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The team will then deploy these genes using tools of the emerging field of synthetic biology to accelerate development of elite energy sorghum varieties for production under marginal environments. This project aims to deliver stress-tolerant sorghum lines, addressing DOE’s mission in the generation of renewable energy resources.

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The US Department of Energy has selected 7 projects to participate in the University Coal Research (UCR) program. Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Ill. University of California, Merced, Calif. Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pa. University of Missouri, Kansas City, Mo. DOE award: $298,191).

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MEITNER teams will identify and develop innovative technologies that enable designs for lower cost, safer, advanced nuclear reactors. To attain these goals, new, innovative, enabling technologies for advanced reactor designs are needed. HolosGen, LLC: Transportable Modular Reactor by Balance of Plant Elimination – $2,278,200.

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Announced by Secretary Brouillette in January 2020, the Energy Storage Grand Challenge is designed to create and sustain US global leadership in energy storage technology, utilization, and exports. The Research Foundation for The SUNY Stony Brook University. University of Delaware. University of Maryland. Solid Power Inc.

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The data will help advance gas turbine engine designs for higher power density and efficiency, scientists said. Lee said that in the slightly longer term, he hopes the data from the experiment will allow researchers to design more optimized combustor systems for the future. And never has it been done in a live combusting environment.

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The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has selected a team of universities to lead a new Air Transportation Center of Excellence ( COE ) for alternative jet fuels and the environment. The selected university members all have nationally recognized collegiate environmental and aviation-related education programs.

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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 EMPLOYER Purdue University, West Lafayette, Ind. I was interested in the design and operation of airplanes and spacecraft.” Space was really inspiring in those days,” she says.

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—Reza Shahbazian-Yassar, associate professor of mechanical and industrial engineering in the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Engineering and lead author. This is a newly discovered reason why these promising batteries have such a steep drop off in efficiency and yield after relatively few charge/discharge cycles.

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One of these, the Engineering Research Center for Power Optimization for Electro-Thermal Systems (POETS), aims to enhance or increase the electric power density available in tightly constrained mobile environments by changing the design. Design tools will be used to create optimal system-level and subsystem-level designs.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2021

Addressing partial discharge related reliability issues that arise from low air pressure environments in aviation. Illinois Institute of Technology. Illinois Institute of Technology will develop a 10 kV/150A superconducting momentary circuit interrupter (SMCI) to provide fault protection with ultralow power loss (.

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AK Steel Corporation’s Research & Innovation Center will conduct alloy design, lab validation, manufacture, and testing of novel low density steels that possess mechanical properties exhibited by currently available advanced high strength steels. Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois. Colorado State University.

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After he graduated high school, there was only one university he wanted to attend: Chicago State. For 16 weeks he worked with a group of researchers designing and developing EISPACK , a package of Fortran routines that compute the eigenvalues and eigenvectors of matrices—calculations common in scientific computing. a nearby U.S.

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The other two projects are tackling monitoring and mitigating noise pollution in cities and quickly identifying and overcoming problems in manufacturing environments. The award was part of a total of $13 million NSF awarded to three five-year “Frontier” projects to advance cyber-physical systems (CPS). Overview of the VeHICal process.

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The five projects—located in California, Illinois, and Connecticut—will track the performance and technical progress of innovative refueling systems at planned or existing hydrogen fueling stations to find ways to lower costs and improve operation. California State University and Los Angeles Auxiliary Services, Inc.

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A multi-institutional research team led by materials scientists from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) has designed a highly active and durable catalyst that doesn’t rely on costly platinum group metals (PGM) to spur the necessary chemical reaction. Along with PNNL, researchers from Washington University in St.

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It is designed to encourage the development of research and development centers that attract leading scientists from around the world and advance high-caliber work. One of the primary goals of the WPI, Somerday said, is to change the research university environment in Japan by fostering more direct collaborations with non-Japanese entities.

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Overall, the USDA and DOE projects are designed to improve special crops to be grown for biofuels—including selected trees and grasses—by increasing their yield, quality and ability to adapt to extreme environments. Bartley, University of Oklahoma, Norman. Braun, University of Missouri, Columbia.

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Awards are in three areas: Reprocessing and Conditioning of Coal/Biomass Mixtures for Simultaneous Co-Feeding Systems; Reactive Properties of Coal/Biomass Mixed Fuels; and Design Concepts for Co-Production of Power, Fuels and Chemicals. CoalTek, teaming with the University of Kentucky Center for Applied Energy Research in Lexington, Ky.,

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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. He and his co-principal investigators will direct teams in different aspects of the process. Terry Hazen.

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AUGUST 2, 2011

All of the information developed through the course of the evaluation, lab studies and field trials will be documented in reports that the industry can use to improve design casing and cementing programs, and that regulatory agencies can use as regulations are promulgated to ensure wellbore integrity requirements have a sound scientific basis.

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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.

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The goal of this new center is to create a collaborative environment and concentration of technical capability to accelerate materials discovery and development, provide opportunities to transition new breakthroughs in advanced materials to industry, and offer training opportunities for young scientists and engineers.

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The traditional design paradigm for Li-ion battery cathodes has been to create compounds in which the amount of extractable Li + is well balanced with an oxidizable transition metal (TM) species (such as Mn, Fe, Co or Ni) to provide the charge-compensating electrons, all contained in an oxide or sulfide host. —Gerbrand Ceder.

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Successful technologies will significantly increase the confidence that CO 2 placed in geologic formations is being accurately tracked and remains permanently stored, thus protecting human health and the environment. Columbia University , New York, N.Y. Montana State University , Bozeman, Mont.

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This initiative is taking place in an environment where everyday citizens want to travel without causing emissions and are increasingly aware of the value of renewables and energy security. “We In the United States in 2011, the University of Delaware and the New Jersey–based utility NRG Energy signed a. That could change soon.

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The Oregon Legislature authorized an LCFS program in 2009 as part of House Bill 2186, tasking the Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) to design the program. The Midwestern Governor’s Association represents Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, South Dakota, and Wisconsin. Midwestern Governor’s Association.

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Twenty-three of the projects receiving funding are headed by universities, eight are led by the Energy Department’s National Laboratories and one project is run by a non-profit organization. University of California, Berkeley. University of California, Riverside. Northwestern University. Purdue University.

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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. Northern Illinois University (DeKalb, Illinois).

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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. Researchers used experimental data to create a 23.7-million

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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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Previously code-named “Cascade,” the Cray XC30 supercomputer combines the new Aries interconnect, Intel Xeon processors, Cray’s fully-integrated software environment, and innovative power and cooling technologies to create a production supercomputer that is designed to scale high performance computing (HPC) workloads of more than 100 petaflops.

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Campfire ] via [ RobotStart ] Venus is home to one of the most extreme environments in the solar system. Researchers are working on a concept that could change the way we explore the intense environment of Earth’s closest planetary neighbor. Paper ] Welp, now I want to work at Ascento. SDU ] Thanks, Poramate!

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Overall, the USDA and DOE projects are designed to improve biomass—including selected trees and grasses—to be grown for biofuels by increasing their yield, quality and ability to adapt to extreme environments. Jeffrey Dangl, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Katrien Devos, University of Georgia, Athens.

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By attempting to transfer parts from algae and bacteria into plants, the researchers hope to make the environment in the plants’ cells around RuBisCO richer in carbon dioxide which will allow photosynthesis to produce sugars more efficiently. The funding agencies used a method called an Ideas Lab that led to these awards.

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The innovations are not just in fuels and tweaking cars—they are across a lot of new business models, product, services models, designs, infrastructures. Of 9 reports from the TEF project, four deal with reducing transportation demand. The innovations have been burgeoning. —Susan Zelinski.

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Clemson University. Breeding High Yielding Bioenergy Sorghum for the New Bioenergy Belt Clemson University, along with the Carnegie Mellon Robotics Institute and partners, will phenotype an exhaustive set of international germplasm and plant varieties. Purdue University. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

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Engineers that design electronics face significant thermal management challenges, and the number of applications that require thermal management continues to grow. Keeping these components cool represents a significant design challenge. He holds a PhD in civil engineering from the University of Illinois. Joshua Thomas.

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