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NOVEMBER 25, 2020

The University of Michigan. The University of Michigan proposes the RAFT concept as a solution for hydrokinetic energy harvesting. University of Washington. University of Virginia. University of Alaska Fairbanks. Confinement-Exploiting Cross-Flow Turbine Arrays – $2,000,000.

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MAY 21, 2010

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has selected 42 university-led research and development projects for awards totaling $38 million. These projects, funded over three to four years through the Department’s Nuclear Energy University Program, are intended to help advance nuclear education and develop the next generation of nuclear technologies.

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MAY 26, 2022

—James Turner, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Clean Combustion Research Center, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST). Bourns College of Engineering – Center for Environmental Research and Technology, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA. Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India.

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DECEMBER 3, 2021

DOE’s Advanced Research Projects Agency–Energy (ARPA-E) Reducing Emissions of Methane Every Day of the Year (REMEDY) program ( earlier post ) was unveiled earlier this year for universities and private companies focused on significantly reducing US methane emissions. Selection amount: $3,257,089). Selection amount: $1,500,000).

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AUGUST 24, 2012

Researchers at the University of Georgia, who are also members of Department of Energy’s BioEnergy Science Center (BESC), have developed a method for the genetic manipulation of members of bacterial genus Caldicellulosiruptor , a group of anaerobic thermophiles with optimum growth temperatures between 65 °C and 78 °C (149–172 °F).

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OCTOBER 2, 2010

The EU’s DirectFuel project, which launched on 1 October, intends to develop a photobiological process for the direct conversion of sunlight and CO 2 into engine- and infrastructure-ready transport fuels such as propane. The 4-year project will have funding of up to €3.73 million (US$5.1

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JUNE 23, 2023

Overall, a conversion to battery-powered electric rideshare fleets could reduce the costs to society by 3-11% per trip, depending on the cost assigned to greenhouse gas emissions, the researchers say. Major ridesourcing companies Uber and Lyft have promised all-electric fleets by 2030 in an effort to reduce their carbon footprint.

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DECEMBER 29, 2021

The University of Michigan - Shanghai Jiao Tong University Joint Institute (UM-SJTU JI,) Professor Qianli Chen and her collaborators are proposing a new design principle for perovskite materials with high proton conductivity for use as electrolyte materials in solid oxide fuel cells.

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DECEMBER 19, 2015

The University of Wisconsin-Madison and ExxonMobil announced a two-year agreement to research the fundamental chemistry of converting biomass into transportation fuels. The science of biomass conversion is very complicated. Researchers have used expensive precious metal catalysts such as platinum for biomass conversion.

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DECEMBER 30, 2010

But we did not know what features we could manipulate to maximize the conversion of heat into electricity. In this paper, we propose that certain configurations of the filler element barium will be very effective in lowering the materials’ thermal conductivity and thus increasing their conversion efficiency. Click to enlarge.

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JANUARY 18, 2011

A collaboration including researchers from Boston College, MIT, the University of Virginia and Clemson University have achieved a peak ZT (thermoelectric figure of merit) of 0.8 And a team from Northwestern University and the University of Michigan reported experimentally achieving a ZT of 1.7

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AUGUST 20, 2013

A team from the University of Michigan, Michigan State, and UCLA has designed synthetic fungal-bacterial consortia for the direct production of isobutanol from biomass. g/L and yields up to 62% of theoretical maximum from the direct conversion of microcrystalline cellulose and pretreated corn stover to isobutanol.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2012

51-year-old Energy Conversion Devices, Inc. a pioneer in materials science and renewable energy technologies, today voluntarily filed a petition for relief under Chapter 11 in the US Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Michigan. Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Michigan. joint venture.

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JULY 17, 2020

Conversely, if the number of occupants has increased, the reduction in occupant distance traveled would be smaller than shown. Michael Sivak is the managing director of Sivak Applied Research and the former director of Sustainable Worldwide Transportation at the University of Michigan.

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JULY 6, 2017

Researchers at Rutgers University-New Brunswick and Michigan State University have devised a way to reduce the amount of enzymes needed to convert biomass into biofuels by designing and genetically engineering enzyme surfaces so they bind less to the lignin in biomass. Enzymes cost about $0.50 —Shishir Chundawat.

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AUGUST 2, 2009

The paper PEM Fuel Cells: A Mathematical Overview is co-authored by Keith Promislow of the Michigan State University and Brian Wetton of the University of Vancouver. PEM fuel cells are good examples of energy conversion systems that have several levels of interacting functional structures.

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AUGUST 2, 2017

All four projects are supporting the development of biomass-to-hydrocarbon biofuels conversion pathways that can produce variable amounts of fuels and/or products based on external factors, such as market demand. In August 2016, DOE's Bioenergy Technologies Office (BETO) selected three projects for an initial round of funding. Earlier post.)

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NOVEMBER 8, 2013

That’s the goal of the Mobility Transformation Center, a cross-campus University of Michigan initiative that also involves government and industry representatives. —Peter Sweatman, director of the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute (UMTRI). Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

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AUGUST 21, 2014

University of Colorado Boulder. 30 kW Modular DC-DC System using Superjunction MOSFETs This project will develop a new modular power conversion approach that utilizes both silicon and WBG devices to address the fundamental power conversion, loss, and component stress mechanisms. University of Wisconsin - Madison.

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APRIL 21, 2011

a spin-off from the University of Michigan and developer of advanced asymmetric supercapacitors, to produce and sell hybrid electric storage (HES) devices comprising Li-ion batteries, supercapacitors and control electronics. Earlier post.). Inmatech supercapacitors are based on early transition metal carbides and nitrides.

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JANUARY 8, 2013

The product enables cost-efficient conversion of biomass to ethanol and performs 1.5 MBI is a Lansing, Michigan-based not-for-profit company with 30 years of experience in accelerating the commercialization of bio-based technologies. MBI is affiliated with Michigan State University, and is a member of the MSU BioEconomy Network.

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JULY 26, 2013

Fraunhofer and the University of Connecticut (UConn) have established the Fraunhofer Center for Energy Innovation (CEI), the mission of which is to develop advanced technologies related to energy storage, fuel cells, in-stream hydro, power management and distribution through contract research. Fraunhofer USA, Inc.,

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FEBRUARY 21, 2015

Metabolix in collaboration with North Carolina State University. The Ohio State University in collaboration with the University of Alabama and Green Biologics. Develop a cellulosic butanol production process with high productivities, yields, and carbon conversion through novel metabolic engineering of two different pathways.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2018

The team will apply atomic layer deposition technology to fabricate and modify the catalyst at the atomic level, with the goal of more than doubling catalyst lifetime, improving selectivity and conversion efficiency at reduced costs. Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois. Colorado State University. Temple University.

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MAY 22, 2014

Researchers at Michigan State University have developed a microbial electrolysis cell (MEC) which will allow biodiesel plants to eliminate the creation of hazardous wastes while reducing their dependence on fossil fuel. The next step will be field tests with a Michigan-based biodiesel manufacturer. Credit: ACS, Speers et al.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2012

The Gas Technology Institute (GTI) in Des Plaines, IL, recently added a new Pilot-Scale IH 2 Plant to broaden biomass-to-liquid hydrocarbon fuel conversion. This is over 70% efficient energy conversion, and the production of exportable steam can raise the overall process efficiency even higher. Earlier post.).

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JULY 20, 2011

Researchers at the US Department of Energy’s Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL, the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center (GLBRC) and Michigan State University (MSU) have developed a new biomass pretreatment method that reorganizes the hydrogen bond network within crystalline cellulose. Credit: ACS, Chundawat et al.

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JANUARY 14, 2014

This study is especially timely as high commodity prices are driving conversion of marginal lands to annual crop production, reducing future flexibility. —Doug Landis, a biologist at Michigan State University (MSU) and corresponding author. We believe our findings have major implications for bioenergy research and policy.

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MAY 4, 2009

The US Department of Energy (DOE) selected six cost-shared University Advanced Combustion and Emissions Controls research and development projects totaling up to $13 million in DOE funding, subject to annual appropriations. Michigan State is partnering with Chrysler LLC for this effort.

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MAY 6, 2013

A research team from the University of Michigan has nearly doubled the efficiency of certain organic thermoelectric materials. A paper on their work is published in the journal Nature Materials. This particular organic thermoelectric material would be effective at temperatures up to about 250 degrees Fahrenheit (121 °C).

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JULY 26, 2012

The extracted rubber will be used in tire formulations, and the remaining plant residue will be evaluated for use in biopower and for conversion to jet fuel precursors. University of Wisconsin ($7 million). University of Hawaii ($6 million). Michigan Technological University. Michigan State University.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2012

Phillip Savage at the University of Michigan has found that with appropriate parameters, hydrothermal liquefaction (HTL) can convert 65% of wet algae (a Nannochloropsis species) into biocrude in one minute. Biocrude from Nannochloropsis. Credit: Savage Lab. Click to enlarge. A team led by Prof. Faeth and Phillip E.

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MARCH 7, 2019

Michigan Technological University and Westport will address natural gas engine emissions and efficiency improvements by demonstrating the feasibility of compression ignition of directly injected natural gas. Development of Zeolite-Based Catalysts for Improved Low Temperature CH 4 Conversion.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2016

Inspired by the damping mechanisms which sustain trees under wind and seismic loads, researchers at The Ohio State University and the University of Michigan are investigating the potential for the development of energy harvesting systems that efficiently convert the same motion- and wind-based excitations into electric power.

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MAY 4, 2018

nm), the energy conversion efficiency and apparent quantum yield reaches ~8.75% and ~20%, respectively—the highest values ever reported for one-step visible-light driven photocatalytic overall pure water splitting. in neutral (pH?~?7.0) overall water splitting reaction. In part of the visible spectrum (400–485?nm),

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AUGUST 7, 2009

US Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced the delivery of $377 million in funding for 46 new multi-million-dollar Energy Frontier Research Centers (EFRCs) ( earlier post ) located at universities, national laboratories, nonprofit organizations, and private firms across the nation. Pennsylvania State University. Purdue University.

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APRIL 7, 2023

“AI can be manipulated by a programmer to achieve objectives contrary to moral, ethical, and political standards of a healthy society,” says IEEE Fellow Duncan Steel , a professor of electrical engineering, computer science, and physics at the University of Michigan , in Ann Arbor. “I

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