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MARCH 23, 2021

In recent years, a growing number of utilities responsible for clean water have moved from strict wastewater treatment to a broader model of water-resource management. With the right technology, it’s possible to convert wastewater into renewable power, along with chemicals, fertilizers, and reusable water.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2014

High-density polyethylene (HDPE) grocery bags can be successfully pyrolyzed to alternative diesel fuel, according to a new study by a team from the Illinois Sustainable Technology Center (ISTC) at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Research Service ARS.

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APRIL 6, 2017

A multi-institutional team led by the University of Illinois has genetically engineered sugarcane to produce lipids in its leaves and stems for biodiesel production (lipid-cane). Woese Institute for Genomic Biology at Illinois. —Vijay Singh, Director of the Integrated Bioprocessing Research Laboratory at Illinois.

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OCTOBER 24, 2017

Vastly expanding sugarcane production in Brazil for conversion to ethanol could reduce current global CO 2 emissions by as much as 5.6%, according to a new study by an international team led by researchers from the University of Illinois. The carbon-related costs of converting the land to sugarcane fields were included in the analysis.

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JANUARY 8, 2021

The study was led by former CABBI Postdoctoral Researcher Caitlin Moore and her advisor, Carl Bernacchi, Plant Physiologist with the US Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Research Service and Adjunct Professor of Plant Biology and Crop Sciences at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Moore, C.E., von Haden, A.C., Burnham, M.B.,

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AUGUST 25, 2017

A team from the Prairie Research Institute at the University of Illinois, with colleagues from the University of Birmingham and Aarhus University, have developed a nanosized bio-Pd/C catalyst for upgrading algal bio-oil. The Natural Environment Research Council, UK also supported this research. Bidhya Kunwar, Sam Derakhshan Deilami, Lynne E.

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AUGUST 29, 2011

A team from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and University of California, Berkeley, have engineered a new strain of yeast that co-ferments cellobiose and galactose from hydrolysates of seaweed, thereby converting the biomass into ethanol in half the time. Galazka and Jamie Cate of the University of California, Berkeley.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2012

The Chicago Department of Transportation (CDOT) announced a $15-million incentive program that will encourage companies and individuals to modernize their fleets and convert to electric vehicles. Fleets can stack the State of Illinois’ Alternative Fuel Vehicle and EV Charging Station Rebates on top of the City’s incentive.

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APRIL 18, 2012

The Gas Technology Institute (GTI) hosted an open house at its new Pilot-Scale IH 2 Plant in Chicago, Illinois to demonstrate the successful efforts to broaden biomass-to-liquid hydrocarbon fuel conversion. Earlier post.). billion gallons. —David Carroll, GTI President and CEO.

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AUGUST 1, 2016

In a new study from the US Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory and the University of Illinois at Chicago, researchers report devising a new transition metal dichalcogenide (TMDC) nanoarchitecture for catalytic electrochemical reduction of CO 2 to carbon monoxide (CO) in an ionic liquid. —Asadi et al. Credit: Asadi et al.

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OCTOBER 8, 2013

Now, researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and UC Berkeley have engineered yeast to convert cellulosic sugars and toxic levels of acetate together into ethanol under anaerobic conditions. It later occurred to Jin that that process might also use up the surplus NADH from xylose metabolism. Click to enlarge.

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AUGUST 1, 2020

These projects will improve the performance and lower the cost and risk of technologies that can be used to produce biofuels, biopower, and bioproducts from biomass and waste resources. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Topic 4: Bio-Restore: Biomass to Restore Natural Resources. Princeton University. 10,000,000.

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JULY 3, 2016

A study by a team at University of Illinois at Urbana−Champaign has found that, with currently achievable performance levels, synthetic fuels produced via the electrochemical reduction of CO 2 and the Fischer-Tropsch (FT) process system are not economically and environmentally competitive with using petroleum-based fuel. —Li et al.

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DECEMBER 28, 2010

In a process of adjustments to the original yeast, Yong-Su Jin at the University of Illinois and his colleagues converted it to one that will consume both types of sugar faster and more efficiently than any strain currently in use in the biofuel industry. The biofuel industry uses this yeast to convert plant sugars to bioethanol.

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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. He joined the University of Illinois in 1977 as a professor.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2009

billion project, has signed equipment contracts and licensing agreements with Siemens for four SFG-500 gasifiers that will convert Illinois coal into substitute natural gas. TEC is in advanced development, with the front end engineering and design (FEED) work required by the Illinois Clean Coal Portfolio Standard law under way.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2014

Awardees will receive approximately $16 million to advance the gasification process, which converts carbon-based materials such as coal into syngas for use as power, chemicals, hydrogen, and transportation fuels. The US Department of Energy (DOE) has selected four projects to receive funding for next-generation gasification systems.

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AUGUST 23, 2011

Early this year, CRI acquired exclusive global sublicensing rights for the IH 2 technology from Illinois-based Gas Technology Institute (GTI) where the technology was developed. This approach gives us the flexibility to develop a multi-biomass feedstock mix specific to available resources worldwide. Earlier post.) Earlier post.).

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OCTOBER 31, 2011

A team from the University of Illinois and startup Dioxide Materials has developed an electrocatalytic system for the reduction of CO 2 to CO—a key component of artificial photosynthesis and thus an enabler for the conversion of CO 2 to synthetic fuels—at overpotentials below 0.2 Gas phase CO production is observed at an.

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MARCH 18, 2016

A techno-economic analysis by a team from the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign and Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University has determined that biodiesel produced from oil from genetically modified lipid-producing sugarcane (lipid-cane) is much more economical than biodiesel produced from soybean oil. percent oil.

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AUGUST 12, 2011

The 10 projects are located in California, Colorado, Illinois, Florida, Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, South Carolina and Virginia: Association Mapping of Cell Wall Synthesis Regulatory Genes and Cell Wall Quality in Switchgrass. Sacks, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. x giganteus (M. sinensis x M. sacchariflorus).

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JULY 8, 2015

In collaboration with the farming community of the Indian Creek Watershed in central Illinois, researchers from Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) are finding ways to meet three agrarian land management objectives simultaneously: maximizing a farmer’s production; growing feedstock for bioenergy; and protecting the environment. 2015.04.012.

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APRIL 1, 2009

More than two dozen scientists from the University of California at Berkeley, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign will participate in the investigations. He and his co-principal investigators will direct teams in different aspects of the process. Earlier post.) Earlier post.).

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APRIL 27, 2009

Researchers at the Illinois Institute of Technology and Allborg University (Denmark) are studying a hybrid battery/ultracapacitor system for small electric vehicles. In their study, the researchers connected the battery pack and ultracapacitor bank in parallel to the DC link with bi-directional two quadrant buck-boost converters.

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OCTOBER 7, 2011

Now, University of Illinois chemical and biomolecular engineering professor Paul Kenis and his research group and researchers at startup Dioxide Materials report on the development of an electrocatalytic system that reduces CO 2 to carbon monoxide at overpotentials below 0.2 Twenty years ago, Bockris and co-workers proposed that. Thorson, W.

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DECEMBER 8, 2010

on the Advanced Batteries Café , hosted in cooperation with the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) on 1 September 2010, in Rosemont, Illinois. The National Electrical Manufacturers Association (NEMA) has released a report by Energetics Inc. NEMA is the association of electrical and medical imaging equipment manufacturers.

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MARCH 22, 2010

Professor George Miley of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and director of its Fusion Studies Lab, reported on progress toward a “cold fusion battery”—a small power unit that uses a low energy nuclear reaction (LENR) (i.e., He is developing a cold fusion reactor that demonstrates this principle. Heinz Hora.

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2010

Energy Bioscience Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The resources developed will enable analysis of the genes that modulate these traits and facilitate improvement of energy sorghum and other bioenergy grasses. 1,340,000 (DOE). 734,759 (DOE). 1,000,000 (USDA).

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JUNE 26, 2021

Northern Illinois University (DeKalb, Illinois). Real Time-Optimal Power Flow based Distributed Energy Resources Management System (DERMS), $299,329. High-Power Oak Ridge Converter (ORC) for Extreme Fast Charging (XFC) Applications, $750,000. BioBlend Renewable Resources (Elk Grove Village, Illinois).

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JULY 25, 2016

This approach helps overcome another issue with lithium-air batteries: As the chemical reaction involved in charging and discharging converts oxygen between gaseous and solid forms, the material goes through huge volume changes that can disrupt electrical conduction paths in the structure, severely limiting its lifetime.

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DECEMBER 15, 2020

They then used high-temperature pyrolysis to convert the atoms to catalytically active sites within the framework. The team immobilized cobalt-based molecules in the micropores of zeolitic imidazolate frameworks, which served as protective fences to decrease the cobalt atoms’ mobility and prevent them from clustering together.

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MAY 11, 2009

The power generated by the Rialto Project is expected to qualify under California’s Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS) program, which requires utilities to increase the amount of electric power they sell from qualified renewable-energy resources. The plant will be capable of providing enough electricity for approximately 30,000 homes.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2009

The research, led by Associate Professor Brian Stone, shows that expected levels of CO 2 emissions from cars and trucks in 2050 could be reduced back to close to 2000 levels if the full vehicle fleet was converted to hybrid electric vehicles—a greater reduction in CO 2 emissions than achieved by two smart growth scenario modelled in the study.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2016

In collaboration with the ORNL team, Josh Vermaas, a graduate student at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, contributed significantly to this effort as a DOE Computational Science Graduate Fellow at ORNL. In the presence of THF, however, lignin opens into long coils, which can be more easily removed when the biomass is washed.

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APRIL 21, 2009

We Promote PHEV Conversion Programs: First CalCars in 2004, then a number of aftermarket companies, have converted over 200 cars — at first most were for fleets, but more and more are going to individual owners. Drivers of converted cars have received high levels of cooperation from dealer service departments so far.

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AUGUST 13, 2012

According to the agreement, INVISTA and LanzaTech will collaborate on projects to develop one-step and two-step technologies to convert industrial waste gas carbon monoxide into butadiene. Leading nylon producer INVISTA and biotechnology firm LanzaTech signed a joint development agreement focused on bio-based butadiene.

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AUGUST 17, 2015

Steffen Mueller, principal economist at the Energy Resources Center. (Dr. Published surveys of the ethanol industry showed that 2008 ethanol plants use 30% less energy to convert corn to ethanol than 2001-era plants. The use of fossil energy at the biorefinery is a significant contributor to the CI of ethanol. Mueller, S. Mueller, S.

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