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OCTOBER 28, 2022

The selected projects, led by universities, national laboratories, and the private sector aim to develop commercially scalable technologies that will enable greater domestic supplies of copper, nickel, lithium, cobalt, rare earth elements, and other critical elements. Columbia University. Harvard University. Earlier post.)The

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JULY 7, 2015

Evapotranspiration (ET) refers to the sum total of water lost while the plant is growing, either from evaporation through the plant stem itself (a process called “transpiration”), or from water evaporated off of the plant’s leaves or the ground. —Hamilton et al.

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AUGUST 1, 2020

These projects will improve the performance and lower the cost and risk of technologies that can be used to produce biofuels, biopower, and bioproducts from biomass and waste resources. University of Alabama. University of North Dakota. North Carolina State University. Oregon State University. Princeton University.

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JUNE 9, 2017

The 2017 FOA solicited early-stage materials research to advance the Department’s goals of enabling economic and efficient transportation via fuel cell electric vehicles that use hydrogen fuel produced from diverse domestic resources. Advanced Water Splitting Materials. Carnegie Mellon University. University of Connecticut.

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APRIL 14, 2021

But a new study led by Sujay Kaushal of the University of Maryland warns that introducing salt into the environment—whether it's for de-icing roads, fertilizing farmland or other purposes—releases toxic chemical cocktails that create a serious and growing global threat to our freshwater supply and human health.

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MAY 21, 2010

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has selected 42 university-led research and development projects for awards totaling $38 million. These projects, funded over three to four years through the Department’s Nuclear Energy University Program, are intended to help advance nuclear education and develop the next generation of nuclear technologies.

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JUNE 25, 2014

Because of the shallow nature of large areas of the estuary the focus is on water volume or cubic miles, instead of square mileage as used in the Gulf. Later this year, researchers will measure oxygen levels in both bodies of water.

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JULY 7, 2022

Researchers from the University of Michigan and McGill University in Canada report photochemical syngas synthesis using a core/shell Au@Cr 2 O 3 dual cocatalyst in coordination with multistacked InGaN/GaN nanowires (NWs) with the sole inputs of CO 2 , water, and solar light. under concentrated solar light illumination.

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MAY 14, 2020

The teams will develop digital twin technologies for robust O&M strategies that can facilitate, among other things, more flexible operations for integration into an electrical grid with a large fraction of intermittent generation resources. Nuclear energy is considered by many to be critical to achieving emissions reduction goals.

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JANUARY 2, 2020

A new hypothesis by University of Toronto Professor Esme Fuller-Thomson, recently published in the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease , suggests that the declining dementia rates may be a result of generational differences in lifetime exposure to lead. The levels of lead exposure when I was a child in 1976 were 15 times what they are today.

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JULY 23, 2016

The US Department of Energy (DOE) selected Argonne National Laboratory to lead a consortium of university, private sector and national laboratory partners for a new, medium- and heavy-duty truck technical track under the US-China Clean Energy Research Center ( CERC ) Truck Research Utilizing Collaborative Knowledge (TRUCK) program.

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JULY 17, 2014

New projects to be funded this year will build upon gains in genetic and genomic resources for bioenergy and biofuels. Patrick Brown, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Amy Brunner, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. Robin Buell, Michigan State University. Description. DOE-BER funded.

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JUNE 30, 2017

Nitrogen fertilization can substantially discount the climate and water quality benefits of bioenergy crops if applied in excess of plant need; some high-productivity perennial crops require little if any supplemental N. Resources. —Robertson et al. Philip Robertson, Stephen K. Hamilton, Bradford L. Barham, Bruce E.

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NOVEMBER 27, 2015

Coccolithophores —unicellular, eukaryotic phytoplankton (algae)—have been increasing in relative abundance in the North Atlantic over the last 45 years, as carbon input into ocean waters has increased. The lead author of the paper was Sara Rivero-Calle, a PhD candidate at John Hopkins University. —Anand Gnanadesikan.

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MAY 22, 2014

Researchers at Michigan State University have developed a microbial electrolysis cell (MEC) which will allow biodiesel plants to eliminate the creation of hazardous wastes while reducing their dependence on fossil fuel. The next step will be field tests with a Michigan-based biodiesel manufacturer. Credit: ACS, Speers et al.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2012

Phillip Savage at the University of Michigan has found that with appropriate parameters, hydrothermal liquefaction (HTL) can convert 65% of wet algae (a Nannochloropsis species) into biocrude in one minute. Biocrude from Nannochloropsis. Credit: Savage Lab. Click to enlarge. A team led by Prof. Faeth and Phillip E.

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JULY 20, 2011

Researchers at the US Department of Energy’s Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL, the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center (GLBRC) and Michigan State University (MSU) have developed a new biomass pretreatment method that reorganizes the hydrogen bond network within crystalline cellulose. Credit: ACS, Chundawat et al.

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JULY 2, 2018

SOFC technologies enable efficient, cost-effective electricity generation from abundant domestic coal and natural gas resources, with minimal use of water and near-zero atmospheric emissions of carbon dioxide and pollutants. DOE Funding: $500,000; Non-DOE Funding: $125,000; Total: $625,000.

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JULY 26, 2012

University of Wisconsin ($7 million). University of Hawaii ($6 million). Michigan Technological University. Michigan State University. Oregon State University. University of Texas, Austin. This project will utilize dairy manure as a source of fiber and fertilizer. Lead organization.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

million to develop a unique facility for refining complex, physics-based computer models with big data techniques at the University of Michigan. The university will provide an additional $1.04 Turbulence: When a flow of air or water breaks up into swirls and eddies, the pure physics equations become too complex to solve.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2012

IH 2 technology is a catalytic thermochemical process that promises to be a very cost-effective route to produce liquid transportation fuels from renewable resources. The Gas Technology Institute (GTI) in Des Plaines, IL, recently added a new Pilot-Scale IH 2 Plant to broaden biomass-to-liquid hydrocarbon fuel conversion. Earlier post.).

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DECEMBER 22, 2010

This is especially the case for those draining nitrogen-enriched urbanized and agricultural watersheds, highlighting the importance of managing nitrogen before it reaches open water. —Jake Beaulieu of the University of Notre Dame and the US EPA, and lead author of the PNAS paper. This new global emission estimate is startling.

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JANUARY 29, 2015

University of Michigan researchers have developed a new process that can sprout microscopic spikes on nearly any type of particle and that may lead to more environmentally friendly paints and a variety of other innovations. The “hedgehog particles” are named for their bushy appearance under the microscope. and Florence V.

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JUNE 21, 2009

A team of NOAA-supported scientists from the Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium, Louisiana State University, and the University of Michigan is forecasting that the “dead zone” off the coast of Louisiana and Texas in the Gulf of Mexico this summer could be one of the largest on record. Dead zone visualization.

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JANUARY 13, 2011

Features of the process include: Feedstock flexible; Fast biomass heat up maximizes liquid yield; Hydroconversion with catalysts produces low-oxygen, low-acidity liquids; Polynuclear aromatic components are not formed; Self-sufficient process requires no supplemental water or hydrogen; and. Property comparison. Heating value. 6,560 Btu/lb.

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AUGUST 23, 2011

Participants in GTI’s project included Cargill, Johnston Timber, Aquaflow, Blue Marble Energy, National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and Michigan Technological University. This approach gives us the flexibility to develop a multi-biomass feedstock mix specific to available resources worldwide. —Nick Gerritsen.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2011

Researchers from the University of Michigan and Zhejiang University (China) are developing a new pathway—catalytic hydrothermal decarboxylation—to produce liquid hydrocarbon (i.e., H 2 is not currently available in large quantities from renewable resources and H 2 costs can be high. —Fu et al.

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AUGUST 19, 2014

Results of a lifecycle analysis by a team at the University of Michigan suggest that multiple types of natural gas-powered vehicles—i.e., water depletion potential (WDP). Dai and Lastoskie used eight environmental indicators: human toxicity (HT). particulate matter formation (PMF). photochemical oxidant formation (POF).

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AUGUST 2, 2009

Water (liquid or vapor) is formed at the cathode catalyst. Liquid water hydrates the membrane and increases its protonic conductivity, but may also flood the catalyst layer pores, preventing oxygen from reaching the catalyst layers. Cross-section of a unit cell. Promislow and Wetton, 2009. Click to enlarge. Promislow and Wetton.

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MARCH 9, 2009

Researchers at the University of Michigan (U-M) have developed a new nanoporous material with a surface area of more than 5,000 square meters per gram—significantly higher than that of any other porous material reported to date. UMCM-2 is a coordination polymer comprising three different types of cages. Credit: ACS. Click to enlarge.

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JUNE 25, 2013

—Mark Barteau, professor of chemical engineering at the University of Michigan and chair of the committee that wrote the report. There’s nothing extraordinary about pipeline shipments of diluted bitumen to make them more likely than other crude oils to cause releases. National Research Council.

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JULY 31, 2009

A Michigan State University (MSU) researcher and his students have developed a nanomaterial—xGnP Exfoliated Graphite NanoPlatelets—that makes plastic stiffer, lighter and stronger and could result in more fuel-efficient airplanes and cars as well as more durable medical and sports equipment and enhanced energy storage systems.

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AUGUST 31, 2010

Researchers at the University of Michigan have developed and demonstrated the feasibility of a two-step hydrolysis-solvolysis process to produce biodiesel directly from wet algal biomass. Credit: ACS, Levine et al. Click to enlarge. N, P, and glycerol) recycling. lipids as FAEE). Levine et al. Levine, Tanawan Pinnarat and Phillip E.

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Columbia University , New York, N.Y. Montana State University , Bozeman, Mont. Stanford University , Stanford, Calif. University of Miami Rosenstiel School , Miami, Fla. University of Texas at Austin, Bureau of Economic Geology , Austin, Texas. University of Wyoming , Laramie, Wyo.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

The 27 projects range from concept studies and component design research to prototype development and in-water device testing. The Regents of the University of California (Davis, California) will seek to develop an innovative, reliable, and cost-effective Bidirectional Rotor Tidal Turbine for tidal MHK applications.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

Michael Grätzel at EPFL (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) in Switzerland has developed a highly efficient and low-cost water-splitting cell combining an advanced perovskite tandem solar cell and a bi-functional Earth-abundant catalyst. Splitting water requires an applied voltage of at least 1.23 V and up to 1.5

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JUNE 4, 2009

ORNL is working with a number of university partners (Texas A&M University, University of Wisconsin, Illinois Institute of Technology, University of Alabama, University of Michigan, Dearborn) on the project, as well as Delphi on the catalyst side, a not-for-profit R&D institution, and an unnamed OEM.

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