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SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

Iowa State University (ISU) researchers have developed technologies to efficiently produce, recover and separate sugars from the fast pyrolysis of biomass. ” Low-cost sugars from biomass are a key enabler for many production pathways for bio-based fuels and chemicals. ISU’s Robert C. Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

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NOVEMBER 16, 2018

The selected OPEN 2018 projects are in 21 states and fall into 9 technical categories, including transportation, electricity generation and delivery, and energy efficiency. . Transportation. Of the 40 projects, 15 are transportation-related, with total funding of $41.5 University of California, San Diego.

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JANUARY 19, 2015

Researchers at North Carolina State University have developed a highly effective new perovskite-promoted iron oxide redox catalyst for a hybrid solar-redox scheme they had proposed earlier for partial oxidation and water-splitting of methane. To further enhance this effect, they proposed a layered reverse-flow reactor concept.

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JANUARY 27, 2023

Made from widely available domestic feedstocks and advanced refining technologies, energy-dense biofuels provide a pathway for low-carbon fuels that can lower greenhouse gas emissions throughout the transportation sector and accelerate the bioeconomy. RTI International and partners at POET Research, Inc.

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AUGUST 21, 2014

million in 14 cooperative agreements with small businesses and institutions of higher education to develop and to deploy efficient and environmentally friendly highway transportation technologies that will help reduce petroleum use in the United States. University of Colorado Boulder. University of Wisconsin - Madison.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2011

The report, “ Developing New Paradigms for Biofuel Separations to Enable an Alternative Fuels Future ”, was released recently and is intended to serve as a research roadmap that will help address the current issues associated with the thermochemical conversion of biomass. The conversion unit. Biomass conversion unit.

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JULY 10, 2022

The money will help projects further develop their greenhouse gas removal technologies, which include a machine that can pull carbon dioxide out of the air, a plant to convert household waste into hydrogen for use in the transport industry, and a system to remove carbon dioxide from seawater. Project funding: £4,750,429.16.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2010

In the near-term pre-CCS era, with a low cost of carbon, the economical solution for power providers is to vent the CO 2 and pay the fees, passing on the costs to customers. owned by) a power plant; careful integration between the two plants will reduce costs (not studied in detail here). their CO 2 (e.g. ~90%)

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

University partners from the states of Washington, Louisiana, Tennessee, and Iowa will lead the projects, which focus in part on developing aviation biofuels from tall grasses, crop residues and forest resources. A team of researchers led by Louisiana State University received $17.2

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

We have proven carbon-neutral eFuels are a real solution to help decarbonize transportation. Now we are accelerating Direct Air Capture technology that enables efficient and low-cost CO 2 capture—the future of CO 2 recycling. We are not waiting for solutions to come to us; we are creating them and leading the way.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2010

Reaction pathways for conversion of GVL to butenes and CO 2 , and the integrated conversion of GVL to both a liquid stream of alkenes for use in transportation fuels and a gaseous stream rich in CO 2 that is appropriate for further processing options. Dumesic (2010) Integrated Catalytic Conversion of ?-Valerolactone

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NOVEMBER 6, 2014

Awardees will receive approximately $16 million to advance the gasification process, which converts carbon-based materials such as coal into syngas for use as power, chemicals, hydrogen, and transportation fuels. Advanced Gasifier and Water-Gas Shift Technologies for Low-Cost Coal Conversion to High-Hydrogen Syngas.

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MAY 27, 2013

Researchers at Nankai University in China have assembled spinel-type LiNi 0.5 Nanomaterials chemistry has recently been the main impetus for electrochemical devices with advanced energy conversion and storage such as rechargeable lithium- ion batteries (LIBs). The fabricated LiNi 0.5 Spinel LiNi 0.5

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JULY 10, 2019

Purdue University, West Lafayette, Ind. Low Cost Roll-to-Roll Manufacturing of Reusable Sorbents for Energy and Water Industries, $150,000 Qualification of SAS4A/SASSYS-1 for Sodium-Cooled Fast Reactor Authorization and Licensing, $674,484 Advanced Reactor Concepts LLC, Chevy Chase, Md. Pipersville, Pa. New York, N.Y.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2015

This development could mean reducing enzyme costs from about $1 per gallon of ethanol to about 10 cents or less, with an overall reduction in the cost of the production of cellulosic biofuels of 30% or more. Research by the Wyman team focuses on turning lignocellulosic biomass into liquid transportation fuels. D” equals day.

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JUNE 24, 2013

FedEx is also working with XL Hybrids, a developer of low-cost hybrid electric powertrain system, to convert ten conventionally-powered panel vans into more fuel-efficient, hybrid vehicles. In 2008, FedEx Corp.

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MAY 31, 2016

A team from Brown University and Lakehead University (Canada) have developed a method for the facile and cost-effective synthesis of NiFe-layered double hydroxides (LDH) nanosheets to serve as efficient catalyst for the oxygen evolution reaction in an alkaline environment.

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DECEMBER 3, 2014

Researchers from UC Berkeley, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Nanyang Technological University, Singapore have developed a new technology for direct solar water-splitting—i.e., an “artificial leaf” to produce hydrogen—based on a nanowire mesh that lends itself to large-scale, low-cost production.

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AUGUST 30, 2016

LeMond Composites, founded by three-time Tour de France champion Greg LeMond, has licensed a low-cost, high-volume carbon fiber manufacturing process developed at the US Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). Earlier post.)

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JUNE 15, 2015

A team at McGill University in Canada has developed a reversible hydrogen storage/release system based on the metal-catalyzed hydrogenation and photo-induced dehydrogenation of organic cyclic hydrocarbons at room temperature. The hydrogenation process can be accelerated dramatically under slightly higher temperature. Credit: ACS, Li et al.

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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. (B) Voltammograms recorded between 0.1

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Researchers at the University of California, Riverside’s Center for Environmental Research and Technology (CERT) at the Bourns College of Engineering have received two grants to further explore a steam hydrogasification process they developed to convert waste into fuels. process, making a slow carbon conversion reaction ten times faster.

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JANUARY 14, 2010

The two cross-functional groups will seek to break down critical barriers to the commercialization of algae-based and biomass-based advanced renewable transportation fuels. Low-cost one-step syngas to distillates. University of California, Davis; UOP LLC; Virent Energy Systems; and Washington State University.

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AUGUST 10, 2011

This project will develop a new process that enables low-cost, domestic manufacturing of magnesium. This project will develop a novel low cost route to carbon fiber using a lignin/PAN hybrid precursor and carbon fiber conversion technologies leading to high performance, low-cost carbon fiber.

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MAY 19, 2014

Potential high-value products from isolated lignin include low-cost carbon fiber, engineering plastics and thermoplastic elastomers, polymeric foams and membranes, and a variety of fuels and chemicals—all currently sourced from petroleum. Ragauskas et al. courtesy of Oak Ridge National Laboratory.] Click to enlarge.

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JANUARY 20, 2015

IFP Energies nouvelles (IFPEN) and its subsidiary Axens have formed a strategic alliance to develop and to commercialize a new technology for the low cost production of bio-based benzene, toluene and paraxylene using Anellotech’s process of Catalytic Fast Pyrolysis (CFP) of non-food biomass. Anellotech Inc., Earlier post.).

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MARCH 3, 2015

FCTO is encouraging teaming between universities, National Laboratories, and industry. Subtopics include Microbial Biomass Conversion. Design, Deployment, and Validation of Advanced, Low-cost Mobile Hydrogen Refuelers. Subtopic 1a: Microbial biomass conversion. Catalysts and Supports.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2015

Conversely, there are several factors that either limit or have been perceived to limit AMFCs. Center for Transportation and the Environment. Northeastern University. University of California, Irvine. University of Delaware. University of New Mexico. Giner, Inc. Versa Power Systems.

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AUGUST 19, 2023

The US Department of Energy (DOE) awarded nearly $34 million to 19 industry- and university-led research projects that will advance technology solutions to make clean hydrogen a more available and affordable fuel for electricity generation, industrial decarbonization, and transportation. Earlier post.)

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APRIL 30, 2009

A collaboration led by the UK’s Cranfield University has developed a retrofit plug-in hybrid conversion system for a conventional internal combustion engine vehicle. The ADDZEV consortium includes: Cranfield University. University of Oxford. Tags: Conversions Hybrids Plug-ins. Source: Cranfield. Click to enlarge.

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APRIL 30, 2010

The target liquid fuel is isooctane, which fits well into the existing transportation fuel system in the United States. Novel Biological Conversion of Hydrogen and Carbon Dioxide Directly into Biodiesel. NC State University. Hydrogen-Dependent Conversion of Carbon Dioxide To Liquid Electrofuels By Extremely Thermophilic Archaea.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2022

The selected projects—spanning 22 states and coordinated at universities, national laboratories, and private companies—will advance technologies for a wide range of areas, including electric vehicles, offshore wind, storage and nuclear recycling. Cornell University. Stanford University. The Ohio State University.

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JULY 17, 2017

The University of Wisconsin-Madison and ExxonMobil announced a two-year renewal of an agreement to research the fundamental chemistry of converting biomass into transportation fuels. UW-Madison has long been known for its expertise in biomass conversion. UW-Madison has long been known for its expertise in biomass conversion.

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DECEMBER 30, 2022

A team from the University of Calgary and Rice University has used flash joule heating (FJH) ( earlier post ) to convert low-value asphaltenes—a by-product of crude oil refining—into a high-value carbon allotrope, asphaltene-derived flash graphene (AFG). Flash graphene from asphaltenes. (A) —Saadi et al.

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OCTOBER 30, 2013

The TomKat Center looks at generation and conversion, transmission and distribution, storage, and land and water as they pertain to energy for electricity and transportation. PIs: Mark Cappelli, Mechanical Engineering; Reginald Mitchell, Mechanical Engineering; Tsuyohito Ito, Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University, Japan.

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JULY 16, 2009

SDG&E tested the performance of two 2007-model Prius hybrids and then converted them into plug-in hybrids, using a Hymotion 5 kWh lithium-ion battery conversion kit. L/100km), achieved a 58% increase in gas mileage, a 37% decrease in carbon dioxide tailpipe emissions, and a 10% reduction in fuel costs. Earlier post.).

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APRIL 20, 2011

In its first year, ARPA-E awarded $363 million in Recovery Act funding to 121 energy projects based in 30 states, with approximately 39% of projects led by universities, 33% by small businesses, 20% by large businesses, 5% by national labs, and 3% by non-profits. (Related Funding Opportunity Announcements here.).

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