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Plastic-to-oil Converter: A Breakthrough in Green Technology

Posted on Thursday, October 8, 2009 posted by posted by Mak @ 2:10 AM

A breakthrough in green technology arrived in Montgomery County,United States as Evion Inc. unveiled its plastic-to-oil conversion technology.Envion said the facility was its first market-ready commercial unit and it was capable of converting any type of plastic waste into high quality, synthetic light medium oil for less than $10 per barrel. The company estimated that the technology, which it calls the Evion Oil Generator, could turn one ton of waste plastic into approximately four 42-gallon barrels of high quality, synthetic light to medium oil. That oil in turn could be used to produce gasoline, diesel fuel, jet fuel and kerosene.

In addition to adding to use oil production Envion said that its technology could reduce landfill use and expense. Envion estimates that the United States produces approximately 50 million tons of plastic waste per year, with most of its heading for landfills. The company estimates its plastic-to-oil conversion processing cost at approximately $17 per ton, much less than the $70-$200 cost range of landfill disposal.

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CO2-to-Fuel : New Technology From Carbon Sciences

Posted on Friday, February 27, 2009 posted by posted by Mak @ 9:20 PM

A handful of companies and scientists are finding ways to recycle CO2 and turn it back into gasoline and other transportation fuels.Carbon Sciences is furthest along in the CO2-to-fuels quest.In June, company chief technology officer Naveed Aslam figured out a way to break down CO2 at low temperature and pressure. His secret? Biocatalysts.

Although catalysts, such as enzymes and bacteria, can split CO2, they're very expensive, and typically must be replaced after every reaction. Aslam invented a polymer shell that protects them so they can be recycled. The same technology can extract hydrogen from water, avoiding the need for energy-intensive hydrolysis. The carbon and hydrogen are joined to form methanol, which can be refined into gasoline or jet fuel.

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New Pneumatic Hybrid Engine Could Save Gasoline?

Posted on Tuesday, February 17, 2009 posted by posted by Mak @ 9:24 PM

Lino Guzzella, Professor of Thermotronics at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, believes he has a better idea for hybrid auto engines.In Guzzella’s pneumatic hybrid, a tank of compressed air would be grafted onto a car engine instead of an electric unit. That air would be released into the engine by an electronically controlled valve to produce motion; gasoline can be injected at the same time for quicker response.In early testing, the new engine produced a fuel savings of one-third over the gas engine alone, but Guzzella’s team says savings could reach 50% in cities because of the nature of the design, which would recharge the compressed air tank during braking.

Labels: gasoline, green-car, hybrids

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Carbon Sciences'technology to transform CO2 into gasoline and jet fuel

Posted on Monday, January 5, 2009 posted by posted by Mak @ 9:01 PM

Carbon Sciences Inc. , the developer of a breakthrough technology to transform carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions into gasoline and other fuels, announced today that representatives of oil refineries expressed a high level of interest in the company's technology at the ACI Downstream CO2 & Energy Efficiency Forum held December 3-5 in Istanbul, Turkey.

This breakthrough technology for transforming CO2 to hydrocarbons fits refineries' needs in today's environmentally conscious world. Instead of emitting hundreds of millions of tons of CO2 into the atmosphere and face potential legal and economic penalties, oil refineries can use our technology to transform their CO2 streams directly into fuel building blocks. These building blocks can then be used in their existing refinery processes to produce gasoline, diesel fuel, jet fuel and other portable fuels -- without using additional crude oil.

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Green Gasoline, Green Diesel, Green Jet Fuel - Biofuel Breakthrough

Posted on Thursday, June 19, 2008 posted by posted by Ecacofonix @ 11:04 AM

Researchers have made a breakthrough in the development of "green gasoline," a liquid identical to standard gasoline in energy contant yet created from sustainable biomass sources like switchgrass and poplar trees. The discovery could transform the renewable fuel economy by eliminating the need to grow corn for ethanol and rescue

America

from importing expensive and dwindling foreign oil supplies.

The latest pathways to produce green gasoline, green diesel and green jet fuel are found in a report sponsored by NSF, the Department of Energy and the American Chemical Society entitled "Breaking the Chemical and Engineering Barriers to Lignocellulosic Biofuels: Next Generation Hydrocarbon Biorefineries" released April 1 (http://www.ecs.umass.edu/biofuels/). In the report, Huber and a host of leaders from academia, industry and government present a plan for making green gasoline a practical solution for the impending fuel crisis.

Full report from here - Green Gasoline Biofuel Breakthrough

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Renewable Gasoline from Sapphire Energy Using Algae

Posted on Thursday, June 12, 2008 posted by posted by Ecacofonix @ 10:11 PM

As ethanol and biodiesel help to allay some of the strain caused by increasing core commodity prices and imported oil nearing $140 a barrel, research conducted on biomass feedstocks such as algae continues to gain traction as a viable means for “closing the loop” on energy sustainability. One company in particular is striving to meet this goal.

San Diego, Calif.-based Sapphire Energy was founded in 2006 on the basis of this principle philosophy when it debuted its “green crude”, a gasoline equivalent refined from algae that comes in light and heavy fractions; the light being gasoline and a heavy being kero-disel (or jet aircraft fuel). Although it won’t divulge its production process specifically, according to Sapphire Chief Executive Officer Jason Pyle, the company is producing 91 octane gasoline built on the platform that uses nothing more than sunlight, carbon dioxide and complex photosynthetic microorganisms.

Source: Sapphire Energy unveils world’s first renewable gasoline

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SRNL Microspheres Could Impact Fuel, Gasoline, Hydrogen Distribution

Posted on posted by posted by Ecacofonix @ 10:04 PM

The Savannah Research National Laboratory have created a multipurpose new material, composed of tiny glass bubbles, which behaves both like a fluid and a solid. Researchers at Savannah Research National Laboratory (SRNL) preface the news release for their impactful glass microsphere breakthrough, with a riddle. "What looks like a fertilized egg, flows like water, gets stuffed with catalysts and exotic nanostructures and may have the potential of making the current retail gasoline infrastructure compatible with hydrogen-based vehicles of the future – not to mention also contributing to arenas such as nuclear proliferation and global warming?"The spheres measure a scant 2-100 microns in diameter. This puts them at smaller than the width of a human hair. The key asset of the spheres are tiny pores which adorn their surface. These pores can be controlled by processing to measure from 100 to 3,000 Angstroms and they form full tunnels between the inner and outer wall, through which chemicals of controlled sizes can pass.A major application of the new material is gas streaming filtering. By adjusting the porosity, the material will act as a filter, absorbing one type of gas and letting the others pass.

Most promising yet, the microballoons can have their mechanical properties tweaked to act like a fluid, including flowing along pipes. This means that current gas distribution infrastructures could be modified to transport solid hydrogen, with little change. This in turn would amount in savings of money and effort spent. The hardy little microballoons are also easily recycled and reused, thanks to their strength. Toyota is sponsoring the SRNL to bring the technology to market to help it with its hydrogen vehicles.

Source: Toyota, Medical Schools Back Revolutionary New Microspheres

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Diesels Come Clean - Business Week

Posted on Monday, March 26, 2007 posted by posted by Ecacofonix @ 7:09 AM

Diesels Come Clean

by Matt Vella

In Europe gas costs more than $5 a gallon. In the U.S., it's under $3. In Europe, diesel-powered cars and trucks account for 50% of all auto sales. In the U.S., they are less than 4%. What do the Europeans know that Americans don't?

They know that diesels provide superior fuel-economy without sacrificing performance. The main concern for most Americans is that the hangover from the smoky, smelly diesels of the 1970s remains fresh in many minds. But changes in the supply of diesel fuel, emerging cleaner-burning technologies, and growing consumer concern over the environment and fuel economy in particular are creating new opportunities for automakers willing to dabble in diesel, says this article

Read the full article here @ Business Week, 26 Mar 2007 issue

Labels: autos, diesel, environment, gasoline

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