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EU investing €1.8B in 17 large-scale clean tech projects

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Grants will be disbursed from the Innovation Fund to help bring technologies to the market in energy-intensive industries, hydrogen, renewable energy, carbon capture and storage infrastructure, and manufacturing of key components for energy storage and renewables. A third project will capture the CO?

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Dearman-led consortium awarded $3.1M to develop waste-heat-recovery system using liquid air engine

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The Dearman project is to deliver a production-feasible waste-heat recovery system for urban commercial vehicles, which offers life-cycle CO 2 savings of up to 40%; fuel savings of 25%, with the potential of up to almost 50%; and potential payback in less than three years. Earlier post. ). Earlier post. ). Other IDP10 awards.

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Maersk to pilot 600 kWh containerized battery system on container ship

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This trial will provide a greater understanding of energy storage that will support Maersk in moving towards further electrification of its fleet and port terminals. Maersk Cape Town includes a waste heat recovery system, which is a special feature of many Maersk container vessels. m, beam is 37.4 m and maximum draught is 13.5

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SwRI to launch 7th clean diesel engine consortium

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The CHEDE-VI Consortium, which began in November 2011, pursued goals including research and demonstration of technologies to achieve 55% engine-system efficiency consisting of an engine goal of approximately 48% BTE plus waste energy recovery to bring the total to 55% BTE.

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Risø DTU and Amminex partner on project to develop new ammonia-based materials for NOx reduction

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million) from the Danish National Advanced Technology Foundation to develop new materials to remove NO x from diesel exhaust by using stable and safe storage of ammonia in a mixture of different metal salts. Amminex is the Danish developer of the Ammonia Storage and Delivery System (ASDS) ( earlier post ). million (US$1.8

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Waste disposal goes green

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Smelly, unhygienic and definitely not green - that’s the typical perception of a waste disposal truck. It is also equipped with a 325hp Mack MP7 engine and uses a selective catalytic reduction exhaust after-treatment technology. Its energy storage is a 288 cell ultracapacitor system.

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CPT presenting two papers at SAE World Congress on SpeedStart and TIGERS for 48V mild hybrid systems

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This results in a range of system level requirements from different manufacturers, dictated by vehicle targets and other issues such as battery state-of-charge and energy storage capability. The exhaust gas can reach temperatures greater than 900 °C, whereas the turbine upper functional limit is 850 °C.

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