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3 MIT-led teams win DOE NEUP funding for next-gen nuclear technologies

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The award extends funding for the integrated research project (IRP) between MIT, the University of California at Berkeley, and the University of Wisconsin at Madison to develop a test reactor and, ultimately, a commercial high-temperature salt-cooled reactor, also called a Fluoride-salt High-Temperature Reactor [FHR]. Seawater uranium.

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EPA awards $8M in FY2014 clean diesel grants in 21 states, Puerto Rico

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The grants will fund projects such as retrofitting older school buses to improve air quality for children riding to school, upgrading marine propulsion and agriculture engines, and replacing long haul truck engines. Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin.

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Virent and HCL CleanTech receive $900K grant to demonstrate lignocellulosic sugars as feedstock for drop-in biofuels and bioproducts

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The grant supports almost half of the $2.1 The process chemistry works at low temperature and atmospheric pressure, resulting in very few degradation products and significantly lower energy and water consumption. Virent Energy Systems Inc. million total project cost.

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EPA awards $6.6M to universities for black carbon research

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million in grants to eight universities in support of black carbon research. EPA’s Science to Achieve Results (STAR) program awarded nine grants to support research to study the role and effects of black carbon. The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has awarded more than $6.6

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Researchers Show New Piezeoelectrochemical Effect Can Scavenge Energy Wastes Such as Noise or Vibration to Generate Hydrogen Via Water Splitting

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H 2 and O 2 are produced by deforming a ZnO fiber or BaTiO 3 dendrite in water via oxidation-reduction reactions. Materials scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have discovered a phenomenon—the direct conversion of mechanical energy to chemical energy—which they termed the piezoelectrochemical (PZEC) effect.

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Novel single-site gold WGS catalysts may offer pathway to lower-cost production of hydrogen, fuels and chemicals

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The water-gas shift (WGS) reaction (CO + H 2 O = CO 2 + H 2 ) is an important reaction for hydrogen upgrading during fuel gas processing. Our work showed that these single-site gold cations were active for the low-temperature water-gas shift reaction and stable in operation at temperatures as high as 200 °C. Herron, Ye Xu, Lawrence F.

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Argonne-led study insights help to reduce degradation in fuel cells and extend lifetime

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Through these processes, fuel cells produce electricity to power electric motors in vehicles and other applications, emitting water as the only by-product. The team found that controlled placement of gold in the core promotes the arrangement of platinum in an optimal surface structure that grants high stability. Lopes, P.P.,

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