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U. Houston-led project looking for new exhaust treatment catalysts for low-temperature lean-burn combustion engines

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A chemical engineer from the University of Houston is leading a $2.1-million million project to find new catalytic materials that work at lower exhaust temperatures, allowing automakers to build vehicles that operate more efficiently while retaining the ability to clean emissions before they leave the tailpipe.

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Wave Power to Run Desal Plant

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Houston Chronicle. The Seadog is a point absorber wave energy device that uses pressurized hydraulics for power takeoff; the pressurized water drives a turbine. Renew Blue has a lease from the state of Texas to place the facility in 25 feet of water about a mile off the coast from Freeport.

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EPA awards $8M in FY2014 clean diesel grants in 21 states, Puerto Rico

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Franklin Soil & Water Conservation District is replacing three school buses and four agriculture engines and converting three irrigation pumps to clean burning electric. Beyond Toxics is replacing one truck and installing advanced exhaust controls on seven trucks. Port of Houston is replacing 14 drayage trucks. Puerto Rico.

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EPA announces 2011 Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Awards; green chemistry market opportunity projected to be $98.5B by 2020, about 2% of total market

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Fermentation requires no organic solvent, and the water used is recycled. Greener reaction conditions: Kraton Performance Polymers, LLC, Houston, Texas. Polymer membranes are used in a variety of purification processes including reverse osmosis water desalination; water ultra-purification; salt recovery, and waste acid recovery.

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Texas Clean Energy Project signs long-term CO2 offtake agreement with Whiting Petroleum for enhanced oil recovery; 90% CO2 capture from IGCC coal polygen plant

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In oil fields such as Whiting’s, the injected CO 2 mixes with the oil that is left behind in the primary oil-well production and the secondary water-injection stage. geologically sequestered) deep underground many thousands of feet below the water table, with no leakage to the atmosphere. Earlier post.).

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Study finds vehicles more important source of urban atmospheric ammonia than farms

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The presence of NH 3 in vehicle exhaust greatly enhances the formation and growth of secondary inorganic aerosols. The researchers outfitted vehicles with sensors to detect ammonia levels and focused on six cities: Philadelphia, Denver and Houston in the United States, and Beijing, Shijiazhuang and Baoding in China. —Sun et al.

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