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MAY 8, 2018

The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) is accepting grant applications for innovative, advanced fuel, and vehicle technology projects that will result in cleaner advanced alternative transportation within the commonwealth. The AFIG Program is funded by annual gross receipts tax on utilities.

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JULY 9, 2012

This program marks the first LNG rig conversion in the Marcellus Shale and will provide a cleaner burning alternative fuel for the region’s drilling operations. The LNG being used for EQT’s pilot program is produced locally from Marcellus natural gas reserves.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2009

The Pennsylvania Alternative Fuels Incentive Grant (AFIG) program has awarded Axion Power International, Inc. The tankers will collect waste vegetable oil from 750 of Ettline’s customers and deliver it to a processor for conversion to SVO. Energy Cooperative Association of Pennsylvania. Middletown Biofuels LLC.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2015

Panda Power Funds has entered into a joint venture with Sunbury Generation LP to develop, finance, construct and operate a 1,000 megawatt natural gas-fueled, combined-cycle power project near Shamokin Dam in Snyder County, Pennsylvania. The project has also received its water use and land development permits.

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OCTOBER 29, 2015

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 plant will be located at the site of the retired Sunbury coal-fired power plant near Shamokin Dam in Snyder County, Pennsylvania.

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OCTOBER 16, 2011

a developer of technology for the production of advanced biofuels and biochemicals from biomass and waste materials, achieved two years of successful operations at their cellulosic ethanol semi-commercial facility in Madison, Pennsylvania this month. Coskata, Inc.,

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NOVEMBER 11, 2020

BBU will deploy these additional vehicles across California, New York, and Pennsylvania. Built on Ford’s popular F-59 platform and electrified by Motiv, the EPIC F-59 chassis is available in Class 5 or 6 configurations.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2009

In turn, GENCO will provide the units to Wegmans at its distribution facilities for conversion of lift truck fleets in their produce and grocery buildings. At Wegmans’ Pottsville, Pennsylvania facility, the GenDrive units will be placed into Crown lift trucks provided by Lift Inc. The funding for the fuel cells is part of a $6.1

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FEBRUARY 17, 2012

the developer of high-octane renewable gasoline ( earlier post ) has produced its first sample of renewable drop-in gasoline through a proprietary combination of biomass conversion technologies that transforms herbaceous and woody biomass, in conjunction with natural gas, into high-octane gasoline. Primus Green Energy Ltd.,

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JULY 15, 2015

The projects conducted through this program are geared toward reducing the cost of coal conversion and mitigating the environmental impacts of fossil-fueled power generation. The Pennsylvania State University. Technologies developed in this project will set the stage for further validation in future field testing.

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JUNE 15, 2011

Acreage in Arkansas, Missouri, Ohio and Pennsylvania will be designated to grow giant miscanthus, a sterile hybrid warm-season grass that can be converted into energy to be used for heat, power, liquid biofuels, and bio-based products.

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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. Solid-State Solar-Thermal Energy Conversion Center (S3TEC).

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AUGUST 19, 2023

Researchers at Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT), with colleagues at the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Illinois at Chicago have developed an electrolyzer capable of converting carbon dioxide into propane in a manner that is both scalable and economically viable.

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JUNE 13, 2014

Pennsylvania State University placed third with its E85 series plug-in hybrid. Conferences and other events Conversions Fuel Efficiency High Octane Fuels Hybrids Plug-ins' Up front, a biodiesel GM 1.7L diesel engine powered the car after full charge depletion. —Ken Morris, vice president, global product integrity, General Motors.

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NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Unlike prior processes for converting alcohols into hydrocarbons with multiple steps for dehydration, oligomerization, and hydrogenation, the Vertimass consolidated alcohol dehydration and oligomerization (CADO) conversion is accomplished in a single reactor system using a metal exchanged zeolite catalyst. Hannon et al. GJ in the near future.

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JUNE 10, 2019

Magnetite, among other conversion-type electrode materials (i.e., In the following charge, this conversion reaction is not completely reversible—residues of metallic iron and lithium oxide remain. Because the conversion reaction is not fully reversible, these residual products accumulate.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2013

CNG conversions can provide stability against fluctuating fuel prices as well as lower vehicle operating costs for fleet administrators. Nearly 20 states—including Oklahoma, Texas, Pennsylvania and Florida—offer or soon will provide tax incentives or rebates for CNG-converted vehicles. CNG sells for an average of $2.10

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2013

While chemically converting natural gas to liquid fuels (GTL) is a proven technology that increases volumetric energy density, the current conversion approach through Fischer-Tropsch (FT-GTL) is challenged by both high capital costs and low conversion efficiencies. process intensification approaches for biological methane conversion.

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MARCH 28, 2013

STG+ technology converts syngas into drop-in high-octane gasoline and jet fuel with a conversion efficiency of ~35% by mass of syngas into liquid transportation fuels (the highest documented conversion efficiency in the industry) or greater than 70% by mass of natural gas. Primus Green Energy Inc.,

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MARCH 29, 2011

Multi-Level Approaches for Generating Carbon Dioxide (MAGIC) led by John Golbeck of Pennsylvania State University: Through this project, researchers will attach to the membranes of photosynthesizing cells special proteins that will pump carbon dioxide from the atmosphere into cells. In September 2010, an Ideas Lab was held in Asilomar, Calif.

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MAY 21, 2010

Pennsylvania State University - $1,377,444. 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.

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AUGUST 10, 2015

In combination with unique power electronics, the new PTO will improve energy conversion efficiency and the reliability of ocean wave-energy harvesting. The technology transforms the back-and-forth wave movement into a single-directional movement to more efficiently capture wave energy. INNOVATIVE STRUCTURES.

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AUGUST 15, 2017

the largest transit bus and motor coach manufacturer and parts distributor in North America, is advancing production of 105 Xcelsior diesel-electric hybrid, forty-foot heavy-duty transit buses for the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA). New Flyer of America Inc., the US subsidiary of New Flyer Industries Inc.,

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APRIL 26, 2009

Replacing lead acid batteries in electric lift trucks, these product installations will allow for fleet conversions within warehouses and distribution centers in Arkansas, Colorado, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina and Texas.

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MAY 4, 2012

If the potential of the sites is eventually fulfilled, they could safely and permanently store combined CO 2 emissions equivalent to that produced by more than 11 million passenger vehicles annually or from the electricity use of more than 7 million homes for one year, according to Environmental Protection Agency conversion data.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

million for the vehicle conversions. million electric and 485,000 natural gas customers in southeastern Pennsylvania and employs about 2,400 people in the region. The company expects to buy 20 Ford F550 utility trucks that will be modified as PHEVs over the next two years. The matching stimulus grant will provide up to $2.5

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MAY 9, 2016

A team of scientists from the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory, the University of Pennsylvania, and the University of Maryland, College Park, has developed an electron microscopy technique to visualize—in real time and at high resolution—lithiation pathways in electrode materials. Source: BNL.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2011

Primus says it plans to build its first commercial facility in Pennsylvania. The company’s thermochemical conversion process can be applied to the production of other fuels. As noted above, Primus claims to have simplified the MTG process, reducing the need for separation or end treatment.

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JANUARY 20, 2011

Coskata has been demonstrating the commercial viability of its process for more than a year at the company’s integrated biorefinery, located in Madison, Pennsylvania.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2012

The Pennsylvania Partnership for Promoting Natural Gas Vehicles project. other fleets; create vehicle conversion inspection criteria; and train and. alternative fuel vehicle conversions, equipment safety, and fueling. Purchasing Agreements; train and deploy Energy Coaches who will work. Delaware Valley. Regional Planning.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

Bayer Material Science LLC (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) will analyze an innovative, non-turbine approach to harnessing river currents. The goal is to develop an optimal generator for current energy conversion. The numerical model will greatly reduce deployment risk and add to design surety for floating ocean thermal conversion platforms.

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JUNE 26, 2021

Bunting-Dubois (Dubois, Pennsylvania). Westinghouse Electric Company (Cranberry Township, Pennsylvania). Highly Efficient Electrocatalysts for Direct Conversion Of CO2 To Chemicals, $250,000. Bio-based Insecticides from Thermochemical Conversion of Biomass, $100,000. Intellimation, LLC (Berwyn, Pennsylvania).

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AUGUST 7, 2009

Pennsylvania State University. 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. EFRC Objective. Purdue University.

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The Truth About Cars

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

This Pennsylvania-based car has 185K miles on the chassis but just 5K on the engine. Today we bring you a 1995 Acura Integra Turbo. It's also modified up the wazoo.

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AUGUST 10, 2011

This project will develop a novel low cost route to carbon fiber using a lignin/PAN hybrid precursor and carbon fiber conversion technologies leading to high performance, low-cost carbon fiber. The Pennsylvania State University. Solid state thermoelectric energy conversion devices. Zoltek Companies, Inc. Grantee Description.

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JULY 11, 2024

The facilities that would be supported by the grant are located in Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Virginia, Maryland, and Georgia. The projects are expected to create over 2,900 jobs and retain 15,000 highly skilled union workers, the US Department of Energy (DoE) noted.

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APRIL 12, 2010

There is a daunting combination of problems to be solved before this or any other artificial photosynthetic system could actually be useful for energy conversion. The team is also working to find a more commonplace, less-expensive material for the catalyst, to replace the relatively rare and costly iridium used in this proof-of-concept study.

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