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NOVEMBER 28, 2022

and Princeton University’s Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment have created a scalable photocatalyst that can convert ammonia into hydrogen fuel. A reaction cell (left) and the photocatalytic platform (right) used on tests of copper-iron plasmonic photocatalysts for hydrogen production from ammonia at Syzygy Plasmonics in Houston.

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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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SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

A team of researchers from the University of Houston and the California Institute of Technology has developed an active and durable earth-abundant transition metal dichalcogenide-based hybrid catalyst for water-splitting that exhibits high hydrogen evolution activity approaching the state-of-the-art platinum catalysts.

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JULY 21, 2021

Advocacy group Coltura has published a report that finds converting the biggest users of gasoline to EVs in the next ten years is critical to reaching climate goals and that present EV policies are poorly suited to accomplishing that conversion. Louis have the highest concentration of superusers among US metro areas.

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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. CRI Catalyst Company of Houston, Texas has been granted exclusive worldwide licensing rights. Earlier post.).

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APRIL 11, 2022

The gaseous hydrogen will be converted to liquid hydrogen using Air Products’ proprietary technology. With a local office in Houston, Texas, thyssenkrupp nucera builds its company organization as a globally operating network that is close to customers. thyssenkrupp nucera electrolyzer assembly.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2013

Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal and Juniper GTL LLC President Vianney Valès announced the company will invest $100 million to renovate a dormant steam methane reformer in the Westlake, Louisiana area and convert it to a natural gas-to-liquids (GTL) facility, producing waxes, drilling fluids, diesel and naphtha. Earlier post.).

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JULY 5, 2021

Houston chapter leads toward clean energy in Texas. The outreach efforts of the Houston Electric Auto Association (HEAA), founded 34 years ago in the heart of American oil country, have not always been met with a positive response. “We Just don’t bring your Tesla HEAA meets at TX/RX Labs , a Houston makerspace. “We

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Earlier this year, Wang received a three-year, $240,000 research grant from the Houston-based Robert A. —Rafael Verduzco. Welch Foundation for related research.

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APRIL 25, 2011

Houston Business Journal. The Houston-based oil and gas equipment maker received the order from Diamond Green Diesel LLC. The project will use the UOP/Eni Ecofining process to convert recycled animal fats, recycled cooking oils and other feedstocks into renewable diesel fuel. Dresser-Rand Group Inc. Earlier post.).

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AUGUST 12, 2009

It’s feasible that by converting their tractor fleets ports could reduce emissions from this source by 80 percent for nitrogen oxides, 50 percent for carbon dioxide and significant amounts of other criteria pollutants. Houston, and New York City. Mobile, Ala.,

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OCTOBER 2, 2014

All fuels are distributed nationally by HYPERFUELS based in Houston, Texas. Gevo’s business model converts existing ethanol plants into bio-refineries to make isobutanol. Gevo has executed initial commercial-scale production runs at its isobutanol facility in Luverne, Minn., an affiliate of LANXESS Corporation, among others.

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OCTOBER 18, 2022

Based in Houston, Texas, Archaea Energy is a leading RNG producer, operating 50 RNG and landfill gas-to-energy facilities across the US, producing around 6,000 barrels of oil equivalent a day (boe/d) of RNG. —Bernard Looney, bp chief executive. Earlier this year, it announced a joint venture with Republic Services, 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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JULY 25, 2011

Houston-based Terrabon, Inc. MixAlco converts low-cost, readily available, non-food, non-sterile biomass into valuable chemicals such as acetic acid, ketones and alcohols that can be processed into renewable fuels. has been awarded a $9.6-million, Earlier post.)

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AUGUST 20, 2011

These preliminary experiments demonstrated the potential for Solix’s algae oil to be converted into a range of valuable specialty chemicals through GlycosBio’s suite of proprietary biocatalysts. Based on the successful production of ethanol from the oil, additional studies are planned to convert the oil to other higher value chemicals.

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APRIL 6, 2010

The 200 new hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs) join roughly 20,000 low-emission and alternative-fuel vehicles already in use and have been deployed in Austin, Houston, Philadelphia, Chicago, Washington, D.C., Before this latest deployment, UPS was operating 50 hybrid electrics in Atlanta, Dallas, Houston and Phoenix. Earlier post.).

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DECEMBER 24, 2013

Researchers led by a team from the University of Houston have characterized the platinum group elemental composition of PM 2.5 and PM 10 emissions—mainly from gasoline-fueled light-duty vehicles (LDVs)—in the Washburn Tunnel in Houston Texas as a mechanism for better determining the contribution of LDVs to particulate emissions.

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JANUARY 18, 2013

The MTG process first dehydrates methanol to dimethylether (DME); an equilibrium mixture of methanol, DME and water is then converted to light olefins (C 2 -C 4 ). G2X Energy will use natural gas to produce methanol, then convert methanol to final gasoline for 90% of its production. gasoline range. Source: EMRE. Click to enlarge.

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OCTOBER 14, 2014

The announcement of the fuel cell bus follows New Flyer’s unveiling of a battery-electric propulsion system to the Xcelsior transit bus lineup at the American Public Transit Association Expo tradeshow in Houston, Texas. DC power is converted to AC power and is supplied to each of these major systems separately.

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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. The company plans to build a large, full-scale facility, possibly in the Houston, Texas area within the next two years.

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APRIL 18, 2012

Woody biomass has been successfully fed through the IH 2 pilot plant, and has been converted to gasoline, kerosene and diesel product, comparable to those produced in the R&D project phase. GTI has licensed the IH 2 technology to CRI Catalyst Company (CRI), a company headquartered in Houston, TX, for worldwide deployment.

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JUNE 9, 2010

CIRI) and Houston-based. Underground Coal Gasification (UCG) uses air/oxygen injection and production wells drilled from the surface to enable the coal in non-mined coal seams to be converted in situ into product gas containing mixtures of hydrogen, carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, methane and other gases.

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NOVEMBER 24, 2011

Shell Lubricants announced the arrival of its first shipment of gas-to-liquid (GTL) base oil at the Port of Houston. The product, the first from the Qatar-based Pearl GTL plant to reach the Americas, will be stored at a hub in Houston and routed to Shell Lubricants’ GTL-enabled blending facilities throughout the United States.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

Anderson Chair professor of physics at the University of Houston and one of the corresponding authors of the paper. Telluride has been studied for years, said Zhifeng Ren, M.D. Ren suggested it could boost the efficiency of coal-fired power plants or other industrial plants from 40% to as much as 48%.

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JUNE 12, 2012

A hybrid vehicle is defined as a motor vehicle with at least two different energy converters and two different energy storage systems on board the vehicle for the purpose of propelling the vehicle. Grants are awarded on a competitive basis with projects ranked according to the cost per ton of NO x reduced by the project.

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MAY 21, 2013

We are already converting our vehicle fleet and currently have a drilling rig using natural gas as well, so the next step is to utilize the technology on a hydraulic fracturing site. s oil and gas division with headquarters in Houston, Texas. Reduced costs, as natural gas can be a less expensive fuel option than diesel. —Dan O.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

AUGUST 10, 2010

Roque works as a contractor for Space Station Safety at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. for their employees, Roque was inspired to convert his own car- a 1974 Aztec-7- into electric. has proven that you don’t have to be a rocket scientist to convert a gas car into an electrically powered vehicle.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

Simulation of Transport Phenomena in Molten Metal Reactor – Shell International Exploration and Production (South Houston, TX) will simulate heat and mass transport phenomena in a liquid bubble column reactor for converting methane to carbon and dihydrogen. Fuel Cell Technologies Office.

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MAY 5, 2011

Additionally, KMP will invest approximately $220 million to build a new crude/condensate pipeline with a capacity of approximately 300,000 barrels per day (bpd) that will initially transport 50,000 bpd of condensate for Petrohawk from its production area in the Eagle Ford to the Houston Ship Channel.

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JANUARY 23, 2014

The tolling facility will convert bio-succinic acid produced at the Sarnia, Canada plant that is currently under construction. Vinmar International Ltd is a privately held marketing, distribution and project development company headquartered in Houston, Texas; revenues were more thanUS$4 billion in 2012.

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AUGUST 2, 2011

On June 15, 2011 Gevo and Redfield Energy, LLC (Redfield) entered into a definitive joint venture (JV) to convert Redfield’s 50 mgpy ethanol plant into an isobutanol plant. On 26 July, Gevo and South Hampton Resources (SHR) signed an agreement to build a hydrocarbon demonstration plant at SHR’s facility near Houston, TX.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

CORE BioFuel Inc., he ZFI Gasoline produced by the MKS Process will be a 92 octane, carbon-neutral alternative to conventional gasoline produced from petroleum sources.

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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. Some tanks contained fish that preyed upon algae-eating zooplankton.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 16, 2022

ALLEN MEDAL Sponsor: IBM LYDIA KAVRAKI Rice University Houston “For foundational probabilistic algorithms and randomized search methods that have broad impact in robotic motion planning and computational biology.” IEEE FRANCES E. IEEE ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL MEDAL Sponsor: Nokia Bell Labs Corecipients: INGEBORG J. IEEE JACK S.

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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.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2012

The IH 2 process converts virtually any type of non-food biomass feedstock—such as wood, agricultural residues, algae, and aquatic plants. 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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