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APRIL 12, 2010

Angela Belcher, has engineered a common bacteriophage virus (M13) to function as a scaffold to mediate the co-assembly of zinc porphyrins (photosensitizer) and iridium oxide hydrosol clusters (catalyst) for visible light-driven water oxidation. Angela Belcher.

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APRIL 2, 2013

The company will be delivering initial, pre-production units to selected lead customers and partners throughout 2013 and will begin shipping production units from its high-volume manufacturing plant in Pennsylvania at the end of this year. The batteries have shown high cycle life of more than 5,000 cycles at high rates, (100% DoD).

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JUNE 4, 2018

Researchers, led by a team from the University of Pennsylvania, have used a polymer-folding mechanism to develop a new and versatile kind of solid polymer electrolyte (SPE) that currently offers proton conductivity faster than Nafion by a factor of 2, the benchmark for fuel cell membranes. They collaborated with Kenneth B.

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JANUARY 31, 2014

The hybrid energy storage device comprises a low-cost, activated carbon anode, a Manganese oxide cathode (MnO 2 ), and an electrolyte consisting of Na 2 SO 4 in water (~1 M). Aquion will begin shipping production units to customers in the first half of 2014 from its manufacturing facility in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania.

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AUGUST 31, 2011

The Research Consortia funded are: Lead Institution: The University of Texas at Austin, Marine Science Institute. Lead Institution: Texas A&M University at College Station. Lead Institution: Florida State University. Lead Institution: Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium. Lead Investigator: Edward J. Buskey, Ph.D.

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AUGUST 12, 2015

water management and treatment for power plant and CO 2 storage operations. The Ohio State University. Arizona State University. The Regents of the University of Colorado. Transitional Technology Development Awards. Lead organization. Description. Energy Industries of Ohio. General Electric Company.

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AUGUST 22, 2013

For example, the University of California, San Diego will receive approximately $3.5 University of Houston. The University of Houston (UH) will develop a battery using a novel water-based, lithium-ion chemistry that makes use of sustainable, low-cost, high-energy, organic materials. Princeton University.

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DECEMBER 2, 2014

The turbine will be designed to deliver a constant source of energy despite changes in water flow by using a system that operates efficiently across a range of ebbs and flows. The Eaton Corporation will design, fabricate, and test its turbine at 1/10 th scale.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2012

University researchers also concluded that many reports of contamination can be traced to above-ground spills or other mishandling of wastewater produced from shale gas drilling, rather than from hydraulic fracturing per se, said Charles “Chip” Groat, an Energy Institute associate director who led the project. Earlier post.).

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APRIL 8, 2013

A team of researchers at the Wyss Institute at Harvard University and Harvard’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have designed a new kind of adaptive material with tunable transparency and wettability features. As shown in the diagram, when stretched, the material confers the ability to reversibly “pin” droplets of water.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2011

Preliminary findings from a study on the use of hydraulic fracturing in shale gas development suggest no direct link to reports of groundwater contamination, according to project leader Dr. Charles ‘Chip’ Groat, of The University of Texas at Austin’s Energy Institute. —Charles Groat.

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AUGUST 17, 2021

The authors are: Arun Majumdar, a Jay Precourt Professor and Co-Director of the Precourt Institute for Energy at Stanford University and lead author of the commentary. Ravi Prasher is an Adjunct Professor at the University of California, Berkeley. He was one of the first program directors at ARPA-E.

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JULY 18, 2012

million investment in three university-led projects, helping to train and educate the next generation of nuclear energy scientists and engineers. University (Westinghouse). Institute (Carpenter Technology; General Electric-Hitachi; The Ohio State University). University of. Laboratory (University of Wisconsin-Madison).

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JULY 2, 2018

SOFC technologies enable efficient, cost-effective electricity generation from abundant domestic coal and natural gas resources, with minimal use of water and near-zero atmospheric emissions of carbon dioxide and pollutants. The US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy (FE) has selected 16 projects to receive approximately $13.5

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OCTOBER 27, 2021

Inside the tower, molten salts are heated to 565 °C and flow down into storage tanks, turning water into steam to drive turbines. Pennsylvania, United States Solarflux's prototype unit is a simplified, lower-cost version of a decades-old concept, operating at Pennsylvania State University's campus in Berks County.

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MAY 13, 2012

OsComp Systems designed and tested the novel compressor design with funding from the DOE-supported Stripper Well Consortium , an industry-driven organization whose members include natural gas and petroleum producers, service companies, industry consultants, universities, and industrial trade organizations.

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MAY 4, 2010

A team at the University of Pennsylvania has developed a one-step process for converting hexose from a wide range of biomass-derived carbohydrates, cellulose and even raw lignocellulose (e.g., corn stover) into 2,5-dimethyltetrahydrofuran (DMTHF) in good yields and under mild conditions in water.

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OCTOBER 27, 2021

Inside the tower, molten salts are heated to 565 °C and flow down into storage tanks, turning water into steam to drive turbines. Pennsylvania, United States Solarflux's prototype unit is a simplified, lower-cost version of a decades-old concept, operating at Pennsylvania State University's campus in Berks County.

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JULY 11, 2015

Water at the base of the ice streams is thought to provide the lubrication that speeds their motion, carrying large volumes of ice out onto the floating ice shelves at the edges of the ice sheet. at UC Santa Cruz and is now at Pennsylvania State University, and current UCSC graduate student Neil Foley. —Andrew Fisher.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2010

A team of researchers at MIT and Pennsylvania State University, which has been working on a new layer-by-layer (LbL) method for producing novel kinds of membranes, has developed a new solid-state polymer electrolyte for use in electrochemical devices such as fuel cells and batteries using that method. Argun et al. Herring, David K.Y.

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JULY 17, 2009

The US Department of Energy selected three projects under the Office of Fossil Energy’s University Turbine Systems Research (UTSR) Program for awards totaling approximately $1.5 The projects include: Pennsylvania State University. Texas A&M University. University of Texas-El Paso.

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MAY 30, 2010

Henry Chair, Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering at the University of Iowa and the Editor of the ACS journal Environmental Science & Technology is calling on Gulf researchers to consider submitting their scientific articles about the oil spill to ES&T. Jerald Schnoor, the Allen S. The high energy tides (15 ft [4.6

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DECEMBER 29, 2021

Powering them with clean energy sources won’t be difficult given China’s plentiful renewable capacity, says Michael Davidson , an engineering-systems and global-policy expert at the University of California, San Diego. Plus, the CO 2 system produces higher-temperature waste heat, which can be used for space heating and hot water.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

The 27 projects range from concept studies and component design research to prototype development and in-water device testing. Bayer Material Science LLC (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) will analyze an innovative, non-turbine approach to harnessing river currents. DOE Funding: $240,000. Total Project Value: $391,000. DOE Funding: $142,000.

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APRIL 30, 2010

Water will be the primary byproduct. A novel metal complex for electrolysis of water will be used to generate the hydrogen at high rates. NC State University. Medical University of South Carolina. Columbia University. per gallon. The project also will develop a chemical method to transform butanol into jet fuel.

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AUGUST 14, 2018

Awards in this topic area, with the Federal share, include: Northeastern University: Developing Platinum Group Metal-Free Catalysts for Oxygen Reduction Reaction in Acid: Beyond the Single Metal Site. Indiana University, Purdue University: Mesoporous Carbon-based PGM-free Catalyst Cathodes. 880,034. . 600,000. . Giner, Inc.:

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JUNE 26, 2021

Bunting-Dubois (Dubois, Pennsylvania). Westinghouse Electric Company (Cranberry Township, Pennsylvania). Northern Illinois University (DeKalb, Illinois). Mesofluidic Inline Separation for Produced Water Treatment, $246,979. Intellimation, LLC (Berwyn, Pennsylvania). Alkaline Water Electrolysis, $100,000.

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JULY 17, 2011

Researchers from Israel Institute of Technology and Pennsylvania State University report in a paper in the journal ChemSusChem on a Si–air/ionic liquid electrolyte battery whose performance improves with small amounts of water in the electrolyte. —Cohn et al. Macdonald, D. and Ein-Eli, Y. ChemSusChem. doi: 10.1002/cssc.201100169.

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MARCH 23, 2019

HITEMMP projects include: Michigan State University. Michigan State University’s HIPPED technology is a highly scalable heat exchanger suited for high-efficiency power generation systems that use supercritical CO 2 as a working fluid and operate at high temperature and high pressure. Missouri University of Science and Technology.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2014

The surfactant chemicals found in samples of fracking fluid collected in five states were no more toxic than substances commonly found in homes, according to a first-of-its-kind analysis by researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder. —Thurman et al.

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NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Block flow diagram illustrating (top) water removal from wet ethanol vapor above the feed tray to produce pure fuel grade ethanol or (bottom) CADO of the same wet ethanol to fungible blendstocks. HE = heat exchangers. Hannon et al. GJ today with the potential to drop to $1.44/GJ GJ in the near future. GJ in the near future.

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AUGUST 10, 2015

million to spur innovation of next-generation water power component technologies, designed for manufacturability and built specifically for marine and hydrokinetic (MHK) systems. The device’s water power capture can then be optimized by actively controlling the timing between the force and velocity on the WEC device. ADVANCED CONTROLS.

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MAY 10, 2016

With up to $3 million in available funding, DOE has selected two projects: one from Ohio State University and one from Massachusetts Institute of Technology that will receive between $1 million to $2 million. The DOE selections are: The Ohio State University (OSU). The USDA is funding five projects for a total of $7.3

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MARCH 4, 2023

The first robot I built from scratch was SS MAPR , an autonomous boat for water departments to collect multidepth water-quality data. After six months of 80-hour weeks and sleepless nights, SS MAPR was able to finish its maiden voyage with water samples and data collected from the bottom of the Schuylkill River, in Pennsylvania.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

Iowa State University. Iowa State University will develop a new process to create glassy solid electrolytes (GSEs) that allow for long lifecycle batteries, an important goal for the energy storage community. Pennsylvania State University. University of Colorado Boulder. University of Colorado Boulder.

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JUNE 12, 2012

This project will develop a Protected Lithium Electrode , a solid electrolyte and a scaled up manufacturing process for high energy density lithium-air, lithium-water and lithium-sulfur batteries. The PolyPlus lithium-water battery has achieved the highest energy density ever recorded at 1,300 Wh/kg. System for Industrial Water Reuse.

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OCTOBER 26, 2009

Water (1 project). Arizona State University, in partnership with Fluidic Energy Inc., Teaming with Ohio State University are PSRI, CONSOL Energy, Shell/CRI, and Babcock and Wilcox to accelerate this technology towards commercialization and deployment. Direct Solar Fuels (5 projects). Vehicle Technologies (5 projects).

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