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This Engineer’s Job Is to Keep Arkansas Nuclear One Safe

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The IEEE member is an electrical design engineer at Arkansas Nuclear One , in Russellville. The pressurized-water plant provides electricity to the majority of the state’s businesses and residents and to customers beyond Arkansas. Ansari entered the field of power engineering during her final semester as a Ph.D.

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Wolfspeed wins 2016 R&D 100 Award for wide bandgap underhood inverter for HEVs/EVs

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Underhood inverters convert the DC power stored in hybrid, plug-in hybrid, or all-electric vehicle battery packs to three-phase AC power that can be used to energize one or more electrical loads, and traditionally employ industry standard silicon semiconductors. —John Palmour, Wolfspeed’s chief technology officer.

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US DOE awards KiOR loan guarantee supporting a more than $1B biofuels project; drop-in fuels from wood biomass

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The project would convert wood biomass into drop in biofuels such as gasoline and diesel fuel. KiOR’s project under the DOE loan guarantee program will consist of four biorefineries that will contribute approximately 250 million gallons of cellulosic biofuel to the Renewable Fuel Standard. KiOR, Inc.,

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Lux: future use of wide bandgap materials in power electronics will reduce EV cost

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As silicon struggles to meet higher performance standards, WBG materials are benefiting critically from evolving battery economics. They also offer greater efficiency in converting AC to DC power and in operating the electric traction drive during vehicle use. As just one example of government funding, the US DOE is contributing $1.8

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Flash Drive: 2023 Genesis G80 EV AWD

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By 2025 it will come out with no new internal combustion engine (ICE) models, then by 2030 will only sell electric cars and SUVs. Genesis invited automotive media to Bentonville, Arkansas, to drive the G80 EV through the winding Ozark Mountain roads. Genesis, in only its sixth year, is in a transition phase.