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DECEMBER 22, 2022

Fulcrum BioEnergy, a clean energy company pioneering the creation of renewable, drop-in transportation fuels from landfill waste, successfully produced a low-carbon synthetic crude oil using landfill waste as a feedstock at its Sierra BioFuels Plant, the world’s first commercial-scale landfill waste-to-fuels plant.

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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 atom % In-doped SnTe at about 873 K (600 ° C).

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MAY 10, 2021

Texas Mineral Resources Corp. The Texas Mineral Resources consortium objective is to install a self-contained, modular and portable pilot plant at a Jeddo Coal Pennsylvania site, capable of producing 1-3 metric tons of rare earth oxides derived from coal waste material from Pennsylvania anthracite coal.

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JANUARY 25, 2011

has exceeded its target yield threshold of 70 gallons of biogasoline per dry ton of garbage received from the cafeteria dumpsters and paper shredders at Texas A&M University. SoluPro is a bio-products process that converts inexpensive protein-bearing waste material into animal feed and green commercial adhesives. Earlier post.).

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

Clean Energy’s Redeem was the first commercially available RNG vehicle fuel, derived from capturing the biogenic methane produced by the decomposition of organic waste from dairies, landfills, and wastewater treatment plants. million gallons of RNG over the seven-year contract.

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OCTOBER 28, 2022

The selected projects, led by universities, national laboratories, and the private sector aim to develop commercially scalable technologies that will enable greater domestic supplies of copper, nickel, lithium, cobalt, rare earth elements, and other critical elements. Harvard University. Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.

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DECEMBER 15, 2020

Enel, with a record of project commercialization, extensive development pipeline and large renewable operations footprint in the US, will leverage NextChem’s hydrogen technology and engineering expertise to grow its green hydrogen business in the US. (EGPNA), and Maire Tecnimont S.p.A.,

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FEBRUARY 20, 2009

has agreed to spend more than $161 million on pollution controls, enhanced maintenance and monitoring, and improved internal management practices to resolve Clean Air Act violations at its Texas City, Texas refinery. The Texas City refinery is the third largest in the US, with a production capacity of more than 460,000 barrels per day.

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JULY 25, 2011

Started in April of 2011, a customized production process for DARPA will be engineered, constructed and operated at Terrabon’s Bryan, TX demonstration facility in an effort to yield 6,000 liters of jet fuel through the use of the company’s MixAlco technology in preparation for commercialization of this technology. Earlier post.)

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MAY 9, 2012

has signed a memorandum of understanding with California-based PACE to collaborate with oil field operators in Texas and elsewhere to improve petroleum recovery and water cleaning for re-use at well sites, using a process it originally developed for algae harvesting. Algae technology company OriginOil, Inc. April 2012.

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MARCH 27, 2015

To measure freight efficiency, DTNA ran vehicle testing on highway routes in Oregon and Texas; one city route in Portland, Ore.; liter engine, a hybrid system, a Waste Heat Recovery (WHR) system, along with a number of other upgrades. and anti-idle testing in both a cold chamber and hot chamber. engine brake thermal efficiency.

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DECEMBER 15, 2010

an early-stage biotechnology company developing drop-in fuels and chemical products, has joined the Austin Technology Incubator (ATI), a not-for-profit unit of The University of Texas at Austin. ATI is a key program of the IC2 Institute at The University of Texas at Austin. Dorsan Biofuels , Inc.,

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OCTOBER 3, 2013

North America’s largest provider of natural gas for transportation, is commercially offering a biomethane vehicle fuel— Redeem —made from waste streams such as landfills, large dairies and sewage plants directly to fleets around the country and at 35 public Clean Energy stations throughout California.

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MAY 23, 2019

This is equivalent to planting 17,000,000 trees, removing 228,000 cars off the road or recycling 374,000 tons of waste that would otherwise be sent to the landfill. El Paso, Texas; Fort Worth, Texas; Kansas City, Kan.; Salt Lake City, Utah; San Antonio, Texas; Shreveport, La.; UPS fueling stations in Albuquerque, N.M.;

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

has been awarded a US patent covering its conversion of sunlight and waste carbon dioxide directly into liquid hydrocarbons that are fungible with conventional diesel fuel. The integrated platform will enable productivities above any other closed-system approach, with a commercial target of 15,000 gallons of diesel per acre annually.

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APRIL 15, 2015

Globally, water demand is threatening to dangerously outpace supply, while in the US, dry states such as Texas and California are suffering from shortages and the future forebodes more suffering. How communities in Texas can be spared drought. Advancements that finally make desalination commercially viable. Earlier post.]

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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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SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

The assistant professor and William Marsh Rice Trustee Chair of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering has proposed the development of a modular electrochemical system that will provide “a sustainable, negative-carbon, low-waste and point-source manufacturing path preferable to traditional large-scale chemical process plants.”.

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JUNE 10, 2011

The US Department of Energy is awarding up to $36 million to fund six small-scale projects in California, Michigan, North Carolina, Texas, and Wisconsin, that will advance the technology improvements and process integration needed to produce drop-in advanced biofuels and other valuable bio-based chemicals.

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JULY 9, 2010

Researchers at Texas A&M University have concluded that the MixAlco process (developed there) to convert biomass to fuels and chemicals—under a base-case capacity of 40 dry tonne feedstock per hour— requires a total capital investment of $5.54/annual Terrabon LLC has licensed and is working to commercialize the process.

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JUNE 2, 2023

Earlier this week, politicians in the Lone Star State approved a bill in which the provision exists to eliminate yearly inspections for non-commercial vehicles. Texas is one of the few states to currently require annual inspections of non-commercial vehicles owned by private individuals.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

Researchers at Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) and The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) have determined that biochar, a substance produced from plant matter, is a safe, effective and inexpensive method to treat flowback water following hydraulic fracturing, or fracking. —Zhigang Feng, USTA.

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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).

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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. Located near the NASA Johnson Space Center, Ad Astra has its main laboratory and corporate headquarters in Webster, Texas. and EARTH University in Costa Rica.

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DECEMBER 10, 2021

This strategic collaboration seeks to accelerate the restoration of the US rare earth supply chain at commercial scale with high resiliency and environmental sustainability. MP’s domestic supply chain spanning California and Texas will provide certainty of provenance, supply and sustainability.

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DECEMBER 23, 2016

Such process intensification could boost manufacturing productivity while cutting costs and reducing waste. In addition, she said the Iowa State team has already pulled in multiple partners willing to help commercialize distributed biorefineries. of Adel; and the Iowa Energy Center.

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AUGUST 14, 2014

This includes improving “beyond lithium-ion technologies” that use higher energy storage materials, and developing and commercializing wide bandgap (WBG) semiconductors that offer significant advances in performance while reducing the price of vehicle power electronics. Fuel efficiency improvements in passenger vehicles and commercial trucks.

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MARCH 4, 2015

Ge 0.25 )—intended to generate electric power from waste heat with greater efficiency and higher output power than currently available materials. It can be used with waste-heat applications and concentrated solar energy conversion at temperatures up to 300 ? —Liu et al. It was found that Mg 2 Sn 0.75 has an average ZT of 0.9

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AUGUST 27, 2020

ASCEND projects work to develop innovative, lightweight, and ultra-efficient all-electric powertrain with advanced thermal management systems that help enable efficient net-zero carbon emissions for single-aisle passenger commercial aircraft. Compact Propulsion Engine Optimized with Waste Heat Recovery (CO-POWER); $2,815,760.

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JULY 22, 2010

The selected projects now enter a second phase in which researchers design, construct, and operate their innovations at pilot-scale and evaluate the technical and economic feasibility of applying them commercially. cement manufacturing plant in San Antonio, Texas. DOE Share: $25,000,000). DOE Share: $11,999,359).

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

Topic Area 2: High-value products from waste and/or other undervalued streams in an integrated biorefinery. Baltimore, Maryland)—Thermochemical Recovery International (TRI) will study and improve feedstock and residual solids handling systems targeted to commercial pyrolysis and gasification reactors.

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MAY 19, 2014

One of the very promising approaches to doing that is to genetically engineer plants so they have more reactive polysaccharides suitable for commercial applications, but also to change lignin’s structural features so that it’ll become more attractive for materials applications, chemicals and fuels. —Arthur Ragauskas. Ragauskas, et al.,

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JUNE 15, 2022

Operating as Magnolia Renewable Fuels LLC, the new facility would produce renewable gasoline from wood waste biomass sourced from Louisiana and Mississippi timber operations. Magnolia will source southern yellow pine pre-commercial thinnings, a byproduct of routine forest management operations.

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JUNE 14, 2016

This could reduce the mining of ore which reduces costs, greenhouse gas emissions and waste. This technology could cut energy usage by 85 billion BTUs/year, waste generation by 8.5 is being recognized for developing and commercializing Instinct, an additive that reduces fertilizer nitrate leaching ground and surface waters.

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AUGUST 31, 2022

ACU is leading the NEXT Research Alliance (NEXTRA), which includes Georgia Institute of Technology, Texas A&M University and The University of Texas at Austin, in a $30.5-million million research agreement sponsored by Natura Resources to design and build a university-based advanced molten salt research reactor.

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JULY 29, 2020

Therefore, electronic devices are extremely wasteful—they either have to transmit and receive on different frequencies (using twice the spectrum they should) or transmit and receive at different times (using twice the time that they should).

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

Texas Agrilife Research. Terpenoid Pathways Texas A&M University will address a major inefficiency of. Terpenoid Pathways Texas A&M University will address a major inefficiency of. wasted energy in plants into energy-dense fuel molecules. Research Center, University of Maryland, University of Texas at. Arlington).

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