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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. But during her time as a freshman at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign, the aerospace industry went through a period of mass layoffs.

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Production Columbus Illinois Universal 76

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JUNE 4, 2018

These plants are all conventional light water reactors (LWR), the technology of which has evolved steadily over time. This saves time and allows quality control to be conducted in a standardized, efficient environment, creating significant opportunities for reducing construction time and capital cost.

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Molten Salt Power Powered Illinois 284

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JULY 17, 2014

Patrick Brown, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Genomics of Energy’s Water Use Efficiency / Drought Resilience Goal: Increase the water use efficiency, drought resilience, and yield of high biomass energy Sorghum and other C4 bioenergy grasses. Erik Sacks, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Description.

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Universal Illinois Water Minneapolis 239

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JULY 18, 2012

The five projects—located in California, Illinois, and Connecticut—will track the performance and technical progress of innovative refueling systems at planned or existing hydrogen fueling stations to find ways to lower costs and improve operation. The US Department of Energy (DOE) is awarding $2.4 DOE Award: $400,000).

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Hydrogen Los Angeles Connecticut Illinois 252

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MARCH 31, 2013

Approximately 4,500 barrels of oil and water (189,000 gallons US) have been recovered. The Pegasus pipeline is a 20-inch (51 cm), 858-mile (1,381-kilometer) link from the Patoka Oil Terminal Hub in Illinois to Nederland, Texas. It carries 90,000 barrels of oil per day, almost exclusively Western Canadian crude oil.

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Arkansas Oil Montana Wyoming 363

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JANUARY 10, 2011

Using detailed land analysis, University of Illinois researchers have found that biofuel crops cultivated on available land could produce between 26-55% of the world’s current fuel consumption without affecting the use of land with regular productivity for conventional crops and without affecting the current pasture land. Click to enlarge.

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Fuel South America Africa Illinois 231

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AUGUST 2, 2011

These projects include: GE Global Research (Niskayuna, NY) - NORM Mitigation and Clean Water Recovery from Marcellus Frac Water. The process will also yield clean water than can be recycled for beneficial use, and marketable salt byproducts. The total value of the shale-related projects is more than $17.0

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Oil Gas Oil-Sands Illinois 225

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AUGUST 23, 2011

Early this year, CRI acquired exclusive global sublicensing rights for the IH 2 technology from Illinois-based Gas Technology Institute (GTI) where the technology was developed. Earlier post.) CRI Catalyst Company is part of CRI/Criterion Inc., the global catalyst technology company of the Shell Group.

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Renewable Companies Fuel New Zealand 210

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APRIL 1, 2009

More than two dozen scientists from the University of California at Berkeley, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign will participate in the investigations. This includes water and rock geochemistry and hydrocarbon composition and will chart the geologic thermal burial history of each sample.

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Energy Oil Illinois 2007 186

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JULY 5, 2011

Many industrial processes employ natural enzymes, some of them isolated from organisms that live in extreme environments, such as hot springs. Hence the need to look in extreme environments for better enzymes. However, many of these enzymes are not optimized for industrial processes. Graham, Melinda E. Clark, Dana C.

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Production Maryland Nevada Environment 199

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FEBRUARY 17, 2016

During pretreatment, acid, water, and heat work to remove non-cellulosic biomass from plant material. To model this crowded environment accurately, Smith’s team used experimental data to create a representative sample of pretreated biomass and enzymes. Researchers used experimental data to create a 23.7-million Click to enlarge.

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Water Polymer Insight 2016 150

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DECEMBER 23, 2009

TJ Lambrecht, headquartered in Joliet, Illinois, is one of the most recognized heavy, civil, and earthmoving contractors in the country, with one of the largest and most current fleets of Caterpillar equipment. Our customers are being challenged to do their work more efficiently with less impact on the environment. Caterpillar Inc.

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Electric Electrical Illinois Water 199

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MARCH 20, 2015

Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment is retrofitting 36 school buses with technologies to cut soot and reduce idling. Franklin Soil & Water Conservation District is replacing three school buses and four agriculture engines and converting three irrigation pumps to clean burning electric.

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Puerto Rico EPA Clean Cleaning 150

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MAY 14, 2010

Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Ill. to develop micro-scale, chemical sensors and sensor arrays composed of nano-derived, metal-oxide composite materials to detect gases such as hydrogen and hydrogen sulfide within high-temperature environments (>500 °C).

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Coal Universal West Virginia Kansas City 210

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

Nitrogen and phosphorus from agricultural fertilizer have been found to promote excess growth of algae in water bodies—a problem that’s common across North America and in many areas of the world. In some cases, decomposition of algae consumes much of the oxygen in the water. Christine Costello, W. Michael Griffin, Amy E. Landis and H.

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Mississippi Mexico 2007 Wisconsin 255

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JUNE 26, 2021

Hot Shot Coanda-Stabilized Free Stream Gas Atomization (Hot CoSA) of Powders of Refractory Multi-Principle Element Alloys (RMPEA) for Extreme Environments, $250,000. Northern Illinois University (DeKalb, Illinois). Electric Grid OT Cybersecurity Dashboard for Control Room Environments, $600,000. Lynchburg, Virginia).

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Commercial Energy Albuquerque New York 170

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

Illinois Department of Transportation on behalf of seven transit agencies, Illinois: $4,030,000. Chicago Transit Authority, Illinois: $1,500,000. Rock Island Metro, Illinois: $600,000. Champaign-Urbana Mass Transit District – CUMTD, Illinois: $450,000. This is a solar thermal project not based on PV-based solar.

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Emissions Gas Energy Maintenance 256

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AUGUST 25, 2009

Successful technologies will significantly increase the confidence that CO 2 placed in geologic formations is being accurately tracked and remains permanently stored, thus protecting human health and the environment. Columbia University , New York, N.Y. DOE share: $1,177,957; recipient share: $320,900; duration: 48 months). Risk Assessment.

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CO2 Coal Austin Store 225

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OCTOBER 29, 2020

Plastic waste could also be added to the fuel mix, mitigating plastics waste in the environment. Gasification of coal and biomass with CCUS can be a large-scale source of carbon-negative hydrogen. Gasification of Coal and Biomass: The Route to Net-Negative-Carbon Power and Hydrogen – Electric Power Research Institute, Inc.

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Coal Carbon Hydrogen Nebraska 186

Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 26, 2022

Here is a small sampling of what transistors have become in the last 75 years: Ephemeral: Researchers in Illinois developed circuits that dissolve in the body using a combination of ultrathin silicon membranes, magnesium conductors, and magnesium oxide insulators. Five minutes in water was enough to turn the first generation to mush.

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South Korea Illinois Store Malaysia 136

Cars That Think

APRIL 15, 2023

We lost our rudder.and we’re taking on water fast.” which is located at the end of a peninsula, and boarded a lobster boat, motoring out into water so shockingly cold it can induce lethal hypothermia in as little as 30 minutes. This map shows maritime details about the waters around Spruce Head Island, Maine U.S. At 6:36 a.m.,

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Personal Los Angeles Illinois Legal 102

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NOVEMBER 8, 2012

Previously code-named “Cascade,” the Cray XC30 supercomputer combines the new Aries interconnect, Intel Xeon processors, Cray’s fully-integrated software environment, and innovative power and cooling technologies to create a production supercomputer that is designed to scale high performance computing (HPC) workloads of more than 100 petaflops.

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Universal Environment Available Switzerland 225

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DECEMBER 12, 2013

Overall, the USDA and DOE projects are designed to improve biomass—including selected trees and grasses—to be grown for biofuels by increasing their yield, quality and ability to adapt to extreme environments. Ray Ming, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. DOE-BER funded project. DOE-BER funded project.

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Universal 2006 North Carolina Oregon 244

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JUNE 19, 2015

The program will encourage systems that couple large-scale physical and genetic characterization with advanced algorithms in order to accelerate the year-over-year yield gains of traditional plant breeding and the discovery of crop traits that improve water productivity, nutrient use and our ability to mitigate greenhouse gases.

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Transportation Energy West Virginia Engine 150

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FEBRUARY 26, 2023

Microsoft Flight Simulator: A History youtube.com A passion for flight Bruce Artwick studied electrical engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, yet he found time to pursue a dream many teenagers think about but few fulfill: He learned to fly. In 1993, Microsoft Flight Simulator 5.0 Textures offered new details.

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Building Seattle 2000 Peru 141

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OCTOBER 26, 2009

Water (1 project). Recent academic research has created synthetic analogue molecules for elucidation of CA enzyme mechanisms which are more robust in harsh environments. Affordable Energy from Water and Sunlight. Towards Scale Solar Conversion of CO 2 and Water Vapor to Hydrocarbon Fuels. Direct Solar Fuels (5 projects).

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APRIL 21, 2009

Illinois Institute of Technology with City of Chicago, MicroSun Technologies and Commonwealth Edison, Ford Escape Hybrid by All Cell Technologies (March 2007), Chicago, IL, contact: kcampbell@cityofchicago.org , alhallaj@iit.edu , sveupet@gmail.com. Burbank Water and Power 2007 Prius by Energy CS, May 2007, (Burbank, CA). Jim Tech Ltd.

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Prius Conversion Plug-in Plug 48

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APRIL 10, 2010

states (Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin) and one Canadian province (Manitoba). Field-to-Pump” maximizes rural development and job creation while minimizing feedstock supply risk, the burden on local water supplies, and the amount of energy necessary to process sugar into fuel ethanol. Another three U.S.

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