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Mangrove raises $3M from BDC Capital to accelerate deployment of battery-grade lithium processing systems

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Canada-based Mangrove Lithium closed a $3-million financing from BDC Capital’s Cleantech Practice. Mangrove is the developer of a modular platform for the cost-effective production of battery-grade lithium hydroxide. The platform technology is also being commercialized for conversion of waste brines to chemicals and desalinated water.

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Ceramatec licensing molten sodium technology for heavy oil upgrading; removing the need for diluent for bitumen

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Flowchart of Molten Sodium Upgrading process. The technology, developed by Ceramatec and managed by the Office of Fossil Energy’s National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL), has been licensed to Western Hydrogen of Calgary for upgrading bitumen or heavy oil from Canada. Source: Field Upgrading. Click to enlarge. Click to enlarge.

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DOE awarding >$24M to 77 projects through Technology Commercialization Fund

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Low Cost Roll-to-Roll Manufacturing of Reusable Sorbents for Energy and Water Industries, $150,000 Qualification of SAS4A/SASSYS-1 for Sodium-Cooled Fast Reactor Authorization and Licensing, $674,484 Advanced Reactor Concepts LLC, Chevy Chase, Md. Touchstone Research Laboratory, Triadelphia, W. TerraPower LLC, Bellevue, Wash.

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A closer look at graphite—its forms, functions and future in EV batteries

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They’re looking at every parameter and trying to optimize the performance that they’re after, and quite frankly, the cost. Because most of the vehicle cost is in the battery, as we all know, so it depends if it’s a high-end vehicle versus a more moderately priced vehicle—that will affect battery chemistry and other components as well.

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