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NOVEMBER 6, 2010

Scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have constructed a low-cost, nanoscale composite hybrid thermoelectric material by wrapping a polymer that conducts electricity around a nanorod of tellurium—a metal coupled with cadmium in today’s most cost-effective solar cells. Earlier post.)

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DECEMBER 10, 2014

volts (V) of water-splitting voltage with its novel low-cost electrolysis technology. HyperSolar’s research is centered on developing a low-cost and submersible hydrogen production particle that can split water molecules using sunlight, emulating the core functions of photosynthesis. HyperSolar, Inc. announced that it had reached 1.25

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JULY 25, 2021

Eastman is collaborating with the United States Automotive Materials Partnership LLC ( USAMP ) and automotive recycler PADNOS for a concept feasibility study to demonstrate a closed-loop project to recycle automotive-industry mixed plastic waste in the automotive supply chain. —Steve Zimmer, executive director of USCAR.

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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 and Qualification of Net-Zero Sustainable Aviation Fuels from Wet Waste. Topic 2: Waste to Energy Strategies for the Bioeconomy.

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DECEMBER 11, 2020

The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced $33 million in funding to support innovative hydrogen and fuel cell research & development (R&D), infrastructure supply chain development and validation, and cost analysis activities. ( Efforts in both areas are to be coordinated with the Million Mile Fuel Cell Truck consortium.

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NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Whereas plastics of the same type can often be mechanically recycled, recycling of mixed plastic waste poses a major challenge. So far, chemical recycling has been the only method that can be used to convert such mixed plastic waste into products equaling the quality of new ones. Such materials are not recyclable in most cases.

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Kits Audi Oil Automobile 410

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FEBRUARY 8, 2015

The team, led by scientists from Harvard University and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, employed a microfluidic assembly technique to produce microcapsules that contain liquid sorbents encased in highly permeable polymer shells. The polymer microcapsules are then heated to release absorbed CO 2 for subsequent collection.

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APRIL 30, 2022

The consortium will showcase these systems at both Damon and Moment Energy’s new facilities in Vancouver BC, demonstrating manufacturing scale-up of components, assembly systems and targeting design for a near zero waste production operation. However, the cost of producing MEAs is high and the durability is often poor.

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AUGUST 18, 2023

According to the R&D project team, producing recycled aluminum costs less and saves more than 90% of the energy required to produce virgin (primary) aluminum. Aluminum is one of the world’s most recycled materials, but there is room to enhance its recycling rate, cost, recyclability, and sustainability.

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JUNE 3, 2014

Scientists in the Rice University lab of chemist James Tour have developed materials that offer a lower cost, less energy-intensive way to separate carbon dioxide from natural gas at wellheads. That’s a terrible waste of energy. When the pressure is released, the CO 2 returns to gaseous form. Courtesy of the Tour Group.

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Carbon Gas Energy Polymer 210

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AUGUST 22, 2019

A closed thermal integration enables reuse of fuel cell waste heat for fuel evaporation thereby increasing efficiency. The combination can be done without the implementation of expensive and cumbersome clean-up technologies which enables a simple and cost-effective system design.

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JULY 31, 2019

Australia-based biotechnology company Circa Group, which produces its bio-based solvent Cyrene from waste cellulose, is participating in a project to develop the first UK industrial scale capability to reclaim and reuse the most valuable components of end-of-life electrical vehicle (EV) batteries. straw, bagasse, sawdust).

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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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Mariner Oil Fuel Cleaner 273

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NOVEMBER 17, 2011

Researchers at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) are developing a small-scale demonstration reactor that will process 40 tons of wood waste per year from the university into replacements for diesel fuel and gasoline. X1) from a biological feedstock, more specifically, from lignocellulosic biomass (also known as plant waste/residue).

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JANUARY 13, 2021

This proposed project will significantly (1) reduce Si anode costs; (2) improve efficiency and reduce waste in production; (3) reduce engineering and cost risks; and (4) reduce EV battery costs and accelerate the move to clean transportation and renewable energy. Scaling Up Cost-Effective Grid Modernization – $8,560,000.

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MAY 25, 2017

Production of C 5 hydrocarbons from waste biomass. Obtaining sustainable sources of chemicals and processing organic waste in an environmentally responsible manner remains a challenge. This proposal aims to solve these problems by converting organic waste into chemicals with widespread use in polymer and transportation industries.

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AUGUST 23, 2016

By increasing the operational flexibility, this class of fuel cell can simplify the requirements for heat and water management, and potentially reduce the costs associated with the existing fully functional fuel cell systems. Currently, two main classes of polymer-based fuel cells exist. —Lee et al. —Yu Seung Kim.

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Fuel Water Polymer Waste 150

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MAY 16, 2016

Novomer is commercializing a proprietary catalyst system that transforms waste CO 2 into high performance, low-cost polymers for a variety of applications, including foam and plastic that are easily recyclable. These polymers contain up to 50% CO 2 by mass. Low Catalyst Cost. Low Finished Polymer Cost.

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Ford Polymer CO2 Vehicles 150

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AUGUST 13, 2021

Transient electronics that can disintegrate on demand could help stem the rising tide of electronic waste, but their performance is often inferior to conventional devices. million tons of electronic waste per year. They next printed the metallic solution onto pieces of a polymer that degrades in water.

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Waste Water Polymer China 99

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JULY 17, 2020

AOI 02: Low Cost Electric Traction Drive Systems Using No Heavy Rare Earth Materials. Low Cost, High-Performance, Heavy Rare Earth-Free 3-In-1 Electric Drive Unit. Low-Cost Rare-Earth Free Electric Drivetrain Enabled by Novel Permanent Magnets, Inverter, Integrated Design and Advanced Thermal Management. Marquette University.

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AUGUST 18, 2020

The US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Reducing EMbodied-Energy and Decreasing Emissions (REMADE) Manufacturing Institute announced approximately $35 million to support research and development (R&D) that will enable US manufacturers to increase the recovery, recycling, reuse, and remanufacturing of plastics, metals, electronic waste, and fibers.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

The funds will be used to develop novel membranes and lithium-metal anodes for the next generation of high-energy-density, low-cost batteries. Those inactive materials are expensive and wasteful. Using thick electrodes, the cell also stores more energy, bettering the performance of the battery as well as its cost.

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Li-ion Lithium Ion Energy Polymer 150

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JANUARY 27, 2023

The goal of the project is to continue to develop a circular carbon economy that replaces the petroleum-based chemicals in consumer products with algae-derived and biodegradable polymers. This project will demonstrate the conversion of gaseous carbon wood wastes (terpenes) to renewable Terpenes SAF blending components. Comstock Inc.,

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

By employing proprietary pretreatment and processing, researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Drexel University have produced flexible polymer carbon composite films from scrap tires for use as electrodes for supercapacitors. The first synthesized highly porous carbon (1625 m 2  g −1 ) using waste tires as the precursor.

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JUNE 27, 2016

The US Department of Energy (DOE) will award up to $70 million for a new Clean Energy Manufacturing Innovation Institute focused on improving technologies and processes to achieve cost parity of recycled and waste materials with primary feedstocks, while improving material efficiency in manufacturing processes. Click to enlarge.

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DECEMBER 13, 2019

Low-cost electric traction drive systems using no heavy rare earth materials. The objective of this potential area of interest is to research, develop, and test a heavy rare earth mineral free advanced motor and inverter drive system that costs ?$7/kW Utility-managed smart charging.

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JULY 27, 2012

3-D printing technology has existed for about 20 years, but additive manufacturing in its current form is only about five years old, said Brian Rice, head of UDRI’s Multi-Scale Composites and Polymers Division and program lead for the Third Frontier-funded Advanced Materials for Additive Manufacturing Maturation program. Earlier post.).

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Manufacturer Universal Polymer Engine 210

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FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Argonne National Laboratory’s team will develop an advanced catalyst for polypropylene (a widely used polymer in consumer and industrial products) synthesis that outperforms conventional catalysts. MOE promises large savings in energy and carbon dioxide emissions as compared to existing technologies for producing primary iron and steel.

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OCTOBER 15, 2021

Lignin is a class of complex organic polymers which form key structural materials in the support tissues of most plants. In September Maersk Growth invested in WasteFuel, a start-up focused on turning waste into sustainable aviation fuel, green bio-methanol, and renewable natural gas. Earlier post.) Earlier post.).

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DECEMBER 5, 2011

Many works consider that obtaining ethanol from acetate would be excessively onerous due to the cost of separating acetate present in wastewaters. Acetate is abundantly present in chitin, the second most abundant natural polymer in nature (by cellulose only). Acetate represents about 29% of the molecular mass of chitin.

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Polymer Waste Brazil Mariner 186

Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2012

Researchers at Rice University and Lockheed Martin have developed a method for creating macroporous silicon thin films (MPSF) for use as cost-effective and high-performance anode materials in Li-ion batteries. The researchers infiltrate a polymer binder, polyacrylonitrile (PAN), to these thin films.

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JUNE 20, 2011

The company aims to transform the chemical industry through the cost-advantaged, smaller-footprint production of bio-based chemicals as direct replacements for major industrial chemicals that are currently petroleum-based in a trillion-dollar global market. Greener reaction conditions: Kraton Performance Polymers, LLC, Houston, Texas.

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MAY 13, 2014

INVISTA believes biotechnology has the potential to significantly improve the cost and availability of several chemicals and raw materials that are used to produce its current products. INVISTA is one of the world’s leading integrated producers of chemical intermediates, polymers and fibers.

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MAY 10, 2018

Elemental sulfur, as one of promising cathode materials, can offer a theoretical capacity of 1672 mAh g -1 and high energy density of 2600 W h kg -1 at a low cost, when it is coupled with metallic Li anode.

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2018

Selected projects will be awarded up to $300,000 in federal funding to cover the costs associated with using the supercomputers and technical expertise provided by the laboratory partners. Industry partners will provide a participant contribution of at least 20% of the DOE funding for the project.

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MARCH 2, 2011

Thirteen partners in a European research consortium have launched the SOMABAT (SOlid MAterials for high power Li polymer BATteries) project to develop more environmental friendly, safer and better performing high power density Li polymer batteries. Total project cost is €5.04 million (US$5.1

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Li-ion Polymer Batteries Battery 223

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DECEMBER 30, 2022

Here, we report the bulk-scale conversion of asphaltenes into a stable, naturally occurring form of carbon, namely, graphene, using a single-step, low-cost, energy-efficient, recyclable, scalable, and sustainable technique called flash joule heating (FJH). —Saadi et al.

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