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DOE awarding more than $50M to 15 projects to advance critical material innovations

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Partners: Harper International, Phillips66. DOE funding: $5,577,738; cost share: $5,925,475; Total costs: $11,503,213. Technology Holding LLC; Next Generation Separation Method for Rare Earths Partners: Massachusetts Institute of Technology DOE share: $499,673; Cost share: $124,999; Total costs: $624,672.

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NIST, partners create new international standard to improve sustainable manufacturing

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A public-private team led by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has created a new international standard that can “map” the critically important environmental aspects of manufacturing processes, leading to significant improvements in sustainability while keeping a product’s life cycle low cost and efficient.

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President Obama announces two new public-private manufacturing innovation institutes; new manufacturing innovation institute competition

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Innovative Weld Solutions; ITW; Lockheed Martin; Luvata; Materion; MesoCoat; MTI; NanoSteel Company; Optomec; Phoenix Integration; PowderMet; RealWeld; RTI International Metals; SaCell; Southwest Research Institute (SWRI); Steel Warehouse Co.; Aspire 3D); International TechneGroup Inc.; ThermoCalc; TIMET; Trumpf, Inc.;

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Photobiological Hydrogen Production from Cyanobacteria Encapsulated in a Solid-State System

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Researchers at Oregon State University (OSU) and the University of Oregon have shown photobiological hydrogen production from one type of cyanobacteria ( Synechocystis sp. A paper on their work was published earlier this year in the International Journal of Hydrogen energy. Dickson, Catherine J. Page and Roger L.

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DOE to award up to $137M for SuperTruck II, Vehicle Technology Office programs

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Drive Oregon. Demonstrate plug‐in electric vehicles through public ride and drives for a wide variety of PEVs and short term extended test drives in key markets throughout Oregon and Washington. Accelerated Development and Deployment of LowCost Automotive Mg Sheet Components (Area of Interest 3). Ohio State University.

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DOE to award $118M to 17 projects to accelerate domestic biofuel production

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RTI International and partners at POET Research, Inc. University of California Riverside, “Scale-up Demonstration of Hybrid Catalytic Biorefining of Biomass to Sustainable Aviation and Marine Fuels”, $2,000,000. Project partners include Petron Scientech, Byogy Renewables, Birla Carbon, and Clark Atlanta University.

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Pike Research forecasts global geothermal power capacity could more than double by 2020; US to lead world in geothermal power capacity through 2020

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NETL will partner with Penn State, West Virginia University, and the University of Pittsburgh in the 2-year effort. One NETL project that will improve capabilities for predicting the behavior and performance of fracture networks in enhanced geothermal systems.

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