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KIT team designs low-cost photoreactor for efficient solar-driven synthesis

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Researchers from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and their Canadian partners have designed a low-cost photoreactor design for solar-driven synthesis. The optimization is based on a 3D optical model that employs Monte Carlo ray tracing coupled to a plug flow reactor model that maps the chemical conversion.

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ARPA-E awarding $30M to 12 hybrid solar projects; conversion and storage

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Under the FOCUS program, projects will develop advanced solar converters that turn sunlight into electricity for immediate use, while also producing heat that can be stored at low cost for later use as well as innovative storage systems that accept both heat and electricity from variable solar sources. Earlier post.). 992,900.

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New long-duration, extended capacity Na-Al battery design for grid storage

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The new battery design could help ease integration of renewable energy into the electrical grid at lower cost, using Earth-abundant metals, according to a study just published in Energy Storage Materials. h is achieved with an estimated raw active materials cost of $7.02 mAh cm −2 , a discharge duration of 28.2 Weller et al.

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Harvard team demonstrates new metal-free organic–inorganic aqueous flow battery; potential breakthrough for low-cost grid-scale storage

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The two main components—the electrochemical conversion hardware through which the fluids are flowed (which sets the peak power capacity) and the chemical storage tanks (which set the energy capacity)—may be independently sized. The design permits larger amounts of energy to be stored at lower cost than with traditional batteries.

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XL Hybrids, Henley Transmission Services partner to certify AAMCO for hybrid conversion installation, servicing

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developer of a low-cost hybrid electric powertrain designed specifically for class 1-3 commercial fleet use ( earlier post ), has signed an agreement with Henley Transmission Services, LLC, the largest franchise holder of AAMCO automotive service centers, to certify AAMCO technicians to install and service XL Hybrids’ hybrid-electric conversions.

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Bio-inspired molybdenum sulfide catalyst offers low-cost and efficient photo-electrochemical water splitting to produce hydrogen

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“If we can find new ways of rationally designing catalysts, we can speed up the development of new catalytic materials enormously” —Jens Nørskov. The DTU researchers created a device to harvest the energy from part of the solar spectrum and used it to power the conversion of single hydrogen ions into hydrogen gas.

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SPX and Aker Wade partner to develop new low-cost fast chargers for EVs

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SPX Service Solutions, a business unit of SPX Corporation ( earlier post ), and Aker Wade Power Technologies, LLC, a designer and manufacturer of advanced fast charging systems ( earlier post ), signed a letter of intent jointly to develop a new family of practical electric vehicle (EV) fast chargers for the global vehicle market.

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