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BASF announces winners of the open innovation contest on energy storage

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Professor Patrik Johansson from the Chalmers University suggests the usd of abundant aluminum for a sustainable battery technology that directly addresses the need of low-cost concepts. The Open Innovation Contest on energy storage is coordinated by the BASF research unit “Process Research and Chemical Engineering.

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ARPA-E awards $55M to 18 projects in two new programs: TERRA for transportation energy and GENSETS for distributed generation

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The system will also incorporate low temperature, glow plug-assisted homogenous charge compression ignition (HCCI) combustion, which reduces heat loss from the engine and increases efficiency. The C-TEC uses an array of electrochemical cells to produce electricity in a sodium ion expansion cycle driven by external combustion.