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JULY 17, 2013

The “PV+Storage” box includes the high cost of electrical storage for PV. The FOCUS Program target zone for electricity generation is indicated. a) Hybrid solar converter (award Categories 1A and 1B). Schematic comparing the cost and dispatchability of PV to CSP with thermal storage. Source: ARPA-E. Click to enlarge.

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JULY 29, 2019

On 26 July, the first flue gas from the natural gas power plant, the Shepard Energy Center in Calgary, Canada, was directly transformed by the C2CNT process ( earlier post ) into carbon nanotubes. Onions Made Directly from CO 2 by Molten Electrolysis for Greenhouse Gas Mitigation” Angewandte Chemie doi: 10.1002/adsu.201900056.

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AUGUST 4, 2022

Blue Bird Corporation will offer a factory-certified electric repower program on select gasoline- and propane-powered Blue Bird school buses. The company is collaborating with Lightning eMotors to develop this repower electric vehicle (EV) powertrain system. Earlier post.)

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JUNE 23, 2013

carbon monoxide evolving catalyst (Bi-CMEC) that can be used in conjunction with ionic liquids to convert CO 2 to carbon monoxide (CO) using electricity. gas shift to generate H 2 , and this CO/H 2 mixture (syngas) can be used to generate synthetic petroleum and liquid fuels using Fischer? —DiMeglio and Joel Rosenthal.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2021

A research team at the University of Wisconsin–Madison has identified a new way to convert ammonia to nitrogen gas through a process that could be a step toward ammonia replacing carbon-based fuels. This process can be harnessed to produce electricity, with protons and nitrogen gas as byproducts.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Researchers at The Ohio State University have used a chemical looping process to produce hydrogen from hydrogen sulfide gas—commonly called “sewer gas”. Hydrogen sulfide is emitted from manure piles and sewer pipes and is a key byproduct of industrial activities including refining oil and gas, producing paper and mining.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

The 22 selected projects fall into five topic areas for the “Bioenergy Technologies Office Scale-Up and Conversion” funding opportunity ( earlier post ): Scale-Up of Biotechnologies. Affordable, Clean Cellulosic Sugars for High Yield Conversion. Separations to Enable Biomass Conversion. Renewable Natural Gas.

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JUNE 11, 2018

Leading steel and mining company ArcelorMittal has begun construction of new premises at its site in Ghent, Belgium, to house a new installation which will convert carbon-containing gas from its blast furnaces into bioethanol. Commissioning and first production is expected by mid-2020. Earlier post.).

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JUNE 19, 2014

The projects, which are funded through ARPA-E’s new Reliable Electricity Based on ELectrochemical Systems (REBELS) program, are focused on improving grid stability, balancing intermittent renewable technologies, and reducing CO 2 emissions using electrochemical distributed power generation systems. United Technologies Research Center.

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JULY 3, 2016

In their paper, the team investigated an integrated system that converts CO 2 released from fossil fuel-burning power plants to synthetic diesel fuel via a combination of the electrochemical reduction of CO 2 to CO and the FT process, which uses CO and H 2 from electrolysis) as feedstocks. Stubbins, and Paul J. 6b00665.

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APRIL 15, 2019

Researchers from Northwestern University and Princeton University have explored the impact on US air quality from an aggressive conversion of internal combustion vehicles to battery-powered electric vehicles (EVs). coal, oil, natural gas, and biomass). Winter while PM 2.5 at high EV adoption fractions. —Schnell et al.

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JUNE 24, 2014

The centers selected for the second round of funding will help lay the scientific groundwork for fundamental advances in solar energy, electrical energy storage, carbon capture and sequestration, materials and chemistry by design, biosciences, and extreme environments. Light-Material Interactions in Energy Conversion (LMI).

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JUNE 1, 2020

A consortium comprising Engie Solutions, Siemens Gas and Power, Centrax, Arttic, German Aerospace Center (DLR) and four European universities is implementing the HYFLEXPOWER project funded by the European Commission under the Horizon 2020 Framework Program for Research and Innovation (Grant Agreement 884229).

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MAY 16, 2014

The technical reason for these high “off-cycle” NO x emissions is poor NO x conversion efficiency of installed SCR systems when exhaust temperature is low. Urea-driven SCR system use exhaust heat to convert the urea solution to ammonia, which then reduces the NO x. At low exhaust temperatures, catalyst activity also falls off sharply.

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MAY 30, 2020

The researchers and engineers at ETH Zurich have developed innovative processes that make it possible to extract CO 2 from the atmosphere and, together with water and with the help of concentrated sunlight, convert it into a synthesis gas that can be used to produce jet fuel.

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MAY 1, 2023

Water (H 2 O) microdroplets are sprayed onto a magnetic iron oxide (Fe 3 O 4 ) and Nafion-coated graphite mesh using compressed N 2 or air as the nebulizing gas. This gas–liquid–solid heterogeneous catalytic system synthesizes ammonia in 0.2 The conversion rate reaches 32.9 ± 1.38 —Song et al. 2301206120

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JULY 28, 2023

Our hydrogen locomotive program has the potential to significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions from locomotive operations, supporting the transition to a lower-carbon future in the freight rail sector. The conversion work will be done at CSX’s Huntington, West Virginia locomotive shop.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2020

The necessary energy is supplied by electricity from renewable sources. In the electrolyzers, carbon dioxide and water are converted into carbon monoxide (CO) and hydrogen (H 2 ) with electricity in a first step. This synthesis gas is used by special microorganisms to produce specialty chemicals, initially for research purposes.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2022

and Princeton University’s Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment have created a scalable photocatalyst that can convert ammonia into hydrogen fuel. This result demonstrates the potential for highly efficient, electrically driven production of hydrogen from an ammonia carrier with earth-abundant transition metals.

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OCTOBER 21, 2020

Electrochaea employs a patented biocatalyst (BioCat) to convert low-cost and stranded electricity and CO 2 into pipeline-grade renewable gas. This gas can be directly injected into the existing natural gas grid or used immediately. Electrochaea’s proprietary biocatalyst is a selectively evolved—i.e.,

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2019

and its strategic Mobile Energy Group (MEG) announced a strategic partnership with the China National Petroleum Corporation Nanjing (CNPC or PetroChina) to begin converting existing fossil fuel gas stations in the city of Nanjing. PetroChina operates gas stations throughout Jiangsu province. Ideanomics Inc.

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JUNE 25, 2020

The Orange County Transportation Authority board has approved a draft plan outlining how the agency will convert the OC Bus fleet to 100% zero-emission technology by 2040. In April, the OCTA Board of Directors approved a request for quotes to purchase 10 plug-in battery-electric buses. OCTA hydrogen fuel-cell bus. million investment.

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AUGUST 11, 2022

UK-based Expleo, a global engineering, technology and consultancy service provider, has developed a closed-loop fuel solution for global shipping that delivers a 92% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions (GHGe) in the model vessel. Bibby Wavemaster 1, the model vessel. —Jonathan Taylor, VP of Marine, Expleo. million (US$1.7

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APRIL 11, 2013

PNNL’s thermochemical conversion device is installed in front of a concentrating solar power dish. A new concentrating solar power system developed by Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) can reduce the fuel consumption of a modified natural-gas combined-cycle (NGCC) power plant by about 20%. Photo: PNNL. Click to enlarge.

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AUGUST 22, 2022

Sandia National Laboratories researchers recently delivered electricity produced by a new power-generating system to the Sandia-Kirtland Air Force Base electrical grid. The system uses heated supercritical carbon dioxide instead of steam to generate electricity and is based on a closed-loop Brayton cycle.

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APRIL 11, 2014

The material’s selectivity for oxygenates, with ethanol as the major product, demonstrates the feasibility of a two-step conversion of CO 2 to liquid fuel that could be powered by renewable electricity, the team suggests in their paper published in the journal Nature.

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MARCH 17, 2014

The construction of a new north-south electric power line is being extensively discussed in Germany. 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.

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DECEMBER 6, 2022

Scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have demonstrated a new technique, modeled after a metabolic process found in some bacteria, for converting CO 2 into liquid acetate, a key ingredient in “liquid sunlight” or solar fuels produced through artificial photosynthesis.

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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. This fuel—Audi e?diesel—is

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MARCH 13, 2014

million to convert older United Parcel Service (UPS) and US Postal Service (USPS) medium-duty gas or diesel walk-in vans to use its electric power train. The California Energy Commission will award Motiv Power Systems Inc. The Commission also approved the award to Pixley Biogas LLC of $4.6

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2013

One program, Reducing Emissions using Methanotrophic Organisms for Transportation Energy (REMOTE, earlier post ), provides $34 million to 15 projects to find advanced biocatalyst technologies that can convert natural gas to liquid fuel for transportation. process intensification approaches for biological methane conversion.

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MAY 15, 2021

As a result, there is a critical need to create new pathways for biofuel conversion that reduces carbon waste, prevents the loss of CO 2 emissions, and in turn, maximizes the amount of renewable fuel a conversion process yields. Carbon-Negative Chemical Production Platform - $4,160,262.57. University of Delaware.

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OCTOBER 8, 2020

Blue World Technologies’ complete system includes a methanol reformer for fuel conversion, DC/DC for power conversion and fuel cell stack for power production. The high-temperature (HT) PEM technology operates at 160-180 °C and has a high resistance to impurities in reformat gas—making it suitable to combine with fuel reformers.

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APRIL 2, 2021

a leading global manufacturer of liquefaction and cryogenic equipment serving multiple applications in the clean energy and industrial gas end markets, including hydrogen, has invested $25 million in Transform Materials for 5% of its equity. In addition, it uses 50% less electricity for producing hydrogen than competing technologies.

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APRIL 22, 2020

Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in late February demonstrated a 20-kilowatt bi-directional wireless charging system installed on a UPS medium-duty, plug-in hybrid electric delivery truck. The technology takes energy from the grid and converts it to direct current (DC) voltage.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), with colleagues from Oregon State University, have developed PNNL a durable, inexpensive molybdenum-phosphide catalyst that efficiently converts wastewater and seawater into hydrogen. In MECs, an electrical current is coupled with bacteria to decompose organics and make hydrogen.

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AUGUST 5, 2019

The funding will help Sierra Energy further develop and commercialize its FastOx gasification technology, which converts virtually any waste into clean, renewable energy and fuels without burning. Injected oxygen and steam react with the carbon char to produce a synthesis gas (syngas), comprised predominately of carbon monoxide and hydrogen.

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