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DECEMBER 11, 2015

Researchers at Washington State University (WSU) Tri-Cities have developed a catalytic process to convert corn stover lignin into hydrocarbons (C 7 –C 18 )—primarily C 12 –C 18 cyclic structure hydrocarbons in the jet fuel range. The work is featured on. the cover of the December issue of the RSC journal Green Chemistry.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

engineers and other tech professionals who were IEEE members hit US $160,097, up from $154,443 in 2020. This apparent increase turns into a nearly $3500 dip, however, when converted to real dollars [See chart, below.] Satisfaction with the technical challenge of engineering jobs was up significantly, however.

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OCTOBER 14, 2014

Badlands NGL, LLC, announced the development of a North Dakota manufacturing plant that will convert ethane (C 2 H 6 ), a byproduct of natural gas processing, into polyethylene, which is used to make a wide variety of end-use consumer and industrial plastics. The facility will convert ethane gas to low density and high density plastics.

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AUGUST 1, 2010

Texas Governor Rick Perry has awarded $2.75 million from the Texas Emerging Technology Fund (TETF) to Terrabon for its work in biofuel technology development. Terrabon also has successfully produced high-octane gasoline made from non-food biomass at its demonstration facility in Bryan, Texas. Earlier post.).

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APRIL 2, 2015

Siluria Technologies held a grand opening event heralding the successful start-up of its demonstration plant located in La Porte, Texas. The oxidative coupling of methane (OCM) converts methane into ethane and ethylene (C 2 hydrocarbons). The plant is wholly owned by Siluria, and co-located at a plant operated by Braskem America, Inc.

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JANUARY 21, 2014

Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin’s Cockrell School of Engineering have rewired the native metabolism of the yeast Yarrowia lipolytica for superior production of lipids (lipogenesis). At 90% lipid levels, the platform produces the highest levels of lipid content created so far using a genetically engineered yeast cell.

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DECEMBER 16, 2022

IEEE MEDAL FOR INNOVATIONS IN HEALTHCARE TECHNOLOGY Sponsor: IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society REBECCA RICHARDS-KORTUM Rice University Houston “For contributions to optical solutions for cancer detection and leadership in establishing the field of global health engineering.” IEEE JACK S. MULLIGAN, JR.

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JUNE 23, 2015

IH 2 technology is a continuous catalytic thermochemical process which converts a broad range of forestry/agricultural residues and municipal wastes directly into renewable hydrocarbon transportation fuels and/or blend stocks. Zeton is the preferred engineering services provider for IH 2 facilities at demonstration scale.

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APRIL 11, 2022

The gaseous hydrogen will be converted to liquid hydrogen using Air Products’ proprietary technology. The combination of our reliable engineering and best-in-class technology with Air Products’ speed, strategic investment and build-own-operate model, will be the differentiator on this new hydrogen market—which we create now.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

The assistant professor and William Marsh Rice Trustee Chair of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering has proposed the development of a modular electrochemical system that will provide “a sustainable, negative-carbon, low-waste and point-source manufacturing path preferable to traditional large-scale chemical process plants.”.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

Terrabon, a company commercializing a waste-to-biogasoline technology developed at Texas A&M, ( earlier post ), has filed for bankruptcy protection under Chapter 7 of the Federal bankruptcy laws. was formed in 1995 to commercialize technologies developed by the Texas Engineering Experiment Station, a member of the Texas A&M University System.

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JANUARY 28, 2021

Topsoe will deliver basic engineering, license, proprietary equipment and catalyst for HydroFlex. The project will convert an existing hydrocracker for the production of low-carbon renewable diesel from soybean oil, resulting in a reduction of greenhouse gas emissions compared to hydrocarbon diesel.

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APRIL 9, 2009

Nestlé Waters North America has installed 32 Plug Power GenDrive hydrogen fuel cells, purchased in 2008, in its materials-handling fleet at their Dallas, Texas bottling facility.

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DECEMBER 15, 2020

Enel, with a record of project commercialization, extensive development pipeline and large renewable operations footprint in the US, will leverage NextChem’s hydrogen technology and engineering expertise to grow its green hydrogen business in the US. —Salvatore Bernabei, CEO of Enel Green Power.

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APRIL 7, 2016

The green microalga Botryococcus braunii is considered a promising biofuel feedstock producer due to its prodigious accumulation of hydrocarbon oils that can be converted into fuels. Now, a team led by researchers from Texas A&M AgriLife Research has identified the first committed step in the biosynthesis of hydrocarbon oil in B.

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DECEMBER 12, 2019

along with a global petrochemical company as a joint venture partner, has commissioned a Front End Engineering and Design (FEED) study with IHI E&C International Corporation for a first of its kind natural gas-to-gasoline plant in Texas. The proposed Texas plant will consume 28 MMcf/d of natural gas and produce 2,800 bbl/d of gasoline.

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2018

GIE has developed and patented a transportable, scalable and economic converter for synthesis gas generation needed to feed an F-T reactor called the G-Reformer. GIE has been working with Audubon Engineering for several years and named the company its EPC firm in 2018.

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JANUARY 3, 2013

The US Department of Energy announced more than $10 million in funding to five new projects that will develop new synthetic biological and chemical techniques to convert biomass into advanced biofuels and bioproducts such as plastics and chemical intermediates. Texas AgriLife Research (up to $2.4 Lygos (up to $1.8

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MARCH 24, 2015

Researchers in the Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin have used a combination of metabolic engineering and directed evolution to develop a new strain of the yeast Yarrowia lipolytica featuring significantly enhanced lipids production that could lead to a more efficient biofuel production process.

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JANUARY 25, 2011

has exceeded its target yield threshold of 70 gallons of biogasoline per dry ton of garbage received from the cafeteria dumpsters and paper shredders at Texas A&M University. SoluPro is a bio-products process that converts inexpensive protein-bearing waste material into animal feed and green commercial adhesives. Earlier post.).

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OCTOBER 3, 2022

Burning methane by flaring as it is released converts it to carbon dioxide, another greenhouse gas but one that is less harmful on a pound-by-pound basis. Flights were conducted in the Permian and Eagle Ford oil and gas fields in Texas, as well as the Bakken oil and gas field in North Dakota. —Genevieve Plant, lead author.

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MARCH 27, 2015

To measure freight efficiency, DTNA ran vehicle testing on highway routes in Oregon and Texas; one city route in Portland, Ore.; Testing was also conducted at the DTNA Detroit engineering facility to demonstrate engine efficiency by achieving 50.2% engine brake thermal efficiency. engine brake thermal efficiency.

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JULY 22, 2011

Summit Power Group, LLC and Blue Strategies, LLC have signed a 15-year CO 2 offtake agreement with Whiting Petroleum Corporation for some of the CO 2 that will be captured by Summit’s Texas Clean Energy Project ( TCEP ), a coal gasification with carbon capture polygen project being developed in Penwell, Texas, outside Odessa.

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JANUARY 18, 2013

a developer of natural gas to gasoline projects, entered into a licensing agreement to use ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Company’s (EMRE’s) methanol-to-gasoline (MTG) technology ( earlier post ) in the development of a world-scale natural gas to gasoline project. The ExxonMobil MTG process flow diagram. Source: EMRE. Click to enlarge.

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OCTOBER 2, 2014

The fuels are designed for engines that are required to use an EPA-approved fuel but suffer from problems involving ethanol. Gulf Racing Fuels include high octane unleaded and leaded fuels (for classic racers, in how lead (100 Motor Octane) and leaded (120 Motor Octane versions)) as well as marine and small engine fuels featuring isobutanol.

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JULY 25, 2011

Started in April of 2011, a customized production process for DARPA will be engineered, constructed and operated at Terrabon’s Bryan, TX demonstration facility in an effort to yield 6,000 liters of jet fuel through the use of the company’s MixAlco technology in preparation for commercialization of this technology. Earlier post.)

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JUNE 10, 2011

The US Department of Energy is awarding up to $36 million to fund six small-scale projects in California, Michigan, North Carolina, Texas, and Wisconsin, that will advance the technology improvements and process integration needed to produce drop-in advanced biofuels and other valuable bio-based chemicals. Genomatica, Inc. (up

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OCTOBER 18, 2022

Bioenergy is one of five strategic transition growth engines that bp intends to grow rapidly through this decade. It will accelerate our key bioenergy growth engine, creating a real leader in the biogas sector, and support our net zero ambition. billion in cash, as well as around $800 million of net debt.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2017

Researchers in the Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin have developed a new family of anode materials that can double the charge capacity of lithium-ion battery anodes. Eutectic alloys are fusible: upon cooling they convert from liquids to intimately mixed solids. Earlier post.). 7b00844.

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MARCH 20, 2015

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has awarded $8 million to communities in 21 states and Puerto Rico to reduce emissions from the nation’s existing fleet of diesel engines through the agency’s Diesel Emission Reduction Act ( DERA ) program. EPA estimates that every $1 in DERA funding generates up to $13 in health care savings.

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MARCH 20, 2017

Global technology, engineering and advanced manufacturing company Arconic (formerly part of Alcoa before Alcoa split itself last year into two entities—Alcoa focused on the raw aluminum operation and Arconic on products into industries such as automotive) announced a multi-year supply deal with Toyota North America.

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OCTOBER 15, 2014

The engineers at the Gear Research Center ( FZG ) at TUM focused on recouping as much braking energy as possible with the goal of enhancing the range of the vehicle. Normally, brakes convert kinetic energy into heat. Recuperation systems instead convert energy tapped from the wheel into electrical energy. As part of the Visio.M

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AUGUST 16, 2022

Alan Conrad Bovik ’s passion for science fiction inspired him to pursue a career in engineering. But he decided to study nuclear engineering in school—which then seemed like the future of energy. When he took a course in computer programming, he fell in love with it and ended up changing his major to computer engineering.

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MAY 12, 2014

Biosynthetic Technologies utilizes a chemical reaction process to convert fatty acid into a new molecule structure called an estolide. One of the key benefits to these biosynthetic oils is their ability to keep engine surfaces cleaner and reduce wear on bearing surfaces as compared to petroleum-based oils.

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OCTOBER 12, 2016

Gevo successfully adapted its patented technologies to convert cellulosic sugars derived from wood waste into renewable isobutanol, which was then further converted into Gevo’s Alcohol-to-Jet fuel (ATJ) fuel. Gevo currently operates a biorefinery in Silsbee, Texas, in collaboration with South Hampton Resources Inc.,

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AUGUST 21, 2012

IH 2 is a new thermochemical process that employs a catalyzed fluidized bed hydropyrolysis step followed by an integrated hydroconversion step to directly convert biomass into high-quality, fungible hydrocarbon fuels. GTI has licensed the IH 2 technology to CRI Catalyst Company (CRI), in Houston, Texas. Earlier post.). Earlier post.)

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JUNE 16, 2022

Rao was a professor of electrical engineering at the. University of Texas at Arlington for more than 50 years. Hwang is a professor of IT convergence and communication engineering at. is a professor of electrical engineering, also at the University of Belgrade. College of Engineering, Guindy , in Chennai, India.

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