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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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OCTOBER 24, 2017

Vastly expanding sugarcane production in Brazil for conversion to ethanol could reduce current global CO 2 emissions by as much as 5.6%, according to a new study by an international team led by researchers from the University of Illinois. The proposed expansion of sugarcane production is within the area that can be legally converted.

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has found itself in hot water after at least a dozen employees at its Normal, Illinois plant accused the company of safety violations. Kailey Harvey, another employee and a former UAW member who joined the EV maker last year, noted that there have been “many near misses” with powered industrial vehicles in the plant.

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JUNE 16, 2012

Other successful initiatives—highlighted in Ford’s 13th annual Sustainability Report—include reductions in water use, waste-to-landfill and CO 2 emissions as well as improvements in vehicle fuel economy and safety. The company also announced plans to reduce usage another 25% on a per-vehicle basis by 2016.

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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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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. space program; she initially aimed for a career in the aerospace industry. She realized that aerospace was a boom-and-bust industry, she says.

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MAY 31, 2012

one of the largest US-based, publicly-traded water utilities, is going to transition portions of its larger vehicle fleet to compressed natural gas (CNG). Aqua America serves almost 3 million residents in Pennsylvania, Ohio, North Carolina, Illinois, Texas, New Jersey, Indiana, Florida, Virginia, and Georgia. Aqua America, Inc.,

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JULY 16, 2016

The winners are Professor Elizabeth Biddinger, City College of New York; Professor Joaquin Rodriguez Lopez, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; and Professor Joshua Snyder, Drexel University. Industrial Electrochemistry and Electrochemical Engineering Division of ECS. Physical and Analytical Electrochemistry Division of ECS.

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OCTOBER 18, 2011

Black carbon is the sooty black material emitted from diesel-powered engines and vehicles, industries like brick kilns and coke ovens, traditional cookstoves, and other sources that burn fossil fuels or biomass. The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has awarded more than $6.6

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AUGUST 10, 2015

million in three new Engineering Research Centers (ERCs) to create novel technology platforms and transform industries. POETS will be led by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in partnership with Howard University, Stanford University and the University of Arkansas. The two other new ERCs are: Off-grid drinking water.

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Fossil fuels currently meet this majority demand, raising concerns due to potential CO 2 (a major greenhouse gas) doubling compared to preindustrial levels (approximately 285 ppm for about 400 000 years before the industrial revolution and reached 376 ppm as of 2005 and is still increasing). Schematic of biomass to bio-oil conversion process.

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JUNE 10, 2013

After the corn is harvested, the kernels are ground into corn meal and water added to make a mash. Extensive implementation of extraction technology from 2008 to 2012 has seen the industry record a nearly five-fold increase in corn oil production, according to a study by the University of Illinois at Chicago.

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DECEMBER 10, 2015

Since 2002, according to the industry association for strippers [ National Stripper Well Association , NSWA], these marginal wells have generated more than 2.9 Stripper-operated wells account for all of the oil production in the state of Illinois, for instance. billion barrels of oil and 18.8 Mcf of natural gas.

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AUGUST 2, 2011

EIA projects its wider use could result in EOR providing 33% of total domestic onshore production by 2035, while helping store millions of tons of CO 2 emissions from power plants and industrial sources. These projects include: GE Global Research (Niskayuna, NY) - NORM Mitigation and Clean Water Recovery from Marcellus Frac Water.

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JULY 18, 2012

million to 13 projects to help solve common challenges across the nuclear industry and improve reactor safety, performance and cost competitiveness. water reactors. efficiency of both light water reactors and. The US Department of Energy (DOE) is awarding $10.9 Additionally, the Energy Department announced today a $1.6

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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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FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Thus lignin binds exactly where it is least desired for industrial purposes. During pretreatment, acid, water, and heat work to remove non-cellulosic biomass from plant material. In total, the simulation tracked nine cellulose fibers, 468 lignin molecules, and 54 enzyme molecules in a rectangular water box.

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DECEMBER 23, 2009

presented the keys of the first AC electric drive track-type tractor in the industry to a long-time customer, TJ Lambrecht. 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.

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AUGUST 27, 2010

The battery pack has been subjected to a wide range of abuse tests, including overcharge, discharge, vibration, excess heat and cold, short circuit, humidity, fire, crush, water immersion, salt water immersion, and nail penetration. the industry. A Chicago Fire Department firefighter using a hydraulic. Click to enlarge.

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A DFC stack can thus be used as a carbon purification membrane—transferring CO 2 from a dilute oxidant stream to a more concentrated fuel exhaust stream, allowing the CO 2 to be easily and affordably removed for sequestration or industrial use. Partners are AECOM and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries America.

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JULY 5, 2011

Many industrial processes employ natural enzymes, some of them isolated from organisms that live in extreme environments, such as hot springs. However, many of these enzymes are not optimized for industrial processes. Graham, Melinda E. Clark, Dana C. Nadler, Sarah Huffer, Harshal A. Chokhawala, Sara E.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

The findings suggest that an aggressive nutrient management strategy will be needed to reach the goal of a 5,000 km 2 areal extent of hypoxia set forth by the Mississippi River/Gulf of Mexico Watershed Nutrient Task Force even in the absence of biofuels, given current production to meet food, feed, and other industrial needs.

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Steve Wozniak , a Silicon Valley icon, cofounded Apple with Steve Jobs in 1976 and helped shape the computing industry by engineering the groundbreaking Apple I and Apple II computers, as well as the Macintosh. He donated the full cash prize of $10,000 to the IEEE Foundation’s Awards Program Fund.

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JUNE 26, 2021

FIVSIM – An Accurate And Efficient Code for the Industrial Simulation of Flow Induced Vibrations, $1,500,000. Northern Illinois University (DeKalb, Illinois). Praj Industries Ltd. Particle Thermal Energy Storage and Efficient Heat Exchanger for Carbon-Free Industry Heat Supply, $249,500. Framatome Inc.

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JULY 31, 2009

Many industrial separations rely on distillation, a process that is easy to design and implement but consumes a lot of energy. Using membranes rather than energy-intensive processes such as distillation and crystallization could have a major impact on industry. NSF program officer Rosemarie Wesson.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2010

However, the report concludes, over the long-run, algae oil could make a vital, even if modest, contribution to a US biofuels industry. ” 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. low cost system designs, high.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

Illinois Department of Transportation on behalf of seven transit agencies, Illinois: $4,030,000. Chicago Transit Authority, Illinois: $1,500,000. The facility is a 70,000 square foot building located in an industrial zone in Lowell, Massachusetts. Rock Island Metro, Illinois: $600,000.

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MAY 14, 2010

Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Ill. Work in this area will develop theory and advanced computational models and complement ongoing NETL-funded modeling research. DOE award: $299,950). University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pa.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2015

PPG Industries. The project will develop novel binders and active materials to enable a low-cost, water-based, electrodeposited lithium ion battery (LIB) electrode coating system and manufacturing process. Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois. 684,236 (jointly funded). 698,040 (jointly funded).

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OCTOBER 16, 2013

A policy analysis by two University of Illinois researchers argues that Congress should minimally modify, not repeal, the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS). But this does not justify throwing out the baby with the bath water. In the study, law professor Jay P. Kesan and Timothy A. —Jay Kesan. —Timothy Slating.

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DECEMBER 9, 2021

The industry-first “Gear Tunnel” is a cavernous, side–to-side cargo hold behind the passenger cab, only possible because there’s no internal-combustion powertrain. The first R1T’s are already rolling from a former Mitsubishi factory in Illinois, to be closely followed by an R1S SUV version with seating for five or seven passengers.

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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. DOE share: $1,177,957; recipient share: $320,900; duration: 48 months). Risk Assessment.

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JUNE 4, 2009

ORNL is working with a number of university partners (Texas A&M University, University of Wisconsin, Illinois Institute of Technology, University of Alabama, University of Michigan, Dearborn) on the project, as well as Delphi on the catalyst side, a not-for-profit R&D institution, and an unnamed OEM.

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MAY 11, 2009

Rentech has an exclusive option on a site for the Rialto Project within the proposed Rialto Eco-Industrial Park, which is located adjacent to an existing City of Rialto Wastewater Treatment Plant and EnerTech Environmental Regional Bio-Solids Processing Facility. Earlier post.).

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DECEMBER 18, 2022

Another such machine, Aurora , is seemingly on track to be completed any day at Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois. JUPITER will reside in a cavernous new building housing several shipping-container-size water-cooled enclosures. Now Europe’s getting up to speed. Doing so requires enormous machines. How many nodes will there be?

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NOVEMBER 20, 2022

Not only had the triode made long-distance telephony and movie sound possible, it was driving the entire enterprise of commercial radio, an industry worth more than a billion dollars in 1929. Think about slowly pouring a small amount of fine powder onto the surface of water. But vacuum tubes were power-hungry and fragile.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2022

According to TechInsight’s forecast, the semiconductor industry is on track to produce almost 2 billion trillion (1021) devices this year. Five minutes in water was enough to turn the first generation to mush. And engineers in Illinois and England have made microcontrollers that are both affordable and bendable.

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