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NOVEMBER 14, 2016

Rolls-Royce and VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd have formed a strategic partnership to design, to test and to validate the first generation of remote and autonomous ships. VTT has the first 5G test network in Finland. Earlier post.). Rolls-Royce is leading the Advanced Autonomous Waterborne Applications Initiative (AAWA).

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NOVEMBER 2, 2017

The enzymes they produce are likely to also have a higher-than-normal resistance to the substances released from biomass in high-temperature industrial processes. These new enzymes will be compared against the Trichoderma reesei enzymes, which are widely used in industrial applications, and enzyme mixtures.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

Thirteen European automobile manufacturers, suppliers, research institutes and universities, and small and mid-sized companies will operate 100 vehicles with 1,000 drivers under real conditions and in a wide range of applications. —Aria Etemad from Volkswagen Group Research, project coordinator L3Pilot.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Umicore has signed a long-term agreement with Finland-based Terrafame Ltd. Dr. Matthias Finkbeiner, Technical University of Berlin, found that the carbon footprint of Terrafame’s nickel sulfate is 1.75 kg CO 2 / kg NiSO 4 , compared to the industry average of 5.4 Earlier post.)

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JULY 16, 2022

The European Commission approved , under EU State aid rules, an Important Project of Common European Interest (IPCEI) to support research and innovation and first industrial deployment in the hydrogen technology value chain. Hydrogen has a huge potential going forward.

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MAY 25, 2018

A new study by a team from Aarhus University in Denmark has found that car dealerships pose a significant barrier to electric vehicle adoption at the point of sale due to a perceived lack of business case viability in relation to gasoline and diesel vehicles. Their study is published in the journal Nature. —de Rubens et al.

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JUNE 21, 2021

At BASF’s manufacturing facilities for primary products of cathode materials in Harjavalta, Finland, and for cathode materials in Schwarzheide, Brandenburg, Germany, BASF will be able to produce battery materials with an industry-leading low carbon footprint from 2022. The battery cell is the combustion chamber of the future.

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2013

Large quantities of waste straw are produced as agricultural residue in Finland and elsewhere, and only a small proportion of this is currently used. The project will study whether a logistically effective and efficient, large-scale straw harvesting chain could be created in Finland. The cells are then harvested and the oil recovered.

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OCTOBER 26, 2012

Neste Oil celebrated the official opening of Europe’s first pilot plant for producing microbial oil from waste and residues at its site in Porvoo, Finland. Microbial oil produced from industrial and agricultural residues such as straw represents one of the most promising future raw materials for NExBTL renewable diesel, the company said.

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MARCH 3, 2009

The research programme aims at generating innovations that can either be implemented as a part of existing industry operations, or which open up entirely new wood-based value chains. This entity taps into a network of national research institutes, universities and enterprises. Forestcluster Ltd. Forestcluster Ltd.

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MAY 9, 2018

A research group from the University of Turku, Finland, has developed a new protocol to deliver sustained hydrogen photoproduction in green algae under a train of strong white light pulses interrupted by longer dark phases. This led to techniques such as sulfur-deprivation to extend hydrogen production.

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JULY 8, 2015

Dawson (Eta Devices, USA): Resonate Award recipient for innovations solving key power challenges in the cellular communications industry. Milliron (University of Texas at Austin, USA): Resonate Award recipient for leveraging nanomaterials to improve the carbon reduction capabilities of smart windows.

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AUGUST 20, 2010

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a $500,000 grant to researchers at NC State University aimed at finding an energy efficient and environmentally friendly method for breaking down lignin into feedstock for the petrochemical industry. Approximately 1.3 It will be a win-win-win situation if we are successful.

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JUNE 1, 2016

In a paper describing the kraft recovery process, Honghi Tran from the University of Toronto and Esa K. Pöyry Forest Industry Oy in Finland, noted that: The magnitude of the recovery process is often not fully appreciated. tons of black liquor dry solids. Vakkilainnen, from. Globally over 1.3 Earlier post.)

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JUNE 21, 2016

Johnson Matthey will work in close collaboration with its industrial and academic partners to bring forward materials and components already showing considerable promise in current FCH JU (Fuel Cell and Hydrogen Joint Undertaking) projects. Technical University of Munich, Technical University of Berlin and the University of Freiburg.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2009

Neste Oil and St1 have begun working together on a fuel project as part of the TransEco development program coordinated by VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland. The oil industry has proposed increasing the biocomponent content of traffic fuels in Finland on a phased basis to 10% by 2015.

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JULY 1, 2018

A study by a team from Washington University School of Medicine in St. This is important because many industry lobbying groups argue that current levels are too stringent and should be relaxed. —Ziyad Al-Aly, MD, the study’s senior author and an assistant professor of medicine at Washington University. million U.S.

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MARCH 18, 2015

A consortium of companies in the European process industry from the areas of biotechnology, renewable resources, chemistry, process engineering, equipment supply as well as research organizations recently launched project PRODIAS (PROcessing Diluted Aqueous Systems). Project website , not yet populated.)

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NOVEMBER 21, 2019

In 2019, BTG-BTL received its first orders for almost identical copies of the Empyro plant for delivery to companies in Sweden and Finland, where sawmill waste such as sawdust will be used for producing pyrolysis oil. In 2019, Empyro was acquired by the waste processing company Twence.

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MARCH 12, 2014

The project is a natural continuation of the consortium’s earlier bio-oil project together with the VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, commercializing integrated pyrolysis technology for production of sustainable bio-oil for replacement of heating oil in industrial use. Biomass Catalysts Fuels'

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JANUARY 18, 2023

It is a daunting question that a startup called Polar Night Energy, in the small and chilly nation of Finland (Figure 1), is attempting to answer. Tampere, an inland Finnish industrial city of nearly 250,000 people, is an ideal testing ground for this new technology.

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MAY 15, 2018

Global Bioenergies will lead a consortium including Sekab, Graanul Invest, Neste Engineering Solutions, Repsol, Peab Asfalt, SkyNRG, Ajinomoto Eurolysine, IPSB, TechnipFMC and Linz University in a 3-year project (called REWOFUEL) to demonstrate the production of isobutene-derived gasoline and jetfuel from wood residuals.

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DECEMBER 1, 2016

CNRS Montpellier, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd., Technical University of Munich, Technical University of Berlin and the University of Freiburg are working on next-generation catalysts, electrodes and membranes. W/cm 2 at 0.6 Project management support is being provided by Pretexo.

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MARCH 12, 2009

Source: Rice University. Researchers from Rice University and the University of Oulu in Oulu, Finland, have found that carbon nanotubes could significantly improve the performance of electrical commutators that are common in electric motors and generators. Carbon nanotube commutator. Click to enlarge.

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JULY 15, 2016

NSF, in partnership with leading wireless industry companies, announced the formation of a collaboration to design, deploy and operate four platforms for advanced wireless research over the next seven years. TIA will also assist with expanding industry awareness of the testing platforms.

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AUGUST 26, 2009

The NEMO project seeks to provide the most realistic but widely applicable technologies for delivering the biomass sugars and then fermenting the sugars that could be exploited broadly by European industry. Source: Universita Degli Studi di Milano. Click to enlarge.

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JUNE 9, 2017

VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland and Lappeenranta University of Technology (LUT) are beginning testing of the Soletair demo plant, which uses air-captured carbon dioxide to produce renewable fuels and chemicals. The concept we are exploring is an example of how the chemical industry could be electrified in the future.

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OCTOBER 4, 2010

For example, the Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BUTE), a partner in the DISCO project, holds a library of more than 4,000 different microorganisms obtained from a multitude of different sources. Helsingin Yliopisto (Finland. Participants include: GR Wright and Sons Ltd (UK). Sekab E-Technology (Sweden).

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DECEMBER 19, 2011

As a corporate partner in a five-year AlgaePARC project launched in June 2011 and coordinated by Wageningen University and Research Centre in the Netherlands, Neste Oil is involved in developing technologies and processes for growing microalgae on an industrial scale as a raw material for use in fuel, food, and chemical production.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2022

At third place on the Top500 list is the LUMI system in Finland, which uses an HPE Cray EX235a architecture and harnesses some 2.2 7, Commerce's Bureau of Industry and Security promulgated an export control restriction that seeks to ratchet down all HPC chips sold to the People's Republic. million AMD cores.

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JANUARY 23, 2016

The initiative has been driven by the requirement for the aviation industry to work towards a sustainable, low-carbon future. Working with experts from SkyNRG, Air BP sourced the initial batch of drop-in Biojet from Neste’s Porvoo refinery in Finland. million liters (330,215 gallons) of jet biofuel.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2018

This marks the most significant improvement in global fuel standards for the shipping industry in 100 years, and is intended to achieve significant health benefits on a global scale. Refining industries will invest in the necessary technology to produce, and shipping will invest to adapt engine systems to use, the cleaner fuels.

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DECEMBER 16, 2021

Several 6G initiatives around the world, including the first, 6GENESIS , led by the University of Oulu in Finland, are paving the way for the standardization process that is expected to kick off in 2025 or 2026. The current consensus is that 6G will be just an incremental evolution of 5G.

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JULY 20, 2010

Electric vehicles have become a strategic focus of the automotive industry during recent years, but the technology is still nascent in the global marketplace. EVI is a government-led global initiative that will collaborate with relevant industry, academic, and end-user stakeholders to scale-up electric vehicle sales.

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MARCH 15, 2009

According to Professor Peter Lund from the Advanced Energy Systems of the Helsinki University of Technology (TKK) in Finland, who presented the research ahead of the congress “Renewable Energies: How Far Can They Take Us?”, The industrial powerhouse also used 347,000 tonnes of biomass in the same period, up 50% year-on-year.

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JULY 2, 2010

Deinove, a company specializing in the systematic exploration of the bacterial genus Deinococcus for biofuels and green chemistry, will partner with VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland. The Deinol process will then be scaled-up and tested in an industrial pilot by the sugar company Tereos. The Deinol project has received with €8.9

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DECEMBER 18, 2022

JUPITER will rely on GPU-based accelerators alongside a universal cluster module, which will contain CPUs. The most recent EuroHPC-backed supercomputer to come online, Finland-based LUMI (short for Large Unified Modern Infrastructure) uses HPE Cray hardware, AMD EPYC processors, and HPE Slingshot interconnects.

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