Green Car Congress

MAY 1, 2021

Low carbon fuel standards, such as the Federal Renewable Fuel Standard and the California Low Carbon Fuel Standard, are major US programs for reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from transportation fuels. Dunn, PhD, Northwestern University. Gurian, PhD, Drexel University. Hill, PhD, University of Minnesota.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2021

The Phase 1 semifinalists are: Boston University – Pober-Strauss. George Washington University – Ellexco. Oregon State University – Espiku. Rice University – LiSED. Texas Tech University – Tech Desal. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign – SelectPureLi. University of Miami – Miami Solution.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

The University of Michigan (U-M) and eight partner institutions will explore the use of ceramic ion conductors as replacements for the traditional liquid or polymer electrolytes in common lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles and in flow cells for storing renewable energy in the grid.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 29, 2021

The company’s engine technology enables low-carbon, renewable fuels such as ethanol to be integrated easily into existing diesel engine platforms, offering a lower-emission, lower-cost solution than diesel fuel. —BJ Johnson, ClearFlame CEO and co-founder.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Oberon Fuels, the first company to produce renewable DME (rDME) in the US, is a supporting partner. The funded projects include: University of Wisconsin Madison for “Efficiency Mixing Controlled Compression Ignition Combustion of Propane DME Blends”. As an energy-dense, cost-effective means to transport and store renewable hydrogen.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2018

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has awarded the University of Illinois a $10.6-million, —ROGUE Director Stephen Long, an Ikenberry Endowed Chair at Illinois. —Li-Qing Chen, an assistant professor of plant biology at Illinois.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 30, 2020

A new study led by Colorado State University predicts significant climate benefits stemming from the use of advanced biofuel technologies. Carbon capture and storage technology is being used by at least one facility in Illinois that is processing corn as a conventional biofuel to create ethanol, but these systems are not yet widespread.

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JULY 22, 2011

Regulatory hurdles are hindering the successful commercialization of emerging liquid biofuels, according to a new study by University of Illinois law professor Jay P. Slating, a regulatory associate with the University of Illinois Energy Biosciences Institute. Wisconsin Law Review ; Illinois Public Law Research Paper No.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 26, 2021

Northern Illinois University (DeKalb, Illinois). DME as a Renewable Hydrogen Carrier: Innovative Approach to Renewable Hydrogen Production, $1,500,000. National Renewable Energy Laboratory. BioBlend Renewable Resources (Elk Grove Village, Illinois). (Lynchburg, Virginia). Beam Suntory, Inc.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 13, 2019

Seven projects will be supported, three led by teams at DOE National Laboratories and four by Universities. These projects will develop widely applicable open source software utilizing DOE’s current leadership class and future exascale computing facilities.

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JULY 29, 2021

The projects, funded through DOE’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) Vehicles Technology Office (VTO), address the two largest contributors to transportation sector emissions: passenger cars and light-duty trucks account for nearly 60% of emissions and medium- and heavy-duty trucks account for nearly 25%. General Motors.

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OCTOBER 10, 2017

This project aims to deliver stress-tolerant sorghum lines, addressing DOE’s mission in the generation of renewable energy resources. director of the Enterprise Rent-A-Car Institute for Renewable Fuels at the Danforth Center. —principal investigator Thomas Brutnell, Ph.D., Sorghum is very resilient to drought and heat stress.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 21, 2011

In a paper in the journal Biofuels, Bioproducts and Biorefining , Professor John Regalbuto, Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Illinois at Chicago, describes what he calls “ a real sea change ” in the direction of US federal funding for biomass conversion into biofuels.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 25, 2024

Eleftheria Kontou, University of Illinois In its sustainability efforts, NASCAR lags well behind Formula One, its largest rival atop the world’s motorsports hierarchy. Since 2014, Formula One’s parent organization, the Fédération Internationale de l’Automobile (FIA), has had an all-electric racing spinoff, called Formula E.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2017

The US Department of Energy’s (DOE) National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) has found high rare earth element (REE) concentrations in coal samples taken from the Illinois, Northern Appalachian, Central Appalachian, Rocky Mountain Coal Basins, and the Pennsylvania Anthracite region. —US Secretary of Energy Rick Perry.

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AUGUST 1, 2020

University of Alabama. University of North Dakota. Earth Energy Renewables, LLC. North Carolina State University. Oregon State University. University of Cincinnati. University of Maryland - College Park. Princeton University. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

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DECEMBER 18, 2010

TetraVitae Bioscience has completed a successful demonstration of its process to produce renewable n-butanol in a corn dry-mill pilot plant. n-butanol is an important intermediate in the coatings, plastics, personal care, and packaging industries. TetraVitae technology combines a proprietary organism and advanced process engineering.

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JANUARY 30, 2015

The Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Department of the University of Illinois at Chicago has entered into an agreement with New Energy Innovations, Inc. Traffic Powered Renewable Energy System (TPRES), powered by vehicles driving over cylinder shown. Click to enlarge.

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AUGUST 23, 2011

Early this year, CRI acquired exclusive global sublicensing rights for the IH 2 technology from Illinois-based Gas Technology Institute (GTI) where the technology was developed. GTI says that renewable gasoline (RG) produced by the IH 2 process results in more than 90% lower greenhouse gas emissions than petroleum-based fuels.

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MAY 12, 2023

He received a bachelor’s degree in chemistry in 1949 from Johns Hopkins University , in Baltimore, and earned a Ph.D. Today solar is the third largest renewable-electricity sector behind hydropower and wind. Based in Berlin, the DGS supports the introduction of solar technologies and renewable energy resources into the power grid.

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AUGUST 25, 2017

A team from the Prairie Research Institute at the University of Illinois, with colleagues from the University of Birmingham and Aarhus University, have developed a nanosized bio-Pd/C catalyst for upgrading algal bio-oil. —B.K. The produced Pd/biomass was air-dried and ground into powder for use. —Kunwar et al.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

million in funding for six projects as part of the Systems for Monitoring and Analytics for Renewable Transportation Fuels from Agricultural Resources and Management (SMARTFARM) program. Project descriptions: University of Illinois – Urbana. University of Utah. Princeton University.

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JULY 17, 2020

Funded through the US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), projects will conduct research in advanced batteries, electrification, and manufacturing in support of DOE’s Energy Storage Grand Challenge. The Research Foundation for The SUNY Stony Brook University. University of Delaware.

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AUGUST 23, 2017

Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago. The Illinois Institute of Technology will develop ultrafast, self-powered, programmable, autonomously operated, bidirectional solid-state circuit breakers using transistors based on gallium nitride (GaN). Marquette University. Northeastern University. University of Arkansas.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Eastman Renewable Materials, LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Eastman Chemical Company, has acquired the assets of TetraVitae Bioscience, Inc., TetraVitae is a developer of renewable chemicals, including bio-based n-butanol and acetone. located in Chicago, Ill. Earlier post.) Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2020

The open-access study, published in Nature Communications , was supervised by CABBI researchers Daniel Rokhsar, Professor in the Department of Molecular and Cell Biology at the University of California (UC), Berkeley; and Kankshita Swaminathan, Faculty Investigator at HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology, Huntsville, Alabama.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 22, 2013

For example, the University of California, San Diego will receive approximately $3.5 University of Houston. The University of Houston (UH) will develop a battery using a novel water-based, lithium-ion chemistry that makes use of sustainable, low-cost, high-energy, organic materials. Princeton University. Description.

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Green Cars News

OCTOBER 16, 2013

The Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) should be modified and not repealed: that is the verdict of researchers at the University of Illinois. The federal standard for biofuels, which was first introduced in 2005 and then modified in 2010, means fuel refiners and importers must commercialise increased vo[.].

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 4, 2018

A quantitative assessment will be done on the continuous load following capability of the proposed system that would be capable of sharing the grid with substantial renewable resources such as wind and solar. North Carolina State University: Development of a Nearly Autonomous Management and Control System for Advanced Reactors – $3,386,834.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 24, 2014

Ten of these projects are new while the rest received renewed funding based both on their achievements to date and the quality of their proposals for future research. University of California, Berkeley. University of California, Riverside. National Renewable Energy Laboratory. Northwestern University.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2014

A multi-institutional team led by researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign reports that it can increase sugarcane’s geographic range, boost its photosynthetic rate by 30% and turn it into an oil-producing crop for biodiesel production. Credit: Stephen Long.

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JULY 17, 2014

million in research grants are awarded under a joint DOE-USDA program that began in 2006 focused on fundamental investigations of biomass genomics, with the aim of harnessing nonfood plant biomass for the production of fuels such as ethanol or renewable chemical feedstocks. Patrick Brown, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2018

These projects were selected under an Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) Advanced Manufacturing Office funding opportunity, focused on advanced materials, advanced processes, and modeling and analysis tools for materials and manufacturing. Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois. Temple University.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 18, 2012

The five projects—located in California, Illinois, and Connecticut—will track the performance and technical progress of innovative refueling systems at planned or existing hydrogen fueling stations to find ways to lower costs and improve operation. California State University and Los Angeles Auxiliary Services, Inc.

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APRIL 26, 2012

The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced that the use of an alkaline surfactant polymer (ASP) flooding technique has successfully improved oil recovery at a 106-year old Illinois field by more than 300%. Continued success and private investment in these ASP pilots may renew the life of the entire Lawrence field.

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JULY 14, 2022

IEEE BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING AWARD Sponsors: the IEEE Circuits and Systems , Engineering in Medicine and Biology , and Signal Processing societies NIRMALA (NIMMI) RAMANUJAM Duke University Durham, N.C. For more globally accessible technology for women's health related to cancer screening, diagnosis, and treatment.” IEEE JAMES L. IEEE ANDREW S.

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JULY 3, 2016

A study by a team at University of Illinois at Urbana−Champaign has found that, with currently achievable performance levels, synthetic fuels produced via the electrochemical reduction of CO 2 and the Fischer-Tropsch (FT) process system are not economically and environmentally competitive with using petroleum-based fuel.

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