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AUGUST 20, 2010

Kettering University, officials from Swedish Biogas International, Flint Mayor Dayne Walling and others unveiled Flint's first biomethane fuel truck. The Swedish Biogas Project will produce alternative energy from waste removed from the city's wastewater treatment plant.

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JUNE 24, 2015

Compared to other waste heat recovery systems, the E1 requires only minor up front engineering scope and no operation by the customer. It has long been our goal to be known as the ‘Intel Inside,’ or in our case, the ‘Alphabet Inside’ of waste heat recovery. According to TechNavio, 20-50% of global industrial energy is wasted as heat.

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AUGUST 18, 2020

The US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Reducing EMbodied-Energy and Decreasing Emissions (REMADE) Manufacturing Institute announced approximately $35 million to support research and development (R&D) that will enable US manufacturers to increase the recovery, recycling, reuse, and remanufacturing of plastics, metals, electronic waste, and fibers.

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AUGUST 7, 2022

Michigan will enable four new mobility services to help address challenges across the state related to sustainable transit, roadway safety, parking and staffing shortages in the service industry. In partnership with key universities, four companies—Bluecity, GEKOT Inc., Bluecity ($100,000).

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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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FEBRUARY 16, 2019

A goal of the ReCell Center is to drive toward closed-loop recycling, where materials from spent batteries are directly recycled, minimizing energy use and waste by eliminating mining and processing steps. Image by Argonne National Laboratory.).

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DECEMBER 30, 2010

At that level of efficiency, TE materials become useful in practical applications such as waste heat recovery in vehicles, Kaviany noted. The research is funded by the University of Michigan’s Center for Solar and Thermal Energy Conversion, which is funded by the US Department of Energy's Office of Basic Energy Sciences.

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JULY 17, 2020

The Research Foundation for The SUNY Stony Brook University. University of Delaware. University of Maryland. Marquette University. Washington State University. Colorado State University. Regents of University of Minnesota. Purdue University. Clemson University. Achates Power.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois. The University of Illinois will conduct research to develop a composite plastic heat exchanger for a low temperature gas streams common in industry. Colorado State University. Iowa State University. Michigan State University. Temple University.

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OCTOBER 28, 2009

Concept diagram of an SMA heat engine for power generation from waste engine heat. million (subject to final negotiation with DOE) to support building a prototype thermomechanical waste heat recovery system using a Shape Memory Alloy (SMA) heat engine to generate electricity from the heat in automotive exhaust. Source: GM.

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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. Geobacter removes any waste produced during glycerol fermentation to generate electricity.

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AUGUST 20, 2013

A team from the University of Michigan, Michigan State, and UCLA has designed synthetic fungal-bacterial consortia for the direct production of isobutanol from biomass. Dr. James Liao’s lab at the University of California-Los Angeles provided E. coli bacteria that had been engineered to convert sugars into isobutanol.

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DECEMBER 30, 2016

The LanzaTech facility will recycle industrial waste gases from steel manufacturing to produce a low cost ethanol intermediate: “Lanzanol.” LanzaTech captures the waste gas from refineries and manufacturing plants and feeds the CO-rich gas to microbes that consume the gas and produce ethanol. Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

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MARCH 7, 2016

A team from the University of Tennessee, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Stanford University, the University of Michigan and Forschungszentrum Jülich Institute of Energy and Climate Research has used neutron total scattering to gain new insights into atomic disordering of complex metal oxides.

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JANUARY 8, 2013

Each combination of enzymes will be tested on pretreated agricultural waste that can first be converted into sugars and then into bio-based products and advanced biofuels. MBI is a Lansing, Michigan-based not-for-profit company with 30 years of experience in accelerating the commercialization of bio-based technologies. Earlier post.).

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NOVEMBER 3, 2016

Michigan Technological University. The Ohio State University. The Pennsylvania State University. Purdue University. University of California, Berkeley. The University of California, Riverside. Vehicle demonstration will leverage the Smart City infrastructure in Columbus.

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DECEMBER 1, 2015

million to a project to develop a high-efficiency engine system that integrates a compact micro-hybrid configuration of a supercharger with an electric waste heat recovery system and employs high rates of recirculated exhaust gases. The project— Split Micro-hybrid Boosting Enabling Highly Diluted Combustion —is headed by Anna G.

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AUGUST 21, 2012

The process uses as its feedstock virtually any kind of nonfood biomass material—including wood, cornstalks and cobs, algae, aquatic plants and municipal solid waste—and produces gasoline, jet fuel or diesel fuel. For example, municipal solid waste plants may be smaller, and plants converting wood may be larger. Marker, T.

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JANUARY 18, 2011

A collaboration including researchers from Boston College, MIT, the University of Virginia and Clemson University have achieved a peak ZT (thermoelectric figure of merit) of 0.8 for the materials and possibly good enough for consideration for waste heat recovery in automotive exhaust systems. The study by Yan et al.

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AUGUST 20, 2013

Using fungus and bacteria together could be the secret to more efficient corn-based biofuel production, scientists from the University of Michigan say. Combining e.coli bacteria with the use of fungus enabled the scientist to turn tough, insoluble waste plant material into isobutanol; a a biofue[.]. Biofuels'

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DECEMBER 1, 2011

LanzaTech’s proprietary gas fermentation technology enables low cost production of sustainable alcohols and chemicals from waste gas resources that are completely outside the food value chain. The use of lignin opens up a new biomass waste stream for making economic renewable jet fuel. Earlier post.).

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JANUARY 13, 2024

To make enough hydrogen, it plans megawatt-scale electrolyzers plus Waste-to-Hydrogen and Plastic-to-Hydrogen innovations. As University of Michigan researchers recently highlighted, it depends on where you live. How much money will EV ownership save versus ownership of a gasoline vehicle? Looking at 14 different U.S.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2012

The Michigan Fuel Forward project will work with a wide range of partners. The Michigan Fuel Forward project will work with a wide range of partners. Michigan's first responders, mechanics, and electricians. gas-fueled school buses and solid waste collection vehicles and develop a. University, North. Clean Energy.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

Using a neutron beam, chemists and engineers at The Ohio State University have been able to track the flow of lithium atoms into and out of an anode in real time as a Li-ion battery charged and discharged. where they were assisted by the facility scientist, R. and Co, A.

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FEBRUARY 29, 2012

Burns’ talk came one day after Bill Ford’s keynote at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, in which he outlined a plan for connected cars to help avoid a potentially unsustainable future of what he called “ global gridlock—a never-ending traffic jam that wastes time, energy and resources.” ( Earlier post.).

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JANUARY 12, 2010

A range of cellulosic feedstocks used in the demonstration unit, including selected waste agriculture products, pulp, paper, woody biomass, algae and dedicated energy crops like switchgrass and high-biomass sorghum will be provided by Ceres Inc., Life Cycle Analysis will be performed by Michigan Tech University.

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JUNE 15, 2016

million on a state-of-the-art facility at the University of Michigan to boost research and development of advanced battery technology. Numerous Ford facilities send no waste to landfills. Ford will also spend $2.1 Earlier post.). Carbon dioxide emissions per vehicle produced has also improved.

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JUNE 21, 2016

Process intensification breakthroughs can dramatically shrink the footprint of equipment needed on a crowded factory floor or eliminate waste by using the raw input materials more efficiently. Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Michigan Tech Rail Transportation Program; Michigan Technological U.; Missouri U. West Virginia U.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

Ribeiro, all from Purdue University. The project “Lignin Deconstruction for the Production of Liquid Fuels” (0937657) will be led by Rodney Andrews, with collaboration from researchers Mark Crocker, Seth DeBolt, Mark Meier, and Samuel Morton, all from the University of Kentucky. Stikeleather, all from North Carolina State University.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2022

The selected projects—spanning 22 states and coordinated at universities, national laboratories, and private companies—will advance technologies for a wide range of areas, including electric vehicles, offshore wind, storage and nuclear recycling. Cornell University. Stanford University. The Ohio State University.

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AUGUST 26, 2009

Clean Energy Coalition’s CEC Michigan Green Fleets Initiative. The project will increase the use of natural gas, electric and hybrid electric vehicles in 13 sites throughout Michigan. Fleets include transportation authorities, cities, school districts, the University of Michigan, FedEx, and Meijer.

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AUGUST 25, 2009

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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APRIL 30, 2010

The project also includes a proprietary process to convert waste biomass into carbon dioxide and hydrogen to feed the bioreactor, allowing butanol production from waste feedstocks. NC State University. Medical University of South Carolina. Michigan State). Columbia University. of Georgia). Clemson Univ.,

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

DeCicco of the Energy Institute at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor presents a rigorous first-principles analysis that undermines the common “biofuels recycle carbon” argument. Avoiding CO2 releases that would otherwise occur (use biomass wastes; REDD). DeCicco 2013. Click to enlarge.

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OCTOBER 26, 2009

Lightweight Thermal Energy Recovery System: A grant of $2,655,174 will help General Motors to develop a shape memory alloy energy recovery system that converts waste heat from car engines to electricity. The aim is to deliver power from batteries to electric motors with up to 50 per cent more efficiency.

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MARCH 23, 2019

Heat exchangers are critical to efficient thermal energy use in a variety of applications, including electricity generation, nuclear reactors, transportation, petrochemical plants, waste heat recovery, and many more. HITEMMP projects include: Michigan State University. Missouri University of Science and Technology.

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MARCH 30, 2012

There is significant potential for the expansion of bio-based automotive parts and components manufacturing in the US Great Lakes region, according to a newly-released study conducted by the Center for Automotive Research (CAR), a nonprofit research organization based in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

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