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HCL CleanTech, a US-Israeli biofuels technology development company focused on full process technology for conversion of woody biomass to fermentable sugars and advanced biofuels, has selected NorthCarolina as the site for its administrative headquarters and pilot plant. NorthCarolina, with 17.6
Tesla supplier Piedmont Lithium has been granted approval to set up mining operations in NorthCarolina, though it still may face some barriers in developing a future operation. NorthCarolina has never denied a mining permit application before. Lithium hydroxide conversion facility.
Greenville County and Light’N’Up are two of nine conversion centers participating in the project. The conversion centers are trained and certified by Alliance AutoGas, a national network that provides fleets with a turnkey propane Autogas vehicle conversion and fueling solution.
Cool Planet has devised a biomass-to-liquids thermochemical conversion process that simultaneously produces liquid fuels and sequesterable biochar useful as a soil amendment. One of the catalytic conversion processes creates the high-octane gasoline blendstock. Earlier post.).
The company has current operations at 15 operating projects located in California, Idaho, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, NorthCarolina and Texas. The company sells RNG and renewable electricity, taking advantage of Environmental Attribute premiums available under federal and state policies that incentivize their use.
Funding to cover the parts and labor for vehicle conversions will be provided under the Southeast Propane Autogas Development Program. Fleets in the following states are welcome to submit proposals: Virginia, Maryland, NorthCarolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, Tennessee, Mississippi and Washington DC.
President Obama announced the selection of a consortium of businesses and universities, led by NorthCarolina State University, to lead a manufacturing innovation institute for next-generation power electronics. Earlier post.). reducing the size of a sub-station to a suit case).
In July, a team of researchers at BESC from NorthCarolina State University, Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the University of Georgia reported the analysis of the genomes of eight species of Caldicellulosiruptor and identified key proteins for the deconstruction of plant biomass into fermentable sugars.
The US Department of Energy is awarding up to $36 million to fund six small-scale projects in California, Michigan, NorthCarolina, Texas, and Wisconsin, that will advance the technology improvements and process integration needed to produce drop-in advanced biofuels and other valuable bio-based chemicals. Genomatica, Inc. (up
to construct a 20 million gallon per year cellulosic ethanol refinery in Sampson County in eastern NorthCarolina. In partnership with the Biofuels Center of NorthCarolina, Chemtex has identified nearby farmland that is currently growing Coastal Bermuda grass to manage swine lagoon effluent. million per year.
We hope the project will advance liquefaction by demonstrating cost-effective biomass conversion to stable bio-oils at mild conditions. In addition, it has more than three decades of experience in the conversion of syngas to liquids and related technologies.
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. Solid-State Solar-Thermal Energy Conversion Center (S3TEC).
The US Department of Energy (DOE) is awarding up to $12 million to fund three small-scale projects in Illinois, Wisconsin, and NorthCarolina that aim to commercialize novel conversion technologies to accelerate the development of advanced, drop-in biofuels and other valuable bio-based chemicals.
and NorthCarolina, is the largest private fleet of its kind in the Mid-Atlantic region. The conversion to natural gas will reduce the fleet’s annual oil consumption by more than 1 million gallons and result in 1,300 fewer tons of greenhouse gas emissions. The fleet, which operates out of SUPERVALU’s Mechanicsville, Va.,
other fleets; create vehicle conversion inspection criteria; and train and. alternative fuel vehicle conversions, equipment safety, and fueling. NorthCarolina State. University, North. Carolina Solar Center. The Alternative Fuel Implementation Team (AFIT) for NorthCarolina project.
The first initiative will invest up to $12 million over three years for four projects to advance technologies for the thermochemical conversion via pyrolysis of biomass into advanced biofuels that are compatible with existing fueling infrastructure. The US Department of Energy (DOE) will invest up to $16.5 With funding of up to $4.5
Panda Power Funds has financed the 1,124 megawatt Panda “Hummel Station” power plant—one of the largest coal-to-natural gas power conversion projects in the United States. The turbines for the Hummel generating station will be manufactured at Siemens’ manufacturing facility in Charlotte, NorthCarolina.
NovaCharge , an exclusive Southwest authorized channel for the ChargePoint plug-in charging Network from Coulomb Technologies, announced two sales distribution agreements: the first with NorthCarolina- and Virginia-based Advanced Vehicle Research Center ( AVRC ), the second with NorthCarolina-based Praxis Technologies.
The goal of this project is to develop a hybrid perovskite-silicon solar cell that significantly improves the light-to-energy conversion efficiency of conventional cells. Maximizing solar-to-fuel conversion efficiency in photo-electrochemical cells. Electrochemical conversion of carbon gases to sustainable fuels and chemicals.
Researchers at NorthCarolina State University have developed a highly effective new perovskite-promoted iron oxide redox catalyst for a hybrid solar-redox scheme they had proposed earlier for partial oxidation and water-splitting of methane. To further enhance this effect, they proposed a layered reverse-flow reactor concept.
The cost of electrofuels—fuels produced by catalyst-based systems for light capture, water electrolysis, and catalytic conversion of carbon dioxide and hydrogen to liquid fuels—remains far away from viable, according to a new analysis by Lux Research. Production costs per barrel of oil equivalent. Source: Lux Research.
Researchers from the University of NorthCarolina have synthesized high-photovoltage multijunction Si nanowires (SiNWs) that are co-functionalized to split water catalytically. When integrated with the co-catalysts and suspended in water, these light-activated nanoreactors produced hydrogen gas under visible and infrared light.
The selected projects will: Research and develop waste for energy conversion ($20 million). Topic Area 1: Characterization of Municipal Solid Waste to Enable Production of Conversion-Ready Feedstocks. NorthCarolina State University. Cascadia Consulting Group. University of Maryland: College Park. AMP Robotics.
Batteries, fuel cells and solar-energy conversion devices have emerged as a class of important technologies that increasingly rely on electrodes derived from nanoparticles. Warren, first author, now at the University of NorthCarolina at Chapel Hill. We’re aiming at a €5 charge per kilo ,” he said. —Michael Grätzel.
has successfully demonstrated the conversion of municipal solid waste (MSW)—household garbage—into jet and diesel fuels. For that process, Fulcrum uses a two-stage thermochemical process involving gasification of municipal solid waste (MSW) followed by the catalytic conversion of the syngas to ethanol. Earlier post.).
Under the three-year program, Eaton will develop and demonstrate a novel, compact and turnkey solution for DC fast-charging infrastructure that is anticipated to reduce costs by 65% through improvements in power conversion and grid interconnection technology, charger integration and modularity, and installation time.
AMPED includes several schools at Pitt, Carnegie Mellon University, NorthCarolina State University, national labs, and industry partners, bringing together an interdisciplinary skillset well-suited to the research and development of magnetic materials for power electronics and power conversion systems.
Scale-Up of the Primary Conversion Reactor to Generate a Lignin-Derived Cyclohexane Jet Fuel. NorthCarolina State University. . Microchannel Reactor for Ethanol to n-Butene Conversion. Decontamination of Non-recyclable MSW and Preprocessing for Conversion to Diesel. Earth Energy Renewables, LLC. UHV Technologies.
The project objective is to construct a new, commercial-scale lithium materials processing plant at Kings Mountain, NorthCarolina, that uses sustainably extracted spodumene minerals from the site’s lithium mine. Albemarle is finalizing the site selection for the lithium hydroxide conversion plant in the southeastern United States.
Simultaneously, the researchers will ascertain which chemical catalysts and operating parameters should be used to optimize the conversion of the fatty acids into the desired fuels. Dunaliella. Source: Texas A&M. Click to enlarge.
Sugars processed at HCL CleanTech’s demonstration plant operating at Southern Research Institute in Durham, NorthCarolina will be sent to Virent’s facility in Madison, Wisconsin for conversion into biofuels and biochemicals. Virent Energy Systems Inc. —Lee Edwards, Virent CEO.
The research program is focused on the key technology challenges for these concepts and supports cross-cutting activities, including Modeling and Simulation, Structural Materials, Energy Conversion, Nuclear Instrumentation and Control, and Innovative Manufacturing Approaches. NorthCarolina State University - $418,199.
Researchers at the Future Renewable Electric Energy Distribution and Management (FREEDM) Systems Center at NorthCarolina State University have developed an inverter for hybrid and electric vehicles using off-the-shelf components made of the wide-bandgap semiconductor material silicon carbide (SiC). kW/L by 2020.
NorthCarolina State. Jet Fuel From Camelina Sativa : A Systems Approach NorthCarolina State University will engineer the oilseed crop. Concentrating Solar Power/Nuclear: High Efficiency Solar Electric Conversion Power Tower Abengoa Solar will develop a high efficiency solar-electric. NorthCarolina State.
Conversely, Florida had its coolest, while South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas’ average temperature ranked among their 10 coolest. Both Louisiana and South Carolina experienced their sixth driest April. Conversely, it was Oregon’s tenth-wettest April on record.
Metabolix in collaboration with NorthCarolina State University. Develop a cellulosic butanol production process with high productivities, yields, and carbon conversion through novel metabolic engineering of two different pathways. These newly selected projects are intended to support this effort. BETO awards. Organizations.
The project “Maximizing Conversion of Biomass Carbon to Liquid Fuel” (0938033) will be led by Rakesh Agrawal, with colleagues Mahdi Abu-Omar, Nicholas C. Fundamental discoveries from this project will uncover links between the physical and chemical structure of biomass to the conversion process. Quick conversion of biomass.
Researchers at the University of Georgia and NorthCarolina State University have used a unique temperature-dependent approach in engineering a hyperthermophilic archaeon, Pyrococcus furiosus to be able to use CO 2 and hydrogen to produce 3-hydroxypropionic acid, one of the top 12 industrial chemical building blocks. Earlier post.).
Modular System for Direct Conversion of Methane into Methanol via Photocatalysis. Stanford University aims to develop a process-intensified catalyst for photochemical conversion of methane to methanol. In this project, NorthCarolina State University will synthesize and test a multifunctional core-shell catalyst.
Through its Biomass Crop Assistance Program (BCAP), for example, USDA is incentivizing more than 850 growers and landowners farming nearly 48,000 acres to establish and produce dedicated, non-food energy crops for delivery to energy conversion facilities.
This project will explore the unique capabilities of heat and mass transfer inherent in microchannel reactor technology with advanced catalysts to intensify chemical processes, resulting in more efficient conversion of cellulosic residues to liquid transportation fuels. DOE Awards. Exelus, Inc.
Community members in Portland, Oregon; Indianapolis, Indiana; and Raleigh, NorthCarolina soon expanding to the Triangle region have already agreed to work with RMI’s Project Get Ready. Corporate/city/state fleets commit to buy a certain number of plug-ins (RFPs for major purchases or conversions).
Center for Direct Catalytic Conversion of Biomass to Biofuels (C3Bio). $20. Use fundamental knowledge about the interactions between catalysts and plant cell walls to design improved processes for the conversion of biomass to energy, fuels, or chemicals. Solar Energy Conversion in Complex Materials (SECCM). Purdue University.
Early examples of this long-lived design are tough to find these days, so I was happy to find this '76 in a NorthCarolina self-service yard a couple of months back. It has a very mild conversion, including an aftermarket sunroof and map lights. It appears that this van has spent all or most of its life in NorthCarolina.
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