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DOE to award $35M for bioenergy feedstock and algae R&D

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DE-FOA-0002423 ) Topic Areas ins the FOA support DOE’s Bioenergy Technologies Office’s (BETO’s) objectives to reduce the minimum selling price of drop-in biofuels, lower the cost of biopower, and enable high-value products from biomass or waste resources. Algae Productivity Exceeding Expectations (APEX) (up to $20M).

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Mangrove raises $3M from BDC Capital to accelerate deployment of battery-grade lithium processing systems

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Mangrove is the developer of a modular platform for the cost-effective production of battery-grade lithium hydroxide. The platform technology is also being commercialized for conversion of waste brines to chemicals and desalinated water. Lithium processing is presently concentrated in a small number of regions in the world.

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Global Bioenergies reports first isobutene production from waste biomass

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Various companies are presently de-bottlenecking the conversion of second-generation materials into fermentable sugars. This industry ultimately has the potential to provide fermentation processes with low-cost sugars derived from abundant resources. —Frédéric Pâques, Chief Operating Officer at Global Bioenergies.

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Do These 10 Things for Better Product Development

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This is especially relevant when your team is not solely responsible for the development of the product or system, and you need to cooperate with development partners. Integrated teams are happier and more motivated, and therefore more productive. Do you have business processes in place for developing and launching new products?

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PowerDriver simulations predict thermoelectric exhaust waste heat recovery output of 300W, -2.5% in fuel consumption; prototyping begins

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The European Union-funded PowerDriver project—a two-year, €3-million (US$4-million) research project initiated in February 2012 to turn exhaust gas waste heat into electricity using thermoelectric generator (TGEN) technology—has completed simulation work on on a potential automotive application.

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Global Bioenergies reports first production of green isobutene at demo plant

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The first trials on the demo plant in Leuna were successfully completed, within schedule, in the fall of 2016 and Global Bioenergies announced first production of green isobutene via fermentation. In the fuel sector, it is presently used to manufacture isooctane, ETBE and MTBE which are valuable compounds used in gasoline mixes.

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GMZ Energy announces new, high-power thermoelectric module: TG16-1.0

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GMZ Energy, a developer of high temperature thermoelectric generation (TEG) solutions, has introduced the TG16-1.0 , a new thermoelectric module capable of producing twice the power of the company’s first product, the TG8-1.0. GMZ Energy’s proprietary platform technology enables the low-cost manufacturing of bulk thermoelectric materials.

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