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Honda has released more than 200 channels of Honda Smart Home US (HSH US ) ( earlier post ) energy and water consumption data—down to a one-minute resolution—covering the six-month period April-September 2015. The home is also designed to be three times more water-efficient than a typical US home.

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MARCH 18, 2015

Now the slick but dry state is becoming famous for water: that precious element that both resolves the drought problem and also makes it possible to pump more oil out of the ground. At the same time, the new technology uses no chemicals, rendering it quite possibly the ‘greenest’ water processing technology in operation today.

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MARCH 22, 2013

Ford has reduced the average amount of water used to make each of its vehicles by 8.5% between 2011 and 2012—putting the company more than halfway toward its current goal of using an average of 4 cubic meters per vehicle globally by 2015. billion gallons, or about 62%. billion gallons, or about 62%.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

Bosch is now more broadly commercializing its water injection system for turbocharged engines ( earlier post ). Bosch currently supplies water injection parts for the BMW M4 GTS—the first production vehicle to feature a water injection system. Water injection can also boost power by up to 5%, Bosch says.

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OCTOBER 20, 2015

In addition to the kinetic colliding jet injectors, Nostrum will showcase a direct in-cylinder water injector and intake track water injector, plus its dilute combustion system, the “Nostrum Cycle”, at Engine Expo – Novi 2015. LTG and LHU model codes), high-flow, K-DI fuel injector at the SEMA Show 2015. Click to enlarge.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

Production is now underway from the Cardamom development, the second major deep-water facility Shell has brought online in the US Gulf of Mexico this year, following the start-up of Mars B in February. Auger was Shell’s first deep-water tension-leg platform. —Marvin Odum.

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MARCH 11, 2014

Toyota Motor continues to lay the foundation for the introduction of its production fuel cell hybrid vehicle in 2015; the company began work on fuel cell technology in 1992. For a full-scale market launch in 2015, the cost of the fuel cell system will be 95% lower than that of the 2008 Toyota FCHV-adv, Tanaka said. (A

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The technology delivers market-leading energy density and a high level of reliability, in addition to achieving a modular design that allows it to be installed in a large number of vehicle types. The entire system should has to be designed to be leak-tight and leak-tested.

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AUGUST 4, 2016

The new Ford EcoBlue diesel engine production line at Dagenham Engine Plant will reduce water and energy consumption by more than 50%. Water usage per engine will be among the lowest at any Ford manufacturing facility worldwide, delivering an anticipated annual saving of 17.5 The all-new 2.0-liter

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MARCH 26, 2010

The International Maritime Organization (IMO) officially accepted the proposal to designate waters off the North American coasts as an Emission Control Area (ECA). To achieve these reductions, tougher sulfur standards will phase in starting in 2012, ultimately reaching no more than 1,000 parts per million by 2015. Earlier post.)

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APRIL 19, 2013

billion (US$15 billion) in the country by 2015; investments in highly efficient products and resource-conserving production will account for more than two thirds of this figure. Dr. Jochem Heizmann, said that it was planned to offer vehicles with an electrified powertrain from 2014/2015. A further reduction of 11% is planned by 2015.

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MARCH 18, 2014

liter EA288 diesel engine will power the 2015 Golf, Beetle, Beetle Convertible, Passat, and Jetta, all of which are set to arrive in dealer showrooms in the second half of 2014. This powerplant shares only the bore spacing with the previous diesel engine that had the same designation. Main modules of development of the EA288 diesel.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2015

Researchers at Rice have demonstrated an efficient new way to use solar energy for water splitting. a) Plasmonic photocathode for solar water splitting, consisting of plasmonic nanoparticles in direct contact with water, p-NiO x as an electron blocking layer, and aluminum as the electrode material. (b) Click to enlarge.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2014

A Sandia National Laboratories project team, including a number of industry partners, is designing and building a cold-ironing fuel cell system that will be deployed in the Port of Honolulu in 2015. Ports have been a major source of water and air pollution in the US, but remained relatively unregulated until recent years.

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The four-cylinder TDI engine with the internal designation EA 288 made its debut in 2012. In 2015, the emissions scandal erupted over the use of defeat devices in Volkswagen engines for MY 2009 through 2015. It features a two-part design and, depending on the vehicle concept, has a volume of 2.5 As previously, the 2.0

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NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Sasol and General Electric (GE: NYSE)’s GE Power & Water have together developed new technology that will clean waste water from Fischer-Tropsch plants used to produce synthetic fuels and chemicals, while also providing biogas as a by-product for power generation.

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At the 2015 CES, Toyota announced royalty-free use of approximately 5,680 fuel-cell-related patents held globally, including critical technologies developed for the Mirai fuel cell vehicle. For the stack, Toyota: Reduced the thickness of the electrolyte membrane, promoting the diffusion of the water in the air system. Earlier post.)

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FEBRUARY 21, 2015

Scientists from the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) in the UK have developed a novel reference electrode for polymer electrolyte membrane water electrolyzers (PEMWEs) and used it to measure the electrochemical surface area (ECSA) of Pt catalysts in situ for the first time. Reference electrode configuration. Source: NPL. Click to enlarge.

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JULY 18, 2015

Findings by MIT researchers could help advance the commercialization of supercritical water technology for the desulfurization and upgrading of high-sulfur crude oil into high-value, cleaner fuels such as gasoline without using hydrogen—a major change in refining technology that would reduce costs, energy use, and CO 2 emissions.

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The system was chosen for both its real-life performance and its high design flexibility. The heat exchangers that control the fuel’s temperature are fed by a built-in glycol water circuit, which safely segregates the methanol from the vessel’s heating and cooling media. Ltd and New Dayang Shipbuilding Co.,

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2015 Jetta. Volkswagen is presenting the world premiere of the redesigned 2015 Jetta sedan at the 2014 New York International Auto Show. liter 150-horsepower (112 kW) EA288 TDI Clean Diesel engine offered in the 2015 Jetta already conforms to the upcoming LEV3/Tier 3 emissions standard ( earlier post ) in the USA.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

Renault Trucks’ heavy-duty Optifuel Lab 2 laboratory vehicle brings together various technologies designed to reduce fuel consumption in heavy-duty trucks and to prepare the way for future production models. These figures will be announced during the first quarter of 2015. Aerodynamics: the water drop effect. truck and trailer.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Efficiency considerations prompted the BMW Group to continue development work in this area from 2015 with the BMW 5 Series GT Hydrogen Cell based on fuel cell technology. For this, molten aluminum is poured into a mould made from compacted sand mixed with resin in a process specially designed for this small-series vehicle.

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The Shanghai Merchant Ship Design & Research Institute (SDARI) and development partners DNV and Wärtsilä have unveiled a new Handysize—i.e., ships with a cargo-carrying capability of less than 60,000 metric tonnes—bulk carrier concept design: the Green Dolphin. Draught, design. Speed at design draught.

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The company also showcased the use of direct water injection to enhance the efficiency of combustion engines at higher performance levels while also significantly reducing fuel consumption and emissions in key driving cycles. BMW Group, Innovation Days Efficient Dynamics 2015: Hydrogen Fuel Cell eDrive Technology. Earlier post.).

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NOVEMBER 14, 2014

The demonstration will run from April 2015 (the beginning of fiscal 2015) until the end of fiscal 2020 (March 2021). The independent energy supply system combines a 25 kW photovoltaic facility; a storage battery; hydrogen-producing water electrolysis equipment; hydrogen (275 Nm 3 ) and water tanks; and fuel cells.

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Based on those previous studies, Yang and his team reasoned that artificial photosynthesis devices equipped with a copper catalyst should be able to convert CO 2 and water into methyl and carbonyl groups, and then turn these products into acetate.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

While most oil spills in US waters are small, spilled crude oil can still cause damage to sensitive areas such as beaches, mangroves and wetlands. The SmartTouch sensing solution will open the doors for inspection of other kinds of subsea structures, according to the researchers, by forming a design template for future robotic technologies.

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DECEMBER 22, 2019

The Liza Phase 1 development is approximately 190 kilometers offshore in water depths of 1,500– 1,900 meters. The concept design for the Liza Phase 1 development project features the Liza Destiny floating, production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel and four subsea drill centers supporting 17 wells.

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Topsoe is providing engineering and design services currently and will supply catalyst and proprietary hardware to the facility. The only byproduct will be water, which will be recovered and used to supply 80% of the plant’s make-up water. The Penwell facility will also produce ‘blue’ hydrogen.

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Twelve’s jet fuel, produced using its carbon transformation technology in partnership with Fischer-Tropsch conversion experts Emerging Fuels Technology ( earlier post ), is a fossil-free fuel that offers a drop-in replacement for petrochemical-based alternatives without any changes to existing plane design or commercial regulations.

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MARCH 3, 2015

million in funding in fiscal year 2015 will be made available through the Biomass Research and Development Initiative ( BRDI ) to support feedstock development, biofuels and biobased products development, or biofuels development analysis. For FY 2015, DOE-EERE and USDA-NIFA identified areas of particular interest for BRDI.

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Initially this was through evolution and optimization of the control systems, improvements in the oil and cooling designs, turbocharging technology and more effective injection and combustion processes. Each system has a dedicated water pump, allowing optimized individual control.

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AUGUST 23, 2013

Plants need nitrogen to grow, and by 2015, more than 190.4 They also generate environmental problems from degrading soil to runoff into rivers where they pollute fresh waters and coastal zones. NSF solely awarded one of the four projects. million tons of it will be needed to supply the world’s food.

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Researchers at UC Berkeley have developed an artificial photosynthetic scheme for the direct solar-powered production of value-added chemicals from CO 2 and water using a two-step process involving a biocompatible light-capturing nanowire array with a direct interface with microbial systems. —Liu et al. bacteria hybrid. Sakimoto, Eva M.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

Heating energy and water consumption per car are reduced by 20%. Audi places great importance on the ergonomic design of workplaces. Installation of equipment started in March 2015 and the topping‑out ceremony was in July. For example, height‑adjustable platforms in the new paint shop allow an optimal working environment.

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DECEMBER 8, 2014

A series of VP-X generators will be launched commercially in April 2015. Mitsubishi Electric enhanced cooling performance in the VP-X by improving main insulation and cooling gas ventilation without incorporating a water-cooling system for the stator winding. Lineup of two-pole turbine generators. Source: Mitsubishi Electric.

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