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UT El Paso-led team designs cactus-inspired low-cost, efficient water-splitting catalyst

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Researchers led by engineers at The University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) have proposed a low-cost, cactus-inspired nickel-based material to help split water more cheaply and efficiently. —Navid Attarzadeh Attarzadeh wondered what if they designed a 3D nickel-based catalyst in the shape of the prickly pear cactus?

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Tesla supplier Pegatron is building a parts plant in Texas

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Recent reports have indicated that Taiwan’s Pegatron has selected a site in El Paso, Texas, for an upcoming production facility that would provide parts for American electric car maker Tesla. El Paso is an interesting choice for a site that would likely support Tesla, considering it is over 500 miles away from Travis County. .

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NSF awards $55.5M to support 3 new Engineering Research Centers; one focused on power electronics

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million in three new Engineering Research Centers (ERCs) to create novel technology platforms and transform industries. Design tools will be used to create optimal system-level and subsystem-level designs. Nature-inspired soil engineering. The US National Science Foundation (NSF) has invested $55.5

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NREL researchers point toward building energy efficiency instead of long-term storage

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The other zones encompassed the cities of New York, El Paso, and Denver. For cost-effectively achieving 100% renewable scenarios, our newly developed calculation methodology provides general principles that help guide these detailed engineering design and planning processes. —William Livingood. Resources.

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UTEP Awarded Nearly $1.3M for 4 DOE Projects On Engine and Turbine Efficiency and CO2 Capture

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The Department of Energy (DOE) recently awarded The University of Texas at El Paso grants totaling nearly $1.3 million for research to improve the efficiency of engines and creating technologies for detecting, capturing and storing carbon emissions. Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering Chintalapalle V.

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NIST awards $7.4M in grants for additive manufacturing research

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Technical challenges include inadequate data on the properties of materials used, limited process control, lack of standardized tests for qualifying machine performance and limited modeling and design tools. The new projects aim to address those challenges.

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DOE to Award $1.5M to Three Syngas and H2 Turbine Technology Projects

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The researchers will pay particular attention to the design of endwall contour geometries with the objective of quantifying the effect of a contoured rotating endwall on secondary flow formation with and without fillets compared with the non-contoured rotating endwall. University of Texas-El Paso. Texas A&M University.

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