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OCTOBER 18, 2020

The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced more than $27 million in funding for 12 projects that will support the development of advanced plastics recycling technologies and new plastics that are recyclable-by-design. Partners include Algenesis, BASF, Pepsi, Reef, and University of California – Davis.

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APRIL 14, 2011

has received a term sheet for a loan guarantee from the US Department of Energy (DOE) under the Section 1705 Title XVII Loan Guarantee Program, for an advanced-stage renewable power project in Port St. Joe, Florida, that would employ a Rentech-SilvaGas biomass gasifier to produce renewable power. Rentech, Inc. The Port St.

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JUNE 16, 2021

Rio Tinto has partnered with the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) to study whether hydrogen can replace natural gas in alumina refineries to reduce emissions. In a 2017 open-access paper exploring the use of concentrated solar thermal (CST) radiation for alumina calcination, Davis et al. Dominic Davis, Fabian Müller, Woei L.

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MARCH 20, 2013

Among the new pathways to be considered is the production of renewable diesel from Australian tallow at Neste Oil’s Singapore plant. Neste Oil renewable diesel: 33.46 produces NExBTL non-ester renewable diesel (RD) from multiple feedstocks at its plant in Singapore. Earlier post.) gCO 2 e/MJ. Neste Oil Singapore Pte Ltd.

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JULY 19, 2012

The National Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) Project has released two major reports that synthesize its findings from the past several years of work: a Technical Analysis Report (TAR) and Policy Design Recommendations. We did not shy away from controversy. We are not advocates.

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APRIL 30, 2013

750,000 to research value-based design options for the standardization of plug-in electric vehicle (PEV) batteries. Other projects receiving funding include: Foresight Renewable Solutions of San Francisco will receive $1.7 million to demonstrate renewable energy management using a compressed air energy storage system.

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APRIL 23, 2014

Another is an annual clean transportation investment plan that is designed to spark innovation in projects that will help transform California’s fleet to meet greenhouse gas and clean air goals. million grant to the University of California, Davis, to establish a National Center for Sustainable Transportation.

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DECEMBER 11, 2014

The seven awards approved will fund applied R&D projects that will develop utility-scale renewable energy generation technologies. Geysers Power Company: $3 million to investigate if geothermal plants could vary output to balance other intermittent renewable resources to increase the amounted of wind and solar used by the grid.

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JANUARY 9, 2013

Among the recent investments, DOE’s Advanced Research Projects Agency–Energy (ARPA-E) and Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy have supported more than $40 million in magnet, motor, and generator research. Industry partners that have joined to help advance CMI developed technologies include General Electric; OLI Systems, Inc.;

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DECEMBER 1, 2009

A new study by researchers at the Institute of Transportation Studies, University of California Davis, examines a range of sustainability requirements for biofuels and considers a possible framework for implementing the LCFS sustainability provision. It also reviews the sustainability principles and criteria (Version 0.5) Ogden, Bryan M.

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MAY 15, 2021

As a result, there is a critical need to create new pathways for biofuel conversion that reduces carbon waste, prevents the loss of CO 2 emissions, and in turn, maximizes the amount of renewable fuel a conversion process yields. National Renewable Energy Laboratory. University of Wisconsin-Madison. Stanford University.

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MAY 1, 2012

Renewable process for production of p-Xylene from glucose. The plastics industry currently produces p -xylene from petroleum; the new renewable process creates exactly the same chemical from biomass. Dauenhauer says this is a major breakthrough since other methods of producing renewable p -xylene are either expensive (e.g.,

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JULY 29, 2014

The goal of this program is to develop a cloud-based, central server that would receive grid requests from a utility—such as Demand Response—and then translate and standardize that request so it could be relayed to all appropriate plug-in vehicles in the designated area. Automakers and V2G. Earlier post.) Earlier post.).

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APRIL 6, 2011

The US Department of Energy’s (DOE) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) will partner with an industry-academia team led by the California Center for Sustainable Energy (CCSE) to investigate secondary applications for aged battery packs from electric drive vehicles. Assess the economic benefit of second uses.

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MARCH 23, 2010

The initiative will deliver at least one pilot-ready process, design reports, and life cycle analysis demonstrating economics and environmental benefit. University of California- Davis; UOP LLC; Virent Energy Systems; and Washington State University. Earlier post.).

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OCTOBER 26, 2011

Although tension wood itself is not considered to be a viable feedstock option, insight gleaned from studying its unique physical and molecular characteristics could be used to design and select more suitably tailored bioenergy crops. BESC is one of three DOE Bioenergy Research Centers established by the DOE’s Office of Science in 2007.

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JANUARY 8, 2010

In addition to program in support of the coal and electric power industries, the center has expanded over time to address issues in carbon capture and management, electrochemical energy storage, biomass energy and biofuels, and other renewable energy systems such as photovoltaic and thermoelectric power. Fort Lauderdale-Davis, Fla.)

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FEBRUARY 23, 2012

Design of the AFRI project is underway and the equipment modules are expected to be installed in 2013. ZeaChem Inc., ZeaChem Inc., The USDA project will establish regional systems for the sustainable production of bioenergy and bio-based products.

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APRIL 22, 2016

and UC-Davis Emeritus and Bruce R. These vehicles are the green machines that will provide a critical part of the renewable and sustainable society that we need for the future. [ from University of California, Davis and years of experience as an agricultural researcher. About the authors. Dr. Andrew A. Dr. Bruce R.

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DECEMBER 14, 2018

The Office of Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy at the Department of Energy reports that EV drivers conduct “more than 80 percent of their charging at home.” This will include building new sites connecting regional destinations, such as supporting travel to the Sierra Mountain communities and destinations like Lake Havasu.

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JULY 5, 2011

The necessary set of new technologies must enable today’s poor to attain decent living standards, while reducing emissions and waste and ending the unrestrained drawdown of the Earth’s non-renewable resources. Pursue policies that promote high-performance innovations in niche markets.

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DECEMBER 3, 2015

The home is capable of producing more energy on-site from renewable sources than it consumes annually, including enough energy to power a Honda Fit EV for daily commuting. The home’s occupant will be able to use less than half of the energy of a similarly sized new home in the same area (Davis, California) for heating, cooling and lighting.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2012

The California Energy Commission’s (CEC) Alternative and Renewable Fuel and Vehicle Technology Program (ARFVTP) approved four regional planning grants to prepare for electric vehicles. 200,000 to the Ventura County Air Pollution Control District.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

Lithium ion batteries are ubiquitous in mobile devices, increasingly used in transportation, and promising candidates for renewable energy integration into the electrical grid, provided the degradation of electrochemical performance upon use can be understood, mitigated, and ideally eliminated. Resources.

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OCTOBER 11, 2019

This work will help the research community better understand the efficiencies that biofuels bring to the table, and identifies the biofuels that enable more efficient engine design and operation. George, Anthe, Monroe, Eric, Davis, Ryan W., These blendstocks are best-suited for light-duty (LD) gasoline BSI engines. Gaspar, Daniel J.,

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MAY 17, 2012

In response, the US Department of Energy (DOE) and the Renewable Fuels Association charged that the study was fundamentally flawed. Material changes have made current engines and vehicles robust to ethanol concentrations in gasoline of up to 10 volume percent, and flex-fuel vehicles (E85) are designed to handle the higher concentrations.

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JANUARY 14, 2016

The researchers note that the study was designed to provide indications of intrinsic capability and performance under industrial conditions. Davis, Brian H. Eliminating both enzyme addition and conventional pretreatment is a potential game-changer. —Dartmouth engineering professor Lee Lynd, corresponding author. Hahn and Lee R.

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OCTOBER 4, 2018

The Office of Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy at the Department of Energy reports that EV drivers conduct ‘more than 80% of their charging at home.’ This will include building new sites connecting regional destinations, such as supporting travel to the Sierra Mountain communities and destinations like Lake Havasu.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has selected 27 projects for more than $37 million in funding to accelerate the technological and commercial readiness of emerging marine and hydrokinetic (MHK) technologies, which seek to generate renewable electricity from oceans and free-flowing rivers and streams. DOE Funding: $240,000.

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JANUARY 5, 2010

For the long-term (by 2050) advanced propulsion systems and new airframe designs could further reduce aviation CO 2 emissions by up to 35% below BAU projections. liquefied natural gas and marine diesel oil) or to other renewable energy sources, such as wind or solar power. —McCollum et al.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Scientists at the US Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) have developed a new photo-biological process for the sustained production of ethylene from CO 2. They manipulated the sequence to design an ethylene-producing gene to be more stable and more active than the original version. Energy Environ.

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MARCH 26, 2012

Researchers with the US Department of Energy (DOE)’s Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI) have developed a new synthetic system and approach that can significantly boost the engineered microbial production of renewable fuels or chemicals.

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The studies are designed to identify paths to slash transportation-related fossil fuel demand and emissions while also managing a strategic, responsible decline in transportation-related fossil fuel supply. —Dan Sperling, director of the UC Davis Institute of Transportation Studies.

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AUGUST 17, 2012

Many pollution control and renewable-energy applications require precious metals that are limited—there isn’t enough platinum to supply the millions and millions of automobiles driven in the world. Mullite is not only easier to produce than platinum, but also better at reducing pollution in diesel engines. Graham, Burtron H.

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AUGUST 12, 2011

The investments are part of a broader effort by the Obama administration to develop domestic renewable energy and advanced biofuels. Luca Comai, University of California, Davis. The US Departments of Energy (DOE) and Agriculture (USDA) have awarded 10 grants totaling $12.2

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JUNE 26, 2021

Enhancement of PyARC for Westinghouse Electric Company’s Lead Fast Reactor design and modeling, $450,000. Multiscale Manufacturing Design Tool Based on Machine Learning Workflow, $250,000. DME as a Renewable Hydrogen Carrier: Innovative Approach to Renewable Hydrogen Production, $1,500,000. Beam Suntory, Inc.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2013

The use of renewable and readily available solar energy reduces equipment costs and greenhouse gas emissions. University of California, Davis. The University of California, Davis (UCD) will engineer new biological pathways for bacteria to convert ethylene to a liquid fuel. New Bioreactor Designs for Rapid Methane Fermentation.

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