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The projects, which are expected to run over four years, address battery challenges faced by industry and leverage the UK’s research capabilities to advance scientific knowledge with the aim of commercializing new battery technologies and processes. The project’s Principal Investigator is Professor Patrick Grant of the University of Oxford.

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OCTOBER 21, 2021

Johnson Matthey (JM), Echion Technologies , (Echion), Britishvolt (BV) and University College London (UCL) are grant recipients in the latest round (Round 4) of the Faraday Battery Challenge in the UK. Echion is a high-growth company spun-out of Cambridge University in 2017 to commercialize niobium oxide-based materials for anodes.

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—James Turner, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Clean Combustion Research Center, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST). Bourns College of Engineering – Center for Environmental Research and Technology, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA. Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India.

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million) Graphene Global Research and Technology Hub to commercialize graphene. There are already Graphene centers of research excellence at Manchester, Cambridge, Lancaster, Exeter, Bath, Oxford and Durham universities and Imperial College London.

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AUGUST 22, 2019

The proposed plant would take more than 500,000 tonnes each year of non-recyclable everyday household and commercial solid waste destined for landfill or incineration such as meal packaging, diapers and takeaway coffee cups and convert it into more than 60 million liters (15.85

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DECEMBER 17, 2018

Li-sulfur battery developer Oxis Energy is also leading the £7-million Lithium Sulfur Future Automotive Battery (LiSFAB) project, funded by Innovate UK, to transform electric vehicle technology for commercial use. OXIS will again team up with University College London to develop a novel, non-invasive X-Ray quality control process for cells.

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Researchers from the University of Turku in Finland, Imperial College London and University College London have devised a synthetic metabolic pathway for producing renewable propane from engineered E. coli strain to increase propane yield, although the amounts are still far too low for commercialization.

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JANUARY 30, 2011

Cella notes that the current material, while suitable for proof-of-concept work and potentially useful for the initial demonstrator projects, is not a viable commercial material: it is expensive to make and cannot be easily re-hydrided or chemically recycled. Credit: ACS, Kurban et al. Click to enlarge.

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JANUARY 21, 2011

A new Australian company has been established to produce commercial quantities of renewable hydrocarbon biofuels from algae. The company, Muradel Pty Ltd , is a joint venture of Murdoch University , Adelaide Research & Innovation Pty Ltd (the commercial development company of the University of Adelaide), and commercial partner SQC Pty Ltd.

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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. of Ontario, Canada.

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Saurabh comes with extensive experience across Asian markets along with deep knowledge of the automotive industry having worked within multiple strategic business functions such as Product Planning, Program Management, Sales Planning, Marketing, Communications and Retail / Commercial Sales.

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APRIL 15, 2015

Researchers at The University of Manchester, Imperial College London and University of Turku have made an advance toward the renewable biosynthesis of propane with the creation of a new synthetic pathway in E. coli , based on a fermentative butanol pathway. coli bacteria, using pathways based on fatty acid synthesis.

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AUGUST 7, 2012

The BP-ICAM will be modelled on a “hub and spoke” structure, with the hub located within The University of Manchester’s Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences, which has core strengths in materials, engineering, characterization, collaborative working. The University of Cambridge also has a long association with BP.

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JULY 7, 2015

The Ricardo-led FlySafe research collaboration—involving a range of leading industrial and academic partners including the University of Brighton’s Centre for Automotive Engineering—has delivered an innovative flywheel safety test environment to enable the development of next-generation flywheel energy storage systems.

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JUNE 3, 2012

Led by VantagePoint Capital Partners, a global investor in energy innovation and efficiency, the financing also included existing Ostara investor, London-based Frog Capital and a group of new investors including Waste Resources Fund L.P., Ostara Nutrient Recovery Technologies Inc., million private equity financing.

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JULY 11, 2013

The IKC, to be called SynbiCITE, will be based at Imperial College London and led by Professor Richard Kitney and Professor Paul Freemont. The main aim of SynbiCITE will be to act as an Industrial Translation Engine that can integrate university- and industry-based research in synthetic biology into industrial process and products.

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APRIL 25, 2017

The DRIVEN consortium—led by artificial intelligence company Oxbotica , which is developing next-gen autonomous vehicles—will test a fleet of fully autonomous vehicles in urban areas and on motorways, culminating in an end-to-end journey from London to Oxford. DRIVEN is supported by a £8.6-million

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London could soon replace California as the electric car capital of the world. Thanks in large part to Mayor "Red Ken" Livingstone, who enacted London's much criticized congestion charge policy in 2003. nk Global views London as a first market when it relaunches the Th!nk India's Reva was first into the market with the G-Wiz.

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JULY 27, 2022

Although the current 10-fold price spike of lithium is giving the electric vehicle market a sharp short-term shock, a study by a team from Tsinghua University indicates that it will not hinder transportation electrification in the long run. That made the cathode price increase by 140% for LiNi 0.8 —Sun et al.

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Alexander Gabay, a researcher at the University of Delaware, states flatly: “I am skeptical that any non-rare-earth permanent magnet could be used in a synchronous traction motor in the near future.” It was a stunning disclosure, which left most experts in permanent magnetism wary and perplexed. No one fully understands this,” he reports.

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Amminex, a Faurecia company, and its three partners the Technical University of Graz, Johnson Matthey, and ICCT have won the European Commission’s €1.5-million million Horizon Prize in the Engine Retrofit for Clean Air category. Earlier post.).

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million) by the UK’s Advanced Propulsion Centre to develop zero-emission Dearman Engine technology ( earlier post ) and applications, helping to move it into manufacturing and full commercial deployment. A consortium, led by Dearman, the clean cold and power technology company, has been awarded £6 million (US$7.9 Earlier post.).

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million to four separate projects (led by Stanford University, UC San Diego, Arizona State University, and Penn State) to develop multifunctional structural batteries for vehicles as part of its RANGE program for transformative EV storage. These are a trunk lid and a plenum cover, tested within the Volvo S80. Earlier post.).

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In addition to Air Canada, other CAAFCER partners include (alphabetical order) Boeing, National Research Council Canada (NRC), SkyNRG, University of Alberta, and Waterfall. The project has further financial support from the NRC and the enabling support of Air Canada ground and flight operations.

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AUGUST 24, 2023

After he graduated from the Federal University of Technology in Owerri, Nigeria, his plan was to get a high-paying job at one of the multinational oil and gas companies based in the country. It provides solutions for residential, commercial, and industrial customers as well as for unserved and underserved communities.

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JANUARY 20, 2024

based TerraPower and London- and Italy-based Newcleo should be safer and simpler to operate than conventional reactors. Vard Group is part of NuProShip , a consortium of the Norwegian maritime authority, universities, shipbuilders, and shipping companies that aims to develop a Generation IV reactor for marine vessels.

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JUNE 24, 2009

Three of the Midland’s leading universities play a major role in the scheme: Coventry University on the selection of drivers; Aston University in the analysis of vehicle usage; and the University of Birmingham in the use of hydrogen fueling station – theirs is currently one of the very few of its kind in UK.

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JANUARY 22, 2010

Ionotec Ltd (lead), Dynamic-Ceramic Ltd, Birmingham University, University College London, Aloxsys Inc. Axeon Technologies Ltd (lead), University of St Andrews, Nexeon Ltd, Ricardo UK Ltd. FLYBUS - Flywheel Based Mechanical Hybrid System for Bus & Commercial Vehicle Applications including Retrofit Programme.

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Imperial College and University College London have developed a novel stackable cell architecture that uses low cost materials and manufacturing techniques with breakthrough potential in terms of cost reduction. The regenerated catholyte then flows back to the fuel cell to absorb more electrons and protons. Click to enlarge.

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Smith Electric Vehicles is unveiling a new telemetry system specifically engineered for commercial electric vehicles at the Commercial Vehicle Operator Show 2010, Birmingham, England, 13 to 15 April. Smith Telemetry aims to simplify fleet management of commercial electric vehicles, while also reducing costs.

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The research will take place at ten UK universities and the Transport Research Laboratory. Led by Dr. Dongpu Cao at Cranfield University, with UCL as a partner, this project aims to achieve a safe engagement and smooth and swift control-authority shift between the driver and the vehicle controller during adaptive automated driving.

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OCTOBER 25, 2017

A team at University College London (UCL) has used a lung-inspired approach to designing flow fields to improve significantly the performance of polymer electrolyte fuel cells. Background.

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his best friend, Steve Crocker , wrangled permission for the two to occasionally use a Bendix G-15 computer at the University of California, Los Angeles. But when he entered Stanford University later that year, he envisioned a career in mathematics, not computer science. and University College London. universities.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2010

Hybrid Integrated Urban Commercial Vehicle. The Hybrid Integrated Urban Commercial Vehicle (HIUCV) is a lightweight Heavy Goods Vehicle designed for refuse collection in an urban environment. Jaguar Land Rover (lead company), Ford Motor Company, IAV (UK), CPT, BP, University of Nottingham, Imperial College London.

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The device went on to serve as the heart of stability-control systems in countless commercial and private aircraft and U.S. 1972, University of California, Los Angeles, both in electrical engineering; Ph.D., 1972, University of California, Los Angeles, both in electrical engineering; Ph.D., missile guidance systems, too.

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million) in the latest round of IDP10 funding from the UK’s Technology Strategy Board to support the development of a heat-recovery system for urban commercial vehicles. —Chris Reeves, Commercial Manager of Future Transport Technologies at MIRA. A consortium led by the Dearman Engine Company has been awarded £1.86 million (US$3.12

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The 25 vehicles will be driven under normal traffic conditions in Cologne, where Ford’s European division is based, said Ferdinand Dudenhoeffer, director of the Center for Automotive Research at Germany’s University of Duisburg-Essen, which is overseeing the 15 million-euro ($22 million) study. Ford, the first U.S.

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