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New open-source lifecycle analysis tool for oil production using field characteristics
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Schematic chart showing included stages within OPGEE. El Houjeiri et al., Supplemental Information. Click to enlarge. A team from Stanford University and the California Air Resources Board (ARB) has developed a new open-source lifecycle analysis (LCA) tool for modeling the... Continue reading
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Alcoa facility to cut in half energy used to recycle aluminum for forged wheels
Alcoa expects its $21-million Alcoa Wheel and Transportation Products casthouse expansion at its Barberton, Ohio plant to cut in half the total amount of energy used to recycle aluminum for forged wheels, reducing greenhouse gases and increasing the overall efficiency... Continue reading
Posted 4 hours ago at Green Car Congress
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AID reports W. European EV sales in April up almost 50% to 2,600 units, for 0.26% market share; France leading
AID (Automotive Industry Data) reports that first-time registrations in April of electric vehicles in Western Europe were up almost one-half to just under 2,600 units, representing 0.26% of the region’s new car market. Registrations of electric cars this April were... Continue reading
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One-step process for production of renewable diesel blendstock from soybean oil
Researchers from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and Ormat Industries Ltd. in Israel report the development of a comercially-viable, one-step catalytic hydrotreating process for the conversion of soybean oil to renewable diesel-type fuel in a paper in the journal Fuel.... Continue reading
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Study shows role of operating temperature on performance of Li-air batteries
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Cycling behavior of TEGDME-based electrolyte lithium−oxygen cells; capacity limited to 1000 mAh g−1carbon. Credit: ACS, Park et al. Click to enlarge. A team including researchers from Hanyang University (South Korea) and University of Rome Sapienza (Italy) have shown that operating... Continue reading
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Rosneft and PDVSA sign joint venture agreement for Orinoco heavy-oil Carabobo-2 project
Russian oil and gas major Rosneft, 75% owned by the government, and the Venezuelan Corporacion Venezolana del Petroleo (CVP), a subsidiary of PDVSA, signed an agreement to create a joint venture to develop heavy oil reserves in Venezuela in the... Continue reading
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Penn State wins EcoCAR 2 Year 2 competition with E85 PHEV
EcoCAR 2: Plugging In to the Future named Pennsylvania State University its Year Two winner at the EcoCAR 2013 Competition in San Diego. The 15 universities competing in EcoCAR 2 gathered in Yuma, Arizona last week for six days of... Continue reading
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Porsche Panamera S E-Hybrid PHEV averages 4.4 l/100 km (53.4 mpg US) during test drives
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Panamera S E-Hybrid PHEV on the road. Click to enlarge. During an international press event in Germany, in which more than 42 test drives were conducted with journalists in the Panamera S E-Hybrid (earlier post) covering a total distance of... Continue reading
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PG&E, Calif. Energy Commission launch 4MW sodium-sulfur grid storage pilot in San Jose
Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) and the California Energy Commission today unveiled a utility-scale sodium-sulfur battery energy storage system (earlier post) pilot project to better balance power needs of the electric grid. The system has a 4 megawatt capacity,... Continue reading
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Cyclone Power and McGill University to advance solid fuel combustion systems for micro-sized power units
Cyclone Power Technologies, developer of the all-fuel, external combustion Cyclone Engine, and McGill University of Québec, Canada have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to develop alternative solid fuel combustion systems for micro-sized power units. Cyclone has identified a business... Continue reading
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US April petroleum demand up despite weak gasoline deliveries; 2nd lowest April petroleum demand in 17 years; production up
Total US petroleum deliveries (a measure of demand) were up 0.3% for April against the same month a year ago to average nearly 18.4 million barrels per day, but still recorded the second lowest April demand level in 17 years,... Continue reading
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2.5L engine for 2014 Chevy Impala features new Intake Valve Lift Control (IVLC)
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IVLC uses an all-new rocker arm that switches between low- and high-lift intake cam profiles. The mechanism is actuated by an oil control valve through a dual-feed stationary hydraulic lash adjuster. Click to enlarge. The new 2014 Chevrolet Impala offers... Continue reading
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Synopsys delivers VDK for Renesas MCUs for automotive applications such as body, powertrain/hybrid and chassis/safety control
Synopsys, Inc., a provider of software, IP and services used to accelerate innovation in chips and electronic systems, announced the availability of the Virtualizer Development Kit (VDK) for Renesas RH850 MCUs to accelerate software development, system integration and test for... Continue reading
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New MOF could enable more efficient and cost-effective production of high octane gasoline
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The new MOF contains triangular channels running through the material. The walls of these channels trap the lower-octane components while allowing the higher-octane molecules to pass through, potentially providing a more efficient and cost effective way to refine high-octane gasoline.... Continue reading
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New graphene-wrapped sulfur-carbon nanofiber cathode for Li-S batteries shows increased capacity and long-cycle stability
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Top: illustration of the assembled G-S-CNF multi- layered coaxial nanocomposites. Bottom: Comparison of specific capacity and Coulombic efficiency as a function of cycle numbers for electrodes assembled with and without graphene wrapping. Credit: ACS, Lu et al. Click to enlarge.... Continue reading
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Independent testing of Rossi E-CAT HT devices computes energy densities far above those of any known chemical source
Independent testing of two versions of Andrea Rossi’s E-CAT HT device resulted in computed volumetric and gravimetric energy densities far above those of any known chemical source. “Even by the most conservative assumptions as to the errors in the measurements,... Continue reading
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VG Energy and DAK Renewable Research to conduct field trials of LipidMax to boost corn oil yield
VG Energy, an agricultural biotech company, entered a strategic alliance with DAK Renewable Research to conduct field trials using LipidMax to increase corn oil yield. LipidMax selectively inhibits certain metabolic pathways (Metabolic Disruption Technology, earlier post) to increase the oil... Continue reading
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Ricardo-led technology demonstrator delivers 72% improved fuel economy over regular Humvee
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Ricardo-TARDEC FED. Click to enlarge. Ricardo released an analysis of two years of on-the-ground testing of the Ricardo-engineered Fuel-Efficient Ground Vehicle Demonstrator (FED) showing that, when compared to the US military’s regularly outfitted M1151 HMMWV (“Humvee”), the FED experienced a... Continue reading
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Bosch eMobility Starter Package facilitates roaming for EV charging
Bosch Software Innovations has developed an eMobility Starter Package offering out-of-the-box support for two of the leading open-interface protocols—OICP and OCPP—for connecting to roaming platforms and charging infrastructure systems. eRoaming is intended to extend electromobility beyond regional and system boundaries,... Continue reading
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UK’s first Bio-LNG filling station opens
The UK’s first open-access Bio-LNG filling station, built by Gasrec, has opened. Gasrec’s new facility in Daventry will allow gas-powered or dual-fuel trucks to use Bio-LNG, and will operate in a similar way to a traditional filling station. Bio-LNG is... Continue reading
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Noble Energy makes another natural gas find offshore Israel; total gross mean Levant gas resources now estimated at 38 Tcf
Noble Energy, Inc. announced a natural gas discovery at the Karish prospect offshore Israel. The discovery well was drilled to a total depth of 15,783 feet (4,811 meters) and encountered 184 feet (56 meters) of net natural gas pay in... Continue reading
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New Henkel polyolefin-based hotmelt can shave off up to 2.2kg of vehicle weight
Henkel Corporation’s automotive group introduced TECHNOMELT XPO 1050, a polyolefin-based hotmelt that can bond a wide variety of interior-related substrates without the need for pretreatment of the plastic surface. Used in the development of a number of interiors applications, including... Continue reading
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Uruguay launches first BYD battery-electric buses; projecting 500 by 2015
Buquebus and CTS Auto S.A., in partnership with Chinese automaker BYD Ltd, introduced the first battery-electric 12-meter rapid transit bus in Uruguay and the region. The BYD electric bus, powered by two in-wheel electric motors capable of a cruising speed... Continue reading
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City of Springfield, Illinois converts 24 vehicles to propane autogas
CleanFUEL USA has partnered with the City of Springfield, Ill., to convert 24 police patrol cars and pickup trucks to clean burning propane autogas. We estimate our fuel savings in the first year alone to be more than $82,000. Transitioning... Continue reading
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Total sanctions €1B modernization project for Antwerp production
Total has approved a €1-billion (US$1.3-billion) modernization project for its Antwerp production facilities, Total’s largest European refining and petrochemical platform. Two major projects will be implemented in the near future: A new refinery upgrading complex, consisting of a solvent de-asphalting... Continue reading
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