Green Car Congress

APRIL 13, 2021

Traditional PEM fuel cells have a relatively low operating temperature, which makes for a low tolerance to hydrogen fuel impurities and makes waste-heat rejection a challenge for vehicles. A new partnership comprising Los Alamos National Laboratory, Advent Technology Holdings Inc.,

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JUNE 10, 2020

Hyundai and Kia’s heat pump maximizes the distance that Hyundai and Kia EVs can travel on a single charge, scavenging waste heat to warm the cabin. Comprising a compressor, evaporator and condenser, the heat pump captured waste heat given off by the vehicle’s electrical components, recycling this energy to heat the cabin more efficiently.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 4, 2022

It’s also often produced using corn and other crop feedstocks, but this approach is dependent on crops that otherwise could be used to grow food or waste feedstocks. Polypropylene is a major polymer used in key applications, including medical devices like syringes and IV bags, automotive, furniture, textiles, and other durable products.

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JUNE 20, 2011

Fermentation requires no organic solvent, and the water used is recycled. Genomatica has entered into partnerships with several major companies including Tate & Lyle, M & G (a major European chemicals producer), Waste Management, and Mitsubishi Chemical to implement their technology at a commercial scale.

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JANUARY 30, 2011

Example of micro fibers produced with 20 wt % AB (ammonia borane) in water as core solution, showing smooth (nonporous) and cylindrical (noncollapsed) fibers; from a 2010 paper by the scientific team. It also protects the hydrides from oxygen and water, making it possible to handle it in air. Credit: ACS, Kurban et al.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 26, 2021

The biocrude oil came from many different sources, including wastewater sludge from Detroit, and food waste collected from prison and an army base. The research showed that essentially any biocrude, regardless of wet-waste sources, could be used in the process and the catalyst remained robust during the entire run.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 11, 2013

Winners in the “greener reaction conditions, designing greener chemicals, and greener synthetic pathways,” categories are: Life Technologies for developing a more efficient, much less wasteful way to manufacture the key chemicals used to perform genetic testing. million pounds of hazardous waste a year. Cargill, Inc.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2010

Scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have constructed a low-cost, nanoscale composite hybrid thermoelectric material by wrapping a polymer that conducts electricity around a nanorod of tellurium—a metal coupled with cadmium in today’s most cost-effective solar cells. Earlier post.) See, Joseph P.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 20, 2010

The booms are made out of polypropylene material, and are virtually entirely recyclable once the waste oil and water are removed. The remaining is a mixture of post-consumer recycled plastics and other polymers. Creative recycling is one extension of GM’s overall strategy to reduce its environmental impact.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 22, 2016

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has made 11 awards totaling $55 million aimed at building research capacity to develop new innovations at the intersection of food, energy and water systems and to address fundamental questions about the brain. Research at the nexus of food, energy and water. Lead organization. Description.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Neste, the world’s leading provider of renewable diesel, renewable jet fuel, and an expert in delivering drop-in renewable chemical solutions, and REMONDIS, one of the world’s largest privately owned recycling, service and water companies, have signed an agreement to collaborate in the development of chemical recycling of plastic waste.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 22, 2019

A closed thermal integration enables reuse of fuel cell waste heat for fuel evaporation thereby increasing efficiency. Methanol reforming converts a mix of methanol and water into a hydrogen-rich gas. Waste heat can be utilized for cabin/battery heating and fuel tank can be placed where chassis design allows it.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

Furthermore, Eni and Pertamina agreed to explore and discuss collaboration in the field of recycle and re-use: water treatment and re-use processes and polymer recycling technologies, also pursuing eco-design processes to maximize final products recycle.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

MEK, Butadiene) from industrial waste gases, has signed a memorandum of understanding with one of the largest coal producers in China, Henan Coal and Chemical Industrial Corporation, to build a demonstration plant to produce ethanol and chemicals via LanzaTech’s fermentation process using syngas resulting from the gasification of coal.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 30, 2009

kWh lithium-polymer battery pack. Overall, BMW Vision EfficientDynamics comes with a total of 98 lithium-polymer cells, each offering a capacity of 30 Ah and developing continuous output of 600 Amps at a voltage of 3.7 The plug-in full hybrid BMW Vision EfficientDynamics all-wheel drive concept car is powered by a 1.5-liter,

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 15, 2012

LanzaTech, a producer of low-carbon fuels and chemicals from waste gases, and Petronas, the national oil company of Malaysia, will work together to accelerate the development and commercialization of technologies to produce sustainable fuels and chemicals using CO 2 as the carbon source. LanzaTech conceptual gas-to-liquids platform.

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Malaysia CO2 Carbon Oil 268

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OCTOBER 6, 2014

DuPont and Procter & Gamble are collaborating to use cellulosic ethanol in North American Tide Cold Water laundry detergent—the first such application for cellulosic ethanol. The new Tide Cold Water will re-purpose more than 7,000 tons of agricultural waste a year. Click to enlarge.

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MARCH 17, 2011

The Penn State separation method uses very little energy and water, and all solvents are recycled and reused. The separation takes place at room temperature without the generation of waste process water. Extraction and separation of bitumen from surface-mined oil sands involves the use of significant amounts of energy and water.

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Oil-Sands Oil Saudi Arabia Water 257

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

Supplied by a series of lithium-polymer EIG batteries, the AEGT can run for about 30 minutes. Quimera is active in the following sectors: energy efficiency, energy storage, transportation, solar, wind, smart grid, biofuels & biomaterials, recycling & waste, water & wastewater.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 9, 2020

Fuel cells, especially polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells (PEMFC), are already used in hydrogen-powered automobiles. General recycling processes for precious metals that are currently in use are also designed for these metals, in which polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells are currently largely processed.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 26, 2020

However, HFOs are banned in the national waters of many countries. In addition, the International Maritime Organization (IMO) is seeking to ban HFO use in Arctic waters. IDEALFUEL seeks to develop methods to convert woody residual and waste materials such as sawdust and wood chips into renewable marine fuels.

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Mariner Oil Fuel Cleaner 273

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 11, 2020

H2NEW includes National Renewable Energy Laboratory and Idaho National Laboratory as co-leads, and focuses on R&D to enable affordable, durable and efficient large-scale electrolyzers, which produce hydrogen from electricity and water (at both high and low temperatures). This would be coordinated with the H2NEW consortium.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 30, 2009

The CMT-380 features a lithium-polymer battery pack that supports an all-electric range of up to 80 miles. Capstone microturbines can run on a variety of fuels, including natural gas, waste methane from landfills, biodiesel, diesel, kerosene and propane. DOE and BIRD Grants.

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Range Auto Israel Solar 273

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MARCH 1, 2013

The inner layer consists of gas-impermeable polyamide polymer, while a second layer of carbon fiber-reinforced polymer (CFRP) gives the tank its extremely high strength; a third layer of glass fiber reinforced polymer (GFRP) provides rugged protection against damage from the outside.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 1, 2020

These projects will improve the performance and lower the cost and risk of technologies that can be used to produce biofuels, biopower, and bioproducts from biomass and waste resources. Scale-up and Qualification of Net-Zero Sustainable Aviation Fuels from Wet Waste. Topic 2: Waste to Energy Strategies for the Bioeconomy.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Although the presence of microplastics in the environment is raising concerns, the amount of microplastics in air and water is small compared to another polymer that pollutes air and water: micro rubber. Empa researchers have now calculated that over the last 30 years, from 1988 to 2018, 219?

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Green Car Congress

JULY 31, 2019

Australia-based biotechnology company Circa Group, which produces its bio-based solvent Cyrene from waste cellulose, is participating in a project to develop the first UK industrial scale capability to reclaim and reuse the most valuable components of end-of-life electrical vehicle (EV) batteries. straw, bagasse, sawdust). Sherwood, J.,

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 12, 2009

will jointly offer Vaperma’s Siftek polymer membrane technology, which is designed to lower energy consumption for reduce operational costs and emissions in the energy-intensive ethanol production process. The permeation of water across the membrane occurs by adsorption of water onto the interior surface of the membrane.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

By employing proprietary pretreatment and processing, researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Drexel University have produced flexible polymer carbon composite films from scrap tires for use as electrodes for supercapacitors. The first synthesized highly porous carbon (1625 m 2  g −1 ) using waste tires as the precursor.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 22, 2010

New Oil Resources’ process uses near-critical water to treat the biomass in a process commonly referred to as hydrothermal liquefaction or thermal depolymerization. Immediate applications include processing municipal sewage sludge, processing waste streams from the ethanol industry and converting algae to fuel. Gary Miller.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 24, 2021

Polymers and Additives Production emits at least 14 million tons of GHG each year—equivalent to seven coal-fired power plants. Municipal Waste Incineration of plastic waste emits at least 15 million tons of GHG each year—equivalent to at least seven coal-fired power plants. Plastics in the Water degrade into GHGs.

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Coal Industrial Industry Climate Change 236

Green Car Congress

JULY 14, 2015

The algae uses CO 2 from air or industrial emitters with sunlight and saltwater to create fuel while reducing the carbon footprint, costs and water usage, with no reliance on food crops as feedstocks. This has led to improved biofuel productivity, higher economic returns, minimal waste production, and a lower carbon footprint.

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EPA Green Polymer Water 150

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

The water balance of a polymer electrolyte fuel cell significantly affects efficiency and service life. If the diaphragm dries out, this will lead to a gas breakthrough, while surplus water has the undesired effect of allowing the gases to freely enter the catalytic converter. Water separators. Humidifier.

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Commercial Fuel Vehicles Water 223

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

By increasing the operational flexibility, this class of fuel cell can simplify the requirements for heat and water management, and potentially reduce the costs associated with the existing fully functional fuel cell systems, the researchers said. Further, this means that the operating temperature can’t get higher than water’s boiling point.

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Fuel Range Market Water 150

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 13, 2009

Polyitaconic acid is a water-soluble polymer with a 2 million metric ton per year market potential as a replacement for petrochemical dispersants, detergents, and super-absorbents. The self-contained process uses minimal water and no acids or chemical additives. Velocys, Inc. BIOFUELS DEVELOPMENT ANALYSIS. USDA Awards.

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MAY 9, 2024

Manufacturers achieve the seal by laminating a panel’s silicon cells with polymer sheets between glass panes. But the sticky polymer is hard to separate from the silicon cells at the end of a solar panel’s life, making recycling the materials more difficult. This partial recycling wastes the most valuable materials in the modules. “At

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 23, 2016

By increasing the operational flexibility, this class of fuel cell can simplify the requirements for heat and water management, and potentially reduce the costs associated with the existing fully functional fuel cell systems. Currently, two main classes of polymer-based fuel cells exist.

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