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JULY 25, 2020

The BMW Group has been working with Toyota Motor Corporation on fuel cell drive systems since 2013. The electrical converter, which is located below the fuel cell, adjusts its voltage level to that of the electrical drive and the power buffer battery. This is fed by the braking energy and the energy of the fuel cell.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Before joining LGES, Pyun worked at Nvidia Corporation, Silicon Valley headquarters, as one of five principal data scientists. Pyun received MS and PhD degrees in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University focusing on Machine Learning and Computer Vision. —LGES statement.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2013

The free-piston linear generator works in a similar manner to a conventional combustion engine, but instead of converting the linear movement of the piston into the rotational movement of the crankshaft, it generates electricity directly. A fuel-air mix is ignited in the combustion chamber. Earlier post.) Earlier post.).

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JANUARY 26, 2015

Hydrogenics Corporation will supply a 1MW electrolyzer and provide engineering expertise to a consortium of companies working on the European project MefCO2 (methanol fuel from CO 2 ) in Germany. CO 2 will be captured from the flue gases in a special downstream flue gas scrubber (Post-Combustion Capture, PCC). tonnes of CO 2.

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JULY 17, 2020

The Research Foundation for The SUNY Stony Brook University. University of Delaware. University of Maryland. Enovix Corporation. Marquette University. Exelon Corporation. Slashing Platinum Group Metals Content in Catalytic Converters: An Atoms-to-Autos Approach. Washington State University.

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DECEMBER 21, 2018

The methane cohort awards: Rice University. Converting Hydrocarbons to Recyclable Materials for Metal Replacement with Positive Hydrogen Output, $3,300,000. Rice University will develop recyclable, lightweight materials that could be used to replace metals in automotive applications.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2012

OBC), to BASF Corporation for the gross purchase price of $58 million in cash before transaction fees, minority participations, and working capital and other adjustments. million in outstanding 3% Convertible Senior Notes due 2013. On 13 February ECD sold its majority owned subsidiary, Ovonic Battery Company, Inc. Earlier post.)

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DECEMBER 1, 2020

MOL) has joined a wide-ranging corporate-academic partnership in a zero-emission initiative called the “Wind Hunter Project,” seeking new applications for hydrogen fuel and wind power. Graduate School of Frontier Sciences of The University of Tokyo; West Japan Fluid Engineering Laboratory Co., Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

reported that it had exceeded its target yield threshold of 70 gallons of biogasoline per dry ton of garbage received from the cafeteria dumpsters and paper shredders at Texas A&M University. was formed in 1995 to commercialize technologies developed by the Texas Engineering Experiment Station, a member of the Texas A&M University System.

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MAY 18, 2018

(SoCalGas) introduced an innovative new solar-powered hydrogen generation system during the California Air Resources Board Technology Expo and Symposium at the University of California, Riverside. The project is a partnership between SoCalGas, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) and the STARS Corporation.

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JANUARY 27, 2023

Topic Area 1: Pre-Pilot Scale-Up of Integrated Biorefineries Algenesis Corporation, “Pre-Pilot Scale Production of Algae-based Jet Fuel and Polyurethane Monomers”, $4,987,974. University of California Riverside, “Scale-up Demonstration of Hybrid Catalytic Biorefining of Biomass to Sustainable Aviation and Marine Fuels”, $2,000,000.

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JUNE 21, 2019

Porterbrook and the University of Birmingham’s Center for Railway Research and Education (BCRRE) announced that the UK’s first hydrogen train—HydroFLEX ( earlier post )— will be tested on the mainline railway following a successful proof-of-concept.

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JUNE 19, 2014

California-based US Hybrid Corporation has been awarded a contract by the Hawaii Center for Advanced Transportation Technologies (HCATT) for the design, integration and delivery of its H 2 Ride Fuel Cell Plug-In Shuttle Bus for operation by the County of Hawaii Mass Transit Agency’s (MTA) HELE-ON Big Island bus service. Click to enlarge.

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JULY 1, 2013

The selected research projects will help maximize the amount of renewable carbon and hydrogen that can be converted to fuels from biomass and improve the separation processes in bio-oil production to remove non-fuel components—further lowering production costs. University of Oklahoma (up to $4 million). Virent, Inc. (up

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AUGUST 21, 2012

IH 2 is a new thermochemical process that employs a catalyzed fluidized bed hydropyrolysis step followed by an integrated hydroconversion step to directly convert biomass into high-quality, fungible hydrocarbon fuels. GTI anticipates full-scale commercial plants converting 2,000 tons a day will be operating by 2014. Earlier post.).

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OCTOBER 23, 2012

HEET, a company with experience developing alternative energy technologies, will focus on ways to convert discarded cooking oil into a component of sustainable aviation biofuel at the Boeing-COMAC Aviation Energy Conservation and Emissions Reductions Technology Center. The Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China, Ltd.

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OCTOBER 9, 2014

The Global Climate and Energy Project (GCEP) at Stanford University has awarded $10.5 The goal is to create an efficient, stable photo-electrochemical cell capable of converting sunlight into hydrogen and other renewable fuels at elevated temperatures of 500°C to 700°C. Investigator: Mark Brongersma, Materials Science and Engineering.

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JULY 30, 2013

A German consortium involving four companies and and two universities is developing dielectric elastomers (electroactive polymers) for the conversion of mechanical energy—in this case wave power—into electrical power. This is an essential part of the electroactive polymer that converts mechanical energy into electrical power.

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DECEMBER 1, 2023

Corporate Cash The idea of private digital currencies goes back to at least 1994, when the late Edward de Bono wrote of the “IBM dollar.” In de Bono’s vision, “large manufacturing corporations” should create their own currencies, which could be used to buy their products. Customers could convert U.S.

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JANUARY 17, 2012

Separately, AECOM Technology Corporation and REC Solar unveiled a 1.16 MW installation at the California State University, Fullerton (CSUF) campus. The CSUF installation also includes solar-powered electric vehicle (EV) charging stations to maximize the university’s sustainability efforts. The funding, approved Jan.

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DECEMBER 25, 2014

Japan’s New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO) has selected IHI Corporation and Toshiba Corporation as co-researchers in a project to develop and to demonstrate an underwater floating-type turbine system for ocean energy power generation. The project is slated to continue until FY 2017.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

BTE quantifies the fraction of the fuel’s chemical energy that is converted into useful work by the engine system. FTE quantifies the mass and distance of freight transported per unit of fuel consumed. The full team of project partners includes Peterbilt, Eaton and Bridgestone.

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JUNE 2, 2023

Heliostats are mirrors that track the sun in order to reflect highly concentrated sunlight to a receiver, where it can be stored as heat for long-duration energy storage and converted into electricity.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have utilized a series of simulations to model the performance of twin-engine hybrid-electric general-aviation propulsion systems. —Phillip Ansell, assistant professor in the Department of Aerospace Engineering in the College of Engineering at the University of Illinois.

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AUGUST 20, 2010

Kettering University, officials from Swedish Biogas International, Flint Mayor Dayne Walling and others unveiled Flint's first biomethane fuel truck. Students, working with faculty members at Kettering, converted a 2500HD Chevy Silverado to run on a dual-fuel system.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2018

AK Steel Corporation. AK Steel Corporation’s Research & Innovation Center will conduct alloy design, lab validation, manufacture, and testing of novel low density steels that possess mechanical properties exhibited by currently available advanced high strength steels. Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois. DOE Funding.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2018

The technology converts non-recyclable, non-compostable municipal solid waste into methanol, ethanol and other widely-used chemicals. BlackRock is a global leading investment management corporation, managing close to six trillion dollars in assets on behalf of investors worldwide.

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JANUARY 27, 2014

Porter Machinery Company; Honeywell Aerospace; Montana Tech of The University of Montana; and TechSolve, Inc.). University of Pittsburgh (Acutec Precision Machining Inc.; McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh (ExOne and Magnesium Elektron Powders). Description. ANSYS, Inc.; and ExOne).

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MARCH 21, 2012

Airbus has joined a consortium that includes Virgin Australia, Renewable Oil Corporation, the Future Farm Industries CRC, Canadian biofuels company Dynamotive Energy Systems Corporation and GE to study a new pathway for the production of sustainable aviation fuels from mallee trees using fast pyrolysis and subsequent bio-oil upgrading.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2018

Of those selected, approximately 43% of OPEN 2018 projects will be led by universities, 35% by small businesses, and the remainder by large businesses, non-profit organizations or federally funded research and development centers (FFRDCs). Georgia Tech Research Corporation. University of California, San Diego.

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JUNE 18, 2011

million in US Department of Energy (DOE) funding to scale up the AFEX (ammonia fiber expansion) biomass pretreatment process developed by Bruce Dale, professor of chemical engineering and materials science at Michigan State University (MSU) from lab bench scale to a 100-fold larger working prototype. Earlier post.).

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DECEMBER 16, 2022

ALLEN MEDAL Sponsor: IBM LYDIA KAVRAKI Rice University Houston “For foundational probabilistic algorithms and randomized search methods that have broad impact in robotic motion planning and computational biology.” IEEE MILDRED DRESSELHAUS MEDAL Sponsor: Google, LLC MELBA CRAWFORD Purdue University West Lafayette, Ind. IEEE FRANCES E.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2010

New Zealand-based LanzaTech will work with the US Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) on converting some of LanzaTech’s products to drop-in jet fuels. LanzaTech has already shown 2,3-BD production from waste gas resources in an industrial setting. Earlier post.) Emerson, Michael C.

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JULY 11, 2016

Catalytic pyrolysis company Anellotech, which focuses on producing cost-competitive BTX (benzene, toluene and xylene) from non-food biomass, revealed Toyota Tsusho Corporation as a multinational strategic equity investor and corporate partner in the renewable aromatic chemicals supply chain.

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MAY 14, 2020

The standard provides that HC-HEFA-SPK fuel, the development of which was led by IHI Corporation, may be blended at up to 10% by volume with conventional jet fuel. The gas mixture is separated and cleaned to produce pure syngas, and it is then converted to long carbon chain waxes through the FT Synthesis Process.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2011

The project aims at developing more compact and more powerful GaN-based energy converters which are used, for example, in information and communication technology and solar inverter technology. Low energy consumption and high output powers are the core requirements for modern power converter systems.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2014

A team from the University of Utah and CFD Research Corporation (CFDRC) reports the first bioelectrocatalysis of alkanes to produce electricity. However, the current methods for converting JP-8 to energy are insufficient. AMO is an oxidoreductase enzyme which converts alkanes to alcohols. Credit: ACS, Ulyanova et al.

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