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Fraunhofer developing process to ferment steel exhaust gases to fuels and chemicals

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Fraunhofer researchers in Germany have developed a process for the conversion of CO-rich exhaust gases from steel plants into fuels and specialty chemicals. The technology came about during one of Fraunhofer’s internal preliminary research projects and through individual projects with industrial partners. LanzaTech and Siemens.

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The Creepy New Digital Afterlife Industry

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Everyone in the family feels physically and emotionally exhausted from his long decline. What is the digital afterlife industry? T oday, a “digital afterlife industry” is already making it possible to create reconstructions of dead people based on the data they’ve left behind. It’s sometime in the near future.

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SwRI opens new high-horsepower dynamometer facility to service marine, rail and petroleum industries

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Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) recently opened a new high-horsepower engine dynamometer facility to improve its engine research and evaluation services to industries that use engines up to 7,000 horsepower for applications in transportation, pipelines and power generation. The new facility features two 7,000 hp test cells.

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Lancet Commission report estimates pollution responsible for 9 million premature deaths globally in 2015; 16% of deaths

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Diseases caused by pollution were responsible for an estimated 9 million premature deaths in 2015—16% of all deaths worldwide—three times more deaths than from AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria combined and 15 times more than from all wars and other forms of violence. Chemical pollution is a great and growing global problem.

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Report: Mitsubishi Heavy to introduce marine gas-fueled engine by 2015

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The Nikkei reports that Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. MHI) will unveil by 2015 its own natural-gas-powered marine engine. MHI reportedly improved existing technology to develop a combustion engine that efficiently burns high-pressure gas through direct injection.

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MAN Engines releases first IMO Tier III engines for workboats; low-cost, SCR-only solution

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The solution ensuring compliance with the IMO Tier III limits is MAN Engines’ modular exhaust gas aftertreatment (EAT) system, which was exhibited at the SMM trade fair last year. Two of the variants that are possible due to the installation flexibility of MAN Engines’ modular exhaust gas aftertreatment system.

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Pike Research forecasts accelerating hybrid locomotive sales from 2015-2020

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Hybrid electric locomotive sales will have an increasing presence in global rail markets between 2015 and 2020, according to a new report from Pike Research. In North America, a high-profile hybrid locomotive product (Railpower’s Green Goat, earlier post ) faced a serious setback in the mid-2000s that still haunts the industry today.

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