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Battrion and Jagenberg Group partner to advance Aligned Graphite Technology for fast-charging EV cells

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Swiss battery Technology pioneer Battrion AG has teamed up with German roll-to-roll production specialist Jagenberg Converting Solution GmbH to supply anode pilot and GWh-production lines utilizing Battrion’s Aligned Graphite Technology for the lithium-ion battery industry. Battrion is an ETH Zurich spin-off founded in 2015.

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INEOS Bio Begins Advanced Waste-to-Ethanol Plant Feasibility Study

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INEOS Bio, a subsidiary of INEOS, the world’s third-largest chemicals company, has started a feasibility study for a plant in the UK to convert locally generated biodegradable household and commercial wastes into carbon neutral road transport fuel and clean electricity, using the INEOS Bio technology process. Click to enlarge.

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WSU team engineers fungus to produce jet-range hydrocarbons from biomass

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Fungi have been of interest for about a decade within biofuels production as the key producer of enzymes necessary for converting biomass to sugars. The research received funding from the Danish Council for Strategic Research under the program for Energy and Environment. 2015.01.001.

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New bimetallic copper-titanium hydrogen evolution catalyst outperforms platinum by more than 2x

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It is widely believed that room temperature electrochemical reduction of water to molecular hydrogen offers a significant promise for supplying CO 2 -free hydrogen, which can be used directly as a fuel or as reactant to convert CO 2 and to upgrade petroleum and biomass feedstocks to value-added chemicals and fuels through hydrotreating processes.

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Sensor Networks Help Fight Floods and Noise Pollution

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The genesis of the noise sensor development, in 2015, was that noise is one of the top quality of life issues identified in New York City, yet the city had a mere 50 noise enforcement officers on hand to deal with millions of such complaints every year. At that point, we realized we needed to collect that data ourselves."

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DOE releases SBIR/STTR FY16 Phase 1 Release 2 topics; hydrogen, electric vehicles, more efficient combustion engines; biogas-to-fuels

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DOE plans to issue the full Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) on 30 November 2015. The first hydrogen TTO is focused on durable, high activity electrocatalyst with low platinum content and low cost for polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cell applications. grams PGM per liter of engine displacement).

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Top 5 Electric Vehicle Start-Ups in India

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Startups have this innate potential to take up an idea and converting it into a viable business plan then scaling it into a massive success. Jeetender Sharma and Rupali Sharma started the Indian electric two-wheeler firm Okinawa in Gurugram in 2015. Whenever the world is shaken by new technology, it is most probably by a start-up.

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