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APRIL 11, 2014

The etching process uses to produce porous silicon results in the loss of material, said said Donghai Wang, assistant professor of mechanical engineering, who led the research. Instead, Wang’s team uses a chemically based method that builds up the material rather than removing it. —Donghai Wang.

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JUNE 6, 2012

The research group led by Mark Davis, the Warren and Katharine Schlinger Professor of Chemical Engineering at Caltech, describes the new, four-reaction process in an open access paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). °C that is completely recyclable and does not involve toxic or corrosive intermediates.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 2, 2020

Sodium-ion batteries (SIBs), with the intrinsic advantages of resource abundance and geographic uniformity, are desired alternative battery technology to Li-ion batteries (LIBs) for grid-scale energy storage and transportation applications. . O 2 –hard carbon full-cells with practical loading (>2.5 mAh cm –2 ) and lean electrolyte (?40

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JUNE 28, 2013

These projects—led by General Atomics, GE Hitachi, Gen4 Energy and Westinghouse —will address key technical challenges to designing, building and operating the next generation of nuclear reactors. Westinghouse’s project will conduct analysis on sodium thermal hydraulics to support advanced nuclear reactor design.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Jadar, one of the largest greenfield lithium projects in development, would be capable of producing approximately 55 thousand tonnes of battery grade lithium carbonate, as well as 160 thousand tonnes of boric acid (B 2 O 3 units) and 255 thousand tonnes of sodium sulfate as by-products per annum.

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APRIL 2, 2014

For the project, GE provided its Grid IQ Microgrid Control System (MCS), as well as the engineering design services, to help PowerStream build a microgrid, which uses renewable energy resources (wind, solar); a natural-gas generator; and energy storage devices (including GE’s Durathon sodium-metal halide batteries, earlier post ) to provide electricity (..)

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 13, 2019

Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University’s Mellon College of Science and College of Engineering have developed a semiliquid lithium metal-based anode (SLMA) that represents a new paradigm in battery design for solid electrolyte batteries. The interdisciplinary research team published their findings in the current issue of Joule.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

turbocharged engine is available in the 2013 Chevrolet Malibu. It is rated at 259 hp (193 kW), making it one of the most power-dense automotive engines in the industry, GM notes. A twin-scroll turbocharger generates up to 20 pounds of boost, helping the engine optimize power delivery across the rpm band. l/100 km) highway.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 17, 2017

The current process used to produce malonic acid requires sodium cyanide and chloroacetic acid; Lygos’ engineered yeast produces malonic acid from sugar and CO 2 , thereby decreasing the prodution cost and increasing the number of potential applications. This DOE funding underscores the importance of our work with the Agile BioFoundry.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 13, 2016

The current process used to produce malonic acid requires sodium cyanide and chloroacetic acid; Lygos’ engineered yeast produces malonic acid from sugar and CO 2. Most specialty chemicals manufactured from oil today can also be made using Lygos’ technology of engineered microbes with sugar and water. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 3, 2016

Researchers from George Washington University and Vanderbilt University have demonstrated the conversion of atmospheric CO 2 into carbon nanofibers (CNFs) and carbon nanotubes (CNTs) for use as high-performance anodes in both lithium-ion and sodium-ion batteries. times above that of sodium-ion batteries with graphite electrodes.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 2, 2021

million (US$31-million) commitment to build on its momentum in four key research challenges: extending battery life; battery modelling; recycling and reuse; and solid-state batteries. The UK’s Faraday Institution announced a £22.6-million

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 28, 2022

is building two fast-neutron nuclear breeder reactors, the first of which is slated to connect to the grid in 2023, the second in 2026. Liquid sodium is used as a coolant because it does not slow down neutrons as much as water does. And they are building 250 additional silos. “So It is anything but.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 6, 2016

Hyundai’s Ship Building Division (HHI-SBD) has finalized a contract for 2 × Suezmax tankers for Turkish shipowner, Ditas Shipping. two-stroke main-engines that feature integrated Exhaust Gas Recirculation (EGR) systems. Sodium hydroxide dosing is therefore required to neutralise the acidic scrubber water.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 10, 2019

High-fidelity ignition models to boost engine thermal efficiency, $720,000 Convergent Science Inc., Quanex Building Products Corporation, Houston, Texas SCP SYS LLC, San Francisco, Calif. Institute for Building Technology and Safety (IBTS), San Jose, Calif. Madison, Wis. Touchstone Research Laboratory, Triadelphia, W.

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Plug In India

MARCH 15, 2023

The interesting thing is before electric cars were popular, no one in the auto industry or mainstream media even questioned where petrol or the metals used in engines are coming from. Thier technical development unit has examined how the carbon footprint of electric cars in compares with that of internal combustion engines.

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DECEMBER 5, 2014

Haldor Topsøe A/S has won the Danish Engineering Product Award 2014 (in Danish Ingeniørens Produktpris 2014) for its new ECO-Jet solution. Particulate filter systems are developed for diesel engine exhaust with a relatively low sulfur and ash content. —Professor Lene Lange, chairperson of the Engineering Weekly awards committee.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 3, 2015

earlier post ) has successfully achieved pilot scale production of malonic acid from sugar via a fermentation pathway using engineered microbes. The DOE has identified malonic acid as a member of an important second tier group of chemical building blocks that can derived from biomass sugars. Lygos, Inc. coli and S.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 29, 2022

In 1944 Skolnik joined the American Institute of Electrical Engineers , one of IEEE’s predecessor societies. in engineering from Johns Hopkins University , in Baltimore. During his tenure at the company, he oversaw the design and construction of the Clinch River Breeder Reactor project, a sodium-cooled nuclear facility in Tennessee.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2013

Grid Command Distribution allows utilities quickly to build circuit models with multiple configurations; assess complex resource deployment scenarios; and. If GridLAB is the calculation engine, this does your configuration and establishes what scenarios to examine. They were spending 4-5 days to build a circuit model.

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NOVEMBER 24, 2011

To maximize the benefit of the open structure, the researchers needed to use ions that fit; hydrated potassium ions proved to be a much better fit compared with other hydrated ions such as sodium and lithium. The researchers need to find another material to use for the anode before they can build an actual battery. —Yi Cui.

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MAY 12, 2017

The objective of this project is to advance Field Upgrading’s De-Sulfurization & Upgrading (DSU) technology by completing a Front-end Engineering Design (FEED) study for a first of its kind modular large-scale 2500 barrels per day (bpd) demonstration plant. This FEED study will be a building block for a full-scale commercial plant.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2009

This effort will build on Austin Energy’s existing Smart Grid programs by creating a microgrid that will initially link 1,000 residential smart meters, 75 commercial meters, and plug-in electric vehicle charging sites. . Pecan Street Project (TX). 29,561,142. 125,006,103. Pacific Gas & Electric Company (CA). 25,000,000. 24,978,264.

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OCTOBER 22, 2022

Mainstream Engineering will develop a vacuum swing separation technology to separate and capture volatile radionuclides, which should lower life cycle capital and operating costs, and minimize waste that must be stored. (Award amount: $2,659,677). Award amount: $1,580,774). Award amount: $2,711,342). Award amount: $1,454,074).

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Get Electric Vehicle

MARCH 31, 2021

Along with sodium-based alternatives, could soon supplant the seemingly obsolete lithium-ion battery. #2. Last year, Volvo and Baidu announced a collaboration to build large-scale autonomous driving in China. #4. Solar-powered cars are another fascinating engineering development to keep an eye on. Solar cars.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 27, 2010

The 2011 Chevrolet Cruze is powered by a new generation of small-displacement four-cylinder engines, including the Ecotec 1.4L Power-dense small-displacement engines with turbocharging and variable valve timing, such as the Ecotec 1.4L Mike Katerberg, assistant chief engineer, Powertrain. turbo and the Ecotec 1.8L. The Ecotec 1.4L

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OCTOBER 15, 2020

To help California mitigate its ever-growing wildfires, this year CalSEED has included companies that are innovating in technologies that will build wildfire resiliency into the grid. EV Life, LLC is building the first online platform that gives drivers everything they need to switch from gas to an electric car.

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JUNE 19, 2015

ARPA-E’s TERRA program uniquely integrates agriculture, information technology and engineering to address major global challenges in developing crops that are sustainable, affordable and yield abundant plant feedstocks for bioenergy. Transportation Energy Resources from Renewable Agriculture (TERRA). Texas A&M AgriLife Research. Description.

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Charged EVs

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

It has since built a complete battery materials supply chain in Europe, and is about to build a new cathode and precursor production facility near Kingston, Ontario, which will be its fourth global gigafactory. Robert Privette: Rechargeable batteries are among the building blocks for the green energy transition.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 24, 2023

Importantly, the nanofluids are engineered to remain suspended indefinitely, unlike other suspensions—for instance, sand in water. Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency–Energy (ARPA-E) to build a prototype 1 kilowatt-hour nanoelectrofuel battery. In 2013, the team received a three-year, US $3.44 Similarly, the U.S.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 5, 2024

Also on the cards, and often touted as a solution, are sodium-ion batteries. Sodium ion batteries currently however don’t have the density required to be used in cars and currently are only thought to be suitable for use in static applications where weight and size aren’t issues. How much of a reduction in size are we talking about?

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 20, 2015

GM’s Cadillac announced a new generation of V-6 engines, led by an exclusive 3.0L Twin Turbo is the only six-cylinder engine to combine turbocharging with cylinder deactivation and stop/start technologies to conserve fuel. TFSI engine, while the 3.6L naturally aspirated engine employed for years across the brand’s model range.

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Blink Charging

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

When considering the typical 3-5 year lifespan of a lead-acid battery in a conventional internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicle, many drivers assume that an EV battery requires regular replacement. With an extended lifespan, they reduce the need for replacements, minimize environmental impacts, and lower ownership costs.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 19, 2022

EVs require automakers to design new manufacturing processes and build plants to make both EVs and their batteries. Stiff Competition for Engineering Talent One critical area of resource competition is over the limited supply of software and systems engineers with mechatronics and robotics expertise needed for EVs.

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Cars That Think

APRIL 22, 2023

It may be ready for human trials within a year to 18 months, according to Guillermo Ameer, director of Northwestern’s Center for Advanced Regenerative Engineering. It is composed of food-grade algae powder added to a graphene suspension composed of graphite, sodium cholate, and deionized water, then dried to form a nanocomposite sheet.

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Baua Electric

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

It has since built a complete battery materials supply chain in Europe, and is about to build a new cathode and precursor production facility near Kingston, Ontario, which will be its fourth global gigafactory. Robert Privette: Rechargeable batteries are among the building blocks for the green energy transition.

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Charged EVs

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

This crystalline carbon allotrope is good for more than just pencils—it’s found in every EV battery anode, and producing graphite in the forms needed to build high-performance battery cells is a complex and exacting process. Solid-state, lithium-sulfur, sodium batteries—would all of these still be using graphite in the anode?

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