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JANUARY 3, 2013

The US Department of Energy announced more than $10 million in funding to five new projects that will develop new synthetic biological and chemical techniques to convert biomass into advanced biofuels and bioproducts such as plastics and chemical intermediates. Texas AgriLife Research (up to $2.4 Lygos (up to $1.8

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OCTOBER 14, 2021

Rock Tech Lithium has a lithium hydroxide mine project in Georgia Lake, Ontario in Canada. It plans to build a “converter factory” in Lusatia, Brandenburg, to refine the lithium hydroxide from the mines in Canada. The company expects the converter plant to be complete by 2024.

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JANUARY 14, 2022

LanzaJet, a sustainable fuels technology company and renewable fuels producer, has secured financing for its Freedom Pines Fuels plant in Soperton, Georgia ( earlier post ), through the Microsoft Climate Innovation Fund. LanzaJet produces SAF and renewable diesel from low-carbon, sustainable ethanol sources.

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MARCH 25, 2024

Unico vice president of engineering Don Wright told IEEE Spectrum that the BAT300 series is also good for conducting capacity tests when a company wants to check cells it purchased from another manufacturer. Battery companies have expended enormous effort on predictive modeling.” But important questions remain. “It

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AUGUST 23, 2016

With funding from Bioenergy Technologies Office (BETO), Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) has been working with industry-partner LanzaTech to convert alcohols derived from captured carbon monoxide, a byproduct in the production of steel, into synthetic paraffinic kerosene, a non-fossil-based jet fuel.

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JANUARY 27, 2023

Comstock proposes to build a pre-pilot scale system to demonstrate a novel new pathway to convert its biointermediates from forestry residues and other forms of lignocellulosic biomass into renewable diesel, sustainable aviation fuel, gasoline, and marine fuel at dramatically improved yield, efficiency, and cost. MicroBio Engineering Inc.,

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APRIL 7, 2021

LanzaJet’s proven AtJ process is a continuous catalytic process that converts ethanol to Synthetic Paraffinic Kerosene (SPK) or Synthetic Paraffinic Diesel (SPD) through four primary process steps that have each been proven at commercial scale: dehydration, oligomerization, hydrogenation and fractionation.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

He worked at Georgia Power in Atlanta for more than 20 years, and he was a principal research engineer at the National Electric Energy Testing Research and Applications Center at Georgia Tech for more than 25 years, becoming NEETRAC's associate director. He also served on its switch gear committee. Mason Lamar Williams III.

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DECEMBER 12, 2017

This work could be used to improve enzyme performance to better break down biomass and convert waste plant matter to renewable fuels and products. Enzymes for breaking down cellulose are notoriously difficult to engineer for improved activity. —NREL Staff Engineer Brandon Knott, a co-author.

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JUNE 25, 2010

The CLEEN program helps develop environmentally friendly and energy efficient aircraft and engine technology that could be introduced into the commercial aircraft fleet. The FAA will conduct independent assessments of CLEEN technologies using a modeling tool developed at Georgia Institute of Technology for the FAA.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2010

The team completed the final design, integration and delivery of the two prototype hydrogen utility vehicles for a 12-month operational demonstration at Defense Distribution Depot Warner Robins, Georgia. The CEM is also working with the Defense Logistics Agency to convert additional operational vehicles to hydrogen fuel cell technologies.

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AUGUST 1, 2020

Georgia Institute of Technology. MicroBio Engineering, Inc. Integrated biochemical and electrochemical technologies (IBET) to convert organic waste to biopower via North American research and educational partnerships. Microchannel Reactor for Ethanol to n-Butene Conversion. Research Triangle Institute. University of Michigan.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2011

The project would convert wood biomass into drop in biofuels such as gasoline and diesel fuel. The first two plants are expected to be in Mississippi, with additional sites planned in Georgia and Texas. KiOR, Inc., Earlier post.) —Fred Cannon, President and CEO of KiOR. This project accelerates KiOR’s commercialization strategy.

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MAY 12, 2010

USDA’s Biotechnology Regulatory Service (BRS) had opened a public comment period for the “Availability of an Environmental Assessment for Controlled Release of a Genetically Engineered Eucalyptus Hybrid,” on 3 June 2009. Range Fuels is building a commercial cellulosic biofuels plant near Soperton, Georgia.

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MAY 19, 2014

The resulting roadmap uses the integration of genetic engineering with analytical chemistry tools to tailor the structure of lignin and its isolation so it can be used for materials, chemicals and fuels, said lead author Arthur Ragauskas, a professor in the School of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the Georgia Institute of Technology.

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APRIL 30, 2010

Today’s technologies for making biofuels all rely on photosynthesis—either indirectly by converting plants to fuels or directly by harnessing photosynthetic organisms such as algae. This process is less than 1% efficient at converting sunlight to stored chemical energy. Engineering E. Engineering a Bacterial Reverse Fuel Cell.

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DECEMBER 18, 2013

Renmatix is privately held, with operations in Georgia currently capable of converting three dry tons of cellulosic biomass to Plantro sugar per day. Peter Schuhmacher, President of BASF’s competence center Process Research and Chemical Engineering. Biomass Fuels'

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JUNE 21, 2023

It plans to convert additional lines as market demand dictates. Hyundai’s first dedicated EV factory, the Hyundai Motor Group Metaplant America (HMGMA) in Georgia, is under construction with a targeted start-up date in the second half of 2024, with an annual production capacity of 300,000 vehicles to meet the demand for EVs in North America.

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OCTOBER 30, 2018

A team from Georgia Tech, with colleagues at the university of Kansas, has designed a high-performance solid-oxide fuel cell that operates directly on nearly dry (only ~3.5 The new one needs only about 500 degrees—a notch cooler than automobile combustion engines, which run at around 600 degrees Celsius.

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JUNE 28, 2018

Cytochrome P450s have been engineered to perform myriad functions important for biotechnological applications. They’ve been engineered to be faster, better, specialists, or generalists. Johnson found a cytochrome P450 that converts guaiacol to catechol in a single step. —Gregg Beckham.

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JUNE 25, 2011

Using barium oxide nanoparticles, a team of researchers led by Georgia Tech has modified the surface of conventional anodes for solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs) to enable operation at lower temperatures (750 °C) with carbon-containing gases—e.g., Yang et al. Click to enlarge. gasified coal—by eliminating the coking problem.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2009

Converting sunlight to electricity might no longer mean large panels of photovoltaic cells atop flat surfaces like roofs. Using this technology, we can make photovoltaic generators that are foldable, concealed and mobile,” said Zhong Lin Wang, a Regents professor in the Georgia Tech School of Materials Science and Engineering.

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

In other words, CO 2 introduced at the air electrode is converted to carbonate ions and transferred through the electrolyte layer to the fuel electrode, where it is converted back to CO 2. Partners are the Linde Group, BASF, Burns & McDonnell, and Affiliated Engineers Inc. Source: FuelCell Energy. Click to enlarge.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Converting a gas appliance to a heat pump, for example, would draw 4 to 6 kW, while an L2 charger for EVs would be 12 to 14 kW. Policy runs up against engineering reality The situation in Palo Alto is not unique. For instance, Marshall stated, it is not unusual for a 37.5 Given that most of the millions of U.S.

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JUNE 20, 2018

Researchers at the US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and the University of Georgia have developed a new genetic engineering technique significantly to improve an enzyme’s ability to break down biomass. A paper on the work is published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).

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FEBRUARY 12, 2009

A Georgia Tech City and Regional Planning study on climate change concludes that “smart growth” combined with the use of hybrid vehicle technology could reduce cities’ carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) emissions significantly by 2050. Percent change in median CO2 by scenario relative to 2000. Stone et al. 2009) Click to enlarge.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Among the most articulate and almost certainly the wonkiest is Jesse Jenkins , a professor of engineering at Princeton University, where he heads the ZERO Lab—the Zero-carbon Energy systems Research and Optimization Laboratory, that is. And there are states like Georgia where public interveners don’t have any right to discovery.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

The winning project proposals (by award amount) are: Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority, Georgia: $10,800,000. MARTA anticipates that the power produced by these photovoltaic panels will be sold to Georgia Power under their Distributed Generation Contract Program. The largest PV installation in Georgia. Of that, $26.5

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AUGUST 16, 2015

A team at the University of Georgia, Athens led by Distinguished Research Professor Michael Adams has discovered tungsten in what appears to be a novel enzyme in the biomass-degrading thermophilic bacterium Caldicellulosiruptor bescii. bescii ’s primary metabolism, and its ability to convert plant biomass to simple fermentable sugars.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2012

Methane Converter to Electricity and Fuel. Bio2Electric will develop a small-scale reactor that converts natural. convert natural gas into transportable liquids in one step. areas to convert otherwise wasted gas into usable chemicals that. cannot be engineered. The increased energy. Bio2Electric, LLC. University.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2011

Researchers at the University of Georgia have developed an industrial strain of the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae which produces ethanol much more rapidly than its parent in fermentations of pretreated pine. w/v pretreated pine solids loading, additional evolutionary engineering was required to decrease the pronounced lag phase.

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OCTOBER 12, 2017

The pump was developed by researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology, with collaborators from Purdue University and Stanford University. Thermal energy is of greatest value—that is, has the highest available work or ‘exergy’—when it can be transported, stored and converted at the highest possible temperatures.

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JULY 17, 2017

The University of Wisconsin-Madison and ExxonMobil announced a two-year renewal of an agreement to research the fundamental chemistry of converting biomass into transportation fuels. —Vijay Swarup, VP R&D, ExxonMobil Research & Engineering Company. UW-Madison has long been known for its expertise in biomass conversion.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2022

But when you pop the Lightning’s hood, you find the internal combustion engine has gone missing. The EV Transition Explained This is the first in a series of articles presenting just some of the technological and social challenges in moving from vehicles with internal combustion engines to electric vehicles. In its place is a.

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DECEMBER 23, 2016

The American Institute of Chemical Engineers in New York City will lead the effort, which was developed in collaboration with the U.S. Department of Energy’s Savannah River National Laboratory in South Carolina and the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta.

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JUNE 19, 2015

ARPA-E’s TERRA program uniquely integrates agriculture, information technology and engineering to address major global challenges in developing crops that are sustainable, affordable and yield abundant plant feedstocks for bioenergy. The team will further increase the system’s efficiency by using low friction engine components.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

The technology areas ( earlier post ) receiving funding are: PETRO: Plants Engineered To Replace Oil ($36 million). Plants Engineered to Replace Oil (PETRO). Energy Plant Design The University of California, Los Angeles, will re-engineer. streamline the process by which green plants convert carbon. This will allow a.

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