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OCTOBER 29, 2021
ClearFlame Engine Technologies , a startup developing net-zero engine technology ( earlier post ), has secured $17 million in Series A financing, which will enable commercialization of the company’s innovative engine technology for the long-haul trucking, agriculture and power generation sectors.
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OCTOBER 22, 2018
The project goal is to understand how the fuel mix ignites and reacts in diesel engines used in commercial trucks. Of interest are a fuel’s burn rate and propensity to form particulate matter or soot often found in an engine’s exhaust stream. —Haibo Huang.
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JUNE 3, 2016
ORNL scientists Zach Sims, Michael McGuire and Orlando Rios, along with colleagues from Eck, LLNL and Ames Laboratory in Iowa, discuss the technical and economic possibilities for aluminum–cerium alloys in an article in JOM , a publication of the Minerals, Metals & Materials Society. At an alloy cost of less than $10.00/kg,
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MAY 4, 2009
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. billion tons of commercial and industrial wastes each year that also contains a considerable quantity of plastics. Credit: ACS. Click to enlarge.
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AUGUST 16, 2016
SuperTruck II builds on the successful SuperTruck I program, which has already led to more than twenty fuel saving technologies that have reached the commercial market, said Acting Assistant Secretary David Friedman. Iowa State University. valve faces, piston crowns, and exhaust ports) to improve fuel economy. Description.
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NOVEMBER 1, 2011
A diathermic oil loop acts as heat carrier between turbine exhaust and the working fluid cyclopentane; the working fluid vaporizes and expands in the turbo expander which, coupled with the power generator, produces electricity. The fluid vapor then condenses, closing the loop. The Alliance Pipeline transports approximately 1.6
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OCTOBER 19, 2015
Researchers at Iowa State have developed a new hybrid optimization control method to improve diesel engine emissions and performance. The genetic algorithm (GA), originally developed in the 1960s and 70s, came into commercial use in the late 1980s with the advent of more accessible commercial tools. Obayashi, Y.
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