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American Process Waste-to-Cellulosic Ethanol Project Launches in Michigan

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American Process Incorporated (API) recently launched a waste-to-cellulosic ethanol biorefinery project in Alpena, Michigan. The biorefinery will convert the process waste effluent from the plant into cellulosic ethanol, sodium acetate and clean, warm water.

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Vanderbilt/ORNL team discovers new form of crystalline order that could be attractive for thermoelectric applications

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If you put a pair of sodium and chlorine atoms at each lattice point, they form sodium and chlorine sub-lattices and you get salt. Materials Thermoelectrics Waste Heat Recovery' When you have more than one atom at each point, each type of atom forms its own sub-lattice. CIS is a bit more complicated.

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Energy Harvesting for Wearable Technology Steps Up

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Energy is something we take for granted, because we just plug things into the wall, and it feels as inevitable as air. The group fabricated their device using CFRP, sodium potassium niobate (KNN) nanoparticles, and epoxy resin. Which seems plenty attractive to a range of companies and researchers. They said, ‘We don’t know.

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NC State Researchers Developing Ozonolysis Pretreatment for Energy Grass Feedstocks

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Researchers at North Carolina State University are developing an ozone-based pre-treatment technique (ozonolysis) to release sugars from the energy grass miscanthus for production into renewable fuels or chemicals with minimal generation of chemical waste streams and degradation of the carbohydrate components. García-Cubero et al.

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Brown Chemists Develop Process to Simplify Waste Vegetable Oil to Biodiesel Process, Chart Progress of Transesterification Reaction

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Two chemists at Brown University have streamlined the conversion of waste vegetable oil (WVO) into biodiesel, eliminating the need for corrosive chemicals to perform the reactions. Current techniques for the conversion of waste vegetable oil to biodiesel take time, are costly and are inefficient. That makes the process less efficient.

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CalSEED awards $4.2M to early-stage clean energy innovations

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The California Sustainable Energy Entrepreneur Development (CalSEED) program announced that the fourth cohort of innovative clean energy concepts has been approved by the California Energy Commission (CEC); 28 companies out of 212 were selected to receive grants of $150,000 each. CalSEED is administered by New Energy Nexus.

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ARPA-E Awards $151M to 37 Projects for Transformative Energy Research

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The awarded grants will go to projects with lead researchers in 17 states. Waste Heat Capture (2 projects). Eagle Picher, in partnership with the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, will develop a new generation of high energy, low cost planar liquid sodium beta batteries for grid scale electrical power storage applications.

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