Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

Researchers at Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) and The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) have determined that biochar, a substance produced from plant matter, is a safe, effective and inexpensive method to treat flowback water following hydraulic fracturing, or fracking.

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Water Low Cost Oil-Sands San Antonio 257

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 26, 2019

A University of Texas at Dallas physicist has teamed with Texas Instruments Inc. In a general sense, waste heat is everywhere: the heat your car engine generates, for example. Study co-author Hal Edwards, a TI Fellow at Texas Instruments, designed and supervised fabrication of the prototype devices. —Prof.

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Dallas Texas Waste Power 249

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. —Arthur Ragauskas. Ragauskas, et al., Science doi: 10.1126/science.1246843.

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Production Carbon Fiber Polymer Fuel 225

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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Gas Arkansas Water West Virginia 210

Green Car Congress

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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CO2 Coal Austin Store 225

Green Car Congress

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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Hydrogen Clean Cleaning Gas-Electric 150

Green Car Congress

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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Commercial Energy Albuquerque New York 170