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Universal Hydrogen was granted a special airworthiness certificate in the experimental category by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to proceed with the first flight of its hydrogen-powered regional aircraft. —Paul Eremenko, co-founder and CEO of Universal Hydrogen Air New Zealand.
Universal Hydrogen has flown a 40-passenger regional airliner using hydrogen fuel cell propulsion. The airplane, nicknamed Lightning McClean, took off at 8:41am PST from Grant County International Airport (KMWH) and flew for 15 minutes, reaching an altitude of 3,500 MSL. Deliveries will start in 2025.
Mineta San José International Airport’s (SJC) has deployed a fleet of 10 Proterra battery-electric buses that will transport passengers and their luggage between SJC’s parking lots, rental car center, and terminals. SJC’s deployment is a first for a California airport and among the largest deployments for a US airport.
million in research, education, and training grants to universities that comprise the agency’s Air Transportation Center of Excellence (COE) for Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS), also known as the Alliance for System Safety of UAS through Research Excellence (ASSURE). This is the third round of ASSURE grants for Fiscal Year (FY) 2020.
Universal Hydrogen, magniX, Plug Power and AeroTEC have established a Hydrogen Aviation Test and Service Center at Grant County International Airport in Moses Lake, Washington. Earlier post.).
The Government of British Columbia and Eagle Graphite confirmed release of the first tranche of grant funding in support of a 2-year program to develop and commercialize silicon-modified battery anodes made with graphite from Eagle’s Black Crystal graphite quarry and plant in Valhalla, British Columbia.
billion in grants to US-based manufacturers to produce batteries and their components and to expand battery recycling capacity; $500 million in grants to US-based manufacturers to produce electric drive components for vehicles, including electric motors, power electronics, and other drive train components; and. Chemetall Foote Corp.
In partnership with key universities, four companies—Bluecity, GEKOT Inc., GEKOT Inc, has partnered with Razor USA and Oakland University (OU) to help address this need. GEKOT will integrate its technical solutions package into Razor electric scooters soon to be deployed on the campus of Oakland University.
Colorado State University will retrofit two internal delivery trucks with fuel-efficient hydraulic hybrid systems, paid for by a grant from the Colorado Energy Office. The University anticipates the systems will save it up to $1,700 a year each in fuel and maintenance costs.
The South Dakota School of Mines & Technology is vying to establish an international center to develop solid-state batteries which will be safer, cheaper, smaller and more efficient than lithium ion batteries. Each university received $15,000 of the planning grant. The funds must be matched 1:1 by industry.
The US Department of Transportation (DOT) is awarding up to $435 million in grant awards for 34 University Transportation Centers (UTC). The Department received 230 grant applications during this competition, which represents the largest number of applications ever submitted in the 35-year history of the UTC Program.
Scientists from Kyushu University and Kumamoto University in Japan have developed a new catalyst capable of assisting three key reactions for using hydrogen in energy and industry. —Professor Seiji Ogo, Kyushu University Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry. Credit: Kyushu University.
The US Department of Energy has selected 7 projects to participate in the University Coal Research (UCR) program. Managed by the Office of Fossil Energy’s National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL), the UCR program is DOE’s longest running student-teacher research grant initiative. University of California, Merced, Calif.
A UK-based consortium, led by scientists at the University of Manchester, has been awarded a £ 5.7 million) grant to help develop new super-light materials solutions for building more fuel-efficient cars and aircraft. An official project launch event will be held at the University of Manchester in June 2010. million (US$8.9
Plug In America , the non-profit plug-in vehicle advocacy organization, has awarded grants of $15,000 each to student teams at Cal Poly Pomona, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, UC Irvine and UC San Diego to design, build and race plug-in hybrid cars in the 2009 Formula Hybrid International Competition.
The University of Michigan (U-M) and Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU) have selected six research teams to share $1.05 Goal: To enable broader use of biofuels in advanced internal combustion engines. Principal investigators: Carlos Cesnick, U-M Department of Aerospace Engineering; Olivier Bauchau, UM-SJTU Joint Institute.
The Algal Fuel Consortium (AFC) recently won an A$2.724-million (US$2.259 million) research grant under the Department of Resources Energy and Tourism’s Second Generation Biofuels program in Australia. The grant will support the development of microalgal mass cultivation systems to generate biomass from captured CO 2 emissions.
The new grant recipients were selected using a competitive merit-review process. The grants awarded were in response to RFP-I, a request for proposals the GRI Research Board issued on 25 April 2011. The Research Consortia funded are: Lead Institution: The University of Texas at Austin, Marine Science Institute. Buskey, Ph.D.
Southwest Research Institute has expanded its capability to evaluate internal combustion engine aftertreatment catalysts, integrating an existing SwRI technology with a mass spectrometer. —project leader Dr. Grant Seuser, a postdoctoral researcher in SwRI’s Powertrain Engineering Division. —Grant Seuser.
(ABI), a developer of small distributive refining systems in the 10 to 15 million gallon per year range and parent company of drop-in biofuel company Red Wolf Refining (RWR), is in negotiation for a strategic relationship with BioJet International Ltd, an international supply chain integrator, for renewable (bio) jet fuel and related co-products.
The technology group Wärtsilä has been granted €1 million in funding by Business Finland, a state-run public agency for funding important research projects, to support research in the field of Power-to-X (P2X) technology.
Clean Air Power has been awarded an additional one-year extension to its 2-year funded research project with Brunel University London, aimed at developing the next generation of advanced dual-fuel combustion systems.
Toyota Motor Corporation has begun accepting applications today for this year’s Toyota Environmental Activities Grant Program , which is designed to support environmental revitalization and conservation activities aimed at sustainable development both in Japan and overseas. 2016 Toyota Environmental Activities Grant Program Recipients.
The Virtual Centre will be the largest of its type in the world and is intended to become an international forum for power electronics research. Components: Led by Professor Philip Mellor at the University of Bristol and involving the universities of Greenwich, Nottingham, Manchester, Warwick and Imperial College London.
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded Rutgers University two grants worth $6.4 The foundation also has awarded the university up to $1.25 million to extend practices developed under earlier NSF graduate research grants. The grant is valued at up to $3.2 The grant is valued at up to $3.2
Goldschmidt is an annual, international conference on geochemistry and related subjects, organized by the European Association of Geochemistry and the Geochemical Society. —Grant Strem, CEO of Proton Technologies. —Grant Strem. Proton Technologies is commercializing the process. which now holds the patent.
Altogether, the five-year program will deliver more than $136 million in research and development grants to public and private sector partners in 22 states. Vilsack made the announcement with partners from private industry, research institutions, and the biofuels industry at the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport.
The awarded grants will go to projects with lead researchers in 17 states. DOE grant: $7,200,000). DOE grant: $6,949,624). DOE grant:$5,349,932). Arizona State University, in partnership with Fluidic Energy Inc., DOE Grant: $4,000,000). DOE grant: $1,999,447). DOE grant: $9,000,000).
The seven projects, each involving a group of companies working in partnership on green transport technology, will each benefit from industry support, together with a government grant. Project partners include: University of Bristol, Customer Interconnect Ltd, API Capacitors Ltd. The £77 million is made up of £38.4
Asplundh, an international provider of vegetation management services to utilities and municipalities, is one of the first in its industry to adopt propane autogas for some of the medium-duty trucks in its fleet. A North Carolina State Universitygrant for Clean Fuel Advanced Technology helped fund one of Asplundh’s vehicles.
Engineers from Nanyang Technological University (NTU) and the German Aerospace Centre (DLR) have designed a “2-in-1” electric motor unit which can increase the range of electric vehicles in hot climates. The team is applying for a Proof-Of-Concept (POC) grant in Singapore.
Half of the 26 students in the first class, all with at least an M1 Masters diploma, come from international partner universities of the Renault Foundation, and thus receive a monthly grant from the Foundation.
Small particles from tires inhibit the growth and cause adverse behavioral changes in organisms found in freshwater and coastal estuary ecosystems, according to two new Oregon State University studies. The research is supported by a National Science Foundation Growing Convergence Research Big Idea grant. Resources. Siddiqui, J.M.
Three MIT-led research teams have won awards from the Department of Energy’s Nuclear Energy University Programs ( NEUP ) initiative to support research and development on the next generation of nuclear technologies. Fluoride-salt High-Temperature Reactor. Seawater uranium.
SAKOR Technologies recently won a competitive Small Company Innovation Program (SCIP) grant awarded by the Michigan Corporate Relations Network (MCRN), and will use the grant for research necessary to develop a thermal transient anemometer (TTA), a device used to measure airflow moving through a running vehicle.
A team from Washington State University (WSU) and Nissan has integrated a catalyst layer into into metal-supported solid oxide fuel cell (MS-SOFC), enabling successful operation with a direct ethanol feed. A paper on their work appears in the Journal of Power Sources. The maximum current density improved from 0.3 Martinus Dewa, Mohamed A.
Supported by a new five-year, $500,000- grant from the National Science Foundation, a researcher from the University of Kansas is developing machine learning technology to monitor and prevent overheating in lithium-ion batteries. The internal temperature would tell us more about thermodynamics. —Huazhen Fang.
The two discrete projects—ELEVATE (ELEctrochemical Vehicle Advanced Technology) and Ultra Efficient Engines and Fuels—will involve academics from eight UK universities. Other participating academic partners are: University of Warwick; University of Southampton; University College London; and University of Oxford.
The Danish Board of Business Development (Danmarks Erhvervsfremmebestyrelse) is granting up to DKK 88.8 million) to a partnership between Topsoe, Denmark’s Technical University (DTU) and Aarhus University (AU) to support innovation activities related to upscaling and globally deploying Topsoe’s Power-to-X SOEC electrolysis technology.
The three-year SofDCar project is funded with a grant of some €43 million by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi). At the University of Stuttgart, we will focus on an IT reference architecture for future vehicles together with our colleagues from Karlsruhe.
Fourteen scientific institutions have joined FestBatt; the competence cluster is coordinated by the University of Gießen (JLU). Several KIT institutes are involved in the cluster and have been granted funds with a total amount of €3.95 million for the first project phase of three years.
Son, Purdue University) Click to enlarge. Penn State and Purdue University researchers presented a paper on an investigation of ALICE propellants at the 45 th AIAA/ASME/SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion Conference & Exhibit earlier this month in Denver, Colorado. Three sizes rocket motors ranging from internal diameters of 0.75
Sakti3, led by Dr. Ann Marie Sastry of the University of Michigan, is commercializing high performance solid-state batteries that are produced using a novel manufacturing process that has been developed by the company. Under the terms of the agreement, Sakti3 has an exclusive royalty-bearing license with the right to grant sublicenses.
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