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ORNL-led team uses carbon material derived from tire waste to convert used cooking oil to biofuel

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Using a novel, reusable carbon material derived from old rubber tires, an Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)-led research team has developed a simple method to convert used cooking oil into biofuel. —Hood et al. The patent-pending, waste oil-to-biofuel conversion adds a new approach to waste tire recycling initiatives. Resources.

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DOE to award up to $13M to four advanced biofuels projects

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DOE is continuing to pursue the development of these renewable biofuels, with the goal of producing cost-competitive drop-in biofuels at $3 per gallon by 2017. This technology will help reduce the corrosivity of bio-oil and improve the efficiency of converting hydrogen and biomass to biofuels. University of Oklahoma (up to $4 million).

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IEEE Power & Energy Society President Dies at 69

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He worked at Georgia Power in Atlanta for more than 20 years, and he was a principal research engineer at the National Electric Energy Testing Research and Applications Center at Georgia Tech for more than 25 years, becoming NEETRAC's associate director. He also served on its switch gear committee. Mason Lamar Williams III.

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NREL-led research could lead to improved enzyme performance to break down biomass for renewable fuels

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This work could be used to improve enzyme performance to better break down biomass and convert waste plant matter to renewable fuels and products. Taylor II (2017) “Distinct roles of N- and O-glycans in cellulase activity and stability” PNAS doi: 10.1073/pnas.1714249114. Hobdey, Todd A. Vander Wall, Todd Shollenberger, John M.

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Ceramic pump moves molten metal at a record 1,400 ?C; new avenues for energy storage and hydrogen production

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The pump was developed by researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology, with collaborators from Purdue University and Stanford University. Thermal energy is of greatest value—that is, has the highest available work or ‘exergy’—when it can be transported, stored and converted at the highest possible temperatures.

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Grabbing the prime real estate for electric truck charging hubs

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Fast-forward to 2017. We took all that information and qualified over 14,500 prospects who were ready to convert to electric We started acquiring vehicles about four years ago. What I can tell you is that the next sites are going to be Newark, New Jersey, and Savannah, Georgia. Smith Electric didn’t succeed.