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APRIL 11, 2014

Researchers at Stanford University have developed a nanocrystalline copper material that produces multi-carbon oxygenates (ethanol, acetate and n-propanol) with up to 57% Faraday efficiency at modest potentials (–0.25?volts The research was supported by Stanford University, the National Science Foundation and the US Department of Energy.

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AUGUST 20, 2010

The selected projects, which will be managed by the Office of Fossil Energy's (FE) National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL), are: Area 1: Pre-Processing and Conditioning of Coal/Biomass Mixtures for Simultaneous Co-Feeding Systems. CoalTek, teaming with the University of Kentucky Center for Applied Energy Research in Lexington, Ky.,

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MARCH 3, 2014

Scientists from Stanford University, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and the Technical University of Denmark have identified a new nickel-gallium catalyst that converts hydrogen and carbon dioxide into methanol at ambient pressure and with fewer side-products than the conventional catalyst.

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AUGUST 19, 2014

Results of a lifecycle analysis by a team at the University of Michigan suggest that multiple types of natural gas-powered vehicles—i.e., A mid-sized ICE vehicle driven in the United States was also investigated as a basis for comparison. Their study appears in the ACS journal Energy & Fuels. … Credit: ACS, Dai and Lastoskie.

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AUGUST 6, 2011

The team also suggested that algae systems can be either net energy positive or negative depending on the specific combination of cultivation and conversion processes used. In this new study, reported in the ACS journal Environmental Science & Technology , Clarens et al. Credit: ACS, Clarens et al. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.)

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MARCH 16, 2012

In a similar way, the full breadth of impacts attributable to conventional gasoline production, such as natural resource consumption and hazardous pollutant emissions, must also be considered in order to make balanced comparisons to biofuels. This study highlighted the environmental impacts of corn ethanol in comparison with gasoline.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2015

The comparison to the electric vehicle is based on estimates which factor in the CO 2 emissions resulting from fuel production, with the DME-powered vehicle figure calculated from the use of renewable energy to generate the DME fuel, and the electric vehicle figure calculated from electricity generated from renewable resources.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2015

The US Department of Energy (DOE) Fuel Cell Technologies Office (FCTO) has selected 11 projects to receive up to $10 million in funding through the fuel cell technology incubator FOA ( earlier post ) in support of innovations in fuel cell and hydrogen fuel technologies. Advent Technologies, Inc. Gas Technology Institute.

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JANUARY 20, 2024

The IMO’s previous goal was a 50 percent reduction by 2050 in comparison with 2008 levels. A small but growing group of analysts, though, are pushing for a zero-emissions technology that already plows the oceans: nuclear propulsion. However, the technology comes with major challenges.

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AUGUST 12, 2014

Accordingly, compared to silicon-based technologies, wide bandgap semiconductors can operate at higher temperatures and have greater durability and reliability at higher voltages and frequencies—ultimately achieving higher performance while using less electricity. eV (electronVolt); silicon carbide (SiC) has a bandgap of 3.3

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MARCH 11, 2010

A University of Wisconsin-Madison research team has developed a chemical process for the hydrolysis of biomass into sugars for subsequent processing into fuels and chemicals that delivers sugar yields approaching those of enzymatic hydrolysis. Furthermore, the hydrolysate products are readily converted into ethanol by microorganisms.

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DECEMBER 16, 2015

Researchers from Purdue University and École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland are proposing a new integrated process involving the co-production of hydrogen and electricity from solar thermal energy—a concept they label “hydricity”.

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DECEMBER 8, 2017

Based on yields alone, this is a very important discovery: in comparison, after six decades of commercial-scale improvements and optimization, the traditional acrylonitrile production process achieves yields of approximately 80%–83%. The work was funded by the Energy Department’s Bioenergy Technologies Office. Karp, Todd R.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2018

Like other fuel cells, they enable direct electrochemical conversion of chemical fuels to electricity at high efficiency and with zero emissions. They are particularly attractive in comparison to other fuel cells as a consequence of the high ionic conductivity of the electrolyte at at intermediate temperatures (400–600 °C).

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JANUARY 13, 2011

The Gas Technology Institute (GTI) has signed an exclusive worldwide licensing agreement with CRI/Criterion Inc., for GTI’s Integrated Hydropyrolysis and Hydroconversion (IH 2 ) technology, which converts biomass directly into cellulosic gasoline and diesel hydrocarbon blendstocks. Property comparison. CRI/Criterion Inc.,

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JULY 7, 2015

The first is a technology developed by Virginia Tech Professor Barry Goodell that borrows from the processes used by brown rot fungi that are commonly found breaking down woody debris on the forest floor. The BioMim team will expand on this technology and explore how it can be used efficiently in large-scale biorefineries.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2016

A paper by a team from the University of Chicago and MIT suggests that technology-driven cost reductions in fossil fuels will lead to the continued use of fossil fuels—oil, gas, and coal—unless governments pass new taxes on carbon emissions. Their analysis is published in the Journal of Economic Perspectives.

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MAY 20, 2015

The results, published in an open access paper in the ACS journal Environmental Science & Technology , suggest that policymakers wishing to address climate change should use caution before promoting fuel switching to natural gas, the authors concluded. TWP results for diesel to natural gas HDT fleet conversions. —Camuzeaux et al.

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JUNE 3, 2011

GHG emission comparison between fossil diesel, transesterified lipids, HVO and woody BTL. If HVO is produced from waste feedstocks with low upstream impacts, the high conversion efficiency of the HVO production process will make HVO the preferred fuel to BTL from any woody feedstock, even woody waste. Sunde et al. Click to enlarge.

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AUGUST 17, 2010

Despite this potential, the production capacity for microalgae is presently limited in comparison to land-based energy crops. As an example for comparison with land-based oleaginous crops, the world production of palm oil is nearly 40 million tons, with a market value of ~0.50 /kg. The perspective by René H. Wijffels and Maria J.

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JULY 24, 2016

Researchers at Rice University’s Laboratory for Nanophotonics (LANP), with colleagues at Princeton University, have developed a new method for uniting light-capturing photonic nanomaterials and high-efficiency metal catalysts, creating an “antenna-reactor” plasmonic catalyst. Swearer/Rice University) Click to enlarge.

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JANUARY 19, 2010

Model scope includes all upstream processing of biomass material; conversion to liquid or solid fuel is intentionally excluded. A paper on the study was published online 19 January in the ACS journal Environmental Science & Technology. For all crops, the entire plant was used to facilitate comparison on a total energy basis.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2010

Pyrolysis bio-oils are produced by the thermal decomposition of biomass by heating in the absence of oxygen at more than 500 °C; fast pyrolysis of biomass is much less expensive than biomass conversion technologies based on gasification or fermentation processes. In comparison, increasing the H/C eff ratio of pyrolysis oil from 0 to 1.4

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MARCH 6, 2021

The US Department of Energy (DOE) will award up to $24 million for research into technology that captures carbon emissions directly from the air, replicating the way plants and trees absorb CO 2. ( DE-FOA-0002481 ). building HVAC exhaust) and from natural fluids (e.g., Energy Transfer Mechanisms.

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MARCH 18, 2012

Bitumen production from the Canadian oil sands provides a point of reference that could be used to observe and better manage the land and water impacts of a rapid transition to unconventional fuels, suggests Dr. Sarah Jordaan of the Energy Technology Innovation Policy Research Group, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Nvidia’s A100 , for comparison, is capable of over 600 teraflops and matches the 600 Gbps interconnect speed. Most chip trade and chip production in China is unimpacted,” says Christopher Miller , a historian who studies the semiconductor trade at Tufts University. made technology. Most of all, the U.S. firms that rely on U.S.-made

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JUNE 5, 2015

A team from the University of Texas at Austin led by Professor John Goodenough has achieved significantly enhanced activity and durability for the oxygen reduction reaction under alkaline conditions in a hybrid Li-Air battery using a new ordered Pd 3 Fe/C catalyst. Credit: ACS, Cui et al. Click to enlarge.

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JULY 7, 2015

The study, led by GLBRC scientist and Michigan State University professor of ecosystem ecology Stephen Hamilton, is the first multi-year effort to compare the water use of conventional corn crops to the perennial cropping systems of switchgrass, miscanthus, native grasses, restored prairies, and hybrid poplar trees. Resources.

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MARCH 15, 2010

Comparison of gravimetric and volumetric energy densities for four different types of 2016 coin cells. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has awarded the company two technology transfer contracts. The Li/CF x battery affords a significant improvement over both primary lithium and alkaline batteries.

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MAY 1, 2009

Researchers at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) are proposing a new process for producing synfuel from biomass using concentrating solar energy as its main energy source. A paper describing their proposal was published online 30 April in the ACS journal Environmental Science & Technology. billion ha.

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AUGUST 23, 2023

And interestingly enough, some of those calls are coming from the CEOs of the companies involved in this technology. And that includes academia, which historically has had a very vibrant role in this field, but since 2014, what we’ve seen is this slow decline of academia in the space in comparison to where industry’s really taking off.

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DECEMBER 9, 2012

Comparison of GHGenius, JACOBS, TIAX, and the new PRELIM gasoline greenhouse gas (GHG) estimates using base case estimates and variations from the scenario analysis. Researchers at the University of Calgary (Canada) have developed the Petroleum Refinery Life-cycle Inventory Model (PRELIM). Credit: ACS, Abella and Bergerson.

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AUGUST 7, 2009

ICF International, an independent third-party contractor, coordinated the peer reviews which were conducted on four areas of the lifecycle assessment that in particular charted new ground, according to EPA: Land use modeling (use of satellite data/land conversion GHG emission factors). Boyer, Pennsylvania State University; Dr. Kenneth G.

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OCTOBER 15, 2009

The site represents the successful scale-up of the company’s feedstock-flexible bio-thermochemical technology, and will serve as a springboard for the construction of Coskata commercial facilities and licensing of the technology to other producers. By comparison, the theoretical yield of ethanol from a dry ton of corn is 124.4

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APRIL 1, 2016

A team from The University of Manchester and East China University has developed a process for the direct hydrodeoxygenation of raw woods into liquid alkanes with mass yields up to 28.1 wt% wt% over a multifunctional Pt/NbOPO 4 catalyst in cyclohexane. The reactions were conducted at 190 °C and 5 MPa H 2 for 20 h.

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APRIL 5, 2018

Typically the steam cracking of ethane has a conversion rate of 70%, with ethylene yields of about 50%. Comparison of process energies and carbon footprint in NDP and steam cracking. (a) a) A comparison of the process energies for ethylene production from ethane. (b) Ding et al. Click to enlarge. —Ding et al.

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MAY 12, 2014

The purpose of the study, reported in the ACS journal Energy & Fuels , was to determine whether AlcoMix,the probable outcome of the thermochemical conversion of biomass using Fischer–Tropsch chemistry with synthesis gas, might be a suitable replacement for ethanol in fuel blending as an antiknock blending component for spark-ignited engines.

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