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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. Intake, exhaust and fuel injection. A fuel-air mix is ignited in the combustion chamber.

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Scientists from Tokyo Metropolitan University have developed a low-temperature catalyst for removing NO x gas from industrial exhaust using ammonia. Credit: Tokyo Metropolitan University. Conversion rate of nitrogen oxides at different temperatures for conventional, V(V) oxide and V(IV)+V(V) oxide “defective” catalysts.

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OCTOBER 28, 2022

The selected projects, led by universities, national laboratories, and the private sector aim to develop commercially scalable technologies that will enable greater domestic supplies of copper, nickel, lithium, cobalt, rare earth elements, and other critical elements. Columbia University. Harvard University.

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The filter converts NO to elemental nitrogen and oxide anions at the electrodes (1). Risø, the National Laboratory for Sustainable Energy at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU), is developing an electrochemical method for purifying exhaust, especially exhaust gases from diesel engines. This leads to additional cost.

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AUGUST 22, 2019

The proposed plant would take more than 500,000 tonnes each year of non-recyclable everyday household and commercial solid waste destined for landfill or incineration such as meal packaging, diapers and takeaway coffee cups and convert it into more than 60 million liters (15.85

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Simona Onori, an assistant professor at Clemson University, has received a $500,000 Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) award from the National Science Foundation to advance her work to develop integrated modeling and control for aftertreatment systems to reduce fine-particle emissions from gasoline direct injection (GDI) engines.

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OCTOBER 30, 2019

As such, this industry has an urgent need to reduce its environmental impact. Mærsk and Wallenius Wilhelmsen have teamed up with the University of Copenhagen and major customers including BMW Group, H&M Group, Levi Strauss & Co. Neither lignin nor ethanol separately are currently major biofuel options for the shipping industry.

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—Dr Alexander Knafl, Head of R&D Four-Stroke Engines at MAN Energy Solutions in Augsburg Electrification of the maritime industry is only possible in niche segments but not in so-called ‘long-distance shipping’. This is a crucial point as ship lifespans can last several decades in some cases and newbuildings demand a lot of resources.

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The move has been welcomed by the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy as a significant step forward in the UK’s contribution to reducing carbon emissions. What will be the UK’s largest independent vehicle battery manufacturer will open in early 2019 in Coventry.

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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. Now, almost any owner of exhaust heat can generate valuable electricity.

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JUNE 14, 2016

Core exhaust loss. The “Core exhaust” loss is primarily due to thermal energy lost to the surroundings, although some excess kinetic energy and fluid friction associated pressure losses contribute as well. Core exhaust loss. Bypass flow loss.

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These university-industry partnerships will receive more than C$16 million (US$16.4 million in funding through the Automotive Partnership Canada (APC) initiative, and close to C$10 million from industry and other contributions. Partners: Simon Fraser University and Future Vehicle Technologies Inc. This includes C$6.5

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O-Flexx says that its technology—protected by several patents—significantly increases conversion efficiency.The company collaborates with a partners from the industry—such as MAHLE—as well as research institutions such as the University of Duisburg-Essen, Vienna University of Technology and several Fraunhofer institutes.

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Catalysts, which can speed up chemical reactions and make them more efficient and effective, are essential to most industrial processes and to the production of many chemicals. Catalytic converters in cars, for example, reduce emissions by converting exhaust to less toxic compounds. Resources. Dell’Angela, T. Anniyev, M.

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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). University of California, San Diego. University of Delaware.

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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. The anode exhaust contains residual hydrogen, any CO 2 from the input fuel, and the CO 2 produced as a result of the carbonate ion transfer.

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The lower-weight body design—light-weight composite materials save 600 lbs (272 kg) of weight per vehicle—along with the engine, allows every Reach to significantly reduce fuel consumption and exhaust emissions compared to conventional walk-in vans. The US Department of Energy has also provided funding for this testing initiative.

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Clemson University. The Curators of The University of Missouri. PPG Industries. The project will design and demonstrate an innovative approach to utilize the engine cooling system in a simplified Rankine cycle that converts engine exhaust heat energy to useful work for heavy duty diesel engines (HDDE).

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Traffic contributes more to NO x emissions in Europe than previously thought, according to a new study by a team at the University of Innsbruck. Generally, different combustion and exhaust treatment characteristics result in significantly higher NO x /CO 2 emission ratios for diesel powered cars than for gasoline.

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Researchers at the University of Houston, with their colleagues at Boston College, have created a new thermoelectric material—germanium-doped magnesium stannide (Mg 2 Sn 0.75 Opeil of Boston College, and Stephen Wilson of the University of California at Santa Barbara. —Liu et al. C, said Zhifeng Ren, lead author and M.D.

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The researchers used LCLS to study the CO oxidation reaction—the same reaction that neutralizes carbon monoxide (CO) from car exhaust in a catalytic converter. —Anders Nilsson, a professor at the SLAC/Stanford SUNCAT Center for Interface Science and Catalysis and at Stockholm University who led the research.

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After each expansion cycle the heat exchange fluid is recovered from the exhaust and reheated to ambient temperature via a heat exchanger similar to a conventional radiator. Some of the heat that will inevitably escape down the exhaust will be converted into electricity using a thermoelectric generator (TEG). Earlier post. ).

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-alumina supports along with a small amount of lanthanum oxide can efficiently turn the carbon monoxide in automotive exhaust into carbon dioxide at temperatures as low as 40 ?Celsius, of Chemical and Biological Engineering at the University of new Mexico. C as a target for achieving removal of pollutants from exhaust.

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For more than half a century, Thailand’s state-owned tobacco monopoly mass-produced cigarettes at a sprawling industrial estate in Bangkok. Vehicle exhaust fills the air along Sukhumvit as pedestrians make their way down busy sidewalks, past office towers, hotels, vertical malls, street vendors and the occasional beggar.

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A team of researchers at MIT and Tsinghua University has developed a high-rate, high-capacity and long-lived anode for Li-ion batteries comprising a yolk-shell nanocomposite of aluminum core (30 nm in diameter) and TiO 2 shell (~3 nm in thickness), with a tunable interspace (Al@TiO 2 , or ATO). —Li et al.

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Catalytic converters have been used in the US since the 1970s as a way to clean up pollutants from vehicle exhaust. In the catalytic process, rare metals such as platinum, are used in a chemical reaction to convert carbon monoxide and other pollutants to non-toxic carbon dioxide, nitrogen, and water. Pereira-Hernández et al.

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The Pennsylvania State University. Thermoelectric and enabling engine technology : Three projects awarded to improve the efficiency of thermoelectric devices to convert engine waste heat to electricity. PPG Industries, Inc. The Regents of the University of California, Riverside. Grantee Description. Amprius, Inc.

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NPS acquired licensing rights to the cool flame reformer technology developed at RWTH Aachen University in the late 1990s. The reformer converts hydrocarbons into hydrogen, CO 2 and heat. An assembly plant in Høyanger, Norway, is scheduled to open in early 2012 with Industrial Development Corporation of Norway (SIVA) as contractor.

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New research led by The University of Manchester has developed a metal-organic framework (MOF) material that provides a selective, fully reversible and repeatable capability to capture nitrogen dioxide (NO 2 ), a toxic air pollutant produced particularly by diesel and bio-fuel use. —Dr Sihai Yang, a lead author.

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This goal will be facilitated by fundamental research to establish the basis for new concepts, design elements and tools performed through university/industry/national laboratory partnerships. catalytic) technologies to reduce toxic gas and particulate emissions.

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building HVAC exhaust) and from natural fluids (e.g., Most contemporary DAC approaches utilize energy poorly, as evident by second-law efficiencies for CO 2 separation of 1 to 9% (for comparison, post-combustion capture from coal exhaust attains second-law efficiencies greater than 20%).

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Fusion-energy companies have now raised more than US $5 billion, the majority of it since 2021, according to Andrew Holland , the director of the Fusion Industry Association. national labs and universities as well as international research institutes.

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from engine exhaust or industrial processes. Thermionic energy converters are heat engines that convert heat directly to electricity at very high temperatures. A basic thermionic converter consists of two electrodes separated by a vacuum or a vapor. Thermionic emission and TICs. Click to enlarge. W/cm 2 at 26.6%

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One North East has invested £314,000 to sponsor the ECO2Trans project, which is converting two electric Gulliver U500EUK buses into hydrogen vehicles using a fuel cell, battery and capacitor combination.

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If these two stages can be performed simultaneously, the sugar and ethanol industry could cut its costs substantially because a single reactor can be used for all processes involved, economizing on reagents. This technological constraint has been exhaustively studied. —Toyama et al. This is a sort of general rule.

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Researchers at Purdue University, the University of Notre Dame and Cummins have discovered a new reaction mechanism that could be used to improve SCR catalyst designs for pollution-control systems to further reduce emissions of smog-causing nitrogen oxides in diesel exhaust. Findings are published in the journal Science.

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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. The nano-rectifier was built by a team led by Professor Aimin Song and Dr. Ernie Hill, in collaboration with a team at Shandong University (China). —Song et al.

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