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NOVEMBER 3, 2014

Researchers at the University of Wisconsin have disclosed a new method to convert lignin, an important component of biomass waste, into simple chemicals. The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation has filed a patent application on the process. —Shannon Stahl. —Shannon Stahl. Coon & Shannon S.

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MARCH 16, 2010

Materials scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have discovered a phenomenon—the direct conversion of mechanical energy to chemical energy—which they termed the piezoelectrochemical (PZEC) effect. Tags: Hydrogen Production Power Generation. Credit: ACS, Hong et al. Click to enlarge. —Hong et al.

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OCTOBER 16, 2014

Amyris has demonstrated industrial-scale production using its proprietary yeast strains to ferment sugars into renewable fuels that meet petroleum fuel specifications. Achieving the desired compositions from plant oils is often energy intensive, expensive, can be wasteful, and, in some cases, requires use of hazardous chemicals.

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MAY 15, 2021

Many biofuels, including ethanol, biodiesel and other products derived from organic material (biomass), are almost exclusively produced via fermentation. These fermentation processes create carbon as a byproduct, with some processes wasting more than 1/3 of this carbon as CO 2 emissions. University of Wisconsin-Madison.

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OCTOBER 18, 2020

As part of DOE’s Plastics Innovation Challenge, these projects will also help improve existing recycling processes that break plastics into chemical building blocks, which can then be used to make new products. Partners include Algenesis, BASF, Pepsi, Reef, and University of California – Davis.

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AUGUST 10, 2011

Wisconsin Engine Research Consultants LLC. The Pennsylvania State University. This project will develop and demonstrate dry process electrode fabrication to reduce cost of EV and PHEV’s innovations in lithium ion battery production. Advanced cells and design technology for electric drive batteries. Grantee Description.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

If you expand all of the combustion products from the air in the compression stroke at once, as in a typical engine, you end up with a pretty high pressure at the end of the stroke. Slowly decompressing the gases would waste less of that energy and make for a much quieter engine. —Timothy Shedd.

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AUGUST 26, 2009

Selected projects, by size of award, are: State of Wisconsin’s Wisconsin Clean Transportation Program. Fleets include transportation authorities, cities, school districts, the University of Michigan, FedEx, and Meijer. A CNG fueling station will be constructed at 2 of the recipient’s, Allied Waste, locations.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2020

At the conclusion of Phase 1, teams will be down-selected based on technical review to receive additional funding for development of selected alloy compositions and coatings, as well as the production of generic small-scale turbine blades to demonstrate manufacturability of designs. University of Maryland. University of Virginia.

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JUNE 26, 2021

Madison, Wisconsin). Application of Advanced Materials Processing to Enable Direct Production of Fast Reactor Fuel Alloys, $1,000,000. Northern Illinois University (DeKalb, Illinois). Highly Efficient Low-Thermal-Budget Hydrogen and Chemical Co-Production via an Electrochemical Activation of Propane, $100,000.

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OCTOBER 15, 2023

Gerald Kulcinski, University of Wisconsin A new breed of maverick fusioneers is aiming to solve the neutron problem. They also produce little or no radioactive waste. The company recently formed a partnership with Colorado State University to build one of the most powerful laser facilities in the world, in Fort Collins, Colo.

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MAY 18, 2019

Researchers from the University of Wisconsin Madison and ExxonMobil Research and Engineering have devised a two-stage process by which an alcohol such as ethanol or 1-butanol can be converted with high yields into distillate-range ethers and olefins by combining Guerbet coupling (the coupling of two alcohol molecules) and intermolecular dehydration.

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MAY 15, 2015

The program plans to provide $30 million to support 14 project teams in developing innovative, ultra-high-performance air-cooled heat exchangers, supplemental cooling systems and/or cool-storage systems that can cost-effectively and efficiently reject waste heat. University of Missouri, Lehigh University, and Evapco).

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JUNE 19, 2015

The six TERRA projects will receive a total of $30 million to accelerate energy crop development for the production of renewable transportation fuels from biomass and the 12 GENSETS projects are aimed at developing generator technologies that will improve efficiencies in residential Combined Heat and Power (CHP) generation. Purdue University.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2014

In particular, silicon nanowires (SiNW) are widely studied as a promising anode material for high-capacity LIBs due to its low cost of fabrication and volume production potential. Although future industrial-scale productions will be different from current lab-scales, the team noted, the fundamental mechanism and processes should be similar.

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JANUARY 3, 2013

A team of researchers led by James Dumesic and George Huber, both now at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, have demonstrated how C 5 sugars derived from hemicellulose can be converted into a high-quality petroleum refinery feedstock via a four-step catalytic process. Source: Olcay et al. Click to enlarge. hydrocycloaddition).

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AUGUST 15, 2010

Researchers at the University of Wisconsin–Madison led by James Dumesic have developed a catalytic process to convert cellulose into liquid hydrocarbon fuels (diesel and gasoline), using a cascade strategy to achieve the progressive removal of oxygen from biomass, allowing the control of reactivity and facilitating the separation of products.

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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. To ignore this potential is wasteful and foolish.

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APRIL 10, 2010

population and Gross Domestic Product (GDP), and one-third of all U.S. states (Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin) and one Canadian province (Manitoba). Firms can reduce emissions by substituting low-GHG fuels for other fuels, or by undertaking other changes in the methods of production.

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