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NIST awards nearly $4M to support metals-based additive manufacturing

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The following organizations will receive NIST Metals-Based Additive Manufacturing Grants Program funding to be spent over two years: Georgia Tech Research Corporation ($1 million). The goal is to establish a comprehensive basis to qualify, verify and validate parts produced by this technique. University of Texas at El Paso ($1 million).

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Ford installing GE WattStation chargers, charging network at facilities

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Ford now offers three plug-in vehicles: the battery electric Focus Electric, and the C-MAX Energi and Fusion Energi plug-in hybrids. Ford Fusion Energi and C-MAX Energi drivers typically make three of their four daily trips in all-electric mode, based on data from Ford’s MyFord Mobile app. Today, there are more than 20,000.

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Ford partners with Haier, Trina Solar and Delta Electronics to launch MyEnergi Lifestyle in China

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Ford worked with researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology to create a computer model that calculates annual consumption before and after instituting the MyEnergi Lifestyle model, as they did for the similar MyEnergi Lifestyle project in the US. Delta Electric Vehicle Charging Station. Haier U+ High Efficiency Smart Appliances.

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DOE awards $97M to 33 bioenergy research and development projects

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Georgia Institute of Technology. Advanced Sensing for Characterization and Sorting of Non-Recyclable Plastics Using Sensor Fusion with Artificial Intelligence. Microchannel Reactor for Ethanol to n-Butene Conversion. Research Triangle Institute. Integrated Separations to Improve Biocrude Recovery for Biofuels and Bioproducts.

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DOE awarding >$24M to 77 projects through Technology Commercialization Fund

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Localization of hot spots in solids using acoustic waves, $150,000 Commonwealth Fusion Systems, Cambridge, Mass. Fusion Joining of Thermoplastic Composites Using Energy Efficient Processes, $150,000 GE Global Research, U.S., Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Ga. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Raleigh, N.C.

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NIST awards $7.4M in grants for additive manufacturing research

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EWI and its NAMII partners will focus on an additive manufacturing technology known as laser-powder bed fusion, with the goal of optimizing the structure and properties of metal powders as they are fused into parts. Concurrent Technologies Corp.

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Exascale Computing Project (ECP) announces $39.8M in first-round application development awards

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High-Fidelity Whole Device Modeling of Magnetically Confined Fusion Plasma, Amitava Bhattacharjee (PPPL) with ANL, ORNL, LLNL, Rutgers, UCLA, University of Colorado. NWChemEx: Tackling Chemical, Materials and Biomolecular Challenges in the Exascale Era, T. Dunning, Jr. PNNL), with Ames, ANL, BNL, LBNL, ORNL, PNNL, Virginia Tech.

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