Green Car Congress

JULY 20, 2011

The new method enhances saccharification rates by up to 5-fold compared to other pretreatment approaches that hydrolyze cellulose to glucose, enabling it to be converted to biofuels (e.g., The study also provides fundamental insights into the nature of cellulose recalcitrance. Earlier post.). —Chundawat et al.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 26, 2015

MMO catalyzes the O 2 -dependent conversion of methane to methanol in methanotrophic bacteria, thereby preventing the emission into the atmosphere of approximately one billion tons of this potent greenhouse gas annually. Converting methane to liquid methanol makes it easy to transport and a good alternative to petroleum for energy.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 20, 2013

g/L and yields up to 62% of theoretical maximum from the direct conversion of microcrystalline cellulose and pretreated corn stover to isobutanol. coli consortia, providing insights on key determinants of the system’s performance. coli bacteria that had been engineered to convert sugars into isobutanol. reesei and E.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 12, 2015

Scientists from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) have discovered that a metabolic pathway previously only suggested to be functional in photosynthetic organisms is actually a major pathway and can enable efficient conversion of carbon dioxide to organic compounds. —Jianping Yu.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

CMB.TECH has significant insight into alternative fuels and builds, designs, owns and operates large marine and industrial applications that run on hydrogen and ammonia. The X92-B engines hav been designed to allow a later conversion to a X92DF to use LNG as fuel.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Overall this research highlights that more needs to be done by businesses, special interest groups and local communities to convert consciousness into action. The pandemic has seen a wave of strong activism and more conversations around sustainability, which has driven the nation to re-evaluate mobility solutions.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

In order to use plants to make new materials, both problems must be solved—the conversion process needs to strip oxygen atoms from the glucose, and molecules must be combined to make larger products. The biorenewable molecules that Professor Chang’s group made were perfect raw materials for catalytic refining.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 30, 2014

Computational tools for catalyst design: The ability to convert methane gas directly to liquid methanol at often-remote recovery sites would significantly alter the storage, transport, and use of the gas. However, despite decades of effort, no lab-developed catalyst for achieving that conversion has been commercialized.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 25, 2021

A research team has developed a new artificial photosynthesis device component with remarkable stability and longevity as it selectively converts sunlight and carbon dioxide into two promising sources of renewable fuels: ethylene and hydrogen. In electronic devices, electron-hole pairs separate into electrons and holes to generate charge.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 22, 2014

Syntrophic [mutual dependency of two organisms for nutritional requirements] cooperation stimulated glycerol consumption, ethanol production, and the conversion of fermentation byproducts into cathodic H 2 in the MEC. As a result, 1,3-propanediol was generated as a metabolic sink for electrons not converted into electricity syntrophically.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 22, 2020

By converting from diesel to electric, we can extend the operational life of a quality motorcoach, while allowing customers to leverage their current investment in many of the parts, service and training already in place to support their existing fleet.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 4, 2012

An elegant route toward the development of saturated hydrocarbon fuels based on terpene feedstocks may lie in a biosynthetic approach in which engineered organisms convert cellulose and/or hemicellulose derived sugar solutions into pure terpene products. —Meylemans et al. Meylemans, Roxanne L. Quintana, Benjamin G. 2012.01.062.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 27, 2010

These energy sources can be converted to transportation fuels or used for generation of heat, electricity, or both (cogeneration). While the model we have used is simple in some respects and has limitations, it nevertheless provides the first insight into the existence and magnitude of this effect. Wallington et al.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 2, 2015

A new bio-inspired zeolite catalyst, developed by an international team with researchers from Technische Universität München (TUM), Eindhoven University of Technology and University of Amsterdam, might pave the way to small scale gas-to-liquid (GTL) technologies converting natural gas to fuels and starting materials for the chemical industry.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 14, 2021

Methanization works by producing methane (CH 4 ) and water (H 2 O) by catalytic conversion from carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) and hydrogen (H 2 ). Due to the high reaction temperatures, a proportion of the water is converted back into hydrogen by the water-gas shift reaction.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 12, 2016

The current method to convert plants into biodegradable plastics imparts heavy metals into the process. The new catalyst is an organic substance that lowers the energy required for the conversion from plant to plastic to occur.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

Fischer-Tropsch (F-T) synthesis converts syngas to liquid fuels. Moreover, the effect of different rare-earth ion-exchange modifications on the catalytic activity and products of F-T synthesis are discussed to gain insight into how the selectivity for the target products might be improved. thus facilitating the conversion of CO.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 12, 2019

These insights into how the beetle and its distinct microbiome have co-evolved provide a roadmap for the production of affordable, nature-derived fuels and bioproducts. Understanding how evolution has solved the complex lignocellulose to fuel conversation process can help us design better industrial mimics and find novel enzymes or pathways.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 12, 2017

A team led by researchers from the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) have gained new insights into how glycosylation—the natural attachment of sugars to proteins—affects a key cellulase enzyme. —co-author Antonella Amore, a postdoc at NREL. Antonella Amore, Brandon C. Knott, Nitin T.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 19, 2014

This can happen either after removal of most of the carbohydrates by hydrolysis and fermentation operations (top sequence) or by pretreatment before downstream carbohydrate conversion (bottom sequence). Such insights may help redesign lignin within its cross-linked complex biological matrix to meet subsequent process and end product goals.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 29, 2021

While their work focuses on the most cost-effective solutions for replacing peaker power plants, it also contains insights intended to contribute to the larger conversation about transforming energy systems. Their hybrid technological and economic analysis is based on a detailed inventory of California’s power system.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 10, 2012

Using this approach, they found that converting a fleet of cars from gasoline to CNG would result in decades of more rapid climate change because of greater radiative forcing in the early years after the conversion. This would eventually be offset by a modest benefit.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 20, 2023

Methanol is an ideal fuel for converting engines on existing ships and methanol tanks can usually be integrated into existing ship designs without too much trouble, while engine conversion costs can be kept within reasonable limits. This transfer of basic research into practical application is a strength of engineering research.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 20, 2010

In addition to providing insights in plant biology, such studies using Zinnia TEs could prove especially productive in assessing cell wall responses to enzymatic and microbial degradation, thus aiding current efforts in lignocellulosic biofuel production, the researchers suggested. —Lacayo et al. Source: Lacayo et al. Click to enlarge.

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DIY Electric Car

NOVEMBER 28, 2010

I was asked to speak about the economic impact of our oil dependency and so I began researching this topic to see if I could draw some insightful conclusions. According to the Electrification Coalitions Roadmap, if the Light Duty vehicle class was converted to Electric power we would see the amount of imported oil go to zero.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 21, 2017

One reason for these issues is that there are a limited number of catalysts that can effectively convert CO 2 to products that require more than two electrons (>2e − products), e.g., methane, methanol, ethylene, etc. —Hahn et al. We plan to use this method on nickel and other metals to further understand the chemistry at the surface.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 3, 2023

The ORR is the chemical reaction in the process that converts hydrogen and oxygen into water and electricity in a fuel cell and it limits the efficiency of the process. However, for wide scale adoption, improvements in the efficiency of hydrogen-to-electricity conversion are required.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 5, 2025

That connection emerged several years ago in a series of conversations between myself, Jayson Stewart , and my grandfather Rudolf Schultz. The second laser hits the tin with a short, energetic laser pulse that converts it into a high-temperature plasma. The first turns the droplet into a pancake-shaped disk.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 26, 2009

The project will convert local landfill gas (LFG), a renewable fuel source, to compressed natural gas and develop five CNG fueling stations throughout the metro-Atlanta area. The project will include the purchase and conversion of 283 alternative fuel vehicles for numerous fleets including taxis, cities, schools, and delivery vehicles.

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JULY 19, 2012

This Policy Design Recommendations (PDR) report builds on insights and findings from the TAR —NLCFS Policy Design Recommendations. Carbon intensity is defined as life-cycle GHG emissions (converted to carbon equivalence and expressed as gCO 2 e/MJ); the 10 to 15% reduction is with respect to gasoline and diesel, the baseline fuels.

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Baua Electric

MAY 10, 2024

Biomass can be converted into fuels through several steps. High-temperature conventional thermochemical conversion approaches, including combustion, gasification, and pyrolysis, originally developed for fossil fuels, can now be applied to biomass feedstocks. Schematic of biomass to bio-oil conversion process.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Its fuel stores about 43 megajoules of energy per kilogram, and a current-model engine can convert that stored energy into thrust with an efficiency of around 40 percent. Advanced semiconductors, motors, and batteries are enabling energy conversion efficiencies above 90 percent and continuously improving the ratio of power to weight.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 11, 2024

Vulcan’s lithium chloride output will be converted into battery-grade lithium hydroxide at the company’s new conversion plant in Frankfurt in the second half of the year, Moreno said. “We’re looking to close the financing in the next probably four to five months,” Moreno added.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

Conversely, high coating thicknesses for the electrodes produce a high energy density. Under a venture with the motto “From Road to Grid”, Audi is therefore currently working on a concept to convert old batteries into stationary energy stores. The plate has an integrated primary coil and an inverter (AC/AC converter).

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Baua Electric

JULY 18, 2024

Converting a petrol vehicle to Auto LPG incurs a cost of about INR 30,000, which is significantly lower than the INR 3-5 lakh required for electric vehicles (EVs). It provides a competitive edge and cost benefits due to lower conversion and infrastructure costs compared to EVs and CNG.

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Baua Electric

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

The modular system makes charging, converting and distributing electricity in electric vehicles cheaper by integrating several functions in one unit, depending on the design. On a day-to-day level, charging, energy conversion and power distribution are just as relevant for a driver’s satisfaction with a vehicle as driving itself is.

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Drive Electric NZ

MAY 29, 2022

In this guide, we share EV transition insights from: STAFF QUESTION: RANGE ANXIETY. ‘Do ” Using telematics, we have been able to provide so much insight for our customers. You can draw insights from telematics of vehicle movements and from conversations with staff to understand their experiences. WHO DID WE TALK TO?

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