Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Researchers at Georgia Tech have developed a promising new conversion-type cathode and electrolyte system that replaces expensive metals and traditional liquid electrolyte with lower cost transition metal fluorides and a solid polymer electrolyte. A paper on their work is published in the journal Nature Materials.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 22, 2022

The Brayton cycle is named after 19 th century engineer George Brayton, who developed this method of using hot, pressurized fluid to spin a turbine, much like a jet engine. In comparison, the Brayton cycle has a theoretical conversion efficiency upwards of 50%. Maybe it’s just a pontoon bridge, but it’s definitely a bridge.

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Charged EVs

MAY 31, 2022

Upcoming electric passenger vehicles and light trucks from GM get most of the attention, but its new commercial EV brand is a quiet and very serious push too. But very few consumers will come up with BrightDrop , the name GM has given to a new unit that builds electric commercial vehicles: full-size vans and even electric cargo containers.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 9, 2011

To handle the plastic waste stream, RockTenn has been storing this by-product in company-owned plastic-only monofill sites for several years. JBI scaled a 1kg process to a 20MT commercial processor in less than one year. These include pyrolysis; catalytic conversion; depolymerization; and gasification.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 13, 2022

OptiFuel’s rail engine solutions are powered by their EPA-certified locomotive CNG/RNG engine rated at 0.00 The second challenge was engineering flexibility into the system—railroads had different performance needs and access to different sources of power. Then there was the challenge of new technology.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 4, 2014

Dearman liquid air engine in a TRU system. The Dearman Engine Company has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Hubbard Products Ltd to manage the vehicle integration of the Dearman engine liquid air transport refrigeration system (TRU) ( earlier post ). This can be used to drive an engine. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 5, 2022

The project, located at Suncor’s Burrard Terminal site, will produce hydrogen while storing the carbon byproduct as solid synthetic graphite that can be sold on the open market for manufacturing or industrial use. The first phase of the project is now underway including front-end engineering, design studies and permitting applications.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 24, 2020

The results, reported in the journal Nature Energy , represent a new method for the conversion of carbon dioxide into clean fuels. In addition, storage of gaseous fuels and separation of by-products can be complicated—we want to get to the point where we can cleanly produce a liquid fuel that can also be easily stored and transported.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

OPEN solicitations are an open call to scientists and engineers for transformational technologies across the entire scope of ARPA-E’s energy mission. Pinnacle Engines will electrify its four-stroke, spark-ignited, opposed-piston engine to improve fuel efficiency and reduce its cost.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 23, 2014

A consortium led by the Dearman Engine Company has been awarded £1.86 million) in the latest round of IDP10 funding from the UK’s Technology Strategy Board to support the development of a heat-recovery system for urban commercial vehicles. The Dearman Engine operates by the vaporization and expansion of cryogenic fluids.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 18, 2014

VTO is seeking projects that address the major challenges to developing and commercializing batteries for plug?in As described in multiple DOE reports, the main barriers to widespread PEV commercialization are the cost; performance and life; and abuse tolerance of high?energy energy storing) materials. duty engines.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 3, 2022

An open-access paper on their results is published in the journal ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering. estimated that with conversion by hydrothermal liquefaction (HTL) and upgrading, the wet waste resource availability in the United States could be converted to jet fuel that is equivalent to about 24% of the U.S. Skaggs et al.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 2, 2012

Electricity powered the electrochemical CO 2 reduction on the cathode to produce formate, which is converted to isobutanol and 3MB by the engineered R. A man-made photovoltaic device is relatively efficient in converting sunlight to electricity, but the electrical energy generated is difficult to store. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 6, 2017

Researchers with the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Texas A&M University, led by Dr. Ying Li, associate professor of mechanical engineering, are developing a photocatalyst to convert CO 2 into renewable hydrocarbon fuels. —doctoral student Huilei Zhao. There are two different ways to quantify the efficiency.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

DKRW Advanced Fuels LLC (DKRW) announced that its wholly owned subsidiary, Medicine Bow Fuel & Power LLC (MBFP), has entered into a fixed price Lump Sum Turn Key (LSTK) Engineering Procurement and Construction (EPC) contract with the Sinopec Engineering Group (SEG). The plant, once built, will be the first commercial?scale

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 4, 2022

The carbon negative chemicals synthesis directly from the air project has been awarded £250,000 by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council through the Adventurous Energy Research for a Sustainable Net-Zero scheme. Its value could offset the cost of direct air capture. —Dr Duyar.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 8, 2013

Commercial production of cellulosic biofuel via fermentation pathways has been hampered by inefficient fermentation of xylose and the toxicity of acetic acid, which constitute substantial portions of cellulosic biomass. Engineering S. —Wei et al. cerevisiae. cerevisiae. cerevisiae to consume xylose more efficiently.

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 17, 2024

Consider further the many varied devices and sensors now streaming data onto the Web, and the cars, airplanes, and other vehicles that store trip data for later use. All those billions of things on the Internet of Things produce data, and all that information also needs to be stored somewhere.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 23, 2016

ULEMCo, the developer of a hydrogen-diesel dual fuel conversion system for commercial vehicles, has delivered its first hydrogen dual-fuel refuse vehicles to Fife Council in Scotland. The dual-fuel engines are equipped with hydrogen injection and a separate ECU control system. InTech, doi: 10.5772/54613.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 26, 2014

Israel-based NewCO2Fuels (NCF), a subsidiary of GreenEarth Energy Limited in Australia, reported completion of stage 1 testing of its proof-of-concept system for the conversion of CO 2 into fuels using solar energy. NewCO2Fuels was founded in 2011 to commercialize a technology developed by Prof. Concept of the NCF process.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Porsche, Siemens Energy and partners are developing and implementing a pilot project—the “Haru Oni” project—in Chile that is expected to yield the world’s first integrated, commercial, industrial-scale plant for making synthetic climate-neutral fuels (eFuels). Electrolyzers will use wind power to produce green hydrogen.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

CleanFUEL USA, a leading supplier of alternative fuel infrastructure and propane engine systems, will build and certify a multi-purpose 8-liter General Motors (GM) propane engine in partnership with Freightliner Custom Chassis Corporation (FCCC), a subsidiary of Daimler Trucks North America. medium-duty engine, as well as a 6.0L

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

a developer of a novel indirect power conversion technology ( earlier post ), and EnerDel, Inc., has developed a novel, patented power conversion technology called Power Packet Switching Architecture (PPSA). All the energy runs through, and is temporarily stored in, a high-frequency AC link consisting of an inductor and capacitor.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 24, 2018

The analysis combines process engineering, spatial optimization, and lifecycle assessment to consider the technical, economic, and institutional feasibility of near-term carbon capture and sequestration (CCS). An open-access paper on the work is published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

MAY 5, 2019

The synthesized hydrocarbon fuels can be stored and/or transported for further utilization. When stored without further utilization even negative emissions can be realized. However, the conversion of CO 2 would require large amounts of electrical power to produce hydrogen or synthesis gas. —Professor Dittmeyer.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Commercial aviation is the connective tissue of the modern world. Just before the global pandemic, on an average day 12 million people flew on some 100,000 commercial flights, according to the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO). The work comes as the commercial aviation industry reaches a crossroads.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 17, 2014

MAN SE, one of Europe’s leading manufacturers of commercial vehicles, engines and mechanical engineering equipment, and mostly owned by the Volkswagen Group, prefers “power-to-gas” instead. Combined heat and power plants can generate energy using MAN’s natural-gas engines. MAN’s turbine technology is also relevant.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 11, 2014

Quinones are naturally abundant, inexpensive, small organic molecules, and similar to molecules that store energy in plants and animals. The technology could fundamentally transform the way electricity is stored on the grid, making power from renewable energy sources such as wind and sun far more economical and reliable. Background.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 25, 2021

AO2: Initial Engineering Design of Carbon Capture Utilization and Storage Systems (TRL 6) for Direct Air Capture. DOE anticipates selecting up to 8 projects for this FOA.

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Drive Electric

JUNE 25, 2023

With a growing emphasis on reducing greenhouse gas emissions and dependency on fossil fuels, two promising technologies have emerged as potential alternatives to internal combustion engines (ICE): Hydrogen Fuel Cell Vehicles (FCVs) and electric vehicles (EVs). Energy efficiency: FCEVs are more efficient than traditional combustion engines.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 12, 2015

million) research project to investigate the use of alternative fuels that could offer customers the power and performance of modern internal combustion engines with environmental benefits comparable to an electric vehicle. Like liquefied petroleum gas, DME must be stored in a slightly pressurized tank. million (US$3.9-million)

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Cars That Think

MARCH 14, 2022

The California-based Hyperlight Energy will be piloting an installation where they plan to use existing oil wells as solar thermal wellsprings, with the stored energy being converted back to clean electricity when required. Thermal energy storage is a known low-cost, low-risk approach for storing solar energy in the form of heat,” adds Codd.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 18, 2019

The US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) announced up to $55 million in funding for two programs to support the development of low-cost electric aviation engine technology and powertrain systems. 12 kW/kg with an efficiency at ? of domestic GHG emissions. of domestic GHG emissions.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 9, 2014

developer of a power conversion technology called Power Packet Switching Architecture (PPSA), received a purchase order for ten of its PPSA-enabled 30 kW battery converters from Coritech Services, a provider of custom engineering solutions for a variety of applications including electric vehicle charging. Ideal Power Inc.,

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 21, 2012

Under the terms of the four-year agreement POET and Agrivida will develop Agrivida’s technology platforms with the goal of significantly reducing the capital and operating costs of commercial cellulosic ethanol production facilities. The facility is slated to begin operations near the end of 2013.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

Natural Gas Reactor for Remote Chemical Conversion. economical to store or transport. cannot be engineered. reactor makes it more economical both to grow engineered algae. gas, the first step in the commercial process of converting natural. Ceramatec, Inc. Ceramatec, Inc. Such natural gas contains energy.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 19, 2017

If successful, the FuelCell team will increase ammonia production rates to 100 times current electrochemical methods—comparable with commercial processes while avoiding the need for separate hydrogen production thanks to its use of water, thus decreasing feedstock costs. REFUEL (DE-AR0000813) SAFCell, Inc.

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