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MARCH 10, 2016

A team from the Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Technische Universität München and Universiteit Leiden has doubled the catalytic activity of electrodes for water electrolysis by applying a monolayer of copper the platinum electrodes. Modern polymer electrolyte membrane (PEM) electrolyzers thus require larger platinum loadings (~0.5–1.0

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JUNE 26, 2020

The IDEALFUEL project aims to create sustainable alternatives by developing new efficient and low-cost methods to produce low-sulfur heavy fuel oils from wood-based non-food biomass. Although cleaner fuels are available, many companies opt for HFOs due to their low cost.

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AUGUST 1, 2020

These projects will improve the performance and lower the cost and risk of technologies that can be used to produce biofuels, biopower, and bioproducts from biomass and waste resources. Scale-Up of the Primary Conversion Reactor to Generate a Lignin-Derived Cyclohexane Jet Fuel. Microchannel Reactor for Ethanol to n-Butene Conversion.

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JULY 25, 2020

Using less energy to capture and remove carbon, the material has the potential to reduce the cost of the technology and eventually support commercial applications. Power plants strip CO 2 from flue emissions today by bubbling flue gases through organic amines in water, which bind and extract the carbon dioxide. C (250-300 ?F)

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NOVEMBER 16, 2018

Pinnacle Engines will electrify its four-stroke, spark-ignited, opposed-piston engine to improve fuel efficiency and reduce its cost. Ecolectro is developing alkaline exchange ionomers (AEIs) to enable low-cost fuel cell and electrolyzer technologies. Ionic Materials, Inc.

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JULY 2, 2017

Department of Energy (DOE) grant to continue their research in developing low-cost, high-strength carbon fiber. The center’s Carbon Materials Technologies Group received the award for a project titled “Precursor Processing Development for Low Cost, High Strength Carbon Fiber for Composite Overwrapped Pressure Vessel Applications.”

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MARCH 3, 2014

If hydrogen production is to be distributed and produced in small-scale devices, it would be attractive if the subsequent conversion of H 2 into a liquid fuel could also be performed in simpler, low-pressure decentralized units. Carbon Capture and Conversion (CCC) Catalysts Methanol' —Studt et al.

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AUGUST 22, 2019

The complete Blue World system includes the fuel cell stack, the methanol reformer, heat-exchanger, power conversion units and a set of power and operation controllers, and balance of plant. Methanol reforming converts a mix of methanol and water into a hydrogen-rich gas. The MEA is one of the core components in a fuel cell stack.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

The patented Plantrose process uses supercritical water to reduce costs in conversion of biomass to cellulosic sugars, the critical intermediary for second-generation biochemicals and biofuels. Meeting these goals is what has led to setting-up and expanding our collaboration with Renmatix.

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JULY 13, 2020

Algae is favorable to petroleum from an environmental standpoint but the production cost of culturing, collecting, extracting and refining adds up to make it too expensive for practical use. There is no need for a solvent for extraction or purification, significantly simplifying and decreasing the cost of processing. Uchida et al.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Under this cost-shared research and development (R&D), DOE is awarding $51 million to nine new projects for coal and natural gas power and industrial sources. Engineering-Scale Test of a Water-Lean Solvent for Post-Combustion Capture. DOE Funding: $13,000,000; Non-DOE Funding: $3,272,127; Total: $16,272,127. ION Clean Energy Inc.

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MARCH 26, 2021

It addresses the need to convert biocrude, a mixture of carbon-based polymers, into biofuels. Biowaste to biofuel conversion process. Since at least three-quarters of the input and output of this process consists of water, the ultimate success of any industrial scale-up will need to include a plan for dealing with wastewater.

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DECEMBER 31, 2016

Additionally, many chemicals relied upon for transportation (such as oils and lubricants) as well as other commodity chemicals and polymer precursors are, and will likely remain, carbon-based. By 2027, demonstrate at least one biofuel and bioproduct production strategy that reduces capital cost by 30% from 2012 cellulosic ethanol baseline.

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JULY 31, 2019

The R2LIB (Reclamation, Remanufacture of Lithium Ion Batteries) project is funded by UK Research and Innovation through the Faraday Battery Challenge—an initiative aimed at developing cost-effective, high-performance and recyclable automotive batteries. By using Cyrene, R2LIB is helping recover a valuable polymer in a sustainable way.

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MARCH 23, 2012

Grzegorz Milczarek from Poznan University of Technology (Poland), and Olle Inganäs from Linköping University (Sweden), have combined lignin derivatives, which are electronic insulators, with polypyrole, a conductive polymer, into an interpenetrating composite suitable for use as a battery cathode. —Milczarek and Inganäs. 1215159.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2012

The Precourt Institute for Energy, the umbrella organization for energy research and education at Stanford, will fund the following four studies: Nanostructured Polymers for High-Performance Batteries. This project explores the use of specially designed nanostructured polymers to make high-energy, low-cost, flexible and stretchable batteries.

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JUNE 6, 2014

DOE is inviting applications for novel cathode Platinum Group Metal (PGM)-free catalysts for the oxygen reaction and PGM-free cathode membrane electrode assemblies (MEAs) for low-temperature and high-temperature polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells (PEMFCs) and phosphoric acid fuel cells (PAFCs). including soft costs) are of interest.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

This newly acquired SGI technology includes methods for highly parallelized, low-cost oligonucleotide synthesis and retrieval of sequence-validated DNA. All related know-how, equipment and technical support for implementation, were also purchased. Craig Venter, Ph.D., Founder and CEO, SGI. SGVI), a company co-founded with the J.

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JULY 8, 2015

Geely’s CRI investment and work with renewable methanol is similar to the approach Audi is taking with its own e-fuels projects—producing very low carbon liquid or gaseous fuels using only renewable energy, water and CO 2. Earlier post.). Earlier post.) Methanol in China. However, the testing showed a “remarkable” decrease of 65.6%

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MARCH 30, 2014

Past themes have included topics as diverse as the role of big data and the energy-water nexus. These novel materials will unite the well-controlled physical properties of polymers with the promising functional properties of metal-facilitated self-assembly. MITEI received a total of 49 proposals from across the Institute.

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DECEMBER 3, 2016

Current biorefineries undervalue lignin’s potential, largely because selective conversion of lignin has proven to be challenging. Scaling this process and putting it into production alongside current biorefinery production facilities would significantly improve biomass conversion and improve the economics of biofuels and chemicals production.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2010

Pyrolysis bio-oils are produced by the thermal decomposition of biomass by heating in the absence of oxygen at more than 500 °C; fast pyrolysis of biomass is much less expensive than biomass conversion technologies based on gasification or fermentation processes. The gasoline-range alcohols can be high-octane gasoline additives.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

This study suggests that Synechocystis , expressing the modified efe gene, has potential to be an efficient biological catalyst for the uptake and conversion of CO 2 to ethylene. Conversely, the process recycles carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas, since the organism utilizes the gas as part of its metabolic cycle. —Ungerer et al.

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AUGUST 18, 2017

The drive unit’s high efficiency means low costs of ownership: Fuel costs compared with an equivalent gasoline engine are much lower, at around €4 (US $4.70) per 100 kilometers (62.1 This synthetic fuel is produced using renewable energy from water and CO 2 or from organic residual materials such as straw and plant clippings.

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JUNE 19, 2013

Calysta Energy and NatureWorks have entered into an exclusive, multi-year collaboration to research and develop a practical production process for fermenting methane into lactic acid, the building block for Ingeo , lactide intermediates and polymers made from renewable materials.

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APRIL 21, 2011

The prohibitive cost of platinum for catalyzing the ORR has hampered the widespread use of polymer electrolyte fuel cells. Inefficient conversion of the fuels, which generates hydrogen peroxide, can reduce power output by up to 50%, and also has the potential to destroy fuel cell membranes.

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MARCH 11, 2016

For Round 1, the small businesses and laboratories will collaborate on advancing a number of clean energy technologies, including water, wind, bioenergy, solar, buildings, vehicles, fuel cells, geothermal technologies, and advanced manufacturing. The department’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy is investing nearly $6.7

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FEBRUARY 26, 2015

The projects selected have the potential significantly to lower the cost or improve the performance, durability, or efficiency of fuel cells or hydrogen fuel production. Conversely, there are several factors that either limit or have been perceived to limit AMFCs. Gas Technology Institute. Giner, Inc. University of California, Irvine.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2013

The US Department of Energy (DOE) Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) will award up to $30 million to fund a new program focused on the development of transformational electrochemical technologies to enable low-cost distributed power generation. DE-FOA-0001026 ). Source: ARPA-E. Click to enlarge.

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AUGUST 27, 2011

The process was able to convert aqueous carbohydrate streams derived from maple wood (produced using both hot water and acid hydrolysis) into gasoline-range products with carbon yields of up to 57% and an estimated octane number of 96.5. The team observed no significant catalyst deactivation, indicating that the catalysts are very stable.

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MAY 3, 2012

The DOE’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), at its Colorado pilot-scale biochemical conversion facility, converted the biomass from Ceres’ hybrids into cellulosic sugars, which Amyris subsequently fermented into renewable farnesene. As an energy crop, sweet sorghum is an impressive producer of low-cost, fermentable sugars.

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JUNE 24, 2023

Researchers from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and their Canadian partners have designed a low-cost photoreactor design for solar-driven synthesis. The photoreactors have a low level of complexity, are readily manufacturable via mass fabrication techniques in polymers, and are easy to adapt to diverse photocatalysts.

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AUGUST 13, 2010

Gevo has a low capital cost retrofit strategy for ethanol plants to produce isobutanol for direct use; for use in the production of plastics, materials, rubber and other polymers; and for use in the production of hydrocarbon fuels. Isobutanol for the production of plastics, fibers, rubber and other polymers. Click to enlarge.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2009

The finished BioGasoline is then separated from the water, which can be recycled. BTG stabilizes the biomass deconstruction products to prevent them from reacting further to yield undesirable compounds such as organic acids and insoluble furan-based polymers. The product is the high-octane blend of gasoline-compatible alcohols.

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MAY 15, 2021

As a result, there is a critical need to create new pathways for biofuel conversion that reduces carbon waste, prevents the loss of CO 2 emissions, and in turn, maximizes the amount of renewable fuel a conversion process yields. The awardees are: LanzaTech, Inc. Carbon-Negative Chemical Production Platform - $4,160,262.57.

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MARCH 27, 2017

This synthesis consumes only CO 2 and electricity, and is constrained only by the cost of electricity. This research article focuses on a highly favored route to the synthesis of controlled nanostructures at high rate, high yield, and low cost by molten carbonate electrolysis. Licht (2017). Click to enlarge.

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MARCH 3, 2015

As FCEVs become increasingly commercially available, the Energy Department is focused on reducing the costs and increasing technical advancements of critical hydrogen infrastructure including production, delivery, and storage. Subtopics include Microbial Biomass Conversion. Subtopic 1a: Microbial biomass conversion.

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