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Liquid Air Energy Network forms in UK; focus on transportation and energy storage

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liquid air) Dearman piston engine. Source: Dearman Engine Company. The work was conducted by a collaboration including industrial partners Arup, Dearman Engine Company, E4 Tech, Highview, Messer Group and Ricardo, as well as academics from the Universities of Leeds, Birmingham, Strathclyde, Brighton and Imperial College London.

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Novel opposed-piston free-piston linear generator for hybrids seeks to overcome drawbacks of earlier designs

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Each of the two linear generators in the system is equipped with a mechanical spring, which is used for storing mechanical energy in the power stroke and releasing mechanical energy in the compression stroke. In an SAE paper, Huang describes a modeling and simulation study of the new free-piston linear generator.

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