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Malaysia team finds adding graphene nanoflakes to lubricant improves thermal conductivity 17% with no change in viscosity

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A team of Malaysian scientists from the University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus and Taylor’s University are examining the effects of adding graphene nanoflakes to various commercially available lubricants. Improved thermal conduction means the lubricant is better able to carry heat away from an engine.

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Study Finds Upgrading of Palm Shell Bio-oil to Higher Value Fuel Hydrocarbons Economically Viable

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A team from University Technology Petronas—established in 1997 when the Malaysian government invited its national oil company Petronas to set up a university—has found that the upgrading of bio-oil resulting from the pyrolysis of palm shell via hydrodeoxygenation into higher value fuel hydrocarbons can be economically viable.

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New study finds GHG emissions from palm oil production significantly underestimated; palm oil biofuels could be more climate-damaging than oil sands fuels

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Mha (20%) of the peatlands of Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra and Borneo in 2010, surpassing the area of Belgium and causing an annual carbon emission from peat decomposition of 230–310 Mt CO 2 e. —Miettinen et al. Slightly more than half of the GHG emissions for these biofuels in the EPA’s analysis came from land use change.

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The Coming Boom in Rare Earths

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Department of State, is also a professor of practice at the Thunderbird School of Global Management at Arizona State University. And the intention of Congress clearly was to develop an indigenous U.S. And they’re operating a big plant in Malaysia, if I’m not mistaken. Sanderson: Well, Lynas has got some issues in Malaysia.

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