Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 27, 2012

Ford is embracing the use of “3D printing”—additive manufacturing—in its design work. liter EcoBoost engine in the all-new Transit Van (earlier post) were developed with the aid of 3D rapid manufacturing. Escape: EcoBoost four-cylinder engines in the 2013 Escape built at Louisville Assembly Plant.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

Motiv Power Systems all-electric/zero-emissions EPIC chassis, removing the need to idle an engine. Winnebago anticipates the ROI of eMLU vehicles compared to internal combustion engine versions to be as little as three years. Enough charge for eight hours of service plus round-trip travel to and from its home facility.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 12, 2009

Basic rendering of an open rotor engine. Following several months refurbishing a special NASA test rig, GE Aviation and NASA this summer will begin a wind-tunnel test program to evaluate counter-rotating fan-blade systems for open rotor jet engine designs. Source: GE. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.). Click to enlarge.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

At the time of his death, he was a professor of electrical and computer engineering at Cleveland State University and served as dean of its engineering school. He also was a consultant to companies and government agencies, and he was involved in research and development projects in solar energy and software engineering.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 7, 2013

Highly Loaded Front Block Compressor Demonstration : Tests to show Ultra High Bypass (UHB) or advanced turbofan efficiency improvements of a two-stage, transonic high-pressure engine compressor. 2 nd Generation UHB Ratio Propulsor Integration : Continued development of a geared turbofan engine to help reduce fuel consumption and noise.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 10, 2015

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has purchased Gevo’s renewable Alcohol-to-Jet fuel (ATJ) ( earlier post ) for aviation use at the NASA Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, OH. The biorefinery, where Gevo also produces bio-paraxylene and bio-isooctane, is operated in conjunction with South Hampton Resources.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 6, 2016

Alcoa also has invested in a range of technologies to further develop additive processes, product design and qualification. Using the Ampliforge process, Alcoa designs and 3D prints a near complete part, then treats it using a traditional manufacturing process, such as forging. Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 20, 2016

NASA has awarded Aerojet Rocketdyne a $67-million contract to design and develop an Advanced Electric Propulsion System (AEPS) for spaceflight. A prototype 13 kW Hall thruster during testing at NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland. It uses 10 times less propellant than equivalent chemical rockets.

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MARCH 15, 2024

We know the folks at Zipline pretty well, though, and they’ve certainly made creative engineering work for them, as we saw when we visited one of their “nests” in rural Rwanda. Engineering test footage of Zipline’s Platform 2 docking system at their test site in Half Moon Bay in California.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 21, 2010

Daimler Buses North America (DBNA) unveiled the new-generation diesel Orion VII transit bus, now equipped with selective catalytic reduction (SCR) emissions technology, at the Bus & Paratransit Conference in Cleveland, Ohio. The new generation Orion VII is available with diesel, hybrid and natural gas (CNG) drives.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 7, 2011

The program’s Subsonic Fixed Wing Project oversees the work at the agency’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland and Langley Research Center in Virginia. The SUGAR team’s report concluded that hybrid electric engine technology “ is a clear winner, because it can potentially improve performance relative to all of the NASA goals. ”.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 10, 2019

Concentric Ring Gas Atomization Die Design for Optimized Particle Production, $150,000 Praxair, Indianapolis, Ind. Extension of Core Restrain Design Code NUBOW-3D to Lead Cooled Fast Reactor Systems, $75,000 Westinghouse Electric Company, Cranberry Township, Pa. Selected Labs and Partners. Ames Laboratory. Argonne National Laboratory.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 13, 2012

Researchers at the US Army Research Laboratory’s (ARL) Combustion Research Laboratory are working to develop engines optimized to run on JP-8 for use in military ground vehicles, stationary power generators, and small unmanned aerial vehicles. designed for Diesel Fuel (DF-2) operating with reduced performance with JP-8.

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DECEMBER 3, 2021

President Grover Cleveland was an early adopter of the electrified Christmas tree, as shown in this 1896 photo. In 1910 GE changed its basic design to a round bulb, although still with the exhaust tip. In 1910 GE changed its basic design to a round bulb, although still with the exhaust tip. White House Historical Association.

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DECEMBER 23, 2023

Orion has been designed to keep humans alive and safe—even during an emergency—hundreds of thousands of miles from home for extended periods, where getting back to Earth takes days to weeks,” says Rachel Kraft , of NASA’s Exploration Systems Development Mission Directorate. and the electric propulsion thrusters are being tested in Cleveland.

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Clean Fleet Report

OCTOBER 11, 2022

liter 4-cylinder engine coupled to a 32-kW electric motor that puts out 139 horsepower and 195 pound-feet of torque, driving the front wheels through a 6-speed dual-clutch automatic transmission. Kia has a clever design to go between the dual-zone climate controls and infotainment controls. Niro gets a new look–and more.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2022

And scientists and engineers have continued to study the sun’s fusion process in hopes of one day using nuclear fusion to generate heat or electricity. We and other scientists and engineers at. However, LCF also removes many of the technologic and engineering barriers that have prevented other fusion schemes from being successful.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 18, 2020

The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced more than $27 million in funding for 12 projects that will support the development of advanced plastics recycling technologies and new plastics that are recyclable-by-design. Partners include Algenesis, BASF, Pepsi, Reef, and University of California – Davis.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 20, 2011

Genomatica’s integrated bioprocess engineering and extensive intellectual property allow it to develop organisms and processes rapidly for many other basic chemicals. Designing greener chemicals: The Sherwin-Williams Company, Cleveland, Ohio. per million Btu.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 26, 2021

Enhancement of PyARC for Westinghouse Electric Company’s Lead Fast Reactor design and modeling, $450,000. Multiscale Manufacturing Design Tool Based on Machine Learning Workflow, $250,000. Wireless Radio Frequency Signal Identification and Protocol Reverse Engineering (WiFIRE), $750,000. Beam Suntory, Inc. Clermont, Kentucky).

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

Renewable Wind Energy: MBTA will design and construct wind energy generation turbines in eastern Massachusetts (from among Kingston, Newburyport, Bridgewater). Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority, Ohio: $2,257,000. Bay Area Transportation Authority (BATA) will provide technical assistance to TBTA.

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JUNE 2, 2023

These models are designed to satisfy physically insightful assumptions while also having sufficient fidelity to capture higher-order effects directly from vehicle state measurements. We propose a prototype with special designs for propulsion and thruster configuration to cope with the vast differences in the fluid properties of water and air.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 16, 2009

According to a 2006 study cited by the Administration, implementation of pending plans for the federally designated HSR corridors could result in an annual reduction of 6 billion pounds of CO 2 (2.7 Louis, Kansas City, Detroit, Toledo, Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati, Indianapolis, Louisville). Florida Corridor (Orlando, Tampa, Miami).

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