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MAY 13, 2011

The Ford Motor Company Fund and the Georgia Institute of Technology are partnering on the US’ first conversion of a traditional school bus to a hydraulic hybrid vehicle that runs on recycled biofuel. Atlanta Public Schools (APS) donated the bus for the project.

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APRIL 2, 2013

Shell is ready to invest several hundred million dollars in emerging technology companies, with the aim to accelerate the deployment of innovations that add value to the company’s operations. Ideas from outside the organization are critical to our open innovation approach to R&D. In 2012, Shell spent more than US$1.3

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Researchers at the University of California, Riverside’s Center for Environmental Research and Technology (CERT) at the Bourns College of Engineering have received two grants to further explore a steam hydrogasification process they developed to convert waste into fuels. Earlier post.). diesel, gasoline, jet) at low cost.

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JUNE 17, 2019

Researchers in Japan are presenting an organic catalyst for CO 2 reduction that is inexpensive, readily available and recyclable. As the level of catalytic activity can be tuned by the solvent conditions, their findings could open up many new directions for converting CO 2 to industrially useful organic compounds. —Ken Motokura.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2020

These include: Managing infrastructure upgrades and utility interconnections; Establishing an optimal charging strategy based on drive cycle and duty cycle; Providing debt financing or securing grant funding for reducing capital expenditures; and. Implementing resiliency plans where needed.

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MAY 6, 2011

Grant recipients are required to contribute a minimum of 20% of matching funds for research and development projects and 50% of matching funds for demonstration projects. Funding is provided through USDA’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) and DOE’s Biomass Program. Exelus, Inc. Livingston, NJ, $5,185,004.

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APRIL 5, 2016

Altex Technologies has selected Unitel to provide engineering services to design and build a pilot system that will produce 1 BPD of synthetic gasoline from biomass (Biomass Conversion to Synthetic Gasoline System, BCSGS). 3-BPD to 1-BPD, and increases the technology readiness level (TRL) from 4 to 5. US 9199889 B2.

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AUGUST 5, 2019

The funding will help Sierra Energy further develop and commercialize its FastOx gasification technology, which converts virtually any waste into clean, renewable energy and fuels without burning. Waste is fed into the top of the gasifier vessel through an airlock. Purified oxygen and steam are injected into the base.

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APRIL 19, 2011

Cobalt Technologies, a company using strain development and bioprocess technology to optimize biobutanol production ( earlier post ), and American Process Inc. Meanwhile, Cobalt’s technology will demonstrate that these sugars can also produce butanol. Overview of Cobalt’s process. Click to enlarge. Click to enlarge.

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JULY 13, 2020

These systems are based on the organic solvent extraction of non-polar products, such as lipids, terpenes, and carotenoids. However, a special facility required for handling organic solvents increases the costs and solvents lost during milking need to be recouped.

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JUNE 26, 2020

In addition, the International Maritime Organization (IMO) is seeking to ban HFO use in Arctic waters. The concept describes the conversion of lignin—the polymer found in the structural materials of plants and trees—from dry lignocellulosic biomass into renewable fuels. The participants are Vertoro B.V. (NL);

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

The US Department of Agriculture has provided $16,893 to Advanced Biofuels USA , a Maryland-based 501(c)(3) non-profit educational organization, for a feasibility study of producing bio-jetfuel from energy beets grown on the Eastern Shore of Maryland.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2019

The LIFT (Launchpad for Innovative Future Technology) research proposal has now been rewarded a grant from the NWO ENW PPS Fund. And finally, since we only use the water that is present in the surrounding air, our technology is also applicable in remote places where no water is available.

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DECEMBER 25, 2014

EEB is produced from organic waste, including (and initially) sewage treatment bio-solids—the leftover, dirt-like organic material that remains after a community’s wastewater is treated. Data collected with colleagues at the University of Alabama have shown 70-90% conversion of feedstock to SCFAs (short chain fatty acids).

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NOVEMBER 5, 2014

Australia-based renewable fuels company Muradel has launched Australia’s first integrated demonstration plant for the sustainable conversion of algae into green crude, as a first step towards a commercial plant with the potential to produce 80 million liters (21 million gallons US, or about 500,000 barrels) of crude oil per year.

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OCTOBER 21, 2011

Hydro-Québec (Canada) and Technifin (South Africa) have entered into an intellectual property collaboration agreement relating to the licensing of their respective intellectual property (IP) in lithium titanate spinel oxide (LTO) technologies, notably for lithium-ion battery applications.

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JANUARY 3, 2013

NREL will be in charge of fermentation to demonstrate the productivity of the microbes, both the natural organism and the genetically-altered varieties. NREL will also extract the lipids from the organisms and analyze the economic potential of the plan. Earlier post.).

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APRIL 13, 2010

Through a joint development with GE, Tenneco Inc ( earlier post ) and Umicore ( earlier post ), researchers have demonstrated NO x conversions on an engine between 85-95% across a temperature window of 325-425 °C, using E85 as the reductant. William Kernick, Vice President of Technology Ventures for GE. These results are very exciting.

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JANUARY 8, 2010

The US Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has awarded more than $123 million in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act grants to support the construction of new scientific research facilities at 11 universities and one non-profit research organization.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2009

The US Departments of Agriculture and Energy selected projects for more than $24 million in grants to research and develop technologies to produce biofuels, bioenergy and high-value biobased products. The technology uses unique, engineered catalysts that facilitate new reaction pathways to liquid motor fuels from biomass.

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JANUARY 20, 2012

Fiberight’s system bifurcates organic and inorganic wastes and converts them according to type. Novel technologies such as enzyme recycling and cellulosic sugar concentration have been developed to control costs and the company has tested these processes on a commercial scale. million grant from the Iowa Power Fund in 2010.

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MARCH 14, 2017

Biomass conversion is one of the most affordable routes to generate sustainable H 2 , but this process requires the demanding chemical transformation of lignocellulose. In the interest of increasing the selectivity and efficiency of this conversion, it is possible to replace the thermal input with sunlight. Wakerley, Moritz F.

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OCTOBER 30, 2013

Stanford University’s Precourt Institute for Energy, the Precourt Energy Efficiency Center and the TomKat Center for Sustainable Energy have awarded 11 seed grants totaling $2.2 million to Stanford faculty for promising new research in clean technology and energy efficiency. Precourt Institute for Energy grants.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2011

The key to this [increase in biomass] is combination of two genes that increases the photosynthetic carbon conversion into organic matter by 50 percent over the wild type under carbon dioxide enrichment conditions. Each effort granted a significant 10–15% increase in biomass. —Martin Spalding.

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MARCH 26, 2013

The CEMI announcement was made at the ribbon cutting of the Department’s Carbon Fiber Technology Facility in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, a new advanced manufacturing facility to reduce the cost of carbon fiber. Lead organization. Earlier post.) Description. Funding request. Ford Motor Company. University of Texas at Austin.

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OCTOBER 30, 2009

The photosynthetic organisms will use sunlight to convert CO 2 to sugar, which the Shewanella will then convert to bio-hydrocarbons. Skip) Scriven, an Institute of Technology professor, devised the latex coating technology. NSF awards SBIR grants to small businesses for novel research with a potential for commercialization.

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APRIL 23, 2013

A team from the University of Exeter (UK), with support from Shell Technology Centre Thorton, has modified strains of E. To advance biologically synthesized alkanes further into the fuel market, they must meet the technical requirements demanded of retail fuels, not the requirements of the source organism. Howard et al.

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MAY 22, 2014

A paper on their work is published in the ACS journal Environmental Science & Technology. Syntrophic [mutual dependency of two organisms for nutritional requirements] cooperation stimulated glycerol consumption, ethanol production, and the conversion of fermentation byproducts into cathodic H 2 in the MEC. sulfurreducens.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2012

Stanford University’s Precourt Institute for Energy (PIE), TomKat Center for Sustainable Energy and Precourt Energy Efficiency Center (PEEC) have awarded 9 faculty seed grants totaling $2.2 million for promising new research in clean technology and energy efficiency. PIs: William Chueh, MSE/PIE, and Nick Melosh, MSE.

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OCTOBER 29, 2013

A research team from Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), S. The oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) is an important reaction in energy conversion systems such as fuel cells and metal–air batteries; electrocatalysts for oxygen reduction are critical components that may dramatically enhance the performance such systems.

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JULY 7, 2011

Zymetis holds four granted patents and more than ten pending patents on the Z-microbe, a marine organism that was originally discovered consuming plant cellulose at a high rate in the Chesapeake Bay. AE Biofuels, Inc. earlier post ) has completed the acquisition of Zymetis, Inc., Zymetis, Inc.

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JUNE 3, 2011

Virent Energy Systems, a recipient of the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) February 2010 grant to the National Advanced Biofuels Consortium (NABC) ( earlier post ), and its feedstock supply and upstream conditioning partners have successfully converted corn stover and loblolly pine materials into a. Source: Virent. Click to enlarge.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

The ReadiJet effort combines ARA’s CH PROCESS technology— a catalytic hydrothermolysis (CH) process to convert triglycerides (e.g., The ReadiJet effort combines ARA’s CH PROCESS technology— a catalytic hydrothermolysis (CH) process to convert triglycerides (e.g., The technology is proven in mature pilot systems.

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OCTOBER 8, 2009

Once that has been done, the researchers plan to replace those genes with genes from other organisms to produce the desired fatty acids and overcome the internal regulatory mechanisms that could potentially limit fatty acid production. Dunaliella. Source: Texas A&M. Click to enlarge.

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JULY 10, 2010

The purpose of this Phase III program is for the grantee to pursue commercial applications of work that derives from, extends, or logically concludes effort(s) performed under prior (Phase I/II) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) or Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) funding agreements. saline water). saline water).

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AUGUST 18, 2011

This is the first large-scale advanced bioenergy project in the United States to finalize its financing in the latest round under the USDA government program to commercialize biorefinery technology. The prepared organic carbon material is gasified using a controlled amount of oxygen to produce synthesis gas.

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MARCH 18, 2016

Scientists at Tokyo Institute of Technology, in collaboration with colleagues in Japan, have demonstrated the first electrochemical reaction based on hydride ions in an oxide-based solid-state cell for potential next-generation batteries. A paper on their work is published in the journal Science. V), which is close to that of Mg/Mg 2+ (–2.4

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