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MARCH 18, 2019

Researchers at the University of have developed an unusually rapid method to deliver cost-effective algal biocrude in large quantities using a specially-designed jet mixer. Even as electrified vehicles penetrate the short distance transportation market, high energy density transportation fuels remain essential to long distance transportation.

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APRIL 27, 2019

Researchers at Henan Polytechnic University in China have hydrotreated the oil derived from hydrothermal liquefaction of scrap tires (STO) with waste engine oil (WEO) using five different activated carbon-supported noble metal catalysts—Pd/C, Pt/C, Ru/C, Ir/C, and Rh/C—for the production of liquid fuels. —Lou et al.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2022

If unaddressed, the lack of domestic mining, processing, and recycling capacity will hinder clean energy and transportation development and adoption, leaving the nation dependent on unreliable foreign supply chains, the DOE said. Michigan Technological University. Tennessee Technological University. The University of Alabama.

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DECEMBER 2, 2020

Researchers from London South Bank University (LSBU), School of the Built Environment and Architecture, are investigating the use of metal hydrides to absorb, release and store hydrogen for fuel cell buses. On demand, the hydrogen is released from the hydride (endothermic reaction), utilizing the waste heat of the fuel cell.

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DECEMBER 22, 2015

Heriot-Watt University in the UK will lead a £2-million (US$3-million) project ( EP/N009924/1 ) to develop low-carbon aviation fuels from captured CO 2 and waste biomass. The project aims to produce low-carbon synthetic aviation jet fuel using renewable energy from waste agricultural and forestry biomass and captured CO 2.

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MARCH 26, 2021

The biocrude oil came from many different sources, including wastewater sludge from Detroit, and food waste collected from prison and an army base. The research showed that essentially any biocrude, regardless of wet-waste sources, could be used in the process and the catalyst remained robust during the entire run.

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OCTOBER 28, 2022

The selected projects, led by universities, national laboratories, and the private sector aim to develop commercially scalable technologies that will enable greater domestic supplies of copper, nickel, lithium, cobalt, rare earth elements, and other critical elements. Columbia University. Harvard University.

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JUNE 16, 2019

C World , was produced in partnership with Arup and the University of Leeds, and cautions that urban consumption-based emissions must be cut by at least 50% by 2030 in order to maintain the possibility of keeping global temperature rise below 1.5°C. Without urgent action, those emissions are projected to nearly double by 2050.

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JANUARY 28, 2013

The extra waste heat generated from buildings, cars, and other sources in major Northern Hemisphere urban areas causes winter warming across large areas of northern North American and northern Asia. At the same time, the changes to atmospheric circulation caused by the waste heat cool areas of Europe by as much as 1 degree C (1.8

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FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Under the terms of the agreement, XL Fleet and Curbtender will jointly develop a series of battery electric (BEV) and plug-in hybrid electric (PHEV) commercial trucks for use in waste management applications. The Quantum is the US Waste Industry’s #1 selling small rear loader. Curbtender Quantum.

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DECEMBER 3, 2015

Boeing, the University of British Columbia (UBC) and SkyNRG, with support from Canada’s aviation industry and other stakeholders, are collaborating to turn leftover branches, sawdust and other forest-industry waste into sustainable aviation biofuel.

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APRIL 20, 2020

A study by an international team of researchers led by Aalto University finds that less than one-third of the world’s population could currently meet their demand for food with food produced in their local vicinity. The paper is published in the journal Nature Food. The share was 22% for tropical cereals, 28% for rice and 27% for pulses.

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JULY 6, 2023

FluoRok, a spin-out of the University of Oxford developing a new method for the direct synthesis of high value fluorochemicals, announced £3 million (US$3.8 Fluorochemicals are currently made using an energy-intensive process that involves the production and transport of hydrogen fluoride (HF) as a key intermediate.

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APRIL 23, 2014

The Dearman project is to deliver a production-feasible waste-heat recovery system for urban commercial vehicles, which offers life-cycle CO 2 savings of up to 40%; fuel savings of 25%, with the potential of up to almost 50%; and potential payback in less than three years. Earlier post. ). Earlier post.)

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AUGUST 1, 2021

The UK Department for Transport has shortlisted 8 industry-led projects to receive a share of £15 million (US$21 million) in the Green Fuels, Green Skies (GFGS) competition for the development of sustainable aviation fuels (SAF) production plants in the UK. It could also increase UK fuel security. alfanar Energy Ltd. Green Fuels Research Ltd.

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MARCH 31, 2017

The center is also helping to pioneer efforts to turn forestry, agricultural and municipal waste into transportation fuels, with a new demonstration plant being built at the site. Specialists at STCB work closely with experts from external industrial partners, universities and institutes.

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MARCH 20, 2023

A team from Lehigh University has developed a Lewis acid-base interaction–derived hybrid sorbent with polyamine-Cu(II) complex (Polyam-N-Cu 2+ ) enabling more than 5.0 mol of CO 2 capture/kg sorbent—nearly two to three times greater capacity than most of the DAC sorbents reported to date. Chen et al.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

LanzaTech, a producer of low-carbon fuels and chemicals from waste gases, was awarded a $4-million grant by the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) as one of the 15 REMOTE projects ( earlier post ) receiving a combined $34 million to find advanced biocatalyst technologies that can convert natural gas to liquid fuel for transportation.

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MARCH 16, 2011

million) CSIRO Energy Transformed Cluster on Biofuels to develop new processes using enzyme biotechnology techniques to produce liquid fuels from waste plant feedstocks with the potential to provide 30% of Australia’s future transport needs. Australia’s CSIRO has launched a A$8.3-million million (US$8.2-million)

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NOVEMBER 8, 2021

The funded projects include: University of Wisconsin Madison for “Efficiency Mixing Controlled Compression Ignition Combustion of Propane DME Blends”. As an energy-dense, cost-effective means to transport and store renewable hydrogen. Oberon Fuels, the first company to produce renewable DME (rDME) in the US, is a supporting partner.

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JUNE 8, 2022

Engineers at the University of Pittsburgh Swanson School of Engineering are using membrane distillation technology to enable drillers to filter and reuse the produced water in the oil and gas industry, in agriculture, and other beneficial uses.

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APRIL 10, 2018

Mechanical engineers at the University of California, Riverside, have successfully used inexpensive materials to produce thermoelectric devices that transform low-level waste heat into electricity. In SSE, the thermal transport takes place due to the two-step spin dependent process.

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JUNE 24, 2015

Alphabet Energy, founded in 2009 at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, announced the availability of its thermoelectric generator PowerModule as a standalone product, available to meet the specific application needs of a range of industries, including transportation. an implied efficiency of about 2.5%—saving 2014.11.002.

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MAY 19, 2020

Researchers from Chalmers University of Technology and the University of Gothenburg studied the construction of an 8km stretch of road in detail and calculated how much emissions can be reduced now and until 2045, looking at everything from materials choice, production technology, supply chains and transport. Karlsson et al.

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JULY 17, 2020

VTO research pathways focus on fuel diversification, vehicle efficiency, energy storage, lightweight materials, and new mobility technologies to improve the overall energy efficiency and affordability of the transportation system. The Research Foundation for The SUNY Stony Brook University. University of Delaware.

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AUGUST 3, 2013

A research team at Monash University (Australia) led by Professor Dan Li of the Department of Materials Engineering has developed a new strategy to engineer graphene-based supercapacitors (SC), resulting in an energy density of 60 Wh/liter—comparable to lead-acid batteries and around 12 times higher than commercially available SCs.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Researchers at the University of California, Riverside’s Center for Environmental Research and Technology (CERT) at the Bourns College of Engineering have received two grants to further explore a steam hydrogasification process they developed to convert waste into fuels. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.).

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JANUARY 30, 2023

The consortium has been collaborating with the Abu Dhabi Department of Energy, Etihad Airways, Lufthansa Group, and Khalifa University of Science and Technology, on a demonstration initiative for e-SAF. It can be used as a drop-in fuel without modifying existing storage and refueling infrastructure, aircraft or engines.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2010

Kreutz used two examples of CCTF systems in his analysis: biodiesel from microalgae and Sandia National Laboratory’s S2P process (an effort to utilize concentrated solar energy to convert waste CO 2 into synthetic fuels, earlier post ). This raises the unusual possibility of the transportation sector becoming decarbonized before.

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JUNE 19, 2020

A team of researchers, led by Professor Gavin Shaddick at the University of Exeter, has shown that, despite global efforts to improve air quality, half of the world’s population is exposed to increasing air pollution. Credit: Professor Gavin Shaddick/University of Exeter. a)Map of global PM 2.5 Units for both are ?g/m

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MAY 30, 2022

Researchers at RMIT University in Australia collaborated with Tyre Stewardship Australia (TSA) to discover the ideal blend that is both UV-resistant and withstands traffic loads, with the potential to save governments millions on road maintenance annually. Australian states and territories spent nearly $2.9 —Filippo Giustozzi.

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MAY 6, 2020

Improvements in the lifecycle energy consumption of products of interest: This includes jet engine efficiency; materials and shape optimization for light-weighting in transport technologies; semiconductor electrical efficiency; and recycling and reuse for industrial-scale materials production and processing waste.

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AUGUST 24, 2020

Researchers at the University of Cambridge, with colleagues at the University of Tokyo, have developed a standalone device that converts sunlight, carbon dioxide and water into formic acid, a carbon-neutral fuel, without requiring any additional components or electricity. —senior author Professor Erwin Reisner.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2019

Eni and RenOils, the Italian national vegetable and animal oils and fats Consortium established in 2016 to ensure the correct management of the collection, transport, storage, processing and reuse of vegetable oils and animal fats, are promoting the recovery of used cooking oils (UCO) for biofuel production.

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JULY 31, 2015

million in funding for five projects in ARPA-E’s newest program, the Traveler Response Architecture using Novel Signaling for Network Efficiency in Transportation (TRANSNET). Project teams will each design a system model that dynamically simulates an urban transportation network and its energy use. Georgia Tech Research Corporation.

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AUGUST 31, 2022

The application is the first for a new research reactor in more than 30 years and the first for an advanced university research reactor. Since the fuel salt is liquid, it can be both the fuel (producing the heat) and the coolant (transporting the heat to the power plant). Earlier post.).

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2009

Vattenfall and Aalborg University are partnering with Danish startup SCF Technologies in a two-year project to design a demonstration plant based on SCF’s CatLiq process—an application of the firm’s supercritical fluid technology in the catalytic production of bio-oil from organic waste. SCF Technologies 2008 Annual Report.

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