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NIST awards nearly $4M to support metals-based additive manufacturing

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The following organizations will receive NIST Metals-Based Additive Manufacturing Grants Program funding to be spent over two years: Georgia Tech Research Corporation ($1 million). University of Texas at El Paso ($1 million).

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UPS to invest $100M more in compressed natural gas, CNG vehicles and related infrastructure

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El Paso, Texas; Fort Worth, Texas; Kansas City, Kan.; This investment builds on the company’s existing 18 CNG fueling stations in Alabama, California, Colorado, Georgia, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Texas, Virginia and West Virginia and operates CNG vehicles in Germany, the Netherlands and Thailand.

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Alabama Project Testing Potential for Combining CO2 Storage with Enhanced Methane Recovery

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Southern Company, El Paso Exploration & Production, the Geological Survey of Alabama, and the University of Alabama are all participating in the field test, known as the Black Warrior CO 2 Storage Project. The SECARB members began injecting CO 2 at the Alabama test site on 15 June 2010.

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

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NEWT will be led by Rice University in partnership with Arizona State University, the University of Texas at El Paso and Yale University. CBBG will be led by Arizona State University in partnership with the Georgia Institute of Technology, New Mexico State University, and the University of California, Davis.

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NIST awards $7.4M in grants for additive manufacturing research

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The ultimate goal is to produce a “3D Quality Certificate” that would index in-process measurements to part geometry and properties.