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BETO report identifies biofuel/bioproducts opportunities from wet and gaseous waste: ~22.2B GGE/year

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Spatial distribution and influent range of 14,581 USEPA 2012 Clean Water Needs Survey (CWNS) catalogued treatmenet plants.Click to enlarge. quadrillion Btu annually, or about 22.2 billion gallons of gasoline equivalent (GGE). For perspective, in 2015, the United States’ total primary energy consumption was about 97.7 quadrillion Btu.

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US and UK researchers report direct measurement of key atmospheric reactant; more rapid formation of secondary aerosols

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Credit: Marston (2012), Photo credit: Daniel Stein/Istockphoto.com.Click to enlarge. Molecules called Criegee intermediates—carbonyl oxides—are important atmospheric reactants, but only indirect knowledge of their reaction kinetics has been available. —Marston (2012). Welz et al. Welz et al. Osborn, Subith S.

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Lightning Hybrids’ lightweight composite accumulator for hydraulic hybrid systems

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In October 2012, Lightning Hybrids sold its accumulator assets, manufacturing equipment and related intellectual property to a CoorsTek group that created a sister company, Steelhead Composites, LLC. A second pump/motor is added for larger vehicles.).

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Reaction Design introduces model fuel library resulting from work of Model Fuels Consortium

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Volume 1 of the library, available now, includes: Improved fundamental models for C 0 to C 4 hydrocarbons, enabling accurate prediction of flame propagation, auto-ignition and emissions. Diesel fuel components, including n-heptane, iso-octane, decalin and alpha-methyl naphthalene (AMN). With the MFC coming to an end in Dec.

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Deep Learning Could Bring the Concert Experience Home

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No one knows exactly how many songs have been recorded, but according to the entertainment-metadata concern Gracenote, more than 200 million recorded songs are available now on planet Earth. We developed this approach for music separation in 2012 and described it in patents that were awarded in 2022 and 2015 (the U.S.

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