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MAY 17, 2016

Researchers in China have directly synthesized gasoline- and diesel-range C 6 -C 15 branched alkanes in high carbon yield (~80%) via the self-condensation of acetone and the subsequent hydrodeoxygenation over a dual-bed catalyst system. A paper on their work appears in the RSC journal Green Chemistry. Sheng et al. Click to enlarge.

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APRIL 22, 2020

Researchers at Idaho National Laboratory have developed a new electrode material for a protonic ceramic electrochemical cell (PCEC) that can efficiently convert excess electricity and water into hydrogen. The triple conducting oxide of PrNi 0.5 In this article, we report our findings from the creation of a perovskite TCO electrode PrNi 0.5

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NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Hydrokinetic energy is an abundant renewable resource that can boost grid resiliency and reduce infrastructure vulnerability, but it is currently a cost prohibitive option compared to other energy generating sources. The project aims to demonstrate a significant step-change up in efficiency with a step-change down in cost of energy.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Researchers at the USC Viterbi School of Engineering, collaborating with the US Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), have developed a mild and scalable synthesis route for a molybdenum carbide nanoparticle that can convert CO 2 into fuel. Their work was published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society.

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DECEMBER 7, 2018

Renmatix’s Plantrose Process converts cellulosic feedstocks such as wood, agricultural residues, or other cellulosic raw materials to cellulosic-based sugars, the basic building blocks of sustainable fuels. —Mike Hamilton, CEO of Renmatix.

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MARCH 4, 2015

Global Bioenergies has produced “second-generation” isobutene, in a push to diversify accessible feedstock towards cheaper resources. This industry ultimately has the potential to provide fermentation processes with low-cost sugars derived from abundant resources. Earlier post.) into fermentable sugars.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2010

Researchers at the University of Wisconsin, led by Dr. James Dumesic, have developed a process to convert aqueous solutions of ?-valerolactone GVL is produced by hydrogenation of levulinic acid, which can be produced, potentially at low cost, from agricultural waste by commercial-scale process. Jesse Bond.

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MAY 6, 2015

Researchers at Washington State University have engineered the filamentous fungus Aspergillus carbonarius ITEM 5010 to produce jet-range hydrocarbons directly from biomass. Fungi have been of interest for about a decade within biofuels production as the key producer of enzymes necessary for converting biomass to sugars.

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DECEMBER 15, 2016

Global Bioenergies is now entering the final phase of demonstrating its technology for converting renewable carbon into hydrocarbons. It can also be converted into isododecane, a compound found in jet fuel. Earlier post.). Isobutene—one of the main petroleum derivatives—is a platform molecule.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2018

The top awardee in this segment is Pinnacle Engines ( earlier post ), which is receiving $8 million for the design and demonstration of an electrification-enabled full-featured opposed piston 4-stroke engine for hybrid and range extender applications. Sila Nanotechnologies, Inc. University of California, San Diego.

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MAY 30, 2016

In these trials, wood residue streams from Canfor Pulp’s kraft process were successfully converted into a stable biocrude oil. Limited, which in turn is a subsidiary of Ignite Energy Resources Ltd. IER), an Australian public unlisted natural resource and energy technology development company. biogenic natural gas resource).

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JULY 10, 2022

The money will help projects further develop their greenhouse gas removal technologies, which include a machine that can pull carbon dioxide out of the air, a plant to convert household waste into hydrogen for use in the transport industry, and a system to remove carbon dioxide from seawater. Biohydrogen Greenhouse Gas Removal Demonstration”.

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JULY 10, 2014

Stirred tanks, which are traditionally used for fermentation processes, are extremely inefficient for gas-fed fermentation, achieving only a small percentage of the potential productivity at high cost. Calysta’s technology is the only validated, commercial scale process available to directly convert natural gas into biological products.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2013

Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal and Juniper GTL LLC President Vianney Valès announced the company will invest $100 million to renovate a dormant steam methane reformer in the Westlake, Louisiana area and convert it to a natural gas-to-liquids (GTL) facility, producing waxes, drilling fluids, diesel and naphtha.

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DECEMBER 5, 2017

However, while aluminum alloys offer outstanding castability, excellent mechanical properties, and low cost, they have lacked high-temperature mechanical performance. Cerium metal is highly available and low cost. Finally, by creating demand for Ce, which is overproduced, the economics of rare-earth mining improve.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

LanzaTech, a producer of low-carbon fuels and chemicals from waste gases, was awarded a $4-million grant by the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) as one of the 15 REMOTE projects ( earlier post ) receiving a combined $34 million to find advanced biocatalyst technologies that can convert natural gas to liquid fuel for transportation.

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MAY 28, 2018

are promising anode candidate materials, owing to their high theoretical capacity and low cost. Among those materials, Mn 3 O 4 has been intensively investigated as one of the most promising anode materials due to its abundance, low oxidation potential and competitive electrochemical performance. Li/Li + ). 2018.05.064.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2013

The US Department of Energy (DOE) Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) will award up to $30 million to fund a new program focused on the development of transformational electrochemical technologies to enable low-cost distributed power generation. DE-FOA-0001026 ). DE-FOA-0001026 ). Source: ARPA-E. Click to enlarge.

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MARCH 6, 2016

Ceres Power recently signed a new Joint Development Agreement with Honda R&D jointly to develop stacks using Ceres Power’s metal-supported Steel Cell technology for a range of potential power equipment applications. Resources. (A The SOFC uses natural gas as a fuel to produce electricity. Earlier post.). Leah et al. Corcoran, P.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

The significant commitment of resources and funds from Statoil further validates BAL’s market opportunity and puts us with an elite group of companies in our industry who have partnered with established oil and gas companies to bring technology to market. —Daniel Trunfio, CEO of Bio Architecture Lab. Earlier post.)

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NOVEMBER 1, 2017

It is a simple, low-cost approach that can be applied to a broad range of alloy systems with various working ions such as Li, Na, or Mg. Eutectic alloys are fusible: upon cooling they convert from liquids to intimately mixed solids. Earlier post.). The eutectic microstructure forms naturally because of thermodynamics.

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JULY 4, 2013

A study by researchers at Finland’s VTT has concluded that it is possible to produce sustainable low-carbon fuels from lignocellulosic biomass for as estimated gasoline-equivalent production cost of 0.5–0.7 US$/gallon US), with first-law process efficiency in the range of 49.6–66.7%—depending 0.7 €/liter (app. 0.7 €/liter.

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JANUARY 20, 2010

AutoPort will convert the vehicle on-site at its facilities in New Castle, Delaware. The converted vehicle will comply with Guidelines for Electric Vehicle Safety SAE J2344, and all applicable Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards. Battery Management System: manages and extends battery range and operating life.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

Unlike sugar-based biofuel producers, Joule directly and continuously converts solar energy into liquid fuels, without costly raw materials, pretreatment or downstream processing. With just one module, we will show what’s possible with 100 modules or more—a low-risk, high-return equation with near-term commercial impact.

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DECEMBER 7, 2009

ARPA-E is seeking new ways to make liquid transportation fuels—without using petroleum or biomass—by using microorganisms to harness chemical or electrical energy to convert carbon dioxide into liquid fuels. Batteries for Electrical Energy Storage in Transportation (BEEST).

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MAY 11, 2012

The JV will sell industrial gasification technology licenses in China, conduct research and development to improve cost and performance of commercial-scale gasification and Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle (IGCC) solutions and work to advance to distribution of commercial-scale IGCC.

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MARCH 22, 2012

This partnership brings together 17 scientists and engineers from nine universities across Canada, who will work on reducing the cost of PEMFCs through the exploration of alternative non-platinum metals and the fabrication of advanced layer structures. APC Investment: $4,176,005 (through NSERC and CFI).

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NOVEMBER 6, 2010

Focus will be directed towards the production of high-energy content fuel molecules by photosynthetic systems rather than processes that convert lignocellulose or other sources of biomass to usable fuels. How can organisms be engineered to better use the available solar resource for significantly enhanced production of biofuels?

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AUGUST 27, 2011

The process was able to convert aqueous carbohydrate streams derived from maple wood (produced using both hot water and acid hydrolysis) into gasoline-range products with carbon yields of up to 57% and an estimated octane number of 96.5. ” Resources. Thus, Li et al. Ning Li, Geoffrey A. Wyman and George W.

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MAY 19, 2014

Potential high-value products from isolated lignin include low-cost carbon fiber, engineering plastics and thermoplastic elastomers, polymeric foams and membranes, and a variety of fuels and chemicals—all currently sourced from petroleum. Ragauskas, et al., Science doi: 10.1126/science.1246843. Biomass Biorefinery Fuels'

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JULY 23, 2015

However, one challenge ia finding a suitable low-cost strategy to employ an appropriate nano-structured silicon material that would compensate for the large volume expansion upon lithium insertion. Synthesis is based on magnesiothermic reduction of 3D porous SiO 2 converted from natural reed leaves. —Liu et al.

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MARCH 13, 2015

Currently, carbon is recognized as the leading electrode material for anodes of commercial lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) and electrochemical supercapacitors due to its low cost, high electrical conductivity, good chemical stability, environmental friendliness, and long cycling life. Click to enlarge. The layer-to-layer distance is 0.40

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JUNE 30, 2010

Acetogens have several advantages to yeast: they convert all xylose (C 5 ) and glucose (C 6 ) sugars and tolerate all breakdown products of biomass; they operate in harsh environments; and they produce no CO 2 as a by-product. The acetic acid is converted to an ester which is then hydrogenated to make ethanol. per gallon. Have “term”.

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JUNE 1, 2015

The synthesis can be readily tuned to make a broad range of graphitic carbons with desired structures and compositions for many applications. While some specially designed 3D porous graphene networks show good pore connectivity and conductivity, large-scale and low-cost fabrication of such graphene networks remains a challenge.

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APRIL 20, 2011

Technologies for low-cost production of advanced biofuels are limited by the small amount of available energy captured by photosynthesis and the inefficient processes used to convert plant matter to fuel. PETRO aims to create plants that capture more energy from sunlight and convert that energy directly into fuels.

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JANUARY 18, 2014

year plans and roadmaps, with a concomitant focus of the majority of its resources on a limited number of “highest probability of success” pathways/approaches to ensure that the program initiatives are supported at a critical mass (both in terms of dollars and time) for maximum impact. per pound of weight saved, which could include very low?cost

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MARCH 11, 2016

SBV is a collaborative, national effort that provides $20 million for US companies to help improve industry awareness of national laboratory capabilities and provide small and mid-size businesses access to the resources available within the national laboratory system. Vouchers range from $50,000-300,000. Organization. Description.

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