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DOE awarding $72M to 27 projects to develop and advance carbon capture technologies, including direct air capture

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The project will attempt to achieve DOE’s transformational carbon capture performance goal of CO 2 capture with 95 percent CO 2 purity at a cost of $30 per tonne. The University of Akron in collaboration with Aspen Aerogels, Inc., plans to determine the cost-effectiveness of a low vacuum swing adsorption process for DAC.

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Two Genomic Research Projects in British Columbia Tackle Issues in Emerging Forestry Biofuels Industry

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The experience curves will be broken down to better understand the impacts of each process stage (pretreatment, enzymatic hydrolysis, and fermentation) as well as the production of by-products on the costs of generating biofuels using the bioconversion platform. million (US$7.2-million)

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Honeywell and ZoneFlow Reactor Technology to collaborate on more efficient SMR for hydrogen production

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Simulations of steam methane reformers with ZF Reactors and pellets, using Aspen process software, reactor and reaction models developed by Prof. Juray De Wilde (Materials and Process Engineering Dept., Université Catholique de Louvain, co-author with Prof.

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Plug-in Manufacturers Grow

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Company bosses are said to be keen to put this system into production but no firm decisions will be made until the cost of batteries is reduced." The tests are sufficiently advanced that Mazda has a working prototype in a Mazda 5 MPV bodyshell. Chrysler is the last of the six largest car companies to put a hybrid on the market."

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