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million research center, led by Michigan Engineering and funded by the US Department of Energy, will focus on understanding an emerging branch of science involving mechanical and chemical phenomena that affect advanced battery designs. —Jeff Sakamoto, professor of mechanical engineering at U-M and director of the new center.

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Last April, QCD ordered its first batch of 14 leased Volvo VNR Electric trucks with funding support from a grant awarded to Volvo Financial Services from the Mobile Source Air Pollution Reduction Review Committee’s (MSRC) Inland Port Program. The remaining trucks of the order will be deployed throughout 2022 and early 2023. Located in the St.

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The two projects are part of a larger multi-year DOE-funded project to develop and to apply innovative simulation strategies and tools to maximize benefits of predictive information from high performance computing (HPC) for internal combustion engines. The Principal Investigator on that DOE project is Dean Edwards of ORNL.

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The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has awarded $8 million to communities in 21 states and Puerto Rico to reduce emissions from the nation’s existing fleet of diesel engines through the agency’s Diesel Emission Reduction Act ( DERA ) program. Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin. Delaware and Virginia.

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AUGUST 9, 2010

This year, Ford has awarded 13 University Research Program (URP) grants to 12 different universities around the world, including Wayne State University in Detroit; Stanford University in Palo Alto, California; RWTH Aachen University in Aachen, Germany; and Tsinghua University in Beijing, China. Grant winners will be announced in early 2011.

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JULY 22, 2011

Regulatory hurdles are hindering the successful commercialization of emerging liquid biofuels, according to a new study by University of Illinois law professor Jay P. Slating, a regulatory associate with the University of Illinois Energy Biosciences Institute. Wisconsin Law Review ; Illinois Public Law Research Paper No.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

The University of Illinois at Chicago has received a $1.44-million million National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to discover new 2D materials that can be used to manufacture better and cheaper batteries. During the four year grant cycle, Salehi-Khojin and Klie will be assisted by researchers at Washington University of St.

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MARCH 10, 2011

an international maker of stator technology used in hybrid and electric automobiles, filed a $110-million lawsuit today in United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois against Remy, Inc. Tecnomatic S.p.A. , in order to conceal its true origin. Tecnomatic S.p.A.

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Intermediate temperature (IT) SOFCs require new materials and alternate structures to achieve high electrochemical efficiency at lower temperatures.

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—Reza Shahbazian-Yassar, associate professor of mechanical and industrial engineering in the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Engineering and lead author. Lithium-oxygen batteries have been tantalizing to battery researchers for years because of their potential high energy density.

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Johnson-Matthey will produce the catalysts that turn the lipids in the methane into fuel, while Illinois-based Lanza Tech, a pioneer in waste-to-fuels technology, has signed on to take the bench-scale plan to the commercial level, if it is successful. Earlier post.).

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FEBRUARY 26, 2016

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced the availability of $26 million in grant funding to establish clean diesel projects aimed at reducing emissions from the US’ existing fleet of diesel engines. California Air Resources Board (CARB)-verified retrofit technologies or certified engine configurations.

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The US Department of Energy (DOE) has awarded a 5-year, $16-million grant to the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, one of the world’s largest independent plant science institutes. —principal investigator Thomas Brutnell, Ph.D., director of the Enterprise Rent-A-Car Institute for Renewable Fuels at the Danforth Center.

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JULY 30, 2014

Researchers from the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) have identified molybdenum disulfide as a promising cost-effective substitute for noble metal catalysts for the electrochemical reduction of carbon dioxide. A paper on their work is published in the journal Nature Communications. The new catalyst improves efficiency and lowers cost.

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JUNE 30, 2022

More than 150 public libraries throughout the central United States now lend out activity kits that let children explore just about any aspect of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. The kits teach youngsters what engineers do, as well as how to code, build robots, design video games, and create animations.

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million in grants to eight universities in support of black carbon research. Black carbon is the sooty black material emitted from diesel-powered engines and vehicles, industries like brick kilns and coke ovens, traditional cookstoves, and other sources that burn fossil fuels or biomass.

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JULY 21, 2011

The Alcoa Foundation recently awarded a $400,000 grant to the Ohio State University (OSU) Institute for Materials Research in support of innovative design and manufacturing technologies that will enable the creation of lighter, more environmentally friendly vehicle structures. The whole system of joints needs to work together to be efficient.

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The winners are Professor Elizabeth Biddinger, City College of New York; Professor Joaquin Rodriguez Lopez, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; and Professor Joshua Snyder, Drexel University. The selected fellows will receive restricted grants of a minimum of $50,000 to conduct the research outlined in their proposals within one year.

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ECS (The Electrochemical Society), in partnership with the Toyota Research Institute of North America (TRINA), a division of Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc. Winners will receive a restricted grant of no less than $50,000 to conduct the research outlined in their proposal within one year.

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Ideal Power has won multiple grants including one from the Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) to commercialize bi-directional power switches, which are expected to improve power density by thirty percent and reduce efficiency losses by 50%.

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patents, is passionate about encouraging and supporting the next generation of engineers. While he was an engineering professor at the University of California, Los Angeles , Samueli helped found company in San Jose, Calif., The fund also supports the creation of a chapter grant program and chapter coaching program. Nicholas.

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After joining MIT as a professor in 1960, he moved up the ranks and served as associate head of the electrical engineering and computer science department from 1974 to 1978. After stepping down, he went back to teaching electrical engineering until he retired in 2005. He also established MIT's master's degree in engineering.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

The US Department of Energy will award some $17 million in research grants to 23 university-led teams aimed at strengthening the research and development capabilities of American universities and colleges to develop the next generation of nuclear energy technologies and upgrade research reactors across the country. an extended period of time.

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University of Illinois researchers have developed mats of Zn–Ti–O nanofibers that adsorb sulfur from raw fuels such as natural gas and coal/biomass-derived syngas much more effectively than traditional materials. Co-led by Mark Shannon, a professor of mechanical science and engineering at the U. Photo: Prashant Jain. Click to enlarge.

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Presenting my work in front of respected and accomplished engineers felt unreal,” Tiwari says. “I He was granted a patent in Germany last year. His top choices are Cornell , Georgia Tech , the University of Michigan , and the University of Illinois because of the types of STEM programs they offer. Tiwari filed for a U.S.

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JULY 17, 2014

million in research grants are awarded under a joint DOE-USDA program that began in 2006 focused on fundamental investigations of biomass genomics, with the aim of harnessing nonfood plant biomass for the production of fuels such as ethanol or renewable chemical feedstocks. Patrick Brown, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

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AUGUST 12, 2011

The US Departments of Energy (DOE) and Agriculture (USDA) have awarded 10 grants totaling $12.2 The 10 projects are located in California, Colorado, Illinois, Florida, Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, South Carolina and Virginia: Association Mapping of Cell Wall Synthesis Regulatory Genes and Cell Wall Quality in Switchgrass. sinensis x M.

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TPS tested its Transient Plasma Ignition System in multi-cylinder operation on a Cummins Westport ISX12N natural-gas engine. The tests were conducted at the US Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois, under a grant by the California Energy Commission (CEC) with support from SoCalGas and Cummins Westport.

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Transit agencies began submitting their proposals after the FTA announced rules for the Transit Investments for Greenhouse Gas and Energy Reduction (TIGGER) grant program as part of the Recovery Act last March. Since President Obama signed ARRA into law in February, grants totaling more than $7.2 Rock Island Metro, Illinois: $600,000.

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Clark, UC Berkeley professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering. Their team is supported by a grant from the Energy Biosciences Institute (EBI), a public-private collaboration that includes UC Berkeley, in which bioscience and biological techniques are being applied to help solve the global energy challenge.

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Managed by the Office of Fossil Energy’s National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL), the UCR program is DOE’s longest running student-teacher research grant initiative. Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Ill. Computational Energy Sciences. DOE award: $299,950). University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pa.

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Engineering designs and cost analysis for the various cases were based on projecting current commercial microalgae production and wastewater treatment processes at much larger scales. could allow for practical, near-term development of engineering, technological, and human. The favorable. resources in this field.

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Granted, there are several cities where living without a vehicle is doable, like Utrecht in the Netherlands where in 2019 48 percent of resident trips were done by cycling or London, where nearly two-thirds of all trips taken that same year were are made by walking, cycling or public transportation. For instance, recent U.S.

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The awarded grants will go to projects with lead researchers in 17 states. DOE grant: $7,200,000). DOE grant: $6,949,624). DOE grant:$5,349,932). DOE Grant: $4,000,000). DOE grant: $1,999,447). Earlier post.) Earlier post.) A second set of ARPA-E funding opportunities will be announced in the late Fall.

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Importantly, the nanofluids are engineered to remain suspended indefinitely, unlike other suspensions—for instance, sand in water. Nanofluids suspended in water-based electrolytes were first investigated for this application in 2009 by researchers at Argonne National Laboratory and the Illinois Institute of Technology.

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Meilin Liu, a Regent’s professor in the School of Materials Science and Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. The research was supported by the US Department of Energy’s Basic Energy Science Catalysis Science Program under grant DE-FG02-06ER15837. In a Perspective in the same issue of Science , Dr. J. Selman, 2009.

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states (Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin) and one Canadian province (Manitoba). Another potential use of allowance value is to provide the general public a “dividend” related to the public’s having granted firms the right to make use of the waste-disposal services of the atmosphere through their emissions.

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