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SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

in close collaboration with GTI and The University of Texas at Austin, has launched a US Department of Energy project, Demonstration and Framework for H2@Scale in Texas and Beyond. The project is supported by DOE’s Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technologies Office within the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy.

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JANUARY 13, 2022

The selected projects include: Geothermix, LLC (Austin, TX) Geothermix will harvest waste heat from existing oil and gas wells in Texas to generate commercial quantities of geothermal electricity. ICE Thermal Harvesting (Houston, TX). University of Oklahoma (Norman, OK). Transitional Energy (Aurora, CO).

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OCTOBER 14, 2021

Shell and the consortium partners—including McDermott’s CB&I Storage Solutions, NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, GenH2 and the University of Houston—have been selected by the U.S. The University of Houston will focus their efforts on the creation of detailed thermal models of the proposed insulation systems.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

To reduce the number of accidents in the global oil and gas industry caused by damaged pipelines, University of Houston researchers are developing an autonomous robot to identify potential pipeline leaks and structural failures during subsea inspections. Rendering of the SmartTouch technology now in development.

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APRIL 10, 2021

Syzygy Plasmonics, a technology company developing a high-performance photocatalyst for the industrial gas, chemical and energy industries, announced a $23-million Series B financing led by Horizons Ventures with participation from new global investors including Equinor Ventures. Earlier post.). of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.

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AUGUST 21, 2012

IH 2 technology involves use of internally generated hydrogen and a series of proprietary catalysts. We will be designing commercial-scale facilities that could produce as much as 300,000 gallons per day from the same kinds of feedstocks. IH 2 technology has the capability to produce gasoline at a cost of less than $2.00

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

A team of researchers from the University of Houston and the California Institute of Technology has developed an active and durable earth-abundant transition metal dichalcogenide-based hybrid catalyst for water-splitting that exhibits high hydrogen evolution activity approaching the state-of-the-art platinum catalysts.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2022

A reaction cell (left) and the photocatalytic platform (right) used on tests of copper-iron plasmonic photocatalysts for hydrogen production from ammonia at Syzygy Plasmonics in Houston. —Hossein Robatjazi, chief scientist at Houston-based Syzygy Plasmonics. Courtesy of Syzygy Plasmonics, Inc.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

The NSF grant will address challenges that remain before the renewable strategy can be applied practically on a commercial scale. Koch School of Chemical Engineering Practice at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; and Yuanyue Liu, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Texas at Austin.

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JANUARY 29, 2021

A team of researchers led by Zhifeng Ren, director of the Texas Center for Superconductivity at the University of Houston, has developed an oxygen-evolving catalyst that takes just minutes to grow at room temperature on commercially available nickel foam. If the cost is prohibitive, it will not make it to market.

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JULY 25, 2011

Houston-based Terrabon, Inc. million, 18-month contract by Logos Technologies to design a more economical and renewable jet fuel (BioJet) production solution for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). has been awarded a $9.6-million, Earlier post.) Earlier post.).

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AUGUST 4, 2021

The project is supported by DOE’s Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technologies Office within the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy. At the Port of Houston, the project team will conduct a feasibility study for scaling up hydrogen production and use.

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DECEMBER 16, 2022

ALLEN MEDAL Sponsor: IBM LYDIA KAVRAKI Rice University Houston “For foundational probabilistic algorithms and randomized search methods that have broad impact in robotic motion planning and computational biology.” IEEE MEDAL FOR ENVIRONMENTAL AND SAFETY TECHNOLOGIES Sponsor: Toyota Motor Corp. IEEE FRANCES E. IEEE RICHARD W.

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JULY 13, 2016

Alphabet Energy, a startup commercializing low-cost, efficient thermoelectric materials for power generation leveraging technology initially developed at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory ( earlier post , earlier post ), has closed a $23.5-million million Series C round of financing.

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MAY 22, 2012

All of the projects aim to develop and validate new technologies to enhance safety and environmental sustainability. The research contracts will be administered by the Research Partnership to Secure Energy for America, under the management of the Office of Fossil Energy’s National Energy Technology Laboratory. million in federal funds.

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JULY 18, 2023

Christopher Davis Codeveloper of a lunar retroreflector Life Fellow, 78; died 1 April Davis taught engineering at the University of Maryland in College Park for 48 years. He left two years later and joined the faculty in the University of Maryland’s electrical and computer engineering department. He joined IEEE in 1963.

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MARCH 17, 2017

BIOX Corporation, a renewable energy company that owns and operates biodiesel production facilities, is working with Forge Hydrocarbons ( earlier post ) to explore the co-location of a renewable diesel production facility using Forge technology on the existing BIOX site in Sombra, Ontario. BIOX acquired a 50-million-liter (13.2-million-gallon)

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FEBRUARY 14, 2012

The Gas Technology Institute (GTI) in Des Plaines, IL, recently added a new Pilot-Scale IH 2 Plant to broaden biomass-to-liquid hydrocarbon fuel conversion. IH 2 technology is a catalytic thermochemical process that promises to be a very cost-effective route to produce liquid transportation fuels from renewable resources.

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MARCH 4, 2015

Researchers at the University of Houston, with their colleagues at Boston College, have created a new thermoelectric material—germanium-doped magnesium stannide (Mg 2 Sn 0.75 Opeil of Boston College, and Stephen Wilson of the University of California at Santa Barbara. for high power generation” PNAS doi: 10.1073/pnas.1424388112.

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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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APRIL 14, 2017

Chicago, Portland, Boston, Seattle, Philadelphia, Denver, Houston, Miami, and Raleigh—and several highway corridors. In addition, other use cases/technologies are also under consideration including targeted battery storage to manage peak demand and ease grid loads, etc. Background. As required by Appendix C to the 2.0-Liter

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OCTOBER 22, 2021

And sometimes, a person is physically unable to create sufficient sweat volumes to analyze with existing technologies. The technology, developed by Dallas-based EnLiSense LLC and the University of Texas at Dallas , is promising enough that the U.S. Reading off a person's glucose and cortisol levels is the goal. www.youtube.com.

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JUNE 3, 2014

Scientists in the Rice University lab of chemist James Tour have developed materials that offer a lower cost, less energy-intensive way to separate carbon dioxide from natural gas at wellheads. All of this works in ambient temperatures, unlike current high-temperature capture technologies that use up a portion of the energy being produced.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

“Over the past 15 years, the emphasis has moved toward using [these materials] less as high-temperature superconductors and more as high-field superconductors,” says Venkat Selvamanickam , who directs the Applied Research Hub of the Texas Center for Superconductivity at the University of Houston.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2022

The US Department of Energy (DOE) today announced $175 million for 68 research and development projects aimed at developing novel advanced energy technologies. Led by DOE’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E), the OPEN 2021 program prioritizes funding high-impact, high-risk technologies that support novel approaches.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2009

The Sanga-Sanga CBM PSC, which will be connected to the Bontang LNG, has the potential to become the first “CBM to LNG” integrated project, enabling rapid gas commercialization. As yet there is no commercial CBM production in the country. The Sanga-Sanga CBM PSC was awarded to a consortium comprising VICO (7.5%

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OCTOBER 3, 2009

Houston-based Ingrain , a provider of digital rock physics services to oil and gas companies worldwide, is now using a Carl Zeiss SMT AURIGA CrossBeam workstation to improve the analysis of shale rock’s porosity and permeability in order to more accurately predict the shale’s suitability for the commercial extraction of oil or gas.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

The new ARPA-E selections focus on accelerating innovations in clean technology while increasing US competitiveness in rare earth alternatives and breakthroughs in biofuels, thermal storage, grid controls, and solar power electronics. REACT: Rare Earth Alternatives in Critical Technologies ($31.6 University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

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JUNE 20, 2011

The awards recognize pioneering chemical technologies developed by leading researchers and industrial innovators who are making significant contributions to pollution prevention in the United States. Genomatica expects to begin commercial production of Bio-BDO in 2012. billion in 2011 to $98.5 billion by 2020.

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AUGUST 26, 2009

The vehicles and infrastructure being funded include the use of natural and renewable gas, propane, ethanol, biodiesel, electricity, and hybrid technologies. The project will deploy 502 alternative fuel and advanced technology vehicles through 119 public and private fleets throughout the state. Total DOE award: $15,000,000.

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APRIL 25, 2021

Researchers from the University of Houston, with colleagues at the University of São Paolo in Brazil, have demonstrated how copper-resistant bacterium from a copper mine in Brazil convert CuSO 4 (copper sulfate) ions into zero-valent Cu (metallic copper). An open-access paper on their research is published in Science Advances.

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JULY 27, 2017

A new robust and highly active bifunctional catalyst developed by Rice University and the University of Houston splits water into hydrogen and oxygen without the need for expensive metals such as platinum. Credit: Desmond Schipper/Rice University). Click to enlarge. Click to enlarge.

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AUGUST 11, 2014

GMZ Energy, a provider of advanced nano-structured thermoelectric generation technology, was co-founded by MITs Professor Gang Chen and collaborator Zhifeng Ren of the University of Houston. The project is using Half-Heusler (HH) thermoelectric materials ( earlier post ) in designing the vehicular TEG systems. W/cm 2 to 6.0

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MAY 5, 2023

KIMLAB ] The Star Wars universe does have a thing for gold legged robots. Clearpath ] A2Z Drone Delivery, Inc, developer of commercial drone delivery solutions, has just announced the release of its latest flagship commercial delivery drone, the A2Z Drone Delivery RDSX Pelican. Please send us your events for inclusion.

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Nevada, which has the only commercial U.S. It’s confusing,” said Brady Murphy, CEO of Tetra Technologies , which aims to produce lithium with partner Exxon Mobil. Nevada, which has the only commercial U.S. Reinjection is a key step to preserve underground water table levels.

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APRIL 21, 2009

Electric car supporters are rising to defend General Motors’ development of the Chevy Volt after the Obama Administration’s automotive task force proclaimed that the car was probably too expensive to be commercially successful in the near future. Supporters of the car say that’s shortsighted. rolls toward bankruptcy. and Chrysler. .’s

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