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MAY 2, 2022

Accompanying the lower noise levels from bus traffic was a reduction of fatigue, day time sleepiness and low mood, a study at the University of Gothenburg shows. Previous noise-level measurements had indicated that disturbance from low-frequency noise in indoor environments was present in the residential area.

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JUNE 9, 2023

Their groundbreaking research, conducted at the University of Utah , in Salt Lake City, and at their company, Evans and Sutherland , helped jump-start the computer graphics industry. A ceremony was held at the university on 24 March to recognize the computer graphics and visualization techniques with an IEEE Milestone.

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MARCH 13, 2019

In a coordinated effort to accommodate the ever-increasing demand for the transportation of goods while also reducing its impact on society, Volvo Group collaborated closely with several key California stakeholders to demonstrate Eco-Drive technology as part of its involvement in the Zero Emission Drayage Truck Demonstration Project.

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DECEMBER 3, 2018

The BMW Group is increasingly relying on innovations from the fields of digitalization and Industry 4.0 Innovations coming out of many pilot projects are being implemented worldwide in logistics at BMW Group plants. —Jürgen Maidl, head of Logistics for the BMW Group production network. in production logistics.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2014

PhD students from the Volkswagen Passenger Cars, ŠKODA, Audi, Porsche, MAN and Scania brands as well as from Volkswagen Group China presented their doctoral theses on topics from twelve different specialist departments. The spectrum ranges from technical development, production and human resources to sales and marketing. Volkswagen.

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MARCH 29, 2023

A study by researchers at the University of Birmingham in the UK has found that while Diesel Oxidation Catalysts (DOCs) and Diesel Particle Filters (DPFs) has been very effective in controlling the tailpipe emissions of solid particles, there has been little change in the liquid mode ( 104 cm −3 /24-hour mean) defined by WHO. 2023.107888

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OCTOBER 13, 2012

The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is forming a Center of Excellence for Environment and Energy during FY-2013. The COE will be a consortium of the FAA, university partners, and private industry affiliates selected by the FAA Administrator to work collectively on business and operational issues of mutual interest and concern.

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JULY 2, 2020

Project ASLAN is a new international not-for-profit collaboration between commercial enterprise, leading technology universities, transport authorities and self-driving hardware and software engineers. Vu, Professor, Intelligent Transport Systems at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia.

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MARCH 15, 2016

Credit: International Institute for Carbon-Neutral Energy Research (I²CNER), Kyushu University. By wrapping the support in the polybenzimidazole polymer we successfully developed with platinum, we created a much better support environment for the gold nanoparticles. Click to enlarge.

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OCTOBER 27, 2016

At the Volkswagen Group’s PhD Event 2016, some 600 specialist visitors informed themselves about current research work. The Volkswagen Group currently supports 404 young men and women working for their doctorate, cooperating with universities and research institutions throughout the world. In the field of Industry 4.0,

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MARCH 6, 2022

Small particles from tires inhibit the growth and cause adverse behavioral changes in organisms found in freshwater and coastal estuary ecosystems, according to two new Oregon State University studies. about 30% of its tread erodes and enters the environment. Resources. They also cite a recent study that estimated more than 1.5

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JUNE 4, 2023

The collaboration is further supported by a strong research consortium including Safran Tech (the Research & Technology Center of Safran Group), the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission, Fraunhofer Institute, the French National Centre for Scientific Research, the University of Strasbourg, and the IMDEA Energy Institute.

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AUGUST 21, 2020

In this study, we created an environment that mimicked a polluted day in New Delhi or Beijing. Dr. Rajagopalan is Chief of Cardiovascular Medicine at University Hospitals Harrington Heart and Vascular Institute, and Director of the Case Western Reserve University Cardiovascular Research Institute. Rajagopalan. Rajagopalan, S.,

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

The researchers report the new research in the Optica Publishing Group journal Applied Optics. Image Credit: Gordon Humphries, University of Strathclyde. Image Credit: Abhishek Upadhyay, University of Strathclyde. Resources. The testing facility is at the Instituto Nacional de Técnica Aeroespacial (INTA) in Madrid.

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AUGUST 29, 2022

A new University of Michigan study finds that making the switch to all-electric mail-delivery vehicles would lead to far greater reductions in greenhouse gas emissions than previously estimated by the US Postal Service (USPS). Earlier post.). The agency later pledged to electrify at least 40% of its new delivery fleet. Craig, and Gregory A.

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MARCH 20, 2013

With an annual fuel bill of US$7 billion for vessel operations, the Mærsk Group continually considers ways to reduce its bunker fuel consumption. Mærsk Group is currently involved in two projects focused on realizing the marine fuel potential of one of the world’s most abundant and sustainable biomass resources: lignin.

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DECEMBER 21, 2022

Rice University scientists led by chemist James Tour have used an ultrafast flash recycling method to regenerate the graphite anode from spent Li-ion batteries and recover valuable battery metal resources. Courtesy of the Tour Group. Tour is the T.T. Salvatierra, R. Kittrell, C., Beckham, J. Advincula, P. Scotland, P.,

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MAY 2, 2013

The Western University researchers found that the graphene with different thickness and morphology has a significant impact on the performance of LiFePO 4. Energy Environ. Image depicts the LiFePO 4 particles anchored to the crimped unfolded graphene. Source: Jinli Yang. Click to enlarge. Xueliang (Andy) Sun.

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JANUARY 1, 2023

In an open-access paper in the journal Energy & Fuels, a team from VTT Technical Research Center of Finland, with colleagues from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) and Ghent University, provides an overview of co-processing options for such bio-liquids. The biocrude is more viscous but less dense than FPBO. —Lindfors et al.

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OCTOBER 20, 2022

American Battery Technology Company , Large-Scale Demonstration of Domestic Manufacturing of Low-Cost and Low- Environmental Impact Battery-Grade Lithium Hydroxide from Unconventional Domestic Sedimentary Resources, $57,744,831. Most of the world’s lithium resources are found in naturally occurring salt solutions, known as brines.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2022

University of Delaware engineers have demonstrated an effective way to capture 99% of carbon dioxide from the ambient air feed to an hydroxide exchange membrane fuel cell (HEMFC) air using a novel electrochemical system powered by hydrogen. Source: University of Delaware.

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APRIL 21, 2022

The group is joined by a non-financial investor UniTartu Ventures, an investment company of the University of Tartu, which transfers the IP rights for equity. This has a major negative impact on the environment as they are either mined or synthesized from energy-dense fossil resources.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2011

Researchers at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) are developing a small-scale demonstration reactor that will process 40 tons of wood waste per year from the university into replacements for diesel fuel and gasoline. This will be offered at the university pump in a 10:90 mixture with gasoline. Click to enlarge.

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JUNE 21, 2023

Hyundai’s first dedicated EV factory, the Hyundai Motor Group Metaplant America (HMGMA) in Georgia, is under construction with a targeted start-up date in the second half of 2024, with an annual production capacity of 300,000 vehicles to meet the demand for EVs in North America.

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APRIL 3, 2022

Chiyoda Corporation, which is headquartered in Japan, will serve as NTU’s key partner in the project, and will offer technical contribution based on their proprietary dehydrogenation catalyst technology, SPERA Hydrogen ( earlier post ), to the University to be developed and implemented on a national scale.

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AUGUST 23, 2021

Researchers at Monash University in Australia have conducted a lifecycle analysis and net energy analysis (LCA/NEA) of a hypothetical large-scale solar-electrolysis plant for the production of green hydrogen. For hydrogen, the platinum group metals used in PEM electrolysers and fuel cells are critical. —Palmer et al.

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APRIL 4, 2023

In New Zealand, the Ministry for the Environment and the New Zealand Automobile Associatio n are working together to ensure that old EV batteries are handled in an environmentally responsible way. If you want to learn more about whether EV’s are good for the environment, check out our previous resource here.

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APRIL 19, 2010

A major new suite of laboratories, to be opened next week, will help scientists in the Green Chemistry group at the University of York (UK) to advance research into clean synthesis, catalysis, novel materials and the application of renewable resources. The partnership secured £19.7 million (US$30.1

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DECEMBER 10, 2022

The four-year project will leverage Virginia Tech’s research and cross-discipline expertise on engine operation, instrumentation, and geosciences as well as the current research relationships that both Pratt & Whitney and Rolls-Royce have with the university. Ellis et al. Ellis, Matthew, Nicholas Bojdo, Antonio Filippone, and Rory Clarkson.

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JANUARY 18, 2019

Although there is increasing interest in the influence of the environment on sleep, there is limited research evaluating the relationship between sleep and air pollution. Martha Billings, lead study author and associate professor of medicine at the University of Washington. —Billings et al. —Billings et al.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2020

The paper is published in the journal Environment International. Little is known about the toxicity of these organophosphate esters—TDCIPP is one of them—but they’ve replaced older flame-retardant chemicals that lasted longer in the environment and took longer to metabolize. —David Volz. Hammel, Heather M.

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JULY 19, 2015

To overcome the challenge of soluble polysulfides as charge/discharge intermediates in Li-S batteries, researchers at the University of Texas at Austin, with colleagues at Murray State University, have designed highly crosslinked polymer-electrolyte coating layers with electron-donating groups to bind the polysulfides.

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MAY 21, 2020

It quickly became clear that 11 million vehicles of the VW group were affected worldwide. In many countries, the EA 189 engines manufactured by the VW group had to be retrofitted with software or hardware updates. Company boss Martin Winterkorn resigned. Expensive lawsuits followed. liter diesel engine also had 55% higher NO x values.

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JUNE 30, 2012

Robert Blanchette, University of Minnesota) Click to enlarge. —Clark University biologist David Hibbett, senior author. Hibbert said that his group is interested in trying to reconstruct that ancestral white rot fungal genome. Scanning electron micrograph of wood being decayed by the white rot fungus. —David Hibbett.

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JANUARY 29, 2021

A team of researchers led by Zhifeng Ren, director of the Texas Center for Superconductivity at the University of Houston, has developed an oxygen-evolving catalyst that takes just minutes to grow at room temperature on commercially available nickel foam. —Yu et al. If the cost is prohibitive, it will not make it to market.

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JULY 20, 2018

Researchers at Linköping University and Umeå University in Sweden have developed a new and efficient way to use electrocatalysis to produce hydrogen gas from water using electrodes with nanotruss structures of iron oxide. The environment in an electrolyte can be very rough-and-tumble. Photo credit: Robert Boyd and Thor Balkhed.

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MAY 26, 2010

The introduction of electric vehicles on a large scale in the UK can only have a beneficial effect on CO 2 emissions if low-carbon electricity, universal broadband provision and smart grids are in place to support the transition, according to a new report published by the UK Royal Academy of Engineering. Dr Chris Brace, Bath University.

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