Green Car Congress

JANUARY 27, 2014

Schaeffler Efficient Future Mobility North America demo vehicle in Detroit. Contributions towards the results were also made by the detailed friction optimization work carried out on the belt drive, the valve train and the balancer shafts, as well as the optimization of the torque converter. Click to enlarge. Click to enlarge.

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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 design of rWGS reactor and the catalyst is VTT in-house know-how. kW solar PV power plant at LUT.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 10, 2014

GMZ Energy, a provider of advanced nano-structured, high-temperature thermoelectric generation (TEG) power solutions, has successfully demonstrated a TEG designed for automotive waste heat recapture. The unit generated an output power well in excess of its 200 watt design goal.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 8, 2014

The test provides a proof-of-concept for an NRL-developed process to extract CO 2 and produce hydrogen gas from seawater, subsequently catalytically converting the CO 2 and H 2 into fuel by a gas-to-liquids process. The gases are then converted to liquid hydrocarbons by a metal catalyst in a reactor system. E-CEM Carbon Capture Skid.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 25, 2010

The vehicle was converted by Tokyo R&D, and is scheduled to hit the streets on regular local routes in Toyama, a coastal city located on the Sea of Japan. In July, EnerDel and ITOCHU joined with longtime EnerDel customer THINK to convert electric drive delivery trucks for Japan’s postal service. Naoki Ota, COO for EnerDel.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 8, 2012

This new achievement in Westbury allows us to confirm the process design of our proprietary methanol-to-ethanol technology for its deployment at Enerkem’s full-scale commercial plants in Edmonton and other locations. Enerkem has already produced cellulosic ethanol at its smaller scale pilot laboratory facility in Sherbrooke.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 28, 2013

The California Energy Commission has awarded $4,998,399 to Mendota Bioenergy, LLC to support the design, construction and operation of an advanced biorefinery demonstration plant in the Mendota area (Fresno County), where sugar beets will be used to create advanced biofuel ethanol.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 27, 2011

A joint GM-Magna E-Car Systems team designed and built the Chevrolet Equinox Electric Vehicle (EV) demonstration units, working collaboratively from GM’s Canadian Engineering Centre in Oshawa, Ontario, and Magna E-Car System’s facility in Aurora, Ontario.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

Unlike sugar-based biofuel producers, Joule directly and continuously converts solar energy into liquid fuels, without costly raw materials, pretreatment or downstream processing. The initial output of the SunSprings plant will be ethanol. —Peter Erich, President of Joule Fuels.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 13, 2012

WiTricity proprietary source and device units are specially designed magnetic resonators that efficiently transfer power over large distances via the magnetic near-field. Earlier post.). The magnetic field can wrap around a conductive obstacle between the power source and the capture device. MHz) for wireless charging systems.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 15, 2013

A key component to the new SOFC system is a small reformer inside the unit that converts high-sulfur military fuels such as JP-8 jet fuel into a hydrogen-rich gas capable of use in the fuel cell. In addition to an easy-to-deploy modular and compact design, the new technology allows for near-silent operation.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 30, 2016

LanzaTech has been selected by the Department of Energy’s Bioenergy Technologies Office (BETO) to receive a $4-million award to design and plan a demonstration-scale facility using industrial off gases to produce 3 million gallons/year of low-carbon jet and diesel fuels. The LanzaTech award was one of six totaling $12.9 Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 23, 2014

So far this year, the team has integrated the T2B2 aftertreatment in the dynamometer environment and is in the process of convert the demonstration vehicle to the T2B2 configuration. Cummins made extensive use of aluminium as well as space-saving design features for new engine weight control. Source: Cummins. Click to enlarge.

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MARCH 6, 2025

Taking the EV skateboard chassis to another level The so-called skateboard chassis is a staple of modern EV design. To a large extent, vehicles are designed around their propulsion systems. When a certain American startup designed its second-generation vehicle, it put the battery pack on the bottom, in a flat platform.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

Privately-held investor group LH Opportunity Group plans to work with Calgary-based specialty fabricator Ensteel Industries to design an end-to-end system, featuring OriginOil’s technology, for potential applications in the enhanced oil recovery and tailing pond water treatment markets.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 10, 2011

G2BioChem’s process design and patents, applied across the three phases of the planned demo plant. Other benefits of the process include: 90% of overall incoming C 5 /C 6 sugars are recovered after pre-treatment; 85% of recovered C 5 /C 6 sugars are hydrolyzed into fermentable monomers; 89% of the monomers are converted to EtOH.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 21, 2016

A typical silicon-based converter will be no more than 95% efficient, Pi Innovo says, therefore having at least a 5% loss. Gallium nitride semiconductor based converters can achieve 98 to 99% efficiency—a threefold reduction in losses at typical operating voltages. The GaN Demo PCB is capable of driving motors up to 1.5

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 5, 2016

Today, GaN transistors are being designed into radar systems, cellular base stations, and power converters such as those found in computer notebook power adaptors. Integration of power switches and their driving circuitry on the same chip is the ultimate approach to minimizing the parasitic inductance.

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DECEMBER 16, 2011

Six research institutions and seven industrial partners from Europe will participate in the new BioBoost project, aimed at converting residual biomass into energy carriers for the production of high-quality and engine-compatible fuels and chemicals as well as for the generation of electricity and heat. above 1000 °C.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 22, 2011

The Roanoke demo is the first in a number of scheduled events for the MotionPower technologies, systems designed as roadway-based installations where vehicles are required to decelerate or stop. The system uses novel mechanical and fluid-driven technologies that are the subject of 18 new patent filings, according to the company.

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MAY 25, 2022

However, the real number of satellites deployed during the mission will likely be a bit higher due to the presence of three or four different vehicles that are designed to host or carry some of those payloads to different orbits. Background: [link] pic.twitter.com/2HIbyfg57v — Nanoracks (@Nanoracks) May 25, 2022.

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AUGUST 20, 2009

Over the past year, Semcon , a global engineering services company, has been working with Volvo Cars’ development of 3 demo plug-in hybrids in a cooperation project between Volvo Cars, Vattenfall, ETC and Energimyndigheten (The Swedish Energy Agency). Earlier post.). Anders Björnberg, responsible for the plug-in project at Volvo Cars.

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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. Ultimately, we’re showing performance is achievable at commercial scale across our technology platform.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 17, 2011

The production plug-in hybrid has a number of key changes from the 125 prototype demo units that were deployed in the field for testing and customer feedback. Changes include: Completely new battery design. The demo units defaulted to EV mode. Controlled by the hybrid ECU, the PCU boost converter raises 201.6

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OCTOBER 5, 2015

Aemetis’ 60-million gallon per year ethanol plant in California converts sugars to biofuels. Biomass sorghum can be converted to cellulosic ethanol or a variety of other renewable fuels through various available technologies.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 29, 2009

The next goal is to refine and capture this knowledge and design and build a 20,000 barrel per day commercial GTL facility and that goal is progressing according to plan.” Underground Coal Gasification (UCG) is a process through which coal is converted in-situ (i.e., Peter Bond, Linc Energy CEO.

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DECEMBER 8, 2009

On 3 December Amyris announced that it had entered into an agreement with the São Martinho Group to acquire a 40% stake in the Boa Vista mill and that together the parties would convert this mill to achieve the first production of Amyris products. Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

JULY 10, 2009

IER’s operating reactor at Somersby, NSW converts one dry tonne of Gippsland Basin lignite into approximately two barrels of oil and 0.6 Subject to feasibility studies and based on the operating Somersby reactor design, IER will build and operate a commercial-scale reactor at the TRUenergy site. tonnes of high-ranked coal.

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JANUARY 29, 2020

IRS Demo, a demolition company based in Los Angeles, has inked a three-year agreement for approximately 225,000 gallons of Redeem. Clean Energy will also design, build, operate and maintain a 43-truck private time-fill CNG station, with room for expansion, at the same location.

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JULY 10, 2010

a process engineering and design firm ( earlier post ), has filed a patent application for a new technology for making biofuels from microalgae that focuses on the production of fatty acids rather than the extraction of algal oil. Unitel Technologies, Inc., The slurry pump loop and the depressurization module are two examples. Serge Randhava.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 11, 2009

StatoilHydro plans to develop, build and operate the pilot facility, contributing technical and financial resources to develop the technology to commercial use, and the PTRC will design and manage the technology development. The project is expected to pass several key milestones by late 2011. Consortium members include: MEG Energy Corp.;

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Cars That Think

MAY 31, 2024

The rare earth oxide then undergoes a molten-salt electrolysis process that converts it into a solid metal form. The design doesn’t require an elevation change like traditional pumped storage hydropower.

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MARCH 18, 2009

Underground coal gasification (UCG) is an in-situ process using injection and production wells drilled from the surface, and enables the coal to be converted into a syngas. The most recent learning and technology will also be applied to the design of the reactor and above ground facilities for a Vietnam pilot project. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2012

RIMPAC and Green Fleet demo. The Great Green Fleet demo, part of RIMPAC 2012, is designed to show that the Navy can operate with a reduced reliance on conventional petroleum. We expect that demo plant fully up and working in 2013—at that point, we will be ready for commercial sale of the technology. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 10, 2011

This project will design, engineer, fabricate and test an integrated magnesium-intensive automotive assembly focused on a 45% weight reduction over currently-used steel counterpart structures. Demo Project for Multi-material light-weight prototype vehicle. Advanced cells and design technology for electric drive batteries.

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APRIL 5, 2016

Altex Technologies has selected Unitel to provide engineering services to design and build a pilot system that will produce 1 BPD of synthetic gasoline from biomass (Biomass Conversion to Synthetic Gasoline System, BCSGS). Unitel is a designer and builder of modular pilot and mini-plants. —US 9199889. US 9199889 B2.

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MARCH 10, 2016

diesel engines and wanting to convert their fleet to natural gas. The City of Petaluma received a $3 million grant to design and operate an anaerobic digestion system to produce 150,000 gasoline gallon equivalents of renewable natural gas from food and beverage waste and use the gas to fuel refuse trucks.

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