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MARCH 19, 2021

A team of aerospace specialists has launched the first in-flight emissions study using 100% sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) on a wide-body commercial passenger aircraft. —Steven Le Moing, New Energy Program Manager, Airbus. The SAF will be provided by Neste, a leading worldwide supplier of sustainable aviation fuel.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2018

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has released two studies from the Co-Optimization of Engines & Fuels initiative ( Co-Optima ) ( earlier post ). Researching engines and fuels as a system offers the opportunity to improve the affordability and efficiency of future gasoline engines for American families and businesses. Blendstocks.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2017

The new projects, undertaken in partnership with five US research institutions, will launch as part of CSRC Next, the Center’s new five-year program designed to support and inform a safe transition to future mobility. George Mason University. University of Washington. University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute.

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OCTOBER 30, 2017

Based on their findings in a new study, researchers from the University of Washington and the University of Minnesota suggest that modifying urban form—as a means of affecting motor vehicle usage—may be a strategy to mitigate urban air pollution. More than half of the world population, 3.9 —Bechle et al.

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AUGUST 14, 2022

Researchers from the City University of Hong Kong, Hunan University, Central South University in China and the University of Tennessee has discovered a new mechanism to increase the strength and the ductility of a high-entropy alloy. —Professor Yang. Li, Jia et al. 2200607119.

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OCTOBER 22, 2015

A researcher at The University of Texas at Austin will receive two grants totaling $15 million to study switchgrass ( Panicum virgatum ), with a focus on how it can become a sustainable source of bioenergy. The study lets us ask the really classic nature-nurture question. Both grants begin this fall.

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MAY 26, 2022

—James Turner, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Clean Combustion Research Center, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST). The newly formed organization will host a series of meetings of its members to exchange research results, insights, and ideas. Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2017

A study describing the research is published in Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres , a publication of the American Geophysical Union. Their study regions focused on North America, Europe and East Asia during the summer months, when abundant sunlight triggers the highest rates of ozone formation.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2016

The spatial distribution of emissions dominates global tropospheric ozone, suggesting that the future ozone burden will be determined mainly by emissions from low latitudes, they concluded. The work provides strategic insight on where in the world to reduce emissions of pollutants that form ozone. Jason West, corresponding author.

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JANUARY 8, 2021

D2H built a 32-cell battery test rig for the physical testing aspects that could evaluate the performance of cutting edge immersive versus contemporary cold-plate cooling methods before generation of a Computational Fluid Design (CFD) model to accelerate comparative studies that examined the cooling characteristics of various fluids.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has [link] Michigan State University a $5-million grant to study how biofuel crops acquire nitrogen, insights that could help maximize yields while minimizing fertilizer use. The team will conduct the study at six sites in Michigan and Wisconsin. —Sarah Evans.

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MAY 9, 2014

A team from seven US universities and the Korea Institue of Science and Technology, led by George Huber, Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has developed an integrated catalytic process for the conversion of whole biomass into drop-in aviation fuels with maximal carbon yields.

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AUGUST 19, 2020

The results of the study were published in the Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists. The study, set in Singapore, suggests that better air quality will bring about climate co-benefits in reducing electricity generation via lower household demand, and thus mitigating carbon emissions. —Prof Salvo.

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AUGUST 27, 2016

A study led by chemists at the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA) indicates that highly variable contamination events registered in and around unconventional oil and gas developments are the result of operational inefficiencies and not inherent to the extraction process itself. —Kevin Schug.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

The US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement (BOEMRE) today recently signed a cooperative agreement with the University of Texas at Austin and a team of Arctic researchers for a comprehensive study of the Hanna Shoal ecosystem in the Chukchi Sea off Alaska’s northwest coast. Study on fracturing of sea ice.

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Sixteen students at Osaka University got the chance to eat one of these wiggly little robots. These imitations are expected to provide deep insights into the psychological and cognitive responses elicited when consuming moving robots, merging technology with necessities and culinary traditions.

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MARCH 15, 2013

The study revealed surprising details of a short-lived early state in the chemical reaction, offering important clues about how catalysts work and launching a new era in probing surface chemistry as it happens. Future experiments at LCLS will examine more complex reactions and materials, Nilsson said. Resources. Dell’Angela, T.

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JULY 9, 2017

In a new study, a team from the University of Central Florida and MIT has found that the US Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) Standards is an effective policy solution that does increase the adoption of EVs, whether it is implemented alone or in conjunction with another policy such as government incentives. —Sen et al.

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MAY 14, 2010

The US Department of Energy has selected 7 projects to participate in the University Coal Research (UCR) program. University of California, Merced, Calif. Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pa. University of Missouri, Kansas City, Mo. Clemson University, Clemson, S.C. DOE award: $298,191).

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DECEMBER 4, 2017

EarthSense Systems—a joint venture between the University of Leicester and aerial mapping company BlueSky—has published MappAir, the first high resolution nationwide map of air pollution.

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JANUARY 10, 2017

Global auto supplier DENSO announced the opening of the DENSO R&D Lab at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor to accelerate development of new auto safety technologies and create new research opportunities for engineering students. DENSO’s lab is a simulation environment with high-speed computing and high-capacity data storage.

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JULY 20, 2014

The US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy will award $9 million over five years to organizations to assist it in building domestic and international consensus on future fossil energy technologies ( DE-FOA-0001111 ). These consultations could involve face-to-face meetings and discussions with the selected experts.

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AUGUST 2, 2017

Toyota’s Collaborative Safety Research Center (CSRC) announced a sweeping set of new research programs studying the opportunities and addressing the challenges of emerging vehicle technologies. Applying big data and safety analytics techniques to develop algorithms and tools to study naturalistic driving data.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2019

The Toyota Mobility Foundation (TMF) and its Thai partners in the Ministry of Transport, Bangkok Metropolitan Administration, Metropolitan Police Bureau, Chulalongkorn University and Grab Thailand will launch a project to ease traffic congestion on Rama4 Road. It will be known as the “Rama4 Model.”.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Shifting your organization's focus to finding new patterns in data and anticipating future trends can help you capture opportunities and prepare for risks. Examines the fundamental types of machine learning that drive business insights and reviews advanced computational intelligence for business processes.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2018

Source: University of Leicester. The study uses five different recognized methods for measuring the daily or seasonally highest ozone levels. Source: University of Leicester. Fleming, National Centre for Atmospheric Science at University of Leicester. Click to enlarge. Click to enlarge. TOAR is not just a report.

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MAY 13, 2016

Therefore, the experiment-based MD–RMC approach developed in this study could be a powerful and generic method to model disordered materials with structural heterogeneity based on both local and global diffraction data. —Hirata et al. The work is the result of a combined R&D effort between Nissan Arc Ltd.,

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NOVEMBER 20, 2013

The University of Texas at Austin. The University of Texas at Austin along with Ohio State University and Columbia University-Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory will examine what the primary influences are on the development of persistent, massive hydrate accumulations in deep sediments below the seabed.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

Researchers at Michigan State University will use a $1.1-million With larger plantings of switchgrass in the future, diseases will become much more intense. The scientists also will conduct a genome wide association study to identify genes involved in disease resistance. million U.S.

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Deploying self-propelling, compliant robots like Sensiworm would give operators virtually unfettered access in the future to perform inspections without having to disassemble the engine. [ The study not only proposes a solution for neural locomotion control but also enables insights into the neural equipment of the biological template.

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JUNE 2, 2023

HELIOCOMM: A Resilient Wireless Heliostats Communication System: This components-and-controls project by the University of New Mexico will model a resilient wireless communication system based on the principles of integrated access and backhaul (IAB) technology, entropy-based routing, dynamic spectrum management, and interference mitigation.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2010

Increased availability of low CO 2 sources of electricity and hydrogen could counter-intuitively delay, rather than accelerate, a large-scale transition to an electric and/or hydrogen vehicle fleet, according to a new study by researchers from Ford Motor Company and Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden. Wallington et al.

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OCTOBER 13, 2017

The focus of the study is on the behavior of the low-temperature chemistry (LTC) and the way in which it influences the high-temperature ignition. The insights gleaned will contribute to more efficient, cleaner burning engines. Image courtesy of Sandia National Laboratories) Click to enlarge.

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MARCH 14, 2019

The study, “The Birth of Mobility Culture,” also explores implications for brand marketers as consumer values shift from “me” to “we” and access to new mobility options increase. Understand their values, what advancements in automotive technology excite them and, equally important, their concerns about the future of mobility.

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MARCH 25, 2019

New research from a team at Arizona State University shows that even when receiving a big rebate from the government, consumers won’t always behave in expected ways. It was a great opportunity to get some insights from this natural experiment about trade-in promotions and the effect of trade-in rebates that nobody had looked at before.

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APRIL 26, 2019

Researchers at Michigan Technological University (MTU) have developed a data-driven optimization modeling framework to reconstruct the location-duration-path choices for the missing observations from incomplete data from connected vehicles. In the future, we’re going to have more connected vehicles. This is a big data era.

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JULY 30, 2021

The research team made up of scientists from the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford University, Hewlett Packard Labs, Penn State University and Purdue University were able to capture snapshots of atomic motion in a device while it was switching.

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