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MAY 24, 2013

EcoCAR 2: Plugging In to the Future named Pennsylvania State University its Year Two winner at the EcoCAR 2013 Competition in San Diego. The converted 2013 Chevrolet Malibu uses a front-wheel-drive system powered by a Magna E-Drive motor with a 90 kW electric drive unit to supply the propulsion for the converted Malibu.

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MAY 23, 2014

The Lancaster County (Pennsylvania) Solid Waste Management Authority (LCSWMA) held a dedication and grand opening of its $4.8-million LCSWMA’s CNG project includes 14 new Peterbilt transfer trucks with Cummins-Westport ISX 12L CNG engines, costing around $2.2 million compressed natural gas (CNG) project. million total.

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MAY 12, 2023

In the early 1980s, Goetzberger conducted pioneering research into fluorescent planar collector-concentrators, utilizing photovoltaic (PV) material mixed with fluorescent dyes to separate the various wavelengths of light and convert them using solar cells with different band gaps. Sauer served in the U.S. Sauer served in the U.S.

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MAY 4, 2019

We are combining our integrated steelmaking process with industry-leading endless casting and rolling to reinvest in steelmaking and secure the future for a new generation of steelworkers in Western Pennsylvania and the Mon Valley. of approximately 35%, sulfur dioxide of approximately 50%, and nitrogen oxides of approximately 80%.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2013

liter V6 engine is available with a factory-installed, gaseous-fuel prep package that includes hardened valves, valve seats, and pistons and rings so it can operate on either natural gas or gasoline through separate fuel systems. When equipped with a bi-fuel CNG/LPG engine package, the 3.7-liter The 2014 Ford F-150 with 3.7-liter

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MAY 21, 2013

This marks the first time “field” gas has been used in northeastern Pennsylvania for this purpose. We are already converting our vehicle fleet and currently have a drilling rig using natural gas as well, so the next step is to utilize the technology on a hydraulic fracturing site. —Dan O.

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JULY 5, 2017

According to the lawsuit, RAM owners report that efforts to fix the faulty emissions system significantly affect engine performance and mileage, with miles per gallon dropping as much as 25%. L Cummins diesel engine to see if they might be entitled to compensation.

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OCTOBER 27, 2021

Leading the boom is the photovoltaic (PV) panel, which converts sunlight into electricity using semiconductors. The heat can drive steam turbines or engines to generate electricity around the clock. Global solar energy supplies are growing rapidly, with nearly 10 times as much solar capacity installed today as there was a decade ago.

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OCTOBER 27, 2021

Leading the boom is the photovoltaic (PV) panel, which converts sunlight into electricity using semiconductors. The heat can drive steam turbines or engines to generate electricity around the clock. Global solar energy supplies are growing rapidly, with nearly 10 times as much solar capacity installed today as there was a decade ago.

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MAY 1, 2012

A team of chemical engineers led by Paul J. Luke Williams and Chun-Chih Chang, doctoral students in chemical engineering, and their collaborators, professors Raul F. In 2010, a CCEI research team led by Mark Davis of Caltech discovered a new catalyst, called Tin-Beta, which can convert glucose into fructose. Lobo, Dionisios G.

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JUNE 10, 2019

materials that get converted into entirely new products when they react with lithium), can store more energy than today’s electrode materials because they can accommodate more lithium ions. Magnetite, among other conversion-type electrode materials (i.e., Resources.

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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 had earned bachelor's and master's degrees in electrical engineering at Georgia Tech.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

The contract, worth a possible total of $600,000, provides that Gevo will supply the USAF with up to 11,000 gallons of “alcohol-to-jet” (ATJ)-based jet fuel, which will be used to support engine testing and a feasibility flight demonstration using an A-10 aircraft. NARA award. Earlier post.). Earlier post.) DLA contract.

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AUGUST 10, 2011

The selections announced focus on eight approaches to improving vehicle efficiency: Advanced fuels and lubricants : Eight projects awarded to improve fuels and lubricants that will enable optimal performance of advanced combustion engines. Wisconsin Engine Research Consultants LLC. Advanced fuels and lubricants. Grantee Description.

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NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Unlike prior processes for converting alcohols into hydrocarbons with multiple steps for dehydration, oligomerization, and hydrogenation, the Vertimass consolidated alcohol dehydration and oligomerization (CADO) conversion is accomplished in a single reactor system using a metal exchanged zeolite catalyst. Earlier post.).

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

Bayer Material Science LLC (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) will analyze an innovative, non-turbine approach to harnessing river currents. Boston, Massachusetts) will develop a cost-effective, high efficiency, power take-off system for a wave energy converter, a mechanism to convert water’s mechanical energy into usable electricity.

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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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APRIL 2, 2022

In January 1981, a handful of semiconductor engineers at MOS Technology in West Chester, Pa., By using in-house integrated-circuit-fabrication facilities for prototyping, the engineers had cut the design time for each chip to less than nine months, and they had designed and built five prototype computers for the show in less than five weeks.

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JUNE 26, 2021

Bunting-Dubois (Dubois, Pennsylvania). Westinghouse Electric Company (Cranberry Township, Pennsylvania). Wireless Radio Frequency Signal Identification and Protocol Reverse Engineering (WiFIRE), $750,000. Unsupervised Physics-informed Machine Learning of Complex Natural and Engineered Geoscience Processes, $250,000.

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APRIL 13, 2009

Earlier post.). Earlier post.). Exide Technologies, with operations in more than 80 countries, is one of the world’s largest producers and recyclers of lead-acid batteries.

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AUGUST 15, 2017

the largest transit bus and motor coach manufacturer and parts distributor in North America, is advancing production of 105 Xcelsior diesel-electric hybrid, forty-foot heavy-duty transit buses for the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA). Allows the accessories to continue to operate during engine stop-start operation.

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MARCH 28, 2013

STG+ technology converts syngas into drop-in high-octane gasoline and jet fuel with a conversion efficiency of ~35% by mass of syngas into liquid transportation fuels (the highest documented conversion efficiency in the industry) or greater than 70% by mass of natural gas. He was elected in 2011 to the National Academy of Engineering.

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AUGUST 10, 2015

The projects will address technical challenges in three areas: advanced controls; crosscutting power take-off (PTO), which converts mechanical motion into electrical power; and innovative structures. The US Department of Energy (DOE) has selected four projects to receive a total of $7.4 ADVANCED CONTROLS. INNOVATIVE STRUCTURES.

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MARCH 23, 2019

High-Density SSiC 3D-Printed Lattices for Compact HTHP Aero-Engine Recuperators – $1,846,000. Vacuum Process Engineering. Vacuum Process engineering will develop a superalloy-based printed circuit heat exchanger for operation at temperatures exceeding 800 °C (1472 °F) and pressures above 80 bar (1160 psi).

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

Red Rose Transit Authority – RRTA, Pennsylvania: $2,450,000. Energy Reduction Consolidated Projects: A variety of building energy-efficiency upgrades, hybrid vehicle upgrades, wind generator power systems, and the equipment needed to convert cooking oil to a blend with vehicle fuel to operate some of their buses.

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APRIL 13, 2023

” – Elon Musk “Within a decade, the internal combustion engine automobile is likely to look exactly like what it is – a machine that converts gasoline into much more heat than forward motion, a bizarre antiquity.” “Tesla is here to stay and keep fighting for the electric car revolution.”

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MAY 10, 2016

million, and selections include the University of California-Riverside; the University of Montana; Missoula; the North Carolina Biotechnology Center; the State University of New York; and Pennsylvania State University. The USDA is funding five projects for a total of $7.3 The DOE selections are: The Ohio State University (OSU).

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2013

One program, Reducing Emissions using Methanotrophic Organisms for Transportation Energy (REMOTE, earlier post ), provides $34 million to 15 projects to find advanced biocatalyst technologies that can convert natural gas to liquid fuel for transportation. Enzyme Engineering for Direct Methane Conversion. Lead organization. Description.

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JULY 3, 2018

Chemical engineers at Rice University and Pennsylvania State University have shown that combining machine learning and quantum chemistry can save time and expense in designing new catalysts. The metals used in catalytic converters are typically part of a wire mesh. Their study is published in the journal Nature Catalysis.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2011

that has developed a gasification-based process to convert agricultural biomass into 93 octane gasoline ( earlier post )—has expanded its US-based development facility in New Jersey, enabling the company to build its complete, integrated thermochemical process. Primus says it plans to build its first commercial facility in Pennsylvania.

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OCTOBER 26, 2021

He's an actual engineer, with a B.S. in Industrial Engineering from Stanford. Is 381 miles by the shortest route and 420 miles if I take the Pennsylvania Turnpike. But Nissan has announced that for North America, they too are converting over to CCS. Engineers sometimes do, but your average retail car buyer.

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OCTOBER 26, 2021

He's an actual engineer, with a B.S. in Industrial Engineering from Stanford. Is 381 miles by the shortest route and 420 miles if I take the Pennsylvania Turnpike. But Nissan has announced that for North America, they too are converting over to CCS. Engineers sometimes do, but your average retail car buyer.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 26, 2009

A novel process known as Syngas Chemical Looping (SCL), in which coal and biomass are converted to electricity and CO 2 is efficiently captured, has been successfully demonstrated on a laboratory scale. Earlier post.) CARBON CAPTURE. Pilot Scale Testing of Carbon Negative, Product Flexible Syngas Chemical Looping. DOE grant: $566,641).

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APRIL 28, 2022

Networks of nerves can drive tiny muscles to make coordinated motions in ways that are very difficult for engineered systems to match. A recent paper from the Pikul group at the University of Pennsylvania is exploring a much simpler approach to generating soliton waves: dominoes. Biological actuators can be fantastically complex.

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JUNE 12, 2012

Technology; University of California Santa Barbara; and The Pennsylvania State. This project will enable design engineers to evaluate effects of design changes and various materials; anticipate. The Pennsylvania State. University. response and statistical variability. University is collaborating on the project.

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MARCH 13, 2015

This limits the development of replacements with better performance and catalytic converter compatibility. Now, in a study published in the journal Science , researchers from the University of Pennsylvania and ExxonMobil, have uncovered the mechanisms governing the growth of ZDDP antiwear tribofilms at sliding interfaces.

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AUGUST 3, 2009

Georg also enlisted the help of University of Iowa computer programmer/engineer Karen Pease. This converted Toyota Prius is another type of Plug-in --a PHEV (Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle). This effort was led by Georg Kuhnke, who lives near Sacramento, California.

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