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At the Port of Houston, the project team will conduct a feasibility study for scaling up hydrogen production and use. The study will examine policies, regulations, and economics so that industry can develop a strategic action plan to present to policymakers to enable heavy-duty fuel cell transportation and energy systems.

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JULY 10, 2019

The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced more than $24 million in funding for 77 projects supported by the Office of Technology Transitions (OTT) Technology Commercialization Fund (TCF). Commercializing 3D Printable Feedstocks for the Advanced Manufacturing of Energy Products, $300,000 MilliporeSigma, St. Madison, Wis. Louis , Mo.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2023

The projects would also help improve air quality in underserved areas of major American cities, including New York, Los Angeles, Houston, Chicago, San Francisco, Oakland, and Salt Lake City. The selected projects are: CALSTART: East Coast Commercial ZEV Corridor. Cummins Inc.:

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JULY 23, 2024

Kodiak Robotics is touting its latest milestone in fully autonomous commercial vehicles today after completing a driverless truck delivery to partner and customer Atlas Energy Solutions in Texas. The delivery marks a key step in beginning commercialized autonomous operations as early as next year.

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APRIL 25, 2023

The JV tankers Stena Pro Marine and Stena Prosperous were refueled with methanol via barge while discharging petroleum products at a terminal in the Port of Houston in the first week of April. Bunkering Methanol is widely available in the Port of Houston, which is the United States’ busiest port in terms of foreign tonnage.

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MARCH 2, 2022

ExxonMobil is planning a hydrogen production plant and one of the world’s largest carbon capture and storage projects at its integrated refining and petrochemical site at Baytown, Texas, supporting efforts to reduce emissions from company operations and local industry.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

A chemical engineer from the University of Houston is leading a $2.1-million The new engines, based on a lean-burn, compression-ignition technology, can’t be commercialized without a way to ensure they run cleanly to meet emission rules.

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AUGUST 2, 2011

Gevo and Sasol Chemical Industries Limited (Sasol) have entered into a definitive commercial isobutanol off-take agreement commencing in 2012. In June 2011, Gevo and Toray Industries, Inc. Gevo broke ground on the its Luverne, MN retrofit on 31 May 2011 and construction is proceeding on schedule. In June 2011, Lanxess Inc.

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NOVEMBER 23, 2022

SCALEUP ( earlier post ) provides a path to market for previously funded ARPA-E projects that have established market interest and proven successes within the respective industry. will work to commercialize hybrid electric propulsion technologies for aircraft. CorePower Magnetics, Inc. Award amount: $5,000,000). Niron Magnetics, Inc.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

To reduce the number of accidents in the global oil and gas industry caused by damaged pipelines, University of Houston researchers are developing an autonomous robot to identify potential pipeline leaks and structural failures during subsea inspections.

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APRIL 10, 2021

Syzygy Plasmonics, a technology company developing a high-performance photocatalyst for the industrial gas, chemical and energy industries, announced a $23-million Series B financing led by Horizons Ventures with participation from new global investors including Equinor Ventures. Earlier post.).

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NOVEMBER 28, 2022

The research follows government and industry investment to create infrastructure and markets for carbon-free liquid ammonia fuel that will not contribute to greenhouse warming. —Hossein Robatjazi, chief scientist at Houston-based Syzygy Plasmonics. —Yuan et al. Courtesy of Syzygy Plasmonics, Inc.

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AUGUST 4, 2021

McDermott International, a premier, fully-integrated provider of engineering and construction solutions (ECS) to the energy industry, has joined a consortium of public, private and academic partners collaborating on a US Department of Energy (DOE) project—Demonstration and Framework for H2@Scale in Texas and Beyond.

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OCTOBER 14, 2021

Shell and the consortium partners—including McDermott’s CB&I Storage Solutions, NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, GenH2 and the University of Houston—have been selected by the U.S. The University of Houston will focus their efforts on the creation of detailed thermal models of the proposed insulation systems.

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JANUARY 29, 2021

A team of researchers led by Zhifeng Ren, director of the Texas Center for Superconductivity at the University of Houston, has developed an oxygen-evolving catalyst that takes just minutes to grow at room temperature on commercially available nickel foam. If the cost is prohibitive, it will not make it to market.

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JUNE 15, 2022

Magnolia will source southern yellow pine pre-commercial thinnings, a byproduct of routine forest management operations. The company is also expected to utilize the state’s Quality Jobs and Industrial Tax Exemption programs. Arbor Gas recently announced a similar project in Beaumont, Texas.

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JANUARY 19, 2024

EV charging station manufacturer QCharge is actively pursuing the development of DC fast charging stations along major commercial routes from Washington State to Houston, Texas. QCharge’s mixed-use fast charging route is strategically designed to connect high-traffic commercial routes.

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JULY 13, 2016

Alphabet Energy, a startup commercializing low-cost, efficient thermoelectric materials for power generation leveraging technology initially developed at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory ( earlier post , earlier post ), has closed a $23.5-million million Series C round of financing.

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JUNE 4, 2024

US food delivery company Sysco added ten Freightliner eCascadia electric semi trucks to its Houston, Texas fleet. While a number of commercial fleets are still piloting one electric truck, or planning for tens of electric trucks in the next several years , Sysco Corp.

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JUNE 2, 2018

A team from the University of Houston and Hunan Normal University in China has developed an active and durable oxygen evolution reaction (OER) catalyst for water splitting that meets commercial crtieria for current densities at low overpotentials. to deliver 200 mA cm -2 , unsatisfactory for the commercial requirements of 1.8-2.4

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DECEMBER 20, 2013

In 2012, nearly 80% of total investment in the global fuel cell industry was made in US companies. In general, the report finds, trends for the fuel cell industry were encouraging in 2012. Daimler, Ford, and Nissan joined forces to develop a common fuel cell system and launch commercial FCEVs as early as 2017.

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OCTOBER 2, 2014

All fuels are distributed nationally by HYPERFUELS based in Houston, Texas. Gevo has executed initial commercial-scale production runs at its isobutanol facility in Luverne, Minn., and has a list of partners including The Coca-Cola Company, Toray Industries, and LANXESS, Inc.,

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OCTOBER 22, 2015

SG Preston, a Philadelphia-based bioenergy company, is partnering with IHI E&C , a Houston-based engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) subsidiary of Japan’s IHI Corporation , to develop and to construct a series of commercial-scale renewable diesel and jet fuel manufacturing plants, initially in the US Midwest and Canada.

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DECEMBER 16, 2022

ALLEN MEDAL Sponsor: IBM LYDIA KAVRAKI Rice University Houston “For foundational probabilistic algorithms and randomized search methods that have broad impact in robotic motion planning and computational biology.” IEEE FRANCES E. IEEE ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL MEDAL Sponsor: Nokia Bell Labs Corecipients: INGEBORG J. IEEE RICHARD W. IEEE JACK S.

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DECEMBER 16, 2012

Today, we usher in a new era of scale and scope in the American power industry, creating additional value for our shareholders and enhancing our ability to serve our growing retail energy customer base with safe, affordable and reliable power. Earlier post.). —David Crane, NRG’s President and CEO >.

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JUNE 9, 2010

CIRI) and Houston-based. Laurus Energy have formed Stone Horn Ridge LLC, a company created to commercialize syngas from underground coal gasification (UCG). The Anchorage, Alaska-based joint venture is developing syngas for power generation, synthetic liquid fuels and other industrial applications.

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JULY 21, 2023

The capital elevate will assistance Aurora establishing its self reliant trucking industry through the tip of 2024. It is going to get started with a direction between Dallas and Houston. Aurora anticipates spending $175 million to $185 million consistent with quarter on its approach towards a industrial establishing.

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AUGUST 20, 2011

GlycosBio), an international biochemical company commercializing high-value biochemicals, and Solix BioSystems, Inc. The tests were conducted at GlycosBio’s research facilities in Houston and led by Dr. Daniel J. More broadly this class of feedstock is important for the entire industry. Glycos Biotechnologies, Inc.

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MAY 19, 2016

The two will partner to develop an embedded, end-to-end parking solution for the auto industry. Atlanta-based Parkmobile is the largest provider of mobile payments for on- and off-street parking and mobility-related services for municipalities, universities, commercial operators and transit facilities in the US. INRIX, Inc.,

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JANUARY 30, 2016

and Houston, Texas. Ryder is also the leader in natural gas vehicle solutions for the commercial transportation industry, with more than 50 million miles of experience, 18 natural gas vehicle maintenance facilities, and more than 6,000 natural gas vehicle trained maintenance and support personnel.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

“Over the past 15 years, the emphasis has moved toward using [these materials] less as high-temperature superconductors and more as high-field superconductors,” says Venkat Selvamanickam , who directs the Applied Research Hub of the Texas Center for Superconductivity at the University of Houston.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

Anderson Chair professor of physics at the University of Houston and one of the corresponding authors of the paper. But earlier work faltered because lead-containing telluride, despite its strong thermoelectric properties, can’t be used commercially because of the health risks associated with lead, Ren said.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

GAMOW teams will work to close multiple fusion-specific technological gaps that will be needed to connect a net-energy-gain “fusion core," once it is ready, to a deployable, commercially attractive fusion system. The vacuum technology needed to operate a commercial fusion power plant does not currently exist, however.

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JULY 18, 2023

Erling Hesla Proponent of industrial safety standards Life senior member, 98; died 18 May Hesla was dedicated to improving electrical safety and the development of IEEE Standard 902-1988: Guide for Maintenance, Operation, and Safety of Industrial and Commercial Power Systems. in physics in 1970 from the University of Manchester.

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OCTOBER 14, 2014

New Flyer Industries Inc. The announcement of the fuel cell bus follows New Flyer’s unveiling of a battery-electric propulsion system to the Xcelsior transit bus lineup at the American Public Transit Association Expo tradeshow in Houston, Texas. The project aims to improve durability and lower costs.

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MAY 3, 2017

Dewei is committed to the successful development of fuel cell technology for commercial buses and trucks, as evidenced by our $42.8 million (RMB 300 million) investment in Chinese fuel cell production and establishment of a $428 million (RMB 3000 million) industrial fund. —Zhou Jianming, Dewei Chairman.

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NOVEMBER 24, 2011

Shell Lubricants announced the arrival of its first shipment of gas-to-liquid (GTL) base oil at the Port of Houston. The product, the first from the Qatar-based Pearl GTL plant to reach the Americas, will be stored at a hub in Houston and routed to Shell Lubricants’ GTL-enabled blending facilities throughout the United States.

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