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Chalmers team develops method to reduce levels of mercury in sulfuric acid

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It is stored in the soil, water and living organisms, impacting the entire food chain. In addition, an estimated 1,800 tonnes of mercury ended up in the soil and water in that same year. The limit values for how much mercury sulfuric acid may contain are based on the technology available today. 2c00417

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TUM team doubles activity of platinum fuel cell catalysts

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An interdisciplinary research team at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) has designed size-optimized platinum nanoparticles for catalysis in fuel cells that exhibit specific and mass activities twice as high as the best commercially catalysis available today (Tanaka commercial Pt/C). Bandarenka, Alessio Gagliardi and Roland A.

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DOE-Sponsored Project Pushes the Limits of Seismic-While-Drilling Technology

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No drill bit seismic-while-drilling system available today has the full capabilities of the new system, according to the DOE. The harsh high-pressure, high-temperature environments found in deep onshore and offshore deepwater wells require special imaging technologies and were the reason for the development of the SeismicPULSER system.

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DOE to Award Up to $27M in Phase III Small Business Awards; Algae Processing, Fuel Cells, Improved Materials for Motors, Synthetic Fuels Among Areas of Interest

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Algae cultures tend to be relatively dilute, and the energy requirement to remove water from the cultures can be a significant portion of the energy balance. Additionally, few of current harvesting and dewatering technologies available today are amenable to scaling for larger production scenarios of 1,000 acre or larger algal farms.

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Dynamotive Produces Renewable Gasoline and Diesel from Biomass in Three-Stage Process: Pyrolysis, Hydroreforming, Hydrotreating

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MPa), of the biooil stabilizes the liquid; renders it miscible with hydrocarbon liquids; causes phase separation of the water in the biooil; lowers its viscosity and corrosivity; and drops the oxygen content from ~50% in the raw biooil to around 10%. Resources. Designated UBA, the reformed bio-oil product has a HHV of 39.5

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ARPA-E awarding $60M to 23 projects; dry cooling and fusion power

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ARPA-E’s ARID program will fund transformative new power plant cooling technologies that enable high thermal-to-electric energy conversion efficiency with zero net water dissipation to the atmosphere. Advanced Research In Dry cooling (ARID): $30 Million. ARID AWARDS. Lead organization. Description. Advanced Cooling Technologies. 1,100,000.

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ARPA-E awards $130M to 66 “OPEN 2012” transformational energy technology projects

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decrease water use compared to conventional algae reactors. engineered to use fertilizer and water more efficiently and. would leverage abundant, domestic natural gas resources and. lower cost than those available today, based on a friction. convert sunlight, carbon dioxide, and water into fuel. Description.

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