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

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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Plug in America

JUNE 25, 2024

With summer in full swing, roadtrips, pool parties, and backyard BBQs may be top of mind, but the savvy event organizer also knows it’s prime time to register EV-focused events as part of National Drive Electric Week (NDEW). Photo by: Gary Miller In Hilo, Hawaii, Noel Morin leads the organization of the He Ala Pono EV and Sustainability Fair.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 28, 2020

The catalyst shows a carbon dioxide conversion through hydrogenation to hydrocarbons in the aviation jet fuel range of 38.2%, with a yield of 17.2%, and a selectivity of 47.8%, and with an attendant low carbon monoxide (5.6%) and methane selectivity (10.4%). In brief, the Fe–Mn–K catalyst shows a CO 2 conversion of 38.2% Makgae, O.A.

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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

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

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

JUNE 4, 2014

Siemens recently introduced an Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC) module for industrial plants or power stations for the conversion of waste heat to electricity. The new Siemens Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC) module. The Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC) module is derived from the Rankine Cycle, a closed loop used in steam-driven heat engines.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 6, 2013

A research team from the University of Michigan has nearly doubled the efficiency of certain organic thermoelectric materials. These convert heat into electricity more than four times as efficiently as the organic semiconductors created to date. for organic semiconductors. in a compound known as PEDOT:PSS. Resources. Zhang & K.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

Innovations in catalysts, separation processes, and reactor designs can enhance conversion efficiency and reduce carbon emissions. Industrial and university partners will contribute additional funding and critical resources, augmented with expertise from national laboratories and national and international research organizations.

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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

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

JUNE 1, 2018

Bisabolene is a chemical precursor to bisabolane—a potential renewable diesel and jet fuel that phase separates readily when released to the fermentation broth, enabling efficient recovery via two-phase extractive fermentation with an organic overlay.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 11, 2014

Researchers at Harvard have demonstrated a metal-free organic–inorganic aqueous flow battery—a quinone–bromide flow battery (QBFB)—as an example of a class of energy storage materials that exploits the favorable chemical and electrochemical properties of a family of molecules known as quinones.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

PCC 6803—and demonstrated that the organism remained stable through at least four generations, producing ethylene gas that could be easily captured. The organism produced ethylene at a high rate and is still being improved. And it isn’t going to be a food buffet for other organisms. into a cyanobacterium— Synechocystis sp.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 29, 2013

ButyFix uses a three-step process: (1) the hydrolysis of cellulose and hemicellulose to release sugars; (2) fermentation of the sugars to produce butyrate; and (3) the chemical conversion of butyrate via esterification and hydrogenation to butanol. g/g-sugar, which is 94% of carbon conversion yield. total sugar yield. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 15, 2014

Researchers from the Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology (KRICT) and Sungkyunkwan University have developed a hybrid conversion process for the production of biobutanol based on the selective catalytic hydrogenation of butyric acid (C 4 H 8 O 2 ) resulting from the fermentation of glucose. h without deactivation. —Lee et al.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 11, 2017

A Sandia National Laboratories-led team has demonstrated two new routes to lignin conversion that combine the advantages of earlier methods while minimizing their drawbacks. Conversely, harsh chemicals can deconstruct lignin in hours or even minutes. You want the organisms to make kilogram amounts in less than an hour, ideally.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 3, 2013

An analysis by a team in Bangladesh found large air quality and associated health benefits accruing to the residents of Dhaka (the capital of Bangladesh) as a result of the rapid conversion of the motor vehicle fleet to CNG. However, CNG conversion was apparently detrimental from a climate change perspective, as CH 4 emissions increased.

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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 3, 2014

The UGA research group engineered a synthetic pathway into the organism, introducing genes from other anaerobic bacterium that produce ethanol, and constructed a pathway in the organism to produce ethanol directly. Westpheling spent two and a half years developing genetic methods for manipulating the C. Whereas wild-type C. 1402210111.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 30, 2012

Panasonic partially presented the technology on 30 July at the 19 th International Conference on the Conversion and Storage of Solar Energy ( IPS-19 ) in Pasadena. Panasonic’s artificial photosynthesis system has a simple structure with highly efficient CO 2 conversion, which can utilize direct sunlight or focused light.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 18, 2013

million award led by MOgene Green Chemicals (MGC, a wholly owned subsidiary of genomics services provider MOgene) targeting the sunlight-assisted conversion of methane to butanol. When the technology is completely developed, it will be a single step conversion of natural gas into fuel. Earlier post.) —Blake Simmons.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 1, 2013

Experts in the field, including government researchers, university specialists, and industry leaders, will provide instruction in this two-day course covering various aspects of biomass conversion including sessions on technology, economics, operations, and policy issues. CE/PDH credits are available for participants. Fermentation Strategies.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 23, 2023

The Topic Areas in the 2023 Conversion Research and Development (R&D) funding opportunity seek to address the following R&D needs: R&D on gasification technologies, with an emphasis on syngas contaminant removal approaches that enable effective upgrading of products derived from gasification of renewable resources to liquid transportation fuels.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 30, 2017

The solar-to-chemical energy conversion efficiency is 0.02%, which is the highest efficiency among the early reported photocatalytic systems. A number of inorganic or organic semiconductors have been tried for NH 3 production, but these suffer from low activity or stability. 7b06634.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 13, 2017

In the proposed biTCP for cylcoalkane production, both hydrophilic and hydrophobic catalysts are added into two immiscible solven—an organic phase and an aqueous phase—creating a biphasic environment for a “cascade” of chemical reactions in both phases. —Yang et al. —Yang et al. —Yang et al.

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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

MARCH 8, 2013

In mid-March, 2013, the US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) intends to issue a new Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) (DE-FOA-0000881) for the Bio-Conversion of Methane-to-Liquids.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 5, 2014

Researchers at MIT have devised a simple, soluble metal oxide system to capture and transform CO 2 into useful organic compounds. Scientists have long sought ways to convert carbon dioxide to organic compounds. This process relies on the simple molecular ion molybdate: an atom of the metal molybdenum bound to four atoms of oxygen.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 16, 2013

Calysta’s BioGTL and BioGTC natural gas conversion technologies use proprietary organisms to economically convert methane into liquid hydrocarbons, the building blocks of higher-value, easily transportable fuels and chemicals. Methane is widely available from large domestic deposits of shale gas, as well as landfills and other sources.

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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

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

Lead organization. Solar-Concentrating Photovoltaic Mirrors Arizona State University will develop a curved mirror made of solar cells to collect both direct and diffuse sunlight for conversion to electricity and heat. Earlier post.). The term “dispatchable” indicates availability as needed. Source: ARPA-E. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 8, 2016

Two Indiana University chemists have received $525,000 from the National Science Foundation to advance research with applications to the conversion of CO 2 into oxalate as an intermediate for the ultimate production of carbon-neutral materials, plastics and fuel. IU scientists Steven L. —Steven Tait.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) awarded 2015 Climate Leadership Awards to 16 organizations and one individual representing a wide array of industries from finance and manufacturing to retail and technology for showing what the agency said was exemplary corporate, organizational, and individual leadership in response to climate change.

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