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US DOE Selects 43 Projects for $92M in ARPA-E Funding; 3 on Automotive Power Electronics

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The awards in this tranche focus on power electronics, grid-scale energy storage, and building efficiency; of the 43, three are categorized specifically for the automotive market—power electronics projects led by HRL Laboratories, LLC; Arkansas Power Electronics International, Inc.; and Case Western Reserve University.

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DOE Awards Up to $6.9M to Nine Projects for Shale Gas and Coalbed Methane Production

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This project will develop a low-cost, mobile process to treat the total dissolved solids in the flowback water from hydraulic fracturing operations. University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Ark. This system will be used in planning, managing, forecasting, permit tracking, and compliance monitoring.

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DOE Investing Up to $78M Investment in Two Consortia Targeting Algae-Based and Biomass-Based Bio-Hydrocarbon Fuels and Infrastructure; $1.6M for Ethanol Blends Fueling Infrastructure

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Low-cost one-step syngas to distillates. The projects will expand ethanol blends infrastructure at existing retail fueling locations in nine states: Arkansas, California, Florida, Georgia, Michigan, Missouri, Texas, Virginia, and Washington. million to support expanded fueling infrastructure for ethanol blends.

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DOE NETL selects 12 fossil-fuel power systems projects for funding

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Cost: DOE: $749,058 Non-DOE: $187,264 Total: $936,322 (20% cost share). Siemens Corporation. TDS is a concentration of minerals dissolved in water which requires treatment before the water can be used for other processes.

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DOE awards $45M to 38 advanced transportation technology projects; $3M from the Army

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This project will develop a combination of new alloys and novel casting techniques to produce high-performance, low-cost castings for crankshafts and rotating components with properties similar to forged units. In the last four years, the cost of a plug-in electric vehicle battery has come down by nearly 50%. Caterpillar. ??? ?This

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U.S. Commercial Drone Delivery Comes Closer

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That’s now been in operations in two distribution centers here, one in Utah and one in Arkansas ever since. Your range and long range and low cost. And a fixed-wing aircraft over something that can hover has something like an 800% advantage in range and cost. In the industry referred to as a fixed-wing aircraft.

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ARPA-E awards $30M to 21 projects advance new class of high-performance power converters

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Low Cost e-mode GaN HEMT Gate Driver IC: Enables Revolutionary Energy Savings in Variable Speed Drives for Appliance Motors. Infineon Technologies will develop a new, low-cost gate driver integrated circuit (IC) for use with GaN switches, an important component for controlling variable speed electric motors (VSD).

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