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JANUARY 12, 2012

A team at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, led by George Huber, has developed a new bifunctional catalyst (Ga/ZSM-5) that displays increased selectivity for the production of aromatic compounds during the catalytic fast pyrolysis ( earlier post ) of biomass. Credit: Cheng et al. Click to enlarge.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

The technology areas ( earlier post ) receiving funding are: PETRO: Plants Engineered To Replace Oil ($36 million). Plants Engineered to Replace Oil (PETRO). University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Development of a Dedicated, High-Value Biofuels Crop The University of Massachusetts, Amherst will develop an. Description.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority, Massachusetts: $2,500,000. Renewable Wind Energy: MBTA will design and construct wind energy generation turbines in eastern Massachusetts (from among Kingston, Newburyport, Bridgewater). Lowell Regional Transit Authority, Massachusetts: $1,500,000.

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MARCH 27, 2015

liter engine, a hybrid system, a Waste Heat Recovery (WHR) system, along with a number of other upgrades. Friction-reducing measures include a variable speed water pump, a clutched air compressor, low-viscosity oil and an improved cylinder kit. —Derek Rotz, principal investigator for SuperTruck, Daimler Trucks North America.

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JUNE 24, 2010

Soybean oil, Energy cane, Biomass Sorghum, Perennial grasses, Woody biomass. Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maine, Michigan, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, Vermont, West Virginia. Woody biomass, municipal waste potential. Woody biomass, oil seed, grasses, cereal crop residue. Southeast and Hawaii.

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JUNE 21, 2016

Process intensification breakthroughs can dramatically shrink the footprint of equipment needed on a crowded factory floor or eliminate waste by using the raw input materials more efficiently. quadrillion BTU of energy annually, equivalent to 280 million barrels of oil, or a month’s worth of that nation’s oil imports.

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MARCH 23, 2019

Heat exchangers are critical to efficient thermal energy use in a variety of applications, including electricity generation, nuclear reactors, transportation, petrochemical plants, waste heat recovery, and many more. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The waste heat from the device can be harvested for residential heating.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

Curt Conner, all from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. In a challenge to the current prototype for ethanol production from waste cellulose, this team will focus on a recently emerging biotechnology for direct production of hydrocarbons from plant material. Mountziaris, and W. Roberts, with colleagues JoAnn Burkholder, H.

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OCTOBER 26, 2009

Waste Heat Capture (2 projects). Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology will develop a paradigm shifting new all-liquid metal grid scale battery for low cost, large scale storage of electrical energy. WASTE HEAT CAPTURE. Biomass Energy (5 projects). Carbon Capture (5 projects). Direct Solar Fuels (5 projects).

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OCTOBER 6, 2009

Halophytes can be productive sources of biomass energy; for example, salicornia seed is 32% oil by mass. In addition to the salicornia seed oil that can be converted into fuel, the halophyte yields protein meal, and green tips and biomass (straw) that remains after harvesting. Earlier post.).

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MARCH 22, 2010

presents experimental evidence that bacteria can undergo a type of cold fusion process and could be used to dispose of nuclear waste. discusses an unconventional cold fusion device that uses phenanthrene, a substance found in coal and oil, as a reactant. Hagelstein is with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. George, Utah.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2012

The Pacific Coast Termite grant also funded an environmentally friendly XT-2000 Orange Oil termite treatment for the greenhouse. Plants in black tubes behind the ECHS Science teacher are being fed by aquaponic system in the new solar-powered greenhouse. Courtesy of CBS EcoMedia).

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APRIL 30, 2010

The project also includes a proprietary process to convert waste biomass into carbon dioxide and hydrogen to feed the bioreactor, allowing butanol production from waste feedstocks. Reducing equivalent: Hydrogen (or Electrons); Organism: anaerobe and aerobe; Product: Oil for biodiesel. Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (UC

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APRIL 10, 2010

Environmentalists and industries resurrected the idea in recent years as a centerpiece of measures to address global warming and growing oil imports. Markey of Massachusetts, both Democrats, built their climate change bill last year in large measure around it. Representatives Henry A. Waxman of California and Edward J.

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