Green Car Congress

APRIL 29, 2021

Ricardo has developed a hydrogen-fueled research engine which could offer a renewable, economic and durable technology solution to accelerate zero-carbon emissions in heavy duty trucks, off-highway machines and marine vessels. —Adrian Greaney, Director of Technology and Digital at Ricardo Automotive and Industrial EMEA Division.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 27, 2021

As water-splitting technologies improve, often using porous electrode materials to provide greater surface areas for electrochemical reactions, their efficiency is often limited by the formation of bubbles that can block or clog the reactive surfaces. As a result, there were substantial changes of the transport overpotential.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 14, 2014

Audi’s latest e-fuels project is participation in a a pilot plant project in Dresden that produces diesel fuel from water, CO 2 and green electricity. Other partners in the project consortium include Lufthansa; Fraunhofer ICT; Universität Stuttgart; Forschungszentrum Jülich; GEWI AG; CVT Chemical Engineering; and HGM. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 29, 2022

Yara signed a contract with Linde Engineering for the construction and delivery of a green hydrogen demonstration plant at Yara’s ammonia production facility at Herøya Industripark in Porsgrunn, Norway. With this project, we move from intention to actions together with Linde Engineering and local contractors.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Volkswagen continues to refine its most important diesel engine, the 2.0-liter The four-cylinder TDI engine with the internal designation EA 288 made its debut in 2012. The four-cylinder TDI engine with the internal designation EA 288 made its debut in 2012. The engine was also prepared for integration into a mild hybrid system.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 10, 2023

This project will complete key engineering design and demonstration tests to enable cost-competitive, carbon-neutral production of synthetic jet fuel and diesel using nuclear energy from existing light water reactors.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 22, 2014

is developing a prototype 10 kW Free Piston Engine Linear Generator (FPEG) featuring a thin and compact build, high efficiency and high fuel flexibility. The piston is moved by the combustion gas, while magnets attached to the piston move within a linear coil, thereby converting kinetic energy to electrical energy. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 29, 2020

A Northwestern Engineering-led team has developed a highly porous smart sponge that selectively soaks up oil in water. The research was published in the ACS journal Industrial Engineering and Chemical Research. Skimmers don’t work in rough waters or with thin layers of oil. —Vinayak Dravid, who led the research.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

has developed proprietary, breakthrough processes that convert either low-carbon isobutanol or low-value fusel oils—a mixture of alcohols that are byproducts from fermentation processes such as alcohol production—into renewable diesel. Gevo expects this to open yet another door for Gevo products.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 22, 2021

Chemical engineers at UNSW Sydney and University of Sydney have developed a hybrid plasma electrocatalytic process for the production of sustainable (“green”) ammonia. Non-thermal plasma activates water and air, producing NO x dissolved in solution as an intermediary for ammonium’s electrochemical synthesis. —Dr Jalili.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

They used natural sunlight to convert water into hydrogen and oxygen using a mixture of biological components and manmade technologies. A new paper, published in Nature Energy , outlines how the researchers at the Reisner Laboratory in Cambridge developed their platform to achieve unassisted solar-driven water-splitting.

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DECEMBER 6, 2022

Scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have demonstrated a new technique, modeled after a metabolic process found in some bacteria, for converting CO 2 into liquid acetate, a key ingredient in “liquid sunlight” or solar fuels produced through artificial photosynthesis.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 30, 2020

At SEMA360, Chevrolet will showcase a 1977 K5 Blazer converted to all-electric propulsion. To convert the 1977 K5 Blazer, the team first removed from the Blazer the original 175-horsepower, 400 cubic-inch (6.55-liter) DC-to-DC power converter to power low-voltage systems. 200-horsepower electric motor.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 30, 2019

Since 2018, Volkswagen has used only SCR exhaust gas treatment systems with its diesel engines. Adblue is injected selectively upstream of two SCR catalytic converters which are arranged in series. TDI Evo engines. The twin dosing process requires a second SCR catalytic converter which is located in the underbody of the vehicle.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 22, 2022

The US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) will award $38 million to 12 projects that will work to reduce the impacts of light-water reactor used nuclear fuel (UNF) disposal. Upon discharge from a nuclear reactor, the UNF is initially stored in steel-lined concrete pools surrounded by water.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 7, 2020

As part of a three-year project led by the US Army Corps of Engineers Research and Development Center (ERDC) to mitigate growth of toxic algae blooms, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) is investigating these blooms as a viable source of biocrude fuel and fertilizer. Algae biorefinery concept through HTL. Figure from Tian et al.

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OCTOBER 16, 2020

Nuvera Fuel Cells, a US-based manufacturer of heavy-duty fuel cell systems, is now using BASF’s polyphthalamide (PPA) Ultramid Advanced N to manufacture several components in its latest generation of 45 kW fuel cell engines. The fuel cell engines will be integrated into transit buses and delivery vehicles in China over the next three years.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Unlike prior processes for converting alcohols into hydrocarbons with multiple steps for dehydration, oligomerization, and hydrogenation, the Vertimass consolidated alcohol dehydration and oligomerization (CADO) conversion is accomplished in a single reactor system using a metal exchanged zeolite catalyst. Earlier post.).

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MARCH 13, 2022

Able to convert waste heat directly into electrical power, the E-PowerPack uses Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC) technology to reduce ship fuel consumption and CO 2 emissions. These include exhaust gas waste heat, which accounts for 50% of the energy from combusted fuel, but also liquid sources at lower temperatures, such as engine jacket water.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

liter turbocharged, four-cylinder engine and TorqueFlite eight-speed automatic transmission. liter turbocharged I-4 engine is part of Stellantis’s Global Medium Engine family. The high-tech, direct-injection engine uses a twin-scroll, low-inertia turbocharger mounted directly to the cylinder head. The fuel-efficient 2.0-liter

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 27, 2020

Researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), with colleagues at Yale University, have developed a photochemical process to convert acetone derived from plants (bio-acetone) into a mixture of polycyclic alkanes, the high energy density of which is appropriate for high-perfomance aviation applications. Ryan et al. —Ryan et al.

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MAY 5, 2023

British EV technology company Electrogenic, known for its classic car EV conversions, has expanded its range of drop-in conversion kits with a cost-effective plug and play solution to electrify the classic Mini.Electrogenic’s kit converts the automotive icon to electric drive from just £15,000 (US$18,800) plus VAT.

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OCTOBER 31, 2021

Energy Vault’s advanced gravity energy storage solutions are based on the proven physics and mechanical engineering fundamentals of pumped hydroelectric energy storage, but replace water with custom-made composite blocks, or “mobile masses”, which do not lose storage capacity over time.

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JUNE 11, 2020

In Germany, BSE Engineering and the Institute for Renewable Energy Systems at Stralsund University of Applied Sciences (IRES) have demonstrated the conversion of wind power into renewable methanol. The team uses green electricity to split water into hydrogen and oxygen in an electrolysis step. FlexMethanol.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 1, 2021

The shortlisted proposals include plants aiming to produce jet fuel from: Combining carbon dioxide captured from the atmosphere with hydrogen from water; Alcohol derived from wastes; Everyday household and commercial black bag rubbish; and. LanzaTech UK Ltd and Carbon Engineering. billion (US$1 billion) and £1.66 billion (US$2.3

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 18, 2014

liter EA288 diesel engine will power the 2015 Golf, Beetle, Beetle Convertible, Passat, and Jetta, all of which are set to arrive in dealer showrooms in the second half of 2014. The EA288 is based on the Volkswagen MDB, its modular diesel engine toolkit (Modularen Diesel Baukasten) ( earlier post ). The three cooling circuits.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

TFSI engine produces 96 kW (131 PS) and generates 200 N·m (147.5 The cylinder head, injection system, turbocharger and catalytic converter were modified accordingly for the CNG engine. When the fuel is burned in the engine, it only releases as much CO 2 as the biomass from which it was produced bound while growing.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

OPEN solicitations are an open call to scientists and engineers for transformational technologies across the entire scope of ARPA-E’s energy mission. Pinnacle Engines will electrify its four-stroke, spark-ignited, opposed-piston engine to improve fuel efficiency and reduce its cost.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 22, 2020

Researchers at Idaho National Laboratory have developed a new electrode material for a protonic ceramic electrochemical cell (PCEC) that can efficiently convert excess electricity and water into hydrogen. Water splitting reaction on oxygen electrode and PNC’s hydration. The triple conducting oxide of PrNi 0.5

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MARCH 3, 2023

Construction, including site preparation, geotechnical drilling, water pipeline development and associated infrastructure, has commenced. In Q4 2022, Bechtel Corporation was awarded the engineering, procurement and construction management (EPCM) contract for the construction of Thacker Pass Phase 1 with detailed engineering underway.

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JUNE 11, 2019

By using light-activated quantum dots to fire particular enzymes within microbial cells, the researchers were able to create “living factories” that eat CO 2 and convert it into products such as biodegradable plastic, gasoline, ammonia and biodiesel. A paper on their work appears in the Journal of the American Chemical Society. Ding et al.

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JUNE 27, 2021

To try to expand biofuels’ potential impact, a team of MIT engineers has now found a way to expand the use of a wider range of nonfood feedstocks to produce such fuels. With our engineered strain, you can essentially get maximum cellulosic fermentation from all these feedstocks that are usually very toxic.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 24, 2020

Argent has a fleet of about 20 pieces of equipment comprising wheel loaders, excavators, bobcats and a couple of water trucks. There’s no change in engine performance. —Bill Crotinger, president of Argent Materials Inc.<>/div>. <>/div>. Our experience has been positive.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 16, 2023

Graforce, a developer of plasma electrolyzers, and Worley, a leading global engineering and project delivery business, are cooperating to scale methane electrolysis (plasmalysis) starting in Australia, Pacific, Asia and China. A 12MW methane plasmalysis plant.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

A research team at the University of Wisconsin–Madison has identified a new way to convert ammonia to nitrogen gas through a process that could be a step toward ammonia replacing carbon-based fuels. —John Berry, corresponding author. Ammonia has been burned as a fuel source for many years. —Michael Trenerry, lead author.

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AUGUST 12, 2021

The work, led by Dr. Grant Seuser of SwRI’s Powertrain Engineering Division and Dr. Gary Jacobs of UTSA’s College of Engineering, is supported by a $125,000 grant from the Connecting through Research Partnerships (Connect) Program. We’re facing a lack of renewable fuels and the technology to deliver cleaner power generation.

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APRIL 12, 2023

Generation of H 2 and O 2 from untreated water sources represents a promising alternative to ultrapure water required in contemporary proton exchange membrane-based electrolysis. A representation of the team’s bipolar membrane system that converts seawater into hydrogen gas.

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