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A*STAR team combines fungal culture and acid hydrolyses for cost-effective production of fermentable sugars from palm oil waste

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Researchers from A*STAR in Singapore have developed a fungal culture for use in a cheap and efficient method to transform waste oil palm material into biofuels and environmentally friendly plastics. glucosidase can be added to the commercial preparations, which then ramps up the cost of converting oil palm biomass into biofuel and bioplastic.

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Rice graphene aerogel catalyst doped with boron and nitrogen outperform platinum in fuel cell ORR

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However, in rotating-disk electrode (RDE) polarization studies, their ORR onset potentials and half-wave potentials (E 1/2 ) are still lower than those of commercially available Pt catalysts. This would result in high overpotentials of fuel cells at practical operating current densities and cause low thermal efficiency. C catalysts.

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Electric Car Watch #5: BYD's Blade Battery & World leader

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In comparison, the lithium-ion comparison battery was said to have reached 500 degrees and an LFP block battery was said to have reached 200 to 400 degrees. BYD is also betting big in the UK, Singapore, Australia, and NZ. BYD India is based in Madras and may be interested in plying their commercial vans in India.

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