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JULY 18, 2009

Exide Technologies entered into a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) with the US Department of Energy’s Savannah River National Laboratory (SRNL) and the University of Idaho to develop and commercialize improvements on lead-acid battery technology for applications including hybrid electric vehicles and renewable energy storage.

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JUNE 4, 2020

After completing a major body of research focused on boosted (also known as turbocharged) spark ignition (SI) engines in Fiscal Year (FY) 2018, Co-Optima’s FY 2019 LD research and development (R&D) shifted to multimode solutions that employ multiple engine operating modes to maximize engine efficiency and fuel economy.

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JANUARY 16, 2021

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced the availability of grant funding to implement projects which reduce emissions from the nation’s existing fleet of older diesel engines. Region 10 (Alaska, Idaho, Oregon, Washington) will accept applications requesting up to $1,000,000 in grant funds. Background.

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AUGUST 13, 2022

Then, researchers can connect those effects to engineering-scale material performance to inform design decisions and safety analyses. The team comprising experts from LANL, Idaho National Laboratory, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Sandia National Laboratories, and Carnegie Mellon University will lead the five-year partnership.

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MAY 28, 2014

The company will use the funds to perform the engineering and testing needed to proceed through the Nuclear Regulatory Commission Design Certification Process. This will allow NuScale to meet a commercial operation date of 2023 for its first planned project, in Idaho, with partners Energy NorthWest and Utah Associated Municipal Power Systems.

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APRIL 21, 2016

NanoSteel’s commercially produced automotive sheet steel overcomes the historical tradeoff between strength and formability by delivering exceptional levels of both properties at the same time (approximately 1200 MPa tensile strength and 50% elongation).

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JUNE 28, 2019

Ten blendstocks from four chemical familes with the greatest potential to increase boosted SI engine efficiency (as determined by merit function scores). Co-Optima research and analysis identified the fuel properties needed for optimal operation of boosted SI LD engines through development of a merit function. Source: DOE.

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JANUARY 20, 2024

Department of Energy commissioned the American Bureau of Shipping to conduct a study, recently concluded, to identify suitable reactors for a merchant ship and describe R&D challenges that would have to be overcome before nuclear-powered shipping could become a commercial reality. Why nuclear-powered ships? Why nuclear-powered ships?

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DECEMBER 14, 2016

SAE International is working to ensure that electric vehicle wireless power transfer systems from different manufacturers can interoperate seamlessly with each other to prepare for commercialization in 2020. Idaho National Lab and TDK has provided invaluable bench data to validate SAE J2954 Wireless Power Transfer. Earlier post.)

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DECEMBER 12, 2013

The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced an award to NuScale Power LLC to support a new project to design, certify and help commercialize innovative small modular reactors (SMRs) in the United States. The award follows a funding opportunity announcement in March 2013. Earlier post.).

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The number of EVs on the road versus internal combustion engine vehicles – EV fleet share. The bottom overall US states in the HERE – SBD Automotive EV Index: (42) Wisconsin (43) Indiana (44) Louisiana (45) Kentucky (46) Texas (47) Nebraska (48) Tennessee (49) Idaho (50) Arkansas (51) Alaska.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2016

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced the availability of $26 million in grant funding to establish clean diesel projects aimed at reducing emissions from the US’ existing fleet of diesel engines. Grant funds may be used for clean diesel projects that use: EPA-verified retrofit technologies or certified engine configurations.

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JANUARY 15, 2016

X-energy—partnering with BWX Technology, Oregon State University, Teledyne-Brown Engineering, SGL Group, Idaho National Laboratory, and Oak Ridge National Laboratory—will solve design and fuel development challenges of the Xe-100 Pebble Bed Advanced Reactor.

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DECEMBER 11, 2013

Idaho National Laboratory researchers recently released independent testing results of a wireless charging system designed for plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs). Evatran supported the testing process with engineering input. Source: INL. Click to enlarge. The system tested, Evatran’s Plugless 3.3 Efficiency results at 3.3 100 mm gap.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2024

The challenge will conclude later this year, and prototypes will likely be ready for commercialization in 2025. By controlling the compressor motor’s speed, and improving the timing of when vapor is injected into the compressor, engineers have made heat pumps efficient in colder temperatures.

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JANUARY 9, 2013

CMI will leverage these existing research programs into a larger, coordinated effort designed to eliminate materials criticality as an impediment to the commercialization of clean energy technologies. CMI, headquartered at Ames Laboratory, will be directed by Alex King, currently the director of Ames Lab.

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AUGUST 1, 2020

Scientists from Idaho National Laboratory and the University of California San Diego have shown that slow, low-energy charging causes lithium atoms to deposit on electrodes in a disorganized way that improves charging behavior. The ideal deposit density should be consistent with the theoretical density of Li metal (0.534 g cm –3 ).

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DECEMBER 6, 2021

Developed by scientists from Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Idaho National Laboratory in the Department of Energy’s Critical Materials Institute (CMI), the technology provides insight into how to separate in-demand rare-earth elements cost-effectively, which could shift the industry to benefit producers in the United States.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2017

SAE International is working to ensure that electric vehicle wireless power transfer systems from diverse manufacturers will interoperate seamlessly with each other to prepare for commercialization in 2020. The last, noted Ryan Hart from the California Air Resources Board (ARB) in his talk at the SAE symposium, is not a negligible problem.).

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MAY 21, 2010

Idaho State University - $650,000. If commercially successful, small modular reactors would significantly expand the options for nuclear power and its applications, and may prove advantageous compared to the Generation III+ nuclear plants in terms of economics, performance, and security. Idaho State University - $1,287,921.

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MAY 27, 2023

Schweitzer III Employer: Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories Title: President and CTO Member grade: Life Fellow Alma maters: Purdue University, West Lafayette, Ind.; Washington State University, Pullman To develop and manufacture his relay, he launched Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories in 1982 from his basement in Pullman, Wash.

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JUNE 9, 2009

Researchers from Idaho National Laboratory (INL) and GE Global Research are collaborating on a two-year, public-private partnership project designed to optimize an Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC) process to convert low-temperature waste heat (below 500 °) from gas turbine or reciprocating engine exhaust to produce electricity.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2014

At the recent SAE 2014 Hybrid & Electric Vehicle Technologies Symposium, engineers addressed different aspects of the development of wireless electric vehicle charging (WEVC) in three different presentations. Matt Shirk from the Idaho National Laboratory reported on the testing of the PLUGLESS Level 2 EV Charging System (3.3

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MARCH 4, 2011

The same principle is used to power jet engines today. This machine is basically a jet engine running on a hot liquid. MPa enable the system to operate with very high thermal efficiency, exceeding even those of a large coal-generated power plant and nearly twice as efficient as that of a gasoline engine (about 25%). 2009.03.017.

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MARCH 11, 2016

The US Department of Energy (DOE) selected 33 small businesses to work directly with DOE national labs to accelerate the commercialization of new clean energy technologies. Element One will validate the performance of its sensors for commercialization in several different markets. KWJ Engineering, working with LANL/ NREL.

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JUNE 26, 2021

The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced more than $30 million in federal funding, matched by more than $35 million in private sector funds, for 68 projects that will accelerate the commercialization of promising energy technologies—ranging from clean energy and advanced manufacturing, to building efficiency and next-generation materials.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2016

The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced that an agreement has been reached to support possible siting of an innovative small modular reactor (SMR) project within DOE’s Idaho National Laboratory (INL) site. NuScale Power has developed a small, scalable pressurized water reactor technology, engineered with passive safety features.

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JUNE 24, 2009

ClearFuels and Rentech will integrate ClearFuels’ BTG technology platform with Rentech’s Fischer-Tropsch Process for the production of certified renewable synthetic jet and diesel fuels at commercial-scale facilities. This joint demonstration is anticipated to lead to the final design basis for the commercial facilities.

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JUNE 21, 2016

Information Systems Associates; Loman CSI-Consortium/Resource; Makai Ocean engineering; Martin Control Systems; Nila; Nimbis Services; One Cycle Control; Process Systems Enterprise Inc.; Georgia Institute of Technology; Idaho National Laboratory; Jet Propulsion National Laboratory; Lamar U.; Missouri U. Purdue U. .;

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MAY 13, 2020

The Transformational Challenge Reactor Demonstration Program’s approach to nuclear energy leverages advances from ORNL in manufacturing, materials, nuclear science, nuclear engineering, high-performance computing, data analytics and related fields. —Thomas Zacharia.

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APRIL 22, 2016

The 2016 Chevrolet Volt with an electric range of 53 miles [ 2 ] is the first commercial car that almost qualifies as a PHEVLER. PHEVLERs of the future should be made with flex-fuel engines that can use any blend of biofuel to serve all of their liquid fuel needs. About the authors. Dr. Andrew A.

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JULY 21, 2016

Loan guarantees can be an important tool to commercialize innovative technologies because these projects may be unable to obtain full commercial financing due to the perceived risks associated with technology that has never been deployed at commercial scale in the United States. Idaho National Laboratory.

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JUNE 19, 2009

Commercialization of those technologies must start in the next decade, noted ARB Executive Officer Tom Cackette in a presentation at the recent Advanced Automotive Battery Conference. In ARB’s analysis, most vehicles on the road in 2050 will need to be electric drive, or ultra low-carbon fuel vehicles—i.e., Earlier post. ).

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JANUARY 15, 2023

a nuclear engineer at the Nuclear Innovation Alliance think tank. I think, in the next 15, 20 years, there is going to be a real chance for SMRs to be commercially available and widely deployed.” NuScale has plans to build a US plant in Idaho by 2030; the company is involved in the UK , Poland , and Romania as well.

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OCTOBER 5, 2020

Jervois currently is a cobalt company with nickel and copper exposure, with mining assets in Idaho, Uganda, and Australia. Jervois intends for the SMP acquisition to transform it into a vertically integrated producer when the Idaho Cobalt Operations (ICO) commences commercial production. lb of contained cobalt.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2015

As an initiating step, Idaho National Lab will serve as the GAIN integrator for Office of Nuclear Energy capabilities. Designing a Modernized LWR Control Room: DOE is partnering with Arizona Public Service’s Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station to design a modernized control room for an operating commercial LWR.

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JULY 17, 2015

The PHEV (Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle), a subset of the electric car, combines a primary electric motor with a much smaller back-up engine fueled with a hydrocarbon/biofuel mix. (In Engineering Advantages of PHEV. Engineering Advantages of the PHEV. This engineering solution allows versatility. Table of Contents.

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