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NTU Singapore to develop technologies to extract hydrogen from liquid organic hydrogen carriers

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Chiyoda Corporation, which is headquartered in Japan, will serve as NTU’s key partner in the project, and will offer technical contribution based on their proprietary dehydrogenation catalyst technology, SPERA Hydrogen ( earlier post ), to the University to be developed and implemented on a national scale.

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NTU scientists discover sustainable way to increase seed oil yield in crops up to 15%

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Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) scientists have developed a sustainable way to demonstrate a new genetic modification that can increase the yield of natural oil in seeds by up to 15% in laboratory conditions. increase in oil yield (by dry weight) in soybean seeds equates to a jump of US$1.26

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ExxonMobil seeking to boost growth, continue work on lower-emissions technologies including biofuels and carbon capture

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ExxonMobil expects to increase annual earnings potential by more than 140% and double potential annual cash flow from operations by 2025 from 2017 adjusted earnings, assuming a 2017 oil price of $60 per barrel adjusted for inflation and based on 2017 margins. billion barrels of discovered recoverable resource.

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OriginOil launches Hong Kong subsidiary to initiate its China commercial venture

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EWS is effective for use in water-intensive industries such as oil & gas, algae, and organic waste. Since we began actively marketing our technology at Singapore Water Week this year, we have seen major interest in petroleum and waste cleanup applications throughout East Asia and especially in China.

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Boeing proposing direct blending of renewable diesel in jet fuel; seeking approval this year

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Renewable diesel made using oils and fats is chemically similar to today’s aviation biofuels, according to Boeing analysis. James Kinder, a Technical Fellow in Boeing Commercial Airplanes Propulsion Systems Division. However, Boeing is not proposing a “universal fuel” approach, Kowal noted.

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MIT and Moscow State collaborating on advanced batteries, metal-air batteries and reversible fuel/electrolysis cells

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Researchers at the Skoltech Center for Electrochemical Energy Storage (CEES), a partnership between the MIT Materials Processing Center and Lomonosov Moscow State University, are focusing on the development of higher capacity batteries. He leads the research team at Moscow State.

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Satellite Imagery for Everyone

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The best commercially available spatial resolution for optical imagery is 25 cm, which means that one pixel represents a 25-by-25-cm area on the ground—roughly the size of your laptop. Sarah Parcak of the University of Alabama, for example, uses satellite imagery to locate archaeological sites of interest.