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DECEMBER 9, 2011

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released a draft analysis of data from its Pavillion, Wyoming ground water investigation, indicating that ground water in the aquifer contains compounds likely associated with gas production practices, including hydraulic fracturing. Background.

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MARCH 5, 2015

million Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) ( DE-FOA-0001285 ) for a new technical track under the US-China Clean Energy Research Center ( CERC ) that addresses water-related aspects of energy production and use. It builds on the contents of The Water-Energy Nexus: Challenge and Opportunities, which DOE issued in June 2014.

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JUNE 20, 2009

Researchers at Oregon State University have demonstrated the gasification of water-soluble biomass constituents in supercritical water in a microchannel reactor under isothermal, continuous flow condition at short residence times to produce a hydrogen-rich gas. Goodwin and Rorrer (2009). Hydrogen gas yields of 8.2 ±0.6

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NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Automotive lead-acid batteries are GS Yuasa’s mainstay product, for which it holds the largest share of the Japanese market by far, covering roughly 70% of new vehicles. million lithium-ion batteries for hybrids since 2009. Development of cell design and manufacturing processes that facilitate mass production.

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AUGUST 27, 2009

Researchers at Auburn University have shown a subcritical water treatment (hydrothermal liquefaction) that effectively liquefies switchgrass to produce a biocrude at a comparatively low temperature (235 °C) in a flow reactor. Since water is used both as a reactant and as the reaction medium, the moisture content of biomass is not an issue.

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JULY 18, 2015

Findings by MIT researchers could help advance the commercialization of supercritical water technology for the desulfurization and upgrading of high-sulfur crude oil into high-value, cleaner fuels such as gasoline without using hydrogen—a major change in refining technology that would reduce costs, energy use, and CO 2 emissions.

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APRIL 28, 2011

Water consumption intensity of ethanol from corn grain and crop residue and the avoided/displaced water use credits assigned to coproducts: DGS and electricity. In their paper, Mishra and Yeh analyze the lifecycle water requirement consumption and withdrawal requirements of ethanol produced from corn and from crop residue.

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MARCH 11, 2010

POET plans to decrease water use in the production of ethanol by 22% over the next five years in the first goal of its sustainability initiative, Ingreenuity. If successful, it will cut the company’s water used per gallon of ethanol from an average of 3 gallons to 2.33, an annual water savings of one billion gallons.

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APRIL 12, 2013

liter EcoBoost is the first engine from Ford to incorporate a computer-controlled clutch on the belt-drive water pump, which further improves efficiencies by reducing warm-up time. A water-cooled charge air cooler is added to offer a more efficient feed of air into the engine. Production of the four-cylinder 1.5-liter

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APRIL 9, 2009

Nestlé Waters North America has installed 32 Plug Power GenDrive hydrogen fuel cells, purchased in 2008, in its materials-handling fleet at their Dallas, Texas bottling facility. Nestlé Waters evaluated both hydrogen fuel cells and lead-acid batteries as potential replacements for the LPG-fueled systems.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2014

The US Department of Energy (DOE) Fuel Cell Technologies Office’ (FCTO) 2014 Hydrogen and Fuel Cells Program Annual Progress Report ( earlier post )—an annual summary of results from projects funded by DOE’s Hydrogen and Fuel Cells Program—described progress in the field of hydrogen production. Source: DOE. Click to enlarge.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2013

and Calgren Renewable Fuels, an ethanol producer located in Pixley, CA, announced an alliance to develop a local supply chain for sorghum for the production of fuel ethanol and distiller’s grains. In areas of the Central Valley with water constraints and higher alkalinity soil sorghum looks like an especially good choice.

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AUGUST 8, 2011

A team led by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) scientists is developing a way to combine underground CO 2 storage and geothermal energy production. Schematic of system for coupling CCS with geothermal energy production. Earlier post.). Click to enlarge. But no one has tried to do it until now.

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JANUARY 9, 2019

The investments mark the first significant collaboration between a DAC developer and the energy industry, with two global energy leaders investing in DAC as a mechanism to reduce emissions from transportation and enable permanent capture of existing atmospheric CO 2 that can be utilized both in oil production and in direct synthesis of fuels.

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MAY 30, 2020

The researchers and engineers at ETH Zurich have developed innovative processes that make it possible to extract CO 2 from the atmosphere and, together with water and with the help of concentrated sunlight, convert it into a synthesis gas that can be used to produce jet fuel.

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APRIL 8, 2009

Top: County-level corn production and ethanol facilities in 2007. The graph illustrates the proximity of ethanol facilities to corn production. The foreground bar height indicates the EWe of each state, with the portion of ground and surface water indicated by color. Bottom: EWe and TCW of each state as of 2007. Credit: ACS.

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JULY 8, 2015

Geely Group and CRI intend to collaborate on the deployment of renewable methanol fuel production technology in China and explore the development and deployment of 100% methanol-fueled vehicles in China, Iceland and other countries. Currently the company has a 4,000 metric ton/year production capacity. Earlier post.). Earlier post.)

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MARCH 19, 2009

Log scale plot of illustrative water consumption by energy-related activity. Data: WBCSD (2009). Business leaders from some of the world’s biggest companies called for water, energy and climate change issues to be linked in global negotiations, such as the international climate talks due to culminate in Copenhagen in December.

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MARCH 23, 2009

GE Water, a business unit of GE Energy, and the National University of Singapore (NUS) have signed an agreement to establish the NUS-GE Singapore Water Technology Center on the campus of NUS. Together, GE and NUS are investing US$100 million (SGD$150 million) in the NUS-GE Singapore Water Technology Center. Today, about 1.1

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JUNE 6, 2009

Total weighted global average water footprints (blue and green) for major ethanol and biodiesel crops in m 3 water per GJ fuel. The red marker (right axis) indicates liters of water required to produce one liter of fuel. Gray WF: volume of water that becomes polluted during production. Data: Gerbens-Leenes et al.

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JUNE 4, 2013

billion, 8-year loan agreement with China Development Bank (CDB) for boosting production at the Sinovensa heavy oil joint venture in the Orinoco belt from 140,000 barrels per day to 330,000 barrels per day by 2016. Venezuela’s PDVSA signed a $4.0-billion, Venezuela will also receive two other loans from China: one for $1.5 Schenk C.J.,

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MARCH 27, 2015

These tests resulted in the combined 115% freight efficiency improvement over a 2009 baseline truck. Friction-reducing measures include a variable speed water pump, a clutched air compressor, low-viscosity oil and an improved cylinder kit. SuperTruck is supported by the US DOE under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2017

Steam methane reforming is currently the primary pathway for hydrogen production worldwide. However, as the reactor is scaled up to a realistic production size, consideration of heat and mass transfer effects become necessary to develop the strategy for a practical design of the CHAMP-SORB reactor. Credit: ACS, Anderson et al.

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APRIL 8, 2009

In 2009, the DOE was appropriated $40 million to investigate advanced water power energy generation technologies. Projects are expected to begin in Fiscal Year 2009. This research is executed through DOE’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Wind and Hydropower Technologies Program (WHTP).

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AUGUST 15, 2009

If sustained, the trend will lead to a major water crisis in the region, the researchers conclude in a paper to be published in the AGU journal Geophysical Research Letters. (A) A) Rate of change of terrestrial water storage, in cm/yr of water thickness, determined from GRACE gravity solutions. White lines show major rivers. (

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AUGUST 30, 2012

Takaaki Maekawa, President of the Research Institute of Tsukuba Bio-tech (RITB) and Professor Emeritus at Tsukuba University near Tokyo, has confirmed receiving grant approval from the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (MAFF) to build one-acre sites to prove biofuels production and toxic remediation using algae.

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JUNE 9, 2014

Production costs per barrel of oil equivalent. The cost of electrofuels—fuels produced by catalyst-based systems for light capture, water electrolysis, and catalytic conversion of carbon dioxide and hydrogen to liquid fuels—remains far away from viable, according to a new analysis by Lux Research. Source: Lux Research.

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OCTOBER 2, 2019

The IHS Markit analysis also showed differences between average discovery sizes in deep- and ultra-deep-water areas compared to shallow water and onshore discoveries—the former being five or more times greater on average. Drilling in frontier/emerging-phase basins declined by a similar amount. —Keith King.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2009

The STM imaging records the individual reaction intermediates of HO 2 , H 2 O 2 , and H 3 O 2 stoichiometry and the final reaction product pairs of water molecules, [H 2 O] 2. O 2 molecules react with H adatoms on the O br rows, leading to a series of intermediate H transfer reaction steps until the formation of water is complete.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2009

Hydrogen production from cellodextrin and water by a synthetic enzymatic pathway. 2009) Click to enlarge. In 2007, the researchers had reported the development of a novel method using a combination of 13 enzymes to form an unnatural enzymatic pathway to completely convert starch and water in one reactor into hydrogen.

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APRIL 17, 2009

BASF Fuel Cell GmbH —formed in March 2007 by merging the fuel cell activities of PEMEAS and Engelhard with those of BASF—will introduce a new high-temperature membrane electrode assembly (MEA) and a new fuel cell electrode catalyst product line at Hannover Fair 2009 next week. Celtec is BASF’s family of high temperature MEAs.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2009

SOLVE adds a solvent to the steam in SAGD (basic operation depicted above) to reduce energy input and water consumption. SAGD is a thermal production method that pairs a horizontal injection well above a horizontal production well drilled along a parallel trajectory. Source: StatoilHydro. Click to enlarge.

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MAY 1, 2009

2009) Click to enlarge. Hydrogen for reverse water gas shift reaction to avoid producing CO 2 during the process is produced by electrolyzing water, driven by solar power. The researchers modeled the production of methanol, which can be used directly as transport fuel or as input for DME and FT-diesel synthesis.

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MAY 21, 2009

The direct fuel cell produces electricity, with water and CO 2 as byproducts of the oxidation of the liquid fuel in the fuel cell. The only step not yet extensively investigated is the electrolytic production of syngas, the primary topic of the paper. V yielded a syngas production rate of 7 sccm/cm 2. Zhan et al.

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JANUARY 22, 2016

The new location will produce the latest generation of the BMW TwinPower Turbo three and four-cylinder gasoline engines and forms part of the BBA production network based in Shenyang in Northeastern China. Both the engine plant and the light metal foundry incorporate the latest state-of-the-art production standards.

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DECEMBER 24, 2019

Mako-1, drilled in 5,315 feet (1,620 meters) of water, is located approximately six miles (10 kilometers) southeast of the Liza field, which began producing oil in December 2019. ExxonMobil affiliate Esso Exploration and Production Guyana Limited is operator and holds 45% interest in the Stabroek Block. Earlier post.). Krebs, John E.

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JANUARY 21, 2013

Panasonic manufactures the fuel cell unit and supplies it to Tokyo Gas in combination with a hot water unit and backup heat source produced by Gastar Co., Through system simplification, the new product contains about 20% fewer components than the previous model. The new product will be available to the general public in three models.

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