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DECEMBER 3, 2015

Boeing, the University of British Columbia (UBC) and SkyNRG, with support from Canada’s aviation industry and other stakeholders, are collaborating to turn leftover branches, sawdust and other forest-industry waste into sustainable aviation biofuel.

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JUNE 18, 2021

Historically, clean-burning fuels, and those that are easy to make from waste CO 2 streams or syngas, have failed to ignite using MCCI. The ClearFlame solution leverages diesel-style mixing-controlled compression ignition (MCCI). In fact, it increases power by 25%.

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DECEMBER 4, 2022

EPRI will lead the two-year project that aims to expand the available options of nuclear fuel management by creating a tool for optimizing the integration of processes for recovery of uranium from used nuclear fuel and performing an at-scale scoping study for market readiness of some of these techniques. Deep Borehole Disposal.

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OCTOBER 8, 2017

Researchers at Washington State University and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have devised a method of converting a waste product generated by the conversion of algae into bio-crude into a usable and valuable commodity. The results of the team’s research are published in the journal Bioresource Technology.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

Researchers at the University of Houston’s physics department and the Texas Center for Superconductivity, MIT and Boston College have found that indium-doped tin telluride (SnTe) shows high thermoelectric performance, with a peak figure of merit (ZT) of ?1.1 Telluride has been studied for years, said Zhifeng Ren, M.D.

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MARCH 29, 2011

Researchers from the University of Cambridge (UK) have developed a new high-yield process for recycling waste crankcase oil into gasoline-like fuel based on microwave pyrolysis—i.e., It provides a new use for a waste material that’s too-often disposed of improperly, with harm to the environment. —Lam et al.

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AUGUST 24, 2020

Researchers at the University of Cambridge, with colleagues at the University of Tokyo, have developed a standalone device that converts sunlight, carbon dioxide and water into formic acid, a carbon-neutral fuel, without requiring any additional components or electricity.

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MAY 10, 2013

Researchers from Wageningen University, The Netherlands, have concluded that “ although quite some work still has to be done” , microbial lipids—i.e., We have evaluated the lipid yield and energy use of a process for production of biodiesel from agricultural waste using lipid-accumulating yeast and fungi.

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AUGUST 31, 2022

Abilene Christian University’s (ACU) Nuclear Energy eXperimental Testing (NEXT) Lab submitted an application for a construction permit for a molten-salt research reactor (MSRR) with the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC).

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MAY 26, 2021

That needs Australia’s world class science working with CSIRO’s commercialization expertise turning breakthrough science into real-world solutions. Feasibility and strategy studies to deliver trusted advice to government, industry and the community.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2022

A team from Penn State University and start-up EC Power has developed a material-agnostic technology based on asymmetric temperature modulation with a thermally stable dual-salt electrolyte to achieve stable fast charging for Li-ion batteries. In a paper in Nature , the team reports charging of a 265?Wh?kg

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JUNE 13, 2024

Yifeng Chen Employer Trina Solar Title Assistant vice president of technology Member Grade Member Alma Maters Sun Yat-sen University, in Guangzhou, China, and Leibniz University Hannover, in Germany An incredulous Chen marveled at not only the technology but also the economics. student at Leibniz University Hannover , in Germany.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Purdue University researchers have developed a turbomachine expander that offers an efficient and safe strategy for heating and cooling. The study presented here experimentally investigates two control mechanisms and the trade-off between performance and control of each when applied to an expander. —Barta et al. 2019.12.027.

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JULY 10, 2022

The money will help projects further develop their greenhouse gas removal technologies, which include a machine that can pull carbon dioxide out of the air, a plant to convert household waste into hydrogen for use in the transport industry, and a system to remove carbon dioxide from seawater. Biohydrogen Greenhouse Gas Removal Demonstration”.

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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. The US generated 251 million tons of municipal solid wastes in 2006, of which plastics accounted for 11.7 million tons.

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AUGUST 13, 2022

The team comprising experts from LANL, Idaho National Laboratory, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Sandia National Laboratories, and Carnegie Mellon University will lead the five-year partnership. Then, researchers can connect those effects to engineering-scale material performance to inform design decisions and safety analyses.

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JULY 11, 2011

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has selected eight new projects to further advanced coal research under the University Coal Research Program. Princeton University, Princeton, NJ. University of Colorado, Boulder, Colo. Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa. University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wis. DOE Share: $300,000).

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NOVEMBER 2, 2017

An EU- and nationally-funded project led by VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, called IndZyme, is investigating if these enzymes are capable of breaking down agricultural waste better than current commercial enzymes. Lignocellulosic agricultural waste is among the most common renewable biomass resources.

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JANUARY 27, 2023

Financing for novel biorefinery process systems can be a barrier to commercializing advanced biofuels, and this funding will reduce technological uncertainties and enable industry deployment. This project will demonstrate the conversion of gaseous carbon wood wastes (terpenes) to renewable Terpenes SAF blending components.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Rio Tinto’s technical experts will work with partners including the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), which has demonstrated carbon mineralization technology in Washington state; Columbia University; Carbfix; and Advantek Waste Management Services.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

A new way of anchoring individual iridium atoms to the surface of a catalyst significantly increased its efficiency in splitting water molecules, scientists from the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford University reported in an open-access paper in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). …we

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JANUARY 19, 2010

Schematic of systems considered in the study. A paper on the study was published online 19 January in the ACS journal Environmental Science & Technology. However, an exhaustive study of existing and proposed conversion technologies does not change the realities of the cultivation impacts. Credit: ACS, Clarens et al.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

Ricardo is advancing its work with two novel technologies to improve the efficiency of heavy-duty goods vehicles: a cryogenic split-cycle engine “ CryoPower ” ( earlier post ), and a low-carbon waste-heat powered microwave fuel reformer “ HeatWave II ”. In an isothermal process, the temperature is constant.).

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APRIL 30, 2013

The project survey will include identifying barriers to standardizing, researching methods to implement battery system standards, and recommending potential paths to the commercial adoption of battery standards. Anaergia Services of Carlsbad received $395,121 to demonstrate a process which will convert green waste into renewable natural gas.

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AUGUST 18, 2019

They have patented and scaled-up the process in lab demonstrations and are working with ORNL’s licensee Momentum Technologies to scale the process further to produce commercial batches of rare earth oxides. No commercialized process currently recycles pure rare earth elements from electronic-waste magnets. —Ramesh Bhave.

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JUNE 2, 2013

kW renewable energy system being studied for potential commercialization by a combined team from Ad Astra Rocket Company, Cummins Inc. and EARTH University in Costa Rica. In addition, biogas production from biodigestors is being studied by EARTH University.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2015

Switching from diesel fuel to natural gas may hold advantages for the US heavy-duty trucking fleet, but more needs to be done to reach the full environmental benefits, according to a new white paper released by the Institute of Transportation Studies at the University of California, Davis, and Rice University.

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JULY 5, 2017

Researchers at Feng Chia University in Taiwan have engineered the bacterium Escherichia coli to produce n-butanol from crude glycerol—a byproduct of the production of biodiesel. A commercialized bioprocess of n-butanol can be readily realized by a cost-effective feedstock. In this study, E.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2022

The Rice lab of chemist James Tour has successfully extracted valuable rare earth elements (REE) from waste at yields high enough to resolve issues for manufacturers while boosting their profits. An open-acess paper on their study appears in Science Advances. —Deng et al. Rare earth elements aren’t actually rare.

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DECEMBER 18, 2015

At the Sea-Tac fuel farm earlier this week, executives for the port, Alaska Airlines, and Boeing signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to launch a $250,000 Biofuel Infrastructure Feasibility Study that will assess costs and infrastructure necessary to deliver a blend of aviation biofuel and conventional jet fuel to aircraft at Sea-Tac.

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OCTOBER 15, 2009

Coskata’s semi-commercial facility in Madison, Pa. a syngas to ethanol company, officially launched its semi-commercial “Flexethanol” facility located in Madison, PA. A study earlier this year by researchers at Argonne National Laboratory examining consumptive water use in fuel production ( earlier post ) found that: 3.4

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JULY 22, 2018

West Virginia University (WVU) researchers are opening a new facility to capture rare earth elements (REEs) from acid mine drainage (AMD) from coal mining. It follows on an earlier, phase-one project , worth $937,000, to study acid mine drainage as feedstock for rare-earth extraction. —Paul Ziemkiewicz.

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MARCH 30, 2012

There is significant potential for the expansion of bio-based automotive parts and components manufacturing in the US Great Lakes region, according to a newly-released study conducted by the Center for Automotive Research (CAR), a nonprofit research organization based in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Commercialization.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2017

A University of Washington team is trying to make poplar an economically viable biofuel feedstock by testing the production of younger poplar trees that could be harvested more frequently—after only two or three years—instead of the usual 10- to 20-year cycle. Chang Dou/University of Washington. Click to enlarge.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

These efforts aim to design initial engineering studies to develop technologies to capture CO 2 generated as a byproduct of manufacturing at industrial sites. will prepare an initial engineering design study to use commercial-scale membrane CO 2 capture technology at the CEMEX Balcones cement plant in New Braunfels, TX.

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JANUARY 20, 2024

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. The feasibility study with Fincantieri will guide how the two companies develop the technology for marine use.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2023

But we do actually need that energy to be generated,” says Alper Bozkurt, who with Veena Misra codirects the Center for Advanced Self-Powered Systems of Integrated Sensors and Technologies (ASSIST) at North Carolina State University. But solar is just the opening gambit. milliwatts. The team next turned to 3D printing.

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