Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 29, 2015

The plant will be located at the site of the retired Sunbury coal-fired power plant near Shamokin Dam in Snyder County, Pennsylvania. The Panda Hummel generating station will also help preserve Pennsylvania’s fresh water resources by using 97% less water for cooling purposes than the retired coal-fired Sunbury plant.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 9, 2017

Advanced Water Splitting Materials. 19 projects will leverage the HydroGEN Consortium to accelerate the development of advanced water-splitting materials for hydrogen production, with an initial focus on advanced electrolytic, photoelectrochemical, and solar thermochemical pathways. Advanced Water Splitting Materials.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 4, 2018

Researchers, led by a team from the University of Pennsylvania, have used a polymer-folding mechanism to develop a new and versatile kind of solid polymer electrolyte (SPE) that currently offers proton conductivity faster than Nafion by a factor of 2, the benchmark for fuel cell membranes. —Trigg et al. The study was led by Karen I.

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Teslarati

JULY 2, 2021

Accounts of the Model S Plaid fire have been shared by an EMT that reportedly responded to the incident, the chief fire officer for the Lower Merion Township Fire Department in Pennsylvania, and the lawyers representing the Model S Plaid owner. . The Tesla Model S Plaid caught fire in Haverford, Pennsylvania on June 29, 2021.

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 27, 2021

The heat can drive steam turbines or engines to generate electricity around the clock. Inside the tower, molten salts are heated to 565 °C and flow down into storage tanks, turning water into steam to drive turbines. The 700-hectare complex has 10,600 mirrors (or "heliostats") that direct sunlight to a 252-meter-tall tower.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 8, 2013

A team of researchers at the Wyss Institute at Harvard University and Harvard’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have designed a new kind of adaptive material with tunable transparency and wettability features. As shown in the diagram, when stretched, the material confers the ability to reversibly “pin” droplets of water.

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 27, 2021

The heat can drive steam turbines or engines to generate electricity around the clock. Inside the tower, molten salts are heated to 565 °C and flow down into storage tanks, turning water into steam to drive turbines. The 700-hectare complex has 10,600 mirrors (or "heliostats") that direct sunlight to a 252-meter-tall tower.

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Molten Salt Solar United Arab Emirates Albuquerque 100

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 12, 2015

water management and treatment for power plant and CO 2 storage operations. TDS is a concentration of minerals dissolved in water which requires treatment before the water can be used for other processes. The project is intended to provide a solution to the water management issues encountered in high-TDS brine treatment.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 21, 2010

Pennsylvania State University - $1,377,444. Pennsylvania State University - $1,000,000. Light Water Reactor Sustainability (2 projects, $764,140). Pennsylvania State University - $870,613. Actual project funding will be established during contract negotiation phase. California State University, Long Beach - $1,390,252.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

A team of researchers at MIT and Pennsylvania State University, which has been working on a new layer-by-layer (LbL) method for producing novel kinds of membranes, has developed a new solid-state polymer electrolyte for use in electrochemical devices such as fuel cells and batteries using that method. Argun et al. Nathan Ashcraft, Marie K.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 22, 2013

million to engineer a low-cost, low-weight battery and to redesign vehicle frames so the battery becomes an integral part of a vehicle’s support structure. The University of Houston (UH) will develop a battery using a novel water-based, lithium-ion chemistry that makes use of sustainable, low-cost, high-energy, organic materials.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 30, 2010

Henry Chair, Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering at the University of Iowa and the Editor of the ACS journal Environmental Science & Technology is calling on Gulf researchers to consider submitting their scientific articles about the oil spill to ES&T. Jerald Schnoor, the Allen S. The high energy tides (15 ft [4.6

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Oil Iowa Alaska Pennsylvania 186

Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2009

The projects include: Pennsylvania State University. For this study, the researchers will combine experiments with chemical kinetic modeling to investigate the effects of diluents (water and CO 2 ) and minor contaminant species (methane, ethane and oxides of nitrogen) on the ignition and combustion of high hydrogen content (HHC) fuels.

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El Paso Coal Pennsylvania Hydrogen 150

Green Car Congress

JULY 18, 2012

million investment in three university-led projects, helping to train and educate the next generation of nuclear energy scientists and engineers. water reactors. efficiency of both light water reactors and. Additionally, the Energy Department announced today a $1.6 Project will develop an understanding of the. Los Alamos.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Powering them with clean energy sources won’t be difficult given China’s plentiful renewable capacity, says Michael Davidson , an engineering-systems and global-policy expert at the University of California, San Diego. Plus, the CO 2 system produces higher-temperature waste heat, which can be used for space heating and hot water.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 2, 2018

SOFC technologies enable efficient, cost-effective electricity generation from abundant domestic coal and natural gas resources, with minimal use of water and near-zero atmospheric emissions of carbon dioxide and pollutants. The US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy (FE) has selected 16 projects to receive approximately $13.5

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

The 27 projects range from concept studies and component design research to prototype development and in-water device testing. Bayer Material Science LLC (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) will analyze an innovative, non-turbine approach to harnessing river currents. DOE Funding: $240,000. Total Project Value: $391,000. DOE Funding: $400,000.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 30, 2010

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 Water will be the primary byproduct.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 26, 2021

Bunting-Dubois (Dubois, Pennsylvania). Westinghouse Electric Company (Cranberry Township, Pennsylvania). 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.

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Blink Charging

OCTOBER 6, 2023

As both EV adoption increases and internal combustion engine vehicles have become more fuel efficient, states are seeking to offset lost revenue from the gas tax. Just as conventional internal combustion engine (ICE) cars measure fuel by the gallon, EV owners measure their energy consumption in kWh. 19.2kW, and DCFC begin at 30kW).

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Block flow diagram illustrating (top) water removal from wet ethanol vapor above the feed tray to produce pure fuel grade ethanol or (bottom) CADO of the same wet ethanol to fungible blendstocks. Vertimass originally licensed the technology from Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in 2014. Earlier post.). HE = heat exchangers. Hannon et al.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 4, 2023

The first robot I built from scratch was SS MAPR , an autonomous boat for water departments to collect multidepth water-quality data. After six months of 80-hour weeks and sleepless nights, SS MAPR was able to finish its maiden voyage with water samples and data collected from the bottom of the Schuylkill River, in Pennsylvania.

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Climate Change Climate Wind Renewable 96

Green Car Congress

MARCH 23, 2019

Enabling turbine operation at significantly higher inlet temperatures substantially increases power generation efficiency and reduces emissions and water consumption. High-Density SSiC 3D-Printed Lattices for Compact HTHP Aero-Engine Recuperators – $1,846,000. Vacuum Process Engineering. Pennsylvania State University.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 10, 2015

million to spur innovation of next-generation water power component technologies, designed for manufacturability and built specifically for marine and hydrokinetic (MHK) systems. The device’s water power capture can then be optimized by actively controlling the timing between the force and velocity on the WEC device.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

Red Rose Transit Authority – RRTA, Pennsylvania: $2,450,000. Diesel Bus Efficiency Improvements with Bus Cooling System Retrofits: Replace the existing hydraulically-powered engine cooling system with a more efficient electrically powered system. Tri-County Metropolitan Transportation District of Oregon, Oregon: $750,000.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 10, 2016

million, and selections include the University of California-Riverside; the University of Montana; Missoula; the North Carolina Biotechnology Center; the State University of New York; and Pennsylvania State University. The USDA is funding five projects for a total of $7.3 The DOE selections are: The Ohio State University (OSU).

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 26, 2009

Water (1 project). Arizona State University scientists will develop engineered-cyanobacteria as biocatalysts to use solar energy and carbon dioxide to produce and secret fatty acids for biofuel feedstock. Affordable Energy from Water and Sunlight. Towards Scale Solar Conversion of CO 2 and Water Vapor to Hydrocarbon Fuels.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

This project represents a significant investment in first-of-a-kind engineering, design certification and licensing for small modular reactors in the United States. The project will be based in Tennessee and will support additional suppliers and operations in Indiana, Maryland, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Virginia.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 12, 2012

This project will develop a Protected Lithium Electrode , a solid electrolyte and a scaled up manufacturing process for high energy density lithium-air, lithium-water and lithium-sulfur batteries. The PolyPlus lithium-water battery has achieved the highest energy density ever recorded at 1,300 Wh/kg. System for Industrial Water Reuse.

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Carbon Fiber Manufacturer Carbon Lithium Sulfur 210

Green Car Congress

MARCH 18, 2015

In an open access paper published in the journal Nature Communications , the researchers reported that a slightly imperfect graphene membrane’s speed and selectivity are much better than that of conventional proton separation membranes, offering engineers a new and simpler mechanism for fuel cell design. —Achtyl et al.

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Puerto Rico Universal Hydrogen Minnesota 150

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 25, 2011

The increase in undiscovered, technically recoverable resource is due to new geologic information and engineering data, as technological developments in producing unconventional resources (e.g., billion barrels of natural gas liquids. the fracking boom) have been significant in the last decade, USGS says. USGS vs. EIA/INTEK estimates.

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2002 Gas West Virginia Oil 210

Cars That Think

APRIL 28, 2022

Networks of nerves can drive tiny muscles to make coordinated motions in ways that are very difficult for engineered systems to match. A recent paper from the Pikul group at the University of Pennsylvania is exploring a much simpler approach to generating soliton waves: dominoes. Biological actuators can be fantastically complex.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

Pennsylvania State University. Pennsylvania State University will develop solid ceramic and composite electrolytes using its recently developed “cold sintering” process. . The membrane’s water-repelling backbone will allow hydroxide ions to pass through extremely small channels while preventing swelling and structural damage.

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