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JANUARY 10, 2018

ElectraTherm, a leader in distributed, waste heat to power generation, is working with the Office of Naval Research (ONR), Creare, and the US Naval Academy (USNA) to demonstrate gas turbine waste heat recovery as part of a Small Business Innovation Research project. Hot water is the only fuel consumed by the Power+.

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Waste Exhaust Maryland Gas-Electric 186

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AUGUST 22, 2019

Velocys is leading the development of the project and has assembled all the technology components into a standardized integrated design. Velocys also supplies the central processing unit: micro-Channel Fischer-Tropsch reactors with the proprietary Velocys Actocat catalyst.

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JANUARY 7, 2022

million metric tons of electronic waste in 2019, up more than 21% over five years, according to the United Nations’ most recent assessment. Only about 17% of that e-waste was recycled, and what happens to the rest can be detrimental for both human health and privacy. The world generated a record 53.6 We have so, so, so many devices.

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JANUARY 25, 2021

The National Circular Economy Roadmap found innovation is crucial to realizing Australia’s largest economic gains, which will come from designing new products and materials, including through advanced manufacturing, and in embracing new business models that will create domestic and export markets for waste streams.

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Economy Australia Waste Market 418

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MAY 11, 2021

Rio Tinto has successfully developed and tested a steel powder designed for 3-D printing applications at its Rio Tinto Fer et Titane (RTFT) metallurgical complex in Sorel-Tracy, Québec. RTFT is developing a range of additional powder grades with advanced properties for 3-D printing to meet customer needs.

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North America Water Manufacturer Waste 417

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APRIL 8, 2021

Rio Tinto has commenced production of battery-grade lithium from waste rock at a lithium demonstration plant at the Boron mine site in California. An initial small-scale trial in 2019 successfully proved the process of roasting and leaching waste rock to recover high grades of lithium.

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Production Serbia Batteries Battery 418

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MAY 12, 2011

Waste Management has made a strategic investment in Agnion Energy , Inc. Waste Management joins other investors in Agnion including,Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers, Munich Venture Partners and Wellington Partners. Waste Management wants to maximize the value of the materials it manages. Agnion’s Heatpipe-Reformer.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2020

The future assembly and its production processes will be designed for a new cluster architecture geared towards electric drive trains. The amount of waste per vehicle is also continuously decreasing, making the BMW Group one of the world’s most sustainable automotive manufacturers. —Milan Nedeljkovi?,

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BMW Engine Production South Africa 396

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JUNE 8, 2012

a waste-to-biofuels and chemicals company, has begun initial production of cellulosic ethanol from waste materials at its demonstration facility in Westbury, Québec. Enerkem Inc., Earlier post.). The start of ethanol production at our Westbury facility is a significant milestone. —Vincent Chornet, President and CEO of Enerkem.

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Waste Production Canada Conversion 240

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MAY 22, 2014

Researchers at MIT and Stanford University have developed new battery technology for the conversion of low-temperature waste heat into electricity in cases where temperature differences are less than 100 degrees Celsius. C, which accounts for a large proportion of potentially harvestable waste heat. converting heat to electricity. °C,

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MIT Waste Conversion Power 240

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FEBRUARY 21, 2019

In Australia, QUT researchers and Mercurius Australia are partnering on a pilot plant to prove the economic viability of turning sugarcane waste into either jet and diesel fuel or chemicals that could be used to make plastic soft drink and beer bottles.

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DECEMBER 9, 2022

The €35-million Torero project is designed to process sustainable biomass (initially in the form of waste wood that cannot be used in other applications) for use as a raw material input into the blast furnace, hence lowering the volume of fossil coal used. —Lakskmi Mittal, ArcelorMittal Executive Chairman.

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Carbon Belgium Waste Coal 273

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

Tenneco and Gentherm (formerly BSST/Amerigon) are part of a US Department of Energy (DOE) consortium actively developing a thermoelectric generator (TEG) for capturing waste exhaust heat in vehicles and converting it to electrical energy to be used to power electrical systems within the vehicle. Source: Crane (2013).Click

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Fuel Economy Waste Economy Fuel 218

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

As part of a White House roundtable to launch the Sustainable Aviation Fuels (SAF) Grand Challenge to decarbonize the aviation sector by 2050 ( earlier post ), the US Department of Energy (DOE) announced $64.7 Quasar Energy Group will use an anaerobic digestor to convert food waste to SAF precursors. Award amount: $2,800,000).

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Emissions Waste Conversion Gas-Electric 272

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AUGUST 23, 2023

The Review is part of NETL’s Hydrogen Safety Field Work Proposal to support the US Department of Energy’s Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management’s strategic vision for safe, widespread and large-scale production and utilization of hydrogen as a carbon-free energy storage medium.

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Hydrogen Transportation Production Waste 150

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FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Waste Management has made a strategic investment in Enerkem, a developer of a thermochemical (gasification and catalytic synthesis) process to produce synthetic fuels and chemicals from biomass and waste, as part of Enerkem’s new financing round. The presence of steam at a specific partial pressure is also part of the process.

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Waste Fuel Companies Conversion 199

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JANUARY 30, 2012

In a pilot program, Waste Management, Inc. is introducing Rotopress waste collection trailers for the first time in North America. The entire waste load is continuously mixed and compacted during and following collection. This makes the drive smoother and reduces wear on tires.

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North America Waste America Gas 210

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JULY 12, 2022

The new platform will promote the use of recycled materials and environmentally friendly designs by providing manufacturers which design products from recycled materials with accurate information about their environmental footprint, including proof of origin of recycled materials and data on GHG emissions.

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Carbon Fiber Manufacturer Emissions Design 352

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FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Engineers and designers can do only so much to miniaturize transistors and pack as many of them as possible into chips. So they’re turning to other approaches to chip design, incorporating technologies like AI into the process. How is AI currently being used to design the next generation of chips? Gorr: Exactly.

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Design Insight Manufacturer Engine 77

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OCTOBER 10, 2012

Starting from a energy-based powertrain simulation model validated on experimental data from the PHEV, the researchers conducted a first- and second-law analysis to identify the potential for engine waste heat recovery, considering a variety of driving cycles and assuming the vehicle operating in charge-sustaining (HEV) mode. Power from ORC.

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Waste PHEV Fuel Exhaust 312

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AUGUST 30, 2011

The company says that some of the most promising projects are the Turbosteamer ( earlier post ); the Thermoelectric generator (TEG) ( earlier post ); engine encapsulation; and a waste heat exchanger for oil heating. Thus researchers focused on designing a component having only one high-temperature circuit. Click to enlarge.

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Waste BMW Exhaust Gas-Electric 376

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MAY 30, 2023

The hydrogen fuel cell-powered trucks are designed to meet a range of truck configurations required by Renova, including tail lift dumpers, garbage compactors, hook lifts, and crane loaders. Renova AB, the city’s waste management operator owned by ten municipalities in western Sweden, will be responsible for operating these vehicles.

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Hydrogen Global Sweden Fuel 243

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MAY 19, 2023

A geared design that delivers efficient power for the high-thrust, high bypass ratio engines of the future. The UltraFan demonstrator is a game changer—the technologies we are testing as part of this program have the capability to improve the engines of today as well as the engines of tomorrow.

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Engine Waste Future Fuel 273

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JULY 17, 2016

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued final New Source Performance Standards (NSPS) to reduce emissions of methane-rich landfill gas from new, modified and reconstructed municipal solid waste (MSW) landfills, updating standards that were issued in 1996. The revised NSPS retain the current design capacity threshold of 2.5

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Waste EPA Emissions 2014 150

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MAY 4, 2023

Aqua Metals is leading the development of the innovative conversion process, designed to replace chemical catalysts with clean electricity, and enables the sustainable production of cost-effective CAM precursors by eliminating embedded emissions, recurring expenses, and chemical waste byproducts.

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Li-ion Carbon Energy Batteries 199

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JULY 13, 2023

Every electronic device is made up of parts that contain these elements. A selective extraction process is planned that will recover these raw materials from incinerated waste. Currently, such materials are lost when the electronic parts that contain them are thrown away with household waste. raw material equivalents).

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OCTOBER 19, 2011

and Phoenix Power Group LLC have successfully completed fabrication, assembly and initial testing of the first pre-production Waste Heat Engines (WHE-25) manufactured by TopLine Energy Systems.( The Phoenix-10 Waste Oil Power Generator (P-10) is scheduled for commercial production in 2012. Cyclone Power Technologies Inc. Earlier post.)

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Phoenix Waste Oil Power 186

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JUNE 13, 2023

Ford transformed its historic plant in Niehl, Cologne—first founded in 1930—as part of a $2-billion investment. Designed to be highly efficient, the 125-hectare site is equipped with a brand-new production line, battery assembly and tooling and automation, enabling an annual production capacity of 250,000+ EVs.

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Ford F-150 Carbon Emissions 397

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DECEMBER 23, 2022

million) with the waste battery recycling company, Jae Young Tech. LG Chem will lead the overall business such as establishing the business model, and Jae Young Tech will be in charge of technological issues including plant design, etc. LG Chem entered an equity investment agreement worth 24 billion KRW (US$18.6

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Hydrotreated Vegetable Oil (HVO 100) fuel is a 100% renewable fossil fuel free product derived from vegetable oils, waste oils and fats. The Mercedes-AMG PETRONAS F1 Team recently concluded a trial in the use of biofuels in 16 Mercedes Actros Gigaspace race trucks for the final three races of the European season.

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Mercedes Emissions CO2 Belgium 243

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JULY 14, 2010

Cyclone Power Technologies has completed internal testing of its initial waste heat power generator ( earlier post ) and has shipped the beta unit to its customer, Bent Glass Design. The same engine was shipped in March 2010 to Robotic Technology as part of a project sponsored by DARPA, an agency of the US Department of Defense.

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MAY 4, 2011

Cyclone Power Technologies, developer of the external combustion Cyclone Engine, announced that the US Patent and Trademark Office has allowed the company a patent on its scalable waste energy recycling engine known as the WHE (Waste Heat Engine). Earlier post.)

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Waste Phoenix Engine Power 199

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MARCH 7, 2023

The technology fits within standard oilfield cementing workflows without major changes to the design process, onsite execution, or postjob evaluation. The EcoShield system uses locally sourced natural materials and industrial waste streams in its composition, making this a far more sustainable well integrity method.

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Portland CO2 Carbon North America 259

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

The new TRUCIRCLE materials support the automotive industry’s sustainability initiatives by providing an opportunity to extend the life of plastic waste and helping to increase value from post-consumer products. It’s all part of SABIC’s strategy to accelerate towards a true circular economy.

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Polymer Renewable Waste Emissions 429

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JULY 25, 2021

Eastman is collaborating with the United States Automotive Materials Partnership LLC ( USAMP ) and automotive recycler PADNOS for a concept feasibility study to demonstrate a closed-loop project to recycle automotive-industry mixed plastic waste in the automotive supply chain. —Steve Zimmer, executive director of USCAR.

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JUNE 3, 2015

Using additive manufacturing (3D printing) to produce aircraft’s metal parts could save a significant amount of fuel, materials and other resources, according to a new study by researchers from Northwestern University, Argonne and Oak Ridge National Laboratories, and the US Department of Energy (DOE) Advanced Manufacturing Office. billion GJ.

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JANUARY 24, 2020

The five hydrogen fuel cell systems will be used to outfit electric refuse trucks as part of the EU project REVIVE (Refuse Vehicle Innovation and Validation in Europe). The tender, which runs from 2018 to 2021, aims to build and put into operation 15 electric vehicles for the collection of waste in Europe.

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