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it needs to be converted into a form that plants can use. Golbeck, Penn State University; Christopher A. Voigt, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Susan Rosser, University of Glasgow; and Bill Rutherford, Imperial College London. Researchers led by Washington University in St. Maranas, Penn State University.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Other parts of plants are used for biofuels, but lignin has been largely overlooked because of the difficulties in breaking it down chemically and converting it into useful products. Lignin makes up the rigid parts of the cell walls of plants.

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The projects are based in 24 states, with approximately 47% of the projects led by universities; 29% by small businesses; 15% by large businesses; 7.5% Methane Converter to Electricity and Fuel. Bio2Electric will develop a small-scale reactor that converts natural. convert natural gas into transportable liquids in one step.

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MAY 15, 2021

NREL working with industrial partners (Genomatica and DeNora) will develop a biorefining concept that uses electrochemically generated formate as a universal energy carrier to facilitate a carbon optimized sugar assimilation fermentation to synthesize fatty acid methyl esters (FAME) without release of CO 2. University of Wisconsin-Madison.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

The projects selected are located in 25 states, with 50% of projects led by universities, 23% by small businesses, 12% by large businesses, 13% by national labs, and 2% by non-profits. University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Energy Plant Design The University of California, Los Angeles, will re-engineer. Lead organization.

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MARCH 22, 2010

Professor George Miley of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and director of its Fusion Studies Lab, reported on progress toward a “cold fusion battery”—a small power unit that uses a low energy nuclear reaction (LENR) (i.e., Vysotskii is a scientist with Kiev National Shevchenko University in Kiev, Ukraine.

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APRIL 12, 2013

Additionally, we need to find the best enzyme mixture to convert that cellulose into sugar. We have discovered a fungus from the digestive tract of a horse that addresses both issues—it thrives on lignin-rich plants and converts these materials into sugars for the animal.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2011

A chemical engineer at the University of Massachusetts Amherst has been awarded a one-year, $80,000 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to conduct basic research on the pyrolysis of wood. The research, to be done by Paul J. Dauenhauer seeks to unlock the complex chemistry of the process. Earlier post.)

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JUNE 10, 2020

Researchers led by a team at Washington State University (WSU) have developed a unique and inexpensive nanoparticle catalyst that allows a solid-oxide fuel cell to convert logistic liquid fuels such as gasoline to electricity without stalling out during the electrochemical process.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2013

One program, Reducing Emissions using Methanotrophic Organisms for Transportation Energy (REMOTE, earlier post ), provides $34 million to 15 projects to find advanced biocatalyst technologies that can convert natural gas to liquid fuel for transportation. Northwestern University. Pennsylvania State University.

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MAY 1, 2012

Dauenhauer of the University of Massachusetts Amherst has discovered a new, high-yield method of producing p -xylene—the key ingredient used to make plastic bottles—from biomass-derived dimethylfuran and ethylene. A team of chemical engineers led by Paul J. Lobo, Dionisios G. Resources. Vlachos, Raul F.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Koch School of Chemical Engineering Practice at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; and Yuanyue Liu, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Texas at Austin. Alan Hatton, the Ralph Landau Professor and Director of the David H.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2022

His successful leadership of an industrial AI team on defect inspection for manufacturing products is now a part of an AI curriculum at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Pyun received MS and PhD degrees in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University focusing on Machine Learning and Computer Vision. —LGES statement.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2022

The selected projects—spanning 22 states and coordinated at universities, national laboratories, and private companies—will advance technologies for a wide range of areas, including electric vehicles, offshore wind, storage and nuclear recycling. Cornell University. Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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OCTOBER 26, 2009

Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology will develop a paradigm shifting new all-liquid metal grid scale battery for low cost, large scale storage of electrical energy. Arizona State University, in partnership with Fluidic Energy Inc., DOE grant: $6,949,624). DOE grant:$5,349,932). DOE Share: $2,251,183).

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Based on scientific research initially performed in Professor George Huber's laboratory at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, the process has subsequently been developed by Anellotech. Founded in 2008, Anellotech has raised more than US$80 million in cash and in-kind contributions to date.

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JANUARY 12, 2012

A team at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, led by George Huber, has developed a new bifunctional catalyst (Ga/ZSM-5) that displays increased selectivity for the production of aromatic compounds during the catalytic fast pyrolysis ( earlier post ) of biomass. Credit: Cheng et al. Click to enlarge.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

The group investigating the production of bio-hydrocarbons will produce hydrocarbons by pioneering processes for chemically converting plant material and by natural microbial and fungal processes that are even less-explored. Ribeiro, all from Purdue University. Curt Conner, all from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst.

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JULY 17, 2020

The Research Foundation for The SUNY Stony Brook University. University of Delaware. University of Maryland. Marquette University. Slashing Platinum Group Metals Content in Catalytic Converters: An Atoms-to-Autos Approach. Washington State University. Colorado State University. Purdue University.

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MAY 10, 2016

With up to $3 million in available funding, DOE has selected two projects: one from Ohio State University and one from Massachusetts Institute of Technology that will receive between $1 million to $2 million. The DOE selections are: The Ohio State University (OSU). Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

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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. NC State University. Engineering E. of Georgia).

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AUGUST 7, 2009

US Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced the delivery of $377 million in funding for 46 new multi-million-dollar Energy Frontier Research Centers (EFRCs) ( earlier post ) located at universities, national laboratories, nonprofit organizations, and private firms across the nation. Pennsylvania State University. Purdue University.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

The Department of Energy is working with industry, universities, national laboratories, and other groups to develop technologies capable of harnessing these resources to generate environmentally sustainable, cost-competitive power. The DEG will generate electricity without the need for rotors or other moving parts. DOE Funding: $240,000.

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DECEMBER 9, 2015

University of Massachusetts Amherst computational chemist Scott Auerbach has been awarded a three-year, $330,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to improve basic understanding and optimize the catalytic process of producing fuels such as gasoline from plant biomass instead of from petroleum.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2012

The plasma reformer, installed into the engine compartment, convert fuel into hydrogen. In 2007, Vorbeck signed a worldwide license agreement with Princeton University for a patented method from the the Aksay Labs for manufacturing graphene at commercial scale.

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JULY 26, 2012

The project will focus on furthering the development of Ohio State University’s coal direct chemical looping process (CDCL). The CDCL process consists of a unique moving bed reactor where pulverized coal is fully converted using iron-based oxygen carriers. University of Kentucky Research Foundation. Washington University.

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AUGUST 22, 2016

To find out what vehicles on the road are currently emitting, Drozd and colleagues at the University of California, Berkeley; Carnegie Mellon University; the University of California, San Diego; and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology rented 25 gasoline-powered cars, including two hybrids, from residents in the Los Angeles area.

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JULY 2, 2017

Researchers from the University of Minnesota, with colleagues at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, have developed a new high-yield process—a hybrid of fermentation followed by thermochemical catalysis—to produce renewable isoprene from biomass. Joseph McAuliffe ( earlier post ).

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JUNE 12, 2012

The University of Utah Salt Lake is collaborating on the project, which will develop a process that sprays iron ore directly into the furnace chamber and uses natural gas, hydrogen, or syngas as a reducing. Collaborators include Duke University and Veolia, Inc. Collaborators include Purdue University; Georgia Institute of.

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MAY 15, 2023

Drivers who have been on the fence about converting to electric vehicles (EVs) got a lot of good news at the national level in 2022. These two programs promise to lower prices for many EV buyers, make it more affordable for businesses to convert their fleets to electric cars and expand the nation’s EV charging infrastructure.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois. The University of Illinois will conduct research to develop a composite plastic heat exchanger for a low temperature gas streams common in industry. Colorado State University. Iowa State University. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Michigan State University.

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MARCH 4, 2015

Researchers at the University of Houston, with their colleagues at Boston College, have created a new thermoelectric material—germanium-doped magnesium stannide (Mg 2 Sn 0.75 Opeil of Boston College, and Stephen Wilson of the University of California at Santa Barbara. C, said Zhifeng Ren, lead author and M.D. and PF of 52 ?

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JANUARY 20, 2015

Based on Anellotech’s innovative proprietary CFP technology, patents licensed from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, and Axens’ proprietary post-treatment hydrotreating process, this new technology will open the way to a competitive production of bio-aromatics from renewable resources with lower energy consumption and lower CO 2 emissions.

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HITEMMP projects include: Michigan State University. Michigan State University’s HIPPED technology is a highly scalable heat exchanger suited for high-efficiency power generation systems that use supercritical CO 2 as a working fluid and operate at high temperature and high pressure. Missouri University of Science and Technology.

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JULY 11, 2016

Anellotech’s core technology— Thermo Catalytic Biomass Conversion (Bio-TCAT)—is based on research initially performed in Professor George Huber’s laboratory at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst and subsequent developments by Anellotech.

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JANUARY 26, 2011

Endophytes are a class of fungi that live between plant cell walls; the cellular material in those plant walls can be converted into hydrocarbon compounds that work well as fuels for internal combustion engines. The first step has been to learn what kinds of compounds the fungus makes naturally on its own. “

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Belcastro , a lecturer at Yeditepe University, and Onur Ergen , the vice chair of research and development at the Istanbul Technical University’s Department of Electronics and Communication. As a post-doctoral research associate at the University of Texas, Kireev co-created a graphene tattoo that can accurately measure blood pressure.

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