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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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JUNE 25, 2014

GE Oil & Gas has received an order for the offshore oil and gas industry’s first 20,000-psi (20-ksi)-rated deepwater blowout preventer (BOP) stack and riser systems from Maersk Drilling. GE Oil & Gas will design, test and manufacture the new 20-ksi BOPs and risers at the company’s recently expanded Houston Technology Center in Texas.

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DECEMBER 12, 2017

The Gulf Research Program (GRP) of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine is awarding $10.8 million to six new projects to develop new technologies, processes, or procedures that could result in improved understanding and management of systemic risk in offshore oil and gas operations. University of Houston.

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APRIL 14, 2010

Korea-based POSCO, one of the world’s largest steelmakers, has selected ConocoPhillips’ E-Gas gasification technology for use in its Gwangyang coal-to-substitute natural gas (SNG) project. Preliminary design work began in 2008 and site preparation is now underway. Earlier post.). million tons of coal. million tons of coal.

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APRIL 10, 2021

Syzygy Plasmonics, a technology company developing a high-performance photocatalyst for the industrial gas, chemical and energy industries, announced a $23-million Series B financing led by Horizons Ventures with participation from new global investors including Equinor Ventures. of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.

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NOVEMBER 23, 2022

will establish the first scaled domestic manufacturing of high-power density magnetic components based on their engineered alloy technology to commercialize new inductors, transformers, and motors of significantly reduced size and weight. Award amount: $9,000,000). CorePower Magnetics, Inc. Award amount: $20,000,000).

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JANUARY 10, 2021

Researchers from Oregon State University College of Engineering, with colleagues from Cornell University and the Argonne National Laboratory, have used advanced experimental tools to provide a clearer understanding of an electrochemical catalytic process that’s cleaner and more sustainable than deriving hydrogen from natural gas.

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JANUARY 30, 2012

The Rotopress modular technology, combined with a decoupled tractor-trailer configuration using natural gas as its fuel source, provides a number of operational and environmental benefits. This combined with the use of natural gas engines will greatly reduce noise levels. In a pilot program, Waste Management, Inc.

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MAY 14, 2015

awarded Technip a lump sum project for the design, engineering, fabrication, installation and pre-commissioning of the new production pipeline systems on the south side of the Thunder Horse production drilling quarters unit. The project scope covers: Project management and engineering. BP Exploration & Production Inc.

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AUGUST 2, 2011

The US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy (FE) has selected 11 research projects that will help find ways to extract more energy from unconventional oil and gas resources while reducing environmental risks for awards totalling $12.4 The selections include $10.3

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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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JULY 10, 2019

Concentric Ring Gas Atomization Die Design for Optimized Particle Production, $150,000 Praxair, Indianapolis, Ind. Extension of Core Restrain Design Code NUBOW-3D to Lead Cooled Fast Reactor Systems, $75,000 Westinghouse Electric Company, Cranberry Township, Pa. Selected Labs and Partners. Ames Laboratory. New York, N.Y.

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APRIL 11, 2013

Ventech Engineers International LLC (Ventech) has placed an $8-million order with Oxford Catalysts Group, a developer of small-scale gas-to-liquids systems, for Fischer-Tropsch (FT) reactors. In collaboration with the Group, Ventech has developed the design for a fully integrated, shop fabricated, modular GTL plant.

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JANUARY 6, 2016

KBR is CRI’s preferred engineering services provider for commercial IH 2 facilities. KBR’s experience with the technology components of an IH 2 processing facility will assist in de-risking the commercial scale design. KBR is a leading global engineering, construction and services company.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

ORNL and its partners will develop an integrated simulation environment, the Fusion Energy Reactor Models Integrator (FERMI), to assess and accelerate the design cycle of integrated fusion-energy systems. FERMI will substantially shorten the overall design cycle and reduce costs, while significantly improving accuracy.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

An Advanced Meso-Scale Peridynamic Modeling Technology Using High Performance Computing for Cost-Effective Product Design and Testing of Carbon Fiber-Reinforced Polymer Composites in Light-Weight Vehicles – Ford Motor Company (Dearborn, MI) will improve the prediction of crash response of carbon composites in auto parts. Siemens Energy Inc.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2013

BP and Maersk Drilling will collaborate to develop conceptual engineering designs for a new breed of advanced technology offshore drilling rigs that will unlock the next frontier of deepwater oil and gas resources. BP will then determine how best to proceed with construction. well intervention and containment.

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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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MARCH 29, 2010

The challenge kicked off on Saturday, 27 March with 48 vehicles testing on the Houston, Texas street course. mpg achieved by Laval University in 2009, combined with a number of new teams adding fresh innovation and vehicle designs to the competition. For the UrbanConcept category, teams entered more roadworthy fuel-efficient vehicles.

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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. The IH 2 process was developed by Gas Technology Institute (GTI).

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MAY 21, 2010

The new generation Orion VII is available with diesel, hybrid and natural gas (CNG) drives. The three drive versions feature almost identical engine compartments so that components and harnesses could be standardized across all three applications providing ease of maintenance for the end user.

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DECEMBER 14, 2011

The 19 launch markets also include Atlanta; Austin and Houston, Texas; Boston; Chicago; Denver; Detroit; Los Angeles; San Francisco; San Diego; New York; Orlando, Fla.; Both models provide maximum fuel efficiency by pairing the high-voltage lithium-ion battery and electric traction motor with a high-efficiency Atkinson-cycle gasoline engine.

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AUGUST 21, 2012

We will be designing commercial-scale facilities that could produce as much as 300,000 gallons per day from the same kinds of feedstocks. GTI has licensed the IH 2 technology to CRI Catalyst Company (CRI), in Houston, Texas. Automated, continuous IH 2 pilot plant, 50 kg/day biomass feed. Source: GTI. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.).

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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. Synthesis gas and hydrogen from infrastructure fuels. Unitel Technologies, Inc., Serge Randhava.

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MAY 22, 2012

million 13 projects aimed at reducing risks while enhancing the environmental performance of drilling for natural gas and oil in ultra-deepwater settings. Stress Engineering — Ultra-Deepwater Riser Concepts for High Motion Vessels. The US Department of Energy (DOE) has selected for further development and awards totaling up to $35.4

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JULY 8, 2013

BASF and the South Korean company Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) have developed a new concept to prevent the sloshing of liquefied natural gas (LNG) during its transport in tankers. In preparation for transport, the gas is cleaned, liquefied at -162 °C, and then loaded onto tankers that carry liquid cargo.

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DECEMBER 3, 2021

A 1900 advertisement from General Electric (formed through the 1892 merger of Edison General Electric and Thomson-Houston Electric) touted the advantages of electric Christmas lighting over gas and candles: "No Danger, Smoke or Smell." In 1910 GE changed its basic design to a round bulb, although still with the exhaust tip.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Synteris’ technology would substantially improve the design, manufacturability, and function of power modules used in electric vehicles, aircraft, and other applications. PCI) will demonstrate a fundamentally new solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) architecture that permits a power dense, lightweight design ideal for transportation applications.

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JULY 22, 2011

Its high carbon-capture rate reduces the total amount of CO 2 emitted to the atmosphere to less than 10% of the emissions for power from a conventional coal plant, and less than 25% of those for power from a highly efficient, natural gas-fired plant, according to Summit. Combustion of the H 2 -rich fuel gas will produce water vapor.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2015

Aramco’s fuels technology program is focused on reducing the overall environmental impact, cost and complexity of both current and future fuel-engine systems. With a global refining presence, Aramco brings a perspective into how fuels can be designed and matched to engines for higher performance and lower emissions.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2022

Researchers at the University of Houston (UH), with colleagues from Central China Normal University and the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, have developed a two-electrode catalyst that relies on one compound to produce hydrogen and oxygen efficiently from both seawater and freshwater. Ren, who is also M.D. —Shuo Chen.

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JUNE 20, 2011

Genomatica expects Bio-BDO to be competitive at oil prices of $45 per barrel or at natural gas prices of $3.50 Genomatica’s integrated bioprocess engineering and extensive intellectual property allow it to develop organisms and processes rapidly for many other basic chemicals. per million Btu.

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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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JANUARY 8, 2010

CDTI ) has received a diesel emissions reduction technology development grant under the New Technology Research and Development (NTRD) program from the Houston Advanced Research Center (HARC) totaling $960,971. Recent changes in US and European legislation provide new emissions guidelines designed to simultaneously reduce NO 2 and PM.

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JUNE 26, 2021

Hot Shot Coanda-Stabilized Free Stream Gas Atomization (Hot CoSA) of Powders of Refractory Multi-Principle Element Alloys (RMPEA) for Extreme Environments, $250,000. Enhancement of PyARC for Westinghouse Electric Company’s Lead Fast Reactor design and modeling, $450,000. Bunting-Dubois (Dubois, Pennsylvania). Beam Suntory, Inc.

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JANUARY 11, 2020

—Rice chemist and engineer Naomi Halas, a co-corresponding author on the paper. Syngas is a mix of carbon monoxide and hydrogen gas that can be made from coal, biomass, natural gas and other sources. The hydrogen atoms pair up to form hydrogen gas, and the carbon atoms combine with oxygen in the form of carbon monoxide.

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AUGUST 26, 2021

Any hopes that the space agencies in Houston and Moscow had for tamping down public concerns over the International Space Station's recent tumble in orbit were lost last week as new revelations from Moscow confirmed worst-case rumors. This is a guest post. On July 23, a working group was created by Rogozin to save the troubled module.

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