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ExxonMobil grants Nippon Steel first license for patented field welding technology for x120 ultra high-strength linepipe

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ExxonMobil has granted Nippon Steel the world’s first license for patented field welding technology used to construct high-pressure pipelines made with X120 ultra high-strength steel linepipe. Welding is performed using standard automated and semi-automated welding tools familiar to pipeline industry welders. Source: Nippon Steel.

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NSF awards UIC $1.44M to discover new 2D materials for better batteries

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million National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to discover new 2D materials that can be used to manufacture better and cheaper batteries. Since the discovery of graphene in 2004, about 700 2D materials are predicted to be stable; many remain to be synthesized. The University of Illinois at Chicago has received a $1.44-million

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INCITE supercomputing grants awarded to 56 projects; sustainable energy to next-gen materials

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Researchers from academia, government research facilities, and industry received computing time through the Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment, or INCITE, program. The INCITE program issued its first awards in 2004, when three projects received an aggregate five million core hours.

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EPA Grants California Vehicle GHG Regulations Waiver

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The US Environmental Agency (EPA) has granted California’s waiver request enabling the state to enforce its greenhouse gas emissions standards (Pavley I) for new motor vehicles, beginning with the current model year. These regulations were authorized by the 2002 legislation Assembly Bill 1493 (Pavley). EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson.

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EEA: increase in EU GHG emissions, mostly due to transport, hampers progress towards 2030 targets

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While the EU remains on track to meet its 2020 emissions reduction target, updated data shows Member States cannot afford to take progress beyond that date for granted. The slight increase prolongs a relatively stable trend in emissions observed since 2014, after a 10-year period of almost continuous reductions between 2004 and 2014.

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DOE awards $1.5M to Gentherm (Amerigon) for thermoelectric-based energy recovery system for heavy-duty vehicles; expands existing LDV program

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The grant is an add-on to the $8 million award from the DOE in August 2011 for converting thermoelectric heat to power for passenger cars ( earlier post ) and extends the technology to heavy military vehicles. The US Department of Energy (DOE) has awarded Gentherm (formerly Amerigon) a $1.55-million TEG & Exhaust System in Lincoln MKT.

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U Alberta spin-off Forge Hydrocarbons commercializing pyrolytic lipids-to-hydrocarbons process

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Bressler made his initial discovery in 2004 with funding from an NSERC Discovery grant. Bressler (2008) “Pyrolytic Decarboxylation and Cracking of Stearic Acid”, Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research 47 (15), 5328-5336 doi: 10.1021/ie0714551. Since then, he has received more than $4.9 He ran that company for 12 years.