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New efficient hybrid optimization control method for diesel engine emissions and performance

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Researchers at Iowa State have developed a new hybrid optimization control method to improve diesel engine emissions and performance. The basic PSO and the hybrid PSO-GA method were applied to the test apparatus and used to locate the optimum neighborhood of the engine operation. bar brake mean effective pressure. Sahnehsaraei, M.

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ARPA-E Awards $151M to 37 Projects for Transformative Energy Research

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Electronville: High-Amperage Energy Storage Device-Energy Storage for the Neighborhood. Iowa State will use metabolic engineering and synthetic biology to enhance the production of lipids and increase carbon dioxide assimilation and thermal tolerance within algae for the production of biofuels directly from sunlight and CO 2.

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