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JANUARY 18, 2017

The ASTM International Board of Directors approved the launch of a new technical committee dedicated to developing standards for the growing field of recovered carbon black (rCB). Carbon black is used as a reinforcing additive in rubber products—notably tires—where tensile and abrasion wear properties are critical.

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MARCH 3, 2017

Now, researchers at Georgia Institute of Technology have shown how these vehicle-emitted metals—such as copper, iron and manganese—interact with acidic sulfate-rich particles already in the air to produce an aerosol that, when inhaled, is more likely to cause oxidative stress and impact respiratory health. . … —Fang et al.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2017

Prior work has established the thermodynamic viability of the CHAMP-SORB concept to achieve 90% fuel conversion at 400 °C and 2:1 steam to carbon ratio, as well as demonstrated the performance enhancements enabled by incorporation of CO 2 and H 2 removal in the absence of transport-limitations using the bench-scale reactor prototype.

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AUGUST 21, 2017

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. Resources. —Hood et al. Adhikari, Y. Figueroa-Cosme, Y. Lachgar, M. 201700869.

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OCTOBER 22, 2013

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has awarded a 3-year, $600,000 grant to help researchers at Georgia Tech advance an additive manufacturing technique for fabricating three-dimensional (3D) nanoscale structures from a variety of materials. Wherever electrons strike the surface, you can grow the deposit. —Andrei Fedorov. and Kim, S.

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APRIL 8, 2015

Results of a study by a team from Georgia Tech and their colleagues at NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies and Northeast States for Coordinated Air Use Management show that national CO 2 emissions reductions strategies will play an important role in impacting air quality over the US. 2010 and 2048?2052. regional vs urban). 5b00473.

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MARCH 23, 2021

These projects, operating in 13 states, have the potential to reduce carbon emissions and water-treatment costs while improving water quality and equity of distribution nationwide. They are based out of California, Colorado, Connecticut, Georgia, Hawaii, Illinois, Kansas, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, Ohio, and Virginia.

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JULY 6, 2013

Results vary with the carbon-intensity of regional electricity generation. For the same drive cycle, the GHG emissions of the electric truck are 27% lower than the diesel truck for the lowest electric truck efficiency and 43% less for the highest. For the baseline case with the 2011?2012 Dong-Yeon Lee, Valerie M. Thomas, and Marilyn A.

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MARCH 15, 2010

This scanning electron micrograph shows carbon-coated silicon nanoparticles on the surface of the composite granules used to form the new anode. Source: Georgia Tech. Researchers have developed a new high-performance anode structure for lithium-ion batteries based on silicon-carbon nanocomposite materials. Click to enlarge.

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AUGUST 1, 2020

These projects will improve the performance and lower the cost and risk of technologies that can be used to produce biofuels, biopower, and bioproducts from biomass and waste resources. Georgia Institute of Technology. Topic 4: Bio-Restore: Biomass to Restore Natural Resources. Research Triangle Institute. Duke University.

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MARCH 8, 2021

Energy Fuels will process the monazite sands into a mixed rare earth carbonate (RE Carbonate) in Utah for use as feed material for Neo’s value-added separated rare earth production plant in Europe. Energy Fuels is also continuing to evaluate developing additional value-added US rare earth production capabilities in Utah in the future.

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JUNE 25, 2011

Using barium oxide nanoparticles, a team of researchers led by Georgia Tech has modified the surface of conventional anodes for solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs) to enable operation at lower temperatures (750 °C) with carbon-containing gases—e.g., Yang et al. Click to enlarge. —Yang et al. ” —Meilin Liu.

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APRIL 15, 2009

The staff of the California Air Resources Board (ARB) has released the final external peer review documents regarding the proposed Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) regulation. Pollutant credit trading, particularly GHG/carbon trading schemes. Valerie Thomas, Georgia Tech. Economic impacts analysis. John Reilly, MIT.

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OCTOBER 25, 2010

A team from Algenol and Georgia Tech calculated the life cycle energy and greenhouse gas emissions for three different system scenarios for this proposed ethanol production process, using process simulations and thermodynamic calculations. MJ/MJEtOH down to 0.20 MJ/MJEtOH, and the net life cycle greenhouse gas emissions range from 29.8

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JULY 31, 2018

Researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory, with colleagues at NREL and the University of Georgia report that a freshwater production strain of microalgae, Auxenochlorella protothecoides UTEX 25, is capable of directly degrading and utilizing non-food plant substrates, such as switchgrass, for cell growth. Vogler, Shawn R. 2018.07.001.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

The Alternative Aviation Fuel Workshop, which is being held in Macon, Georgia, will advance the understanding of current opportunities to increase the competitiveness of alternative jet fuels. More than 100 stakeholders from government, national laboratories, universities, and industry have registered to attend this event.

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MARCH 26, 2013

Researchers at the University of Georgia and North Carolina State University have used a unique temperature-dependent approach in engineering a hyperthermophilic archaeon, Pyrococcus furiosus to be able to use CO 2 and hydrogen to produce 3-hydroxypropionic acid, one of the top 12 industrial chemical building blocks. Earlier post.).

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On the road to achieving carbon neutrality by 2050, the company wants to use 100% renewable energy at its overseas factories by 2045 and in every facility by 2050—and it says hydrogen will plan an important role in that. But the company is also focusing on a resource-circulation approach, including Waste-to-Hydrogen and Plastic-to-Hydrogen.

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DECEMBER 9, 2019

A 17-day “transportation strategy,” in Atlanta, Georgia during the 1996 Olympic Games involved closing parts of the city to help athletes make it to their events on time, but also greatly decreased air pollution. School absenteeism decreased by 40%, and daily mortality fell by 16% for every 100 ?g/m g/m 3 PM 10 decrease. Schraufnagel.

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DECEMBER 18, 2012

Inspired by the tetrapod structures of a breakwater, the novel material for electrodes is created from affordable melamine foam and carbon black. Cathodes made of a porous carbon support (carbon black) on which a catalytically active metal like platinum is finely dispersed can very effectively minimize this kinetic inhibition.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2018

If successful, the proposed technology will offer light- and heavy-duty vehicle manufacturers a cost-effective solution to improve vehicle fuel efficiency and reduce transportation carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) emissions. Georgia Tech Research Corporation. Georgia Tech will develop a new approach to internally cool permanent magnet motors.

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JULY 19, 2010

Researchers from the US Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in collaboration with scientists at the University of Georgia developed a robust, metal-based approach to determine all metals an organism assimilates and identify its metalloproteins on a genome-wide scale. —Steven Yannone. Aleksandar Cvetkovi, et al.

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AUGUST 26, 2016

Researchers at Japan’s National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) and Georgia Tech have jointly developed unique Si-iron (Fe) based nanomaterials connected by Ge nanostructures for use as a high-capacity anode material for Li-ion batteries. 2016.05.007.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2012

Multiple different approaches to creating titanium MMCs have been used, including the use of SiC particles (Poletti, 2008) and carbon nanotubes. and the Georgia Institute of Technology. Resources. In that project, XG Sciences will lead a team that includes battery maker LG Chem Power, Inc. Earlier post.). Poletti, M. Liedtke, C.

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JUNE 3, 2014

A team led by Dr. Janet Westpheling at the University of Georgia has engineered the thermophilic, anaerobic, cellulolytic bacterium Caldicellulosiruptor bescii , which in the wild efficiently uses un-pretreated biomass—to produce ethanol from biomass without pre-treatment of the feedstock. Whereas wild-type C. —Chung et al.

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JUNE 20, 2011

A team led by ORNL’s Jeremy Smith revealed the surface structure of lignin aggregates down to 1 angstrom—the equivalent of a 10 billionth of a meter or smaller than the width of a carbon atom. The team’s findings were published in the journal Physical Review E.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2013

Selected projects are: Georgia Tech Research Corporation. The tool will be field deployed to collect never-before-acquired data to evaluate resource recovery, seafloor stability, and gas hydrate responses to environmental changes. ? DOE Investment: approximately $1.68 DOE Investment: approximately $650,000.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2023

The expansion of battery manufacturing facilities in states like Kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia, and Michigan will significantly boost North America’s battery production capacity, increasing from 55 Gigawatt-hours per year in 2021 to nearly 1,000 GWh/year by 2030. By keeping these manufacturing jobs in the U.S.,

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JUNE 21, 2023

Hyundai’s first dedicated EV factory, the Hyundai Motor Group Metaplant America (HMGMA) in Georgia, is under construction with a targeted start-up date in the second half of 2024, with an annual production capacity of 300,000 vehicles to meet the demand for EVs in North America.

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JULY 31, 2012

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has selected 7 projects that will help develop low-cost solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) technology for central power generation from fossil energy resources for further research. Georgia Tech Research Corporation. The projects include: ?. Topic Area 1: Electrochemical Performance Enhancement Activity.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2009

A US Department of Energy (DOE) team of regional partners has begun injecting carbon dioxide into coal seams in the Central Appalachian Basin to determine the feasibility of CO 2 storage in unmineable coal seams and the potential for enhanced coalbed methane recovery. This area has been assessed by researchers to have the capacity to store 1.3

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MAY 19, 2014

The resulting roadmap uses the integration of genetic engineering with analytical chemistry tools to tailor the structure of lignin and its isolation so it can be used for materials, chemicals and fuels, said lead author Arthur Ragauskas, a professor in the School of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the Georgia Institute of Technology.

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OCTOBER 31, 2014

California, Georgia, Hawaii, Oregon, and Washington—have electric vehicle sales shares that are approximately 2–4 times the national average. As described in their white paper, “Evaluation of state-level US electric vehicle incentives”, the researchers found that some of the states with the largest electric vehicle incentives—i.e.,

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JULY 23, 2009

University of Georgia, Athens, $1,200,000. identification of the genes that control cell-wall composition, plant architecture, cell size, cell division, reproduction, nutrient uptake, carbon flux, etc.) Mechanism of Carbon Partitioning Regulation by cpg13 in the Bioenergy Woody Crop Poplar. University of Florida, $643,000.

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AUGUST 20, 2010

Alpha Natural Resources in Abingdon, Va.; Georgia Institute of Technology (Atlanta, Ga.) Georgia Tech will team with the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, Colo., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Blacksburg, Va.)-Partnering Partnering with the University of Kentucky in Lexington, Ky.;

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DECEMBER 19, 2017

One in five studies of MOF materials examined by researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology were judged to be “outliers,” with results far beyond the error bars normally used to evaluate study results. Brock III School Chair in the Georgia Tech School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering. —Park et al. 7b04287.

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DECEMBER 23, 2011

Vogtle Electric Generation Plant in Burke, Georgia. The Administration and the Energy Department are committed to restarting America’s nuclear industry&madsh;creating thousands of jobs in the years ahead and powering our nation’s homes and businesses with domestic, low-carbon energy. —Secretary Chu.

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