Green Car Congress
SEPTEMBER 20, 2016
A team of researchers from the University of Houston and the California Institute of Technology has developed an active and durable earth-abundant transition metal dichalcogenide-based hybrid catalyst for water-splitting that exhibits high hydrogen evolution activity approaching the state-of-the-art platinum catalysts.
Green Car Congress
JUNE 8, 2011
Paved surfaces in the Houston area keep the city warmer than more natural surfaces. ““The very existence of the Houston area favors stagnation.” The research team combined extensive atmospheric measurements with computer simulations to examine the impact of pavement on breezes in Houston. Credit: UCAR.
Green Car Congress
SEPTEMBER 21, 2017
A chemical engineer from the University of Houston is leading a $2.1-million Catalytic converters clean vehicle exhaust into nitrogen, water and carbon dioxide. Current catalytic converters use precious metals, including platinum and palladium, to eliminate the main pollutants emitted by internal combustion engines.
Green Car Congress
SEPTEMBER 1, 2023
To reduce the number of accidents in the global oil and gas industry caused by damaged pipelines, University of Houston researchers are developing an autonomous robot to identify potential pipeline leaks and structural failures during subsea inspections.
Green Car Congress
MAY 16, 2011
Data collected during a major 2010 state-federal atmospheric research project show that the first-in-the-nation regulation requiring ocean-going vessels to use clean fuel when near the California coast has been extremely effective in reducing sulfur dioxide pollution from ships, according to the California Air Resources Board (ARB).
Green Car Congress
NOVEMBER 11, 2009
Maersk Line conducted the first “fuel switch” demonstration on a container ship in the Gulf of Mexico as the result of a partnership between the EPA, the Port of Houston Authority and Maersk Line. Maersk vessels have demonstrated the effectiveness of a fuel switch in more than 1,200 port calls on the US West Coast since March 2006.
Green Car Congress
MAY 7, 2010
The mobile offshore drilling unit Q4000 lowers a pollution containment chamber 6 May 2010. Oil washes onto the sides of the pollution containment chamber as it is lowered into the water at the Deepwater Horizon site. The chamber was designed to cap the oil discharge that was a result of the Deepwater Horizon incident.
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