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AUGUST 23, 2012

and Renmatix, a manufacturer of biobased sugar intermediates for global chemical and fuel markets, have entered into a joint development agreement (JDA) to explore the feasibility of converting post-consumer waste into affordable, sufficient-quality sugars for manufacturing biobased materials using Renmatix’ supercritical hydrolysis technology.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2011

Virginia Clean Cities announced an additional nine fleets and more than 160 vehicles are joining the Southeast Propane Autogas Development Program for vehicle conversions to propane autogas and the installation of on-site fueling stations. the City of Carrollton Police Department in Georgia; Pearl River County, Miss.; Lee County, Ala.;

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JUNE 28, 2018

Now, an international research team has discovered and characterized a new family of cytochrome P450 enzymes critical to improving the conversion of lignin. Johnson found a cytochrome P450 that converts guaiacol to catechol in a single step. Cytochrome P450s have been studied for decades and have been classed into Families A through M.

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JUNE 24, 2014

Light-Material Interactions in Energy Conversion (LMI). Tailor the morphology, complex dielectric structure, and electronic properties of matter so as to sculpt the flow of sunlight and heat, enabling light conversion to electrical energy with unprecedented efficiency. Georgia Tech. Lead organization. EFRC Objective.

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AUGUST 23, 2017

CIRCUITS project teams will accelerate the development and deployment of a new class of efficient, lightweight, and reliable power converters, based on wide-bandgap (WBG) semiconductors. data center energy consumption and operating cost while creating a high-volume commercial market for SiC-based power converters. Earlier post.).

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NOVEMBER 28, 2012

Methane Converter to Electricity and Fuel. Bio2Electric will develop a small-scale reactor that converts natural. Natural Gas Reactor for Remote Chemical Conversion. convert natural gas into transportable liquids in one step. areas to convert otherwise wasted gas into usable chemicals that. The increased energy.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2011

Researchers at the University of Georgia have developed an industrial strain of the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae which produces ethanol much more rapidly than its parent in fermentations of pretreated pine. The final strain produced ethanol at more than 90% of the maximum theoretical yield after 120 hours of fermentation.

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AUGUST 21, 2017

Using a novel, reusable carbon material derived from old rubber tires, an Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)-led research team has developed a simple method to convert used cooking oil into biofuel. The patent-pending, waste oil-to-biofuel conversion adds a new approach to waste tire recycling initiatives. —Hood et al.

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JULY 17, 2017

The University of Wisconsin-Madison and ExxonMobil announced a two-year renewal of an agreement to research the fundamental chemistry of converting biomass into transportation fuels. UW-Madison has long been known for its expertise in biomass conversion. —Professor Huber.

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JANUARY 13, 2015

Scientists at the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) have developed an enzyme that can enable the conversion of biomass to sugars up to 14 times faster and more cheaply than competing catalysts in enzyme cocktails today. CelA converted to double that extent.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

Department of Energy (DOE) released a report suggesting that, in theory, over 300 former and present coal power plants could be converted to nuclear. Such a conversion has never been done, but the report is another sign that the idea is gaining momentum—if with the slow steps of a baby needing decades to learn to walk. “A

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APRIL 28, 2016

The converted F-150 will travel across the country from Kansas City to Seattle, WA, and back through the US, stopping along the way, to complete its journey in Jacksonville, FL, on 18 May, followed by a Homecoming event in Asheville, NC, on 23 May. Alliance’s new Engineered Conversion System, installed on a Bi-Fuel 2016 3.5-liter

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OCTOBER 9, 2014

Two of these selections will address research efforts on the efficient conversion of biogas (a mixture of gases generated from the biological breakdown of organic material) to valuable products other than power. million to develop a conversion process demonstrating the production of muconic acid from biogas. Earlier post.).

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FEBRUARY 3, 2011

The project would convert wood biomass into drop in biofuels such as gasoline and diesel fuel. The first two plants are expected to be in Mississippi, with additional sites planned in Georgia and Texas. KiOR, Inc., Earlier post.)

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AUGUST 16, 2015

A team at the University of Georgia, Athens led by Distinguished Research Professor Michael Adams has discovered tungsten in what appears to be a novel enzyme in the biomass-degrading thermophilic bacterium Caldicellulosiruptor bescii. bescii ’s primary metabolism, and its ability to convert plant biomass to simple fermentable sugars.

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OCTOBER 24, 2017

Phase 1 of the ABBA Integrated Biorefinery project, to be built at the AVAPCO Thomaston Georgia site, has begun. The project, which will co-produce full replacement renewable jet fuel, gasoline, diesel and Bioplus nanocellulose from woody biomass in an integrated biorefinery at AVAPCO’s site in Thomaston, Georgia, has received a $3.7-million

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JULY 1, 2013

The selected research projects will help maximize the amount of renewable carbon and hydrogen that can be converted to fuels from biomass and improve the separation processes in bio-oil production to remove non-fuel components—further lowering production costs. The projects selected for negotiation include: Ceramatec (up to $3.3

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FEBRUARY 17, 2009

Researchers at Virginia Tech, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), and the University of Georgia have produced hydrogen gas in a spontaneous, “one-pot” process using an enzyme cocktail, cellulosic materials from non-food sources, and water. Hydrogen production from cellodextrin and water by a synthetic enzymatic pathway.

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AUGUST 18, 2010

has produced cellulosic methanol from the initial phase of its first commercial cellulosic biofuels plant near Soperton, Georgia using non-food biomass. In the second step, the syngas is passed over a proprietary catalyst to produce methanol, which can then be converted in an additional reactor to ethanol. Range Fuels, Inc.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

streamline the process by which green plants convert carbon. production of oil, which is stored in seeds and is convertible to. plants, and it is a liquid that can be extracted readily, separated, and converted into biodiesel fuel. converted into a fuel mixture that is comparable to diesel or. The team will. field trials.

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AUGUST 1, 2020

Scale-Up of the Primary Conversion Reactor to Generate a Lignin-Derived Cyclohexane Jet Fuel. Microchannel Reactor for Ethanol to n-Butene Conversion. Georgia Institute of Technology. Decontamination of Non-recyclable MSW and Preprocessing for Conversion to Diesel. Electrolyzers For CO 2 Conversion from BioSources.

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JANUARY 27, 2023

This project will demonstrate the conversion of gaseous carbon wood wastes (terpenes) to renewable Terpenes SAF blending components. The ethanol will be converted to sustainable aviation fuel at LanzaJet’s Freedom Pines Fuels facility, in Soperton, Georgia. Comstock Inc., RTI International and partners at POET Research, Inc.

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JULY 26, 2012

The extracted rubber will be used in tire formulations, and the remaining plant residue will be evaluated for use in biopower and for conversion to jet fuel precursors. Fiber will be converted to ethanol, manure used for fertilizer, and oil from the crops will be converted to biodiesel used in farm equipment.

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APRIL 30, 2010

Today’s technologies for making biofuels all rely on photosynthesis—either indirectly by converting plants to fuels or directly by harnessing photosynthetic organisms such as algae. This process is less than 1% efficient at converting sunlight to stored chemical energy. Electrofuels: Biofuels from Electricity. Engineering E.

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JUNE 20, 2018

Researchers at the US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and the University of Georgia have developed a new genetic engineering technique significantly to improve an enzyme’s ability to break down biomass. It’s a matter of conversion efficiency.

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JULY 11, 2024

Facilities in Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Maryland, and Virginia are on the list. One company, Blue Bird Body Co, will use an $80 million grant to retool a Georgia facility to produce electric buses. General Motors is getting a half-billion dollars to convert a plant in Michigan for EV production.

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DECEMBER 23, 2016

Department of Energy’s Savannah River National Laboratory in South Carolina and the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta. Two possible projects highlighted in the application include: Pyrolysis-based Modular Energy Production Systems for conversion of wastes and biomass into fuels, chemicals and other products, with $3.2

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NOVEMBER 16, 2018

Georgia Tech Research Corporation. Georgia Tech will develop a new approach to internally cool permanent magnet motors. However, they currently operate using ethanol fuel, converted into hydrogen and carbon monoxide prior to entering the fuel cell in a process called reforming. University of California, San Diego.

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JUNE 12, 2012

Collaborators include Purdue University; Georgia Institute of. Collaborators include Sandia National Laboratories and Georgia Institute of. Alliance and Georgia Institute of. Recovery, Waste-to-Energy Conversion, and Waste-to-Chemical Conversion with Industrial Gas and Chemical Manufacturing Processes. University.

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MAY 19, 2014

The resulting roadmap uses the integration of genetic engineering with analytical chemistry tools to tailor the structure of lignin and its isolation so it can be used for materials, chemicals and fuels, said lead author Arthur Ragauskas, a professor in the School of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the Georgia Institute of Technology.

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OCTOBER 12, 2017

A ceramic-based mechanical pump able to operate at record temperatures of more than 1,400 ˚C (1,673 K) can transfer high-temperature liquids such as molten tin, enabling a new generation of energy conversion and storage systems. This would allow us to create a new type of battery. —Asegun Henry.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2019

Georgia Tech Research Corporation, EDISON – Efficient DC Interrupter with Surge Protection – $3,000,000. Georgia Tech is proposing a novel hybrid direct-current (DC) circuit breaker technology that will enable multi- terminal DC power systems.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

The winning project proposals (by award amount) are: Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority, Georgia: $10,800,000. MARTA anticipates that the power produced by these photovoltaic panels will be sold to Georgia Power under their Distributed Generation Contract Program. The largest PV installation in Georgia. Of that, $26.5

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OCTOBER 26, 2009

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. Towards Scale Solar Conversion of CO 2 and Water Vapor to Hydrocarbon Fuels. CARBON CAPTURE.

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DECEMBER 12, 2017

This work could be used to improve enzyme performance to better break down biomass and convert waste plant matter to renewable fuels and products. The new research, which focuses on the enzyme Cel7A that breaks down cellulose in plants to sugars, is detailed in a paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).

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JULY 16, 2024

To these ends, the US Department of Energy has established the Domestic Manufacturing Conversion Grant Program. Eleven at-risk auto manufacturing facilities in eight states—Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Maryland and Virginia—are slated to receive a total of $1.7 billion in funding.

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MARCH 25, 2024

Paul Kohl, Georgia Institute of Technology At the battery seminar, Wright showed off a BAT300 test channel designed to convert a 400 or 800 volt direct current down to a 10 volt current for cell formation or cell testing. Battery companies have expended enormous effort on predictive modeling.” Does it really do all those things?”

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