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Port of Honolulu testing hydrogen fuel cell generator; Sandia-led Maritime Hydrogen Fuel Cell project

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s Port of Honolulu facility, Sandia National Laboratories is leading the Maritime Hydrogen Fuel Cell project to test a hydrogen-fuel-cell-powered generator as an alternative to conventional diesel generators. Hickam Air Force Base in Honolulu is supplying the hydrogen to power the fuel cell. At Young Brothers Ltd.’s

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More details on work supporting NEC prototype 4.5V Li-ion battery; modified LiNiMnO cathode and fluorinated electrolyte

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At PRiME 2012 (Pacific Rim Meeting on Electrochemical and Solid-State Science), in Honolulu, a team from NEC’s Smart Energy Research Laboratories led by Takehiro Noguchi presented a paper describing work on cathode materials and electrolytes enabling the higher-capacity prototype cell. Honolulu PRiME 2012. x Ti x O 4 cathode.

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ZSW develops process for Li-ion batteries with extended cycle life; 10,000 charge cycles

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The ZSW researchers outlined the basics for optimizing cycling stability through the balancing of anode and cathode in a presentation later that year at the Honolulu PRiME 2012 meeting of The Electrochemical Society. In that paper, which specially investigated an NCA cathode material (LiNi 0.8 2012.03.017.

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New low-voltage W-band millimeter-wave technology; applicable for cars, bikes, cellphones

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Details of the technology are being presented this week at the IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium (RFIC) 201 in Honolulu, Hawaii. Resources. This is the first W-band (75−110 GHz) amplifier that can operate even with such a low power-supply voltage. The W-band covers the frequencies used by automotive radars. Amakawa, K.

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Project shows maritime fuel cell generator can increase energy efficiency by up to 30% at part load; reliability and cost issues

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Project partner Young Brothers operated the generator for 10 months powering refrigerated containers in Honolulu, Hawaii. One opportunity to do so was identified in Honolulu Harbor at the Young Brothers Ltd. (YB) —“Maritime Fuel Cell Generator Project”.

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USC team uses mixed conduction membranes to suppress polysulfide shuttle in Li-S batteries

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The authors presented this paper earlier at the Honolulu, Hawaii, Meeting of the Electrochemical Society in October 2016. The study was funded by the University of Southern California and the Loker Hydrocarbon Research Institute. Derek Moy and S. Electrochem.

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US MARAD study finds marine use of natural gas substantially reduces some air pollutants and slightly reduces GHG emissions

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The OGV was modeled on two West Coast routes, one from Los Angeles/Long Beach (LA/LB) to Shanghai, China, and the other from LA/LB to Honolulu, HI. The inland tug/tow vessel was evaluated transiting the Mississippi River between Peoria, IL and New Orleans, LA. Corbett, Heather Thomson and James J.

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