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Startup licenses ORNL technology for converting organic waste to hydrogen

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The company is creating prototypes for modular waste conversion systems that customers can place onsite. Abhijeet Borole spent more than 20 years at ORNL, where he led research on microbial fuel cells and electrolysis cells for the development of bioelectrochemical systems for waste conversion.

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U Tennessee opens new research facilities at Center for Renewable Carbon

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The University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture has opened a comprehensive research facility to accommodate faculty and industry initiatives through the new Center for Renewable Carbon (CRC). Additional CRC research capabilities include life cycle analysis and a biomass fractionation reactor.

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DOE awarding $1.6B to 11 battery materials separation and processing projects as part of $2.8B funding

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Such a plant would feed a 50,000 metric ton per year conversion plant to produce battery grade lithium hydroxide to support domestic manufacturing of the lithium-ion battery cells to power 750,000 electric vehicles per year. Piedmont Lithium , Tennessee Lithium, $141,680,442.

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UGA-led team engineers bacterium for the direct conversion of unpretreated biomass to ethanol

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A team led by Dr. Janet Westpheling at the University of Georgia has engineered the thermophilic, anaerobic, cellulolytic bacterium Caldicellulosiruptor bescii , which in the wild efficiently uses un-pretreated biomass—to produce ethanol from biomass without pre-treatment of the feedstock. Whereas wild-type C. —Chung et al.

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DOE selects 9 universities for about $2.7M in advanced coal technologies research awards

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The US Department of Energy (DOE) has selected nine universities for awards for research projects that will continue to support innovation and development of advanced, lower emission coal technologies. million investment will be leveraged with additional funds from the universities to support $3.1 Brown University.

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DOE awards Texas A&M AgriLife Research $2.2M to investigate ways to market bio waste from biofuel refineries

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Joshua Yuan, AgriLife Research scientist and director of the Synthetic and Systems Biology Hub in the department of plant pathology and microbiology at Texas A&M University in College Station, is leading the team of researchers under the grant. in Washington State and the University of Tennessee.

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DuPont selects Murex as marketing partner for cellulosic ethanol from Nevada, Iowa plant

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At its demonstration facility in Vonore, Tennessee, it combined expertise in biorefinery design with an optimized technology package of novel enzymes and fermentation organisms, resulting in: Demonstrating lower-capital integrated unit operations; Achieving economic and environmental targets; and.

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