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Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 3, 2018
Researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have mixed metal compounds with perchloric acid to create a stable, efficient electrocatalytic material for the oxygen evolution reaction in acidic media. Electrolyzers use electricity to break water molecules into oxygen and hydrogen. —Jaemin Kim.
Green Car Congress
JULY 14, 2022
The United States depends on other countries for nearly all its lithium supply and mining the mineral strains water resources and can harm the environment. The finalists are: George Washington University – Team Ellexco: “Chemical-Free Extraction of Lithium from Brines”.
Green Car Congress
JANUARY 8, 2021
Maize and other annual crops are easier to manage with traditional farming, but they are tougher on the environment. The researchers conducted ecosystem-scale comparisons of carbon, nitrogen, water, and energy fluxes of Sorghum bicolor with maize and Miscanthus x. Energy sorghum falls somewhere in between.
Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 10, 2017
Building on earlier research using the model grass, green foxtail ( Setaria viridis ), this project will identify new genes and pathways that contribute to photosynthesis and enhanced water use efficiency. It is among the most efficient crops in conversion of solar energy and use of water, making it an ideal crop to target for improvement.
Green Car Congress
MAY 14, 2010
The US Department of Energy has selected 7 projects to participate in the University Coal Research (UCR) program. Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Ill. University of California, Merced, Calif. Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pa. University of Missouri, Kansas City, Mo. DOE award: $298,191).
Green Car Congress
FEBRUARY 16, 2018
The design of the large pilot plant will incorporate an advanced combustion design and control features that have been verified through performance testing on the sub-pilot unit at Ohio State University and further testing on the small-scale pilot at Babcock & Wilcox. University of Illinois. University of Alaska Fairbanks.
Cars That Think
JUNE 28, 2023
That was the case for Melba Crawford , who as a teenager couldn’t wait to leave her family’s farm in Illinois to pursue an engineering career. CRAWFORD EMPLOYER Purdue University, West Lafayette, Ind. You study many areas in civil engineering, including structures, soils, transportation, and the environment,” she says.
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