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Alphabet Energy introduces PowerModules for modular thermoelectric waste heat recovery; partnership with Borla for heavy-duty trucks

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Alphabet Energy, founded in 2009 at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, announced the availability of its thermoelectric generator PowerModule as a standalone product, available to meet the specific application needs of a range of industries, including transportation. an implied efficiency of about 2.5%—saving

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Solena signs LOI with Rentech for Fischer-Tropsch technology for first commercial-scale renewable jet fuel facility in Europe

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a bioenergy and biofuels company based in Washington DC, has signed a letter of intent with Rentech, Inc. The facility will convert more than 500,000 metric tonnes of waste biomass feedstock into synthesis gas (BioSynGas) every year, using Solena’s proprietary plasma gasification technology. The Solena Group, Inc.,

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British Airways Partnering With Solena on Renewable Jet Fuel Plant; F-T Biojet Use Targeted for 2014

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The plant will gasify waste biomass, and use a Fischer-Tropsch process to convert the resulting syngas to biojet fuel and bionaphtha. a bioenergy and biofuels company based in Washington DC. Every year, London produces a nearly three million tonnes of organic waste, mainly from food. Click to enlarge.

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Must Read 40+ Electric Vehicle Interview Questions & Answers

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Moreover, I’m concerned about the environment and eco-friendly transportation. It converts electrical energy from the battery into mechanical energy to drive the vehicle’s wheels. They include components such as inverters, converters, and motor controllers. 3 What are the main components of an electric vehicle?

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Ford Conducts Design of Experiment Investigating Thermoelectric Energy Regeneration

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Such devices can recover some of the energy embedded in waste heat, such as that produced by the exhaust gas of an IC engine. (At Such a device would most likely be positioned downstream of a vehicle’s catalytic converter so that the cooling exhaust gas would not interfere with catalyst operation.

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Manchester team proposing graphene-based ballistic rectifier for waste heat recovery

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Researchers at the University of Manchester (UK) have developed a graphene-based nano-rectifier (“ballistic rectifier”) that can convert waste heat to electricity. Rectifying diodes let electrical current flow in only one direction; mainly used for power supply operation, they convert AC to DC current. —Song et al.

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ARPA-E awards $30M to 21 projects advance new class of high-performance power converters

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CIRCUITS project teams will accelerate the development and deployment of a new class of efficient, lightweight, and reliable power converters, based on wide-bandgap (WBG) semiconductors. If successful, the team will construct a 500 kW building block for a DC fast charger that is at least four times the power density of todays installed units.

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