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Small amounts of water in electrolyte for Si-air battery improves discharge performance

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Researchers from Israel Institute of Technology and Pennsylvania State University report in a paper in the journal ChemSusChem on a Si–air/ionic liquid electrolyte battery whose performance improves with small amounts of water in the electrolyte.

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Primus Green Energy produces first samples of high-octane biogasoline

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Primus Green Energy has produced fuel samples from a test plant, recently broke ground on an automated demonstration plant and is planning to break ground next year on a commercial plant in eastern Pennsylvania that will be designed to produce 4.8 million gallons per year of gasoline from wood pellets and non-food, herbaceous crops.

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Primus Green Energy expands biomass-to-gasoline development plant in NJ; variant of the ExxonMobil MTG process

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Primus Green Energy —a US subsidiary of Israel Corporation’s renewable energy unit IC Green Energy Ltd. Primus says it plans to build its first commercial facility in Pennsylvania. As noted above, Primus claims to have simplified the MTG process, reducing the need for separation or end treatment.

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