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JANUARY 30, 2018

The University of Maryland (UMD) Institute for Bioscience and Biotechnology Research (IBBR) has been award ed a $1.1million US Department of Energy (DOE) grant to elucidate the mechanism of rust pathogenesis in poplar in an effort to engineer durable resistance for this important, second-generation biofuel crop. Eisenstein.

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JUNE 8, 2020

Exelon’s utilities, which serve approximately 10 million customers in Delaware, the District of Columbia, Illinois, Maryland, New Jersey and Pennsylvania through its Atlantic City Electric, BGE, ComEd, Delmarva Power, PECO and Pepco subsidiaries, will electrify 30% of their vehicle fleet by 2025, increasing to 50% by 2030.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

The US Department of Agriculture has provided $16,893 to Advanced Biofuels USA , a Maryland-based 501(c)(3) non-profit educational organization, for a feasibility study of producing bio-jetfuel from energy beets grown on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. Can this process be optimized to improve job creation and profit opportunities?

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JANUARY 16, 2021

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced the availability of grant funding to implement projects which reduce emissions from the nation’s existing fleet of older diesel engines. Under this competition, EPA anticipates awarding between 40 and 70 assistance agreements. Region 2 (New Jersey, New York, Puerto Rico, U.S.

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JUNE 14, 2016

Nissan said it planned commercialization for the technology in 2020. A few other examples: University of Maryland researchers have partnered with Redox Power Systems LLC to commercialize low-temperature solid oxide fuel cell (LT-SOFC) technology for distributed generation—and ultimately transportation—applications.

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JULY 18, 2023

Christopher Davis Codeveloper of a lunar retroreflector Life Fellow, 78; died 1 April Davis taught engineering at the University of Maryland in College Park for 48 years. He left two years later and joined the faculty in the University of Maryland’s electrical and computer engineering department.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2012

The three winning companies are: Umpqua Energy , a startup company based in Medford, Oregon, is using an Argonne National Laboratory technology to develop a system that allows a gasoline engine to operate in an extreme lean burn mode in order to increase gasoline mileage.

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MAY 16, 2019

Robotic Research is a privately held, US-based engineering and technology company providing software, robotic technology, and autonomous solutions to commercial and government customers. Its testing facilities are located in Gaithersburg and Clarksburg, Maryland.

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JUNE 8, 2014

Researchers at the University of Maryland, with colleagues at the University of Illinois at Chicago, report on a new method for expanding graphite for use as a superior anode for sodium-ion batteries in a paper in Nature Communications. Expanded graphite is already commercially available, but industry uses a different method to make it.

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DECEMBER 12, 2013

The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced an award to NuScale Power LLC to support a new project to design, certify and help commercialize innovative small modular reactors (SMRs) in the United States. The award follows a funding opportunity announcement in March 2013. Earlier post.).

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

The number of EVs on the road versus internal combustion engine vehicles – EV fleet share. 2) Connecticut (3) Vermont (4) Massachusetts (5) Maryland (6) Maine (7) New York (8) Colorado (9) Rhode Island (10) California. How quickly you can charge – the average power capacity of public EV chargers.

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DECEMBER 29, 2009

The contract, which was concluded with Montgomery County, Maryland, is the first major order for buses with Selective Catalytic Reduction (SCR) technology received by Thomas Built Buses. Testing by Cummins—Thomas’s engine partner—shows a 5-9% fuel economy advantage compared to in-cylinder EGR. Thomas Built Buses, Inc.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

The US Navy has completed flight testing of a 100% advanced biofuel in the EA-18G “Green Growler” at Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Maryland. CHCJ-5 was developed as a variation of the commercial ReadiJet with the intention to meet the Navy’s JP-5 jet fuel spec and qualification protocols.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2016

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced the availability of $26 million in grant funding to establish clean diesel projects aimed at reducing emissions from the US’ existing fleet of diesel engines. Grant funds may be used for clean diesel projects that use: EPA-verified retrofit technologies or certified engine configurations.

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JANUARY 30, 2024

Engineers in the United States and Taiwan say they have demonstrated a promising new twist on nonvolatile memory that’s small enough, miserly when it comes to energy, and works at low enough voltage that it could boost the abilities of future processors. With switching that low, logic and memory integration are possible.”

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JANUARY 30, 2016

facility, which is being engineered to meet the unique compliance requirements for natural gas. Ryder has deployed CNG and Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) vehicles into the fleets of Ryder customers in Arizona, Arkansas, California, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Maryland, Michigan, New York, Texas, Utah, Wisconsin, and Quebec, Canada.

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These projects will work to develop timely, commercially viable fusion energy, with the goal to increase the number and performance levels of lower-cost fusion concepts. Commercial fusion technology has long been viewed as an ideal energy source. University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Earlier post.)

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AUGUST 7, 2020

REPAIR teams will develop technology that enables gas utilities to update their distribution systems at low cost and continue to reliably service commercial and residential gas delivery needs nationwide. University of Maryland. Natural gas is a crucial energy source for 75 million American households and businesses.

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JULY 17, 2020

University of Maryland. Rationally Designed Lithium Ion Batteries Towards Displacing Internal Combustion Engines. AOI 04: Platinum Group Metals (PGM) Content Reduction to Enable Cost-Effective Aftertreatment for Gasoline and Diesel Engines. Stoichiometric Spark Ignition Propane Engine with Diesel Efficiency Parity.

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OCTOBER 11, 2023

Between the United States federal government, state, and local governments; power companies and utilities; and air pollution control districts, there are hundreds of incentives for fleet owners to switch from internal combustion engine vehicles to electric vehicles (EVs). Where is Blink a verified supplier? Research and other resources.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2018

A team of researchers led by Northwestern Engineering professor and fuel cell pioneer Sossina Haile has created a new protonic ceramic fuel cell (PCFC) offering both exceptional power densities and long-term stability at optimal temperatures, a discovery that heightens the viability of incorporating fuel cells into a sustainable energy future.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2021

After being carefully packaged for shipment from Maryland’s Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab (JHUAPL) on September 29th, the small 690 kg (~1500 lb) spacecraft was transported by road and arrived at third-party VSFB processing facilities on October 2nd.

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MARCH 31, 2010

has successfully completed its biomass-to-power engine system for Robotic Technology Inc. RTI) under its Statement of Work, and has delivered the renewable power system to the University of Maryland to be coupled with RTI’s autonomous robotic platform in a series hybrid power system. Cyclone Power Technologies Inc. Earlier post.).

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After the war, he joined American Electric Power in Columbus, Ohio, as an assistant engineer. He earned a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from the Virginia Polytechnic Institute, now Virginia Tech, and received a master's degree in industrial management as a Sloan Fellow at MIT. White served in the U.S. He joined the U.S.

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DECEMBER 15, 2016

XL Hybrids surveyed fleet managers to understand their most critical requirements and developed the new technology based on customer demand for hybrid electric plug-in technology on commercial work trucks from the leading OEMs. vehicle uptime on Class 2-6 vehicles for major fleets since 2013.

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MARCH 31, 2014

Mainstream Engineering Corp. Mainstream Engineering Corp. NO x Sensor for Diesel Engine Emissions Systems. NexTech Materials of Lewis Center, Ohio, has developed a new diesel engine exhaust NO x sensing technology that is able to rapidly and selectively measure nitrogen oxides in diesel engine exhaust streams.

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DECEMBER 15, 2023

The other fork, he thought, was more advanced engineering. The company was owned by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute in Maryland, which agreed to sell its aerospace branch to GM for $5.2 But EDS was only the technology portion of Smith’s forward-looking plan to evolve GM. billion ($14.56B adj.).

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JULY 2, 2018

The selected projects support the Department’s SOFC program by helping to mature the technology for commercial use to efficiently generate low-cost electricity. Sputtered Thin Films for Very High Power, Efficient, and Low-Cost Commercial SOFCs. DOE Funding: $500,000; Non-DOE Funding: $130,518; Total Funding: $630,518.

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MAY 27, 2023

Schweitzer III Employer: Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories Title: President and CTO Member grade: Life Fellow Alma maters: Purdue University, West Lafayette, Ind.; Washington State University, Pullman To develop and manufacture his relay, he launched Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories in 1982 from his basement in Pullman, Wash.

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AUGUST 21, 2015

Laser-induced graphene, created by James Tour and his colleagues last year, is a flexible film with a surface of porous graphene made by exposing polyimide to a commercial laser-scribing beam. Initially, the researchers made laser-induced graphene with commercially available polyimide sheets. Tour is the T.T. and W.F.

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JULY 14, 2015

Successful achievement of the project goals is expected to enable the commercial deployment of natural gas-fueled Distributed Generation SOFC systems, which is an intermediate step toward viable SOFC technology for large-scale, coal-fueled, central power generation applications. The University of Maryland.

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JUNE 26, 2021

The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced more than $30 million in federal funding, matched by more than $35 million in private sector funds, for 68 projects that will accelerate the commercialization of promising energy technologies—ranging from clean energy and advanced manufacturing, to building efficiency and next-generation materials.

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JULY 21, 2009

The US Air Force Office of Scientific Research ( AFOSR ) has awarded an interdisciplinary team of scientists led by Princeton engineers a two-year, $3-million grant to develop nanoscale graphene additives for novel fuels to help supersonic jets fly faster and diesel engines cleaner and more efficient.

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AUGUST 16, 2016

SuperTruck II builds on the successful SuperTruck I program, which has already led to more than twenty fuel saving technologies that have reached the commercial market, said Acting Assistant Secretary David Friedman. will design and develop a new more-efficient engine and advanced drivetrain and vehicle technologies. Navistar, Inc.

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DECEMBER 13, 2011

Further, NTSB said, NHTSA should determine whether equipping commercial vehicles with collision warning systems with active braking and electronic stability control systems will reduce commercial vehicle accidents. If these technologies are determined to be effective in reducing accidents, require their use on commercial vehicles.

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JUNE 4, 2009

The Algal Roadmap resulted from a two-day Algal Biofuels Technology Roadmap Workshop conducted by DOE 9-10 December 2008 at the University of Maryland. This supports private investments aimed at producing algal biofuels at a commercial scale. Feedback will be incorporated into the finalized draft report for public release.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2022

University of Maryland. The University of Maryland (UMD) team seeks to fabricate fast-charging batteries in which the electrolyte comprises a cellulose fiber-based ion conductor. Hydrogen Steam Injected Intercooled Turbine Engine (HySIITE) - $3,822,026. The improved batteries would have a wide range of vehicle applications.

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