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JUNE 3, 2014

A team led by Dr. Janet Westpheling at the University of Georgia has engineered the thermophilic, anaerobic, cellulolytic bacterium Caldicellulosiruptor bescii , which in the wild efficiently uses un-pretreated biomass—to produce ethanol from biomass without pre-treatment of the feedstock. Earlier post.). Whereas wild-type C.

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MARCH 11, 2017

The lab’s expertise and unique facilities in materials science, metallurgy and advanced manufacturing attracted the attention of HTS’s leadership during a 2015 visit to Tennessee. The iTherm design process incorporates data from simulations to engineer cooling solutions. —HTS CEO William Sames.

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OCTOBER 28, 2021

Volkswagen Group of America’s Innovation Hub Knoxville, the company’s technology unit for applied materials science, has expanded its research collaboration with Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and the University of Tennessee, Knoxville (UT). We aim to leverage the unique knowledge and innovative power the Tennessee Valley holds.

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OCTOBER 27, 2014

We can now control local material properties, which will change the future of how we engineer metallic components. Applications from microelectronics to high-temperature jet engine components rely on tailoring of crystallographic texture to achieve desired performance characteristics. Ryan Dehoff et al.

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APRIL 15, 2011

At the SAE 2011 World Congress in Detroit, Michigan, US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Assistant Secretary for Policy and International Affairs, David Sandalow, announced the official launch of the EcoCAR 2 : Plugging into the Future competition and the sixteen university teams selected to participate.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2020

Approximately 6 billion gallons of fuel are wasted in the US each year as vehicles wait at stop lights or sit in dense traffic with engines idling, according to US Department of Energy estimates. Such camera systems do exist—including one produced by GRIDSMART , a company located just a few miles from the ORNL campus in East Tennessee.

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JANUARY 30, 2010

Leaders from DuPont Danisco Cellulosic Ethanol (DDCE), University of Tennessee and Genera Energy cut the ribbon on a cellulosic ethanol demonstration facility in Vonore, Tenn. An innovative ethanologen based on DuPont Zymomonas technology delivers high performance sugars co-fermentation for optimal process and yields.

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AUGUST 18, 2011

Wisconsin Engine Research Consultants (WERC, LLC) last week was awarded $1.5 million by the US Department of Energy’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy as one of 40 projects to target new innovations and accelerate the development of the next generation of fuel-efficient vehicles. for the heavy-duty engine tests.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2015

Metabolix in collaboration with North Carolina State University. Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in collaboration with MicroBio Engineering. The Ohio State University in collaboration with the University of Alabama and Green Biologics. Kiverdi in collaboration with the National Renewable Energy Laboratory.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2009

Selected projects are aimed at increasing the availability of alternative fuels and biobased products that are produced from a diverse group of renewable sources of biomass. The technology uses unique, engineered catalysts that facilitate new reaction pathways to liquid motor fuels from biomass. University of Minnesota (St.

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JUNE 21, 2016

Texas A&M University will lead the Gulf Coast center—a region anchored in the chemical, oil and gas sectors—and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) will lead the Northeast center, where glass, ceramic and microelectronic manufacturing has a strong presence. LanzaTech; Materia; SEVA; TowerJazz; Small: Able Industrial Products Inc.;

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MAY 26, 2010

Chemists at Brown University have synthesized novel core and shell palladium/iron-platinum (Pd/FePt) nanoparticles that use far less platinum yet perform more efficiently and last longer than commercially available pure-platinum catalysts for the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) in hydrogen fuel cells.

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AUGUST 30, 2016

The agreement will make Oak Ridge-based LeMond Composites the first company to offer carbon fiber produced by the process to the transportation, renewable energy, and infrastructure markets. Earlier post.) As a result of the affordability of this carbon fiber we believe that world-wide mass adoption will be inevitable.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

The winds had barely died down when electric-power specialists and others began calling for a radical overhaul of Puerto Rico’s electricity networks, one that would emphasize renewable energy, distributed generation, and, critically, microgrids. To that end, engineers at the U.S. percent to 2.8 megawatts to 224.6

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JULY 1, 2021

A paper on the work is published in the journal Metabolic Engineering. of Energy; John Dunlap, University of Tennessee. Michener (2021) “Pathway discovery and engineering for cleavage of a ?-1 1 lignin-derived biaryl compound,” Metabolic Engineering , Volume 65, Pages 1-10 doi: 10.1016/j.ymben.2021.02.003.

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JUNE 26, 2021

Northern Illinois University (DeKalb, Illinois). Wireless Radio Frequency Signal Identification and Protocol Reverse Engineering (WiFIRE), $750,000. DME as a Renewable Hydrogen Carrier: Innovative Approach to Renewable Hydrogen Production, $1,500,000. National Renewable Energy Laboratory. Framatome Inc.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

The projects selected are located in 25 states, with 50% of projects led by universities, 23% by small businesses, 12% by large businesses, 13% by national labs, and 2% by non-profits. The technology areas ( earlier post ) receiving funding are: PETRO: Plants Engineered To Replace Oil ($36 million). Camelina will be engineered with.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2012

The projects are based in 24 states, with approximately 47% of the projects led by universities; 29% by small businesses; 15% by large businesses; 7.5% University. Researchers from Colorado State University will develop a system. cannot be engineered. University. by national labs; and 1.5% by non-profits.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2022

billion to produce F-Series EVs and batteries in Stanton, Tennessee, for example, while GM is spending $2 billion to produce its new Cadillac LYRIQ EVs in Spring Hill, Tennessee. other renewable energy sources and military systems , who are competing for the same materials, have several complications to overcome. Ford and its.

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JANUARY 17, 2023

Knowing how many net jobs the transition to EVs and related renewable energy will create, change or eliminate—and over what time period—is critical to determining the impacts of governmental policies and whether they need revision. Each mine and factory will need hundreds of workers to operate them.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Smartville currently has a pilot project up and running at the University of California San Diego. They have manufacturing space in Tennessee, and they have repurposing programs through their North American headquarters, so we can source, procure and quality-control batteries directly from them. For example, Nissan.

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APRIL 16, 2009

I would say that electricity is a vastly superior fuel for the light vehicle fleet,” said Willett Kempton , a professor and alternative energy specialist at the University of Delaware. “Cities are a perfect for promoting change and renewable energies,&# said Mr. Turmes, the politician. The infrastructure is already there.&#

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