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DOE to award $35M for bioenergy feedstock and algae R&D

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DE-FOA-0002423 ) Topic Areas ins the FOA support DOE’s Bioenergy Technologies Office’s (BETO’s) objectives to reduce the minimum selling price of drop-in biofuels, lower the cost of biopower, and enable high-value products from biomass or waste resources. Development of novel methods for rapid/real-time measurements.

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DOE selects 7 gasification projects for funding; focus on reducing cost of coal conversion

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This program supports a wide range of research and development activities aimed at improving fuel and product versatility, efficiency, and economics of gasification processes. Lead organization. DOE: $564,201 Non DOE: $141,148 Total: $705,349 (20% cost share). Lead organization. Bio-gasification of Coal to Methane.

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Georgia Tech team develops melt-infiltration technique for scalable production of solid-state batteries

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While the melting point of traditional solid state electrolytes can range from 700 degrees Celsius to over 1,000 degrees Celsius, we operate at a much lower temperature range, depending on the electrolyte composition, roughly from 200 to 300 degrees Celsius. O 2 cathodes and both Li 4 Ti 5 O 12 and graphite anodes.

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

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Award amounts range from $500,000 to $80 million, with most receiving at least $2 million. This project will demonstrate the conversion of gaseous carbon wood wastes (terpenes) to renewable Terpenes SAF blending components. Captis Aire LLC, “Renewable Blending Components to Enable 100% Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF)”, $2,000,000.

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Calysta reports 8-fold improvement in gas fermentation in ARPA-E program; BioGTL

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The bioreactor technology is under development for efficient methane-to-liquids fermentation processes, enabling rapid, cost-effective methane conversion into protein, industrial chemicals and fuels. Calysta develops sustainable industrial products using novel natural gas conversion technology using methane. Earlier post.).

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Stanford’s GCEP awards $10.5M for research on renewable energy; solar cells, batteries, renewable fuels and bioenergy

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million for seven research projects designed to advance a broad range of renewable energy technologies, including solar cells, batteries, renewable fuels and bioenergy. Novel inorganic-organic perovskites for photovoltaics. The mineral perovskite is a promising, low-cost material for enhancing the efficiency of silicon solar cells.

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U Akron team develops Mn-based high performance anode for Li-ion batteries

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are promising anode candidate materials, owing to their high theoretical capacity and low cost. Among those materials, Mn 3 O 4 has been intensively investigated as one of the most promising anode materials due to its abundance, low oxidation potential and competitive electrochemical performance. Credit: ACS, Liu et al.

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