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Oxford Resource Partners and Mendel Biotechnology, Inc. Launch Miscanthus Biomass Pilot Project on Reclaimed Mine Land in Ohio

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Oxford Resource Partners, LP, a low-cost producer of high-value steam coal in Northern Appalachia and the Illinois Basin, and Mendel Biotechnology, Inc. The goal of the project is to demonstrate the feasibility and economic viability of biomass production from dedicated energy crops in eastern Ohio. Mendel Biotechnology, Inc.

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Maxwell Technologies to receive more than $500K in funding for collaborative energy storage programs

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Maxwell will also receive more than $200,000 in funding through energy storage technology collaborations with two Ohio-based materials producers that have been awarded development grants from that state’s Ohio Third Frontier program. One involves testing and evaluation of advanced activated carbons produced by Calgon Carbon Corp.

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Students Use Their Tech Know-How to Protect the Environment

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Waterproof sensors that track flooding As part of the Sunny Day Flooding Project, Katherine Anarde, assistant professor in North Carolina State University’s Environmental, Water Resources, and Coastal Engineering Group [right] and another researcher install low-cost water-level sensors in storm drains.

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President Obama announces two new public-private manufacturing innovation institutes; new manufacturing innovation institute competition

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9 Universities and Labs: Colorado School of Mines; Michigan State University; Michigan Tech University; The Ohio State University; University of Kentucky; University of Michigan; University of Notre Dame; University of Tennessee; Wayne State University. .; UTRC; Wolf Robotics. UTRC; Wolf Robotics. Digital Manufacturing And Design Innovation.

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Climate Change is NSF Engineering Alliance’s Top Research Priority

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She is a vice president for knowledge enterprise at Ohio State University , in Columbus. One identified priority was research to develop low-cost coatings for buildings and roads to reduce heat effects and increase self-cooling. The climate change task force released its report last month.

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$3M Award Supports Production of New Multi-tasking Fuzzy Fiber Nanomaterial; Energy Applications

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This means we can produce the material at a low cost, and it also means we can produce pieces big enough to cover an aircraft. Khalid Lafdi. Lafdi and his team have been producing 500 feet of 12-inch-wide fabric per day at a pilot plant in UDRI’s Shroyer Park Center.

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DOE to award funding to 10 projects at 9 universities for high-hydrogen-fueled turbine technology development

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The project will provide a comprehensive experimental investigation of the structure and dynamics of the reacting flow field for jets injected into a subsonic crossflow in order to better understand how these reacting jets form NO x , and how they might couple with the combustion dynamics that are prevalent in low-NO x systems.

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