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SwRI to launch 2nd phase of Advanced Combustion Catalyst and Aftertreatment Technologies consortium

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at SwRI’s headquarters in San Antonio and is open to interested automotive industry manufacturers. The completion of the first four-year consortium AC 2 AT PAC meeting is scheduled for 14 November at SwRI in San Antonio, TX. The AC2AT-II kickoff meeting will be 15 Nov. Earlier post.)

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SwRI opens new high-horsepower dynamometer facility to service marine, rail and petroleum industries

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The test cell’s support equipment (conditioned combustion air, cooling system, fuel mass flow measurement and exhaust system) was designed to comfortably support 7,000-hp engines. In addition to the two test cells, there is an engine preparation and staging area within the same building.

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Video Friday: Monocycle Robot With Legs

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The recent progress in commercial humanoids is just exhausting. Iruyo was born out of the voices of mothers and fathers who said, “I can’t hold my baby while driving alone.” [ Nissan ] Building 937 houses the coolest robots at CERN. The bit at the end there was Nadia not quite managing to do lateral arm raises. IHMC ] Thanks, Robert!

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SwRI to launch 7th clean diesel engine consortium

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The kick-off meeting for the four-year, multi-client cooperative research program, which is open to potential new members, will be 5 November at SwRI headquarters in San Antonio. Consortium members will select research topics related to low-emission, high-efficiency diesel engine technology.

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Huntington Ingalls delivers 900-ton carbon composite deckhouse for new destroyer

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The 900-ton deckhouse—made almost exclusively using cored composite construction processes—provides an advanced structure to house the ship’s bridge, radars, antennas and intake/exhaust systems and is designed to provide a significantly smaller radar cross-section than any other ship in the current fleet.

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Daimler Trucks NA SuperTruck achieves 115% freight efficiency improvement over 2009 baseline; 50.2% engine BTE

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The final SuperTruck demonstrator ran a five-day, 312-mile (502-kilometer) roundtrip route on Texas Interstate 35 between San Antonio and Dallas, at a weight of 65,000 lbs (29,484 kg) GVWR at a speed of 65 mph (105 km/h), where it achieved an average result of 12.2 engine brake thermal efficiency. mpg (19.26

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DOE to Award $106M to Six CO2 Conversion Projects; $156M in Matching Private Funding

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Converting captured CO 2 into products such as chemicals, carbonates, plastics, fuels, building materials, and other commodities is an important aspect of carbon capture and storage technology, the DOE said. cement manufacturing plant in San Antonio, Texas. DOE Share: $25,000,000).