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FEBRUARY 18, 2020

This technology could lower the cost of low carbon hydrogen by over 20% and has become the basis for the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) and the Committee on Climate Change’s (CCC) analysis. The project aims to reduce the cost of electrolytic hydrogen significantly. Contract value: £7.44 million (US$9.7

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OCTOBER 28, 2021

The US currently relies heavily on importing advanced battery components from abroad, which exposes the nation to supply chain vulnerabilities that threaten to disrupt the availability and cost of these technologies. Ion Conductive High Li+ Transference Number Polymer Composites for Solid-State Batteries.

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AUGUST 13, 2010

Gevo has a low capital cost retrofit strategy for ethanol plants to produce isobutanol for direct use; for use in the production of plastics, materials, rubber and other polymers; and for use in the production of hydrocarbon fuels. Isobutanol for the production of plastics, fibers, rubber and other polymers. Click to enlarge.

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OCTOBER 3, 2019

For example, over the past 10 years, DOE-funded research and development has helped reduce the cost of lithium-ion batteries by 80%, lowering the cost of electric vehicle packs to $185/kWh. While significant progress has been made with batteries, for electric vehicles to become more widespread, costs must be driven down further.

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AUGUST 30, 2019

Gigastack, funded by the BEIS Hydrogen Supply Competition, will demonstrate the delivery of bulk, low-cost and zero-carbon hydrogen through gigawatt-scale polymer electrolyte membrane (PEM) electrolysis, manufactured in the UK. 1GW/year to increase throughput and decrease labour costs.

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MAY 31, 2023

The lack of supply and high cost of iridium pose a major barrier for widespread adoption of PEM electrolyzers. We report a nanofibrous cobalt spinel catalyst codoped with lanthanum (La) and manganese (Mn) prepared from a zeolitic imidazolate framework embedded in electrospun polymer fiber. A paper on their work is published in Science.

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JULY 31, 2020

million from the US Department of Energy (DOE) to develop and validate technology that will reduce the cost of manufacturing high-performance carbon fiber by 25% to make composite natural gas or hydrogen fuel tanks to power cars and trucks. Well over half of the composite fuel tank’s cost is attributed to carbon fiber used in its manufacture.

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MARCH 15, 2022

The Advent MEA is currently being developed within the framework of L’Innovator, the Company’s joint development program with the US Department of Energy’s Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), and National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL).

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JANUARY 13, 2021

This proposed project will significantly (1) reduce Si anode costs; (2) improve efficiency and reduce waste in production; (3) reduce engineering and cost risks; and (4) reduce EV battery costs and accelerate the move to clean transportation and renewable energy. 24M Technologies, Inc.

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JULY 2, 2017

The funding was part of DOE’s strategy to invest in discovery and development of novel, low-cost materials necessary for hydrogen storage and for fuel cells onboard light-duty vehicles.

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JANUARY 27, 2023

The goal of the project is to continue to develop a circular carbon economy that replaces the petroleum-based chemicals in consumer products with algae-derived and biodegradable polymers. Captis Aire LLC, “Renewable Blending Components to Enable 100% Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF)”, $2,000,000. Comstock Inc.,

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APRIL 18, 2018

This topic seeks platinum group metal-free oxygen reduction electrocatalyst and electrode R&D enabling cost-competitive polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells, as part of DOE’s Energy Materials Network. Renewable hydrogen transportation fuel pathway of interest.

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OCTOBER 15, 2019

Researchers at the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford University have shown for the first time that a low-cost, non-precious metal cobalt phosphide (CoP) catalyst catalyst can split water and generate hydrogen gas for hours on end in the harsh environment of a commercial device.

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

Because it requires less of the rare and costly metal iridium, the new catalyst could bring down the cost of artifical photosynthetic processes that use sunlight to split water molecules—a key step in a renewable, sustainable pathway to produce hydrogen or carbon-based fuels that can power a broad range of energy technologies.

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AUGUST 20, 2014

The US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) intends to issue, on behalf of the DOE Bioenergy Technologies Office (BETO), a Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) (DE-FOA-0001162) entitled “Targeted Algal Biofuels and Bioproducts (TABB)”. The TABB FOA seeks to reduce the cost of algal biofuels.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2012

The Precourt Institute for Energy, the umbrella organization for energy research and education at Stanford, will fund the following four studies: Nanostructured Polymers for High-Performance Batteries. This project explores the use of specially designed nanostructured polymers to make high-energy, low-cost, flexible and stretchable batteries.

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JUNE 6, 2014

DOE is inviting applications for novel cathode Platinum Group Metal (PGM)-free catalysts for the oxygen reaction and PGM-free cathode membrane electrode assemblies (MEAs) for low-temperature and high-temperature polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells (PEMFCs) and phosphoric acid fuel cells (PAFCs). including soft costs) are of interest.

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APRIL 26, 2011

Renewable chemistry company BioAmber ( earlier post ) has entered a strategic agreement with Mitsubishi Chemical through which BioAmber and its Asian distribution partner Mitsui & Co. The goal is to produce low-cost succinic acid that will drive down the manufacturing cost of Mitsubishi Chemical’s PBS.

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AUGUST 10, 2012

The new DBFC uses a polymer fiber membrane (PFM) rather than a polymer electrolyte membrane (PEM); metal oxides, such as LaNiO 3 and MnO 2 as cathode catalysts; and CoO as the anode catalyst. A direct borohydride fuel cell with a polymer fiber membrane and non-noble metal catalysts. compared to classic DBFCs. —Yang et al.

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JANUARY 18, 2014

The US Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy’s (EERE’s) Vehicle Technologies Office (VTO) issued an Incubator Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOAs) for a total of approximately $10 million. ( Specifically: the current cost of high?energy Most critical is the cost of the carbon fiber.

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MAY 16, 2016

This type of increased production rate will significantly reduce the cost of enclosed algal cultivation systems and will boost total fuel potential, especially in the southwest United States. This project will develop microbial catalysts to convert renewable cellulosic sugars into higher-value commodity and specialty chemicals.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2013

Last week, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued a final rule for additional qualifying renewable fuel pathways under the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS). Total production costs for many of these first-of-a-kind projects remain higher than the cost of petroleum-based fuels on both a volumetric and energy-content basis.

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MARCH 30, 2012

The report defines bio-based materials as industrial products made from renewable agricultural and forestry feedstocks, which can include wood, grasses, and crops, as well as wastes and residues. These materials may replace fabrics, adhesives, reinforcement fibers, polymers, and other, more conventional, materials.

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AUGUST 18, 2017

The drive unit’s high efficiency means low costs of ownership: Fuel costs compared with an equivalent gasoline engine are much lower, at around €4 (US $4.70) per 100 kilometers (62.1 This synthetic fuel is produced using renewable energy from water and CO 2 or from organic residual materials such as straw and plant clippings.

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JUNE 9, 2017

Selections were made under the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy’s Fuel Cell Technologies Office (FCTO) annual funding opportunity announcement (FOA) in 2017. Precursor Development for Low-Cost, High-Strength Carbon Fiber. 3 projects will reduce the cost of onboard hydrogen storage tanks necessary for fuel cell vehicles.

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DECEMBER 29, 2009

The overall effect will be to reduce the current cost of Plantic materials. The move will enable Plantic’s partners that produce rigid sheet, injection moulding, blow moulding resins and flexible packaging resin to distribute them more effectively and at a lower cost.

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OCTOBER 27, 2019

This can only be achieved if competitive conditions for CO 2 -neutral transport are created for our customers in terms of costs and infrastructure. As it takes about ten years to completely renew a fleet until 2050, our ambition is to offer ‘tank-to-wheel’ locally CO 2 -neutral new vehicles in the triad by the year 2039.

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MARCH 22, 2012

Production of hydrogen, particularly from domestic, renewable sources (e.g., Topics in this area could, for example, include innovations leading to improvements in process efficiency, separations and catalysis, durability of materials of construction and reaction, or reductions in capital costs of hydrogen production equipment.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

After evaluating the various biosuccinic acid technologies, PTTMCC concluded that BioAmber’s platform offered the lowest-cost biosuccinic acid and the lowest technology risk. At peak capacity, BioAmber expects to produce 65,000 MT of succinic acid on the site.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

The project will attempt to achieve DOE’s transformational carbon capture performance goal of CO 2 capture with 95 percent CO 2 purity at a cost of $30 per tonne. Field testing will be conducted at a renewable power generation site in California to capture operational data on the novel process and material combination under real conditions.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2010

The C 6 to C 8 aromatic hydrocarbons can be high-octane gasoline additives or feedstocks for the chemical and polymer industries. The C 2 to C 4 olefins can also be used directly for polymer synthesis or can be modified to form other products, including alkylated aromatics and longer linear alpha olefins. —Vispute et al.

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MARCH 7, 2017

It can be selected with climate-friendly Audi e-gas (synthetic natural gas produced with renewable energy in a Power-to-Gas process, earlier post ) or compressed natural gas (CNG), or can be powered with gasoline. mi)—that equates to fuel costs of only about €4 (US$4.23) (as of: March 2017). lb per 62.1 Audi e-gas.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2011

The PNNL-developed technologies were made available the on the laboratory’s Available Technologies website as well as on DOE’s Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy website, the Energy Innovation Portal. Vorbeck Materials , based in Jessup, Md., PEM fuel cells are primarily used for backup power.

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AUGUST 7, 2020

REPAIR teams are developing technologies to address deficiencies while also working toward a 10-to-20-times reduction in cost per mile. Structural Materials-aided Advanced Renewal Technology for REPAIR (SMART REPAIR) - $5,000,000. This will lower the costs of rehabilitating pipelines.

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DECEMBER 10, 2014

This lowers the system cost of what is essentially an electrolysis process. Our teams at the University of California, Santa Barbara and at the University of Iowa have been working diligently to achieve efficient renewable hydrogen production. Protective Coating.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

The inner layer consists of a gas-impermeable polyamide matrix, while a second composite layer of carbon fiber reinforced polymer (CFRP) and glass fiber reinforced polymer (GFRP) gives the tank its extremely high strength. The drive unit’s high efficiency means low costs of ownership. They store 19 kilograms (41.9 Audi e-gas.

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JANUARY 9, 2015

The new Institute for Advanced Composites Manufacturing Innovation (IACMI), announced today by President Obama, will focus on advanced fiber-reinforced polymer composites that combine strong fibers with tough plastics to yield materials that are lighter and stronger than steel. 36 Consortia Members: Alcoa Inc.;

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