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JULY 10, 2019

High-fidelity ignition models to boost engine thermal efficiency, $720,000 Convergent Science Inc., Quanex Building Products Corporation, Houston, Texas SCP SYS LLC, San Francisco, Calif. Novel chemical looping process for conversion of natural gas to pure hydrogen, $150,000 CanmetENERGY, Ottawa, Canada Glowink Inc.,

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FEBRUARY 14, 2012

The Gas Technology Institute (GTI) in Des Plaines, IL, recently added a new Pilot-Scale IH 2 Plant to broaden biomass-to-liquid hydrocarbon fuel conversion. GTI has licensed the IH2 technology to CRI Catalyst Company (CRI), an international company headquartered in Houston, TX, for worldwide deployment. Earlier post.).

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JANUARY 6, 2016

KBR is CRI’s preferred engineering services provider for commercial IH 2 facilities. KBR is a leading global engineering, construction and services company. CRI Catalyst Company of Houston, Texas has been granted exclusive worldwide licensing rights. that act upon the primary feed stream of a process—by KBR, Inc.

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MARCH 17, 2017

Forge is conducting preliminary engineering to determine the site’s suitability for the facility, which it expects to complete by the spring of 2017. million liters (76 million gallons) of nameplate biodiesel production capacity at plants located in Houston, Texas and two facilities in southern Ontario. BIOX owns and operates 287.5

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Cars That Think

JUNE 9, 2023

an experimental prototype engineered to dispense dog treats on demand. This is an example of bridging the conversational nature of Chat GPT and other LLMs to generate real-world physical action. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion.

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JULY 12, 2017

million to 22 new cost-shared projects to accelerate the research of advanced battery, lightweight materials, engine emission control technologies, and energy efficient mobility systems (EEMS). An additional two projects will research and develop novel emission control strategies for advanced combustion engines. University of Houston.

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MAY 4, 2009

The research projects will contribute to the development of high efficiency internal combustion engines with the goals of improving fuel economies by 20-40% in light-duty vehicles and attaining 55% brake thermal efficiency in heavy-duty engine systems. Tags: Engines Fuel Cells.

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APRIL 3, 2015

The Rice study was made possible by the participation of the Houston Department of Public Works and Engineering, which helped Rice’s research team set up a test involving 12 open-topped 600-gallon tanks at one of the city’s satellite wastewater treatment plants in July 2013. Various formulations of algae were tested in each tank.

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JUNE 23, 2015

The Basic Engineering Package for the 5 metric ton/day demonstration plant located in Grenland, Norway is to be completed over a period of several months by Zeton Inc. Zeton is the preferred engineering services provider for IH 2 facilities at demonstration scale. Earlier post.). Both are part of CRI/Criterion Inc.,

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Interfacial-Engineered Membranes for Efficient Tritium Extraction - $1,397,973. Colorado School of Mines will develop and demonstrate engineered composite membranes for efficient tritium extraction for fusion applications. University of Houston. Colorado School of Mines. Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 28, 2022

Much of Artemis’ hardware is refurbished: Its four main engines, and parts of its two strap-on boosters, all flew before on shuttle missions. And the large maneuvering engine in Orion’s service module is actually 40 years old—used on 19 space shuttle flights between 1984 and 1992. Old, of course, does not mean bad.

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AUGUST 12, 2009

US Hybrid Corporation performed the conversion which uses a 33 kWh Li-ion battery pack from GAIA. As a plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV) the tractor will be able to move containers weighing up to 95,000 pounds as its diesel counterparts can, but unlike diesels will not idle its engine when inactive. Houston, and New York City.

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JULY 10, 2010

a process engineering and design firm ( earlier post ), has filed a patent application for a new technology for making biofuels from microalgae that focuses on the production of fatty acids rather than the extraction of algal oil. Cellulosic bio-alcohols – thermochemical conversion of renewable resources into liquid fuels.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Rice engineer, physicist and chemist Naomi Halas and collaborators describe a one-step, light-driven method that uses gold nanoparticles to convert hydrogen sulfide into high-demand hydrogen gas and sulfur in a single step.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2022

These new GaN power devices will enable the next generation of low-cost, fast, small, and reliable power electronics, which are key for efficient power conversion in data centers, solar farms, power grids, and electric vehicles. 3D-Printed Ceramic Thermocatalytic CO 2 Reactor with High Carbon Conversion and Energy Efficiencies - $3,100,104.

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MAY 4, 2009

The research is expected to contribute to the development of high efficiency internal combustion engines in an effort to improve fuel economies by 20- to 40 per cent. It is also hoped to attain 55 per cent brake thermal efficiency in heavy duty engine systems.

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JUNE 20, 2021

Just days after the initial crash, Palmer Buck, fire chief for The Woodlands Township Fire Department, told the Houston Chronicle that contrary to some reports in the media, the ill-fated Model S was not ablaze for four hours. This does not mean to say the narrative surrounding the fatal Model S crash in Texas was ironclad, however.

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APRIL 25, 2021

Researchers from the University of Houston, with colleagues at the University of São Paolo in Brazil, have demonstrated how copper-resistant bacterium from a copper mine in Brazil convert CuSO 4 (copper sulfate) ions into zero-valent Cu (metallic copper). An open-access paper on their research is published in Science Advances. Gracioso et al.

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AUGUST 11, 2014

GMZ Energy, a provider of advanced nano-structured thermoelectric generation technology, was co-founded by MITs Professor Gang Chen and collaborator Zhifeng Ren of the University of Houston. An automotive TEG is intended to improve fuel economy by power from waste heat to reduce the electric generator load on the engine.

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MARCH 24, 2017

Researchers at Rice University and the University of Houston created an efficient, simple-to-manufacture core/shell photoanode with a highly active oxygen evolution electrocatalyst shell (FeMnP) and semiconductor core (rutile TiO 2 ) for the photoelectrochemical oxygen evolution reaction (PEC-OER) for solar water splitting. Leitner, A.

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JUNE 26, 2021

Highly Efficient Electrocatalysts for Direct Conversion Of CO2 To Chemicals, $250,000. Wireless Radio Frequency Signal Identification and Protocol Reverse Engineering (WiFIRE), $750,000. Unsupervised Physics-informed Machine Learning of Complex Natural and Engineered Geoscience Processes, $250,000. Framatome Inc. Caltrode, Inc.

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JULY 3, 2012

Gevo produced the ATJ fuel from isobutanol at its hydrocarbon processing demonstration plant near Houston, Texas, in partnership with South Hampton Resources. A series of flight test maneuvers, throttle bodies, auxiliary power unit (APU) starts and engine assisted starts were performed. Earlier post.)

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

The technology areas ( earlier post ) receiving funding are: PETRO: Plants Engineered To Replace Oil ($36 million). Plants Engineered to Replace Oil (PETRO). Energy Plant Design The University of California, Los Angeles, will re-engineer. Camelina will be engineered with. The team will engineer tobacco with traits.

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MAY 5, 2023

Luckily, our team of brilliant engineers stumbled upon the stranded robot and moved it to the repair bay. Please send us your events for inclusion. The main advantage of Indoor Capture is that it can capture hard-to-reach areas, particularly those that are high up. Many of its subsystems were damaged and it is seeking help! Stanford HAI ]

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

“We have 10,000 engineers out there every day, installing and servicing boilers,&# he added. E.ON’s Mr. — Part I Before asking the question whether an electric car will become a feasible replacement to the “combustion engine&# car, there is a question that needed to be answered first.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Why pay $40K for a GM volt… which will look nothing more than a Malibu anyway and only get 40 miles before the gasoline engine kicks in. The fuel engine on the Volt is used to run the generator to recharge the battery when a trip exceeds 40 miles, and it’s rage on a full tank is around 400 miles. — Goodbye 2.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

April 10, 2009 2:28 pm Link Nothing pollutes more than the tailpipe of a internal combustion engine car. In most conversions cost is about the same because of needless weight. Wind, hydro, DC transmission lines, and smart grid electronics are also Portland strengths. Read more in this blog post: [link] — Gregory Hancock 5.

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