Green Car Congress

APRIL 9, 2014

The schematic of the turbocharged 4-cylinder engine in a D-EGR configuration (left), and the D-EGR engine under the hood of the demo vehicle showcased at SAE World Congress in Detroit. By running one cylinder rich, the excess fuel is reformed into hydrogen and carbon monoxide. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 11, 2009

SOLVE adds a solvent to the steam in SAGD (basic operation depicted above) to reduce energy input and water consumption. Unlike surface mined oil sands, in-situ recovery involves much less land disturbance, but still requires the use of water and natural gas in the steam production process. Source: StatoilHydro. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 2, 2020

The byproduct of using fossil-free electricity and hydrogen in steelmaking, instead of coke and coal, will be water instead of carbon dioxide. The initiative has the potential to reduce Sweden’s total carbon dioxide emissions by 10%. The HYBRIT initiative has been granted financial support from the Swedish Energy Agency.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 28, 2013

With a year-round harvest schedule, the beet crop delivers ethanol yields that are greater per acre and have a lower carbon index than Brazilian sugar cane or North American corn. The water in the beets will be captured during processing and recycled so that little water will be used in the plant.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 30, 2016

LanzaTech has been selected by the Department of Energy’s Bioenergy Technologies Office (BETO) to receive a $4-million award to design and plan a demonstration-scale facility using industrial off gases to produce 3 million gallons/year of low-carbon jet and diesel fuels. The LanzaTech award was one of six totaling $12.9 Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

the developer of a process for harvesting algae and cleaning up oil & gas water, announced that its second original equipment manufacturer’s (OEM) agreement will target oil service companies in the Canadian oil sands market. OriginOil, Inc., LH was an early private investor in Athabasca Oil Corporation.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 10, 2009

Ignite Energy Resources supercritical water process diagram. IER’s proprietary supercritical water technology (SCW) transforms low-ranked coals, including lignite, directly into higher-valued oils and cleaner coal products. Source: IER. Click to enlarge. not via an indirect pathway (gasification) as in Fischer-Tropsch processes.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 1, 2013

The participating utilities, Energy Northwest and Utah Associated Municipal Power Systems, have assessed regional strategies for reducing long-term carbon emissions including replacing aging coal-fired units, as well as meeting forecasted energy demand growth, and concluded that SMR technology is a vitally important option.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 4, 2013

The project partners decided to deploy a PEM system, as this technology, in comparison with alkaline systems, uses water rather than a potassium hydroxide solution, and is therefore more environmentally friendly. The plant is located on the premises of Mainova AG in Schielestraße in Frankfurt am Main.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 30, 2018

The objective of H2-Share is to facilitate the development of a market for low-carbon heavy-duty vehicles run on hydrogen for logistic applications. H2-Share stands for Hydrogen Solutions for Heavy-duty transport Aimed at Reduction of Emissions in North West Europe.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 16, 2019

SUNFIRE-SYNLINK —a co-electrolyzer based on solid oxide cell (SOC) technology—enables the highly efficient production (a projected ~80% efficiency on an industrial scale) of synthesis gas in a single step using water, CO 2 and green electricity.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

High-temperature electrolyzers for hydrogen production use both heat and electricity to split water and are more efficient than low-temperature electrolyzers. This could be sold regionally as a commodity for fertilizers, oil refining, steel production, material handling equipment, fuel cell vehicles, or even carbon-neutral synthetic fuels.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 16, 2022

As the project recycles historic mine tailings, it will clean up the contaminated site and eliminate a longstanding source of water pollution. manganese, mostly occurring as rhodochrosite and kutnohorite, two mineral forms of manganese carbonate. Background.

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Cars That Think

MAY 31, 2024

South 8 Technologies Conventional Li-ion batteries use liquid solvents, such as ethylene and dimethyl carbonate , as the electrolyte. When it’s cold, the carbonates thicken, which lowers the power of the battery. They can also freeze, which shuts down all conductivity. Phoenix Tailings —a startup based in Woburn, Mass.—extracts

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 13, 2010

Using wood chips as feedstock, the technology is projected to decrease process water consumption by up to 75% compared to producing corn ethanol while retaining all of the life-cycle carbon benefits inherent to cellulosic ethanol. The project involves the construction of a demonstration facility at a total cost of approximately C$17.0

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 5, 2015

Biomass Sorghum is a feedstock for low-carbon advanced biofuels. The 20-acre demonstration crop of biomass sorghum was planted, grown, and harvested by Aemetis in approximately 90 days, validating the potential use of biomass crops for the production of lower-carbon, advanced biofuels or as a rotational crop in California.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 19, 2019

Existing water-splitting methods rely on highly purified water—a precious resource and costly to produce. Electrolysis of water to generate hydrogen fuel is an attractive renewable energy storage technology. Electrolysis of water to generate hydrogen fuel is an attractive renewable energy storage technology.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 16, 2022

million award from ARPA-E ( earlier post ), has developed a reactor and catalysts to convert CO 2 and hydrogen from water into syngas for use in the Fischer-Tropsch process. The company began construction on a CO 2 -to-fuels demo in Tucson, Arizona in 2021. Dimensional Energy, which recently received a $3.1-million

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 1, 2017

The decision triggers investments of around NOK 2 billion (US$238 million), realizing a 60-70% cost reduction per MW from the Hywind demo project in Norway. The pilot park will cover around 4 square kilometres, at a water depth of 95-120 meters. With fixed turbines, offshore wind is optimal for 20-50 meters water depth.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 3, 2017

Produced from renewable feedstocks, it offers both an option to increase the renewable content of gasoline and a lower carbon alternative to fossil-derived isobutanol in existing chemical applications. As a fuel, it can be blended with gasoline in higher concentrations than ethanol without compromising compatibility or performance.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 10, 2010

In the Unitel process, the feedstock—a slurry or “soup” of water and cultivated algae (1% to 20% by weight) is continuously treated in a special hydrolysis reactor to yield: a fatty acid product; a “sweet” water stream containing glycerol and other solubles; and. de-oiled algal biomass.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 18, 2009

Swan Hills Synfuels expects the project to demonstrate the ability to manufacture synthetic gas from Alberta’s coal resources, with the future potential of utilizing the coal seams for carbon capture and storage. The deep formations could also store carbon dioxide after the coal is turned into gas.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 29, 2017

By combining a small amount of air with the fuel inside the tubes, along with the inherent temperature of the Atrex Energy SOFC process, the fuel is automatically reformed to produce the needed hydrogen as well as carbon. The only by-products of the Atrex Energy SOFC design are water vapor, heat and low levels of carbon dioxide.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 4, 2016

Global Bioenergies will use its demo plant, presently under construction on the site of the Leuna refinery, to produce these batches. The underlying principle of Audi e-fuels is to use CO 2 as a raw material in fuel production and incorporate it into a closed carbon cycle. Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 9, 2018

It isn’t dependent on crude oil, it is compatible with the existing infrastructure and it offers the prospect of a closed carbon cycle. As in Werlte, green electricity supplied the energy, and water and CO 2 were also used as raw materials. Like all Audi e-fuels, the new fuel has many advantages. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 24, 2017

million OTTO-R project for the production of gasoline from “green” methanol produced from CO 2 , water and renewable electricity. The reaction heat of the exothermal reactions is used in the newly developed reactors to generate steam from boiler feed water, which is then utilized as an energy source for the process.

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Baua Electric

OCTOBER 10, 2024

The Nevada demonstration plant integrates direct lithium extraction (DLE), concentration and conversion technologies to produce lithium from brine 500 times faster than conventional methods while using only 10% of the land, as well as less water and chemical reagents, according to the company.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 25, 2024

That’s what you’re seeing in the picture above : the shadow of a broken tip of one of the helicopter’s four two-foot long carbon fiber rotor blades. NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/MSSS As a tech demo, Ingenuity’s entire reason for existence was to push the boundaries of what’s possible. You did well.

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Teslarati

MAY 24, 2022

It also noted that the reuse of Dragon’s heat shield tiles – the structures that take the brunt of most reentry heating and are immersed in salt water after every mission – is extremely limited and has only been attempted on occasional Cargo Dragon missions. cm (3 in) thickness after each reentry.

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Setec Powerr

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Lancaster-based NanoSUN Ltd, supported by an innovation loan, develops and manufactures hydrogen fuel products for customers in the oil, gas and transport sectors, helping them to triple the number of highly skilled engineers and build prototypes for them product and demo. The UK will invest £9.4

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 18, 2023

The efficient, clean, flameless reaction at the heart of the Mainspring generator works with nearly any fuel, including carbon-free ammonia as shown here. The ammonia reacts with oxygen in air to produce nitrogen gas and water, and the resulting force pushes against the walls of the box. Here’s how that would work.

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Baua Electric

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

Brands are also investing in the research and development of new materials, which could further reduce carbon footprints in the future. Source: Škoda ‘It is shredded and spun out again without any use of water or chemicals. In turn, this will reduce their vehicles’ carbon footprint.

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Plug In India

MARCH 21, 2022

Solar at home,EV for commute & rain water harvesting at home that’s the best we can contribute to cleaner environment. With all this ,my main idea was to how reduce carbon imprint further,so that I only use ICE for highway travels-long drives. (Of First, use water to cool down the battery to avoid further combustion.

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Cars That Think

MAY 15, 2024

It can look like leather, textile, brushed steel, wood, carbon fiber, almost anything, and can take light from all angles as well, and can be in different colors. We have zero emissions to air and water. And they develop a technology, and it’s a great demo technology. So indoor, outdoor from any angle. We’re not angle dependent.

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Electric Auto Association

OCTOBER 28, 2021

For over 40 years I have organized demos and exhibited EVs, especially light EVs, at in-person EVents to thousands of people. Her organization, like EAA, is extremely passionate about helping people reduce their carbon footprint and live sustainable lives. What is your most effective contribution toward the adoption of EVs?

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Get Electric Vehicle

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Carbon footprint from EV and IC engine vehicles 4. Some other topics are… Comparison of air and water cooling system for EV battery (technology, cost, efficiency, etc.). A miniature demo version can be developed. #56 Carbon emission reduction analysis for HEV and Gasoline cars. #76 Battery manufacturing etc.

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Electric Auto Association

OCTOBER 28, 2021

For over 40 years I have organized demos and exhibited EVs, especially light EVs, at in-person EVents to thousands of people. Her organization, like EAA, is extremely passionate about helping people reduce their carbon footprint and live sustainable lives. What is your most effective contribution toward the adoption of EVs?

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