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AUGUST 28, 2011

The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF) is seeking commercial partners for a novel, cost-effective method developed by University of Wisconsin, Madison researchers for producing furan derivatives such as hydroxymethylfurfural (HMF), furfural, levulinic acid (LA) or γ-valerolactone (GVL) from biomass using alkylphenols as solvents.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2011

The study led by a team from the University of Leicester (UK) suggested that 86 Mg CO 2 -eq ha -1 yr -1 (over 50 years) or 100 Mg CO 2 -eq ha -1 yr -1 (over 25 years) represent the best available estimates of typical emissions from peat decomposition in palm plantations. greatly reducing or stopping carbon inputs to the peat from biomass.

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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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MAY 22, 2012

Resource managers now have a method to determine the source of oil found in the waters off Southern California and differentiate between naturally seeped oils and those produced by offshore oil and gas production. Report 2011-5210, 45 p. and OCS Study BOEM 2011–016. Lorenson, T.D., Rosenbauer, R.J., Campbell, P.L., Greinert, J.,

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JANUARY 24, 2019

The Sustainable Bioenergy Research Consortium (SBRC), a non-profit entity established by Masdar Institute that is part of Khalifa University of Science and Technology, announced the world’s first commercial flight using locally produced sustainable fuel on an Etihad Airways Boeing 787 powered by GE’s GEnx-1B engines. Earlier post.).

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2011

Engineers from the University of Houston and the University of Texas report that waterflooding with a surfactant—thereby altering the wettability of oil reservoir rocks—can increase oil recovery from 62 to 85%. Carbonate rocks tend to be “oil-wet”—i.e., Oil-wet rocks preferentially imbibe oil.

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AUGUST 30, 2011

A new study led by Praveen Kumar at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, details the links between the hydrologic cycle and large-scale land conversion for the cultivation of bioenergy crops, both now and as growing conditions change in the future. —Phong et al. —Praveen Kumar.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2011

The UK’s Carbon Trust has selected ACAL Energy, the developer of FlowCath low-platinum liquid cathode technology ( earlier post ), for a £1-million (US$1.6-million) Robert Trezona, Research Accelerator Director at the Carbon Trust. Overview of the FlowCath system. Source: ACAL. Click to enlarge. Cha, CEO of ACAL Energy.

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APRIL 19, 2011

It does so by reflecting sunlight back into space and by lowering the temperature of the surrounding air as the plants “exhale” cooler water. They measured temperature, reflectivity (albedo), and evapotranspiration—the water loss from the soil and from plants as they exhale water vapor. —Scott Loarie.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2012

Phillip Savage at the University of Michigan has found that with appropriate parameters, hydrothermal liquefaction (HTL) can convert 65% of wet algae (a Nannochloropsis species) into biocrude in one minute. 2011) Characterization of product fractions from hydrothermal liquefaction of Nannochloropsis sp. Biocrude from Nannochloropsis.

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MARCH 14, 2017

In 2007, with support from Carnegie Mellon University, Dr. Jay Whitacre began researching low-cost electrochemical approaches to bulk energy storage. Aquion began low volume production in the summer of 2011 and broke ground on full-scale manufacturing facility in nearby Mt. Supported by VC funding, Aquion spun out of CMU in 2009.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2015

Researchers at Stanford, with colleagues at University College Cork in Ireland, have shown how to increase the power of corrosion-resistant solar cells, setting a record for solar energy output under water. Four years ago, McIntyre's lab made solar cells resistant to corrosion in water. —Scheuermann et al.

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OCTOBER 31, 2011

A team from the University of Illinois and startup Dioxide Materials has developed an electrocatalytic system for the reduction of CO 2 to CO—a key component of artificial photosynthesis and thus an enabler for the conversion of CO 2 to synthetic fuels—at overpotentials below 0.2 Gas phase CO production is observed at an.

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JUNE 23, 2011

Ricardo and the University of Brighton will model and evaluate an advanced split-cycle combustion system aimed at substantially reducing the carbon emissions of heavy-duty vehicles. The charge air was compressed isothermally by spraying a large volume of water into the cylinder during compression to 100 bar. Click to enlarge.

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JANUARY 28, 2012

Uranium in nuclear fuel rods is in a chemical form that is “pretty insoluble” in water, said Professor Alexandra Navrotsky, UC Davis, corresponding author on the paper, unless the uranium is oxidized to uranium-VI—a process that can be facilitated when radiation converts water into peroxide, a powerful oxidizing agent.

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APRIL 27, 2012

When peat swamps are drained for agriculture, the peat begins to decompose, and is an enormous source of carbon emissions. Mha (20%) of the peatlands of Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra and Borneo in 2010, surpassing the area of Belgium and causing an annual carbon emission from peat decomposition of 230–310 Mt CO 2 e.

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JANUARY 8, 2010

The US Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has awarded more than $123 million in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act grants to support the construction of new scientific research facilities at 11 universities and one non-profit research organization. million to the University of Maine (Orono, Me.)

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APRIL 4, 2011

With the first observation of thermoelectric effects at graphene contacts, University of Illinois researchers found that graphene transistors have a nanoscale cooling effect that reduces their temperature. Next, the researchers plan to use the AFM temperature probe to study heating and cooling in carbon nanotubes and other nanomaterials.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2011

Analysis by researchers at Rice University suggests that the theory that the release of massive amounts of carbon from methane hydrate frozen under the seafloor 56 million years ago drove a massive climate change incident—the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM)—is quite possible.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

According to the EPA, Volkswagen Chattanooga’s current green power generation of more than 13 million kWh is equivalent to avoiding the carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) emissions of nearly 2,000 passenger vehicles per year, or is the equivalent amount of electricity needed to power nearly more than 1,000 average American homes annually. 2012 baseline.

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JANUARY 4, 2012

A team from the Loker Hydrocarbon Research Institute and Department of Chemistry, University of Southern California, reports on an improved material for capturing carbon dioxide from the air—silica?organic In the presence of water, these values were 230 and 124 mg CO 2 /g PEI, respectively. Credit: ACS, Goeppert et al.

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MAY 26, 2015

using just water, H 2 , CO 2 and sunlight. This proprietary novel gas fermentation technology converts the carbon monoxide-containing waste gases emitted by blast furnace, coke oven and BOF (basic oxygen furnace) operations into low-cost ethanol and high-value chemicals. Earlier post.). Ng, and Garry L.

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DECEMBER 8, 2011

Rice University researchers are taking advantage of graphene’s outstanding strength, light weight and solubility to enhance fluids used to drill oil wells. Graphene is a one-atom-thick sheet of carbon that won its discoverers a Nobel Prize last year. They found a few issues that needed to be dealt with.

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DECEMBER 28, 2009

“The ultimate transport solution would be solar fuels, made from using sunlight to split water and produce hydrogen, or to reduce atmospheric carbon dioxide and combine it with water to produce other clean solar fuels.The opportunities for bio-inspired fuels and for innovative routes to produce them are virtually limitless.

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JUNE 15, 2013

Awardees must demonstrate a reduction of air emissions such as nitrogen oxides (NO x ), sulfur oxides (SO x ), particulate matter (PM), or carbon through an approved emissions testing scheme. In December 2011, MARAD entered a 5-year cooperate agrement with. Identify similar regulations for in-water bunkering.

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AUGUST 27, 2011

The process was able to convert aqueous carbohydrate streams derived from maple wood (produced using both hot water and acid hydrolysis) into gasoline-range products with carbon yields of up to 57% and an estimated octane number of 96.5. Click to enlarge. A team lead by George Huber from U. ” Resources. Ning Li, Geoffrey A.

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OCTOBER 7, 2011

The electroreduction of carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) to CO—a key component of artificial photosynthesis—has largely been stymied by the impractically high overpotentials necessary to drive the process. formation is very negative in water and in most common solvents. A plot of the Faradaic efficiency of the process to. Thorson, W.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2011

Researchers from the University of Michigan and Zhejiang University (China) are developing a new pathway—catalytic hydrothermal decarboxylation—to produce liquid hydrocarbon (i.e., In contrast, the focus herein is on fatty acid decarboxylation in water. —Fu et al. —Fu et al. and Savage, P. 201000370.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2011

A new study by economists at Oregon State University questions the cost-effectiveness of current biofuels and says they would barely reduce fossil fuel use and would likely increase greenhouse gas emissions. 2011) Biofuel Economics in a Setting of Multiple Objectives & Unintended Consequences. Jaeger, William K.

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AUGUST 17, 2011

times as energy intensive to produce as conventional diesel, which restricts the current financial and environmental feasibility of algae production, according to a new life cycle analysis by a team from the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, University of Oxford. Currently, algae-derived-biodiesel is up to 2.5

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APRIL 24, 2013

will create the Honda Smart Home US, a showcase that demonstrates Honda’s vision for sustainable, zero-carbon living and personal mobility, including the use of solar power to charge a Honda Fit EV battery electric vehicle. continues a national rollout of the net-zero energy home options KB Home began in fall 2011. ZeroHouse 2.0

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JUNE 25, 2013

Among the transportation-related elements of US President Barack Obama’s new climate action plan, which he is outlining today in a speech at Georgetown University, is the development of new fuel economy standards for heavy-duty vehicles post-2018. Earlier post.). Reducing barriers to investment in energy efficiency.

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JULY 5, 2011

Researchers from the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Maryland School of Medicine have characterized a new cellulase (cellulose-digesting enzyme) that has optimal activity at 109 °C, a half-life of 5 h at 100 °C, and resists denaturation in strong detergents, high-salt concentrations, and ionic liquids.

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NOVEMBER 24, 2011

The researchers chose to use a water-based electrolyte. The battery materials are made from readily available precursors such as iron, copper, carbon and nitrogen—all of which are extremely inexpensive compared with lithium. Huggins & Yi Cui (2011) Copper hexacyanoferrate battery electrodes with long cycle life and high power.

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AUGUST 4, 2011

A new study led by researchers from the Danish National Research Foundation for Geogenetics at the University of Copenhagen has determined that for the last 10,000 years, the extent of summer sea ice in the Arctic Ocean has varied widely. The amount of driftwood therefore indicates how much multiyear sea ice there was in the ocean back then.

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MARCH 10, 2018

Startup Mattershift says it has achieved a breakthrough in making carbon nanotube (CNT) membranes at large scale. The paper is a characterization study of commercial prototype carbon nanotube (CNT) membranes consisting of sub–1.27-nm-diameter nm-diameter CNTs traversing a large-area nonporous polysulfone film.

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AUGUST 1, 2011

The catalyst requires the presence of water, allowing producers to use dilute—i.e., Although that’s two reaction steps for the catalyst, it’s only one for the chemists, since they only had to put the catalyst in with ethanol and water once. Junming Sun, Kake Zhu, Feng Gao, Chongmin Wang, Jun Liu, Charles H.F.

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