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MARCH 7, 2018

The project will build and install diesel-fueled two-stroke compression-ignition Achates Power Opposed-Piston Engines into Class 8 demonstration trucks that will be road-road ready in 2019 and operate in fleet service in California in 2020. This program will demonstrate the first diesel engine to comply with the state standard.

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JULY 3, 2020

The technology group Wärtsilä, in close customer cooperation with Knutsen OAS Shipping AS and Repsol, as well as with the Sustainable Energy Catapult Centre, will commence the world’s first long-term, full-scale, testing of ammonia as a fuel in a marine four-stroke combustion engine. Earlier post.)

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APRIL 24, 2020

DAIHEN has been using WiTricity’s DRIVE 11 wireless charging system as a reference design for its own line of standards-compliant wireless chargers for battery electric and hybrid electric vehicles. DAIHEN recently launched a demonstration with Kansai Electric Power Co.

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DECEMBER 21, 2023

Cooling electronics to this frigid temperature could boost performance, but today’s transistors aren’t designed with cryogenic temperatures in mind. The researchers engineered their CMOS chips to form dipoles at the interface of both the n- and p-type transistors by adding different metal impurities to each.

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With its bi-directional design, the system also supports use of the vehicle’s batteries for energy storage. The system incorporates ORNL’s custom electromagnetic coil design and controls system, as well as wide bandgap power conversion systems. —Omer Onar.

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APRIL 1, 2015

million) loan from a consortium of four French banks—BNP Paribas, Société Genéralé, CIC and Bpifrance—to complete the financing of its demo plant. This unique installation has been specifically designed for the production of gaseous hydrocarbons. The demo plant’s financing is also supported by a €5.7-million

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NOVEMBER 22, 2018

Here we demonstrate that a solid-state propulsion system can sustain powered flight, by designing and flying an electroaerodynamically propelled heavier-than-air aeroplane. The MIT team’s final design resembles a large, lightweight glider. EAD airplane design. —Xu et al. Click on image to see the flight.

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JUNE 21, 2022

Engineers designing communications products need access to information—the latest research, lists of parts and components, and technical standards to help ensure that their design will work seamlessly with others. Significant Resources IEEE has a wealth of content for telecom designers, Barragry says. WiFi standard.

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OCTOBER 19, 2020

The team has not yet produced a working demo for their concept. The simple engineering design is low maintenance due to having a minimalized drive train as the hub motor (1 kW brushless motor) is directly attached to the rear wheel. The VEGAN is a lightweight multipurpose hybrid electric-self-charging solar tricycle.

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APRIL 9, 2014

Specific BSFC improvements from the D-EGR engine relative to baseline engine. Overall, the engine offered a 13.1% liter gasoline direct injection engine. Terry Alger, assistant director in SwRI’s Engine, Emissions and Vehicle Research Division. from 385 g/kWh to 330 g/kWh in the D-EGR engine. mpg) and a 9.2%

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JULY 14, 2014

demo truck. Cummins has developed an E-85-specific engine and powertrain that reduce carbon dioxide emissions by as much as 80% compared with a baseline gasoline-powered medium-duty truck. is designed specifically to use E-85 (85% ethanol and 15% gasoline). The ETHOS 2.8L Click to enlarge. The Cummins ETHOS 2.8L Earlier post.)

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NOVEMBER 15, 2012

Edeniq, a biomaterials and sustainable fuels technology company, has begun engineering and construction of a bagasse-to-sugars demonstration-scale plant together with its partner, Usina Vale, a Brazilian sugar and ethanol producer.

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DECEMBER 30, 2013

developer of axial vane rotary engine technology ( earlier post ), has entered into a subscription agreement with an affiliated company of HK Zhongling Hangke New Energy Investment Holding Group Limited for a C$1,188,000 (US$1,116,000) private placement under which Zhongling will purchase up to 9,900,000 units of Reg Tech priced at C$0.12

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JUNE 25, 2018

A team from Carnegie Mellon University National Robotics Engineering Center (CMU NREC) demonstrated shape-shifting wheel-track mechanisms that transition from a round wheel to a triangular track and back again while the vehicle is on the move, for instant improvements to tactical mobility and maneuverability on diverse terrains.

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AVL Powertrain UK Limited and Ford Motor Company are working together on an Advanced Propulsion Centre (APC)-funded research and development project to define, design, develop and test a driveable demonstrator Fuel Cell Electric Vehicle (FCEV). Bernadette Longridge, Engineering Center Manager at AVL.

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MAY 22, 2012

Pratt & Whitney Canada (P&WC) has begun testing of the compressor for the next generation regional turboprop engine, a key step in the company’s technology demonstrator program. The high-efficiency compressor is a core element of the new engine and the test hardware has already run to the full range of aerodynamic design points.

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JANUARY 27, 2014

Schaeffler Efficient Future Mobility North America demo vehicle in Detroit. Further, a latching valve stores hydraulic pressure and provides automatic vehicles with energy for a faster start-up after the engine has been stopped. Click to enlarge. —Prof. Peter Gutzmer, CTO at Schaeffler AG. 48 Volt System.

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MARCH 10, 2016

G natural gas engine. The advanced version engine meets the 2018 Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Heavy-Duty On-Board Diagnostics (HD-OBD) requirements and will continue to meet California Air Resources Board’s (CARB’s) Optional Low NO x 0.1 liter stoichiometric spark ignited (SI) natural gas engine now referred to as the ISB6.7

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JUNE 9, 2012

The Freightliner Trucks 2014 Cascadia Evolution—powered only by the newly designed Detroit DD15 engine and featuring enhanced aerodynamic specs—delivered fuel economy of 10.67 100km) on a closed-track demo, according to Freightliner. mpg US (22 L.100km) Freightliner Cascadia Evolution. Click to enlarge.

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APRIL 17, 2015

UK-based Libertine FPE has built a demonstration prototype of its linear electrical machine for what it is calling “Digital Piston Motion Control” in free piston engine applications. This technology will allow researchers to develop future combustion engines free from the piston motion constraints dictated by the crankshaft.

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MARCH 29, 2017

idea Solutions Design, and JB Mechanical to integrate and install a commercial 1000 Watt Atrex Energy fuel cell power generator fueled with compressed natural gas in an all-electric Polaris Ranger ATV. A conventional vehicle with a gasoline engine would use $9 of fuel to go 100 miles. Ascend worked with Tructronics Inc.,

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MARCH 21, 2016

Controls engineering firm Pi Innovo and gallium nitride (GaN) semiconductor manufacturer GaN Systems are collaborating to offer automakers a pathway to the efficient and effective electrification of auxiliary systems for multi-voltage conventional, hybrid-electric, and pure electric vehicles. kW at 300 V while having a diameter of only 4".

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OCTOBER 27, 2014

We can now control local material properties, which will change the future of how we engineer metallic components. This new manufacturing method takes us from reactive design to proactive design. As a result of our work, designers can now specify location specific crystal structure orientations in a part.

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MAY 14, 2020

As part of its e-mobility roadmap, MAN Truck & Bus is sending a fleet of demo e-buses to customers in five European countries this year. In contrast to electric motors positioned close to the wheel hubs, these models are easier to access and have a simpler design. Sales of the 18-meter electric bus started in April.

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JUNE 22, 2017

The Svitzer Hermod , a Robert Allan ship design, was built in Turkey at the Sanmar yard in 2016. The vessel is also equipped with a pair of MTU 16V4000 M63 diesel engines from Rolls-Royce, each rated 2000 kW at 1800 rpm. The Remote Operating Center (ROC) was designed to redefine the way in which vessels are controlled.

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MARCH 31, 2017

It is home to a wide spectrum of technical disciplines and specific expertise in fields such as liquefied natural gas, subsurface modelling, data analysis, engineering design, bitumen, distillation and enhanced computational research. The new center houses a variety of technical experts, laboratories and technology demonstration units.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2012

Fluor Corporation was awarded an engineering, procurement and construction management (EPCM) contract by Joule Unlimited, Inc., to design and build a biofuels demonstration facility in New Mexico. Engineering, procurement and site mobilization is currently under way. Fluor’s Greenville, S.C.

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DECEMBER 30, 2016

LanzaTech has been selected by the Department of Energy’s Bioenergy Technologies Office (BETO) to receive a $4-million award to design and plan a demonstration-scale facility using industrial off gases to produce 3 million gallons/year of low-carbon jet and diesel fuels. The LanzaTech award was one of six totaling $12.9 Earlier post.).

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The hackathon saw enthusiastic participation from 2,696 budding engineers across 229 colleges in India submitting 814 unique projects, culminating into the final Demo Day. The Top 10 teams participated in the Demo Day at Tata Technologies headquarters in Hinjawadi, Pune, where they presented their innovation prototypes.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2016

According to HRL Senior Staff Research Engineer and Principal Investigator Dr. Rongming Chu, GaN transistors have long excelled in both power switching and microwave/millimeter wave applications, but their potential for integrated power conversion has been unrealized.

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JANUARY 30, 2023

31, Demo-2 astronauts Douglas Hurley and Robert Behnken will receive the Congressional Space Medal of Honor for bravery from @VP Kamala Harris. Bob Behnken earned a PhD in mechanical engineering from Caltech in 1997 and eventually became a lead flight test engineer in the US Air Force’s F-22 Raptor program.

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MARCH 30, 2022

But Mojo’s engineers are steadily ticking off engineering milestones. First, the demo. The nature of the demo also meant that images I saw were flat; with a lens in both eyes, the images will appear in 3D. All these demos took place in the prototype lens, with me fully in control of them. Sinclair: Absolutely.

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NOVEMBER 27, 2011

A joint GM-Magna E-Car Systems team designed and built the Chevrolet Equinox Electric Vehicle (EV) demonstration units, working collaboratively from GM’s Canadian Engineering Centre in Oshawa, Ontario, and Magna E-Car System’s facility in Aurora, Ontario.

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Brandon Rohrer — Machine Learning Engineer, LinkedIn Siddhartha Srinivasa — Director of Robotics and AI, Amazon Mikell Taylor — Principal Technical Program Manager, Amazon Robotics Cynthia Yeung — Founding Board Member, Women in Robotics. All of them are backed by expert roboticists with years of design experience. Georgia Chalvatzaki.

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JUNE 15, 2011

Virgin America launched CFM International’s advanced LEAP engine ( earlier post ) with an order to power 30 new Airbus A320neo aircraft. The 60 airplanes were announced in January of this year and the engine orders have a combined value of approximately US$1.4 billion at list price. billion at list price.

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AUGUST 17, 2022

RoboBusiness has been reworked to reveal the most impactful technological advances, identify the most promising opportunities, illustrate the leading business and investment tends, as well as highlight business development initiatives designed to support robotics innovation and sector growth.

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—Torsten Gollewski, head of Advanced Engineering at ZF and general manager of Zukunft Ventures GmbH. philosophy, the ZF range of sensors ( earlier post ) helps enable the demo vehicle to precisely detect its surroundings. The ZF ProAI RoboThink is a completely new design from ZF. In line with the company’s “see.

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