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Researchers team up algae and bacteria to boost hydrogen production

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A team from the University of Cordoba in Spain and the University of Tehran in Iran has been searching for ways to increase hydrogen production by using microorganisms, specifically microalgae and bacteria. This study is a proof of concept for the synergetic biohydrogen production in alga-bacteria co-cultures.

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Borgward expanding to the Middle East; westwards from China

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Borgward will systematically continue to globalize its activities by entering the markets of Middle Eastern countries such as Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), and Iran. In this region, we expect especially strong momentum to come from Iran. As announced, we will boost growth further and open up new markets.

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New Fischer-Tropsch reactor configuration to optimize gasoline production

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A team from Shiraz University in Iran is proposing a novel reactor configuration for Fischer-Tropsch synthesis (FTS) that utilizes a fixed-bed water perm-selective membrane reactor followed by a fluidized-bed hydrogen perm-selective membrane reactor. The concept (FMFMDR) produces gasoline from synthesis gas. —Rahimpour et al.

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Lotfi Zadeh and the Birth of Fuzzy Logic

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He was born in 1921 in Azerbaijan, then part of the Soviet Union, and moved to Iran at age 10. But instead of taking the comfortable route—becoming a professor in Iran—he emigrated to the United States. “I I could have stayed in Iran and become rich, but I felt that I could not do real scientific work there,” he told Spectrum.

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IHS: continued legislative focus on pollutants to drive sensor market for internal combustion engines

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The main reason is that new concepts in emissions mitigation in the engine and in exhaust aftertreatment systems require advanced sensors for their operation. A gasoline-engine vehicle in Iran or Malaysia, for instance, will have a much lower sensor requirement than an engine in Japan. The difference can be as many as 10 sensors.

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ACS Meeting Symposium Focuses on Conversion and Utilization of CO2 for Fuels and Chemicals

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Conversion of CO 2 into methanol in a novel two-stage catalyst bed concept. Researchers from Shiraz University (Iran) are investigating a two-stage catalyst bed concept for conversion of CO 2 to methanol. They obtained CO 2 conversions of up to 45% are obtained for a residence time of ~ 1 s.