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APRIL 8, 2020

University of Wisconsin-Madison. University of Maryland, Baltimore County. The University of Maryland, Baltimore County will advance the performance of the centrifugal mirror (CM) fusion concept, which has previously demonstrated stable plasmas with temperatures above 100 eV. University of Washington.

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APRIL 4, 2014

Researchers from Michigan State University and the University of Wisconsin-Madison and their colleagues report successfully engineering poplar trees to produce lignin that degrades more easily, thereby lowering the effort and cost to convert wood to biofuel. The technology is available for licensing. Source: GLBRC.

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JULY 23, 2011

The University of Wisconsin-Madison Hybrid Vehicle Team will work with the UW-Madison Engine Research Center to test implementations of Reactivity Controlled Compression Ignition (RCCI) engines being developed by UW mechanical engineering professor Rolf Reitz and his colleagues. —Glenn Bower. —Glenn Bower.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2014

9 Universities and Labs: Colorado School of Mines; Michigan State University; Michigan Tech University; The Ohio State University; University of Kentucky; University of Michigan; University of Notre Dame; University of Tennessee; Wayne State University. ThermoCalc; TIMET; Trumpf, Inc.;

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NOVEMBER 20, 2012

The Lake Michigan Corridor Alternative Fuel Implementation Initiative, which includes Southeastern Wisconsin, greater Chicago and Northern. Indiana, will work to make existing municipal fueling stations available to. availability of transportation fuels across Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts and Rhode Island.

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JUNE 24, 2013

University of Wisconsin-Madison invests $5 million+ in new institute for materials. Moreover, the DOE Basic Energy Sciences (BES) Program has an active university and national laboratory research portfolio in Predictive Theory and Modeling, with 19 awards made in FY 2012. Harvard debuts database of 2.3

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JANUARY 14, 2014

—Doug Landis, a biologist at Michigan State University (MSU) and corresponding author. However, rising corn and other commodity prices tempt farmers to till and plant as much of their available land as possible. —Doug Landis. The work was also funded by the US Department of Energy and MSU AgBioResearch.

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JANUARY 4, 2017

The lab has partnered with universities, including MIT AgeLab, to fund research and participate in relevant discoveries on new trends. The program is currently available in Illinois and will be expanded to additional states throughout 2017. Using artificial intelligence, the new feature would be based on thousands of car crash photos.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2015

Clemson University. The Curators of The University of Missouri. Electric Drive Vehicular Battery Modeling for Commercially Available Software (Area of Interest 6). This project will develop commercially available software that improves the computational processing time of battery pack performance modeling by a factor of 100.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

Fertilizer applied to cornfields in the central US—including states such as Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska and Wisconsin—is the primary source of nitrogen pollution in the Mississippi River system, which drains into the Gulf of Mexico. Nitrate output columns represent mean values and the 80% credible intervals from modeling. Click to enlarge.

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JULY 26, 2012

Through the joint Biomass Research and Development Initiative (BRDI) , USDA and the DOE are working to develop economically and environmentally sustainable sources of renewable biomass and increase the availability of renewable fuels and biobased products. University of Wisconsin ($7 million). University of Hawaii ($6 million).

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AUGUST 16, 2016

Demonstrate plug‐in electric vehicles through local showcases in key markets throughout major metropolitan areas in seven Midwest states: Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, and North Dakota. Magnesium is one of the lightest structural metals available and can reduce the weight of vehicle components by more than 50%.

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AUGUST 16, 2016

While these capabilities can be used for a wide range of biotechnological applications, including biofuel production, so far industry has only harnessed a fraction of the diversity available among yeast species. —senior author Tom Jeffries, Professor Emeritus at University of Wisconsin, Madison.

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JUNE 15, 2013

Emissions data must be made available to MARAD and can be used publicly. the Great Lakes Maritime Research Institute (GLMRI), a consortium of the University of Wisconsin–Superior and the University of Minnesota Duluth, to address environmental issues that face shipping and marine transportation, including natural gas fuel applications.

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MARCH 11, 2011

Researchers at the Engine Research Center, University of Wisconsin—Madison, are now proposing surrogate models for these nine fuels developed for studying low-emission, high-efficiency advanced diesel engine concepts. FACE developed nine fuels. A paper describing their work was published in the ACS journal Energy & Fuels.

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JUNE 4, 2009

Today’s engines can deliver a fuel efficiency of 40-42%, with corresponding loss of initially available fuel energy of 58-60%. Conduct experiments and analyses to quantify baseline availability (exergy) balances without thermal and chemical recuperation. Really we’re trying to push the boundaries in our thinking.at

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JULY 3, 2015

The Wisconsin and Michigan team normalized the highly detailed vehicle assumptions and transport calculations from these studies around the rates of electrified vehicle penetration; travel demand growth; and electricity decarbonization. Renewable and nuclear electricity supply technologies are available today. —Meier et al.

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APRIL 23, 2012

The internal combustion engine is a chemical process, not a thermodynamic cycle, Foster said, and all of the energy in the fuel is theoretically available to be converted into work. If that is the case, why do we fall so short? Well, the engine processes are not ideal. Two concepts need to be kept in mind.

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AUGUST 10, 2011

Wisconsin Engine Research Consultants LLC. Light-weighting materials : Five projects awarded to accelerate commercial availability of lighter weight vehicles using advanced materials that dramatically reduce vehicle weight while maintaining the highest safety standards. The Pennsylvania State University. Grantee Description.

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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. eV) to make electrons available to initiate the redox reaction in this experiment. Credit: ACS, Hong et al.

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JUNE 9, 2009

Currently, engines deliver a fuel efficiency of 40-42 per cent, with corresponding loss of initially available fuel engine at 58-60 per cent. This project hopes to flip that and enable efficiencies of 50-60 per cent.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2011

The Midwestern Governor’s Association represents Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, South Dakota, and Wisconsin. This tool will be made available for use by other jurisdictions as well. Earlier post.). BC is participating in federal development of sustainability criteria in Canada. Sustainability.

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OCTOBER 15, 2023

Gerald Kulcinski, University of Wisconsin A new breed of maverick fusioneers is aiming to solve the neutron problem. Their approach is to swap D-T fuels for readily available elements that, when fused, release energy that’s carried by charged particles, instead of neutrons. million tonnes exist.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2020

In ULTIMATE Phase 2, up to $14 million in additional funds will be available to teams. University of Maryland. University of Virginia. University of Utah. West Virginia University. Selected projects are: GE Research. ULTIMATE Refractory Alloy Innovations for Superior Efficiency (RAISE) - $1,600,000.

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MAY 28, 2009

Najt, then at the University of Wisconsin, and David Foster published the first study of a gasoline-fueled four-stroke HCCI engine in 1983.). Najt said that GM is using its available injection and valve management technologies with thermal and fuel stratification to slow down the burn rate.

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AUGUST 26, 2009

Selected projects, by size of award, are: State of Wisconsin’s Wisconsin Clean Transportation Program. The project will result in expanded availability of alternative fuels with 17 new CNG and E85 fueling stations and 63 electric vehicle charging stations. Total DOE award: $14,999,658. Total DOE award: $14,983,167.

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MAY 15, 2015

University of Missouri, Lehigh University, and Evapco). Colorado State University. Ultra-Efficient Turbo-Compression Cooling Colorado State University (CSU) will develop a waste heat driven cooling system with team members Barber- Nichols and Modine, which utilizes an ultra-efficient turbo-compressor powered by exhaust flue gas.

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JUNE 19, 2015

Clemson University. Breeding High Yielding Bioenergy Sorghum for the New Bioenergy Belt Clemson University, along with the Carnegie Mellon Robotics Institute and partners, will phenotype an exhaustive set of international germplasm and plant varieties. Purdue University. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

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AUGUST 23, 2017

Marquette University. Marquette University will develop a small, compact, lightweight, and efficient 1 MW battery charger for electric vehicles. Northeastern University. A Universal Converter for DC, Single-phase AC, and Multi-phase AC Systems. University of Arkansas. University of Colorado Boulder.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2014

However, the authors noted, the production costs of these intermediates are high due to high energy consumption in separation and their relatively low availability. The researchers are developing plans to scale up this method and are also continuing to develop more efficient and feasible routes to produce high quality fuels.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

University of Southern Mississippi – Hattiesburg, MS. The University of Southern Mississippi team will develop a novel and robust seaweed growth system capable of precise positioning for maximizing productivity and avoidance of surface hazards such as weather or marine traffic. University of Southern Mississippi – Hattiesburg, MS.

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AUGUST 1, 2013

A team from the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Engine Research Center now reports in a paper in the journal Fuel on the effects of biodiesel-gasoline blends compared to neat gasoline using a partially premixed, split-injection GCI combustion strategy. The commercially available gasoline base had an octane number of 87.

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MARCH 7, 2011

Clostridium cellulolyticum has a sequenced genome available via DOE’s Joint Genome Institute. The centers are led by ORNL, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the University of Wisconsin-Madison in partnership with Michigan State University. Wendy Higashide, Yongchao Li, Yunfeng Yang, and James C.

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MAY 3, 2011

In prior work, the group from GM R&D’s Propulsion Systems Research Labs, led by Paul Najt, concluded that the HCCI load operation is limited by the air availability due to a low lift cam when spark assisted HCCI combustion was applied.

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JANUARY 3, 2013

A team of researchers led by James Dumesic and George Huber, both now at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, have demonstrated how C 5 sugars derived from hemicellulose can be converted into a high-quality petroleum refinery feedstock via a four-step catalytic process. Source: Olcay et al. Click to enlarge.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2009

Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have developed a two-step, low-temperature, non-enzymic pathway from lignocellulosic biomass to furans, specifically 2,5-dimethylfuran (DMF), a promising alternative biofuel. Yields of bio-based chemicals from a variety of feedstocks, including untreated corn stover. Credit: ACS.

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JULY 17, 2015

Frank is Professor Emeritus, Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering at the University of California, Davis, where he established the Institute for Transportation Studies (ITS-Davis), and was director of the US Department of Energy’s National Center of Hybrid Excellence at UC Davis. Table of Contents. Engineering Advantages of PHEV.

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