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Scottish Enterprise project converting train to hydrogen power

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Scottish Enterprise, Transport Scotland and the Hydrogen Accelerator, based at the University of St Andrews, have appointed Arcola Energy and a consortium of industry leaders in hydrogen fuel cell integration, rail engineering and functional safety to deliver Scotland’s first hydrogen powered train.

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Scientists design adaptive material with tunable transparency and wettability; applications in pipelines, textiles, optical systems

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A team of researchers at the Wyss Institute at Harvard University and Harvard’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have designed a new kind of adaptive material with tunable transparency and wettability features. Source: Wyss. Click to enlarge. Wyss Institute and SEAS postdoctoral fellow, and lead author of the study.

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24M to unveil novel dual electrolyte system for high energy density (>350 Wh/kg) batteries

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The 24M SemiSolid electrode platform ( earlier post ) provides the foundation for its Dual Electrolyte System, significantly improving overall manufacturing capital efficiency, while allowing distinct approaches to cell design and chemistry. —Rick Feldt, President and CEO of 24M.

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Water Vapor In Mid-Troposphere May Double Warming Effect

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& M University at last week’s American Geophysical Union conference in. Although scientists have long believed that water vapor. dioxide, producing water vapor which in turn would store more heat. surface, and is an important transport layer for greenhouse gases, including CO 2 , methane, and water vapor.

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Vattenfall and Aalborg University Partner with SCF Technologies on Near Supercritical Bio-oil Process

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Vattenfall and Aalborg University are partnering with Danish startup SCF Technologies in a two-year project to design a demonstration plant based on SCF’s CatLiq process—an application of the firm’s supercritical fluid technology in the catalytic production of bio-oil from organic waste. SCF Technologies 2008 Annual Report.

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DuPont Automotive Highlights Zytel PLUS and New Laser Welding Materials at SPE Conference

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A new nylon family—DuPont Zytel PLUS—and new materials to enable laser welding techniques were the focus of two DuPont Automotive Performance Polymers talks presented recently at the SPE Automotive Engineering Plastics Conference (AutoEPCON) at the Michigan State University (MSU) Management Education Center in Troy, Mich.

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New self-propelled robotic device pinpoints leaks in pipes more accurately than existing methods

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Researchers at MIT and King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM) in Saudi Arabia have devised a robotic system that can detect leaks in gas, oil and water pipelines at a rapid pace and with high accuracy by sensing a large pressure change at leak locations. Chatzigeorgiou, D.; Youcef-Toumi, K.; Ben-Mansour, R.

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