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MAY 4, 2009

Researchers at Iowa State University are proposing dissolving waste polystyrene (PS) in biodiesel for use as a diesel engine fuel as a mechanism for energy recovery from the waste plastic. The US generated 251 million tons of municipal solid wastes in 2006, of which plastics accounted for 11.7 Credit: ACS. million tons.

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MAY 25, 2024

Download ETAuto App Get Realtime updates Save your favourite articles Scan to download App The post Indian-origin researcher discovers new tech that can charge electric car in 10 min – ET Auto appeared first on Bauaelectric Auto News.

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APRIL 4, 2023

In this article, we will explore what happens to old EV batteries in New Zealand and why it’s essential to dispose of them properly. The Battery Industry Group (BIG) is spearheading the work, consisting of over 170 members from diverse fields such as energy, waste, transport, and academia. How would the scheme work?

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 16, 2010

Materials scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have discovered a phenomenon—the direct conversion of mechanical energy to chemical energy—which they termed the piezoelectrochemical (PZEC) effect. Article ASAP doi: 10.1021/jz100027t. Credit: ACS, Hong et al. Click to enlarge. —Hong et al.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Food waste is a huge problem, and there are a lot of people suffering from food insecurity in Pittsburgh,” Fang says. Although she enjoyed coding, she decided to pursue a degree in biology at Tsinghua University , in Beijing. Food waste and food insecurity are huge problems around the world, including Pittsburgh. CURRENT WORK.

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Baua Electric

MAY 29, 2024

Hydrogen is the most abundant substance in the universe, and a crucial element in the creation of our most precious resource: water. An alternative to electrolysis is to use organic waste by extracting hydrogen from rotting food or sewage. Such facilities could be tacked onto existing gas stations, but needn’t be. Tesla Inc.’s

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Cars That Think

MARCH 23, 2022

Heretofore, pulling off that magic trick required the ability to detect light that had interacted with the genuine, real-world article. One source that has been up for consideration is the accumulating mountain of e-waste that contains these rare-earth materials along with a smattering of precious metals.

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Baua Electric

MAY 10, 2024

The term ‘biofuels’ encompasses solid, liquid, and gaseous fuels primarily derived from biomass, including animal and plant wastes and residues. Bioethanol, can be derived from various sources such as sugar, corn, wheat, agricultural wastes, molasses, macroalgae, microalgae, and seaweed. Dr. Gogoi is also Asst.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 15, 2019

A group of researchers at the University of Campinas (UNICAMP), working in partnership with colleagues at the Brazilian Biorenewables National Laboratory (LNBR) in Campinas, São Paulo State, Brazil, have discovered that Trichoderma harzianum , a fungus found in the Amazon, produces an enzyme with the potential to play a key role in enzyme cocktails.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 19, 2010

Terrestrial bioenergy feedstock crops such as switchgrass, canola and corn have lower environmental lifecycle impacts than algae in energy use, greenhouse gas emissions, and water regardless of cultivation location, according to a new lifecycle assessment by researchers at the University of Virginia. Article ASAP doi: 10.1021/es902838n.

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JUNE 7, 2016

An international team led by researchers at the University of Melbourne has developed a new catalyst system for the efficient removal of CO 2 from formic acid (HO 2 CH), resulting in the production of CO 2 and H 2 at a low temperature of 70 °C. Zavras et al. Click to enlarge.

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MARCH 14, 2017

A team of scientists at the University of Cambridge has reported the light-driven photoreforming of cellulose, hemicellulose and lignin to H 2 using semiconducting cadmium sulfide quantum dots in alkaline aqueous solution. A paper on their work is published in the journal Nature Energy. Wakerley, Moritz F. Kuehnel, Katherine L. Ly, Timothy E.

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MAY 19, 2014

A new review article in the journal Science highlights emerging opportunities to increase the transformation of lignin to value-added products—i.e., lignin valorization. —Arthur Ragauskas. The science could be applied to a variety of plants currently used for cellulosic biofuel production, such as switchgrass and poplar.

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JANUARY 18, 2011

A collaboration including researchers from Boston College, MIT, the University of Virginia and Clemson University have achieved a peak ZT (thermoelectric figure of merit) of 0.8 for the materials and possibly good enough for consideration for waste heat recovery in automotive exhaust systems. The study by Yan et al.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 18, 2024

Tesla Supercharger (Source: Tesla) Many EV drivers carry over habits from driving gasoline cars when they charge EVs, but that leads to wasted time, inconvenience, and range anxiety, according to a new study. They interviewed EV users in both Sweden and the US and found unanticipated and previously unreported EV charging habits and ideas.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2015

The team, led by scientists from Harvard University and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, employed a microfluidic assembly technique to produce microcapsules that contain liquid sorbents encased in highly permeable polymer shells. Hardin IV of Harvard University; and Elizabeth Glogowski of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

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Clean Fleet Report

OCTOBER 5, 2023

The Ins and Outs of Scrap Car Recycling Maximizing Value at the End of a Car’s Life This article may contain affiliate links. Adherence to best practices in de-pollution, waste management and material recovery becomes imperative. Government agencies draft guidelines and standards central to responsible vehicle disposal and recycling.

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Cars That Think

JUNE 1, 2023

The world saw the need for universal broadband connectivity for remote work, online education, telemedicine, entertainment, and social networking. They can use their skills to develop and advance technology—from green energy to reducing waste and emissions, and from transportation electrification to digital education, health, and agriculture.

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JUNE 12, 2010

Researchers at Fudan University (Shanghai, China) have converted the marine macroalgae Enteromorpha prolifera , one of the main algae genera for “green tide”—massive algal blooms caused by eutrophication of marine water bodies—to bio-oil by hydrothermal liquefaction in a batch reactor at temperatures of 220-320 °C. and Enteromorpha sp.,

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JULY 29, 2022

While researching this piece, I came across an academic article that used the show in a mock court case, another one that invoked George Jetson and the tragedy of the commons to analyze the problem of waste management, and countless news articles that name-checked the Jetsons in their headlines to draw attention to new inventions.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 20, 2011

A team at Stanford University is proposing using solid oxide fuel cells as the basis for a method for electricity production from oil shale with in situ carbon capture (EPICC) as a means to provide transportation services from oil shale with greatly reduced CO 2 emissions. secondary use of waste heat. Waste heat from conversion.

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MARCH 27, 2024

Moreover, batteries are reshaping energy distribution by enabling decentralised grids, empowering communities with cleaner and more accessible energy options.One of the most pressing global challenges is ensuring universal access to reliable electricity.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

An international study of 10 global cities found that a balance of geophysical factors (climate, access to resources, and gateway status) and technical factors (power generation, urban design, and waste processing) determine the greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs) attributable to cities. Julia Steinberger, University of Klagenfurt.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2014

A team of researchers from Vanderbilt University and Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) has discovered an entirely new form of crystalline order that simultaneously exhibits both crystal and polycrystalline properties, which they describe as “interlaced crystals.”. Materials Thermoelectrics Waste Heat Recovery'

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JUNE 3, 2014

Scientists in the Rice University lab of chemist James Tour have developed materials that offer a lower cost, less energy-intensive way to separate carbon dioxide from natural gas at wellheads. Illustration by Tanyia Johnson/Rice University. That’s a terrible waste of energy. Courtesy of the Tour Group. Click to enlarge.

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MARCH 15, 2018

That article quoted Roskill’s David Merriman as saying that global demand of 31,700 tonnes for neodymium last year already outstripped supply by 3,300 tonnes. billion, with demand for the magnets rising at a compound annual growth rate of 8.5% between 2010 and 2017.

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Cars That Think

JULY 9, 2022

Fuzzy theory is wrong, wrong, and pernicious,” said William Kahan, a highly regarded professor of computer sciences and mathematics at the University of California at Berkeley in 1975. Kalman in 1972, who is now a professor at Florida State University in Tallahassee. This article was first published as “Lotfi A.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Researchers at Nanjing University in China have shown that fullerenes (cage-like, all-carbon nanostructures) can function effectively as novel non-metal hydrogenation catalysts. Article ASAP doi: 10.1021/ja9061097. Fullerenes can drive hydrogenation under mild conditions. Credit: ACS, Li and Xu. Click to enlarge.

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Charged EVs

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

A better solution—and one which has been all but universally adopted by EV OEMs—is to use a heat pump, and by far the most popular type is one in which a refrigerant gas is compressed to a hot gas, condensed back into a liquid, evaporated into a gas again (absorbing considerable heat in the process), then repeating the cycle, all in a closed loop.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Powering them with clean energy sources won’t be difficult given China’s plentiful renewable capacity, says Michael Davidson , an engineering-systems and global-policy expert at the University of California, San Diego. Plus, the CO 2 system produces higher-temperature waste heat, which can be used for space heating and hot water.

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 27, 2021

IEEE Spectrum article. Pascal Zachary wrote in a 2011 IEEE Spectrum article, "Despite his infamous bad temper, his impatience, and his penchant for tantrums, Jobs was the ultimate human-centered technologist—even while he was the ultimate digital autocrat.". Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.

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JANUARY 28, 2016

A team from Stanford University and the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory has developed a new practical, high-energy-capacity lithium-ion battery anode out of silicon by encapsulating Si microparticles (∼1–3 µm) using conformally synthesized cages of multilayered graphene. 2015.29.

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JULY 27, 2017

Researchers at Queen’s University Belfast have developed a novel green route to convert aluminium foil waste into highly active nano-mesoporous alumina (γ-Al 2 O 3 ) (designated as ACFL550). In the UK, around 20,000 tonnes of aluminium foil packaging is wasted each year. 2 O and Al(NO 3 ) 3.9H 2 O and Al(NO 3 ) 3.9H

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 31, 2011

per gallon blenders’ credit would reduce the ethanol industry’s profits by 7% and its margins by 20% , according to the University of Missouri’'s Food and Agricultural Policy Research Institute. In the United States, eliminating the $0.54 per gallon import tariff and $0.45

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 11, 2009

Credit: University of Rochester. Researchers at the University of Rochester (New York) have developed an electrospinning method to produce the longest platinum nanowires with minimal bead formation yet made—an advance that could significantly enhance the longevity and efficiency of fuel cells. Article ASAP doi: 10.1021/nl802910h

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MAY 26, 2010

Chemists at Brown University have synthesized novel core and shell palladium/iron-platinum (Pd/FePt) nanoparticles that use far less platinum yet perform more efficiently and last longer than commercially available pure-platinum catalysts for the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) in hydrogen fuel cells. Article ASAP doi: 10.1021/ja1024436.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 21, 2011

Researchers from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) have performed life cycle assessments (LCA) of three batteries for plug-in hybrid (PHEV) and full performance battery electric (BEV) vehicles. Environmental Science & Technology Article ASAP doi: 10.1021/es103607c. Credit: ACS, Majeau-Bettez et al.

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