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AUGUST 3, 2019

Plant cell walls resist chemical or biological degradation, making the breakdown of lignocellulosic biomass into renewable chemical precursors for conversion into chemicals and transportation fuels challenging and costly. As a result, economically viable methods of transforming biomass into biofuels have yet to be realized. Abhishek S.

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JUNE 10, 2021

Researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder are developing new computational tools and models to better understand and manage the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) in fuel cells. Other partners include the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility and Research Computing at the University of Colorado Boulder. Credit: Heinz et al.

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MAY 22, 2014

Researchers at MIT and Stanford University have developed new battery technology for the conversion of low-temperature waste heat into electricity in cases where temperature differences are less than 100 degrees Celsius. These features lead to a high heat-to-electricity energy conversion efficiency of 5.7% Click to enlarge.

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APRIL 10, 2018

Mechanical engineers at the University of California, Riverside, have successfully used inexpensive materials to produce thermoelectric devices that transform low-level waste heat into electricity. The spin to charge conversion takes place in the NM (usually heavy metal) due to inverse spin-Hall effect. —Sandeep Kumar.

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MARCH 20, 2010

Researchers at Berkeley Lab’s Molecular Foundry, in collaboration with researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, have shown how nanocomposites with desired properties can be designed and fabricated by first assembling nanocrystals and nanorods coated with short organic molecules, called ligands. Paul Alivisatos, Delia J.

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MAY 6, 2022

The internally funded advancement successfully reduced heavy-duty diesel engine nitrogen oxide (NO x ) emissions to meet the California Air Resources Board (CARB) 2027 standards. CAT-DEF—Catalyzed Diesel Exhaust Fluid—is an SwRI-developed catalyst- and surfactant-modified diesel exhaust fluid (DEF) solution. Wheeler, S.,

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MAY 21, 2010

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has selected 42 university-led research and development projects for awards totaling $38 million. These projects, funded over three to four years through the Department’s Nuclear Energy University Program, are intended to help advance nuclear education and develop the next generation of nuclear technologies.

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JULY 22, 2010

A Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis (JCAP), to be led by the California Institute of Technology (Cal Tech) in partnership with the DOE’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), will bring together leading researchers in an effort aimed at simulating nature’s photosynthetic apparatus for practical energy production.

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DECEMBER 1, 2009

The Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) adopted by the California Air Resources Board (CARB) earlier this year ( earlier post ) requires a 10% reduction in the average greenhouse gas (GHG) emission intensity of the state’s transportation fuels by 2020. Sonia Yeh, Daniel A. Sumner, Stephen R.

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JUNE 30, 2012

Robert Blanchette, University of Minnesota) Click to enlarge. —Clark University biologist David Hibbett, senior author. of Southern California. Scanning electron micrograph of wood being decayed by the white rot fungus. Punctularia strigoso-zonata. For their study, Hibbett and his colleagues focused on the Agaricomycetes.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

In a cohort study of a subset of 2050 newborns from the Children’s Health Study in southern California, researchers at the University of Southern California (USC) found that an increase of 2 standard deviations in prenatal exposure to particulate matter in air pollution was associated with higher newborn total thyroxine (TT4) measures.

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OCTOBER 24, 2017

Vastly expanding sugarcane production in Brazil for conversion to ethanol could reduce current global CO 2 emissions by as much as 5.6%, according to a new study by an international team led by researchers from the University of Illinois. Deepak Jaiswal, Amanda P. De Souza, Søren Larsen, David S. LeBauer, Fernando E.

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JANUARY 8, 2013

Machado, Hisanari Yoneda, and Shota Atsumi (2013) Cyanobacterial conversion of carbon dioxide to 2,3-butanediol PNAS doi: 10.1073/pnas.1213024110. Oliver, Iara M.P. 1213024110. Machado, Shota Atsumi (2012) Cyanobacterial biofuel production, Journal of Biotechnology , Volume 162, Issue 1, Pages 50-56, doi: 10.1016/j.jbiotec.2012.03.005.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2015

The Bioenergy Technologies Office is working to produce cost-competitive ($3/gallon of gasoline equivalent) advanced biofuels from non-food biomass resources that reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 50% or more versus petroleum-based alternatives. Metabolix in collaboration with North Carolina State University. BETO awards. Description.

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DECEMBER 28, 2016

A team at the University of California, Irvine has discovered that the iron protein (the reductase component) of the natural enzyme nitrogenase can, independent of its natural catalytic partner, convert CO 2 to carbon monoxide (CO)—a syngas used to produce useful biofuels and other chemical products. —Rebelein et al.

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AUGUST 20, 2013

A team from the University of Michigan, Michigan State, and UCLA has designed synthetic fungal-bacterial consortia for the direct production of isobutanol from biomass. g/L and yields up to 62% of theoretical maximum from the direct conversion of microcrystalline cellulose and pretreated corn stover to isobutanol. reesei and E.

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JULY 25, 2020

Scientists from ExxonMobil, University of California, Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have developed a new material that could capture more than 90% of CO 2 emitted from industrial sources using low-temperature steam, requiring less energy for the overall carbon capture process. Kim, Rebecca L. Siegelman, Henry Z.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

GAMOW projects will work in synergy with publicly and privately funded fusion-development efforts, including ARPA-E’s ALPHA and BETHE fusion programs, and will leverage the technical resources and basic research SC-FES sponsors in these areas. University of California, San Diego. University of Houston.

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JUNE 6, 2016

Scientists from the ARC Centre of Excellence in Plant Cell Walls at the University of Adelaide have discovered that a variety of sorghum growing wild in Australia—Arun—theoretically has the potential to yield some 10,344 liters of bioethanol per hectare (1,106 gallons US per acre) from stem tissues alone. Byrt, Natalie S.

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DECEMBER 23, 2011

Total transportation fuel use in California broken down by subsector and fuel type for each scenario: business-as-usual (BAU); plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs); and combined PEVs and fuel cell vehicles (FCVs). Source: Yang et al. Click to enlarge. PHEVs sold in 2050 are primarily large-battery PHEVs (i.e.

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MARCH 14, 2022

The California-based Hyperlight Energy will be piloting an installation where they plan to use existing oil wells as solar thermal wellsprings, with the stored energy being converted back to clean electricity when required. For Hyperlight, the California Public Utilities Commission energy transition plan from 2021, requiring 11.5

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Researchers at the University of California, Riverside’s Center for Environmental Research and Technology (CERT) at the Bourns College of Engineering have received two grants to further explore a steam hydrogasification process they developed to convert waste into fuels. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.). That could replace 5.5%

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JANUARY 14, 2010

The selected projects consist of leading scientists and engineers from universities, private industry, and government, and will facilitate sharing expertise and technologies. Catchlight Energy, LLC; Colorado School of Mines; Iowa State University; Los Alamos National Laboratory; Pall Corporation; RTI International; Tesoro Companies Inc.;

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FEBRUARY 22, 2018

Testing was conducted over the LA92 and US06 Supplemental Federal Test Procedure (US06) driving cycles on typical California E10 fuel. California LEVIII and US Tier 3 regulations will begin a four year phase-in starting in 2015 and 2017, respectively, to a PM maximum of 3 mg/mile from the current 10 mg/mile LEVII limit. Durbin, Kent C.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2014

Researchers at the University of California, Davis have developed a process for the production of branched C 7 –C 10 hydrocarbons in the gasoline volatility range from biomass-derived levulinic acid with good yield, operating under relatively mild conditions, with short reaction times. 201308143.

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JANUARY 16, 2014

President Obama announced the selection of a consortium of businesses and universities, led by North Carolina State University, to lead a manufacturing innovation institute for next-generation power electronics. Earlier post.). reducing the size of a sub-station to a suit case).

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NOVEMBER 16, 2015

billion core hours represents 1,000-fold growth in computational resources provided to award recipients. Despite continued upgrades, expansions, and advances in computing power, demand for leadership-class resources such as Mira and Titan continues to exceed availability. Today’s collective allocation of 5.8

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NOVEMBER 16, 2018

Of those selected, approximately 43% of OPEN 2018 projects will be led by universities, 35% by small businesses, and the remainder by large businesses, non-profit organizations or federally funded research and development centers (FFRDCs). Drop-In Replacement Materials from Abundant Resources to Double Energy in EV Batteries – $3,100,000.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2015

million gallons per year per square kilometer, corresponding to 7% of the industrial ethanol production capacity of California, they suggest. Led by the California Institute of Technology, JCAP has an integral partnership with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Earlier post.). Meenesh R.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2015

(The comparison to the electric vehicle is based on estimates which factor in the CO 2 emissions resulting from fuel production, with the DME-powered vehicle figure calculated from the use of renewable energy to generate the DME fuel, and the electric vehicle figure calculated from electricity generated from renewable resources.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2016

Researchers at Loker Hydrocarbon Research Institute and Department of Chemistry, University of Southern California, have developed a highly efficient homogeneous Ru-based catalyst system for the production of methanol (CH 3 OH) from CO 2 and H 2 in an ethereal solvent (initial turnover frequency = 70 h −1 at 145 °C). —G.K.

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AUGUST 12, 2011

The 10 projects are located in California, Colorado, Illinois, Florida, Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, South Carolina and Virginia: Association Mapping of Cell Wall Synthesis Regulatory Genes and Cell Wall Quality in Switchgrass. Bartley, University of Oklahoma, Norman. Eric Beers, Virginia Polytechnic and State University, Blacksburg.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2015

Diagram of a proposed biomass conversion process that integrates CELF pretreatment with Simultaneous Saccharification Fermentation (SSF) to produce ethanol. However, lignin has promise as a resource from which to make additional high value chemicals and fuels once it is extracted and depolymerized with CELF. D” equals day. Source: UCR.

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JULY 1, 2019

The research, published in the journal Joule , builds on innovations first reported in Science in 2017 by the same research group at the University of California San Diego and the university spinout South 8 Technologies. In contrast, most of conventional electrolytes fail to work below minus 20 ?C. Yang et al. 2019.06.008.

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JULY 10, 2019

Purdue University, West Lafayette, Ind. Ultra-Fast and - Thick Boriding of Geothermal Casing to Enhance Reliability, $150,000 Controlled Thermal Resources Inc., Novel chemical looping process for conversion of natural gas to pure hydrogen, $150,000 CanmetENERGY, Ottawa, Canada Glowink Inc., Pipersville, Pa. New York, N.Y.

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OCTOBER 8, 2013

Now, researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and UC Berkeley have engineered yeast to convert cellulosic sugars and toxic levels of acetate together into ethanol under anaerobic conditions. Acetic acid is toxic to fermenting microorganisms and negatively influences sugar fermentation and biofuel yields. cerevisiae.

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MARCH 4, 2015

Researchers at the University of Houston, with their colleagues at Boston College, have created a new thermoelectric material—germanium-doped magnesium stannide (Mg 2 Sn 0.75 It can be used with waste-heat applications and concentrated solar energy conversion at temperatures up to 300 ?C, C, said Zhifeng Ren, lead author and M.D.

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