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AUGUST 29, 2009

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has selected national laboratory-led projects for up to $11 million this year, as well as future years, subject to annual appropriations, under DOE’s competitive laboratory solicitation for the development of Advanced Water Power Technologies. Earlier post.)

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JANUARY 27, 2015

MTR), uses a specially designed CO 2 -selective membrane—a micro-porous film that acts as a semi-permeable barrier—to separate CO 2 from other gases, such as nitrogen, in a coal-burning plant’s flue gas. and City Water, Light and Power. The Polaris membrane system, developed by Membrane Technology and Research Inc.

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JANUARY 18, 2024

The EV maker claims its Adventure Vehicles are “designed and engineered to go where most vehicles can’t go” and, most importantly, sustainably. The Rivian R1T can plow through 3+ feet of water and rock crawl a 100% grade with 14.9″ Rivian’s R1T continues to prove itself to be the ultimate electric “Adventure Vehicle.”

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JUNE 4, 2018

MEITNER teams will identify and develop innovative technologies that enable designs for lower cost, safer, advanced nuclear reactors. These plants are all conventional light water reactors (LWR), the technology of which has evolved steadily over time.

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JUNE 28, 2023

That was the case for Melba Crawford , who as a teenager couldn’t wait to leave her family’s farm in Illinois to pursue an engineering career. Crawford is a professor of civil engineering, agronomy, and electrical and computer engineering at Purdue University , in West Lafayette, Ind. She then pursued a Ph.D.

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AUGUST 1, 2020

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Transforming High pH/High Alkalinity Cultivation through Beneficial Microbiomes and Improved Pond Design. MicroBio Engineering, Inc. Simulation-Driven Design Optimization and Automation for Cordwood-Fueled Room Heaters. Princeton University. Utah State University. 1,999,882. .

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2015

To enable the transmission’s stop/start functionality, BorgWarner’s Eco-Launch hydraulic accumulator and solenoid valve provide rapid, quiet and smooth engagements during engine restarts. Stop/start systems increase fuel economy by turning the engine off when the vehicle stops.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Twenty-one years later, in 2015, the IEEE member founded Psyonic , which designs and builds advanced, affordable artificial limbs. I loved everything about engineering, programming, and building things," he says. "I I wanted to figure out a way to combine my interests in both engineering and medicine.". Akhtar is the CEO.

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AUGUST 22, 2013

The US Department of Energy (DOE) Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) will award approximately $36 million to 22 projects to develop transformational electric vehicle (EV) energy storage systems using innovative chemistries, architectures and designs. EnZinc Inc. Dendrite Free Zinc? 4,000,000.

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DECEMBER 30, 2016

LanzaTech has been selected by the Department of Energy’s Bioenergy Technologies Office (BETO) to receive a $4-million award to design and plan a demonstration-scale facility using industrial off gases to produce 3 million gallons/year of low-carbon jet and diesel fuels. The LanzaTech award was one of six totaling $12.9 Earlier post.).

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2015

Eight projects are aimed at improvements including developing and demonstrating dual-fuel or dedicated natural gas engine technologies for high-efficiency medium and heavy-duty vehicles to reduce petroleum usage and developing advanced computational fluid dynamics models to accelerate the development of advanced engine technologies.

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JUNE 4, 2009

RAPTR is being designed to investigate R egenerative A ir P reheating and T hermochemical R ecuperation concepts for reducing losses from combustion irreversibility. Researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) are investigating mechanisms for extending the efficiency of combustion engines closer to their theoretical potential.

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JANUARY 10, 2011

Using detailed land analysis, University of Illinois researchers have found that biofuel crops cultivated on available land could produce between 26-55% of the world’s current fuel consumption without affecting the use of land with regular productivity for conventional crops and without affecting the current pasture land. Click to enlarge.

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AUGUST 2, 2011

These projects include: GE Global Research (Niskayuna, NY) - NORM Mitigation and Clean Water Recovery from Marcellus Frac Water. The process will also yield clean water than can be recycled for beneficial use, and marketable salt byproducts. The total value of the shale-related projects is more than $17.0

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DECEMBER 23, 2009

TJ Lambrecht, headquartered in Joliet, Illinois, is one of the most recognized heavy, civil, and earthmoving contractors in the country, with one of the largest and most current fleets of Caterpillar equipment. liter ACERT diesel engine meets US Tier 3, EU stage IIIa, and Japanese MLIT standards. Caterpillar Inc. Click to enlarge.

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JULY 8, 2015

In collaboration with the farming community of the Indian Creek Watershed in central Illinois, researchers from Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) are finding ways to meet three agrarian land management objectives simultaneously: maximizing a farmer’s production; growing feedstock for bioenergy; and protecting the environment.

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JULY 18, 2012

million investment in three university-led projects, helping to train and educate the next generation of nuclear energy scientists and engineers. water reactors. efficiency of both light water reactors and. Additionally, the Energy Department announced today a $1.6 Project will develop an understanding of the. Los Alamos.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Lignin’s protective characteristics persist during biofuel processing, where it becomes a major hindrance, surviving expensive pretreatments designed to remove it and blocking enzymes from breaking down cellulose into simple sugars for fermentation into bioethanol. That impedes the mechanism the enzyme has to anchor to cellulose.

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MAY 13, 2022

patents, is passionate about encouraging and supporting the next generation of engineers. While he was an engineering professor at the University of California, Los Angeles , Samueli helped found company in San Jose, Calif., Henry Samueli BROADCOM Henry Samueli , cofounder of Broadcom and recipient of more than 75 U.S.

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

Water vapor, residual oxygen, nitrogen and the CO 2 from the input fuel pass through the cathode to the system exhaust. The next largest award, for $4 million, goes to Dresser-Rand Company to design, build, and test a pilot-scale, supersonic CO 2 compressor applicable to new and existing coal-based electric generating plants.

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OCTOBER 31, 2011

A team from the University of Illinois and startup Dioxide Materials has developed an electrocatalytic system for the reduction of CO 2 to CO—a key component of artificial photosynthesis and thus an enabler for the conversion of CO 2 to synthetic fuels—at overpotentials below 0.2 Gas phase CO production is observed at an.

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APRIL 1, 2009

More than two dozen scientists from the University of California at Berkeley, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign will participate in the investigations. This includes water and rock geochemistry and hydrocarbon composition and will chart the geologic thermal burial history of each sample.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2010

low cost system designs, high. ” In all five cases, water and nutrients (N and P) are supplied by municipal wastewater, which also provides some of the carbon needed for algae growth. microalgae biofuels produced by facilities designed primarily for biofuels production.

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DECEMBER 9, 2021

Scaringe—a bespectacled mechanical engineer with a PhD from MIT—a billionaire by the age of 38. But judged strictly on its performance and engineering merits, the R1T is a spectacular opening shot: A pickup truck that, as Tesla’s Model S did with sedans, upends the very definition of a pickup truck. Camp Kitchen Slides Out No Table?

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JUNE 17, 2012

Schematic diagram of a shale gas well following hydraulic fracture treatment, with the relative depths of local water wells shown for scale. Hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) extracts natural gas by injecting a mixture of water, sand, and chemicals in short bursts at high pressure into deep underground wells.

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MAY 11, 2009

The Rialto Renewable Energy Center (Rialto Project) is designed to produce approximately 600 barrels per day of renewable synthetic fuels and export approximately 35 MW of renewable electric power. The carbon footprint of the plant is designed to be near zero as the fuels and power would be produced only from renewable feedstocks.

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JULY 25, 2016

—Ju Li, the Battelle Energy Alliance Professor of Nuclear Science and Engineering at MIT. You need large auxiliary systems to remove the carbon dioxide and water, and it’s very hard to do this.” And with further refinement of the design, Li says, the new batteries could ultimately double that capacity again.

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MAY 14, 2010

Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Ill. Research partners Clemson University and Purdue University will extend their study of GB segregation and embrittlement in tungsten for the mechanistic design of alloys to be used in coal-fired power plants. DOE award: $298,191). University of Missouri, Kansas City, Mo.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

The impact of the larger wheel size, which affects aerodynamics, rolling resistance and adds weight, is substantially more than would be seen on a less efficient internal combustion engine vehicle. Rivian claims its battery system is designed to function from 130°F to -25°F.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 31, 2009

Engineers have developed a new method for creating high-performance membranes from zeolites; the method could increase the energy efficiency of chemical separations up to 50 times over conventional methods and enable higher production rates. Snyder, Lehigh University; and Michael Tsapatsis, University of Minnesota. Click to enlarge.

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JUNE 26, 2021

Enhancement of PyARC for Westinghouse Electric Company’s Lead Fast Reactor design and modeling, $450,000. Northern Illinois University (DeKalb, Illinois). Multiscale Manufacturing Design Tool Based on Machine Learning Workflow, $250,000. BioBlend Renewable Resources (Elk Grove Village, Illinois). Beam Suntory, Inc.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

Illinois Department of Transportation on behalf of seven transit agencies, Illinois: $4,030,000. Renewable Wind Energy: MBTA will design and construct wind energy generation turbines in eastern Massachusetts (from among Kingston, Newburyport, Bridgewater). Chicago Transit Authority, Illinois: $1,500,000.

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OCTOBER 29, 2020

The US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy (FE) has selected four projects for cost-shared research and development under the funding opportunity announcement (FOA), DE-FOA-0002180, Design Development and System Integration Design Studies for Coal FIRST Concepts.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2022

Middlebrook, a professor of electrical engineering at Caltech who would go on to do pioneering work in power electronics, wrote : “Because of the three-dimensional nature of the device, theoretical analysis is difficult and the internal operation is, in fact, not yet completely understood.”. A year after Bardeen’s lecture, R.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 25, 2009

Optimized rock-fluid models will incorporate the seismic signatures of (1) saturation scales and free versus dissolved gas in a CO 2 -water mixture, (2) pore pressure changes, and (3) CO 2 -induced chemical changes to the host rock. The approach is designed to be applicable to other CO 2 injection sites. Risk Assessment.

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DECEMBER 24, 2023

The battery in her EV is a variation on the flow battery , a design in which spent electrolyte is replaced rather than recharged. The design returned to life in the mid-20th century, was developed for possible use on a moon base, and was further improved for use in grid storage.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 25, 2009

Los Angeles Department of Water and Power. The project will be designed with an innovative smart grid control system to improve grid reliability and enable the integration of wind and other intermittent renewable energy sources. DOE funding $75,161,246, total project value with cost share $150,322,492). 29,561,142. 125,006,103.

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