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Northwestern-led team develops hydrogenation catalyst selective for carcinogen benzene; cleaner gasoline

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The new catalyst could cost-effectively remove benzene from the other aromatic compounds in gasoline, making it cleaner but without eliminating other aromatics; aromatics in gasoline are used to improve gas octane numbers and fuel efficiency. An open access paper on their work is published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society.

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Study of In-use Vehicle Activity and Emissions in Tianjin, China Yields Fleet and Emissions Profiles, Policy Implications

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From 1990 to 2007, the total number of registered civil-use vehicles in China grew from 5.5 Consequently, vehicle emissions have become an increasingly conspicuous contributor to air pollution in Chinese urban areas. million to 57 million (not including motorcycles). Diesel trucks and buses accounted for most of the mobile PM and NO x.

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High Performance Computing key enabler for accelerating development of high efficiency engines

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DNS is a tool for fundamental studies of the micro-physics of turbulent reacting flows and provides full access to time-resolved fields and physical insight into chemistry turbulence. Fahey (2007) S3D: Petascale Combustion. Sankaran et al. Click to enlarge. J H Chen et al. 2 015001 doi: 10.1088/1749-4699/2/1/015001. David Lignell, C.

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Main Page - EAA-PHEV

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They use cheap, clean, and domestic electricity for short trips and daily commutes, displacing or eliminating oil consumption and CO2 pollution. Full , Mild , Weak , Series, Parallel, Series-Parallel, The Honda configuration such as that in the Insight is a Parallel system, in that the ICE and Motor contribute motive power in parallel.

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Cleantech Blog: Smart Grids and Electric Vehicles

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The Smart Grid Consortium, established in December 2007 by Xcel Energy, will select a community of approximately 100,000 residents to become a Smart Grid City using V2G. Agassi’s Davos Insights Success with V2G would be a double win for electric utilities. Shai Agassi presented their new business model at Davos. SZ (1) 6753.T

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Former EPA exec surveys the road ahead for US emissions standards

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Federal emissions and fuel economy regulations have been instrumental in encouraging (or coercing) automakers to produce EVs, and to make their legacy vehicles cleaner. Since President Nixon signed the Clean Air Act in 1963, federal regulations aimed at reducing air pollution have gradually grown stronger.

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