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SoCalGas) is partnering with a development team to advance a new process that converts natural gas to hydrogen, carbon fiber, and carbon nanotubes. The technology commercialization team includes SoCalGas, C4, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) and West Virginia University (WVU). Southern California Gas Co.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

A chemical engineer from the University of Houston is leading a $2.1-million The project also includes researchers from the University of Virginia (UVA); Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL); and Southwest Research Institute (SwRI). Catalytic converters clean vehicle exhaust into nitrogen, water and carbon dioxide.

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JULY 17, 2020

The Research Foundation for The SUNY Stony Brook University. University of Delaware. University of Maryland. Marquette University. Slashing Platinum Group Metals Content in Catalytic Converters: An Atoms-to-Autos Approach. Washington State University. Colorado State University. Purdue University.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2020

The University of Michigan. The University of Michigan proposes the RAFT concept as a solution for hydrokinetic energy harvesting. University of Washington. University of Virginia. A novel power conversion mechanism converts the oscillatory motion of the foils to unidirectional rotary motion to harvest the energy.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2011

Virginia Clean Cities announced an additional nine fleets and more than 160 vehicles are joining the Southeast Propane Autogas Development Program for vehicle conversions to propane autogas and the installation of on-site fueling stations. Virginia Premier Health of Richmond, Va.; the City of Sandy Springs, Ga.; Buncombe County, N.C.;

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DECEMBER 4, 2017

Researchers at West Virginia University will lead a team that will investigate ways to convert stranded gas resources into value-added liquid products that could reduce the United States’ demand for crude oil by up to 20%. A few weeks later, WVU was awarded a $1.25-million NETL is a partner on that award as well.

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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). To date, PETROSS has engineered sugarcane with 13% oil, 8% of which is the oil (triacylglycerols) that can be converted into biodiesel.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2010

The Southeast Propane Autogas Development Program will convert nearly 1,200 vehicles from conventional gasoline to propane Autogas and implement more than 20 refueling stations. The center has performed six vehicle conversions for Pickens County and will convert the county’s 22 other participating vehicles.

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MAY 12, 2023

He received a bachelor’s degree in chemistry in 1949 from Johns Hopkins University , in Baltimore, and earned a Ph.D. Three years later, while working at the IAF, he was named an honorary professor in the University of Freiburg physics department. He joined the University of Illinois in 1977 as a professor.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2009

Researchers at Virginia Tech, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), and the University of Georgia have produced hydrogen gas in a spontaneous, “one-pot” process using an enzyme cocktail, cellulosic materials from non-food sources, and water. Hydrogen production from cellodextrin and water by a synthetic enzymatic pathway.

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DECEMBER 21, 2012

Devising efficient catalytic processes to convert methane into useful petrochemical feedstocks depends upon developing new coupling processes that use abundant, thermodynamically mild oxidants together with selective catalysts.

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JANUARY 16, 2014

President Obama announced the selection of a consortium of businesses and universities, led by North Carolina State University, to lead a manufacturing innovation institute for next-generation power electronics. Earlier post.). reducing the size of a sub-station to a suit case).

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DECEMBER 22, 2010

It is produced via a microbial process called denitrification, which converts nitrogen to nitrous oxide and an inert gas called dinitrogen. Much of this nitrogen is transported into river and stream networks where it may be converted to nitrous oxide, a potent greenhouse gas, via the activity of microbes.

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OCTOBER 12, 2010

The CBiRC is based at Iowa State University in partnership with Rice University, the University of California at Irvine, the University of Mexico, the University of Virginia, and the University of Wisconsin at Madison.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2024

When lasers hit the outside of this capsule, their energy is converted into X-rays that then blast the fuel pellet, which consists of a diamond outer shell coated on the inside with deuterium and tritium fuel. ET: The story was updated to include news of the University of Rochester’s Laboratory for Laser Energetics new research findings.

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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. Bartley, University of Oklahoma, Norman. Eric Beers, Virginia Polytechnic and State University, Blacksburg.

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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.

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DECEMBER 16, 2010

Source: Dr. Shulin Chen , University of Washington. The Phase II project team of 10 organizations from 5 states—including universities and large and small businesses—will be managed by the Logos Technologies Energy Systems Division at its process-integration laboratory in northern Virginia. Click to enlarge.

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APRIL 9, 2018

Stuart Licht, a chemistry professor at the George Washington University, and his team of researchers are among the finalists announced today in the $20-million Carbon XPRIZE competition. In the finals, teams must demonstrate at a scale that is at least 10 times greater than the semifinals requirements at a purpose-built industrial test site.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

West Virginia University, and the National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) are collaborating in the $13 million field trial, located in Marshall County, W.Va. CONSOL Energy Inc., The site was chosen because of its accessibility, availability, and typical northern Appalachian topography and geology.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2015

A number of groups have recently or are currently investigating the use of free piston engine power generation applications with a focus on automotive, including work at West Virginia University (WVU), Sandia National Laboratory (SNL), Chalmers University of Technology (Sweden), and Shanghai Jiaotong University.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2013

Industry has been exploring a number of different pathways to convert algae biomass into energy including lipid extraction (LE) and subsequent transesterification to produce biodiesel; direct ethanol production; heterotrophic metabolism; or thermochemical conversion of the entire algae cell. Credit: Liu et al. Click to enlarge.

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MARCH 11, 2023

In 1997, Willett Kempton , a professor at the University of Delaware, and Steve Letendre , a professor at Green Mountain College, in Vermont, began publishing a series of journal articles that imagined the bidirectional EV as a resource for electricity utilities. Electric Car tzero 0-60 3.6 After earning a Ph.D.

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JUNE 21, 2010

Southern Company, El Paso Exploration & Production, the Geological Survey of Alabama, and the University of Alabama are all participating in the field test, known as the Black Warrior CO 2 Storage Project. The SECARB members began injecting CO 2 at the Alabama test site on 15 June 2010.

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JANUARY 18, 2011

Two separate research collaborations have recently reported advances in the efficiency of thermoelectric materials in converting heat to electricity. A collaboration including researchers from Boston College, MIT, the University of Virginia and Clemson University have achieved a peak ZT (thermoelectric figure of merit) of 0.8

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AUGUST 23, 2017

CIRCUITS project teams will accelerate the development and deployment of a new class of efficient, lightweight, and reliable power converters, based on wide-bandgap (WBG) semiconductors. data center energy consumption and operating cost while creating a high-volume commercial market for SiC-based power converters. Marquette University.

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AUGUST 7, 2009

US Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced the delivery of $377 million in funding for 46 new multi-million-dollar Energy Frontier Research Centers (EFRCs) ( earlier post ) located at universities, national laboratories, nonprofit organizations, and private firms across the nation. Pennsylvania State University. Purdue University.

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MARCH 15, 2010

Osage Bio Energy (OBE) is a Virginia-based company that will use regional grain, primarily winter barley, to produce ethanol and high value co-products for East Coast markets via a fairly conventional pathway of converting starch to sugar, followed by fermentation. OBE seeks to use all of the barley grain for ethanol and co-products.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

The Department of Energy is working with industry, universities, national laboratories, and other groups to develop technologies capable of harnessing these resources to generate environmentally sustainable, cost-competitive power. The DEG will generate electricity without the need for rotors or other moving parts. DOE Funding: $142,000.

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OCTOBER 9, 2014

The brake energy recovery system converts the vehicle’s kinetic energy into stored energy by compressing nitrogen gas in a storage device called an accumulator. As many municipalities and fleet operators look to convert to CNG, the RunWise system is attractive to those who are under pressure to meet reduced emissions mandates.

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JANUARY 19, 2010

Terrestrial bioenergy feedstock crops such as switchgrass, canola and corn have lower environmental lifecycle impacts than algae in energy use, greenhouse gas emissions, and water regardless of cultivation location, according to a new lifecycle assessment by researchers at the University of Virginia. 0.4 ± 0.05. 1.8 ± 0.58. 3.3 ± 0.86.

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JUNE 29, 2022

The second instrument was a highly experimental Multispectral Scanner System (MSS) designed by Virginia T. A multiplexer processed this data, and an analog-to-digital converter changed it to a pulse-code modulated signal. Everyone assumed the camera would be the workhorse of the mission. Norwood and built by Hughes Aircraft Co.

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AUGUST 6, 2011

This is because some crops are more easily converted into energy carriers than others, and this was not included in the previous paper’s system boundaries. Annual vehicle kilometers traveled (VKT) per hectare-year for four bioenergy systems (error bars are median ±1 standard deviation). Credit: ACS, Clarens et al. Click to enlarge.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Converting a gas appliance to a heat pump, for example, would draw 4 to 6 kW, while an L2 charger for EVs would be 12 to 14 kW. This situation is not true universally. For instance, Marshall stated, it is not unusual for a 37.5 His team surveyed “twenty-nine utilities for detailed voltage data from their AMI systems, and no one had it.”

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AUGUST 19, 2023

The US Department of Energy (DOE) awarded nearly $34 million to 19 industry- and university-led research projects that will advance technology solutions to make clean hydrogen a more available and affordable fuel for electricity generation, industrial decarbonization, and transportation. Earlier post.)

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OCTOBER 26, 2009

Lightweight Thermal Energy Recovery System: A grant of $2,655,174 will help General Motors to develop a shape memory alloy energy recovery system that converts waste heat from car engines to electricity. The aim is to deliver power from batteries to electric motors with up to 50 per cent more efficiency.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2019

BREAKERS projects include: Drexel University, Ultra-Efficient Intelligent MVDC Hybrid Circuit Breaker – $4,413,913. Drexel University aims to design a significantly more efficient, fast, low-cost, compact, and reliable circuit breaker for medium-voltage direct-current (MVDC) power system.

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