Green Car Congress

AUGUST 8, 2023

Montauk Renewables captures methane, preventing it from being released into the atmosphere, and converts it into either RNG or electrical power for the electrical grid. The company has current operations at 15 operating projects located in California, Idaho, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, North Carolina and Texas.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 22, 2022

Projects funded through the Converting UNF Radioisotopes Into Energy ( CURIE ) program will enable secure, economical recycling of the nation’s UNF and substantially reduce the volume, heat load, and radiotoxicity of waste requiring permanent disposal. Most of the nation’s used fuel is stored at more than 70 reactor sites across the country.

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Molten Salt Fuel EPRI Waste 371

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. —Hanping Ding, a materials scientist and engineer for Idaho National Laboratory’s Chemical Processing Group.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 1, 2023

This 2023 Critical Materials Assessment was managed and funded EERE’s Advanced Materials and Manufacturing Technologies Office (AMMTO) and was conducted by Argonne National Laboratory and Idaho National Laboratory, in consultation with members of the DOE Critical Minerals and Materials Science and Energy Technology Team.

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Cleaning Clean Supplies Energy 370

Green Car Congress

JULY 3, 2020

Visolis will work with PNNL to convert Visolis’ bioderived intermediate into a high-energy-density blendstock for use in gasoline engines. Shell will work with NREL to apply metabolic engineering and process optimization to the biological production of the high-performance blendstock isopropanol.

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Idaho Renewable General Motors Fuel 321

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 11, 2013

Edeniq’s Cellunator technology mills corn and other plant materials into particles of feedstock that can be more efficiently converted into the plant sugars needed to produce biofuels. In June, Edeniq received a $3.9

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

A team from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) and Idaho National Laboratory has evaluated the process economics and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions for the conversion of 11 biomass feedstocks to produce transportation fuels via fast pyrolysis and then pyrolysis oil upgrading via hydrodeoxygenation.

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Fuel Convert Idaho Oil 207

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 6, 2013

The EM 2 is a modified version of General Atomics’ high-temperature, helium-cooled reactor and is capable of converting used nuclear fuel into electricity and industrial process heat, without conventional reprocessing. The starter U 235 is consumed as the used nuclear fuel/DU is converted to fissile fuel. The core of the EM 2.

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San Diego Waste Idaho Convert 270

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 16, 2013

million investment from Sustainable Development Technology Canada to support the development and commercialization of a new hydrogen manufacturing technology called Molten Salt Catalyzed Gasification (MSG), originally developed at the US Idaho National Laboratory (INL). A consortium led by Canada-based Western Hydrogen Ltd. Background.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 1, 2013

The selected research projects will help maximize the amount of renewable carbon and hydrogen that can be converted to fuels from biomass and improve the separation processes in bio-oil production to remove non-fuel components—further lowering production costs. The projects selected for negotiation include: Ceramatec (up to $3.3

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Oklahoma Idaho Oil Convert 199

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 22, 2020

The energy crosses an air gap (the ground clearance between the pads) and is then converted from AC into DC on the vehicle to charge the vehicle batteries. The baseline bench testing of the WPT Systems was carried out at both the DOE’s Idaho National Laboratories and TDK RF Solutions, evaluating the GA side and the VA sides.

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Standards International Charging Grid 544

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 23, 2012

Acetogens have several advantages to yeast: they convert all xylose (C 5 ) and glucose (C 6 ) sugars and tolerate all breakdown products of biomass; they operate in harsh environments; and they produce no CO 2 as a by-product. For the ethanol process, the acetic acid is then converted to an ester which is then hydrogenated to make ethanol.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 30, 2013

The objective was to determine the impact of mixing and densification on the efficiency at which the complex polysaccharides in cellulosic biomass could be converted into fermentable sugars for fuel production. Densification makes transporting the feedstocks easier and less expensive.

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Idaho Fuel 2013 Transportation 225

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

In the lowest-cost scenario, algae harvested using OriginOil’s Algae Appliance is blended with waste feedstocks and converted onsite to achieve a modeled production cost of $2.28 OriginOil’s model analyzes the entire algae production process at scale, integrating the latest advances in growth, harvesting and fuel conversion. gallon ($1.44/Liter)

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Gasoline Diesel Production Waste 223

Green Car Congress

JUNE 9, 2009

Researchers from Idaho National Laboratory (INL) and GE Global Research are collaborating on a two-year, public-private partnership project designed to optimize an Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC) process to convert low-temperature waste heat (below 500 °) from gas turbine or reciprocating engine exhaust to produce electricity.

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Waste Idaho Exhaust Concept 150

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 28, 2022

The carbonation reaction will convert REE-bearing silicate minerals to REE-bearing carbonate minerals. Idaho National Laboratory. High-pressure grinding rolls will pre-crush the ores to generate internal micro-cracks that will facilitate the subsequent carbonation and grinding process.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 23, 2010

In one of the papers presented at the May conference, Carl Stoots from the Idaho National Laboratory noted that while it is possible to produce syngas by separately electrolyzing steam and CO 2 , there are. significant advantages to co-electrolysis, including lower cell resistance and the reduced possibility of further reduction of CO to C.

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Fuel CO2 Production Conversion 255

Green Car Congress

JULY 26, 2020

Luna Innovations will develop a large-scale, multi-input and output separation and extraction process to convert unused salt byproducts, wastes, and carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) into usable chemical feedstocks for the U.S. This process was developed initially by Idaho National Laboratory with funding from the Critical Materials Institute.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Idaho National Laboratory (INL) and TDK R&D Corporation, along with the US Department of Energy (DOE), automotive companies and suppliers have completed bench testing to support the SAE Technical Information Report (TIR) J2954. Idaho National Lab and TDK has provided invaluable bench data to validate SAE J2954 Wireless Power Transfer.

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Charging Idaho Land Rover Standards 150

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 19, 2009

Two Toyota Prius hybrids have been converted with the Hymotion L5 Plug-in Conversion Module from A123Systems. The Prius PHEVs will be instrumented for data collection as part of a larger US Department of Energy (DOE) Idaho National Laboratories study of modified hybrid vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 13, 2009

The consortium includes the Idaho National Laboratory of the Department of Energy (DOE), two top US universities, and materials technology firm Media & Process Technology. OriginOil, Inc., Carbon Sciences, Inc., Use’ of CO 2 is defined as the permanent conversion of CO 2 from flue gas into another form such as solid carbonates (i.e.,

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Grant Carbon Fuel CO2 186

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

The GA contains a grid-connected Power Factor Correction (PFC) converter, followed by a DC-AC inverter, a filter and impedance matching network (IMN) connected to the GA coil. Inductive WPT systems have two main components; a Ground Assembly (GA) unit and a Vehicle Assembly (VA) unit.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 13, 2009

(Englewood, CO) up to $1,780,862: to develop a yeast fermentation organism that can cost-effectively convert cellulosic-derived sugars into isobutanol, a second-generation biofuel/biobased product. DOE Awards.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 7, 2021

Our proprietary solid oxide technology is differentiated by its high efficiency in converting electricity into hydrogen through electrolysis and utilization of the same fuel cell stack to recall that hydrogen from its integrated long-duration hydrogen energy storage to produce zero-carbon hydrogen-based power generation.

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Energy Energy Storage Hydrogen Idaho 170

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

In December 2016, bench testing for the J2954 taskforce at Idaho National Laboratory demonstrated interoperability between the so-called Double D (DD) and Circular Topologies between 3.7 The SAE J2954 Taskforce has been working since 2010 to develop the specifications and standards needed to achieve seamless interoperability. Earlier post.).

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Nissan Charging Idaho Standards 150

Green Car Congress

JUNE 24, 2009

The ClearFuels technology can convert multiple cellulosic biomass feedstocks such as sugarcane bagasse and virgin wood waste into clean synthesis gas (syngas) suitable for integration with synthetic gas-to-liquids technologies. Between 1987 and 2004, Pearson Technologies, Inc.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 20, 2015

Franklin Soil & Water Conservation District is replacing three school buses and four agriculture engines and converting three irrigation pumps to clean burning electric. American Lung Association of the Upper Midwest is installing APUs on locomotive switch engines and replacing 12 diesel refuse haulers with CNG haulers.

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Puerto Rico EPA Cleaning Clean 150

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

The validation has so far only been possible on a single aftermarket conversion PHEV design—a Prius converted with a Hymotion pack. This works well for blended PHEVs that have lower electric power capabilities. Source: Gonder et al. Click to enlarge.

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Plug-in PHEV Plug Fuel 210

Green Car Congress

MARCH 11, 2016

Work in the bioenergy area will focus on improving methods and processes for converting cellulosic biomass into usable bio-based chemicals, made from renewable, domestic components. Organization. Description. Lygos, working with NREL/LBNL. Water Power. Organization. Description. Percheron Power, working with PNNL. Wind Power.

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Cleaning Clean Energy Li-ion 150

Green Car Congress

JUNE 26, 2021

Idaho National Laboratory. High-Power Oak Ridge Converter (ORC) for Extreme Fast Charging (XFC) Applications, $750,000. Power Converters and Components for Resilient MVDC Microgrids, $299,754. Northern Illinois University (DeKalb, Illinois). Multiscale Manufacturing Design Tool Based on Machine Learning Workflow, $250,000.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Idaho National Laboratory. Idaho National Lab will be conducting research to develop a new pathway to produce hydrocarbon feedstocks and fuels from ethane via an electrochemical process, as well as generating hydrogen. Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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Manufacturer Waste Universal Idaho 150

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 26, 2009

The project will convert local landfill gas (LFG), a renewable fuel source, to compressed natural gas and develop five CNG fueling stations throughout the metro-Atlanta area. The Treasure Valley Clean Cities Coalition’s Idaho Petroleum Reduction Leadership Project. Total DOE award: $14,994,183. Total DOE award: $5,591,611.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 7, 2009

Dramatically increase our fundamental knowledge of the physical structure of biopolymers in plant cell walls to provide a basis for improved methods for converting biomass into fuels. Idaho National Laboratory. Center for Lignocellulose Structure and Formation. $21. Purdue University. Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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EV Connect

JANUARY 8, 2024

Pros and Cons of DC Charging If you’re a recent EV convert from internal combustion engine driving, DC charging feels most similar to topping off the gas tank at a roadside station. But if you’re planning a road trip in Idaho, Wyoming or North and South Dakota, for example, check where you can recharge in advance.

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EV Connect

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Most existing vehicles and charging stations are unidirectional, so converting will take significant investment. Further, there is a lack of clear incentives in place for household and business customers to convert to smarter charging systems. This makes a nationwide rollout of such technology difficult.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

Mountain Rides will purchase heavy-duty, battery electric buses and fast charging infrastructure for its fixed route bus operations in Blaine County, Idaho. The City of Madison has a goal to convert the fleet to 50% electric by 2035. Mountain Rides Transportation Authority. Bloomington-Normal Public Transit System. 54,992,016.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 11, 2024

If I have 10 converter modules stacked in series to withstand the high voltage, what happens if one fails? Each is a bespoke creation, says Bjorn Vaagensmith , a power-systems researcher at Idaho National Laboratory. What happens if one of them gets a signal that is delayed by 200 nanoseconds? Does the whole thing collapse on you?

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