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JULY 25, 2013

A team of researchers at MIT is developing and testing a new silicon carbide (SiC) cladding material for nuclear fuel rods that could reduce the risk of hydrogen production by roughly a thousandfold compared to the common zircaloy cladding. SiC is “ very promising, but not at the moment ready for adoption ” by the nuclear industry, he adds.

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MARCH 14, 2012

a company that has developed a low-cost hybrid electric powertrain designed specifically for class 1-3 commercial fleet use ( earlier post ), will display a Chevrolet Express 2500 cargo van fitted with the company’s hybrid technology at the 2012 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Energy Conference Energy Showcase on 16 March.

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MARCH 30, 2014

The MIT Energy Initiative (MITEI) announced its latest round of seed grants to support early-stage innovative energy projects. Past themes have included topics as diverse as the role of big data and the energy-water nexus. A total of more than $1.6 million was awarded to 11 projects, each lasting up to two years.

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APRIL 11, 2012

Researchers at MIT, led by associate professor of mechanical engineering Kripa Varanasi, say they have found a solution, described recently in the RSC journal Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. — Methane hydrates can freeze upon contact with cold water in the deep ocean, are a chronic problem for deep-sea oil and gas wells.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2012

Algae have the potential to produce large volumes of fuel per unit area of production on marginal lands using saline water unsuitable for food crops. Thus, algal biofuels could expand transportation energy supplies, without significantly displacing land and water resources that would otherwise have been used for food production.

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JUNE 10, 2011

” The MIT report said that natural gas should be seen as a “ bridge ” to a low-carbon regime, rather than as the ultimate long-term solution itself. MIT: The Future of Natural Gas. Separately, the International Energy Agency (IEA) released its own report exploring the potential for a “golden age” of gas. Source: IEA.

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AUGUST 5, 2015

A team of researchers at MIT and Tsinghua University has developed a high-rate, high-capacity and long-lived anode for Li-ion batteries comprising a yolk-shell nanocomposite of aluminum core (30 nm in diameter) and TiO 2 shell (~3 nm in thickness), with a tunable interspace (Al@TiO 2 , or ATO). Earlier post.). —Li et al.

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DECEMBER 3, 2009

MIT researchers are proposing a novel electricity generation process using natural gas and solid oxide fuel cells at high electrical efficiency (74%HHV) with zero atmospheric emissions. The research was partly funded from the BP-MIT Conversion Research Program. A paper on their work is in press in the Journal of Power Sources.

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JUNE 20, 2009

The MIT Energy Initiative has released a new report on reducing carbon dioxide emissions from existing coal plants. In the interim, we need a large, focused, federal program to develop and demonstrate commercial-scale technologies. Professor Ernest Moniz, director of the MIT Energy Initiative (MITEI).

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MARCH 12, 2011

Researchers have demonstrated a route for the production of major commercial C 3. Specifically, the major commercial C 3 hydrocarbons, propane and propylene, can be obtained from butyric acid and 3-hydroxybutyrate (3HB) in substantial yields and industrially relevant productivities by hydrothermal decarboxylation. —Fischer et al.

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DECEMBER 21, 2011

GMZ’s material, a nanostructured bismuth antimony telluride, was developed by researchers at Boston College and MIT. This investment will allow us to commercialize this breakthrough and expand our product line more quickly and efficiently.

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OCTOBER 26, 2012

The MITEI program pairs world-class research teams with the energy companies responsible for commercializing the technology. MIT faculty and students have proved to be invaluable research partners who embody the Institute’s motto ‘Mens et Manus’ or ‘Mind and Hand’. —Ellen Williams, BP’s Chief Scientist.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2013

When methane hydrates are “melted,” or exposed to pressure and temperature conditions outside those where the formations are stable, the solid crystalline lattice turns to liquid water, and the enclosed methane molecules are released as gas. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). MIT will work with the U.S. Earlier post.).

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AUGUST 4, 2021

Government researchers there unveiled a design for a commercial molten salt reactor (MSR) that uses. Construction of the first commercial reactor being built in the Gansu province should be complete, they noted, by 2030. thorium as fuel , the South China Morning Post reported recently. Thorium MSRs have the advantage of. by 2026.

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OCTOBER 26, 2011

Michael Matturro, Corporate Programs Laboratory Director for ExxonMobil, provided a brief overview of the scope of the work and described some preliminary results from a comprehensive lifecycle analysis of different algal biofuel production pathways being done by the two partners along with MIT. We think it’s an effort worth making.

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MAY 14, 2020

The GE Research team aims to reduce operations and maintenance (O&M) costs by moving from a time- to condition-based predictive maintenance framework, using GE Hitachi’s BWRX-300 boiling water reactor as the reference design. Digital twins of MSRs will require this critical data, which is currently unavailable.

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JUNE 3, 2016

Researchers at Harvard have created a hybrid water splitting–biosynthetic system based on a biocompatible Earth-abundant inorganic catalyst system to split water into molecular hydrogen and oxygen (H 2 and O 2 ) at low driving voltages. It takes sunlight, water and air—and then look at a tree. —Daniel Nocera.

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JULY 15, 2023

Gretchen Ertl/CFS/MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center CFS, a startup spun out of decades of research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), is among the leaders of a new wave of fusion-energy projects that have emerged in the past decade, taking advantage of technological advances as well as a surge in private-sector investment.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2013

A new desalination process developed by engineers at MIT could treat produced water—deep water, often heavily laden with salts and minerals—from natural gas wells at relatively low cost. The research is the work of a team including MIT postdoc Prakash Narayan, mechanical engineering professor John H.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2013

Scientists at MIT have built catalyst structures to achieve high Li-O 2 battery performances by forming a nanocomposite of bio-templated manganese oxide nanowires (bio MO nanowires) produced by the M13 bacteriophage virus ( earlier post ) with incorporation of a small weight percent (3-5 wt%) of Pd nanoparticles. Click to enlarge.

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JANUARY 8, 2024

After graduating in 1985 with bachelor’s degrees in physics and mathematics, she headed to MIT as a graduate student with the goal of pursuing a career in medical engineering. It consists of a shoe box that houses a 900-gram reusable water bottle, which is connected to a pump that sends air through the bottle and into the baby’s airways.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

The network has two unique features: 1) it allows for high capacitance (up to 400 F/g) energy storage in a simple film configuration without the need of high-surface-area nanostructures; 2) it is unstable in water, but becomes extremely stable in electrolyte with high ionic strength. —Xian Ning Xie.

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MAY 13, 2012

OsComp Systems, a startup formed by MIT alumni, has developed , with support from the US Department of Energy (DOE), a hybrid rotary compressor design that decreases the energy required to compress and transport natural gas, lowers operating costs, improves efficiencies and reduces the environmental footprint of well site operations.

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AUGUST 12, 2021

Commercial trucks already have guard bars on the back to prevent such accidents, so instead of looking to improve trucks, Bayhan decided to build an attachment for cars. The incoming freshman at MIT won $600. Rip currents are dangerous phenomena that can pull swimmers into deep water. A SELF-REPLICATING 3D PRINTER.

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APRIL 29, 2015

JCAP researchers are focused on achieving the major scientific breakthroughs needed to produce liquid transportation fuels from a combination of sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide, using artificial photosynthesis. Molecular Catalysis.

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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)

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JULY 26, 2012

The oxy-combustion process replaces the air used for combustion with a mixture of oxygen and recycled plant emissions (flue gas) and/or water for temperature control. The selection of Phase 2 projects will occur next year based upon Phase 1 results. Unity Power Alliance.

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APRIL 12, 2015

Researchers at the Skoltech Center for Electrochemical Energy Storage (CEES), a partnership between the MIT Materials Processing Center and Lomonosov Moscow State University, are focusing on the development of higher capacity batteries. Chiang, MIT colleague W. Advanced Li-ion and multivalent ion batteries. earlier post ).

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AUGUST 16, 2021

Although military aircraft were breaking the sound barrier daily during the 1950s and '60s, commercial passenger flights during this time remained limited to subsonic speeds. Now, several aircraft manufacturers and NASA are intent on ushering in a new era of supersonic commercial aviation.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has awarded MIT associate professor of metallurgy Antoine Allanore a $1.9-million splitting water into hydrogen and oxygen. The MIT molten sulfide electrolysis process eliminates sulfur dioxide, a noxious byproduct of traditional copper extraction methods, instead producing pure elemental sulfur.

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APRIL 30, 2010

Water will be the primary byproduct. A novel metal complex for electrolysis of water will be used to generate the hydrogen at high rates. The aerobic microbe has been engineered at MIT and is capable of converting a variety of organic compounds into oil, from which biodiesel may be produced. per gallon. Harvard, Univ.

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MARCH 19, 2015

Part of the value proposition for FHRs is that they potentially can perform these functions at substantially lower cost than current light water reactors (LWRs) through reliance on the inherent characteristics of the fuel and coolant. J/cm 3 -K) is comparable to that of water at 100°C (4.04 cool the fuel. J/cm 3 -K).

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NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Researchers at MIT had earlier demonstrated the ability to make biopropane (LPG from corn or sugarcane) using a supercritical water process, and created a startup (C3 BioEnergy) in 2007 that attempted to commercialize the technology. This concept, if commercialized, would avoid a key. Stored and transported like.

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MARCH 5, 2013

A team of researchers at MIT has described a framework for efficiently coupling the power output of a series-connected string of single-band-gap solar cells to an electrochemical process that produces storable fuels. Watson Research Center) and former MIT graduate student Casandra Cox (now at Harvard). Source: Winkler et al.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Heliogen, a company that is transforming sunlight to create and replace fuels, recently announced its launch and also said that it has—for the first time commercially—concentrated solar energy to exceed temperatures greater than 1,000 degrees Celsius.

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MAY 17, 2022

A Portable Desalination System Makes Water Potable—Without a Filter Payal Dhar (Freelance Blogger) MIT researchers have developed a prototype of a suitcase-size device that can turn seawater into safe drinking water. With climate change exacerbating water scarcity globally, seawater desalination is stepping in to fill the void.

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MAY 15, 2021

At commercial scale, the inputs to the proposed “carbon refinery” process are carbon-free renewable energy, water, and CO 2. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has engineered the oleaginous yeast Yarrowia lipolytica to produce biodiesel-like lipids and alkanes.

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