Green Car Congress

MARCH 8, 2019

ReactWell , LLC, has licensed a novel waste-to-fuel technology from the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory to improve energy conversion methods for cleaner, more efficient oil and gas, chemical and bioenergy production. It can be used by refineries to upgrade their feedstock or to convert biomass to oil.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 11, 2019

University of Colorado Boulder researchers have developed nanobio-hybrid organisms capable of using airborne carbon dioxide and nitrogen to produce a variety of plastics and fuels, a promising first step toward low-cost carbon sequestration and eco-friendly manufacturing for chemicals. It wouldn't be asking much for people to implement.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 12, 2022

Researchers at Stanford University have shown that porous polymer encapsulation of metal-supported catalysts can drive the selectivity of CO 2 conversion to hydrocarbons. The research team encapsulated a supported Ru/TiO 2 catalyst within the polymer layers of an imine-based porous organic polymer that controls its selectivity.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 13, 2019

A new material that can selectively capture CO 2 molecules and efficiently convert them into useful organic materials has been developed by researchers at Kyoto University, along with colleagues at the University of Tokyo and Jiangsu Normal University in China. —Wu et al.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

SEAT will invest €3 billion in the conversion of its Martorell plant for the production of small EVs. SEAT has designed a strategic plan that includes five main pillars: people and organization, electrification and product, production end to end (E2E), digitalization and sustainability. The plant has a total surface area of 2.8

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Researchers in China have developed a nitroaromatic cathode that performs a six-electron reaction per nitro group, significantly improving the specific capacity and energy density compared with organic electrodes based on single-electron reactions. 1, which surpass all existing organic cathodes. 1 and energy density of 3,273 Wh?kg

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 3, 2016

One way to mitigate high feedstock cost is to maximize conversion into the bioproduct of interest. This maximization, though, is limited because of the production of CO 2 during the conversion of sugar into acetyl-CoA in traditional fermentation processes. Wiedel, Jennifer Au, Maciek R. Antoniewicz, Eleftherios T.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 25, 2020

2 ethylene at 1.54% light to ethylene conversion efficiency. fold improvement in the light to ethylene conversion efficiency as compared to the cell suspension. Ethylene ( earlier post ) is one of the most important organic commodity chemicals with an annual global demand of more than 150 million tons. —Vajravel et al.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 28, 2021

For the future, it will be important to commercialize advanced biofuel conversion technologies, which utilize a broader and more sustainable feedstock base. Solid particles and process waters, which also evolve during HTL conversion, contain a significant fraction of the carbon and the nutrients from the initial biomass.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Recent research in electrocatalytic CO 2 conversion points the way to using CO 2 as a feedstock and renewable electricity as an energy supply for the synthesis of different types of fuel and value-added chemicals such as ethylene, ethanol, and propane. —lead author Irina Chernyshova.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 3, 2019

Researchers at the University of Oklahoma, in collaboration with the University of Tulsa, have a novel approach for the water-assisted upgrading of the renewable chemical furfural, doubling or tripling the rate of conversion. It is known that water plays an important role as an environmentally-friendly solvent, replacing organic solvents.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Topic Areas include: Characterization of Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) to Enable Production of Conversion-Ready Feedstocks (up to $15M). The importance of any particular MSW characteristic is defined by the conversion technology specifications. Measurement of variability of key MSW characteristics within and across unique MSW streams.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 27, 2021

The researchers suggested that market conditions that favor greater adoption of precision agriculture systems, retention of soil organic carbon, and demand for co-products from ethanol production may lower the carbon intensity of corn ethanol further. gCO 2 e/MJ (range of 37.6 gCO 2 e/MJ, 26%), while land use change is a minor contributor (3.9

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

More than one in three health care organizations around the world reported ransomware attacks last year, according to a survey of IT professionals by security company Sophos. The new season features experts from around the world who discuss measures that can help organizations minimize and even prevent attacks.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 26, 2020

GTI, a research, development and training organization focused on natural gas and energy markets, is launching a hydrogen technology center. GTI has expertise in new storage and conversion technologies with materials development and testing.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 24, 2014

Twenty-three of the projects receiving funding are headed by universities, eight are led by the Energy Department’s National Laboratories and one project is run by a non-profit organization. Lead organization. Light-Material Interactions in Energy Conversion (LMI). Solid-State Solar-Thermal Energy Conversion Center (S3TEC).

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Green Car Congress

MAY 15, 2021

Many biofuels, including ethanol, biodiesel and other products derived from organic material (biomass), are almost exclusively produced via fermentation. These fermentation processes create carbon as a byproduct, with some processes wasting more than 1/3 of this carbon as CO 2 emissions. The awardees are: LanzaTech, Inc.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 26, 2020

We achieved superior performance by eliminating catalyst incompatibility through encapsulating at least one of the catalysts involved in the tandem process in nanoporous materials called metal-organic frameworks. —Rayder et al. —Frank Tsung. The team, which included graduate student Thomas M.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

In MECs, an electrical current is coupled with bacteria to decompose organics and make hydrogen. Like seawater, the MoP catalyst material is widely available, and therefore, cheap. The catalyst also worked with wastewater, another ubiquitous resource.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

DOE and NASA plan to organize a future session of this assessment. Then, DOE and NASA will consider organizing a brainstorming session to identify ways for very high-energy density electrochemical energy storage/conversion that could enable electric propulsion for large aircrafts.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 16, 2021

Available to government agencies, municipalities, commercial operators, hospitals, and non-profit organizations, delivery to customers will be at the end of this calendar year. Commercial vehicle manufacturers Lightning eMotors and REV Group, Inc.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 5, 2022

The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced its intent to issue a funding opportunity (DE-FOA-0002823) that will support research on the extraction and conversion of lithium from geothermal brines for use of lithium batteries in electric vehicles and clean energy storage.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 18, 2020

Their work, published in a paper in the RSC’s New Journal of Chemistry , points to a catalyst in developing and designing an artificial photosynthesis system that efficiently converts carbon dioxide into organic molecules.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 25, 2020

Laboratory tests indicate the patent-pending materials—tetraamine-functionalized metal organic frameworks—capture carbon dioxide emissions up to six times more effectively than conventional amine-based carbon capture technology. UC Berkeley graphic by Eugene Kim). The liquid is then heated to 120-150 ?C C (250-300 ?F)

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 23, 2021

This approach will enable GM to expand its reach to a larger, more diverse group of commercial customers, helping organizations meet the growing demand for zero-emissions technology while achieving their own sustainability targets. Proof of concept vehicle shown.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 16, 2021

The central process for this conversion is electrocatalytic water splitting in which hydrogen and oxygen are formed. Further, hydrogen is the starting point for the formation of other fuels such as methanol, ammonia, or liquid organic hydrogen carriers.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

The utilization of the full spectrum of sunlight in STEP results in a higher solar energy efficiency than other solar conversion processes. organic electrosynthesis of benzoic acid from benzene without over-oxidizing into CO 2. organic electrosynthesis of benzoic acid from benzene without over-oxidizing into CO 2. Source: Prof.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 28, 2021

The UK’s National Nuclear Laboratory (NNL) and DNV are partnering to explore the potential of nuclear-derived hydrogen to support the conversion of UK gas networks to hydrogen. ANTs have the potential to play a major role in delivering net zero, and this scheme would consequently de-risk a future hydrogen gas network conversion programme.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 26, 2019

CO 2 is isolated from the other gases (nitrogen and oxygen) with a temperature swing adsorption (TSA) system, using metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) adsorbent, which are specially designed to absorb CO 2. First, the vehicle’s flue gases in the exhaust pipe are cooled down and the water is separated from the gases. —François Maréchal.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 19, 2022

This conversion takes place in solution, at room temperature, and without the need for metals or hydrogen gas. The researchers produced these boron-centered radicals by adding a strong reducing agent to organic boron halides. An open-acess paper on their work is published in the journal Angewandte Chemie.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

At an E-Mobility Conference organized by the VDE, the German Association for Electrical, Electronic & Information Technologies, the Düsseldorf-based technology group Rheinmetall recently presented a novel solution concept for charging electric vehicles: curbstone chargers.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 13, 2020

UBQ is a proprietary composite, the world’s first bio-based material made of unsorted organic, paper and plastic waste—everything from banana peels to dirty diapers to used yogurt containers and cardboard. During the UBQ conversion process, the unsorted residual waste stream is reduced into its more basic natural components.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 28, 2021

At the hubs, which can be built at or near landfills, Raven SR will convert mixed and multiple organic wastes, including municipal solid waste, greenwaste, food waste, medical, paper, etc. into locally produced, renewable hydrogen for Hyzon’s fleet of zero-emission commercial vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 22, 2020

The US Department of Energy (DOE) will issue a spring 2020 solicitation for high performance computing projects that improve manufacturing processes, address products’ lifecycle energy consumption, and increase the efficiency of energy conversion and storage technologies.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

To overcome these limitations, research efforts to store hydrogen chemically in liquid carriers, such as liquid organic hydrogen carriers (LOHCs) or ammonia, have been conducted. Various organic compounds have been suggested for LOHCs. Credit: Korea Institute of Science and Technology(KIST). 2021.114124.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 17, 2019

Researchers in Japan are presenting an organic catalyst for CO 2 reduction that is inexpensive, readily available and recyclable. As the level of catalytic activity can be tuned by the solvent conditions, their findings could open up many new directions for converting CO 2 to industrially useful organic compounds.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

The EMBER program will leverage the diversity, specificity, and customizability of environmental microbiology to enable new biomining methods for the separation, purification, and conversion of REEs into manufacturing-ready forms. The EMBER program will aim to fill a critical DoD supply chain gap. —Linda Chrisey.

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