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NREL, MIT, WSU team develops process to convert lignin to aromatic blendstock for 100% sustainable aviation fuel

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Other parts of plants are used for biofuels, but lignin has been largely overlooked because of the difficulties in breaking it down chemically and converting it into useful products. Lignin makes up the rigid parts of the cell walls of plants.

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Sun Catalytix Signs $4M ARPA-E Contract and Forms Scientific Advisory Board; Affordable Catalysts for Water Splitting

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The ability to convert electrical energy into hydrogen reducing equivalents is fundamental to an enormous number of processes. With technology based on patents developed right here at MIT by Daniel Nocera, Sun Catalytix now has the support it needs to bring breakthrough energy storage technologies to market more quickly.

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2023’s Top Stories About Energy

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Mainspring calls its machine a linear generator, because it converts linear motion into electricity. Gretchen Ertl/CFS/MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center Magnetic-confinement fusion relies on staggeringly strong magnetic fields to confine a superhot plasma, typically within a torus-shaped vessel called a tokamak.

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USABC awards Cobasys $8.4M for the development of high-energy density Li-ion cells and packs for EVs

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Bosch has extensive experience in hybrid and electric drive technology as well as power electronics, electric motors, transmissions and DC/DC converters. Further, Bosch in the US is also engaging in research on the cell side as well.

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ARPA-E Selects 37 Projects for $106M in Funding in Second Round; Electrofuels, Better Batteries and Carbon Capture

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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. of Washington). Electrofuels: Biofuels from Electricity.

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DOE awards $7M to eight oxy-combustion coal technology projects; carbon capture, utilization and storage

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The CDCL process consists of a unique moving bed reactor where pulverized coal is fully converted using iron-based oxygen carriers. Washington University. The project will focus on furthering the development of Ohio State University’s coal direct chemical looping process (CDCL). Unity Power Alliance.

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DOE awards $35M to 15 projects in ARPA-E ECOSynBio program to reduce carbon footprint of biofuel production

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This process allows all the carbon within the sugar to be converted to FAME, which will allow these lipids—used to produce sustainable aviation jet fuel (SAF)—to be generated at lower cost and with fewer feedstock, resource, and land requirements. INvizyne Technologies, Inc. The Wyss Institute at Harvard University. Ohio State University.

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