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JUNE 30, 2020

The two companies plan to build the first US modular thermochemical waste-to-hydrogen production facility in California in the fourth quarter of 2020, with a pipeline of additional projects to follow in 2021. Ways2H Inc., Ways2H Inc.,

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JULY 7, 2023

bp ventures has committed $10 million, leading the Series B investment round, in WasteFuel , a California-based biofuels company that will use proven, scalable technologies to convert bio-based municipal and agricultural waste into lower carbon fuels, such as biomethanol. billion metric tons by 2050.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Waste streams, including gypsum, from extraction processing will be neutralized before being pumped to an RSF. This next phase of the project will see front end engineering design (FEED) works completed over the next 9 months to advance engineering and equipment procurement. This product is earmarked for export and direct sale.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 18, 2020

In this three-year project, Recycling Technologies will take waste plastic packaging and process it using its RT7000 proprietary technology to turn it into a liquid hydrocarbon feedstock called Plaxx. A joint project involving these three companies has been awarded a £3.1-million

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 16, 2021

IBM and Samsung Electronics jointly announced a breakthrough in semiconductor design utilizing a new vertical transistor architecture (VTFET) that demonstrates a path to scaling beyond nanosheet, and has the potential to reduce energy usage by 85% compared to a scaled fin field-effect transistor (finFET).

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Green Car Congress

JULY 19, 2023

In partnership with the Missouri Department of Transportation (MoDOT), researchers from the University of Missouri (MU) Mizzou Asphalt Pavement and Innovation Lab ( MAPIL ) recently created a real-world test road using recycled materials such as scrap tires and plastic waste along a portion of Interstate 155 in the Missouri Bootheel.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 25, 2021

The National Circular Economy Roadmap found innovation is crucial to realizing Australia’s largest economic gains, which will come from designing new products and materials, including through advanced manufacturing, and in embracing new business models that will create domestic and export markets for waste streams. billion by 2036.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 23, 2022

LanzaTech’s Project DRAGON, which stands for Decarbonizing and Reimagining Aviation for the Goal Of Netzero, will convert waste gases into synthetic kerosene for use in sustainable aviation fuel (SAF). The feedstock for the planned facility would be waste gases, including potentially from Tata Steel’s adjacent steelworks in Port Talbot.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 17, 2021

Pursuant to this DOE-funded project, MP Materials and UK will advance their design for a modular system to concentrate coal by-product locally, in Kentucky. Rare earth oxides—primarily lanthanum, cerium, and NdPr oxide—are packaged and treated to meet specific customer specifications. Mountain Pass facility. Source: MP Materials.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 9, 2022

Since the fuel is chemically stable and the fission products are short-lived, this waste is radiologically similar to radioactive hospital waste and can be handled using conventional methods. The design of the hydrogen, ammonia and power units will be optimized for efficient serial construction at SHI’s shipyards.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 11, 2020

Republic Services will help us ensure the Nikola Tre meets customer and fleet lifecycle demands and we are excited to have them participate in the design process. —Nikola Founder and Executive Chairman Trevor Milton. Nikola Refuse platform.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

A team of researchers from the Critical Materials Institute (CMI), a US Department of Energy Innovation Hub led by the Ames Laboratory, developed a novel way to extract rare earth elements from the high-powered magnets in electronic waste ( earlier post ). And that’s how we do our recycling. It’s a very efficient and robust process.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 14, 2022

Cellulose to Sugar) reactor system that has been designed to allow further process optimization as compared to earlier systems. Blue Biofuels has initiated the development of the 5 th generation CTS reactor based on the design parameters of the successful 4 th generation system. Sugars are subsequently processed into biofuels.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 8, 2021

Rio Tinto has commenced production of battery-grade lithium from waste rock at a lithium demonstration plant at the Boron mine site in California. An initial small-scale trial in 2019 successfully proved the process of roasting and leaching waste rock to recover high grades of lithium.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 27, 2021

The recycling of plastic waste plays a large conceptual role in the quesst for the realization of a circular economy. Polypropylene constitutes about 30% of all plastic waste. This suggests that the design of catalysts that can control the selectivity of this process is challenging. Shibashish D. Jaydev, Antonio J.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 6, 2022

Initial life cycle assessments demonstrate either reduced carbon emissions compared with current methods of carbon black production or the use of bio-based or waste feedstock sources. A high-quality silica has been produced from this waste ash. Soybean oil is a bio-based resource that reduces Goodyear’s use of petroleum-based products.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 10, 2023

Raven SR, a renewable fuels company; Chevron New Energies, a division of Chevron USA; and Hyzon Motors are collaborating to commercialize operations of a green waste-to-hydrogen production facility in Richmond intended to supply hydrogen fuel to transportation markets in Northern California.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Under the terms of the agreement, XL Fleet and Curbtender will jointly develop a series of battery electric (BEV) and plug-in hybrid electric (PHEV) commercial trucks for use in waste management applications. The Quantum is the US Waste Industry’s #1 selling small rear loader. Curbtender Quantum.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 31, 2021

The composite blocks can be made from low-cost and locally sourced materials, including the excavated soil at the construction site, but can also utilize waste materials such as mine tailings, coal combustion residuals (coal ash), and fiberglass from decommissioned wind turbine blades. barrel per ton of feedstock.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 27, 2022

Carrier is further expanding its electrification capabilities through a new alliance with ConMet , adding trailer wheel-based power generation that captures energy that otherwise would be wasted during braking events. The electricity is stored in a high-capacity battery and then shared with other parts of the vehicle as needed.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 2, 2020

On demand, the hydrogen is released from the hydride (endothermic reaction), utilizing the waste heat of the fuel cell. Ricardo is supporting the London South Bank University with design and analysis for three months and will prepare the second phase of the project which is aimed at developing a prototype.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Elon Musk used Tesla’s much-anticipated Battery Day presentation not to disclose some super cell, but to outline an aggressive, comprehensive and radically innovative approach to battery design, manufacturing and vehicle integration that he projected will result in a 56% reduction in cost/kWh and a $25,000 electric vehicle in about three years.

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OCTOBER 22, 2022

The projects, led by universities, private companies, and national laboratories, were selected to develop technologies to advance UNF recycling, reduce the volume of high-level waste requiring permanent disposal, and provide safe domestic advanced reactor fuel stocks. Award amount: $2,796,545). Award amount: $6,449,997).

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JUNE 22, 2021

It also supports feasibility and front-end engineering and design studies. The fund supports building new or expanding existing clean fuel production facilities, including hydrogen, renewable diesel, synthetic fuels, renewable natural gas and sustainable aviation fuel.

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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. The project is currently completing design optimization work ahead of starting FEED by the end of 2021.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Due to its higher energy density, LMFP should reduce the range anxiety associated with standard LFP formulations designed for EVs. VSPC’s active program to reduce costs even further includes its evaluation of industrial waste materials as feed, as well as the production of cathode-material precursors derived from spent LIBs.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 18, 2020

The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced more than $27 million in funding for 12 projects that will support the development of advanced plastics recycling technologies and new plastics that are recyclable-by-design. Skokie, IL) - Upscaling of Non-Recyclable Plastic Waste into CarbonSmart Monomers – DOE Funding: $1,890,001.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 11, 2021

Rio Tinto has successfully developed and tested a steel powder designed for 3-D printing applications at its Rio Tinto Fer et Titane (RTFT) metallurgical complex in Sorel-Tracy, Québec. RTFT is developing a range of additional powder grades with advanced properties for 3-D printing to meet customer needs.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 6, 2022

The SCT E-motor, on the other hand, is designed in such a way that it is particularly efficient within a certain rpm range. Despite its very compact and light design, its continuous output is more than 90% of its peak output. This makes the motor efficient and wear-free.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 16, 2022

The X15N is the first natural gas engine to be designed specifically for heavy-duty truck applications with up to 500 horsepower output. This can range from a 90% reduction to carbon neutral, or even carbon negative, depending on the bio-source and waste feedstock used to produce the fuel.

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Innovation News Network

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Repolywise has unveiled its groundbreaking technology, 'Atomic Scissors,' designed to tackle the global plastic waste crisis. The post Oxford University start-up’s ‘Atomic Scissors’ to combat plastic waste crisis appeared first on Innovation News Network.

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JULY 17, 2024

The result is Atlas, a multi-car system designed to move about 217 tonnes of SNF and high-level radioactive waste to future storage and disposal destinations. Despite their high capacity, nuclear reactors produce a relatively low volume of waste. Atlas comes as nuclear remains a key contributor of clean energy in the U.S.,

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 11, 2023

Understanding this process will inform the creation of synthetic designer proteins that bind with high specificity to different types of lanthanides, according to biochemist John Love. REEs are relatively abundant in mine tailings, the waste products of some metal ores, such as aluminum.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 26, 2022

million grant from the US Department of Energy to design and engineer an integrated carbon dioxide capture and conversion plant co-located at Nutrien’s Kennewick Fertilizer Operations plant in Kennewick, Wash. We are converting common industrial waste streams into product streams —Todd Brix.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Invented and designed for the next generation of electric vehicles, the Ingear features a simple and durable design that enables a more efficient powertrain, with extended range, at lower cost. The Ingear has consistent/repeatable shifts by design. Shifts can be completed in as little as 19 milliseconds. Ingear core unit.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 18, 2021

The 90-million gallon per year Aemetis Carbon Zero sustainable aviation fuel and renewable diesel plant under development in two phases in Riverbank, California ( earlier post ) is designed to produce below zero carbon intensity renewable fuels.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 26, 2020

Further, Energy Fuels’ mixed REE carbonate production from monazite sand ores is expected to utilize only a very small amount of the White Mesa Mill’s ore production capacity and very little waste. For comparison, the White Mesa Mill is licensed and designed to process 2,000 tons of ore per day on average, or 720,000 tons of ore per year.

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