Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and their colleagues have demonstrated a room-temperature method that could significantly reduce carbon dioxide levels in fossil-fuel power plant exhaust, one of the main sources of carbon emissions in the atmosphere.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 22, 2022

The system uses heated supercritical carbon dioxide instead of steam to generate electricity and is based on a closed-loop Brayton cycle. Supercritical carbon dioxide is a non-toxic, stable material that is under so much pressure it acts like both a liquid and a gas. Now that we can get across the river, we can get a lot more going.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 7, 2020

NUS scientists have discovered a new mechanism for selective electrochemical reduction of carbon dioxide to ethanol using copper-silver (Cu-Ag) composite catalysts. The electrochemical reduction of CO 2 to fuels and chemicals, when powered by renewable electricity, is a step forward in alleviating carbon emissions. —Prof YEO.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 14, 2023

The new DR-plant is a central component of thyssenkrupp's green transformation, and will be operated in conjunction with melting units and using green hydrogen. —Heike Denecke-Arnold, COO of thyssenkrupp Steel Steel production at thyssenkrupp Steel Europe is planned to be completely carbon-neutral by 2045 at the latest.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 20, 2021

This feeds self-generated green electricity to the production shop. The upstream production of materials and components creates more carbon dioxide than for the previous model. Alongside the CO2 improvement, the S 580 e also has advantages over its predecessor with respect to its eutrophication (EP) and summer smog (POCP) potential.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 14, 2014

Audi’s latest e-fuels project is participation in a a pilot plant project in Dresden that produces diesel fuel from water, CO 2 and green electricity. The sunfire plant, which operates according to the “power-to-liquid” (PtL) principle, requires carbon dioxide, water and electricity as raw materials. The process is up to 70% efficient.

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Teslarati

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

German Federal Research Minister Anja Karliczek recently unveiled an example of a “hyper hybrid” vehicle powered by synthetic methanol, which is based on “green hydrogen” technologies. Dafür wurden, so #Karliczek CO2-Abgase aus der Stahlindustrie zu Kraftstoffen „recycelt“. CO2 will continue to be produced.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

In the long term, Audi is pursuing the vision of CO2-neutral mobility and aims to be climate-neutral throughout the company on balance by 2050. Audi is focusing on the electric car, which has the best carbon footprint of all drive systems in the largest markets over its entire service life. Earlier post.).

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Audi CO2 Emissions Vehicles 275

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

This corresponds to the emissions of more than 89,900 km driven by a diesel truck and represents 85% of CO2 savings compared to a traditional diesel engine. The logistics industry is currently responsible for 11 percent of global carbon emissions. To fight against climate change, the transport sector needs true decarbonization.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 15, 2020

million in funding for 12 projects as part of Phase 1 of the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy’s (ARPA-E’s) FLExible Carbon Capture and Storage (FLECCS) program. Synergistic Heat Pumped Thermal Storage and Flexible Carbon Capture System - $1,000,000. The US Department of Energy announced $11.5 Colorado State University.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 16, 2022

The company’s early success led to its status as a finalist in the first Carbon Xprize, and in September 2021, global climate technology nonprofit investor Elemental Excelerator funded Dimensional as part of its 10 th cohort, which led to the company’s introduction to United.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 26, 2019

Researchers at EPFL have patented a new concept that could cut trucks’ CO 2 emissions by almost 90%. The patented concept is the subject of an open-access paper published in Frontiers in Energy Research. The EPFL system captures CO 2 directly in the trucks’ exhaust system and liquefies it in a box on the vehicle’s roof. 2019.00143.

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Electric Auto Association

JUNE 9, 2021

The fundamental green attribute of an EV is its ability to provide personal mobility without producing tailpipe emissions, delivering an unprecedented climate benefit even after accounting for all of its life-cycle emissions. Unfortunately, our intuitive concepts about CO2 conflict with our scientific appraisal of its harmfulness.

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 21, 2021

Nissan teases a Winter Camper concept that shows how the vanlife might go all-electric. And a look at long-term ownership costs vs. carbon impact shows the strength of EVs. This and more, here at Green Car Reports.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

PSE), a global provider of advanced process modeling technology, have developed a concept design for shipboard chemical CO 2 capture. The results from the Maritime CCS (carbon capture and storage) research and development project show that the concept is technically feasible and capable of reducing ship CO 2 emissions by up to 65%.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 9, 2017

VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland and Lappeenranta University of Technology (LUT) are beginning testing of the Soletair demo plant, which uses air-captured carbon dioxide to produce renewable fuels and chemicals. Hydrogen is used with recycled carbon dioxide to produce renewable fuels, raw materials, and chemicals.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 10, 2016

Researchers at Stanford University have devised a new strategy for using CO 2 in the synthesis of multi-carbon compounds. CO 2 reacts readily with carbon-centered nucleophiles—a chemical intermediate species that donates an electron pair to an electrophile to form a chemical bond in relation to a reaction.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 26, 2016

DOE’s Office of Fossil Energy is seeking these projects as part of the Department’s Carbon Storage program, which has the goal of developing and advancing technologies to improve the effectiveness of carbon storage, reduce the cost of implementation, and be ready for widespread commercial deployment in the 2025–2035 timeframe.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 20, 2011

A team at Stanford University is proposing using solid oxide fuel cells as the basis for a method for electricity production from oil shale with in situ carbon capture (EPICC) as a means to provide transportation services from oil shale with greatly reduced CO 2 emissions. Credit: ACS, Mulchandani and Brandt. Click to enlarge. decentralized.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 7, 2016

Researchers at The University of Texas at Arlington have been the first to demonstrate that polyaniline (PANI), a member of the organic conducting polymer family, is a promising photocathode material for the conversion of carbon dioxide into alcohol fuels without the need for a co-catalyst.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 13, 2009

Carbon Sciences, Inc., the developer of a biocatalytic process to transform CO 2 into low-carbon hydrocarbons (C 1 to C 3 ) for subsequent upgrading into higher-carbon fuels such as gasoline and jet fuel ( earlier post ), has also applied for an award under the FOA. Known as Funding Opportunity DE-FOA-0000015, the $2.4-billion

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 16, 2023

In 2020, the industrial sector accounted for 33% of the US’ primary energy use and 30% of energy-related carbon dioxide emissions. Topic 2: Low-Carbon Fuels Utilization RD&D. Concept papers are due 17 April 2023, at 5:00pm ET, and full applications are due 23 June 2023, at 5:00pm ET. Topic 7: Decarbonizing Cement and Concrete.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 28, 2014

Instead, DeCicco proposes “ setting the lifecycle paradigm aside ” and focusing on the problem of carbon dioxide removal. Despite the “ apparent maturity ” of FCA methods, there is little consensus on the role of biofuels as a low-carbon replacement for petroleum fuels. It has not been used to specify fuel regulations.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 7, 2016

ICAO’s Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation (CORSIA) is designed to complement the basket of mitigation measures the air transport community is already pursuing to reduce CO 2 emissions from international aviation. outside of the international aviation sector—using the concept of “emissions units”.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

million from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) to expand an existing industrial and innovative reuse carbon mitigation project. Arizona Public Service’s ongoing algae-based carbon mitigation project, previously selected via competitive solicitation, will be expanded to include testing with a coal-based gasification system.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 24, 2017

This process will enable the economically viable transformation of excess power and off-gas carbon dioxide into methanol in small-scale, decentralized production units. After four years of developing the global process concept, we are now ready to enter the licensing phase of this process, with construction of the first plants starting soon.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 13, 2014

This new concept H 2 /CO 2 FPSO, however, uses steam reforming and water shift conversion to extract hydrogen (H 2 ) and carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) from the associated gas produced as a byproduct of oil well production.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 15, 2019

CO2 emissions in g/km: 99; efficiency class: A+. ›. With the gasoline tank reduced in size to 9 liters (for a Golf Variant TGI, that corresponds to a range of approximately 200 kilometers) and now serving merely as a backup, this is referred to as a quasi-monovalent drive concept. extra-urban 3.0 / combined 3.6;

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

Dr. Martin Winterkorn said that “ The Porsche Mission E and the Audi e-tron quattro concept are nothing less than a quantum leap for our industry ”—both vehicles have an all-electric range of 500 kilometers (311 miles). The Audi e‑tron quattro concept sprints from a standstill to 100 km/h (62.1 Total output is 320 kW.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 8, 2014

The test provides a proof-of-concept for an NRL-developed process to extract CO 2 and produce hydrogen gas from seawater, subsequently catalytically converting the CO 2 and H 2 into fuel by a gas-to-liquids process. E-CEM Carbon Capture Skid. The gases are then converted to liquid hydrocarbons by a metal catalyst in a reactor system.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 26, 2011

million award from the US Department of Energy for a Phase 3 project to design and to test carbon dioxide compression using technologies developed under previous DOE phases of the improved compression technologies program. Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) has received a $9.9-million

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 7, 2016

A key concept in enzyme catalysis is the preorganization of the reaction environment by the enzyme, directing the substrate to the reaction site, which provides a favorable geometry for the transition state required for bond activation. A metal ion or metal cluster often has a critical role as a co-factor. —Professor O’Hair.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 25, 2013

Researchers at Brown and Yale have demonstrated a new enabling technology that could use excess carbon dioxide to produce acrylate, an important commodity chemical used to make materials from polyester fabrics to diapers. To prove the concept, they used the strongest acid that was easily available, one derived from boron.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 26, 2016

By utilizing a redox material such as ceria (CeO 2 ) as a reactive medium, STCs can produce hydrogen and carbon monoxide—i.e., Schematic illustration of direct hydrocarbon (C x H y O z ) formation from water and carbon dioxide during the reoxidation of reduced ceria doped with a catalyst (Cat.). syngas—from water and CO 2.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 13, 2018

At Mercedes-Benz Cars Operations, we are pursuing the strategy digital, flexible and green in our global production organization. Enovos primarily ensures the accounting, the grid use and the integration of the green power supply into the energy portfolio of the Mercedes-Benz plants. The plan calls for 33.1 million kWh.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 27, 2016

Current mild-hybrid vehicle projects, in partnership with Ford and Hyundai/Kia, that utilize advanced 48V lead-carbon batteries, can reduce CO 2 emissions by 15-20%, according to the latest data from the Advanced Lead Acid Battery Consortium (ALABC), presented at the Advanced Automotive Battery Conference (25-28 January, Mainz).

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Green Car Congress

JULY 26, 2012

The US Department of Energy (DOE) selected eight projects to advance the development of transformational oxy-combustion technologies capable of high-efficiency, low-cost carbon dioxide capture from coal-fired power plants. The boiler concept should allow for a more compact combustor with reduced gas-phase heat exchanger surface area.

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