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AUGUST 31, 2022

Centers bring together multidisciplinary teams from universities, nonprofits, industry and national laboratories to tackle challenges across promising areas for future energy technologies. Our overall goal is to promote the design of novel polymers that enable ions, such as lithium or hydrogen, to move extremely fast.

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JULY 7, 2016

The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced more than $13 million in funding for the advancement of hydrogen and fuel cell technologies. The projects selected under this consortium will work to improve onboard automotive hydrogen storage systems by lowering the cost and increasing the storage capacity to enable hydrogen infrastructure.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

An MIT-led team of researchers from Taiwan and the US have successfully analyzed the performance of a class of materials considered a promising candidate for hydrogen storage: activated carbon that incorporates a platinum catalyst, allowing the hydrogen atoms can bond directly to the surface of carbon particles and then be released when needed.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2009

The Pennsylvania Alternative Fuels Incentive Grant (AFIG) program has awarded Axion Power International, Inc. 993,654 for development of a hydrogen plant module that is capable of producing fuel onboard a vehicle. and Penn State University. Temple University. Energy Cooperative Association of Pennsylvania.

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APRIL 15, 2011

At the SAE 2011 World Congress in Detroit, Michigan, US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Assistant Secretary for Policy and International Affairs, David Sandalow, announced the official launch of the EcoCAR 2 : Plugging into the Future competition and the sixteen university teams selected to participate.

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JUNE 5, 2020

These include hydrogen fuel cells, battery electric engines, and related infrastructure investments such as charging stations. Alabama A&M University. Alabama A&M University will receive funds to purchase zero-emission electric buses, which will replace diesel buses that have reached the end of their useful life.

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JUNE 4, 2018

Researchers, led by a team from the University of Pennsylvania, have used a polymer-folding mechanism to develop a new and versatile kind of solid polymer electrolyte (SPE) that currently offers proton conductivity faster than Nafion by a factor of 2, the benchmark for fuel cell membranes. They collaborated with Kenneth B.

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APRIL 20, 2016

This project will build on SARTA’s successful, existing fuel cell bus program, which has already established hydrogen fuel cell infrastructure and will soon deploy five AFCBs in Stark County. Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA). Utah Transit Authority (UTA). 5,427,100.

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JULY 2, 2018

GE Global Research will build and field test gas sensors for monitoring hydrogen and carbon monoxide anode tail gases produced in situ via on-site steam reforming in SOFC systems. Michigan State University researchers will evaluate the benefit of using a new silver-nickel metal system for circuit paste applications.

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JULY 17, 2009

The US Department of Energy selected three projects under the Office of Fossil Energy’s University Turbine Systems Research (UTSR) Program for awards totaling approximately $1.5 Selected projects will direct efforts toward combustion, aerodynamics, heat transfer, and materials research for syngas- and hydrogen-fueled turbines.

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DECEMBER 29, 2021

Powering them with clean energy sources won’t be difficult given China’s plentiful renewable capacity, says Michael Davidson , an engineering-systems and global-policy expert at the University of California, San Diego. Even the iconic Olympic torch will burn hydrogen for its flame. will shuttle spectators around.

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AUGUST 22, 2013

For example, the University of California, San Diego will receive approximately $3.5 University of Houston. The University of Houston (UH) will develop a battery using a novel water-based, lithium-ion chemistry that makes use of sustainable, low-cost, high-energy, organic materials. Princeton University. Description.

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MAY 10, 2011

A study by Duke University researchers has found evidence of methane contamination of drinking water associated with shale-gas extraction via directional drilling and hydraulic-fracturing technologies. The contamination was observed primarily in Bradford and Susquehanna counties in Pennsylvania. Source: Osborn et al. Click to enlarge.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2009

The 17 designs range from systems using on-board hydrogen fuel cells to full battery-electric vehicles. Only one team, University of Ontario Institute of Technology (UOIT), chose to design a Full Function Electric Vehicle, which has an all-electric motor powering its drive train and has more than 100 miles of range.

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MARCH 16, 2009

Air Products will supply hydrogen fueling equipment for a hydrogen transportation demonstration project in New Delhi, India. The hydrogen-powered fleet will transport visitors at the Pragati Maidan, where many large public exhibitions are held in New Delhi, in partnership with the India Trade Promotion Organization.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

The award is a portion of a $40-million grant presented to the Northwest Advanced Renewables Alliance ( NARA ), a consortium led by Washington State University (WSU). NARA includes a broad consortium of scientists from universities, government laboratories and private industry. Earlier post.). NARA award. DLA contract.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2010

A team of researchers at MIT and Pennsylvania State University, which has been working on a new layer-by-layer (LbL) method for producing novel kinds of membranes, has developed a new solid-state polymer electrolyte for use in electrochemical devices such as fuel cells and batteries using that method.

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APRIL 12, 2010

Splitting water into hydrogen and oxygen comprises two half reactions: water oxidation and water reduction. The researchers hope to find a similar biologically based system to perform the other half of the process, the production of hydrogen. Tags: Biotech Hydrogen Production Nanotech. Angela Belcher. Yoon Sung Nam, Andrew P.

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APRIL 28, 2011

Murray and a team at the University of Pennsylvania have developed a simple synthetic technique to produce ceria in the form of 2D nanoplates. Ceria is an important catalyst, primarily used in oxidation reactions because of its outstanding ability to store oxygen and release it. Now, Christopher B.

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APRIL 12, 2010

Pennsylvania State University, and Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory. Tags: Fuel Cells Hydrogen. Total Federal funding for AURORA is $4.5 million (74%) with $1.6 million (26%) in cost share. Partners on this program are Johnson Matthey Fuel Cell Ltd., SPIRE Program Kickoff. AURORA Program Overview.

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AUGUST 14, 2018

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has selected 28 projects for awards totaling $38 million to support early-stage research and development of innovative hydrogen and fuel cell technologies. This work also supports the DOE’s H2@ Scale initiative to produce and use hydrogen across multiple energy sectors. Skyre, Inc.: 2,000,000. .

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APRIL 30, 2010

Electrofuels approaches will use organisms able to extract energy from other sources, such as solar-derived electricity or hydrogen or earth-abundant metal ions. Novel Biological Conversion of Hydrogen and Carbon Dioxide Directly into Biodiesel. Reducing equivalent: Hydrogen; Organism: Cupriavidus necator; Product: Biodiesel.

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AUGUST 7, 2009

US Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced the delivery of $377 million in funding for 46 new multi-million-dollar Energy Frontier Research Centers (EFRCs) ( earlier post ) located at universities, national laboratories, nonprofit organizations, and private firms across the nation. Pennsylvania State University. Purdue University.

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JUNE 26, 2021

Bunting-Dubois (Dubois, Pennsylvania). Westinghouse Electric Company (Cranberry Township, Pennsylvania). Northern Illinois University (DeKalb, Illinois). Highly Efficient Low-Thermal-Budget Hydrogen and Chemical Co-Production via an Electrochemical Activation of Propane, $100,000. NEL Hydrogen (Wallingford, Connecticut).

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MARCH 28, 2013

The work at Princeton University will be conducted in the laboratories of Professor Christodoulos Floudas, Ph.D. Reactor 4 (Gasoline Treatment): The fourth reactor provides transalkylation and hydrogenation treatment to the products coming from Reactor 3. Primus Green Energy Inc.,

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MARCH 17, 2010

GOFs such as this one are just beginning to be explored as a potential storage medium for hydrogen and other gases. The findings suggest stacks of graphene layers could potentially store hydrogen safely for use in fuel cells and other applications. Credit: NIST. Click to enlarge. NIST theorist Taner Yildirim.

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JUNE 24, 2014

Twenty-three of the projects receiving funding are headed by universities, eight are led by the Energy Department’s National Laboratories and one project is run by a non-profit organization. University of California, Berkeley. University of California, Riverside. Northwestern University. Purdue University.

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NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Unlike prior processes for converting alcohols into hydrocarbons with multiple steps for dehydration, oligomerization, and hydrogenation, the Vertimass consolidated alcohol dehydration and oligomerization (CADO) conversion is accomplished in a single reactor system using a metal exchanged zeolite catalyst.

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AUGUST 2, 2012

Utah State University. Utah State University will develop electronic hardware and. Pennsylvania State University. Pennsylvania State University is developing an innovative. Washington University. Washington University in St. Hydrogen-Bromine Electrical Energy Storage System.

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MARCH 20, 2011

Automotive X Prize teams from New York, Pennsylvania, Michigan and Indiana will compete at the 7 th Annual Green Grand Prix Friday, April 15, at Watkins Glen International. Two of the vehicles are educational entries from Cornell University and West Philadelphia High School. mile) short course.

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JUNE 12, 2012

The University of Utah Salt Lake is collaborating on the project, which will develop a process that sprays iron ore directly into the furnace chamber and uses natural gas, hydrogen, or syngas as a reducing. Collaborators include Duke University and Veolia, Inc. Collaborators include Purdue University; Georgia Institute of.

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AUGUST 13, 2012

Researchers from the University of Pennsylvania, along with collaborators from Italy and Spain, have designed new core-shell type catalysts inspired by the concepts of supramolecular chemistry that oxidize methane 30 times better than do currently available catalysts. Click to enlarge. —Cargnello et al.

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MARCH 18, 2015

A major challenge in fuel cell technology is efficiently separating protons from hydrogen. Hydrogen atoms specifically relevant to the proton transfer event are colored blue. Fuel Cells Graphene Hydrogen' —Professor Franz M. Geiger, who led the research. Conventional membranes are not very selective.).

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2013

Northwestern University. Northwestern University will engineer an entirely new biocatalyst for highly efficient methane activation, the first step required to convert methane into a liquid fuel. Pennsylvania State University. University of Michigan. University of California, Davis.

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OCTOBER 26, 2009

Arizona State University, in partnership with Fluidic Energy Inc., Teaming with Ohio State University are PSRI, CONSOL Energy, Shell/CRI, and Babcock and Wilcox to accelerate this technology towards commercialization and deployment. DOE grant:$5,349,932). DOE grant: $5,000,000). CO 2 Capture with Enzyme Synthetic Analogue.

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