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MARCH 24, 2012

Our tool provides a simple method to integrate disparate climate and population data sources and develop preliminary per capita water availability projections at a global scale. Parish and co-authors Evan Kodra, Karsten Steinhaeuser and Auroop Ganguly began working on this approach at ORNL in the summer of 2009. —Esther Parish.

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MARCH 18, 2012

Bitumen production from the Canadian oil sands provides a point of reference that could be used to observe and better manage the land and water impacts of a rapid transition to unconventional fuels, suggests Dr. Sarah Jordaan of the Energy Technology Innovation Policy Research Group, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University.

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JULY 10, 2009

Through a recent modeling experiment, a team of NASA-funded researchers have found that future concentrations of carbon dioxide and ozone in the atmosphere and of nitrogen in the soil are likely to have an important but overlooked effect on the cycling of water from sky to land to waterways. Benjamin Felzer, Lehigh University.

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JULY 13, 2022

The Audi Environmental Foundation, a subsidiary of AUDI AG founded in 2009, has joined forces with the Freiberg University of Mining and Technology to research new ways of mining high-tech elements. At the Freiberg University of Mining and Technology, the search for suitable partners for application at other sites is in full swing.

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APRIL 1, 2011

Example of a lithium-water rechargeable battery. Researchers at the University of Texas, including Dr. John Goodenough, are proposing a strategy for high-capacity next-generation alkali (lithium or sodium)-ion batteries using water-soluble redox couples as the cathode. In theory, the decomposition potential of water is 4.27

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MARCH 24, 2022

The Audi Environmental Foundation is developing filters for urban runoff in conjunction with the Technical University of Berlin (TUB). The filters prevent tire wear particles and other environmentally harmful substances from being washed into sewers and bodies of water along with rainwater.

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APRIL 6, 2009

A team from the Weizmann Institute’s Organic Chemistry Department has demonstrated a novel approach for splitting water into hydrogen and oxygen, driven by sunlight. The metal complex of the element ruthenium is a ‘smart’ complex in which the metal center and the organic part attached to it cooperate in the cleavage of the water molecule.

Water

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JULY 3, 2009

Researchers at Ohio University have developed a new technology that accomplishes the direct conversion of urine and urea to pure hydrogen via electrochemical oxidation with an inexpensive nickel catalyst. A voltage of 0.37V is required to split the molecule, compared to the 1.23V needed to split water. Hydrogen production from urine.

Hydrogen

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JULY 28, 2009

Using electrolyzed water rather than harsh chemicals could be a more effective and environmentally friendly method in the pretreatment of ethanol waste products to produce an acetone-butanol-ethanol fuel mix, according to research conducted at the University of Illinois. coli on fresh fruits and vegetables. Resources. 52(3): 885-892.

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APRIL 8, 2009

The foreground bar height indicates the EWe of each state, with the portion of ground and surface water indicated by color. Researchers at the University of Minnesota have estimated state-level field-to-pump water requirements of corn ethanol production across the US. Credit: ACS. Click to enlarge. Chiu et al.

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AUGUST 15, 2009

Northern India, probably the most heavily irrigated region in the world, is rapidly depleting its groundwater, according to a new study by researchers from the National Geophysical Research Institute, Hyderabad (CSIR), India; the University of Colorado, Boulder; and the US National Center for Atmospheric Research. Tiwari et al. Tiwari et al.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2009

Collaborating on the paper were scientists from Utrecht University, the Netherlands Royal Meteorological Institute, Delft University of Technology, Bristol University (UK) and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (USA). —Professor Jonathan Bamber, University of Bristol, co-author. mm of global sea level rise per year.

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AUGUST 24, 2009

The Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) and NASA recently launched the first test rocket using an environmentally-friendly, safe propellant comprising nanoscale aluminum powder and water ice (ALICE). Son, Purdue University) Click to enlarge. The ALICE flight-vehicle assembled on the launch rail. Credit: Dr. Steven F.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2009

By means of time-lapsed high-resolution scanning tunneling microscopy (STM), corroborated by density functional theory calculations, a team of researchers at Aarhus University (Denmark) has recorded all the intermediate steps for a surface-catalyzed reaction—specifically, the oxidation of H adatoms by O 2 molecules on a TiO 2 (110) surface.

Water

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JUNE 20, 2009

Researchers at Oregon State University have demonstrated the gasification of water-soluble biomass constituents in supercritical water in a microchannel reactor under isothermal, continuous flow condition at short residence times to produce a hydrogen-rich gas. Goodwin and Rorrer (2009). Credit: ACS. Click to enlarge.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

Microbiologists from the University of Essex, UK are exploring the use of microbes to break down and remove toxic compounds from heavy crude and oil sands. NAs are resistant to breakdown and persist as pollutants in the water used to extract the oils and tar. This water is contained in large settling or tailing ponds.

Oil-Sands

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JANUARY 6, 2010

Therefore, we do not recommend renewing blenders’ credits when they expire at the end of 2009. We believe that such an assessment would find that the extremely high costs of implementing this program outweigh the indirect benefits to consumers of the small, marginal reductions in US oil imports.

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JUNE 26, 2009

and the University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa (Wits) signed an exclusive representation agreement to commercialize the Fischer-Tropsch-based fuel and chemical production process developed by the Centre of Materials and Process Synthesis (COMPS) located at The University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.

South Africa

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2009

Licht, 2009. Dr. Stuart Licht ( earlier post ) at George Washington University is developing a solar-driven process that, he says, could efficiently replace current industrial processes for the production of certain energetic molecules such as hydrogen, metals and chlorine, which are responsible for a large component of anthropogenic CO 2.

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JUNE 6, 2009

Total weighted global average water footprints (blue and green) for major ethanol and biodiesel crops in m 3 water per GJ fuel. The red marker (right axis) indicates liters of water required to produce one liter of fuel. Gray WF: volume of water that becomes polluted during production. Data: Gerbens-Leenes et al.

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OCTOBER 26, 2009

A team at China’s Southeast University in Nanjing is developing a process to improve the thermal stability and heating value of bio-oil produced using catalytic fast pyrolysis. Multi-stage condensation achieved a good separation of the oil fraction and water. Schematic diagram of the fluidized-bed system for fast pyrolysis of biomass.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2009

Hydrogen production from cellodextrin and water by a synthetic enzymatic pathway. 2009) Click to enlarge. In 2007, the researchers had reported the development of a novel method using a combination of 13 enzymes to form an unnatural enzymatic pathway to completely convert starch and water in one reactor into hydrogen.

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MAY 21, 2009

Researchers at Northwestern University are proposing, and have begun experimental validation of, a renewable liquid-fuel energy storage cycle based on the co-electrolysis of H 2 O and CO 2 using a solid oxide electrolysis cell (SOEC) powered by renewable electricity to produce syngas. Credit: ACS. Click to enlarge. Zhan et al.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2009

Researchers at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville have shown that a combination of photosystem I from a thermophilic bacterium and cytochrome-c 6 can, in combination with a platinum catalyst, generate a stable supply of hydrogen in vitro upon illumination. Schematic of the electron flow in the photosystem I catalytic nanoparticle.

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DECEMBER 9, 2013

In November 2009, DONG Energy and DSM together with four other partners (Statoil, University of Minho, University of Copenhagen, DBFZ) signed the Kalundborg Cellulosic Ethanol Project (KACELLE), devoted to demonstrating and further optimizing the Kalundborg cellulosic bio-ethanol plant, under the EU 7 th Framework Programme.

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AUGUST 14, 2009

The bubble plumes were detected using sonar and then sampled with a water-bottle sampling system over a range of depths. Professor Tim Minshull, Head of the University of Southampton’s School of Ocean and Earth Science. Professor Tim Minshull, Head of the University of Southampton’s School of Ocean and Earth Science.

Water

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JUNE 9, 2014

The cost of electrofuels—fuels produced by catalyst-based systems for light capture, water electrolysis, and catalytic conversion of carbon dioxide and hydrogen to liquid fuels—remains far away from viable, according to a new analysis by Lux Research. Production costs per barrel of oil equivalent. Source: Lux Research. Background.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

The metabolism of a city can be interpreted either primarily in terms of energy flows or more broadly including a city’s flows of water, materials, and nutrients. Credit: ACS, Kennedy 2009. Authors of the study included: Christopher Kennedy, University of Toronto. Julia Steinberger, University of Klagenfurt.

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OCTOBER 11, 2014

Three MIT-led research teams have won awards from the Department of Energy’s Nuclear Energy University Programs ( NEUP ) initiative to support research and development on the next generation of nuclear technologies. Fluoride-salt High-Temperature Reactor.

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MAY 28, 2009

Ted Schuur, University of Florida and lead author of the study. A study in Nature Geoscience in March warned that warmer water temperatures could shift ocean currents in a way that would raise sea levels off the Northeast by about 8 inches (20 cm) more than the average global sea level rise. Permafrost. Vogel et al.

Climate Change

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APRIL 24, 2010

In 2009, the company drilled a well into a 6-foot-thick tight formation in Gove County, Kan., that has produced more than 6,200 barrels of light oil, with no water, through February 2010. Mull Drilling Company’s success at producing oil at the Cheyenne Wells site marks the second such success by the company.

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AUGUST 7, 2012

The BP-ICAM will be modelled on a “hub and spoke” structure, with the hub located within The University of Manchester’s Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences, which has core strengths in materials, engineering, characterization, collaborative working. The University of Cambridge also has a long association with BP.

International

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AUGUST 8, 2011

Between five and ten percent of the water injected in these systems is lost as it travels through the pore spaces. As this happens, more water must be added, perhaps from municipal sources that have little to spare. Their work has shown that supercritical CO 2 is better than water at mining heat from the subsurface.

Energy

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NOVEMBER 9, 2009

Researchers at Peking University and Tsinghua University have developed a carbon nanotube (CNT)-based sponge that can soak up organic pollutants—such as oils and solvents—from the surface of water. No water is absorbed and the sponge can then be wrung out and reused, like an ordinary household sponge. Click to enlarge.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2009

2009) Click to enlarge. The new study, by Jerry Mitrovica and Natalya Gomez at the University of Toronto and Peter Clark at Oregon State University, shows that the sea-level rise in excess of the eustatic value will be ~30% higher than previously predicted for US coastal sites. “We Source: Mitrovica et al. Mitrovica et al.

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MARCH 30, 2009

Researchers at Penn State University, led by Dr. Bruce Logan, have found that methane can be directly produced using a biocathode containing methanogens in electrochemical systems (abiotic anode) or microbial electrolysis cells (MECs; biotic anode) by a process called electromethanogenesis. Cheng et al. supported this project. Article ASAP.

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DECEMBER 16, 2010

In October 2009, the RSC commissioned an expert panel comprising Canadian scientists ands chaired by Dr. Steve Hrudley, FRSC, Professor Emeritus, Analytical and Environmental Toxicology, University of Alberta. Impacts on the regional water supply. Impacts on regional water quality and groundwater quantity.

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