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NASA selects four university teams for aviation projects; eliminating emissions and autonomy research

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The team will explore using liquid ammonia as fuel for a jet engine and generating electricity from the engine’s exhaust heat, reducing emissions, and saving on fuel. Team members include Georgia Tech, Purdue University, Boeing, GE Research, ANSYS, Southwest Research Institute, and the Greater Orlando Aviation Authority.

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DOE awards $17M to FY 2014 SBIR Phase II projects; includes Si/graphene anodes, motor windings, exhaust treatments

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Hybrid Electric Turbocharger for Exhaust Energy Recovery and Transient Lag Reduction. NexTech Materials of Lewis Center, Ohio, has developed a new diesel engine exhaust NO x sensing technology that is able to rapidly and selectively measure nitrogen oxides in diesel engine exhaust streams. Lead organization. Description.

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Georgia Tech team furthers four-stroke-cycle active-membrane piston reactor for enhanced SMR for H2 production

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The reactor utilizes four strokes per cycle: (a) retracting piston to fill the reactor, (b) extending piston to produce H 2 via SMR at constant pressure and then opening valve to exhaust products, (c) retracting piston to desorb CO 2 , and (d) extending piston to desorb and produce a purified CO 2 as the final product. Click to enlarge.

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Used Car of the Day: 1982 Toyota Supra MKII

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It needs paint, exhaust, an interior restoration, and new flooring in the spare-tire well. If you have time on your hands and a love for old Toyotas, check out this Georgia-based car here. Apparently, the car starts and runs, but not for long. Most of the brake parts seem to be new. Images: Seller] Become a TTAC insider.

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DOE announces $11.5M in Phase 1 funding for carbon capture and storage program; ARPA-E FLECCS

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Enhancing Responsiveness of Gas Turbine Generators through Retrofitting with Exhaust Gas Recycle and a Phase-Change CO 2 Capture Process - $1,178,453. Georgia Institute of Technology. Positive Power with Negative Emissions: Flexible NGCC Enabled by Modular Direct Air Capture - $1,009,210.

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Study: Catalytic Converter Thefts Are Slowly Declining

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regulators seemed absolutely committed to ruining vehicles via the Clean Air Act, catalytic converters would become mandatory hardware on all exhaust systems by 1975. Most of these just wrap the exhaust system in reinforced steel cables that would be difficult to run a Sawzall through. Implemented during the Malaise Era, when the U.S.

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Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems introduces 63% efficient, 540MW JAC gas turbine; -70% CO2 compared to older coal-fired plants

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The JAC maintains the long-standing features of a compressor shaft end drive, two-bearing rotor structure, axial flow exhaust, bolt-connected discs with torque pins on the compressor rotor and the CURVIC couplings on the turbine rotor discs. The MHPS JAC offers plant operators enhanced flexibility through the use of air cooling technology.

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