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Audi will be the first to test its automated driving technology on the Lee Roy Selmon Expressway in Tampa, Florida—which recently was designated as an automated driving and connected car test bed—using an Audi A7 equipped to handle piloted driving functions on freeway conditions up to 40 mph (64 km/h).
LS9, a developer of renewable chemicals and fuels, has expanded operations at its Okeechobee, Florida demonstration facility with a successful customer trial. To create these catalysts, LS9 applies synthetic biology to combine the highly efficient metabolism of microorganisms with new biocatalytic capabilities engineered into each cell.
The Parker RunWise hydraulic hybrid system features a cradle design for packaging mechanical, hydraulic, and electrical components. Instead of solely using power from the engine, accumulated energy from the vehicle’s braking system is stored and used to power the truck each time it accelerates. Click to enlarge.
Joe, Florida, that would employ a Rentech-SilvaGas biomass gasifier to produce renewable power. Most of the project’s power output has been contracted for sale to Progress Energy Florida under a long-term Power Purchase Agreement (PPA), with a small fraction available for sale on a merchant basis. Rentech, Inc. The Port St.
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LS9, a synthetic biology company developing fermentation-derived drop-in renewable fuels and chemicals ( earlier post ), has acquired an existing production facility in Okeechobee, Florida. LS9 has engineered a one-step process using to convert fatty acid intermediates into petroleum replacement products via fermentation of renewable sugars.
A spinout from work at the University of South Florida is developing a new Fischer-Tropsch-based (FT) process to produce hydrocarbon transportation fuels—initially jet fuel—from biomass. has developed a new cobalt silica-supported eggshell design catalyst. The next step is to.
The National Science Foundation (NSF) recently awarded a collaboration between Stanford University, the University of South Florida and Bosch Research and Technology Center North America a $1.2-million, Research discoveries will be integrated in undergraduate and graduate classes at both Stanford and The University of South Florida.
Doosan Engine, a licensee of MAN Diesel & Turbo technology, has confirmed delivery of the world’s first dual-fuel, low-speed ME-GI (main engine, gas injection) engine to the American National Steel and Shipbuilding Company (NASSCO) shipyard in San Diego. The ME-GI engine represents the culmination of many years’ work.
INEOS Bio announced that its joint-venture project, INEOS New Planet BioEnergy (INPB), has finalized $75 million in private financing utilizing the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) loan guarantee program for its new Indian River BioEnergy Center located in Florida. million dollar cost matching grant from the State of Florida.
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liter, turbocharged gasoline direct injection engine to power the DeltaWing car as it races at the Le Mans 24 Hours (16-17 June). liter DIG-T turbo engine from Nissan.and this is really an extraordinary step and I think that it will shake the world actually. —Ben Bowlby, DeltaWing concept originator and designer.
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SpaceX has begun making drastic changes to its Starship launch pad in Florida after months of no activity. Until the past couple of weeks, SpaceX seemed to be in a wait-and-see mode as it conducted three Starship test flights from Starbase and gathered data on the effects of 33 Raptor engines thundering away at the launch pad.
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RunWise features a cradle design for packaging mechanical, hydraulic, and electrical components to facilitate installation, testing, and servicing. Key components of Parker RunWise include the engine, primary pump, secondary drive pump/motors, accumulators, and Parker’s proprietary Power Drive Unit (PDU). Click to enlarge.
has purchased the ECCOS (Electrically Controlled Combustion Optimization System) radio frequency electrostatic ignition technology targeted at lean-burn engines from Florida-based Etatech , Inc. However, current spark plug technology is unable to optimize the lean burning engines. BorgWarner Inc. Terms were not disclosed.
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ERL engineers are working on a wide range of automated driving issues, including human-machine interface prompts that indicate when the human or the vehicle are handling driving functions. In July, with Florida Gov. Audi and ERL researchers have been involved in the pursuit of automated driving from its earliest stages.
A classic design is to improve the ORR kinetics by embedding metal–nitrogen (M–N) active moieties within the conducting carbon supports, forming M–N–C coordination. —Zhenxing Feng of the OSU College of Engineering. If this is successful, we can deliver a device for commercialization in five years.
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The Department of Energy has supported this project’s engineering, construction, biomass collection, and infrastructure through approximately $100 million in cost-shared support over seven years, beginning in 2007. Project LIBERTY is the US’ second commercial-scale cellulosic ethanol biorefinery to come online.
Dr. Lian, the principle investigator of the project, will be joined by collaborators Rahul Rahul, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Suvranu De, Florida A&M University-Florida State University; Lu Cai, Idaho National Laboratory Program; Patrick Shower, GE Global Research Center; and Eric Brown, US Army Benét Laboratory.
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The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced the availability of grant funding to implement projects which reduce emissions from the nation’s existing fleet of older diesel engines. Under this competition, EPA anticipates awarding between 40 and 70 assistance agreements.
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The facility is designed in accordance with MATHESON HyCO ’s global standards with respect to safety, ultra-high supply reliability, and with the flexibility required to best integrate these specifications with Vertex’s operations and supply considerations.
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In an open-access paper published recently in Optical Engineering , the team reports the findings of the first-year tests and a brief outline of the larger three-year plan. Lidar engineers make design trade-offs to gain competitive advantages in performance and cost in what is a rapidly growing, highly competitive market.
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This included collaboration during the design approval, construction and commissioning the ship to operate safely and effectively on natural gas. The Jones Act-qualified ships will operate between Jacksonville, Florida, and San Juan, Puerto Rico. LNG-conversion-ready ECO tanker.
GITLIN University of South Florida Tampa For high-impact contributions to communications systems and networks. ISSA BATARSEH University of Central Florida Orlando For pioneering contributions to the advancement of renewable energy systems through significant improvement in the overall energy efficiency of microinverters. IEEE ROBERT N.
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Search engine giant Google is looking for partners within in the auto industry to help launch one of the most significant applications of artificial technology over the next several years, the self-driving car. In God we trust, everyone else brings data” —Google design philosophy. by Bill Cooke. —Anthony Levandowski.
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