Green Car Congress
AUGUST 13, 2022
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) Professor Jie Lian has been awarded $500,000 from the US Department of Energy as part of the Nuclear Energy University Research Program (NEUP) to conduct research and develop new materials that will make advanced nuclear reactors more resilient and economically efficient.
Green Car Congress
APRIL 18, 2019
Researchers at the University of California San Diego have improved their recycling process that regenerates degraded cathodes from spent lithium-ion batteries. Illustration of the process to restore lithium ions to degraded NMC cathodes using eutectic molten salts at ambient pressure.
Green Car Congress
DECEMBER 7, 2018
The OPEN+ advanced nuclear projects are: Additive Manufacturing of Spacer Grids for Nuclear Reactors, Carnegie Mellon University, $1,000,000. Spacer grids are used to provide mechanical support to nuclear fuel rods within a reactor and reduce vibration, and they are a particularly difficult component to manufacture.
Green Car Congress
APRIL 21, 2022
The group is joined by a non-financial investor UniTartu Ventures, an investment company of the University of Tartu, which transfers the IP rights for equity. UP Catalyst uses a molten salt carbon capture and electrochemical transformation method to reprocess the CO 2. separation of products and collection.
Green Car Congress
JUNE 4, 2018
In the building phase, cost savings may be realized through modular and advanced manufacturing techniques that bring most of the work to the factory instead to the construction site. North Carolina State University: Development of a Nearly Autonomous Management and Control System for Advanced Reactors – $3,386,834.
Green Car Congress
MARCH 10, 2016
Researchers at Stanford University have devised a new strategy for using CO 2 in the synthesis of multi-carbon compounds. Despite the many desirable attributes of PEF, the plastics industry has yet to find a low-cost way to manufacture it at scale. She then heated the mixture to about 200 ˚C to form a molten salt.
Cars That Think
DECEMBER 30, 2021
Last May, one of the story’s featured startups, Canada’s Li-Cycle, announced it would begin recycling the manufacturing scrap from Ultium Cell’s $2.3 This article, by researchers at PARC and the University of Washington, is one possible answer. billion EV battery plant —that’s GM’s and LG Chem’s new mega-gigafactory in Lordstown, Ohio.
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