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The ORNL MSRE design incorporated a one region reactor with graphite moderator and circulating fuel. The MSRE design used light water for cooling the containment atmosphere, containment vessel, reactor shield, drain tank, primary pump, and containment penetrations. The ACU MSRR is a simplified version ofthe ORNL MSRE.

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is planning to build a 3,000 barrels per day (bpd) renewable fuel plant (Refuel YYZ) in Southern Ontario. Planned feedstocks include a mix of waste fats, oils and greases , such as regionally-sourced used cooking oil, animal fats and non-edible crop oils. Refuel Energy Inc.

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JANUARY 6, 2022

Initial life cycle assessments demonstrate either reduced carbon emissions compared with current methods of carbon black production or the use of bio-based or waste feedstock sources. A high-quality silica has been produced from this waste ash. Soybean oil is a bio-based resource that reduces Goodyear’s use of petroleum-based products.

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APRIL 26, 2022

million grant from the US Department of Energy to design and engineer an integrated carbon dioxide capture and conversion plant co-located at Nutrien’s Kennewick Fertilizer Operations plant in Kennewick, Wash. We are converting common industrial waste streams into product streams —Todd Brix.

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JULY 28, 2023

Ballard Power Systems received an order for additional fuel cell engines from Canadian Pacific Kansas City (CPKC). These eighteen, 200 kW fuel cell engines (3.6 Over the past two years, Ballard has supplied CPKC with 20 fuel cell engines for use in three different types of locomotives, with combined fuel cell power of 4MW.

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AUGUST 1, 2021

The shortlisted proposals include plants aiming to produce jet fuel from: Combining carbon dioxide captured from the atmosphere with hydrogen from water; Alcohol derived from wastes; Everyday household and commercial black bag rubbish; and. The project is currently completing design optimization work ahead of starting FEED by the end of 2021.

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OCTOBER 8, 2021

won a competitive solicitation to design, construct, and maintain a hydrogen station and supply liquid hydrogen fuel for Foothill Transit, an environmentally-friendly bus service in Southern California that averages 14 million rides a year. Clean Energy Fuels Corp. Earlier post.). The contract is valued at more than $13 million.

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JUNE 22, 2021

The fund supports building new or expanding existing clean fuel production facilities, including hydrogen, renewable diesel, synthetic fuels, renewable natural gas and sustainable aviation fuel. It also supports feasibility and front-end engineering and design studies.

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On demand, the hydrogen is released from the hydride (endothermic reaction), utilizing the waste heat of the fuel cell. Ricardo is supporting the London South Bank University with design and analysis for three months and will prepare the second phase of the project which is aimed at developing a prototype. From Adelhelm & Jongh (2011).

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JULY 6, 2022

Building large electric motors that deliver short-term high performance is easy. —Martin Berger, Vice President Corporate Research and Advanced Engineering at MAHLE. The SCT E-motor, on the other hand, is designed in such a way that it is particularly efficient within a certain rpm range.

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AUGUST 15, 2021

There is a growing belief that building taller and denser is better. However, urban environmental design often neglects life cycle GHG emissions. The work, recently published as an open-access paper in npj Urban Sustainability , contributes to a growing debate around the design of future urban environments. —Jay Arehart.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

The topic areas include high-impact biotechnology research, development, and demonstration to bolster the body of scientific and engineering knowledge needed to produce low-carbon biofuels at a lower cost. Quasar Energy Group will use an anaerobic digestor to convert food waste to SAF precursors. Residential Wood Heaters.

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MARCH 7, 2018

The project will build and install diesel-fueled two-stroke compression-ignition Achates Power Opposed-Piston Engines into Class 8 demonstration trucks that will be road-road ready in 2019 and operate in fleet service in California in 2020. This program will demonstrate the first diesel engine to comply with the state standard.

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AUGUST 23, 2023

It’s our hope that this report will serve as a valuable resource for stakeholders in charting future hydrogen projects and assist in building safe, sustainable bulk hydrogen production and power generation infrastructure. Hydrogen can be extracted from different sources such as fossil fuels, biomass, waste plastics and water.

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JUNE 27, 2020

Three UC Riverside engineers have received a $1.2-million The three Marlan and Rosemary Bourns College of Engineering faculty members receiving the award are Daniel Wong, Hyoseung Kim, and Nael Abu-Ghazaleh, all of whom are professors of electrical and computer engineering.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

The assistant professor and William Marsh Rice Trustee Chair of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering has proposed the development of a modular electrochemical system that will provide “a sustainable, negative-carbon, low-waste and point-source manufacturing path preferable to traditional large-scale chemical process plants.”.

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APRIL 23, 2022

The agreement, which builds on MHI’s 2021 investment in Infinium ( earlier post ), will focus on exploring the deployment of Infinium’s proprietary electrofuels technology in the Japanese market. Infinium utilizes waste CO 2 and hydrogen, which are converted to synthetic gas using Infinium’s proprietary, patented CO2Cat catalyst.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

The plant will feature SGH2’s gasification technology, which uses biogenic waste, biomass and recycled water to produce carbon negative hydrogen. SG H2’s hydrogen production facility employs a stacked modular design built for rapid scale and linear distributed expansion at lower capital costs.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Engineers and designers can do only so much to miniaturize transistors and pack as many of them as possible into chips. So they’re turning to other approaches to chip design, incorporating technologies like AI into the process. How is AI currently being used to design the next generation of chips? Gorr: Exactly.

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OCTOBER 6, 2021

REG converts waste and byproduct fats and oils into biodiesel and renewable diesel. Through the work being done with the hydrotreater pilot plant, REG will continue to build on feedstock abundance for the growing renewable diesel and biodiesel industries.

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AUGUST 4, 2009

Cyclone Power Technologies has signed a License Agreement with Phoenix Power Group LLC to provide external combustion engines ( earlier post ) for waste-oil-fueled power generators.

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APRIL 13, 2021

Traditional PEM fuel cells have a relatively low operating temperature, which makes for a low tolerance to hydrogen fuel impurities and makes waste-heat rejection a challenge for vehicles. As the heavy-duty transportation industry seeks greener alternatives to combustion engines, HT-PEM fuel cells promise a clean, efficient alternative.

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JANUARY 18, 2023

In a region known for long, dark winter nights, Polar Night Energy is building a system in the city of Tampere that can heat buildings with stored solar energy — all day, all night, and all winter long. Out of Finland’s energy-related emissions, 82 percent come from heating domestic buildings (Ref. There is nothing special here!”

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APRIL 26, 2016

million in its Trenton Engine Complex (Mich.) to retool the north plant to produce the next generation four-cylinder engine. The new engine will be assembled on the flexible production line that was installed in 2012 and will provide increased power, while improving fuel economy and reducing CO 2 emissions.

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JULY 14, 2010

Cyclone Power Technologies has completed internal testing of its initial waste heat power generator ( earlier post ) and has shipped the beta unit to its customer, Bent Glass Design. The same engine was shipped in March 2010 to Robotic Technology as part of a project sponsored by DARPA, an agency of the US Department of Defense.

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OCTOBER 28, 2009

Concept diagram of an SMA heat engine for power generation from waste engine heat. million (subject to final negotiation with DOE) to support building a prototype thermomechanical waste heat recovery system using a Shape Memory Alloy (SMA) heat engine to generate electricity from the heat in automotive exhaust.

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AUGUST 23, 2023

The continued partnership between Topsoe and Marathon builds upon the successful operation at Marathon’s Dickinson facility in North Dakota, which also uses Topsoe’s HydroFlex renewable fuels technology and achieved design capacity in the second quarter of 2021.

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Under the agreement Woodside will, in collaboration with LanzaTech and subject to a positive final investment decision, design, construct, own, maintain and operate pilot facilities relating to LanzaTech’s technologies. As the energy transition advances, we anticipate increasing demand for carbon capture utilisation and storage (CCUS).

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APRIL 15, 2023

TerraStar Energy signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Emerging Fuels Technology (EFT) to license EFT’s Fischer-Tropsch (FT) and Maxx Jet/Maxx Diesel proprietary technology ( earlier post ) to build a fleet of FLEX plants—small-scale, modular renewable diesel facilities.

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JANUARY 30, 2023

Since January 2021, the partners in the initiative have completed a range of evaluations on technology suppliers, feasibility studies and conceptual designs, while working closely with regulators on compliance issues. It can be used as a drop-in fuel without modifying existing storage and refueling infrastructure, aircraft or engines.

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JULY 10, 2022

will license Honeywell UOP Ecofining technology to produce biofuels from feedstocks such as used cooking oil and waste animal fat at their refinery in Izmir, Türkiye. The new Ecofining plant is being designed to convert approximately 8,300 barrels per day of waste feeds/feedstocks to SAF, renewable diesel, and other products.

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(OTC BB: BFRE.OB), has signed agreements with GS Caltex—a joint venture between GS Holdings and Chevron, and a leading Korea-based petroleum company—to build a cellulose to sugar plant in Korea. BlueFire Renewables, Inc.

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JULY 19, 2021

Selected projects will use HPC to address complex challenges, from improving additive manufacturing processes to increasing the lifecycle energy efficiency of jet-engine components to improving the performance of materials used to convert CO 2 into high-value chemicals and products. Polyceed Inc. dba Glass Dyenamics). 3M Company. (dba

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The 10-year transformation of the company’s more than 60-year-old Dearborn facilities will colocate 30,000 employees from 70 buildings today into primarily two locations—a product campus and a world headquarters campus. More than 7.5 More than 7.5 Renderings of the Sustainability Showcase. Click to enlarge.

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DECEMBER 30, 2022

The components are for startup NuScale , whose design promises to drastically reduce cost and installation time. The wind part of the project plans a total of 3,000 megawatts from wind farms it will build in three counties in New Mexico. Laptops will have to follow sometime in 2026. Several U.S.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2024

For control systems engineer Patryk Borkowski , a job at the biggest ice cream company in the world is also a great way to put his automation expertise to use. The company’s food scientists and engineers use this small-scale factory to experiment with new ice cream formulations and novel production methods.

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Developed for the latest 1-liter downsized gasoline engines. Continental will be supplying Ford with turbochargers for the carmaker’s new three-cylinder direct injection gasoline engine platform. The first two engines will generate 74 and 88 kW from a displacement of just one liter. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.)

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