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SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Researchers at the University of California, Riverside’s Center for Environmental Research and Technology (CERT) at the Bourns College of Engineering have received two grants to further explore a steam hydrogasification process they developed to convert waste into fuels. diesel, gasoline, jet) at low cost.

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AUGUST 5, 2011

The University of Michigan (U-M) and Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU) have selected six research teams to share $1.05 Principal investigators: Charles Monroe, U-M Department of Chemical Engineering; Jiulin Wang and Jun Yang, SJTU Department of Chemical Engineering. Physics foundation for controlling biofuel sprays.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2010

A UK-based consortium, led by scientists at the University of Manchester, has been awarded a £ 5.7 million) grant to help develop new super-light materials solutions for building more fuel-efficient cars and aircraft. An official project launch event will be held at the University of Manchester in June 2010. million (US$8.9

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million) in grants to 16 collaborative research and development projects that focus on achieving significant cuts in CO 2 emissions for vehicle-centric technologies in low carbon vehicles. Technologies supported include ultra lightweight engine designs, advanced battery management systems and the next generation of electric motors.

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OCTOBER 29, 2013

Researchers from the University of Bath Powertrain and Vehicle Research Centre (PVRC) in the UK have received a total of £3.2 An EPSRC (Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Funding) grant of £2 million (US$3.2 An EPSRC (Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Funding) grant of £2 million (US$3.2 million (US$5.1

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2013

NOHMs, a spin-off from Cornell University, will utilize the Kentucky-Argonne Battery Manufacturing Research and Development Center and the University of Kentucky’s Spindletop Administration Building. Hooey Director of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Cornell University. Technology.

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JANUARY 11, 2017

Liquid Light has developed proprietary process technology to make major chemicals from low-cost, globally-abundant carbon dioxide. Spun out from Princeton University in 2008, Liquid Light has invested more than US$35 million on low-energy electrochemistry technologies to convert CO 2 to major chemicals.

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JUNE 7, 2013

The team will initially provide consulting support with plans to expand into engineering and low-volume production services based on customer needs. Ricardo will provide technical engineering support and strategic market analysis to the program.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

LanzaTech, a producer of low-carbon fuels and chemicals from waste gases, was awarded a $4-million grant by the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) as one of the 15 REMOTE projects ( earlier post ) receiving a combined $34 million to find advanced biocatalyst technologies that can convert natural gas to liquid fuel for transportation.

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OCTOBER 15, 2019

Researchers at the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford University have shown for the first time that a low-cost, non-precious metal cobalt phosphide (CoP) catalyst catalyst can split water and generate hydrogen gas for hours on end in the harsh environment of a commercial device.

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AUGUST 26, 2019

A University of Texas at Dallas physicist has teamed with Texas Instruments Inc. In a general sense, waste heat is everywhere: the heat your car engine generates, for example. A deep dive for these novel measurements, detailed analysis and literature comparisons requires a university group. That heat normally dissipates.

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DECEMBER 13, 2013

The California Energy Commission (CEC) is awarding $1,135,862 to 12 small-scale projects to research that will reduce the cost of producing electricity, save energy and improve the environment. The project has the potential to increase solar power storage capacity and reduce electricity costs.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2015

In addition, the government announced another £11 million (US$17 million) of funding to support 15 low-emission vehicle research and development projects undertaken by a total of 50 organizations, ranging from small businesses to major universities. Low-emission vehicle R&D. Infrastructure.

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JUNE 15, 2019

A group of researchers at the University of Campinas (UNICAMP), working in partnership with colleagues at the Brazilian Biorenewables National Laboratory (LNBR) in Campinas, São Paulo State, Brazil, have discovered that Trichoderma harzianum , a fungus found in the Amazon, produces an enzyme with the potential to play a key role in enzyme cocktails.

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JULY 29, 2014

Key benefits of low mass, compact packaging, electric only coupling to vehicle drive, and low cost point make the Mk4 eFES system a turn-key retro-fit solution. million) grant from the UK Technology Strategy Board (TSB), awarded in 2012. million (US$13-million) grant as part of a £15.6-million Earlier post.).

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NOVEMBER 16, 2010

CleanFUEL USA, a leading supplier of alternative fuel infrastructure and propane engine systems, will build and certify a multi-purpose 8-liter General Motors (GM) propane engine in partnership with Freightliner Custom Chassis Corporation (FCCC), a subsidiary of Daimler Trucks North America. medium-duty engine, as well as a 6.0L

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NOVEMBER 11, 2015

Australia-based Latent Heat Storage has developed a low cost thermal energy storage system based on the latent heat properties of silicon derived from sand. The Australian Government grant, through its Entrepreneur’s Program, has been matched by Latent Heat Storage shareholders to generate $800,000 of total project funding.

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AUGUST 1, 2017

Scientists at Rice University and the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory have predicted and created new two-dimensional electrocatalysts—low-cost, layered transition-metal dichalcogenides (MX 2 ) based on molybdenum and tungsten—to extract hydrogen from water with high performance and low cost.

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OCTOBER 30, 2013

Stanford University’s Precourt Institute for Energy, the Precourt Energy Efficiency Center and the TomKat Center for Sustainable Energy have awarded 11 seed grants totaling $2.2 Precourt Institute for Energy grants. PIs: Gianluca Iaccarino, Mechanical Engineering; Martin Fischer, Civil and Environmental Engineering.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2016

UK-based materials company Ilika, also a developer of solid-state batteries, is taking part in a three-year project to develop protected anodes for lithium sulfur batteries, led by Johnson Matthey Plc and supported by Innovate UK and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC).

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MARCH 1, 2017

Replacing a conventional host insertion compound as a cathode by a redox center for plating an alkali-metal cathode provides a safe, low-cost, all-solid-state cell with a large capacity resulting in high energy density and a long cycle life. This research is supported by UT Austin, but there are no grants associated with this work.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2017

Researchers in the Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin have developed a new family of anode materials that can double the charge capacity of lithium-ion battery anodes. It is a simple, low-cost approach that can be applied to a broad range of alloy systems with various working ions such as Li, Na, or Mg.

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AUGUST 7, 2022

In partnership with key universities, four companies—Bluecity, GEKOT Inc., GEKOT Inc, has partnered with Razor USA and Oakland University (OU) to help address this need. GEKOT will integrate its technical solutions package into Razor electric scooters soon to be deployed on the campus of Oakland University.

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MAY 18, 2021

Startup ClearFlame Engine Technologies announced a partnership with Alto Ingredients, a leading producer of specialty alcohols and essential ingredients, to conduct pilot demonstrations of ClearFlame’s solution for diesel engines using low-cost ethanol in Class 8 trucks.

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MARCH 21, 2009

Researchers at Oregon State University (OSU) and the University of Oregon have shown photobiological hydrogen production from one type of cyanobacteria ( Synechocystis sp. Roger Ely, associate professor of biological and ecological engineering at OSU. They also produce some hydrogen, though. Dickson, Catherine J.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2016

A team of researchers at Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), Korea University, and the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) has developed a new type of multilayered (Au NPs/TiO 2 /Au) photoelectrode that could boost the ability of solar water-splitting to produce hydrogen.

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JULY 3, 2013

Ford Motor Company is developing a new form of manufacturing technology—rapid freeform sheet metal forming—that has the potential to reduce costs and delivery time for sheet metal parts needed in smaller quantities. million US Department of Energy grant to advance next-generation, energy-efficient manufacturing processes.

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APRIL 30, 2010

The grants will go to projects in 17 states. Engineering E. This project seeks to develop an “electrofuels chassis” by using engineered E. This project will develop and optimize a novel, engineered microorganism that produces a biodiesel-equivalent fuel from renewable hydrogen and carbon dioxide, at costs of less than $2.50

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DECEMBER 1, 2011

The research has received funding from the EU’s Seventh Framework Program (FP/2007-2013) under grant agreement Nº266391. For vehicle applications, it is desirable to have devices with high energy density, high power density, long cycle and shelf life, and low cost. The University of Exeter. The University of Nottingham.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2015

Researchers at Vanderbilt University have demonstrated that ultrafine sizes (∼4.5 The research team headed by Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering Cary Pint and led by graduate student Anna Douglas added millions of iron pyrite quantum dots of different sizes to standard lithium button batteries. nanometers in size.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2010

low cost system designs, high. productivity algae cultivation, high oil content, low cost harvesting and processing).” 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.

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OCTOBER 10, 2011

The remaining projects are from PIER’s Energy Innovations Small Grant (EISG) program. These grants are capped at $95,000. The 12 EISG projects approved were: CHA Corporation of McClellan will receive $95,000 for a project to demonstrate microwave-based hydrogen production from biogas for reciprocating engines and fuel cells.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2021

This is a sponsored article brought to you by NYU Tandon School of Engineering. A common adage is that if you can measure a thing, you can control a thing, or at least manage it. A challenge for New York City's efforts to reduce the negative impacts of street-level flooding and noise pollution has been how to measure these issues effectively.

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MARCH 15, 2010

The synthesis process is simple, low-cost, safe and broadly applicable, they say, providing new avenues for the rational engineering of electrode materials with enhanced conductivity and power. Gleb Yushin, an assistant professor in the School of Materials Science and Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology.

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MARCH 16, 2010

Pyrolysis not only potentially offers the lowest cost production route of any biofuel technology (between £0.30 Alongside the Axion consortium, Carbon Trust is also announcing a £500,000 research grant for the University of York to conduct earlier-stage R&D into a process to use microwaves to pyrolyze waste.

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DECEMBER 7, 2021

This is a sponsored article brought to you by NYU Tandon School of Engineering. New York University’s. Chen Feng Chen Feng has brought his background in civil, electrical, and geospatial engineering to bear on computer vision and robotic perception applications for construction and manufacturing.

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make a low-cost “appliance”-type computer that would be as easy to use as a toaster. Mr. Raskin’s proposal did not impress anyone at Apple Computer enough to bring much money from the board of directors or much respect from Apple engineers. No one tried to control us,” said one.

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