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FEBRUARY 5, 2018

Ricardo has created a company—Dolphin N2 Ltd—to commercialize its CryoPower cryogenic split-cycle engine technology ( earlier post , earlier post.) This enables recovery of otherwise wasted exhaust heat to the working gas after the end of compression.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

The concept of the Ricardo Split-Cycle engine. The recuperated engine uses isothermal compression via cryogenic injection to enable significant exhaust to compressed gas heat transfer. Source: Neville Jackson. Click to enlarge. In an isothermal process, the temperature is constant.).

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JULY 23, 2021

Tenneco is putting its 100-plus years of powertrain expertise in improving vehicle fuel efficiency and reducing emissions to work to explore synthetic fuels (e-fuels) as a viable near-term solution to further maximize the efficiency and minimize the carbon footprint of internal combustion engines (ICE).

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FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Purdue University researchers have developed a turbomachine expander that offers an efficient and safe strategy for heating and cooling. The novel turbomachine expander helps harvest previously wasted energy used in the process of moving the air from high to low pressure. —Barta et al. Barta, Davide Ziviani, Eckhard A.

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JANUARY 30, 2023

The consortium has been collaborating with the Abu Dhabi Department of Energy, Etihad Airways, Lufthansa Group, and Khalifa University of Science and Technology, on a demonstration initiative for e-SAF. It can be used as a drop-in fuel without modifying existing storage and refueling infrastructure, aircraft or engines.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2011

Drayson Racing and Aston University (UK) have launched a major partnership to develop and demonstrate low carbon automotive technologies. The partnership will investigate second-generation biofuels—biofuels derived from waste biomass such as straw, wood and sewage sludge—to create high performance cars with reduced CO 2 emissions.

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JULY 17, 2020

The Research Foundation for The SUNY Stony Brook University. University of Delaware. University of Maryland. Rationally Designed Lithium Ion Batteries Towards Displacing Internal Combustion Engines. Marquette University. Washington State University. Colorado State University. Solid Power Inc.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

—Eric McAfee, Chairman and CEO of Aemetis Built by Aemetis near the eastern India port of Kakinada in Andhra Pradesh, the Universal Biofuels plant is the largest biodiesel production facility in India. Biodiesel produced from waste feedstocks reduces carbon emissions by up to 80% compared to petroleum diesel.

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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. In addition, the International Maritime Organization (IMO) is seeking to ban HFO use in Arctic waters. The participants are Vertoro B.V. (NL);

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JANUARY 30, 2010

As part of the Obama Administration’s commitment to restarting the US nuclear industry, Secretary of Energy Steven Chu announced the formation of a Blue Ribbon Commission on America’s Nuclear Future to provide recommendations for developing a safe, long-term solution to managing used nuclear fuel and nuclear waste. Brent Scowcroft, Co-Chair.

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MAY 27, 2022

Rice University chemists working with researchers at the Ford Motor Company are turning plastic parts from end-of-life vehicles into graphene via the university’s flash Joule heating process ( earlier post ). Ford sent us 10 pounds of mixed plastic waste from a vehicle shredding facility. That’s with only 0.1% Wyss, K.M.,

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AUGUST 18, 2020

The US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Reducing EMbodied-Energy and Decreasing Emissions (REMADE) Manufacturing Institute announced approximately $35 million to support research and development (R&D) that will enable US manufacturers to increase the recovery, recycling, reuse, and remanufacturing of plastics, metals, electronic waste, and fibers.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2015

UK startup Libertine LPE has developed a free piston linear power generator technology that it says overcomes the key challenges faced by earlier free piston engine schemes of motion control, emissions and power conversion efficiency. However, motion control is a significant design challenge for free piston engines, Libertine notes.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2021

A new hydrogen-powered workboat will put the Port of Narvik in a unique position, where we will reduce our own emissions and use pioneering technology that will become important for both national and international shipping in the years to come. The boat will be one of the first vessels to have fuel cells from TECO 2030 installed.

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APRIL 8, 2010

Researchers from BASF, Energie Baden-Württemberg AG (EnBW), Heidelberg University and Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) are seeking to develop a process for the photocatalytic conversion of CO 2 into methanol for use in fuel cells or internal combustion engines. Dr. Michael Grunze, Heidelberg University.

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APRIL 2, 2021

Battery modeling , led by Dr Gregory Offer, Imperial College London, with researchers from the Universities of Bath, Birmingham, Lancaster, Oxford, Portsmouth, Southampton, Warwick and UCL. Safety control and countermeasures are built into the design of today's LiB systems, but this adds complexity, cost and weight.

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APRIL 15, 2016

In collaboration with the aviation industry, the FAA approves new renewable jet fuel pathways through ASTM International. The FAA’s Continuous Lower Energy, Emissions and Noise (CLEEN) partnership with industry was crucial in completing the necessary steps to support ASTM International approval of this new fuel.

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DECEMBER 30, 2016

The LanzaTech facility will recycle industrial waste gases from steel manufacturing to produce a low cost ethanol intermediate: “Lanzanol.” LanzaTech captures the waste gas from refineries and manufacturing plants and feeds the CO-rich gas to microbes that consume the gas and produce ethanol. Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

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OCTOBER 22, 2014

of China (COMAC) opened a demonstration facility that will turn waste cooking oil, commonly referred to as “gutter oil” in China, into sustainable aviation biofuel. It will use a technology developed by Hangzhou Energy & Engineering Technology Co., Boeing and Commercial Aircraft Corp.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

The pair has received $850,000 in grants to support the fabrication and testing of a prototype of the K6 engine; Shedd says he expects to have a prototype running by late fall or early winter. The engine incorporates a modified Brayton cycle ( earlier post ) into a continuous combustion engine system. —Timothy Shedd.

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JULY 8, 2010

Chemical engineers at Purdue University have developed a new method to process agricultural waste and other biomass into biofuels— fast-hydropyrolysis-hydrodeoxygenation, called the H2Bioil process ( earlier post )—and are proposing the creation of mobile processing plants that would rove the Midwest to produce the fuels.

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JANUARY 27, 2023

This project will demonstrate the conversion of gaseous carbon wood wastes (terpenes) to renewable Terpenes SAF blending components. MicroBio Engineering Inc., RTI International and partners at POET Research, Inc. Captis Aire LLC, “Renewable Blending Components to Enable 100% Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF)”, $2,000,000.

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JUNE 21, 2023

The company aims to enhance internal capabilities for battery development, diversify external collaboration and develop next-generation batteries. In addition, the company is expanding external collaborations with specialized companies, startups and universities. trillion (US$7.4 billion) over the next 10 years.

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APRIL 24, 2010

In recent years two methods, namely downsizing and downspeeding, were established on the market to reduce CO 2 emissions while maintaining the driving performance of engines with identical effective power but a larger displacement. Active-WG control is used for improvements at all engine speeds (< 5500 rpm). < IMEP < 22.5

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AUGUST 14, 2021

Javelina controls approximately sixty million cubic feet per day (MMcf/d) of hydrogen production through a combination of hydrogen entrained in the refineries’ waste gas that the facility processes, and hydrogen produced through a steam methane reformer process.

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MARCH 14, 2009

H2BVplus hydrogen combustion engine. monovalent) hydrogen combustion engine with diesel-like geometry and progressive H 2 high-pressure direct-injection technology. The result is an efficiency level of up to 42%, on par with that of the best turbodiesel engines. Current hydrogen combustion engines are spark-ignited.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Ricardo will host a conference on the challenges and potential solutions for auxiliary power units (APUs), waste energy recovery, and parasitic loss reduction in electric and other low carbon vehicles. The conference will conclude with a comparison of range extended electric vehicles to other low carbon powertrain architectures.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2014

Researchers at the University of California, Davis have developed a process for the production of branched C 7 –C 10 hydrocarbons in the gasoline volatility range from biomass-derived levulinic acid with good yield, operating under relatively mild conditions, with short reaction times. Source: Mascal et al. Click to enlarge. gallons US).

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

Professional drivers working in congested cities are exposed to black carbon levels that are on average a third higher than would be experienced at a busy roadside, according to research presented at the European Respiratory Society International Congress. We know quite a lot about the dangers of exposure to traffic pollution.

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MAY 28, 2015

Of these, 16 are vehicle-related, encompassing projects developing batteries, power electronics and improved combustion engine technology including on-board reformers, and two are specifically hydrogen fuel cell-related. Mainstream Engineering Corporation. Earlier post.) 149,871.44. 148,393.82. American Lithium Energy Corporation.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Under the first FOA (DE-FOA-0002187), Capture Research and Development (R&D): Engineering Scale Testing from Coal- and Natural-Gas-Based Flue Gas and Initial Engineering Design for Industrial Sources, DOE selected nine projects to receive $51 million for cost-shared R&D. LH CO 2 MENT Colorado Project.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, have identified two main challenges for renewable biofuel production from cheap sources: lowering the cost of developing microbial cell factories; and establishing more efficient methods for hydrolysis of biomass to sugars for fermentation.

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DECEMBER 11, 2015

Researchers at Washington State University (WSU) Tri-Cities have developed a catalytic process to convert corn stover lignin into hydrocarbons (C 7 –C 18 )—primarily C 12 –C 18 cyclic structure hydrocarbons in the jet fuel range. The work is featured on. the cover of the December issue of the RSC journal Green Chemistry.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2016

The GM team draws on experience in engine technologies and connected and autonomous vehicles to expedite the project development process. The GM team draws on experience in engine technologies and connected and autonomous vehicles to expedite the project development process. Michigan Technological University.

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JANUARY 20, 2024

At a July meeting of the International Maritime Organization , the U.N. Vard Group is part of NuProShip , a consortium of the Norwegian maritime authority, universities, shipbuilders, and shipping companies that aims to develop a Generation IV reactor for marine vessels. The industry now faces serious pressure to pick up the pace.

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DECEMBER 18, 2015

The Port of Seattle, Alaska Airlines and Boeing are partnering to move toward powering all flights by all airlines at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport with sustainable aviation biofuel. Sea-Tac is the 13 th busiest airport in the US and will serve more than 42 million domestic and international passengers this year.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2010

The Energy & Environmental Research Center (EERC) at the University of North Dakota, in partnership with Cummins Power Generation, Inc., That variation can affect the performance and, ultimately, impact stack emissions when used in a typical internal combustion generator. The project aims at demonstrating this fact.

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