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FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Utilization of renewable solar energy is crucial for addressing the global energy and environmental concerns and achieving sustainable development. In this regard, photocatalytic water splitting has attracted significant interest as a cost-effective means to convert sustainable solar energy into valuable chemicals.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2020

The US Department of Energy (DOE) is awarding $35 million to 11 projects as part of the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy’s (ARPA-E) Submarine Hydrokinetic And Riverine Kilo-megawatt Systems (SHARKS) program. These methodologies will significantly decrease the levelized cost of energy (LCOE) of the final HKT design.

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AUGUST 7, 2012

BP will establish a $100-million international research center, the BP International center for Advanced Materials (BP-ICAM) to lead research to advancethe fundamental understanding and use of materials across a variety of energy and industrial applications. —Bob Dudley.

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OCTOBER 20, 2015

Nostrum Energy is launching a new line of high-flow direct injectors with a proprietary “kinetic” particle break-up mechanism, K-DI (Kinetic Direct Injector), for the high performance market this fall. Click to enlarge. Both are running the Nostrum cycle on commercial engines they have retrofitted.

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MARCH 20, 2019

24M CTO Naoki Ota will present the Dual Electrolyte System at the International Battery Seminar & Exhibit in Fort Lauderdale, Florida later this month. In February, 24M announced that it has developed and delivered commercially-viable, high energy density lithium-ion cells with energy densities exceeding 250 watt-hours per kilogram (Wh/kg).

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AUGUST 18, 2011

The centers will support research and innovation in solar energy; water infrastructure; neural engineering; and wide-area energy transmission. The NSF ERC for Re-inventing America's Urban Water Infrastructure , led by Stanford University, will seek sustainable urban water systems to supply, treat, and reuse water.

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APRIL 4, 2022

Researchers at the University of Surrey (UK) are developing a process to capture carbon dioxide directly from the air and then use dynamic catalysis to create methanol—a valuable chemical that, made this way, could be carbon-negative. —Dr Melis Duyar, project lead from the University of Surrey. —Dr Duyar.

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JULY 30, 2012

The University of Leeds (UK) and the Chinese Academy of Sciences have partnered to create a joint research institute to develop next generation energy storage systems, with a focus on thermal- and mechanical-based energy storage systems. Pumped storage plants pump water uphill into a reservoir or lake.

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JUNE 24, 2017

Scientists in the US and China have developed a new low-temperature catalyst for producing high-purity hydrogen gas while simultaneously using up carbon monoxide (CO) via the water-gas shift (WGS) reaction. Its synergy with adjacent Mo sites in α-MoC can effectively activate water at low temperature. —Yao et al.

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JANUARY 21, 2021

The US Department of Energy (DOE) is awarding more than $50 million in funding for 15 projects focused on field validation and demonstration—as well as next-generation extraction, separation, and processing technologies—for critical materials. Partners: Harper International, Phillips66.

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MAY 16, 2022

Using new analytical methods, the research group “CritMET: Critical Metals for Enabling Technologies” led by Michael Bau, Professor of Geochemistry at Jacobs University in Bremen has studied the distribution of germanium and gallium in iron-manganese crusts from the deep sea. Source: Jacobs University).

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MAY 9, 2023

Project partners include: University of Bristol, Customer Interconnect Ltd, API Capacitors Ltd. Project partners include: Queens University Belfast, Grayson Thermal Systems, Hutchinson Engineering, Translink. This project aims to speed up the rollout of hydrogen-burning internal combustion engines, as an alternative to diesel.

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OCTOBER 28, 2022

The US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA?E) E) will award $39 million in funding to 16 projects across 12 states to develop market-ready technologies that will increase domestic supplies of critical elements required for the clean energy transition. Columbia University.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2016

One of its molecular mysteries of photosynthesis involves how the photosystem II protein complex harvests energy from sunlight and uses it to split water into hydrogen and oxygen. A paper on the work is published in the journal Nature. The eventual goal is to emulate what photosynthesis has been doing for about three billion years.

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MAY 7, 2017

Water-splitting systems require a very efficient catalyst to speed up the chemical reaction that splits water into hydrogen and oxygen, while preventing the two gases from recombining back into water. The work was supported by King Abdullah University of Science and Technology. —Garcia-Esparza et al.

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JANUARY 9, 2015

While advanced composites are used in selective industries such as aircraft, satellites and cars, these materials remain expensive, require large amounts of energy to manufacture and are difficult to recycle. GrafTech International; Heil Trailer International; Herty Advanced Materials Development Center; Hills, Inc.;

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JUNE 6, 2022

Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, have created a unique method for further developing hydrofoils that can significantly increase the range of electric vessels and reduce the fuel consumption of fossil-powered ships by 80%. An open-access paper on their work is published in the Journal of Marine Science and Engineering.

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MAY 29, 2019

SHV Energy, global leader in LPG distribution, will also invest in the facility and will purchase the bioLPG produced. The facility will run on sustainable hydrogen, which is produced using water and wind energy. The use of SAF will also contribute to a significant decrease in ultra-fine particles and sulfur emissions.

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OCTOBER 25, 2013

A transparent film of copper nanowires was transformed into an electrocatalyst for water oxidation by electrodeposition of Ni or Co onto the surface of the nanowires. Water oxidation (2H 2 O → O 2 + 4 e- + 4H + ) is a key step for converting solar energy into chemical fuels. Chen et al. Click to enlarge. times more light.

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MAY 28, 2019

An international research group has improved graphene’s ability to catalyze the hydrogen evolution reaction, which releases hydrogen as a result of passing an electronic current through water. The findings were published in an open access paper in the journal Advanced Science.

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JULY 20, 2014

The US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy will award $9 million over five years to organizations to assist it in building domestic and international consensus on future fossil energy technologies ( DE-FOA-0001111 ). Carbon Capture and Storage and Clean Energy Systems.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

To reduce the number of accidents in the global oil and gas industry caused by damaged pipelines, University of Houston researchers are developing an autonomous robot to identify potential pipeline leaks and structural failures during subsea inspections. When larger spills happen, pipelines are often the culprit.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Synhelion has developed a solar thermal process for the production of syngas, which is then used in standard industrial processes to synthesize liquid fuels, such as kerosene, gasoline, or diesel, that are compatible with conventional jet engines and internal combustion engines.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2020

The research project is co-financed by the Swiss Federal Office of Energy (FOEN). The platform for these discussions is the “International DME Association” founded in 2001, which currently has 50 members from science and industry. Water is formed as a by-product. The project still in the pre-competitive phase, Soltic said.

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JUNE 3, 2012

nuclear and fossil-fueled generating units) in Europe and the United States are vulnerable to climate change due to the combined impacts of lower summer river flows and higher river water temperatures. An international team of researchers projected a summer average decrease in capacity of power plants of 6.3—19% 19% in Europe and 4.4—16%

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JUNE 14, 2014

An international team of researchers has sequenced the genome of the eucalyptus tree ( Eucalyptus grandis ) and published the analysis in an open access paper in the journal Nature. —Gerald Tuskan, Oak Ridge National Laboratory. —Alexander Myburg. —Dario Grattapaglia.

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MAY 24, 2018

The US Department of Energy (DOE) is awarding up to $3.5 million to three hydrogen production research and development (R&D) projects that are compatible with nuclear energy sources. FuelCell Energy will receive $1.5

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JUNE 26, 2020

In an EU-funded research project, an international consortium is aiming to develop new production methods for sustainable marine fuels to replace heavy fuel oils in shipping. However, HFOs are banned in the national waters of many countries. Although cleaner fuels are available, many companies opt for HFOs due to their low cost.

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JULY 15, 2020

The US Department of Energy announced $11.5 million in funding for 12 projects as part of Phase 1 of the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy’s (ARPA-E’s) FLExible Carbon Capture and Storage (FLECCS) program. The technology uses 10-15% less energy than existing amine absorbents. Colorado State University.

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DECEMBER 19, 2021

This avoids traditional but costly liquid separation methods that require significant energy. The findings offer one way to alleviate a growing demand for minor metals such as cobalt, lithium, and rare earth elements that are used in “clean” energy products such as electric cars, solar cells, and electricity-generating windmills.

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MAY 14, 2010

The US Department of Energy has selected 7 projects to participate in the University Coal Research (UCR) program. The projects aim to improve the basic understanding of the chemical and physical processes that govern coal conversion and utilization, by-product utilization, and technological development for advanced energy systems.

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JUNE 6, 2009

Total weighted global average water footprints (blue and green) for major ethanol and biodiesel crops in m 3 water per GJ fuel. The red marker (right axis) indicates liters of water required to produce one liter of fuel. In addition, their study includes jatropha, an energy crop. Data: Gerbens-Leenes et al.

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AUGUST 14, 2021

The Port of Corpus Christi Authority (Port of Corpus Christi) and Howard Midstream Energy Partners, LLC (Howard/HEP) have executed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) stating their intention to convert Howard’s Javelina refinery services facility into the region’s first blue hydrogen production facility.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2009

Vattenfall and Aalborg University are partnering with Danish startup SCF Technologies in a two-year project to design a demonstration plant based on SCF’s CatLiq process—an application of the firm’s supercritical fluid technology in the catalytic production of bio-oil from organic waste. The oxygen content of the CatLiq bio-oil is 2-12%.

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MARCH 31, 2017

(SoCalGas) announced that new research on power-to-gas technology shows the technique holds the ability to significantly increase the use of intermittent renewable energy. The finding came out of ongoing research conducted at the University of California, Irvine (UCI) and funded by SoCalGas.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2010

In a speech at the National Press Club, US Energy Secretary Steven Chu said that the success of China and other countries in clean energy industries represents a new “Sputnik Moment” for the United States, and will require a similar mobilization of innovation to enable the US to compete in the global race for the jobs of the future.

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APRIL 25, 2013

Researchers from the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford University have designed a new lithium/polysulfide (Li/PS) semi-liquid (flow) battery for large-scale energy storage, with lithium polysulfide (Li 2 S 8 ) in ether solvent as a catholyte and metallic lithium as an anode.

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