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New membrane technology for Post-Combustion Carbon Capture begins pilot-scale test

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MTR), uses a specially designed CO 2 -selective membrane—a micro-porous film that acts as a semi-permeable barrier—to separate CO 2 from other gases, such as nitrogen, in a coal-burning plant’s flue gas. and City Water, Light and Power. The Polaris membrane system, developed by Membrane Technology and Research Inc.

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ARPA-E awarding up to $24M to 10 projects to support advanced nuclear power plants

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The US Department of Energy (DOE) will award up to $24 million in funding for 10 projects as part of a new Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) program: Modeling-Enhanced Innovations Trailblazing Nuclear Energy Reinvigoration ( MEITNER ).

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ARPA-E awarding $36M to 22 projects in RANGE program for transformative EV storage

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The US Department of Energy (DOE) Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) will award approximately $36 million to 22 projects to develop transformational electric vehicle (EV) energy storage systems using innovative chemistries, architectures and designs. EnZinc Inc. Dendrite Free Zinc? 405,000.

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How to Build EV Motors Without Rare Earth Elements

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Against this backdrop, massive efforts are underway to design and test advanced electric-vehicle (EV) motors that do not use rare earth elements (or use relatively little of them). We are also evaluating advanced motor designs that do not use permanent magnets at all. research on advanced motors for EVs. Department of Energy’s U.S.

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Bionic Hand Gives Amputees Sense of Touch

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Twenty-one years later, in 2015, the IEEE member founded Psyonic , which designs and builds advanced, affordable artificial limbs. Two years later he was accepted into the Medical Scholars Program at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He reported that he felt as though a part of him had come back thanks to the prosthesis.

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How Remote Sensing Technologies Increase Food Production

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That was the case for Melba Crawford , who as a teenager couldn’t wait to leave her family’s farm in Illinois to pursue an engineering career. I was interested in the design and operation of airplanes and spacecraft.” As part of that effort, she installed and operated a receiving station to acquire and analyze data from the U.S.

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Oak Ridge researchers tap Titan supercomputer for two lignin-related projects; improving knowledge and processes for cellulosic biofuels

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Lignin’s protective characteristics persist during biofuel processing, where it becomes a major hindrance, surviving expensive pretreatments designed to remove it and blocking enzymes from breaking down cellulose into simple sugars for fermentation into bioethanol. Click to enlarge.

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