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MAY 22, 2014

Researchers at Michigan State University have developed a microbial electrolysis cell (MEC) which will allow biodiesel plants to eliminate the creation of hazardous wastes while reducing their dependence on fossil fuel. Geobacter removes any waste produced during glycerol fermentation to generate electricity. Click to enlarge.

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AUGUST 7, 2022

Michigan will enable four new mobility services to help address challenges across the state related to sustainable transit, roadway safety, parking and staffing shortages in the service industry. The GEKOT team is working to establish Detroit as the center of engineering excellence in micro-mobility and light electric vehicles.

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OCTOBER 17, 2013

MQL reduces oil mist generation; biological contamination of coolant; waste water volume; costs for capital equipment; and regulatory permitting. Cologne Engine Plant in Germany decreased water use per engine by 50% from 2011 to 2012 by switching to the MQL process. Craiova Engine Plant (Romania). Studies (Faverjon et al.

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AUGUST 20, 2013

A team from the University of Michigan, Michigan State, and UCLA has designed synthetic fungal-bacterial consortia for the direct production of isobutanol from biomass. This has inspired fast-growing interest in engineering synthetic microbial consortia for biotechnology development. You can put everything in one pot.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 7, 2016

A team from the University of Tennessee, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Stanford University, the University of Michigan and Forschungszentrum Jülich Institute of Energy and Climate Research has used neutron total scattering to gain new insights into atomic disordering of complex metal oxides. Shamblin et al.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 21, 2012

The process uses as its feedstock virtually any kind of nonfood biomass material—including wood, cornstalks and cobs, algae, aquatic plants and municipal solid waste—and produces gasoline, jet fuel or diesel fuel. For example, municipal solid waste plants may be smaller, and plants converting wood may be larger. Marker, T.

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DECEMBER 1, 2011

LanzaTech’s proprietary gas fermentation technology enables low cost production of sustainable alcohols and chemicals from waste gas resources that are completely outside the food value chain. The use of lignin opens up a new biomass waste stream for making economic renewable jet fuel. Earlier post.). million for Velocys, Inc.

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MAY 21, 2010

University of Michigan - $931,603. University of Michigan- $406,712. The goal of this research area is to research and develop the next generation of nuclear reactors that will produce more energy and create less waste. University of Michigan - $996,581. University of Michigan - $1,181,379.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

Burns’ talk came one day after Bill Ford’s keynote at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, in which he outlined a plan for connected cars to help avoid a potentially unsustainable future of what he called “ global gridlock—a never-ending traffic jam that wastes time, energy and resources.” ( Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 21, 2016

Process intensification breakthroughs can dramatically shrink the footprint of equipment needed on a crowded factory floor or eliminate waste by using the raw input materials more efficiently. The Smart Manufacturing Innovation Institute is the ninth manufacturing hub awarded by the Obama Administration.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 18, 2009

The hydraulic hybrid improves fuel economy in three ways: recovered braking energy; improved engine efficiency; and its engine-off feature. The hydraulic hybrid is able to recover and reuse about 70% of the energy that otherwise would have been wasted during the braking process. Optimized Engine Control. Source: FCC.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

Using a neutron beam, chemists and engineers at The Ohio State University have been able to track the flow of lithium atoms into and out of an anode in real time as a Li-ion battery charged and discharged. Key to the experiment, said L. This research is supported by the US-China Clean Energy Research Center for Clean Vehicles (CERC-CVC).

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 12, 2010

A range of cellulosic feedstocks used in the demonstration unit, including selected waste agriculture products, pulp, paper, woody biomass, algae and dedicated energy crops like switchgrass and high-biomass sorghum will be provided by Ceres Inc., Imperium Renewables, and Mesa Engineering. Cargill, Grays Harbor Paper Co.,

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 5, 2014

Site preparation and detailed engineering design work is currently underway, and the company expects to start construction before the end of the year. USDA has awarded conditional commitments for other plants in Florida, Iowa, Michigan, North Carolina and Oregon. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

DeCicco of the Energy Institute at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor presents a rigorous first-principles analysis that undermines the common “biofuels recycle carbon” argument. Avoiding CO2 releases that would otherwise occur (use biomass wastes; REDD). Click to enlarge. In reality, it is a net carbon uptake problem.

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Cars That Think

JUNE 4, 2022

One of the first decisions Pake in turn made was to hire, among others, Robert Taylor, then at the University of Utah , to help him recruit engineers and scientists for the Computer Science and Systems Science Laboratories. Ingalls, now a principal engineer at Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, Calif.

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JUNE 14, 2010

Even on land, getting oil from tar sands depletes water and other resources and doubles oil’s carbon footprint. We’ve already decided we’re going to fix already-built houses, offices and factories that waste energy. With Drive Star, we have the motivation, the technology, and the resources to cut our oil use in half in ten years.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 25, 2009

Advanced Resources International , Arlington, Va. Advanced Resources International researchers will develop and test three advanced geochemical and geomechanical modules to increase accuracy of simulating CO 2 behavior in coals and shales, and they will couple these with flow simulation. Battelle Memorial Institute , Columbus, Ohio.

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JUNE 26, 2021

Wireless Radio Frequency Signal Identification and Protocol Reverse Engineering (WiFIRE), $750,000. Unsupervised Physics-informed Machine Learning of Complex Natural and Engineered Geoscience Processes, $250,000. Real Time-Optimal Power Flow based Distributed Energy Resources Management System (DERMS), $299,329. Caltrode, Inc.

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JULY 10, 2012

sulfurreducens removes waste fermentation byproducts that can inhibit ethanol production.) This is because the fermentative bacterium was carefully selected to degrade and ferment agricultural wastes into ethanol efficiently and to produce byproducts that could be metabolized by the electricity-producing bacterium.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 30, 2011

The company’s goal is to commercialize a class of catalysts that enable biodiesel producers to convert cost-effective raw materials such as waste vegetable oil, animal fats and residual corn oil into biodiesel. professor of chemical engineering at WSU; Shuli Yan, Ph.D., professor of chemical engineering at WSU; Shuli Yan, Ph.D.,

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

MAHLE has developed a piston ring with new technology that offers engine manufacturers improvements in weight, quality and overall value. MAHLE’s new “second” piston ring uses chrome-silicon steel to replace cast iron traditionally used for the second of three rings found on gasoline-powered spark-ignition engines.

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JULY 19, 2011

Proof-of-concept demonstrations have been deployed in Michigan and California, but there are to date no widespread deployments. Wi-Fi connections from vehicles to roadside collectors have been used in probe data collection applications in Michigan. If vehicles approaching from. avoiding head-on crashes. Alternative routing.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

The technology areas ( earlier post ) receiving funding are: PETRO: Plants Engineered To Replace Oil ($36 million). Plants Engineered to Replace Oil (PETRO). Energy Plant Design The University of California, Los Angeles, will re-engineer. Camelina will be engineered with. The team will engineer tobacco with traits.

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JULY 22, 2015

at engineering scale—for the first time. Friction and wear dissipate mechanical energy in moving mechanical assemblies, leading to unwanted material loss and wasted energy. However, sustained macroscale superlubricity, particularly at engineering scales, has yet to be demonstrated. —Berman et al. 1262024.

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AUGUST 1, 2013

A team of University of Michigan researchers has been awarded a $2-million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to identify and to test naturally diverse groups of green algae that can be grown together to create a high-yield, environmentally sustainable and cost-effective system to produce next-generation biofuels.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 8, 2009

CBP avoids the need for the costly production of cellulase enzymes by using engineered microorganisms that produce cellulases and ethanol at high yield in a single step. Complete elimination of added cellulase for conversion of waste paper sludge to ethanol. Charles Wyman and Lee Lynd were recipients in 1999 and 2005, respectively.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 19, 2009

Carol Livermore, associate professor of mechanical engineering and her team used an ordered grouping of carbon nanotubes (CNT) as a spring to store elastic energy for later use—much as a steel spring stores energy in a mechanical watch. Resources. Another paper by Livermore, Hill, Havel and A. This is not easy to do.

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APRIL 16, 2009

BYD has also begun selling a plug-in electric car with a backup gasoline engine, a move putting it ahead of GM, Nissan, and Toyota. Deploying the armies of laborers at BYD is an officer corps of managers and engineers who invent and design the products. Wang says the engineers come from Chinas best schools.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 10, 2010

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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