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SEPTEMBER 5, 2009

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. Overview of the CatLiq process. Click to enlarge.

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MAY 25, 2018

A new study by a team from Aarhus University in Denmark has found that car dealerships pose a significant barrier to electric vehicle adoption at the point of sale due to a perceived lack of business case viability in relation to gasoline and diesel vehicles. Their study is published in the journal Nature. —de Rubens et al.

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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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MAY 24, 2019

Researchers from the Technical University of Denmark and Haldor Topsoe, with colleagues from the Danish Technological Institute and Sintex have developed a “ disruptive approach to a fundamental process ” by integrating an electrically heated catalytic structure directly into a steam-methane–reforming (SMR) reactor for hydrogen production.

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AUGUST 22, 2011

Northern Denmark Strait showing newly discovered deep current, in relation to known pathway. For years it has been thought that the primary source of the Denmark Overflow was a current adjacent to Greenland known as the East Greenland Current. Credit: WHOI. Click to enlarge. Credit: WHOI. Click to enlarge. —Robert Pickart.

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JUNE 17, 2010

HRL Laboratories, a corporate R&D laboratory owned by The Boeing Company and General Motors, will be a partner in Stanford University’s Center on Nanostructuring for Efficient Energy Conversion (CNEEC), established in 2009 with a $20 million, five-year grant from the Department of Energy’s Office of Science.

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AUGUST 28, 2012

Enzyme leader Novozymes and Terranol, a Denmark-based biotechnology company specialized in yeast, announced an agreement that will ensure the final optimization of the Terranol C 5 yeast strain and give Novozymes the rights to register and market Terranol’s C 5 yeast technology. Source: Terranol. Click to enlarge.

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MARCH 2, 2009

In connection with this project ( earlier post ), Novozymes is establishing a research unit in Curitiba, Brazil, supported by research colleagues in both the US and Denmark. Novozymes has promised that by 2010 we’ll deliver enzymes for the conversion of biomass from agricultural by-products into ethanol for large-scale production.

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OCTOBER 31, 2009

Michael Hayes of the Carbolea Research Group at the University of Limerick in Ireland, the DIBANET co-ordinator. In addition to the Carbolea Research Group, the DIBANET consortium comprises partners from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Denmark, Greece, Hungary and the UK. Hayes, Carbolea Research Group, University of Limerick).

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

Jensen at the University of Aarhus in Denmark report on a new highly porous form of magnesium borohydride in the journal Angewandte Chemie. Furthermore, this conversion results in a 44 % reduction in volume, which is the largest contraction yet observed for a hydride. A highly porous form of Mg(BH 4 ) 2 (Mg green, BH 4.

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OCTOBER 21, 2020

The core of the power-to-gas (P2G) technology is the proprietary biocatalyst that can be deployed in a simple and cost-effective energy conversion system. Laurens Mets at the University of Chicago. This gas can be directly injected into the existing natural gas grid or used immediately.

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MAY 2, 2011

Damsgaard, Thomas Pedersen and Ole Hansen, Technical University of Denmark. The DTU researchers created a device to harvest the energy from part of the solar spectrum and used it to power the conversion of single hydrogen ions into hydrogen gas. Image courtesy of Christian D. Click to enlarge.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Members of the team earlier this year published a paper in the journal Solid State Ionics on their investigation of the high-temperature co-electrolysis of CO 2 and H 2 O using solid oxide electrolysis cells (SOECs) to produce a syngas for conversion into liquid hydrocarbon fuels. Graves et al. Click to enlarge. 2/gal ($ 0.53/L). 2010.07.014.

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APRIL 16, 2009

I would say that electricity is a vastly superior fuel for the light vehicle fleet,” said Willett Kempton , a professor and alternative energy specialist at the University of Delaware. So far Israel, Denmark, Australia , Hawaii and California’s Bay Area have plans to implement the Better Place model.

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