Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

The European BioTfueL project—which aims to develop a technology for the thermochemical conversion of second-generation biomass into synthetic diesel and kerosene (bio-jet) fuel with a more than 90% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions compared to conventional fuel ( earlier post )—has ended its engineering phase and is moving forward (..)

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 15, 2012

Co-locating the demo plant at Usina Vale’s commercial site will accelerate the technology scale-up from demo to full-scale, and the technology will then be deployed at affiliated ethanol plants. The Brazil plant will also include the company’s proprietary reactor design for continuous enzymatic conversion of biomass to sugar.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 26, 2021

Biowaste to biofuel conversion process. The initial step in the process, called hydrothermal liquefaction, is being actively pursued in a number of demonstration projects by teams of PNNL scientists and engineers.

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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. The pilot plant is coupled to LUT’s solar power plant in Lappeenranta. kW solar PV power plant at LUT.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 9, 2014

In their paper, the SwRI researchers reported that the conversion to D-EGR improved engine efficiency and fuel consumption at least 10% across the performance map, with some operating conditions seeing substantially higher improvements. The engine conversion. The D-EGR demonstrator is a converted 2012 Buick Regal with a 2.0-liter

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 1, 2018

Conversion efficiency improved with scale, demonstrating the feasibility of integrating all biomass conversion unit operations within the biorefinery. In the study, the team demonstrated bisabolene production from sorghum hydrolysate in a scalable one-pot process comprising IL pretreatment, saccharification, and fermentation.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Australia’s national science research agency, has 2 -based-power-generation-project/">joined the Joint Industry Partnership (JIP) of the Supercritical Transformational Electric Power (STEP) project known as STEP Demo.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 5, 2013

Evonik Industries has demonstrated the use of bacteria to convert syngas to pure 2-hydroxyisobutyric acid (2-HIBA) under industrial conditions. 2-HIBA is a precursor used in the manufacture of PLEXIGLAS. Waste gas is one example of a source of syngas. 2-HIBA can also be produced via chemical synthesis.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 16, 2011

The BioBoost project concentrates on dry and wet residual biomass and wastes as feedstock for de-centralized conversion by fast pyrolysis, catalytic pyrolysis and hydrothermal carbonization to the intermediate energy carriers oil, coal or slurry. The fast pyrolysis and HTC processes of demo-size (0.5-1

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 2, 2022

Before the demo vehicle—a DAF CF 340 front loader with a Millennium XXL 40 body from Terberg HS—could be used to collect commercial waste, a conversion from standard diesel propulsion to hydrogen was required.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 4, 2011

The S-CO 2 system is also very compact, meaning that capital costs would be relatively low.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Running this project and collecting this data is imperative to showing key stakeholders that electric conversions are economically feasible and currently a more cost efficient way in reducing our carbon footprint. We have heard loud and clear the Governor, Mayor, City Council, and parent body who have advocated for electric vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 5, 2019

To facilitate the execution of this trial, Sharp modularized its high-efficiency solar battery cells (conversion efficiency of 34%+), previously developed for a NEDO-led project, to create an onboard solar battery panel. Profile of demo car. The rated power generation output of the demo car is approximately 860 W.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

The facility is intended to scale up a pilot process currently producing liquid fuels via Joule’s novel technology, which leverages highly engineered photosynthetic organisms to catalyze the conversion of sunlight and CO 2 to fuels and chemicals. Fluor’s Greenville, S.C. office is leading the EPCM services project.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 15, 2016

The first trials on the demo plant in Leuna were successfully completed, within schedule, in the fall of 2016 and Global Bioenergies announced first production of green isobutene via fermentation. Global Bioenergies is now entering the final phase of demonstrating its technology for converting renewable carbon into hydrocarbons.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 3, 2013

Primus says that its STG+ technology converts syngas into drop-in high-octane gasoline and jet fuel with a conversion efficiency of ~35% by mass of syngas (the highest documented conversion efficiency in the industry) or greater than 70% by mass of natural gas.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 12, 2020

I personally drove XL Fleet’s hybrid-equipped Silverado 3500 HD demo unit during our preliminary trial and recorded a fuel economy improvement of well over 30%, which is impressive for a vehicle of that size and weight.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 8, 2012

Our strain demonstration comes on the heels of the successful demonstration of our pretreatment technology, proving our ability to map performance at the smallest scales all the way through demo scale. Tests resulted in high sugar conversion and high yields of butanol.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 1, 2011

SDF utilizes the Syntroleum-Sinopec Fischer-Tropsch technology for the conversion of coal, asphalt and petroleum coke into high value synthetic petrochemical feedstocks. Earlier post.) Sinopec and Syntroleum entered into a technology transfer agreement in 2009.

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Electrek

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

EV conversion specialist Lightning eMotors is the latest automaker to try and deliver wireless EV charging to its vehicles. The post Lightning eMotors wants to offer wireless EV fleet charging after 2023 demos appeared first on Electrek. The company announced a collaboration with wireless charging provider HEVO Inc.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 14, 2014

Bottom: 3D model of sunfire SOEC (left) and the demo plant (right). Carbon Capture and Conversion (CCC) Fuel Cells Fuels Power Generation' C and a pressure of 25 bar to produce a hydrocarbon liquid called Blue Crude. The process is up to 70% efficient. Top: Two cartoons of the basic sunfire concept and process. PtL = Power-to-Liquids.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

Joule has developed a highly modular system using highly engineered photosynthetic organisms to catalyze the conversion of sunlight and CO 2 directly to liquid hydrocarbons and ethanol ( earlier post ).

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 13, 2012

Efficient Power Conversion Corporation (EPC) and WiTricity have jointly developed a high-efficiency wireless power demonstration system utilizing the high-frequency switching capability of gallium nitride transistors.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 17, 2012

Should the lab and pilot work prove successful and scalable, they will place a demo plant in Malaysia, Burton said. Accordingly, LanzaTech has begun look at the industrial conversion of acetic acid/acetate to lipids, and has demonstrated this. that conversion wouldn’t actually happen in a LanzaTech bioreactor. Resources.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 12, 2010

launched a joint venture, Envergent Technologies , LLC, to offer technology and equipment to convert second-generation biomass into pyrolysis oil for power generation, heating fuel and for conversion into transportation fuels. In 2009, UOP and Ensyn Corp. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

JULY 20, 2009

The small footprint mini-refinery, to be operated by Red Lion, is expected to produce 350,000 gallons per year of synthetic diesel with a high biomass to fuel energy conversion efficiency. Red Lion says that its thermal conversion process is approximately 70% energy efficient.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 7, 2018

The two-stroke OP engine described therein employed currently available engine components, such as supercharger, turbocharger and after-treatment and featured a uniquely designed piston bowl shape to enhance mixing with a swirl-to-tumble conversion as the piston bowls approach minimum volume.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

AlternaFuel CMAX is a liquid cellulase (carbohydrase enzyme) preparation produced by the submerged fermentation of Myceliophthora thermophila that can effectively be used for the degradation of various lignocellulosic biomass substrates for conversion of biomass to glucose.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 5, 2016

This breakthrough paves the way for GaN to become the technology of choice for power conversion circuits that are made in silicon today. Unless the fast-switching GaN power transistor is intentionally slowed down in power circuits, chip-to-chip parasitic inductance causes voltage instabilities,” he said.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 23, 2014

So far, Ruth noted, the new engine has achieved target engine-out emissions (EOE), performance and fuel economy; aftertreatment catalyst performance has met or exceeded the targeted conversion rates, enabling an increased allowance on engine out HC. liter) and its emission control system (ECS) without a weight penalty. Source: Cummins.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 29, 2009

The FT catalyst reduction process has been enhanced with resulting improvements over successive production campaigns in catalyst activity and CO and H 2 conversion. Laboratory scale FT reactors in the research laboratory at Chinchilla have confirmed over prolonged periods that H 2 and CO conversions above expectations can be achieved.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 3, 2019

Global Bioenergies has developed a conversion process based on fermentation for renewable resources (residual sugars, agricultural and forestry waste) into isobutene, one of the petrochemical building blocks that can be converted into ingredients for cosmetics, gasoline, kerosene, LPG and plastics.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 9, 2024

The card was plugged into a desktop computer on the show floor and offered real-time, off-line conversation with a chatbot powered by Meta’s popular Llama 2 7B large language model (Neuchips says the card will also run Llama 2 13B). It’s not just a concept.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 29, 2011

The ATJ task force consists of technical experts from a wide stakeholder group including jet engine manufacturers, governmental bodies, fuel manufacturers, third-party testing laboratories, academics and airframe manufacturers investigating the requirements for a third major pathway to renewable drop-in jet fuel: the conversion of alcohols.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 24, 2016

Large amounts of energy had to be used for these, which made a sustainable conversion of sunlight into chemically stored energy impossible. So far, charge accumulations in artificial molecules had only been possible using such sacrificial reagents. Oliver Wenger (University of Basel) and Prof.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 31, 2012

Sanctioning of Narrows Lake phase A by Cenovus and the project partner, ConocoPhillips, is expected to lead to the conversion of a portion of the contingent resource to proved reserves in the independent reserves evaluation to be prepared for year-end 2012. Narrows Lake will be the third in-situ oil sands project operated by Cenovus.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 17, 2011

a developer of biorefineries for the conversion of renewable biomass into sustainable fuels and chemicals, has signed a long-term binding term sheet with GreenWood Tree Farm Fund (GTFF), managed by GreenWood Resources (GWR), to supply hybrid poplar woody biomass for its first commercial cellulosic biorefinery. ZeaChem Inc., Earlier post.).

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