieved in the design of traditional gasoline or diesel engines.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 12, 2017

A team from Nanjing University in China, using a titanium nitride (TiN) nanotube array as the substrate, has synthesized a high-performance composite tin anode (TiN@Sn) for Li-ion batteries. The volume ratio of active materials, void, and scaffold should be rationally designed to maximize the volumetric capacity and cyclability. …

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

He helped develop the Williams-Comstock formula, a critical design tool for magnetic recording systems. in electrical engineering from the University of Southern California , in Los Angeles. Ferreira's first job, in 1981, was at the Institute of Power Electronics and Electric Drives at Aachen University , in Germany.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 9, 2017

Researchers from the University of Liverpool (UK), with colleagues from Dalian University of Technology (China) and the University of Hull (UK), have developed a new process for the direct, one-step activation of carbon dioxide and methane (dry reforming of methane) into higher value liquid fuels and chemicals (e.g.,

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 24, 2017

Professor John DeCicco at the University of Michigan Energy Institute has grown increasingly critical of the lifecycle analysis methods used to justify and administer biofuel policies. Attempting to refute our work by recourse to the faulty lifecycle logic that our method was designed to avoid is itself but a form of circular reasoning.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 27, 2018

With the mission to enable the transition to renewable energy and electrification, Northvolt in March 2017 launched its plans to build Europe’s largest lithium-ion battery cell factory. Northvolt’s cell design team delivered the first test cell earlier this year.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 21, 2017

Researchers at Standford University have designed large-format, thin-film copper catalysts for the electroreduction of CO 2 to ethanol. Jaramillo (2017). The results are published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Copper is one of the few catalysts that can produce ethanol at room temperature,” he said.

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MAY 7, 2024

EcoG offers an operating system for EV chargers, as well as a suite of hardware and software tools for designing chargers. It’s all part of a system that’s designed to enable manufacturers to quickly scale up production of charging infrastructure products. The company was founded by three former Siemens professionals in 2017.

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MAY 7, 2024

EcoG offers an operating system for EV chargers, as well as a suite of hardware and software tools for designing chargers. It’s all part of a system that’s designed to enable manufacturers to quickly scale up production of charging infrastructure products. The company was founded by three former Siemens professionals in 2017.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 6, 2017

The team focused on yeast in part because of its important modern-day applications; yeasts are used to convert the sugars of biomass feedstocks into biofuels such as ethanol and industrial chemicals such as lactic acid, or to break down organic pollutants. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology (IGB), which is led by Zhao.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

A team of scientists from CoorsTek Membrane Sciences, the University of Oslo (Norway) and the Instituto de Tecnología Química (Spain) have successfully completed laboratory testing of a ceramic membrane that generates compressed hydrogen from natural gas and electricity in a one-step process with near-zero energy loss. Morejudo, Per K.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 17, 2010

The Hybrid Integrated Urban Commercial Vehicle (HIUCV) is a lightweight Heavy Goods Vehicle designed for refuse collection in an urban environment. The HIUCV will be designed to significantly exceed legislative and Government requirements for greener vehicles. A hydrogen fuel cell version of the van is due to be launched in 2017.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

In a new study, Harvard University researchers found more than 90% of potential new Canadian hydroelectric projects are likely to increase concentrations of the neurotoxin methylmercury (MeHg) in food webs near indigenous communities. The research is published in the ACS journal Environmental Science & Technology.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 7, 2022

While growing up in Germany, Heike Riel helped her father design and build furniture in the family workshop. She joined IBM Research in Zurich in 1998 while pursuing her doctorate in physics in collaboration with the University of Bayreuth , also in Germany. After earning her Ph.D.

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JUNE 29, 2022

The second instrument was a highly experimental Multispectral Scanner System (MSS) designed by Virginia T. The MSS, though, operated until 6 January 1978, outliving its design life by four and a half years and recording more than 300,000 images. Everyone assumed the camera would be the workhorse of the mission.

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