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DECEMBER 1, 2020

The cathode and electrolyte chemistries elucidated here propel the development of magnesium batteries and would accelerate the adoption of this low-cost and safe battery technology. 1 , nearly two orders of magnitude higher than that of state-of-the-art Mg batteries. —Dong et al. —first author Hui Dong. Tutusaus, O.,

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DECEMBER 19, 2014

Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin, led by Prof. In a paper published in the ACS Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters , the team suggested that this strategy is both of significance for the safe and effective use of Li 2 S as a cathode material and as a promising step toward the low-cost fabrication of metallic-lithium-free Li?S

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AUGUST 26, 2019

A University of Texas at Dallas physicist has teamed with Texas Instruments Inc. Study co-author Hal Edwards, a TI Fellow at Texas Instruments, designed and supervised fabrication of the prototype devices. Over at Texas Instruments, that’s the difference between a technology they can use and one they can’t. —Prof.

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JANUARY 29, 2021

A team of researchers led by Zhifeng Ren, director of the Texas Center for Superconductivity at the University of Houston, has developed an oxygen-evolving catalyst that takes just minutes to grow at room temperature on commercially available nickel foam. That requires substantial amounts of energy and drives up the cost.

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JANUARY 21, 2021

American Battery Metals Corporation; Field Demonstration of Selective Leaching, Targeted Purification, and Electro-Chemical Production of Battery Grade Lithium Hydroxide Precursor from Domestic Claystone Resources. DOE funding: $2,272,112; costs share: $2,272,112; Total costs: $4,544,224.

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EV Central

APRIL 9, 2024

According to Reuters multiple sources behind the scenes have confirmed the affordable EV is no longer happening with resources switched to developing self-driving robotaxis. READ MORE: Tesla Model Y cheaper than ever! Top selling electric car slashed up to $8500; could it outsell the Ford Ranger?

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NOVEMBER 6, 2014

Greyrock Energy, a company transforming natural gas into premium transportation fuels ( earlier post ), announced a final investment decision (FID) to build a small-scale Gas-to-Liquids (GTL) facility near Houston, Texas. The plant will be commercially operational by the end of 2015.

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JULY 10, 2019

Low Cost Roll-to-Roll Manufacturing of Reusable Sorbents for Energy and Water Industries, $150,000 Qualification of SAS4A/SASSYS-1 for Sodium-Cooled Fast Reactor Authorization and Licensing, $674,484 Advanced Reactor Concepts LLC, Chevy Chase, Md. Quanex Building Products Corporation, Houston, Texas SCP SYS LLC, San Francisco, Calif.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 1, 2011

Researchers at the University of Texas, including Dr. John Goodenough, are proposing a strategy for high-capacity next-generation alkali (lithium or sodium)-ion batteries using water-soluble redox couples as the cathode. Oxygen in air, an “inexhaustible resource” on earth, makes it possible to match the capacity of lithium metal.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 9, 2017

Gevo and LANL are looking to develop a low-cost, catalytic technology that would be bolted-on to Gevo’s existing isobutanol-to-hydrocarbons process to produce high energy density fuels (HEDFs). Gevo currently operates a biorefinery in Silsbee, Texas, in collaboration with South Hampton Resources Inc.,

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NOVEMBER 1, 2017

Researchers in the Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin have developed a new family of anode materials that can double the charge capacity of lithium-ion battery anodes. It is a simple, low-cost approach that can be applied to a broad range of alloy systems with various working ions such as Li, Na, or Mg.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 7, 2013

In 2012, SGC Energia commissioned, started up, and operated a pilot-scale FT process for the demonstration step of its XTLH Fischer-Tropsch integrated process solution in Texas. SGC Energia and Houston-based Great Northern Project Development LP (GNPD) conceived the Juniper GTL project.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 5, 2016

Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin have developed a novel electrode for lithium-sulfur batteries that improves cyclic stability and rate capability significantly. In a paper published in the ACS journal Nano Letters , they report using polypyrrole-MnO 2 coaxial nanotubes to encapsulate sulfur. Credit: ACS, Zhang et al.

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APRIL 2, 2016

However, wide scale adoption of β-titanium alloys in transportation applications has been limited due to its high cost. The cost of β-titanium alloys can be lowered by replacing the expensive β stabilizers such as Mo, Cr and V (in full or in part) by low cost Fe such as the case in Ti–1Al–8V–5Fe (Ti-185) alloy introduced in 1960s.

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DECEMBER 16, 2013

The project involved researchers from UH, along with those from Sam Houston State University, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Texas State University, Carl Zeiss Microscopy LLC, and Sichuan University. The generation of hydrogen from water using sunlight could potentially form the basis of a clean and renewable source of energy.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2015

Professor John Goodenough, the inventor of the lithium-ion battery, and his team at the University of Texas at Austin have identified a new cathode material made of the nontoxic and inexpensive mineral eldfellite (NaFe(SO 4 ) 2 ), presenting a significant advancement in the quest for a commercially viable sodium-ion battery.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2011

—Daniel Shantz, a chemical engineering professor at Texas A&M University and co-editor or report. pyrolysis); A renewable low-cost source of hydrogen; and. pyrolysis); A renewable low-cost source of hydrogen; and. Biomass conversion unit. Non-thermal water separations.

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JUNE 16, 2023

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 1, 2017

Scientists at Rice University and the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory have predicted and created new two-dimensional electrocatalysts—low-cost, layered transition-metal dichalcogenides (MX 2 ) based on molybdenum and tungsten—to extract hydrogen from water with high performance and low cost.

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MARCH 1, 2017

Replacing a conventional host insertion compound as a cathode by a redox center for plating an alkali-metal cathode provides a safe, low-cost, all-solid-state cell with a large capacity resulting in high energy density and a long cycle life. Resources. —Braga et al. Grundish, A. Murchison and J.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 14, 2010

NAABB will integrate resources from companies, universities, and national laboratories to overcome the critical barriers of cost, resource use and efficiency, greenhouse gas emissions, and commercial viability. Low-cost one-step syngas to distillates.

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OCTOBER 28, 2011

John Goodenough from the University of Texas as Austin, has found one of the most effective catalysts yet discovered for the oxygen evolution reaction (OER) for use in water-splitting to produce hydrogen or in rechargeable metal-air batteries. A team of MIT researchers lead by Prof. Yang Shao-Horn, in collaboration with Prof. Earlier post.)

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NOVEMBER 25, 2009

Improved energy storage technologies will allow for expanded integration of renewable energy resources like wind and photovoltaic systems and will improve frequency regulation and peak energy management. This project will develop and implement an Energy Internet microgrid, located in a large mixed-use infill development site in Austin, Texas.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

Advances in low-cost composite materials will help manufacturers build longer, lighter and stronger blades to capture the maximum levels of wind energy and support a cost-competitive US offshore wind industry. Rockwell Collins; Rolls-Royce; Siemens; System Insights; The Dow Chemical Company; UPS. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 22, 2009

NETL’s goals for these projects are to improve management of water resources, water usage, and water disposal, and to support science that will aid the regulatory and permitting processes required for shale gas development. Texas Engineering Experiment Station, College Station, Tex. General Electrical Company, Niskayuna, N.Y.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 19, 2014

Potential high-value products from isolated lignin include low-cost carbon fiber, engineering plastics and thermoplastic elastomers, polymeric foams and membranes, and a variety of fuels and chemicals—all currently sourced from petroleum. Ragauskas, et al., Science doi: 10.1126/science.1246843. 1246843.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 10, 2015

Through online courses and train-the-trainer workshops, this project will have a national impact and establish resources that will last beyond the project’s completion. Building on an already successful resource, the project will expand existing training to encompass all alternative fuel vehicles, which it does not currently.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 19, 2014

While HCMR offers high capacity and safety and low cost, it can be challenged by high DC-Resistance, voltage fade upon cycling and poor durability. Penn State/University of Texas at Austin. Penn State/University of Texas at Austin. The Penn State/U Texas project is a $2.4-million Resources. ( Amine (PI), H.

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AUGUST 25, 2009

million of non-Federal cost sharing. In order for low-cost electricity from coal-fired power plants to remain available, the DOE said, economical methods for capturing and storing the greenhouse gas emissions from these plants must be developed. Fusion Petroleum Technologies , The Woodlands, Texas.

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DECEMBER 20, 2016

Cockrell Centennial Chair in Engineering at the University of Texas (who was also unaffiliated with the study) commented : Xiaogang Han et al. Combined with high-capacity sulfur cathodes, this all solid-state battery technology offers a potentially unmatched energy density that far outperforms any lithium-ion battery currently on the market.

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JUNE 4, 2013

This will potentially allow for this high-performance composite electrode to be scaled up for manufacturing the next generation of high-energy Li-ion batteries, which are important for applications in electric vehicles and grid-scale energy storage systems that require both low-cost and reliable battery systems.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 17, 2010

The BIIP assessment includes the bitumen production, reserves and economic contingent resources previously reported as well as an estimate of Cenovus’s share of all other bitumen on the company’s lands. The company plans to reinvigorate efforts to increase production from its substantial conventional oil resource.

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MARCH 27, 2017

This research article focuses on a highly favored route to the synthesis of controlled nanostructures at high rate, high yield, and low cost by molten carbonate electrolysis. Even with a significant drop in CNT value with market growth, the C2CNT cement plant provides high marginal cost profits with CO 2 elimination from the plant.

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AUGUST 19, 2023

plans to develop a novel membrane system from Osmoses’ proprietary polymer composition that can produce enriched oxygen from air for integration into modular gasification systems for low-cost hydrogen production. The team intends to demonstrate high-purity (greater than 98% by volume, preferably above 99.5%

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JUNE 26, 2021

NovaCentrix (Austin, Texas). Real Time-Optimal Power Flow based Distributed Energy Resources Management System (DERMS), $299,329. Reducing Protein Production Costs to Enable Cell Free Biocatalysis, $400,000. Utility Global (Houston, Texas). Treverity (Coppell, Texas). Framatome Inc. Lynchburg, Virginia).

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

Texas Agrilife Research. Terpenoid Pathways Texas A&M University will address a major inefficiency of. High Performance, Low Cost Superconducting Wires and Coils. for High Power Wind Generators The University of Houston will develop a new, low-cost. that substantially reduce costs of the motor.

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JULY 17, 2017

The research is part of a broad effort to identify scalable and commercially viable solutions to help meet increasing global energy demand with a renewable resource. The project leverages the university’s expertise with ExxonMobil’s resources and strong technological capabilities. George Huber, the Harvey D.

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