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SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

A detailed discussion of the issues related to the comparison of the energy intensities of flying and driving is presented in a recent report.) Michael Sivak is the managing director of Sivak Applied Research and the former director of Sustainable Worldwide Transportation at the University of Michigan. Certificated air carriers.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2012

Researchers at Isfahan University of Technology (Iran) report the efficient production of cellulosic ethanol from rice straw using a new sodium carbonate pretreatment method. Amin Salehi, Keikhosro Karimi, Tayebeh Behzad, and Nafiseh Poornejad (2012) Efficient Conversion of Rice Straw to Bioethanol Using Sodium Carbonate Pretreatment.

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OCTOBER 28, 2015

The fourth international “ Science Award Electrochemistry ” from BASF and Volkswagen ( earlier post ) was awarded to Dr. Bryan McCloskey, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Berkeley. The Science Award Electrochemistry was initiated by BASF and Volkswagen in 2012. Earlier post.).

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NOVEMBER 17, 2012

A team led by researchers from the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory is presenting a new explanation for the long-range airborne transport (LRT) of polluting polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs); a paper on the work is published in the journal Environmental Science & Technology. Credit: ACS, Zelenyuk et al. Click to enlarge.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2014

At the official opening, Gorden Wagener, Head of Design Daimler AG, presented the Mercedes-Benz G-Code plug-in hybrid crossover show car. In addition, it does own research on topics like in-car air quality or allergy prevention and builds up ties with universities and other research organizations.

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MARCH 7, 2010

The company expects to commercialize solid-state lithium-ion cells using the new electrolyte around 2012. At the 214 th meeting of the Electrochemical Society (ECS) in October 2008, for example, researchers from Idemitsu presented a paper showing the use of the lithium sulfide electrolyte with lithium anodes. MRS 2010 Spring Meeting.

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JANUARY 7, 2012

Researchers at Peking University have developed a new methodology to model black carbon (BC) emissions from diesel and gasoline motor vehicles. The results are presented as medians (curves) and semi-interquartile ranges (shaded areas) in (A) and (C) according to a Monte Carlo simulation. Credit: ACS, Wang et al. Click to enlarge.

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JANUARY 12, 2013

In February 2012, the China State Council approved its first national ambient air quality standard for PM 2.5 , which will come into effect by the end of 2015. In April 2012, the State Council approved the “Development Plan of Energy-Efficient and New-Energy Vehicles (2012?2020),” Credit: ACS, Huo et al. Click to enlarge.

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JANUARY 16, 2019

The British manufacturer has already presented the prototype of the new fuel cell double-decker to the public as well as several fleet operators. ZF introduced the AxTrax AVE in 2012. They can add seating and standing room, for example, or provide for step-less entry and exit or a completely flat passageway.

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DECEMBER 5, 2012

Their research, presented at the Intelligent Transportation Society World Congress in Vienna in October, won the Best Scientific Paper Award for North America. —Zohdy and Rakha 2012. This effort has resulted in two papers that will be presented that the Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting in January 2013.

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DECEMBER 18, 2014

The sixth in a series of reports on peak motorization in the US by Dr. Michael Sivak at the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute (UMTRI) finds that distance driven per GDP reached its highest values in a broad plateau from the early 1970s through the early 1990s, and then decreased steadily.

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APRIL 2, 2012

A team from Chonnam National University (Korea) and Hyundai Motor have developed a new composite anode for Li-ion batteries that presents initial discharge and charge capacities of 652.57 mAh/g and 647.54 mAh/g, respectively, with a capacity retention of 98% after 20 cycles. 2012.02.036.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2013

The Delft University of Technology, Royal HaskoningDHV and Iv Infra are exploring possible designs for a flood barrier off the coast of Houston to provide coastal defense against hurricanes such as Hurricane Ike. Immediately after Hurricane Ike, Professor Bill Merrell of the Texas A&M University developed and unveiled the “Ike Dike” concept.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2012

Phillip Savage at the University of Michigan has found that with appropriate parameters, hydrothermal liquefaction (HTL) can convert 65% of wet algae (a Nannochloropsis species) into biocrude in one minute. Savage (2012) The Effects of Heating Rate and Reaction Time On Hydrothermal Liquefaction of Microalgae. AIChE 2012.

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JANUARY 31, 2019

in the air had higher rates of stroke deaths and shorter life expectancies, according to preliminary research to be presented in Honolulu at the American Stroke Association’s International Stroke Conference 2019, a world premier meeting for researchers and clinicians dedicated to the science and treatment of cerebrovascular disease.

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DECEMBER 19, 2013

Volkswagen will accept the Gold Medal Award on 15 May 2014 during the Gold Medal Presentation Ceremony in Washington, DC. Recent recipients of the WEC Gold Medal Award are: Unilever (2013), IBM (2012), Nestlé (2011), Wal-Mart Stores (2010), The Coca-Cola Company (2009), and Marks & Spencer (2008).

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AUGUST 4, 2012

Researchers at Fuzhou University, China, have developed a LiZnVO 4 material for use as a high-capacity anode material for Li-ion batteries. the present work, we synthesized LiZnVO 4 via a solid-state reaction route and used it as anode material in a rechargeable lithium-ion battery. Testing found a large capacity of 330 mAh g ?1

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JULY 17, 2012

Source: Knittel and Smith (2012). Those estimates are based on a series of papers by University of Wisconsin and Iowa State University economists Xiaodong Du and Dermot Hayes, who used monthly regional data to estimate the relationship between ethanol production and the pro?t Click to enlarge. in 2010 and 2011, respectively.

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MARCH 12, 2012

Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology (Sweden) have developed a method for analyzing combustion events in an internal combustion engine based on crankshaft torque measurements. They present their method in a paper published in the journal Control Engineering Practice. —Andersson et al. 2011.12.007.

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DECEMBER 1, 2016

Technical University of Munich, Technical University of Berlin and the University of Freiburg are working on next-generation catalysts, electrodes and membranes. GDLs are positioned between the catalyst layer in the cell and the gas flow channel; its structure controls catalyst utilization and overall fuel cell performance.

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JUNE 29, 2011

Volkswagen, in cooperation with 6 project partners and the German Ministry of the Environment, presented in Berlin the current status of the “Fleet study in electric mobility” that was initiated in July 2008. Earlier post.) The German federal government is targeting one million electric vehicles in Germany by 2020.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2010

The LCVTP involves seven industry and research partners: Jaguar Land Rover, Tata Motors, Zytek, Ricardo, MIRA, WMG (formerly Warwick Manufacturing Group) at the University of Warwick and Coventry University. Optimized Electric Vehicle Package. The goal of the LCVTP is to accelerate the introduction of low carbon vehicles by 4 years.

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JANUARY 16, 2012

Credit: Marston (2012), Photo credit: Daniel Stein/Istockphoto.com.Click to enlarge. Dr. Carl Percival, Reader in Atmospheric Chemistry at The University of Manchester and one of the authors of the paper, believes there could be significant research possibilities arising from the measurement of the Criegee biradicals. Welz et al.

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DECEMBER 2, 2022

The robots of Team NimbRo of University of Bonn, Germany, won the main soccer tournament, the Drop-in tournament, and the Technical Challenges. Robotnik ] This video celebrates the 10-year anniversary of the University of Zurich’s Robotics and Perception Group, led by Prof. The lab was founded in 2012. Davide Scaramuzza.

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AUGUST 21, 2012

Sustainable Energy presenting experimental data from their 0.45 Linck’s ACS presentation focused on experimental descriptions and yield data, demonstrating that the performance of the larger, continuously operated plant is in line with results obtained on the smaller, semi-continuous plant. Earlier post.). per gallon, Linck said.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2017

MAN also presented an all-electric prototype of a semitrailer tractor unit for urban distribution transport. Helga Kromp-Kolb, Head of the Centre for Global Change and Sustainability at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna (BOKU); Werner Müller, Austrian Council for Sustainable Logistics (CNL).

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OCTOBER 10, 2012

Their paper was presented at the ASME Internal Combustion Engine Division 2012 Fall Technical Conference by Marcello Canova, assistant professor at OSU; lead author was Philipp Skarke, from the University of Stuttgart Institute for Internal Combustion Engines and Automotive Engineering. —Skarke et al.

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OCTOBER 10, 2012

Researchers from North Carolina State University have å a new technique that allows users to better determine the amount of charge remaining in a battery in real time. At present, it is difficult to determine how much charge a battery has left. Mo-Yuen Chow, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at NC State and co-author.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

—Lin Zhang of Peking University, lead author. But the extent of surface ozone pollution in China hasn’t been widely recognized, in part because there were so few Chinese monitoring sites before 2012, according to the researchers. Many countries regulate ozone because of the damage the pollutant does to plants and people.

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MARCH 27, 2013

A chart from EnerG2’s 2012 DOE Merit Review presentation shows different pore profiles for different energy storage applications. EnerG2’s proprietary freeze-drying process to make its specialized carbon material was developed at the University of Washington. Click to enlarge.

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OCTOBER 19, 2017

The GMR is the first study to assess the global performance of the transport sector and the progress made toward four main objectives: universal access, efficiency, safety, and green mobility. from 1990 to 2012, with a negative GDP growth rate of –0.8% from 2008–2012. from 2008–2012. Non-Annex I countries averaged 4.8%

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FEBRUARY 24, 2012

President Obama announced both new programs during a speech on Thursday at the University of Miami. ARPA-E presently has three open Requests for Information (RFI): RFI on Draft Open Funding Opportunity Announcement ( earlier post ). million in fiscal year 2012 funds, with an additional $6.7 Natural gas vehicles.

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MAY 23, 2012

an associative business model as it complements the first-generation ethanol industry, presenting significant synergies to both sides. This biorefinery will be located in Crescentino, Italy and is planned to start operating in the second half of 2012. GraalBio will also build a pilot plant in the city of Campinas in 2012.

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JUNE 19, 2012

At last month’s World Renewable Energy Forum 2012 in Denver, Colorado, researchers from the US National Renewable Energy Laboratory presented papers on two different approaches to upgrade pyrolysis oils to hydrocarbon fuels or fuel intermediates. This conversion presents more than 50% of the theoretical yield. —Iisa et al.

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JUNE 2, 2013

If generated in sufficient quantities, the synthetic natural gas produced by the e-gas or VGV processes could replace the present-day uses of natural gas and perhaps ultimately most fossil fuels, Lepage and Bell argue. Dr. Pengg presentation at ASPO 2012. Diagram: Isabelle Plat. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.).

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JANUARY 10, 2014

Predictive Traffic anticipates and analyzes current traffic patterns based on present and past traffic data, along with weather and event information. The AUIA project was the latest in a series of research projects that Audi has formed with leading US universities. Earlier post.).

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OCTOBER 27, 2012

The team, led by Jeffrey Elam, principal chemist in ANL’s Energy Systems Division, will present its research during the AVS 59 th International Symposium and Exhibition , held 28 Oct. Elam (2012). Additionally, these extreme conditions can dissolve the support. AVS has approximately 4,500 members worldwide.

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