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Georgia Tech team develops highly efficient multi-phase catalyst for SOFCs and other energy storage and conversion systems

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Researchers at Georgia Tech, with colleagues in China and Saudi Arabia, have developed a rationally designed, multi-phase catalyst that significantly enhances the kinetics of oxygen reduction of the state-of-the-art solid oxide fuel cell cathode. The ions meet to make water, which exits the fuel cell. —Chen et al.

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Georgia Tech team furthers four-stroke-cycle active-membrane piston reactor for enhanced SMR for H2 production

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Prior work has established the thermodynamic viability of the CHAMP-SORB concept to achieve 90% fuel conversion at 400 °C and 2:1 steam to carbon ratio, as well as demonstrated the performance enhancements enabled by incorporation of CO 2 and H 2 removal in the absence of transport-limitations using the bench-scale reactor prototype.

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DOE awards $97M to 33 bioenergy research and development projects

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Scale-Up of the Primary Conversion Reactor to Generate a Lignin-Derived Cyclohexane Jet Fuel. Microchannel Reactor for Ethanol to n-Butene Conversion. Georgia Institute of Technology. Decontamination of Non-recyclable MSW and Preprocessing for Conversion to Diesel. Electrolyzers For CO 2 Conversion from BioSources.

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Converting Coal Power Plants to Nuclear Gains Steam

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Such a conversion has never been done, but the report is another sign that the idea is gaining momentum—if with the slow steps of a baby needing decades to learn to walk. “A Conversion backers say the process has benefits for everybody involved. On 13 September, the U.S. Either option will be an uphill battle. In Kemmerer, Wyo.,

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Waste Management and Renmatix to explore conversion of urban waste to low-cost cellulosic sugar via supercritical hydrolysis

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The water-based Plantrose Process consists of two core steps: Fractionation of biomass and separation of the remaining solids which contain cellulose and lignin. The stored solids are slurried with water and pumped and heated to reaction temperature and then fed to the fractionation reactor where the reaction takes place.

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DOE to award $118M to 17 projects to accelerate domestic biofuel production

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This project will demonstrate the conversion of gaseous carbon wood wastes (terpenes) to renewable Terpenes SAF blending components. The ethanol will be converted to sustainable aviation fuel at LanzaJet’s Freedom Pines Fuels facility, in Soperton, Georgia. Viridos, Inc., “Pre-pilot MicroBio Engineering Inc.,

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DOE awarding >$24M to 77 projects through Technology Commercialization Fund

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Low Cost Roll-to-Roll Manufacturing of Reusable Sorbents for Energy and Water Industries, $150,000 Qualification of SAS4A/SASSYS-1 for Sodium-Cooled Fast Reactor Authorization and Licensing, $674,484 Advanced Reactor Concepts LLC, Chevy Chase, Md. Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Ga. TerraPower LLC, Bellevue, Wash. Louis , Mo.