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MAY 26, 2022

Several organizations, encompassing companies, research labs, and academia, have formed the Hydrogen Opposed Piston Engine Working Group. The Working Group consists of members undertaking research and development in the field of hydrogen combustion in an opposed-piston engine. The only criteria emission of concern is NO x.

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OCTOBER 28, 2021

Volkswagen Group of America’s Innovation Hub Knoxville, the company’s technology unit for applied materials science, has expanded its research collaboration with Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and the University of Tennessee, Knoxville (UT). —Scott Keogh, President & CEO at Volkswagen Group of America.

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APRIL 20, 2023

Hyundai Motor Group (the Group) has started building an initial development model of a lunar exploration mobility rover in tandem with aerospace partners. Ultimately, the goal is to deliver a universally applicable mobility platform to handle a variety of payloads.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2021

Together with eight project partners, it is now seeking public funding to build one of the world’s first hydrogen-powered high-speed vessels. TECO 2030 has signed an agreement with UiT The Arctic University of Norway—which has a campus in Narvik—to cooperate on enhancing research and education in Norway on hydrogen and fuel cells.

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APRIL 1, 2019

A team of engineers has built and tested a radically new kind of airplane wing, assembled from hundreds of tiny identical pieces. Similar assemblies are being developed to build space structures, and could eventually be useful for bridges and other high performance structures. Wing is assembled from hundreds of identical subunits.

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OCTOBER 6, 2021

Biofuels producer Renewable Energy Group joined Iowa State University (ISU) at the BioCentury Research Farm (BCRF) to mark the start of a new hydrotreater pilot plant. Through the work being done with the hydrotreater pilot plant, REG will continue to build on feedstock abundance for the growing renewable diesel and biodiesel industries.

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JULY 26, 2022

Researchers at the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) have found a way to build high-temperature superconducting magnets made of material that conducts electricity with little or no resistance at temperatures warmer than before. —Yuhu Zhai, a principal engineer at PPPL and lead author.

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MAY 6, 2020

A team of researchers at the Institute of Technological Sciences at Wuhan University has demonstrated a prototype design of a propulsion thruster that utilizes air plasma induced by microwave ionization. Such a jet engine simply uses only air and electricity to produce high temperature and pressurized plasma for jet propulsion.

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MAY 13, 2023

TSMC), which was already building a $12 billion fab in Arizona , upped the investment to $40 billion with a second plant. But for the CHIPS Act to succeed, each fab will need hundreds of skilled engineers and technicians of all stripes, with training ranging from two-year associate degrees to Ph.D.s.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2022

Researchers at Stanford University have shown that porous polymer encapsulation of metal-supported catalysts can drive the selectivity of CO 2 conversion to hydrocarbons. This work was supported by grants from the Packard Foundation and the Precourt Institute for Energy at Stanford University. —Zhou et al. Asundi, Emmett D.

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MAY 28, 2023

The Ohio State (OSU) & Wilberforce University Team has been named the winner of Year One of the EcoCAR Electric Vehicle (EV) Challenge, taking the lead in the four-year collegiate engineering competition. Year One of EcoCAR is all about generating big ideas and developing a strategy for the remainder of the competition.

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JULY 6, 2021

Researchers at the University of Bath have developed a graphene oxide (GO)/polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) aerogel (GPA) weighing just 2.1 The aerogel could be used as insulation within aircraft engines to reduce the 105-decibel roar of a jet engine taking off to a sound closer to that of a hair-dryer. Rapisarda, M.,

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OCTOBER 20, 2021

reflective, developed by engineers at Purdue University, has earned a Guinness World Records title for the whitest paint. Such paints are considered to be a potential technology for keeping cities cooler and reducing electricity use; buildings with a coating of this would need to rely far less on energy-hungry air conditioning.

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AUGUST 15, 2021

A study by researchers at CU Boulder and Edinburgh Napier University finds that high-density, low-rise environments such as those found in Paris are the optimal urban form when looking to reduce greenhouse gas emissions over their whole life cycle. There is a growing belief that building taller and denser is better. —Jay Arehart.

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DECEMBER 5, 2022

The company will build two plants with a total capacity of 2 GW to produce green hydrogen. Cepsa is already working on the engineering and administrative processing of the project. The Huelva plant will start up in 2026, reaching full capacity in 2028, while the Cádiz facility will be operational in 2027.

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MARCH 17, 2021

The University of Michigan and Ford Motor Company are opening a new advanced robotics facility. U-M’s Ford Motor Company Robotics Building is a four-story, $75-million, 134,000-square-foot complex situated on the north campus. The new facility brings together U-M researchers from 23 different buildings and ten top-10 programs.

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DECEMBER 2, 2020

Researchers from London South Bank University (LSBU), School of the Built Environment and Architecture, are investigating the use of metal hydrides to absorb, release and store hydrogen for fuel cell buses. —Yunting Ge, LSBU Professor of Building Services Engineering. EP/T022760/1.

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JUNE 29, 2020

Credit: Princeton University. The system, easily integrated into today’s vehicles, uses Doppler radar to bounce radio waves off surfaces such as buildings and parked automobiles. —Felix Heide, an assistant professor of computer science at Princeton University. Image courtesy of the researchers.

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MARCH 30, 2022

Hyundai Motor Group will collaborate with the Saudi Arabian Oil Company (Aramco) and King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) jointly to research and develop an advanced fuel for an ultra lean-burn, spark-ignition engine that aims to lower the overall carbon dioxide emissions of a vehicle.

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DECEMBER 28, 2022

An apples-to-apples comparison of hydrogen production carbon intensity would hold benefits for stakeholders throughout the value chain—producers, users, engineers, academia, market participants, investors and policymakers.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2021

IBM Quantum is an industry-first initiative to build universal quantum systems for business and science applications. bp will work with IBM to explore using quantum computing to solve business and engineering challenges and explore the potential applications for driving efficiencies and reducing carbon emissions.

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OCTOBER 25, 2018

The US Department of Energy (DOE), General Motors and MathWorks launched the EcoCAR Mobility Challenge, the latest DOE-sponsored Advanced Vehicle Technology Competition ( AVTC ), revealed the 12 competing universities and named the Chevrolet Blazer as the vehicle platform selected for the competition. Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University.

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AUGUST 7, 2022

In partnership with key universities, four companies—Bluecity, GEKOT Inc., Additionally, UM partners will be able to build new applications on top of Bluecity’s standard solution, including sharing real-time traffic data with connected vehicles. The campus-wide study will evaluate the effectiveness of GEKOT’s solutions.

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DECEMBER 13, 2021

Led by Bosch, the University of Stuttgart, and the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), a total of thirty companies will define the foundations for software-defined manufacturing (SDM) over the next three years in the SDM4FZI research project (Software-Defined Manufacturing for the Vehicle and Supplier Industry).

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JANUARY 6, 2022

We set an ambitious goal in 2020 to create a tire made 100% from sustainable materials in 10 years, and our scientists and engineers have made great progress toward that goal. Separately, Goodyear announced it has developed and is testing a custom-engineered non-pneumatic tire (NPT) to support Starship delivery robots.

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AUGUST 8, 2020

Building on the UK’s leading electronics research, the resulting electric drive system exceeded the latest permanent magnet motor performance while simultaneously removing the need for both rare-earth magnets and copper windings, delivering a package both cost effective and recyclable at its end of life.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Of the $71 million, Achates Power will receive $5 million for work on an opposed-piston 2-stroke hybrid commercial vehicle system, and Cummins will receive $4 million for its work on an ultra-low emissions heavy-duty 10L natural gas engine. Tennessee Technological University. North Carolina State University. Project Description.

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MAY 19, 2019

NASA will provide $6 million over the course of three years to support a University Leadership Initiative (ULI) project focused on the development of a fully electric aircraft platform that uses cryogenic liquid hydrogen as an energy storage method. The two other awards are: Carnegie Mellon University. University of Wisconsin, Madison.

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MAY 24, 2022

The Ohio State University finished in second place and University of Alabama came in third. Managed by DOE’s Argonne National Laboratory, the EcoCAR Mobility Challenge builds on a 34-year history of DOE Advanced Vehicle Technology Competitions that have embodied the spirit of American automotive ingenuity.

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OCTOBER 22, 2022

The projects, led by universities, private companies, and national laboratories, were selected to develop technologies to advance UNF recycling, reduce the volume of high-level waste requiring permanent disposal, and provide safe domestic advanced reactor fuel stocks. Earlier post.) Award amount: $2,659,677). Award amount: $1,580,774).

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JUNE 8, 2021

HYSEAS III follows HYSEAS I and HYSEAS II, and aims to build on the previous projects’ findings by demonstrating that fuel cells may be successfully integrated with a proven marine hybrid electric drive system (electric propulsion, control gear, batteries etc.), This is part of HYSEAS III , a Horizon 2020 funded project ( earlier post ).

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MAY 7, 2021

A team of engineers at the University of California San Diego (UCSD) recommends expanding fast-charging stations for electric vehicles as campuses and businesses start planning for a post-pandemic world.

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JUNE 1, 2020

A consortium comprising Engie Solutions, Siemens Gas and Power, Centrax, Arttic, German Aerospace Center (DLR) and four European universities is implementing the HYFLEXPOWER project funded by the European Commission under the Horizon 2020 Framework Program for Research and Innovation (Grant Agreement 884229). million, of which €10.5

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OCTOBER 4, 2022

The Purdue University researchers who created the world’s whitest paint ( earlier post ) have developed a new formulation that is thinner and lighter—ideal for radiating heat away from cars, trains and airplanes. That’s fine if you’re painting a robust stationary structure, like the roof of a building. millimeters thick.

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MARCH 31, 2025

Its been a busy three years since IEEE Women in Engineering celebrated its 25th anniversary in 2022. It also works to inspire girls to pursue an engineering career. There are student chapters at universities around the globe. WIE facilitates the recruitment and retention of women in technical disciplines around the world.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Nestled at the foot of a steep, forested hill, 16 kilometers outside Wellington, New Zealand is a rather unassuming building; one among many on a research campus that was first established in the 1940s. The building is home to the Paihau-Robinson Research Institute , part of Victoria University of Wellington. C (75 kelvin).

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JANUARY 23, 2023

University of Queensland researchers, working in collaboration with the Technical University of Munich (TUM), have found a way to convert sugarcane into isobutanol— a building block of aviation fuel and other products—more efficiently. An open-access paper on the work is published in Chemistry - a European Journal.

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