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JUNE 28, 2016

France’s RS2E (Réseau sur le stockage électrochimique de l’énergie or “research network on electrochemical energy storage”) has launched the second edition of the YESS Award (Young Energy Storage Scientist Award)—a €12,500 prize split between two young innovative researchers/scientists in the field of electrochemical energy storage.

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MARCH 21, 2016

The first step in such a process would involve the conversion of these materials into syngas through either gasification or steam reforming. An alternative method is the conversion of synthesis gas in two process steps. First the CO and H 2 are converted to methanol.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2016

The Volkswagen and BASF international “Science Award Electrochemistry 2016” goes to Dr. William Chueh from Stanford University. The jury of representatives from BASF, Volkswagen and from academia selected him for his outstanding research results in the area of energy storage and conversion. Dr. William C. Earlier post.).

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AUGUST 5, 2016

A team from CoorsTek Membrane Sciences, the University of Oslo (Norway), and the Instituto de Tecnología Química (ITQ) (Spain) has developed a new process for the direct, non-oxidative conversion of methane to liquids—reducing cost, eliminating multiple process steps, and avoiding CO 2 emissions. Resources. Morejudo, R.

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JANUARY 27, 2023

The US Department of Energy (DOE) will award some $118 million in funding for 17 projects to accelerate the production of sustainable biofuels. This project will demonstrate the conversion of gaseous carbon wood wastes (terpenes) to renewable Terpenes SAF blending components. RTI International and partners at POET Research, Inc.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2015

The diverse projects will advance knowledge in critical areas ranging from sustainable energy technologies to next-generation materials. The OLCF’s Titan supercomputer is a 27-petaflop Cray XK7 hybrid system employing both CPUs and energy-efficient, high-performance GPUs in its 18,688 compute nodes. The projects will share 5.8

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

Along with titanium catalyst dopants and hydrogen, theorists looked at vacancy defects, or missing aluminum, on the surface of aluminum powders and established that this combination working in concert is critical to the low-energy formation of alane. —Wang et al. —Duane Johnson, Ames Laboratory Chief Research Officer and F.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

Researchers at the Future Renewable Electric Energy Distribution and Management (FREEDM) Systems Center at North Carolina State University have developed an inverter for hybrid and electric vehicles using off-the-shelf components made of the wide-bandgap semiconductor material silicon carbide (SiC). kW/L by 2020.

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APRIL 8, 2014

The US Department of Energy (DOE) released its five-year 2014-2018 Strategic Plan. The plan is organized into 12 strategic objectives aimed at three distinct goals: Science and Energy; Nuclear Security; and Management and Performance. Leverage increased private sector financing for deployment of “all of the above” energy technologies.

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JANUARY 4, 2016

Researchers at the University of Michigan have developed an le air-stable amide-derived N,N,N-Ru(II) complex to catalyze the conversion of ethanol to 1-butanol with high selectivity. The researchers report that conversion to upgraded products exceeds 250 turnovers per hour (>50% conversion) with 0.1 Wingad, Paul J.

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AUGUST 1, 2016

In a new study from the US Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory and the University of Illinois at Chicago, researchers report devising a new transition metal dichalcogenide (TMDC) nanoarchitecture for catalytic electrochemical reduction of CO 2 to carbon monoxide (CO) in an ionic liquid. Klie, Jeremiah Abiade, Larry A.

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APRIL 21, 2022

The group is joined by a non-financial investor UniTartu Ventures, an investment company of the University of Tartu, which transfers the IP rights for equity. This has a major negative impact on the environment as they are either mined or synthesized from energy-dense fossil resources.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2016

Inspired by the damping mechanisms which sustain trees under wind and seismic loads, researchers at The Ohio State University and the University of Michigan are investigating the potential for the development of energy harvesting systems that efficiently convert the same motion- and wind-based excitations into electric power.

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AUGUST 8, 2017

The SOLETAIR project ( earlier post ) has produced its first 200 liters of synthetic fuel from solar energy and the air’s carbon dioxide via Fischer-Tropsch synthesis. The SOLETAIR project started in 2016. An electrolysis unit developed by Lappeenranta University of Technology (LUT) uses solar power to produce the required hydrogen.

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JUNE 24, 2016

Chemists from the Universities of Basel and Zurich have reproduced one of the crucial phases of natural photosynthesis using artificial molecules. Large amounts of energy had to be used for these, which made a sustainable conversion of sunlight into chemically stored energy impossible. Resources. Orazietti, M.

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JULY 24, 2016

Researchers at Rice University’s Laboratory for Nanophotonics (LANP), with colleagues at Princeton University, have developed a new method for uniting light-capturing photonic nanomaterials and high-efficiency metal catalysts, creating an “antenna-reactor” plasmonic catalyst. Swearer/Rice University) Click to enlarge.

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AUGUST 2, 2017

Department of Energy (DOE) will award a fourth project up to $1.8 In August 2016, DOE's Bioenergy Technologies Office (BETO) selected three projects for an initial round of funding. million under the MEGA-BIO: Bioproducts to Enable Biofuels Funding Opportunity. Earlier post.) The total funding for the four MEGA-BIO awards is $13.1

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MAY 9, 2017

Global Bioenergies is partnering with Clariant, INEOS, IPSB, TechnipFMC and Linz University in a €16.4-million assessment of the sustainability and environmental benefits by the Energy Institute at the University of Linz (Austria). The 48-month project will receive €9.8 million (US$10.7

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FEBRUARY 21, 2015

Metabolix in collaboration with North Carolina State University. The Ohio State University in collaboration with the University of Alabama and Green Biologics. Develop a cellulosic butanol production process with high productivities, yields, and carbon conversion through novel metabolic engineering of two different pathways.

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JULY 12, 2017

The US Department of Energy (DOE) is awarding $19.4 million to 22 new cost-shared projects to accelerate the research of advanced battery, lightweight materials, engine emission control technologies, and energy efficient mobility systems (EEMS). University of Maryland: College Park. Penn State University Park. 400,000.

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DECEMBER 28, 2016

A team at the University of California, Irvine has discovered that the iron protein (the reductase component) of the natural enzyme nitrogenase can, independent of its natural catalytic partner, convert CO 2 to carbon monoxide (CO)—a syngas used to produce useful biofuels and other chemical products. Further, the engineered A.

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APRIL 25, 2011

NCSU had earlier licensed the technology to Diversified Energy ( earlier post ). Diversified Energy’s license agreement was terminated, according to Dr. Diversified Energy’s license agreement was terminated, according to Dr. Terry Bray at NCSU’s Office of Technology Transfer. Step 3: Cracking and reforming.

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OCTOBER 7, 2018

Rice University nanoscientists have demonstrated a new catalyst that can convert ammonia into hydrogen fuel at ambient pressure using only light energy, mainly due to a plasmonic effect that makes the catalyst more efficient. Photo by LANP/Rice University). To drive it away, more energy must be added to the system.

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JANUARY 30, 2016

A study of eco-driving behavior in hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs) by a team from Technische Universität Chemnitz (Germany) and the University of Southampton (UK) has found that simply providing drivers with a technology that has the potential for high energy savings—i.e., —Franke et al.

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AUGUST 12, 2016

A team from IBM Research and Stanford University has identified a chemical catalyst that can be used to create cheaper, biodegradable plastics from plants such as palm trees and beets. The new catalyst is an organic substance that lowers the energy required for the conversion from plant to plastic to occur. Jones, James L.

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JANUARY 24, 2017

Korea’s UNIST, with colleagues from Northwestern University, have successfully developed a new way to increase the activity of perovskite oxide catalysts for the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) and/or the oxygen evolution reaction (OER) in rechargeable metal-air batteries and fuel cells simply by adding the conductive polymer polypyrrole.

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AUGUST 25, 2016

A paper on their work is published in the ACS journal Energy & Fuels. The conversion of oleic acid in the process was 100%, and the yield of heptadecane (C 17 H 36 , the main product) can reach 71% after 80 min at 350 °C. —Tian et al. 6b00978.

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JUNE 6, 2016

Scientists from the ARC Centre of Excellence in Plant Cell Walls at the University of Adelaide have discovered that a variety of sorghum growing wild in Australia—Arun—theoretically has the potential to yield some 10,344 liters of bioethanol per hectare (1,106 gallons US per acre) from stem tissues alone. 0156638.

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DECEMBER 6, 2017

TEMA), is requesting proposals from young professors and scholars pursuing innovative electrochemical research in green energy technology. Energy harvesting technology, including photovoltaics, thermoelectric, piezoelectric, and triboelectric materials. Technology for the capture and/or conversion of CO 2 into value-added products.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Researchers at Washington State University have developed a novel route for the production of jet fuel range alkanes at high carbon yields from plastics. In this regard, plastic waste can potentially serve as ideal feedstock for the production of advanced fuels or valuable chemicals due to its high conversion efficiency.

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APRIL 12, 2017

Researchers at Oklahoma State University are developing a novel natural Gas and Biomass to Liquids (GBTL) technology that will synergistically use biomass (e.g. Traditional bio-oil upgrading usually involves extensive hydrotreating, which is energy intensive and costly. 2016.06.021.

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APRIL 9, 2018

Stuart Licht, a chemistry professor at the George Washington University, and his team of researchers are among the finalists announced today in the $20-million Carbon XPRIZE competition. Illustration credit: Licht, from Scientific Reports at Nature.com, 6:27760, 2016. Illustration credit: Stuart Licht. Click to enlarge. Stuart Licht.

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MAY 31, 2016

A team from Brown University and Lakehead University (Canada) have developed a method for the facile and cost-effective synthesis of NiFe-layered double hydroxides (LDH) nanosheets to serve as efficient catalyst for the oxygen evolution reaction in an alkaline environment. 2015.11.004.

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JUNE 15, 2016

Methane monooxygenases (MMOs), found in methanotrophic bacteria, are selective catalysts for methane activation and conversion to methanol under mild conditions; however, these enzymes are not amenable to standard enzyme immobilization approaches. The enzymes retain up to 100% activity in the polymer construct.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2016

Researchers at Loker Hydrocarbon Research Institute and Department of Chemistry, University of Southern California, have developed a highly efficient homogeneous Ru-based catalyst system for the production of methanol (CH 3 OH) from CO 2 and H 2 in an ethereal solvent (initial turnover frequency = 70 h −1 at 145 °C). Click to enlarge.

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MARCH 18, 2016

Ionic transport has been studied extensively over the years for energy devices such as fuel cells and batteries using Li + , H + , Ag + , Cu + , F – , and O 2– as ionic charge carriers. Hydride ion conductors may therefore be applied in energy storage and conversion devices with high energy densities. 351, Issue 6279, pp.

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MARCH 17, 2017

BIOX Corporation, a renewable energy company that owns and operates biodiesel production facilities, is working with Forge Hydrocarbons ( earlier post ) to explore the co-location of a renewable diesel production facility using Forge technology on the existing BIOX site in Sombra, Ontario. BIOX acquired a 50-million-liter (13.2-million-gallon)

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