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JULY 31, 2011

The Dow Chemical Company plans to invest in a best-in-class manufacturing facility for Dow FILMTEC reverse osmosis (RO) elements in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is a key market for Dow Water & Process Solutions. Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

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MAY 9, 2023

As well as developing a best-in-class product, this work will support the growth of a UK supply chain in components for electric vehicles. Project partners include: University of Bristol, Customer Interconnect Ltd, API Capacitors Ltd. Hydrogen is a clean fuel, producing only water when burned. CAVENDISH – BorgWarner. million.

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APRIL 6, 2012

Petrobras and the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte inaugurated a pilot plant in Extremoz (state of Rio Grande do Norte) for the cultivation of microalgae for biodiesel production. The project has identified approximately 10 species of microalgae capable of growing in oil production water and cultivated in tanks.

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DECEMBER 31, 2020

Scottish Enterprise, Transport Scotland and the Hydrogen Accelerator, based at the University of St Andrews, have appointed Arcola Energy and a consortium of industry leaders in hydrogen fuel cell integration, rail engineering and functional safety to deliver Scotland’s first hydrogen powered train.

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MAY 11, 2015

A team from Brown University, Wuhan University of Technology (China), Cal State University Northridge and Harbin Institute of Technology (China) has developed a new catalyst for a highly efficient hydrogen evolution reaction based on core/shell NiAu/Au nanoparticles (NPs). Credit: ACS, Lv et al. Click to enlarge.

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JUNE 6, 2022

Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, have created a unique method for further developing hydrofoils that can significantly increase the range of electric vessels and reduce the fuel consumption of fossil-powered ships by 80%. An open-access paper on their work is published in the Journal of Marine Science and Engineering.

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MARCH 17, 2011

A team from the University of Plymouth (UK) and Environment Canada has identified, for the first time, individual soluble naphthenic acids (NA) in the process water resulting from the oil sands industry in Canada. Frank (2011) Diamonds in the Rough: Identification of Individual Naphthenic Acids in Oil Sands Process Water.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

A team of researchers from the University of Houston and the California Institute of Technology has developed an active and durable earth-abundant transition metal dichalcogenide-based hybrid catalyst for water-splitting that exhibits high hydrogen evolution activity approaching the state-of-the-art platinum catalysts.

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MAY 9, 2012

A team of researchers led by Dr. James Muckerman at the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) have developed a new class of high-activity, low-cost, non-noble metal electrocatalyst that generates hydrogen gas from water. The result becomes this well-balanced Goldilocks compound—just right.

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AUGUST 21, 2014

In working to elucidate the chemistry of hydrodeoxygenation (HDO) for the catalytic upgrading of pyrolytic bio-oil to fuel-grade products, researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) have discovered that water in the conversion process helps form an impurity which, in turn, slows down key chemical reactions.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2015

Researchers at Rice University, with colleagues at Wayne State University, report the development of a new class of quasi-solid-state Li-ion battery electrolytes which have the structural stability of a solid and the wettability of a liquid. —Kaushik Kalaga, lead author of the study.

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JUNE 9, 2017

The selected EMN consortia projects will leverage unique, world-class capabilities at the national laboratories, facilitating collaborations that will expedite the development of advanced materials. Advanced Water Splitting Materials. Carnegie Mellon University. Advanced Water Splitting Materials. Northwestern University.

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APRIL 19, 2018

Researchers at Jilin University in China have developed a new class of self-assembled crystalline porous organic salts (CPOSs) featuring high proton conductivity for applications such as proton-exchange membranes for fuel cells. The pores in the salts form one-dimensional channels and can hold water. —Xing et al.

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OCTOBER 7, 2020

University of North Dakota (Grand Forks, ND). West Virginia University Research Corporation (Morgantown, WV). Winner Water Services Inc. (Pittsburgh, PA) Project 1. Tetra Tech, Inc. Pittsburgh, PA) Project 2. Texas Mineral Resources Corp (Sierra Blanca, TX). UPSHOTS, LLC (Forsyth, GA). Sharon, PA).

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JUNE 5, 2010

A research collaboration between South Africa-based Sasol and the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering at the University of Pretoria (UP) has led to the commissioning of high-tech equipment to gain better insights into the properties and performance of synthetic diesel fuels.

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MARCH 20, 2019

24M says that its work with numerous world-class materials manufacturers has shown this approach will be both manufacturable and cost-effective. Using compositionally distinct electrolytes is a game changer for battery manufacturing and we’ve proven the fundamental technology. —Rick Feldt, President and CEO of 24M.

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AUGUST 14, 2021

The Port of Corpus Christi says that it is uniquely suited to become the nation’s premier carbon capture and sequestration management hub based on the high density of industrial CO 2 emitters, a robust network of existing pipeline infrastructure, and the Port Authority’s ownership of lands leading to state waters in the Gulf of Mexico.

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OCTOBER 15, 2018

Researchers at Changchun University of Science and Technology in China have developed a nanobox strategy to improve the performance of lithium-sulfur batteries. transition metal sulfides have been regarded as a promising class of host materials for Li?S A paper on their work appears in the Journal of Power Sources.

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APRIL 1, 2011

Example of a lithium-water rechargeable battery. Researchers at the University of Texas, including Dr. John Goodenough, are proposing a strategy for high-capacity next-generation alkali (lithium or sodium)-ion batteries using water-soluble redox couples as the cathode. In theory, the decomposition potential of water is 4.27

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AUGUST 10, 2015

Buffers made from phase change material will be integrated into these systems to augment classes of autonomic materials with directed power flow actuation. POETS will be led by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in partnership with Howard University, Stanford University and the University of Arkansas.

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AUGUST 9, 2017

On behalf of the Australian Government, ARENA has provided A$5 million (US$4 million) in funding to Wollongong-based AquaHydrex to develop commercially its new class of electrolyzer to produce cheap hydrogen from splitting water. When hydrogen burns, it produces only water vapor and no carbon dioxide.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

University of California, San Diego. The University of California, San Diego, seeks to address this issue by developing a low-atomic-number renewable wall for fusion devices that contains a slurry composed of carbon, ceramics, and a volatile binder. University of Houston. University of California, Los Angeles.

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JULY 2, 2018

SOFC technologies enable efficient, cost-effective electricity generation from abundant domestic coal and natural gas resources, with minimal use of water and near-zero atmospheric emissions of carbon dioxide and pollutants. Preliminary Design and Techno-Economic Analysis of MWe-Class Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Systems. FuelCell Energy Inc.

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MAY 10, 2019

A team of researchers led by a group from the University of Maryland has. Combining this cathode with a passivated graphite anode, the team created a 4V-class aqueous Li-ion full cell with an energy density of 460 Wh kg -1 of total composite electrode and about 100% Coulombic efficiency. volts versus Li/Li +. V) and Cl ? Yang et al.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

Until recently, the residents of Melamchi, Nepal, cooked meals and heated water for bathing over a wood-burning stove. The effect that access to reliable electricity has had on the village is amazing,” says Morgan Kiani , an engineering professor at Texas Christian University , in Fort Worth.

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JANUARY 27, 2023

Comstock’s proposed pre-pilot scale system will validate best-in-class renewable fuel yields exceeding 80 gallons per dry ton (on a gasoline gallon equivalent basis), carbon efficiencies exceeding 40%, and a minimum fuel selling price of less than $2.65 per GGE, with lifecycle emissions reductions exceeding 80% over petroleum.

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JANUARY 4, 2021

A team led by researchers form Temple University has developed earth-abundant electrocatalysts—Mo 2 C and Ti 3 C 2 MXenes—for the electroreduction of CO 2 to CO. Also, a spontaneous dissociation of absorbed COOH species to a water molecule and absorbed CO on Mo 2 C promote the CO 2 RR.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

A chemical engineer from the University of Houston is leading a $2.1-million The project also includes researchers from the University of Virginia (UVA); Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL); and Southwest Research Institute (SwRI). Catalytic converters clean vehicle exhaust into nitrogen, water and carbon dioxide.

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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). University of California, San Diego. University of Delaware. Vanderbilt University.

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JANUARY 27, 2022

Other standard convenience features include remote start, universal garage door opener and a new adjustable height power liftgate. inches of ground clearance, 24 inches of water fording capability and a break-over angle of 22.3 2022 Grand Cherokee Trailhawk 4xe. inches of travel, 10.9 2022 Grand Cherokee Overland 4xe.

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MAY 18, 2018

(SoCalGas) introduced an innovative new solar-powered hydrogen generation system during the California Air Resources Board Technology Expo and Symposium at the University of California, Riverside. This technology is undergoing field testing at San Diego State University’s Brawley campus where it runs on solar and renewable electricity.

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JULY 18, 2020

The resulting glassy polymer membranes demonstrated nonthermal membrane fractionation of light crude oil through a combination of class- and size-based “sorting” of molecules. With this application in mind, we created spirocyclic polymers with N-aryl bonds that demonstrated noninterconnected microporosity in the absence of ladder linkages.

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NOVEMBER 27, 2015

Coccolithophores —unicellular, eukaryotic phytoplankton (algae)—have been increasing in relative abundance in the North Atlantic over the last 45 years, as carbon input into ocean waters has increased. The lead author of the paper was Sara Rivero-Calle, a PhD candidate at John Hopkins University. —Anand Gnanadesikan.

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AUGUST 17, 2020

Using a process known as genomic analysis, University of Georgia scientists have found a strong correlation between antibiotic resistance and heavy metal contamination in an environment. The study reports previous research identified antibiotic-resistance in heavy metal-contaminated streams on the site by examining water samples in the lab.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

Researchers led by a team at the University of Liverpool (UK) now report in an open-access paper in the journal Nature Communications that they have developed crystalline porous molecular solids where the proton transport occurs in 3D pathway by virtue of the native channel structure and topology. —Liu et al.

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OCTOBER 26, 2012

The MITEI program pairs world-class research teams with the energy companies responsible for commercializing the technology. BP funds about $100 million in university research, education and recruitment activity at more than 50 US universities annually. —Ellen Williams, BP’s Chief Scientist.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2018

Materials for water separation and utilization , which include processes to make water purification and ocean desalination methods faster, cheaper and more energy-efficient. The lab also offers best-in-class imaging, NMR and mass spectrometry capabilities at EMSL, the Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, a DOE User Facility.

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