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SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

Specialty chemical producer Rhodia, the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), the Ecole Normale Superieure of Lyon (ENSL) and the East China Normal University (ECNU) of Shanghai recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding to strengthen their scientific collaboration focused on green chemistry. billion (US$5.16

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NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Barroso was born in Brazil and earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in 1989 in electrical engineering from Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro. in computer engineering in 1996 from the University of Southern California. Rao received a master’s degree in mathematics in 1940 from Andhra University , in Visakhapatnam.

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JANUARY 20, 2015

Based on Anellotech’s innovative proprietary CFP technology, patents licensed from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, and Axens’ proprietary post-treatment hydrotreating process, this new technology will open the way to a competitive production of bio-aromatics from renewable resources with lower energy consumption and lower CO 2 emissions.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

An internationally renowned aeronautics engineer, Dr. Shin will lead the company into a new era of developing smart mobility products within the aviation industry. Shin has also been awarded the Presidential Rank Award twice (in 2008 and 2016), the highest accolade presented to public officials in the US federal government.

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DECEMBER 21, 2023

Bekerytė moved from her native Lithuania to Norway in 2010 to take advantage of the country’s free university tuition, but first she had to find a way to support herself. She took the cleaning job, and scrimped and saved to pay for Norwegian reading and writing classes, a requirement to attend a university.

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JUNE 27, 2014

Now, results of large quantum molecular dynamics (QMD) simulations by a team at the University of Southern California suggest that alloying aluminum particles with lithium to produce hydrogen from water can produce orders-of-magnitude faster reactions with higher yields. For larger particles, surface atoms begin to lose acid?base

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JANUARY 15, 2010

Vision Industries Class 8 zero-emission hydrogen fuel cell hybrid-electric truck at the Port of Los Angeles. The Port of Los Angeles is entering into negotiations with Los Angeles-based Vision Industries for the purchase and evaluation of Vision’s Tyrano hydrogen fuel cell hybrid-electric trucks. Photo: Business Wire). Earlier post.)

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JULY 6, 2020

Peter Simmonds at the University of Bristol, UK, and his colleagues calculated annual emissions of SF 6 between 1978 and 2018. Between 2008 and 2018, annual emissions of the gas increased by about 24% to around 9,000 tonnes a year. —Simmonds et al. —Simmonds et al.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Süd-Chemie AG will supply Evonik Industries AG with novel lithium iron phosphate materials for use in the next generation of lithium-ion batteries for automobiles and other industrial applications. Li-Tec—a joint venture operated by Evonik Industries (50.1%) and Daimler AG (49.9%—uses Earlier post.).

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APRIL 10, 2009

in June 2008 (at the time of the study). “From that activity, this is when the real job growth happens,” Long said, adding it could result in more than 8,000 supplier-based manufacturing jobs. This would reduce Michigan’s unemployment rate to 7.5% in two years from the 8.7% Michigan’s unemployment rate in February 2009 was 12.0%. (A

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

DuPont Industrial Biosciences (DuPont) has selected Murex LLC to market the cellulosic ethanol produced from its 30-million-gallon-per-year plant in Nevada, Iowa. DuPont began developing an integrated solution for the commercial scale production of second generation ethanol from biomass in 2008. Earlier post.)

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NOVEMBER 6, 2013

The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) awarded nearly $10 million to a consortium of academic, industry and government organizations led by Colorado State University (CSU) and their partners to research using insect-killed trees in the Rockies as a sustainable feedstock for bioenergy.

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DECEMBER 19, 2013

Volkswagen’s Gold Medal submission was evaluated through a global competition with companies in multiple business sectors by WEC’s independent Gold Medal Jury chaired by Dr. Joel Abrams, Professor Emeritus at the University of Pittsburgh.

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DECEMBER 11, 2020

The Vehicle Technologies Office funds a broad portfolio of early-stage research to develop new affordable, efficient and clean transportation options to enable industry to accelerate the development and widespread use of a variety of innovative transportation technologies.

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AUGUST 26, 2019

A University of Texas at Dallas physicist has teamed with Texas Instruments Inc. to demonstrate thermoelectric generators (TEGs) created using nanostructured silicon thermopiles fabricated on an industrial silicon complementary metal–oxide–semiconductor (CMOS) process line. —Hal Edwards. —Prof. —Prof.

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Harish Lakshman holds bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from BITS Pilani, and master’s degree in business from Krannert School of Management at Purdue University, USA. He held positions of increasing responsibilities in the areas of Marketing and Operations and became Managing Director in 2008.

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OCTOBER 14, 2013

A University of Alberta spinoff company, Forge Hydrocarbons, is commercializing a patented lipids-to-hydrocarbons (LTH) process developed by David Bressler, a researcher in the Faculty of Agricultural, Life and Environmental Sciences. Simplified process flow of LTH. Click to enlarge. Since then, he has received more than $4.9

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DECEMBER 6, 2014

These awards include: The National Biodiesel Board and Regents of the University of Idaho received $768,000 and $192,000 respectively, through the Biodiesel Fuel Education Program. South Dakota State University (SDSU) received $2.3 The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) is making $5.6 million through the Sun Grant Program.

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OCTOBER 1, 2022

Holonyak left GE in 1963 to become a professor of electrical and computer engineering and researcher at his alma mater, the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He retired from the university in 2013. LED and other semiconductor industry breakthroughs. Pioneering research at the University of Illinois.

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AUGUST 24, 2009

Cumulative percentage (in 2008) of lodgepole pine killed by the pine beetle infestation in British Columbia. The Ministry estimates that as of 2008 the cumulative area of provincial Crown forest affected to some degree (red-attack and grey-attack) was about 14.5 Source: BC Ministry of Forests and Range. Click to enlarge. million (US$1.0-million)

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In 2008, Woskov began intensively studying whether the approach could be an affordable improvement on mechanical drilling. Quaise intends to first target industrial customers with a need for steam at a guaranteed flow rate, temperature, and pressure. Our goal is to match the specs of an industrial load,” says Araque.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Now Madni—a professor of astronautics, aerospace, and mechanical engineering at the University of Southern California —is working to transform engineering education. Ramo served as a presidential chair and professor of electrical engineering at USC’s Viterbi School of Engineering from 2008 until he died in 2016. university.

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OCTOBER 3, 2013

Average monthly and model year fleet-wide achieved CAFE performance levels (light purple) versus NHTSA projected achieved CAFE levels (blue) for model years 2008 through 2016. Additionally, they found, achieved CAFE performance has consistently increased annually from model year 2008 through model year 2013. Schoettle and Sivak 2013.

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MAY 14, 2018

The study, involving researchers from the University of East Anglia (UEA) and colleagues in China and the United States, investigated how complex supply chains are distributing energy-intensive industries and their CO 2 emissions throughout the global South. The paper is published in Nature Communications. —Prof Guan.

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OCTOBER 12, 2010

Launched in 2008, the CBiRC bases its engineering platform on three interconnected segments including enzyme and microbial engineering, chemical catalysis and catalysis engineering, and testbeds and life cycle analysis. —Paul Campbell, Chief Science Officer for Glycos Biotechnologies.

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AUGUST 24, 2023

When Ifeanyi Orajaka was an undergraduate engineering student in 2008, he had his career all mapped out. After he graduated from the Federal University of Technology in Owerri, Nigeria, his plan was to get a high-paying job at one of the multinational oil and gas companies based in the country.

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APRIL 5, 2023

The IEEE Fellow was awarded the 2008 IEEE Medal of Honor for “pioneering technical roles in integrated-circuit processing, and leadership in the development of MOS memory, the microprocessor computer, and the semiconductor industry.” Nearly 60 years later, his prediction is still driving the industry forward.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2010

It is another energy conservation and new-energy vehicle demonstration project similar to the one Air Products won in China for the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. During the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, Air Products’ hydrogen fueling technology was used to fill hydrogen fuel cell buses at a fueling station in the Beijing Hydrogen Park.

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JULY 13, 2023

Goodenough, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Texas at Austin , authored more than 800 technical papers during his career. It later became the chemistry of choice for early electric cars including the 2008 Tesla Roadster. Nobel Laureate John B. He and his colleagues were recently granted a U.S.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2010

Global carbon dioxide emissions show no sign of abating and may reach record levels in 2010, according to a study led by the University of Exeter (UK). The study, which also involved the University of East Anglia (UK) and other global institutions, is part of the annual carbon budget update by the Global Carbon Project.

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JANUARY 8, 2013

Once the new screening process is proven, it can be used to rapidly develop tailored cost-effective enzyme solutions for specific industrial biorefineries. million (2008-2012). MBI is affiliated with Michigan State University, and is a member of the MSU BioEconomy Network. million (2001-2005).

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JUNE 26, 2023

Landing a job in the video-game industry is a dream for many young engineers, but for Sushama Chakraverty , it was a happy accident. The industry has changed considerably in just a few decades, Chakraverty says, going from a few small firms to a multibillion-dollar economic powerhouse. Every day was different,” she says.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2016

Launched in 2008 by Jaguar Land Rover, the REALCAR program is a multi-stakeholder initiative established to create a closed-loop vehicle production model that recycles automobiles at the end of their lifecycles.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

GKN Driveline has extended its joint venture with Shanghai Automotive Industry Corporation (SAIC) for another 50 years. The first automotive industry component-manufacturing joint venture in China, Shanghai GKN Drive Shaft Company (SDS) was formed in 1988. million universal joints.

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DECEMBER 17, 2013

Private industry and DOE’s national laboratories have already helped to reduce automotive fuel cell costs by more than 50% since 2006 and by more than 30% since 2008. The University of Texas’s Center for Electromechanics, Electric Vehicles International, Hydrogenics USA and Valence Technology will also participate in this project.

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JULY 11, 2010

McPhy Energy , a French company founded in January 2008 with the mission to industrialize and commercialize a new magnesium hydride solid state storage system for hydrogen, recently closed its second round of funding worth €13.7 million (US$17.3 McPhy’s technology addresses the merchant hydrogen and renewable energy markets.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2019

BTG previously adopted a similar strategy for the production of pyrolysis oil in 2008, when it established a new company called BTG-BTL. The technology for producing oil via pyrolysis from plant-based residual waste streams such as wood residues and roadside grass was developed 30 years ago at the University of Twente.

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