Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 17, 2013

The Electrification Coalition released two case studies outlining how two cities— Houston, Texas and Loveland, Colorado —are saving money by using electric vehicles (EVs) in their vehicle fleets. —Laura Spanjian, director of sustainability for the City of Houston. Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

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DECEMBER 16, 2013

Researchers from the University of Houston (UH) have developed a cobalt(II) oxide (CoO) nanocrystalline catalyst that can carry out overall water splitting with a solar-to-hydrogen efficiency of around 5%. They report on their work in a paper in the journal Nature Nanotechnology.

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MARCH 14, 2020

a recognized leader in the area of high-performance dynamometer systems, recently provided the University of Houston’s Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering with a dynamometer test system designed to test motor and inverter designs for use in hybrid and electric vehicle applications. SAKOR Technologies Inc.,

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AUGUST 13, 2020

In 2014 and 2015, Anheuser-Busch converted 160 diesel-fueled trucks in Houston and St. Louis to fleets powered by Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) engines. Anheuser-Busch is transitioning more than 180 trucks—representing approximately 30% of its dedicated fleet—to Renewable Natural Gas (RNG).

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NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Now Madni—a professor of astronautics, aerospace, and mechanical engineering at the University of Southern California —is working to transform engineering education. Ramo served as a presidential chair and professor of electrical engineering at USC’s Viterbi School of Engineering from 2008 until he died in 2016.

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MARCH 6, 2018

The US Department of Energy (DOE) is awarding $12 million to support early-stage research for natural gas engines and off-road fluid power systems. million to research ultra-low emissions, high-efficiency heavy-duty natural gas engines with optimized combustion chamber designs. University of Minnesota will receive $1.1

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JULY 24, 2022

Now, a team of researchers at MIT, the University of Houston, and other institutions have shown that cubic boron arsenide overcomes these two limitations of silicon as a semiconductor material. Furthermore, silicon is not very good at conducting heat, which is why overheating issues and expensive cooling systems are common in computers.

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APRIL 8, 2022

United Airlines Ventures (UAV) and Oxy Low Carbon Ventures (OLCV) announced a collaboration with Houston-based biotech firm Cemvita Factory to commercialize the production of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) intended to be developed through a new process using carbon dioxide and synthetic microbes.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Other collaborators include EXP (a global engineering and consulting firm); and The Center for Houston’s Future (a nonprofit organization devoted to fact-based strategic planning, collaboration, and action on issues of great importance to the long-term future of Houston). (a leader in clean energy solutions).

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 16, 2022

ALLEN MEDAL Sponsor: IBM LYDIA KAVRAKI Rice University Houston “For foundational probabilistic algorithms and randomized search methods that have broad impact in robotic motion planning and computational biology.” IEEE FRANCES E. IEEE ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL MEDAL Sponsor: Nokia Bell Labs Corecipients: INGEBORG J. IEEE JACK S.

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OCTOBER 23, 2014

liter direct injection engine. The 2015 model vehicles were purchased by local Houston company NewTex Plumbing and San Antonio-based Pioneer Energy Services. liter engine, AGA Systems has also started shipping the DuraDrive DI for GM’s 6.2 direct injection engine. l/100 km) highway. In addition to supporting the 5.3-liter

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OCTOBER 11, 2022

Controlled Thermal Resources Limited has appointed Hargrove Engineers & Constructors as engineering contractor on the company’s $1-billion program to recover lithium sustainably from sub-surface geothermal brine in Imperial County, CA. Hargrove has a team of 215 process engineers with chemicals, petrochemicals, and refining experience.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2009

Maersk Line conducted the first “fuel switch” demonstration on a container ship in the Gulf of Mexico as the result of a partnership between the EPA, the Port of Houston Authority and Maersk Line. The Roubaix’s propulsion engine and auxiliary engines normally run on bunker fuel with a sulfur content of 2.7% (27,000 ppm).

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

NEXT is a Houston-based company developing the biorefinery which, at full production, could produce up to 50,000 barrels per day of Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF), renewable diesel, and other renewable fuels.

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APRIL 22, 2019

Researchers at the University of Houston have now developed an organic cathode that improves both stability and energy density. Credit: University of Houston. Its moderate redox potential enables the reversible formation of a resistive active material-electrolyte interface.

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MAY 19, 2023

IEEE’s Vision, Innovation, and Challenges Summit and Honors Ceremony showcases emerging technologies and celebrates engineering pioneers who laid the groundwork for many of today’s electronic devices. Engineering changes the way the world works.” Engineering changes the way the world works,” he said. Mulligan Jr. Allen Medal.

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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. A prototype of the ROV has been tested in Chen’s lab and in Galveston Bay.

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AUGUST 20, 2019

The financing was co-led by The Engine and by The GOOSE Society of Texas. Other participants include angel investors from the Creative Destruction Lab program and the Houston area. The development of the reactor incorporates expertise from chemical engineering, optics, materials science, theoretical physics, and nanophotonics.

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MARCH 30, 2009

The AMS is designed to give Houston-area electric consumers the ability to better monitor and manage electric use and cost in near real-time—a first step toward developing and deploying a full smart grid. More than 145,000 smart meters will be installed across the Houston area by the end of 2009. The MDS Mercury in its pole mounting.

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OCTOBER 14, 2021

Shell and the consortium partners—including McDermott’s CB&I Storage Solutions, NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, GenH2 and the University of Houston—have been selected by the U.S. CB&I Storage Solutions will provide engineering, design and LH 2 construction storage expertise.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2022

A reaction cell (left) and the photocatalytic platform (right) used on tests of copper-iron plasmonic photocatalysts for hydrogen production from ammonia at Syzygy Plasmonics in Houston. —Hossein Robatjazi, chief scientist at Houston-based Syzygy Plasmonics. Courtesy of Syzygy Plasmonics, Inc.

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Teslarati

JANUARY 28, 2023

Shotwell in Houston on April 28, 2023. The foundation was founded by the Space Center Rotary Club of Houston, Texas, in 1985 to organize and coordinate an annual event to recognize outstanding achievements in space and create greater public awareness of the benefits of space exploration. RNASA will hold a black-tie banquet honoring Ms.

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 29, 2023

The 10-day camp for students ages 13 to 17 provides an immersive and fun approach to learning about engineering. The teenagers engage in hands-on activities, speak with working engineers, and make field trips to local engineering organizations. This program is an opportunity for exploring the different branches of engineering.”

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

The assistant professor and William Marsh Rice Trustee Chair of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering has proposed the development of a modular electrochemical system that will provide “a sustainable, negative-carbon, low-waste and point-source manufacturing path preferable to traditional large-scale chemical process plants.”.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2021

A diversified energy manufacturing and logistics company based in Houston, Phillips 66 has filed numerous patent applications on battery-related technology. We’re pleased to put some of our resources into play with Faradion as it works to bring game-changing technology to market using our high-performing anode materials. Earlier post.).

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JANUARY 13, 2022

ICE Thermal Harvesting (Houston, TX). Transitional Energy will install state-of-the-art, American-made geothermal heat engines at Blackburn Oilfield in Nevada for electrical power production. Transitional Energy (Aurora, CO).

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Yan Yao, Cullen Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Houston and co-corresponding author for the paper, said the groundbreaking results came from combining both an organic quinone cathode and a new tailored boron cluster-based electrolyte solution. Neither approach is practical.

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APRIL 22, 2015

The NJ Department of Environmental Protection will replace Tier 1 engines on marine vessels with Tier 4 certified engines significantly reducing particulate matter, NO x and other pollutants. The Port of Houston Authority will replace 25 drayage trucks with drayage trucks powered by certified engines that are model year 2011 or newer.

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APRIL 10, 2021

The development of the reactor incorporates expertise from chemical engineering, optics, materials science, theoretical physics, and nanophotonics. Previous seed and Series A investors including The Engine, GOOSE Capital, and Evok Innovations also joined the round.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 26, 2017

The traveling sauna is hauled by a Ford F-250 pick-up truck with a turbo diesel engine. The tour schedule includes a pit-stop near Neste’s US office in Houston, Texas, as well. When Neste MY Renewable Diesel is being used, the journey’s greenhouse gas emission will be cut by up to 80% compared to conventional petroleum diesel.

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APRIL 11, 2022

The combination of our reliable engineering and best-in-class technology with Air Products’ speed, strategic investment and build-own-operate model, will be the differentiator on this new hydrogen market—which we create now. —Denis Krude, Chief Executive Officer at thyssenkrupp nucera.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Consistent high heat performance is critical in under-the-hood applications to accommodate for various load, torque and speed conditions in engines. Photo: Ascend Performance Materials. All XHT grades exhibit excellent flow and are regrindable, allowing excess material to be reprocessed, thus improving production efficiency.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 7, 2013

Within his talk about the need for a US energy policy at the IHS CERAWeek 2013 energy conference in Houston, GM Chairman and CEO Dan Akerson outlined some highlights of the company’s fuel economy plan through the 2016 model year. More efficient gasoline engines. Clean diesel. —Dan Akerson. Vehicle electrification.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 4, 2011

Engineers from the University of Houston and the University of Texas report that waterflooding with a surfactant—thereby altering the wettability of oil reservoir rocks—can increase oil recovery from 62 to 85%.

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Teslarati

AUGUST 23, 2023

One ADER is comprised of Houston-area CenterPoint Energy customers, while the other is comprised of Dallas-area customers served by Oncor Electric Delivery Company. The participants of the program have agreed to sell their surplus power in the ERCOT market, and will be compensated for doing so.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

First offered in 2018, the summer camp program gives teens an opportunity to explore a variety of engineering disciplines through hands-on design challenges, field trips, industry speakers, and more. This year’s behind-the-scenes tours included Boeing , Leonardo Helicopters , LaGuardia Airport , Space Center Houston , and Qualcomm.

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DECEMBER 26, 2022

As per a bill of lading initially spotted by electric vehicle advocate @greggertruck , 66 Kuka production line robots arrived in Houston, Texas, on December 18, 2022. 66 Kuka production line robots arrived in Houston on the 18th.

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