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TdVib commercializing CMI technology for recycling rare earth elements from electronic waste

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FEBRUARY 28, 2022

A team of researchers from the Critical Materials Institute (CMI), a US Department of Energy Innovation Hub led by the Ames Laboratory, developed a novel way to extract rare earth elements from the high-powered magnets in electronic waste ( earlier post ). —Kevin Stoll, the engineering project manager of TdVib.

Waste

Waste Commercial Iowa Wind

ClearFlame Engine Technologies secures $2.5M to advance diesel-free truck demonstration; ethanol-fueled MCCI

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JUNE 18, 2021

ClearFlame Engine Technologies , a growing startup dedicated to the development of clean engine technology ( earlier post ), secured $2.5 million in additional financing from several investors, including the Iowa, Minnesota, Kansas and Illinois Corn Growers Associations. In fact, it increases power by 25%.

Diesel

Diesel Engine Fuel Iowa

DARPA selects 3 university teams to investigate small-footprint recycling of critical elements in e-waste; RPOD

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JUNE 14, 2022

RPOD will evaluate the technical feasibility of recovering multiple low-volume fraction critical elements present in end-of-life electronics hardware (e-waste). The program seeks to develop small-footprint platforms with greatly reduced energy consumption and waste generation in the extraction process.

Waste

Waste Universal Iowa Massachusetts

Project LIBERTY cellulosic ethanol plant comes online; corn waste as feedstock

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

POET-DSM’s long-anticipated Project LIBERTY , the US’ first commercial-scale cellulosic ethanol plant to use corn waste as a feedstock ( earlier post ), began production today. Once operating at full, commercial-scale, the biorefinery in Emmetsburg, Iowa will produce 25 million gallons of cellulosic ethanol per year.

Waste

Waste Iowa Florida Conversion

Polystyrene-Biodiesel Blends for Energy Recovery from Waste Plastics

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MAY 4, 2009

Comparisons of NO x , CO, soot, and engine brake power using different PS blends with the factory-set injection timings. Researchers at Iowa State University are proposing dissolving waste polystyrene (PS) in biodiesel for use as a diesel engine fuel as a mechanism for energy recovery from the waste plastic.

Waste

Waste Energy Iowa Diesel

US DOE to award nearly $18M to 4 biorefinery projects for mil-spec renewable hydrocarbon fuels

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APRIL 22, 2013

The US Department of Energy (DOE) will award nearly $18 million to four innovative pilot-scale biorefineries in California, Iowa and Washington that will produce and test drop-in renewable biofuels that meet military specifications for jet fuel and shipboard diesel. The projects selected for negotiation are: Frontline Bioenergy LLC (up to $4.2

Renewable

Renewable Iowa Fuel Waste

3 winners of DOE’s “America’s Next Top Energy Innovator” Challenge: hydrogen-assisted lean-burn engines, graphene for Li-air and -sulfur batteries, and titanium process

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FEBRUARY 11, 2012

The three winning companies are: Umpqua Energy , a startup company based in Medford, Oregon, is using an Argonne National Laboratory technology to develop a system that allows a gasoline engine to operate in an extreme lean burn mode in order to increase gasoline mileage.

Hydrogen

Hydrogen Engine Energy Batteries

NSF Awards RAPID Response Grant to Modular Genetics and University Collaborators to Develop Bio-Dispersants for Oil Spill Clean-Up

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AUGUST 28, 2010

and scientists and engineers at Columbia University, Iowa State University (ISU) and the Louisiana State University Agricultural Center to support work on production and testing of bio-dispersants that can replace the chemical dispersants currently used for oil spill management. In the paper, BIO cites Dr. P.

Universal

Universal Oil Grant Iowa

DOE selects 8 new advanced coal projects for funding by University Coal Research Program

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JULY 11, 2011

Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa. In a three-pronged approach, the Iowa team will develop an uncertainty quantification (UQ) procedure that will be implemented in MFIX for the investigation of uncertainty as it applies to various parameters in bubbling fluidized beds and riser flows. DOE Share: $300,000). DOE Share: $299,956).

Coal

Coal Universal Iowa Utah

Iowa State to manage biorefinery projects for new Manufacturing USA Institute

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DECEMBER 23, 2016

Iowa State University will bring its expertise in biorenewable technologies and pilot plant operations to the country’s 10th Manufacturing USA Institute. Such process intensification could boost manufacturing productivity while cutting costs and reducing waste. of Adel; and the Iowa Energy Center. Earlier post.)

Iowa

Iowa USA Manufacturer St. Louis

USDA provides $91M loan guarantee to Cool Planet for biogasoline blendstock plant; biomass pyrolysis and catalytic conversion

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OCTOBER 5, 2014

As each of the following stages heat and compress the biomass, it will outgas commercially viable bio-intermediary compounds that are then taken off to catalytic reaction chambers. Site preparation and detailed engineering design work is currently underway, and the company expects to start construction before the end of the year.

Conversion

Conversion Renewable Water Gasoline

ARPA-E Awards $151M to 37 Projects for Transformative Energy Research

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OCTOBER 26, 2009

Waste Heat Capture (2 projects). will develop a commercially viable process for the production of bio-butanol, an advanced biofuel, from seaweed (macroalgae). Scaling and Commercialization of Algae Harvesting Technologies. Earlier post.) Biomass Energy (5 projects). Carbon Capture (5 projects). Direct Solar Fuels (5 projects).

Energy

Energy Grant Low Cost Li-ion

Perspective: Regional Greenhouse Gas Cap-and-Trade Programs May be the Solution

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APRIL 10, 2010

In 2015–expanded to emissions from residential, commercial, and other industrial combustion, and transportation fuels. states (Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin) and one Canadian province (Manitoba). Donovan is an engineer and attorney with over thirty-four years of international business experience.

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TdVib commercializing CMI technology for recycling rare earth elements from electronic waste

ClearFlame Engine Technologies secures $2.5M to advance diesel-free truck demonstration; ethanol-fueled MCCI

DARPA selects 3 university teams to investigate small-footprint recycling of critical elements in e-waste; RPOD

Project LIBERTY cellulosic ethanol plant comes online; corn waste as feedstock

Polystyrene-Biodiesel Blends for Energy Recovery from Waste Plastics

US DOE to award nearly $18M to 4 biorefinery projects for mil-spec renewable hydrocarbon fuels

3 winners of DOE’s “America’s Next Top Energy Innovator” Challenge: hydrogen-assisted lean-burn engines, graphene for Li-air and -sulfur batteries, and titanium process

NSF Awards RAPID Response Grant to Modular Genetics and University Collaborators to Develop Bio-Dispersants for Oil Spill Clean-Up

DOE selects 8 new advanced coal projects for funding by University Coal Research Program

Iowa State to manage biorefinery projects for new Manufacturing USA Institute

USDA provides $91M loan guarantee to Cool Planet for biogasoline blendstock plant; biomass pyrolysis and catalytic conversion

ARPA-E Awards $151M to 37 Projects for Transformative Energy Research

Perspective: Regional Greenhouse Gas Cap-and-Trade Programs May be the Solution

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