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APRIL 4, 2022

Researchers at the University of Surrey (UK) are developing a process to capture carbon dioxide directly from the air and then use dynamic catalysis to create methanol—a valuable chemical that, made this way, could be carbon-negative. Its value could offset the cost of direct air capture. —Dr Duyar.

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JANUARY 9, 2015

The Institute will focus on lowering the overall manufacturing costs of advanced composites by 50%, reducing the energy used to make composites by 75% and increasing the recyclability of composites to over 95% within the next decade. —Matthias Erb, Executive Vice President, Engineering & Planning, Volkswagen Group of America.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2018

Ricardo has created a company—Dolphin N2 Ltd—to commercialize its CryoPower cryogenic split-cycle engine technology ( earlier post , earlier post.) The Ricardo CryoPower concept aims to increase the fuel efficiency while reducing operating costs and CO 2 emissions for long haul trucks and other heavy-duty applications.

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APRIL 8, 2023

A spinout from the University of Birmingham (UK)— About:Energy —has launched its battery design software platform: The Voltt. The launch of The Voltt was hosted at The Royal Academy of Engineering, and attendees included industry leaders, researchers, policy makers, and investors.

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MAY 26, 2010

The introduction of electric vehicles on a large scale in the UK can only have a beneficial effect on CO 2 emissions if low-carbon electricity, universal broadband provision and smart grids are in place to support the transition, according to a new report published by the UK Royal Academy of Engineering.

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JULY 14, 2016

The University of Nottingham (UK) is leading a 3-year, £830,000 (US$1.1-million) Outreach activities will include a website, representation at key national and international events and an annual community conference, held in conjunction with the Advanced Propulsion Centre Power Electronics Spoke.

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OCTOBER 14, 2021

A consortium of public, private and academic experts led by Shell International Exploration and Production, Inc. Shell), a subsidiary of Royal Dutch Shell plc, is working to enable large-scale liquid hydrogen (LH 2 ) storage for international trade applications. NASA will work closely with GenH2 on novel testing development.

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OCTOBER 27, 2022

She received the award in April at the IEEE International Vacuum Electronics Conference , in Monterey, Calif. “Dr. Department of Energy national lab operated by Stanford University. It was in this role that she began speaking to industry representatives about how to expand the market for high-performance millimeter-wave amplifiers.

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AUGUST 6, 2014

The two projects are part of a larger multi-year DOE-funded project to develop and to apply innovative simulation strategies and tools to maximize benefits of predictive information from high performance computing (HPC) for internal combustion engines. The Principal Investigator on that DOE project is Dean Edwards of ORNL.

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JANUARY 21, 2021

Projects selected under this funding opportunity announcement will reduce both the costs of critical materials and the environmental impacts of production. Partners: Harper International, Phillips66. DOE funding: $5,577,738; cost share: $5,925,475; Total costs: $11,503,213.

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APRIL 5, 2013

A new report published by the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE) recommends the international harmonization of fuel efficiency and/or greenhouse gas emissions standards for heavy-duty trucks and buses. —“International Alignment of Fuel Efficiency Standards for Heavy-Duty Vehicles”. Source: ACEEE.

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MAY 20, 2019

An international team of researchers, led by Professor David Antonelli of Lancaster University, has discovered a new material made from manganese hydride that could be used to make molecular sieves within hydrogen fuel tanks. —Professor Antonelli, Chair in Physical Chemistry at Lancaster University. wt% and 197 kgH 2 m ?

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MARCH 7, 2019

The selected projects will focus on reducing the total cost of ownership of NGVs, increasing vehicle efficiency, decreasing local air pollution, and advancing technology development to increase the use of more affordable medium- and heavy-duty natural gas engines and vehicles. Cummins Inc.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2018

The US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy has selected seven projects to receive approximately $44 million in federal funding for cost-shared research and development through the funding opportunity announcement, Design and Testing of Advanced Carbon Capture Technologies. RTI International. SRI International.

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OCTOBER 12, 2010

(GlycosBio), an emerging biochemical company targeting metabolic engineering and microbiology innovations for the production of sustainable biochemicals, has become a member of the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Engineering Research Center for Biorenewable Chemicals ( CBiRC ).

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JANUARY 4, 2021

The Current Direct project is dedicated to: significantly reduce the total cost of waterborne transport batteries; cut GHG emissions of the marine transport sector through electrification of vessel fleets; increase the energy density of waterborne battery cells; and.

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DECEMBER 20, 2021

Advanced ignition technologies, such as those offered by TPS, have been widely recognized as enablers to achieving higher combustion efficiency and lower emissions for gasoline-powered engines. The keys to commercialization have been demonstrating cost, size and optimized energy consumption in line with automotive requirements.

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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. L and $0.46/L.

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APRIL 8, 2010

Researchers from BASF, Energie Baden-Württemberg AG (EnBW), Heidelberg University and Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) are seeking to develop a process for the photocatalytic conversion of CO 2 into methanol for use in fuel cells or internal combustion engines. Dr. Michael Grunze, Heidelberg University.

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AUGUST 29, 2022

A new University of Michigan study finds that making the switch to all-electric mail-delivery vehicles would lead to far greater reductions in greenhouse gas emissions than previously estimated by the US Postal Service (USPS). The agency estimated that an all-electric delivery fleet would have a total cost of ownership about $3.3

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AUGUST 7, 2020

University of Colorado, Boulder. The University of Colorado Boulder will lead a multi-institutional team to develop a data-driven framework of physical testing and modeling to enable the gas industry to better evaluate products to rehabilitate cast iron and steel natural gas pipes and enhance their performance and longevity.

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APRIL 2, 2021

Although mass manufacture has made lithium-ion batteries cheaper, cost and durability remain obstacles to the widespread adoption of battery electrical vehicles. Recycling and reuse (ReLiB) , led by Dr Paul Anderson, University of Birmingham, with researchers from the Universities of Edinburgh, Leicester, Newcastle and UCL.

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JUNE 28, 2022

Researchers at the University of Michigan have developed an optimized generic battery cycling framework that could reduce the time for both simulation and physical testing of new electric vehicle battery designs by about 75%. —Wei Lu, U-M professor of mechanical engineering and corresponding author. —Wei Lu.

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JUNE 28, 2021

A study by researchers at RWTH Aachen University in Germany has found that synthetic dimethoxymethane (DMM) is not only a promising fuel or blend component because of its outstanding combustion characteristics, but that it could be very attractive from a production point of view as well. —Burre et al. L diesel-eq. ?1 1 are achievable.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

University professor at Centrale Nantes, he received in 2015 the prize for applied research from the Federation of Electrical, Electronics and Communications Industries (FIECC) for his pioneering work on the development of robust and inexpensive automation. Optimizing the potential energy of hybrid engine systems. With a budget of €4.6

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Under the first FOA (DE-FOA-0002187), Capture Research and Development (R&D): Engineering Scale Testing from Coal- and Natural-Gas-Based Flue Gas and Initial Engineering Design for Industrial Sources, DOE selected nine projects to receive $51 million for cost-shared R&D. LH CO 2 MENT Colorado Project.

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MARCH 16, 2024

However, according to the World Resources Institute , “EVs need to account for 75 percent to 95 percent of passenger vehicle sales by 2030 in order to meet international climate goals aimed at keeping global warming to 1.5 For more on what other countries’ plans are, check out the International Energy Agency’s Global EV Policy Explorer page.)

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MARCH 4, 2010

Transonic is currently working with four OEMs on evaluating the system, Rocke said: one each in Asia, North America, Europe and the other in the heavy-duty engine sector. Researchers at Syracuse University are working on a method to prepare, inject and combust supercritical diesel fuel. Source: Transonic. Click to enlarge.

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MAY 28, 2015

Of these, 16 are vehicle-related, encompassing projects developing batteries, power electronics and improved combustion engine technology including on-board reformers, and two are specifically hydrogen fuel cell-related. Mainstream Engineering Corporation. Earlier post.) 149,871.44. 148,393.82. American Lithium Energy Corporation.

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OCTOBER 22, 2014

It will use a technology developed by Hangzhou Energy & Engineering Technology Co., The project’s goal is to assess the technical feasibility and cost of producing higher volumes of biofuel. Boeing and COMAC are sponsoring the facility, which is called the China-US Aviation Biofuel Pilot Project.

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AUGUST 27, 2022

But it was true what semiconductor engineers in South Korea whispered about his former students: They were everywhere. Starting in the mid-1980s, as chip manufacturing in the country accelerated, engineers who had studied under Kim at. His mother taught elementary school; his father, Kim Byung-Woon, was a textile engineer for.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2021

The girl's family could not afford the cost of getting her a prosthetic leg, so she used a tree branch as a crutch to help her walk. He earned a bachelor's degree in biology in 2007 from Loyola University in Chicago. I loved everything about engineering, programming, and building things," he says. "I and a Ph.D.

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JULY 15, 2020

Later in the program, teams that move to Phase 2 will focus on building components, unit operations, and prototype systems to reduce technical risks and costs. The post-combustion outlet gas is more easily separated into water and CO 2 to the pipeline, thereby lowering the electricity costs of grids with high levels of VRE.

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JANUARY 29, 2010

An new study from the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment at Oxford University suggests that best way to reduce transport greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the short term is a “drastic downscaling of both size and weight” of conventional gasoline and diesel cars. Future of Mobility Roadmap.

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MAY 14, 2020

The Electric Power Research Institute’s (EPRI) proof-of-concept study will explore moving from the traditional “maintain and repair” to a “replace and refurbish” approach, in which components are intentionally designed and tested for shorter and more predictable lifetimes with the potential for game-changing O&M cost savings.

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JANUARY 21, 2013

John Goodenough at the University of Texas at Austin and colleague Kyu-Sung Park have written a perspective paper on Li-ion batteries (LIBs), published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society. More recently, at the University of Texas, Austin, Dr. Goodenough patented a new class of iron phosphate materials. Earlier post.).

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JUNE 23, 2014

However, he added, the internal goal is “ significantly higher, ” and is targeting the GHG limit. Cost of the new engine relative to gasoline baseline. The technical focus over the last year has been on new engine installation and performance assessments. Earlier post.). l/100 km) for a vehicle of that size.

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