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AUGUST 2, 2011

The US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy (FE) has selected 11 research projects that will help find ways to extract more energy from unconventional oil and gas resources while reducing environmental risks for awards totalling $12.4 The selections include $10.3 The selections include $10.3 million in federal funds.

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APRIL 5, 2018

A research team led by the National University of Singapore (NUS) has developed an economical and industrially viable strategy to produce graphene. Preparation of ultra-high concentration graphene in water. b) New non-dispersion strategy for graphene production in water. g), high yield (82.5?wt%),

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JUNE 6, 2011

Proposed anaerobic hydrocarbon biodegradation pathways in oil sands tailings. The extraction of bitumen from mined oils sands produces enormous volumes of tailings—a slurry of slightly alkaline water, sand, silt, clay, and residual hydrocarbons—that are stored in settling basins; the current inventory is about 840 million m 3.

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JUNE 23, 2011

Neste Oil is continuing its research into the potential for using algae oil as a feedstock for producing NExBTL renewable diesel by taking part in two research projects starting this summer to test various methods for growing algae in outdoor conditions. —Markku Patajoki, the Head of Neste Oil’s Biotechnology Group.

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OCTOBER 4, 2009

Using CO 2 injection for enhanced oil recovery (EOR)—an established commercial practice that currently annually consumes some 50 million metric tons of CO 2 (the majority from natural accumulations)—has also been identified as a method of sequestering CO 2 captured from industrial sources, such as power plants. Credit: ACS, Jaramillo et al.

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OCTOBER 27, 2011

A University of Maine chemical engineer and his research team have developed a new process—thermal deoxygenation (TDO)—to transform biomass, including forest residues, municipal solid waste, grasses, and construction wastes, into a hydrocarbon fuel oil. This produces a reaction resulting in a dark amber-colored oil.

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OCTOBER 9, 2017

Researchers from the University of Liverpool (UK), with colleagues from Dalian University of Technology (China) and the University of Hull (UK), have developed a new process for the direct, one-step activation of carbon dioxide and methane (dry reforming of methane) into higher value liquid fuels and chemicals (e.g.,

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AUGUST 7, 2012

The BP-ICAM will be modelled on a “hub and spoke” structure, with the hub located within The University of Manchester’s Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences, which has core strengths in materials, engineering, characterization, collaborative working. The University of Cambridge also has a long association with BP.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2009

The Kansas Geological Survey based at the University of Kansas has received a nearly $5 million grant from the US Department of Energy (DOE) to study the feasibility of storing carbon dioxide underground. and Bittersweet Energy Inc. and Bittersweet Energy Inc. CO2 sequestration is in the early phase of implementation globally.

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OCTOBER 27, 2021

As electric utilities and policymakers seek solutions for storing and dispatching energy on demand, concentrating solar-thermal power (CSP) is once again gaining traction. Solar-thermal systems use sun-tracking mirrors to reflect sunlight onto a receiver, which contains a high-temperature fluid that stores heat. It's flexible.

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JUNE 9, 2017

VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland and Lappeenranta University of Technology (LUT) are beginning testing of the Soletair demo plant, which uses air-captured carbon dioxide to produce renewable fuels and chemicals. Proton exchange membrane (PEM) water electrolysis is used for hydrogen production. Phase 1: Renewable energy.

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OCTOBER 22, 2009

The Department of Energy (DOE) recently awarded The University of Texas at El Paso grants totaling nearly $1.3 million for research to improve the efficiency of engines and creating technologies for detecting, capturing and storing carbon emissions. Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering Chintalapalle V. Ramana, Ph.D.,

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NOVEMBER 12, 2022

That’s what John Hennessy, Stanford professor (and former president) and chairman of Alphabet , told attendees at the Stanford Global Energy Forum , held in-person this month on the Stanford University campus. Four startups presented particularly unique ways of addressing the challenge of reducing the use of fossil fuels. There are 2.6

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OCTOBER 9, 2014

Further, Parker Hannifin has paired a RunWise transmission with a CNG engine in the series hybrid powertrain as a one-off to test the waters for such a combination, McGrew said. The brake energy recovery system converts the vehicle’s kinetic energy into stored energy by compressing nitrogen gas in a storage device called an accumulator.

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OCTOBER 27, 2021

As electric utilities and policymakers seek solutions for storing and dispatching energy on demand, concentrating solar-thermal power (CSP) is once again gaining traction. Solar-thermal systems use sun-tracking mirrors to reflect sunlight onto a receiver, which contains a high-temperature fluid that stores heat. It's flexible.

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MARCH 19, 2012

The gases can thereby be stored and transported as a liquid, and used later in carbon-neutral energy applications, simply by adjusting the pH. Scientists at the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory and collaborators have developed a novel catalyst that uses CO 2 and hydrogen to store energy in formic acid.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2017

Carbon monoxide produced during this process can be used as a fuel by itself or combined with hydrogen and/or water to make many other liquid hydrocarbon fuels as well as chemicals including methanol (used as an automotive fuel), syngas, and so on. Ghoniem’s lab is exploring some of these options. and Ghoniem, A.

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JUNE 29, 2023

My visit starts in Helion’s capacitor “kitchen,” so-called for the various processes involving in coating, testing, and baking the thousands of oil-filled capacitors Polaris will need. Zap’s capacitor bank will store 1.5 The startup’s prototype reactor will need enough capacitors to store 50 megajoules of energy.

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AUGUST 30, 2009

The oil price shocks of the 1970s led the Brazilian government to address the strain high prices were placing on its fragile economy. Brazil, the largest and most populous country in South America, was importing 80% of its oil and 40% of its foreign exchange was used to pay for that imported oil.

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APRIL 18, 2022

To put it another way, instead of splitting water into hydrogen and oxygen with electricity, these two components are joined to make water and electricity The electricity is then utilized to power the car’s drive train, leaving just water as a waste product. So what is green hydrogen? Green Hydrogen & Its Production.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

West Virginia University, and the National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) are collaborating in the $13 million field trial, located in Marshall County, W.Va. These wells have been producing coalbed methane and water since 2004. Monitoring the quality of groundwater and stream water. CONSOL Energy Inc.,

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APRIL 30, 2010

This process is less than 1% efficient at converting sunlight to stored chemical energy. Water will be the primary byproduct. A novel metal complex for electrolysis of water will be used to generate the hydrogen at high rates. NC State University. per gallon. Harvard, Univ. of Delaware). of Georgia).

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AUGUST 13, 2021

This potentially creates hurdles for oil and gas majors such as Shell and BP, which have put production of the gas at the heart of their plans to go green. Hydrogen can also be generated by electrolysis of water. Our analysis assumes that captured carbon dioxide can be stored indefinitely, an optimistic and unproven assumption.

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AUGUST 21, 2020

More significantly it must be realized that hydrogen, just like a battery, is not an energy source in itself, but simply a means of storing energy. The only by products are water and a fair degree of heat, the latter indicating a degree of inefficiency and wasted energy.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2012

The projects are based in 24 states, with approximately 47% of the projects led by universities; 29% by small businesses; 15% by large businesses; 7.5% remote oil wells burn natural gas as a by-product because it is not. economical to store or transport. University. University. by national labs; and 1.5%

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NOVEMBER 16, 2010

According to a report to Congress by the US Department of Transportation earlier this year— Transportation’s Role in Reducing US Greenhouse Gas Emissions —for the current industry average LPG supply (60% produced from natural gas, 40% from crude oil), GREET 1.8b Stored and transported like.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

The projects selected are located in 25 states, with 50% of projects led by universities, 23% by small businesses, 12% by large businesses, 13% by national labs, and 2% by non-profits. The technology areas ( earlier post ) receiving funding are: PETRO: Plants Engineered To Replace Oil ($36 million). produces more oil per acre.

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APRIL 12, 2015

Researchers at the Skoltech Center for Electrochemical Energy Storage (CEES), a partnership between the MIT Materials Processing Center and Lomonosov Moscow State University, are focusing on the development of higher capacity batteries. Reversible fuel-electrolysis cells. earlier post ). —Harry Tuller.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2014

Honda next year will offer Californians futuristic sedans that can travel 300 miles (480 km) or more on a tank of hydrogen gas while emitting nothing more toxic than pure water vapor. Hydrogen is the most abundant element in the Universe but, on earth, it must normally be extracted from water or organic compounds.

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MAY 21, 2022

This is, after all, how all the energy stored in wood, coal, oil, and natural gas originally got here: It was transmitted 150 million kilometers through space as electromagnetic waves—sunlight—most of it millions of years ago. Can the same basic physics be harnessed to replace wires today? Lighthouse Dev in 2012.

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OCTOBER 26, 2009

Water (1 project). Arizona State University, in partnership with Fluidic Energy Inc., RTI International will work with ADM, Albemarle and ConocoPhillips to develop a novel single-step catalytic biomass pyrolysis process with high carbon conversion efficiency to produce stable bio-crude oil with low oxygen content.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2009

May, 2007 : An international team of researchers concluded that the ability of the Southern Ocean to absorb carbon dioxide had slowed by about 15% per decade since 1981 ( earlier post ), and projected that at the present rate of deterioration, it will have lost two-thirds of its ability to store carbon by 2050.

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JULY 17, 2015

Frank is Professor Emeritus, Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering at the University of California, Davis, where he established the Institute for Transportation Studies (ITS-Davis), and was director of the US Department of Energy’s National Center of Hybrid Excellence at UC Davis. Table of Contents. Engineering Advantages of PHEV.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2016

Researchers at the University of Texas at Arlington have demonstrated a new solar process for the one-step, gas-phase conversion of CO 2 and H 2 O to C 5+ liquid hydrocarbons and O 2 by operating the photocatalytic reaction at elevated temperatures and pressures.

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APRIL 20, 2022

They’ve also discovered that a huge quantity of water is necessary to put out an EV fire, so they’ll be prepared with a larger fleet of water tenders. The use of massive amounts of water, primarily to cool the batteries, or simply let the fire burn itself out is common in all procedures. Conclusion.

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MARCH 5, 2014

In addition, since producers of oil have lots of carbon dioxide available to them, companies are interested in using that carbon dioxide as an inexpensive feedstock to make value-added chemicals, including things like polymers.” Molybdate is relatively abundant and stable in air and water. —Knopf et al.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2015

While they store a high amount of energy compared to the other designs, their power output is comparatively low. Under a venture with the motto “From Road to Grid”, Audi is therefore currently working on a concept to convert old batteries into stationary energy stores. Pouch cells and prismatic cells are more versatile.

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