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AUGUST 13, 2021

Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh (Pitt) Swanson School of Engineering are working with Powdermet Inc. , Most electric motors for electric vehicles rely on permanent magnets made with rare-earth metals, which are a limited resource. Jensen, Wei Tang, Xubo Liu, Alexandra I. Nolte, Gaoyuan Ouyang, Kevin W. 2019.10.003.

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MAY 30, 2022

Researchers at RMIT University in Australia collaborated with Tyre Stewardship Australia (TSA) to discover the ideal blend that is both UV-resistant and withstands traffic loads, with the potential to save governments millions on road maintenance annually. Australian states and territories spent nearly $2.9 —Filippo Giustozzi.

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AUGUST 24, 2020

Researchers at the University of Cambridge, with colleagues at the University of Tokyo, have developed a standalone device that converts sunlight, carbon dioxide and water into formic acid, a carbon-neutral fuel, without requiring any additional components or electricity. —senior author Professor Erwin Reisner. Qian Wang et al.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Researchers from the University of Houston have reported a significant breakthrough with a new oxygen evolution reaction catalyst that, combined with a hydrogen evolution reaction catalyst, achieved current densities capable of supporting industrial demands while requiring relatively low voltage to start seawater electrolysis.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2019

Recycling technologies for end-of-life lithium ion batteries (LIBs) are not keeping pace with the rapid rise of electric vehicles, setting up a potentially huge waste management problem for the future, according to a new study led by researchers at the University of Birmingham. —Dr Gavin Harper, lead author on the paper.

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MAY 19, 2020

Researchers from Chalmers University of Technology and the University of Gothenburg studied the construction of an 8km stretch of road in detail and calculated how much emissions can be reduced now and until 2045, looking at everything from materials choice, production technology, supply chains and transport. —Karlsson et al.

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AUGUST 26, 2019

A University of Texas at Dallas physicist has teamed with Texas Instruments Inc. In a general sense, waste heat is everywhere: the heat your car engine generates, for example. A deep dive for these novel measurements, detailed analysis and literature comparisons requires a university group. That heat normally dissipates.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 9, 2019

—Cohn and Bromberg (2019). If run on pure methanol or ethanol derived from renewable sources such as agricultural waste or municipal trash, the net greenhouse gas emissions could even be zero. In a series hybrid system, the engine can always operate at its optimum speed, maximizing its efficiency. and Bromberg, L.

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APRIL 2, 2019

The Rice University lab of materials scientist Pulickel Ajayan has used an environmentally friendly deep eutectic solvent to extract valuable elements from the metal oxides commonly used as cathodes in lithium-ion batteries. From a resource standpoint, it’s the most critical part. The results appear in Nature Energy. Tran et al.

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AUGUST 18, 2019

It’s an improvement over traditional processes, which require facilities with a large footprint, high capital and operating costs and a large amount of waste generated. Extracting desirable elements without co-extracting undesirable ones means less waste is created that will need downstream treatment and disposal. —Ramesh Bhave.

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OCTOBER 17, 2019

In a new study published in ACS’ Environmental Science & Technology , University of Queensland researchers have highlighted the effects environmental, social and governance (ESG) risks will have on the global supply of metals without major innovations in the mining industry. —Professor Valenta. Éléonore Lèbre, John R. Owen, Glen D.

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APRIL 30, 2022

The consortium will showcase these systems at both Damon and Moment Energy’s new facilities in Vancouver BC, demonstrating manufacturing scale-up of components, assembly systems and targeting design for a near zero waste production operation. Center of Excellence for High Volume Manufacturing of Hydrogen Fuel Cells. Lead: Cummins Inc.;

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 12, 2019

This wood passes through the beetle’s complex digestive tract and is finally excreted as its waste product, politely termed frass. Passalid colonies may have as many as seven adults that can consume over four times their weight in wood per day. This work was funded by the Department of Energy’s Office of Science. Filley, Timothy D.

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JUNE 15, 2019

A group of researchers at the University of Campinas (UNICAMP), working in partnership with colleagues at the Brazilian Biorenewables National Laboratory (LNBR) in Campinas, São Paulo State, Brazil, have discovered that Trichoderma harzianum , a fungus found in the Amazon, produces an enzyme with the potential to play a key role in enzyme cocktails.

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MARCH 15, 2018

Merriman expects demand to climb to 34,200 tonnes this year and 38,800 tonnes in 2019, leaving larger deficits. Into this market turmoil comes a study by Purdue University researchers, with colleagues at Urban Mining Company, detailing the lifecycle benefits of neodymium-iron-boron magnet-to-magnet recycling for electric vehicle motors.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 29, 2021

About 160 kilometers northwest of Beijing, the city of Zhangjiakou with its rugged terrain boasts some of the richest wind and solar resources in China. A clean energy–powered high-speed railway that takes 47 minutes to travel between Beijing and Zhangjiakou was inaugurated in 2019. C, giving more uniform ice.

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JANUARY 22, 2020

The sorbent’s thermochemical properties were also characterized using differential scanning calorimetry and thermogravimetry at the University of California-Davis. The work was performed on the VISION instrument at the Spallation Neutron Source—a DOE Office of Science User Facility at ORNL. Lili Wu, Samuel F. 9b04340.

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MAY 18, 2021

Historically, clean-burning fuels, and those that are easy to make from waste CO 2 streams or syngas, have failed to ignite using MCCI. 2019) “Mixing-Limited Combustion of Alcohol Fuels in a Diesel Engine,” SAE Technical Paper 2019-01-0552, doi: 10.4271/2019-01-0552. Blumreiter, J., Johnson, B., Magnotti, G.

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JUNE 20, 2019

The university’s Parking and Transportation Services and Cal State LA Hydrogen Research and Fueling Facility received a best practice award for sustainable transportation in the 2019 Energy Efficiency and Sustainability Best Practice Awards competition. for each additional hour.

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My Electric Car

AUGUST 21, 2020

The only by products are water and a fair degree of heat, the latter indicating a degree of inefficiency and wasted energy. If taken from such sources, hydrogen is a fossil fuel, and is not a renewable resource. Nonetheless, hydrogen fuel cell cars are, like pure battery powered cars, classed as Zero Emission Vehicles (ZEV).

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JANUARY 5, 2020

Climate change mitigation will create new natural resource and supply chain opportunities and dilemmas, because substantial amounts of raw materials will be required to build new low-carbon energy devices and infrastructure. Sovacool, Professor of Energy Policy at the University of Sussex. Benjamin K. Sovacool, Saleem H.

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

The aftermath was even more calamitous: More than 4,000 people are estimated to have died as a result of the shortage of medical care and basic resources during the extended power outages that followed the storm, according to research reported in The New England Journal of Medicine. To that end, engineers at the U.S.

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MAY 18, 2019

Researchers from the University of Wisconsin Madison and ExxonMobil Research and Engineering have devised a two-stage process by which an alcohol such as ethanol or 1-butanol can be converted with high yields into distillate-range ethers and olefins by combining Guerbet coupling (the coupling of two alcohol molecules) and intermolecular dehydration.

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JUNE 4, 2014

Ambient or low grade waste heat is used as an energy source with the cryogen providing both the working fluid and heat sink. When ambient or low grade waste heat is reintroduced to liquid air it boils and turns back into a gas, expanding 710 times in volume. This process can be driven by renewable or off-peak energy.

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OCTOBER 24, 2019

Northwestern University, Argonne National Laboratory and Ames Laboratory led the multi-institutional team. But there will always be instances where plastics are difficult to replace, so we really want to see what we can do to find value in the waste. Too, the catalytic method produced far less waste in the process. 9b00722.

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