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SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

Phil Ansell, an aerospace engineer at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, modeled the life cycle carbon dioxide equivalent emissions of liquid hydrogen production required to meet the fuel needs of Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport (ORD) with today’s electric grid mix.

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MAY 5, 2011

Through the new International Institute for Carbon-Neutral Energy Research (I 2 CNER) and the Research, Engineering, and Applications Center for Hydrogen (REACH), Sandia hopes to expand its hydrogen research activities and engage the global hydrogen research community even more ambitiously than it has in the past.

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DECEMBER 30, 2016

LanzaTech has been selected by the Department of Energy’s Bioenergy Technologies Office (BETO) to receive a $4-million award to design and plan a demonstration-scale facility using industrial off gases to produce 3 million gallons/year of low-carbon jet and diesel fuels. The LanzaTech award was one of six totaling $12.9 Earlier post.).

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NOVEMBER 8, 2021

The US Department of Energy (DOE) Vehicle Technologies Office (VTO) awarded more than $4 million in funding to test novel applications of dimethyl ether (DME) as a low-carbon alternative to fossil fuels. WM International Engineering L.L.C. As an energy-dense, cost-effective means to transport and store renewable hydrogen.

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JANUARY 16, 2013

Schematic overview of the primary black-carbon emission sources and the processes that control. the distribution of black carbon in the atmosphere and determine its role in the climate system. Accounting for all of the ways black carbon can affect climate, it is believed to have a warming effect of about 1.1 Source: Bond et al.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2011

—Low Carbon Fuel Standard 2011 Program Review Report. The California LCFS regulation, which went in to effect on 15 April 2010, targets a reduction of the carbon intensity (CI), on a full-fuel lifecycle basis, of transportation fuels (measured in gCO 2 e/MJ) used in California by an average of 10% by the year 2020.

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JANUARY 21, 2014

Average annual percentage of black carbon pollution related to Chinese exports. Dust, ozone and carbon can accumulate in valleys and basins in California and other Western states. Black carbon is a particular problem: Rain doesn’t easily wash it out of the atmosphere, so it persists across long distances. Credit: Lin et al.

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OCTOBER 24, 2017

Vastly expanding sugarcane production in Brazil for conversion to ethanol could reduce current global CO 2 emissions by as much as 5.6%, according to a new study by an international team led by researchers from the University of Illinois. The carbon-related costs of converting the land to sugarcane fields were included in the analysis.

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MAY 10, 2018

Researchers at the University of Illinois have developed a new polymer-curing process that could reduce the cost, time and energy needed, compared with the current manufacturing process. Such curing generally uses large ovens that scale in size with the component. One of our goals is to decrease expense and increase production.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Two years later he was accepted into the Medical Scholars Program at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. To get some advice about how to run the company and possibly win some money, he entered the bionic hand into the Cozad New Venture Challenge at the University of Illinois. The program allows students to earn both an M.D.

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AUGUST 21, 2014

Miltec UV International, LLC. University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign. Demonstration scale plasma oxidation of carbon fiber This project will scale up a carbon fiber oxidation technology that reduces energy consumption and oxidation time. Awardees are: AWARD TABLE. Technology. Federal share. RMX Technologies.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2014

Awardees will receive approximately $16 million to advance the gasification process, which converts carbon-based materials such as coal into syngas for use as power, chemicals, hydrogen, and transportation fuels. Working in collaboration with Coanda Research & Development, the Gas Technology Institute, RTI International, and Nexant Inc.,

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JULY 30, 2011

Schematic illustration of carbon capture and storage at Kevin Dome in Montana. Courtesy Big Sky Carbon Sequestration Partnership. It will be carried out by the Big Sky Carbon Sequestration Partnership at MSU. Three companies, Vecta Oil and Gas, SR2020 Inc.

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JUNE 28, 2023

That was the case for Melba Crawford , who as a teenager couldn’t wait to leave her family’s farm in Illinois to pursue an engineering career. But during her time as a freshman at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign, the aerospace industry went through a period of mass layoffs.

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MAY 4, 2016

For example, recent on-road emission measurements in California and other locations have shown that the 99 th percentile is responsible for more than a third of the carbon monoxide (CO) and hydrocarbon (HC) emissions and more than 15% of the nitric oxide (NO) emissions on a fuel-specific basis, and these imbalances continue to grow each year.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2020

An international research team has sequenced the full genome of an ornamental variety of miscanthus, a wild perennial grass emerging as a prime candidate for sustainable bioenergy crops. The study relied on extensive field collections over several growing seasons at the University of Illinois that captured the plant’s full life cycle.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2015

Vehma International of America. This project will utilize a systems approach to design and demonstrate an ultra-lightweight carbon fiber reinforced thermoplastic composites door assembly through the integration of unique designs, novel materials, and manufacturing technologies and joining/assembly of subsystems. Area of Interest 3).

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AUGUST 16, 2016

These trucks haul 80% of goods in the United States and use about 28 billion gallons of fuel per year, accounting for around 22% of total transportation energy usage—presenting a significant opportunity for carbon emissions reduction and energy savings for a key segment of the US transportation sector. Illinois Institute of Technology.

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JULY 25, 2016

An international team from MIT, Argonne National Laboratory and Peking University has demonstrated a lab-scale proof-of-concept of a new type of cathode for Li-air batteries that could overcome the current drawbacks to the technology, including a high potential gap (>1.2 V) It also displays stable cycling performance (only 1.8%

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MAY 14, 2010

These advanced systems—efficient, ultra-clean energy plants—are envisioned to co-produce electric power, fuels, chemicals and other high-value products from coal with near-zero emissions, including greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide. Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Ill.

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AUGUST 25, 2009

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has selected 19 projects to enhance the capability to simulate, track, and evaluate the potential risks of carbon dioxide storage in geologic formations. Researchers will develop systems for tagging CO 2 with carbon-14 at atmospheric level (1 part per trillion) and measuring the carbon-14 CO 2 levels.

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DECEMBER 15, 2020

The new catalyst contains cobalt interspersed with nitrogen and carbon. Here we report an atomically dispersed Co and N co-doped carbon (Co–N–C) catalyst with a high catalytic oxygen reduction reaction activity comparable to that of a similarly synthesized Fe–N–C catalyst but with a four-time enhanced durability.

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JANUARY 28, 2023

It is completely wrong,” Fatih Birol , Executive Director of the International Energy Agency (IEA), has stated. Analysis by the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) argues that EVs are the quickest means to decarbonize motorized transport. This is not to imply in any way that electric vehicles are worthless.

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MAY 11, 2009

The carbon footprint of the plant is designed to be near zero as the fuels and power would be produced only from renewable feedstocks. The low carbon footprint of RenDiesel would help the transportation sector meet targets established by the Low Carbon Fuel Standard. The catalyst and wax are collectively referred to as slurry.

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JULY 19, 2012

The National Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) Project has released two major reports that synthesize its findings from the past several years of work: a Technical Analysis Report (TAR) and Policy Design Recommendations.

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APRIL 8, 2010

A number of different nanophase forms of silicon show promise in addressing that problem, including nanocrystals; nanocomposites with either carbon or other phases inactive to lithium; nanoporous materials; nanowires; bundled Si nanotubes; and thin films. Cycle performances of the silicon nanowire arrays at a rate of 0.05 Click to enlarge.

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AUGUST 13, 2012

According to the agreement, INVISTA and LanzaTech will collaborate on projects to develop one-step and two-step technologies to convert industrial waste gas carbon monoxide into butadiene. INVISTA is building internal biotechnical capability to develop biological routes to its products and feedstocks.

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DECEMBER 24, 2023

Nanofluids suspended in water-based electrolytes were first investigated for this application in 2009 by researchers at Argonne National Laboratory and the Illinois Institute of Technology. For the military, nanoelectrofuel batteries have obvious advantages over lithium-ion batteries as well as internal combustion engines, Kofford says.

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OCTOBER 26, 2009

Carbon Capture (5 projects). Envia Systems, in collaboration with Argonne National Laboratory, will develop high energy density, low cost next generation Li-ion batteries using novel nano silicon-carbon composite anodes and high capacity manganese rich layered composite cathodes discovered at Argonne National Laboratory.

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MARCH 18, 2013

SMART is evolving a multi-disciplinary, multi-stakeholder, international collaborative research network linking elements related to the five areas of special focus and its on-the ground projects.

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MARCH 18, 2021

But we’re barely scratching the surface of EV growth: While electric vehicles sales are still comparatively low stacked up to traditional internal combustion vehicles, the EV market share is expected to top 10% within the next four years. Louis and Boston to Florida and Illinois. Already, the U.S.

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JANUARY 7, 2023

economy away from dependence on fossil fuels like petroleum, coal and natural gas to 100 percent carbon-free electricity by 2035. Public opposition to wind turbine projects is growing in Illinois, Indiana and Ohio as well. Such is the case with the Biden Administration’s attempted transition of the U.S.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 10, 2018

For fuel quality purposes, E15 must meet the ASTM International 4806-10 standard for ethanol. Researchers from the University of Illinois Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics calculated that increasing the use of ethanol to 10 percent in gasoline saved US consumers $7 billion between 2008 and 2016.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 10, 2010

Cantwell said that cap-and-trade had been discredited by the Wall Street crisis, the Enron scandal and the rocky start to a carbon credits trading system in Europe that has been subject to dizzying price fluctuations and widespread fraud. states (Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin) and one Canadian province (Manitoba).

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