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JUNE 10, 2011

MIT and the IEA both have newly released reports exploring the potential for and impact of a major expansion in global usage of natural gas, given the current re-evaluation of global supplies. MIT: leaning toward conversion for light-duty vehicles. Earlier post.) I.e., on an energy basis at the point of use, the CO 2.

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

The US Department of Energy’s Nuclear Energy University Program ( NEUP ) has awarded research funds to the MIT Energy Initiative, CORE POWER, and the Idaho National Laboratory for a three-year study into the development of offshore floating nuclear power generation in the US. Source: MIT CANES. Funding would come from the $1.2-trillion

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JANUARY 14, 2022

Researchers at MIT have identified , quantified, and modeled a major reason for the poor performance of electroreduction processes to convert CO 2 to fuel or other useful chemicals. In all of these, I think the hydrogen co-evolution becomes a bottleneck. The research was supported by Shell, through the MIT Energy Initiative.

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JULY 25, 2013

A team of researchers at MIT is developing and testing a new silicon carbide (SiC) cladding material for nuclear fuel rods that could reduce the risk of hydrogen production by roughly a thousandfold compared to the common zircaloy cladding.

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AUGUST 16, 2013

During discharge, liquid bromine is reduced to hydrobromic acid along the lower solid graphite electrode, and hydrogen is oxidized at the upper porous electrode. MIT researchers have engineered a new rechargeable, membrane-less hydrogen bromine laminar flow battery with high power density. Credit: Braff et al. Click to enlarge.

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MARCH 27, 2011

In a presentation at the 241 st National Meeting of the American Chemical Society today in Anaheim, Dr. Daniel Nocera of MIT said that his team has developed a practical “artificial leaf”—a type of solar cell that shows promise as an inexpensive source of electricity for the poor in developing countries. Earlier post.).

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MARCH 9, 2010

Javad Rafiee, a doctoral student in the Department of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Nuclear Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, has developed a new graphene material for storing hydrogen at room temperature. Rafiee is the fourth recipient of the Lemelson-MIT Rensselaer Student Prize. Lemelson-MIT Collegiate Student Prizes.

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MARCH 5, 2013

A team of researchers at MIT has described a framework for efficiently coupling the power output of a series-connected string of single-band-gap solar cells to an electrochemical process that produces storable fuels. Such a system would use sunlight to produce a storable fuel, such as hydrogen, instead of electricity for immediate use.

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MAY 12, 2010

Nocera pictures small-scale systems in which rooftop solar panels would provide electricity, with any excess going to an electrolyzer to produce hydrogen, which would be stored in tanks. But in further work, “ we have totally gotten rid of the platinum of the hydrogen side ,” Nocera says. Earlier post.). 1001859107.

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APRIL 12, 2010

A team of MIT researchers, led by Dr. Angela Belcher, has engineered a common bacteriophage virus (M13) to function as a scaffold to mediate the co-assembly of zinc porphyrins (photosensitizer) and iridium oxide hydrosol clusters (catalyst) for visible light-driven water oxidation. Tags: Biotech Hydrogen Production Nanotech.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2019

Researchers at MIT have created a new technique that allows the observation of a metal surface during hydrogen penetration—the process that results in embrittlement of the metal. The findings are published in a paper in the International Journal of Hydrogen Energy. Courtesy of the researchers. —Kim and Tasan (2019).

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JUNE 3, 2014

Researchers at MIT have developed a method to produce inexpensive catalysts that can replace platinum catalysts in renewable energy technologies such as fuel cells. x C) nanoparticles are highly active and stable electrocatalysts. These surface impurities greatly reduce, or completely eliminate, the catalytic activity of WC.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

An MIT-led team of researchers from Taiwan and the US have successfully analyzed the performance of a class of materials considered a promising candidate for hydrogen storage: activated carbon that incorporates a platinum catalyst, allowing the hydrogen atoms can bond directly to the surface of carbon particles and then be released when needed.

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MAY 24, 2011

Researchers have developed a previously undescribed approach to optimize hydrogen production in a photosynthetic process by microorganisms such as algae and cyanobacteria. Adding the bioengineered enzyme increases the rate of algal hydrogen production by about 400%, Yacoby says. —Yacoby et al. ” —Iftach Yacoby.

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Everybody thought a fuel cell electric motorcycle was impossible, and a team of MIT students aims to prove them wrong. The post MIT Electric Vehicle Team Launches New Hydrogen Fuel Cell Motorcycle Into The World appeared first on CleanTechnica.

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JUNE 17, 2013

The new MIT proces converts furfural into GVL via a series of cascading (domino-like) reactions catalyzed by zeolites with Lewis and Brønsted acid sites. The new MIT production method, described in the June 11 issue of the journal Angewandte Chemie , eliminates both of those obstacles. Credit: Bui et al. Click to enlarge.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2014

The grant will support the commercialization and deployment of an energy storage system based on EnStorage’s proprietary hydrogen bromide (HBr) flow battery and Princeton Power Systems’ inverters and site controller.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Microfractures in metal alloys, though impossible to see with the naked eye, can easily spread when exposed to water or hydrogen and lead to major problems in structures such as bridges, electrochemical and nuclear plants and hydrogen storage containers, leading to failures and expensive repairs. Suter, Silvija Grade?ak ak & Michael J.

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APRIL 1, 2014

However, such arguments have been difficult to justify quantitatively, the MIT team notes; quantitative estimates of direct volcanic outgassing are much too small to account for the changes in the carbon cycle. Other proposals suggest secondary effects of the volcanism—such as raging coal fires—as the mechanism.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2017

MIT researchers have developed a new system that could potentially be used for converting power plant emissions of carbon dioxide into carbon monoxide, and thence into useful fuels for cars, trucks, and planes, as well as into chemical feedstocks for a wide variety of products.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

As investment in hydrogen-powered flight expands , airports and air carriers today are realizing that it’s not enough to retrofit or design new planes for hydrogen power. Hydrogen may be a good thing, but you gotta look at it from the full system level, right?,” The first challenge is hydrogen production.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Scientists have also already successfully applied this tool for prediction and discovery of materials used for clean energy technologies, including lithium-ion batteries, hydrogen storage, thermoelectrics, electrodes for fuel cells, and photovoltaics.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has awarded MIT associate professor of metallurgy Antoine Allanore a $1.9-million splitting water into hydrogen and oxygen. The MIT molten sulfide electrolysis process eliminates sulfur dioxide, a noxious byproduct of traditional copper extraction methods, instead producing pure elemental sulfur.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2013

MIT researchers have found a new family of highly active catalyst materials that provides the best performance yet in the oxygen evolution reaction (OER) in electrochemical water-splitting—a key requirement for energy storage and delivery systems such as advanced fuel cells and lithium-air batteries. Source: MIT. Grimaud et al.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Amogy, a developer of energy-dense ammonia power solutions ( earlier post ), and Trafigura , one of the largest physical commodity trading groups in the world, are partnering to study the use of ammonia as a carrier to transport clean hydrogen from point of production to point of consumption.

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MARCH 27, 2021

Now, a study at MIT has for the first time analyzed and quantified how bubbles form on these porous electrodes. The work is described in the journal Joule , in a paper by MIT visiting scholar Ryuichi Iwata, graduate student Lenan Zhang, professors Evelyn Wang and Betar Gallant, and three others. —Beta Gallant.

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

Researchers at MIT have carried out the most detailed analysis yet of lithium dendrite formation from lithium anodes in batteries and have found that there are two entirely different mechanisms at work. V vs. the standard hydrogen electrode). The work was supported by Robert Bosch LLC through the MIT Energy Initiative.

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AUGUST 17, 2021

Hydrogen and its derivatives could be that fuel, argues a commentary by four energy researchers in the journal Joule. However, they note, a clean US hydrogen economy will require a comprehensive strategy and a 10-year plan. John Deutch, an emeritus Institute Professor at MIT. —Arun Majumdar.

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AUGUST 29, 2021

A team at MITEI (MIT Energy Initiative) has found that hydrogen-generated electricity can be a cost-competitive option for backing up wind and solar. Applying the model, they found that the average LCOE associated with meeting this seasonal imbalance is $2400/MWh using a HFGT fueled with green hydrogen and $3000/MWh using a LI.

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JUNE 28, 2010

Researchers from MIT and Oak Ridge National Laboratory, led by MIT professor Yang Shao-Horn, found that La 0.8 In current fuel cells, the rate of oxygen reduction (that is, oxygen atoms combining with hydrogen) is the limiting factor in the power output of the device.

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AUGUST 15, 2016

A study by a team at MIT has concluded that roughly 90% of the personal vehicles on the road in the US could be replaced by an electric vehicle available on the market today, even if the cars can only charge overnight. Reed Faculty Initiatives Fund, and the MIT Energy Initiative. The study, he says, is both “interesting and useful.”.

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AUGUST 10, 2015

Advances in magnet technology have enabled researchers at MIT to propose a new design for a practical compact tokamak fusion reactor that might be realized in as little as a decade: the ARC (affordable, robust, compact) reactor. This significant improvement leads to a cascade of potential improvements in reactor design.

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JULY 18, 2015

Findings by MIT researchers could help advance the commercialization of supercritical water technology for the desulfurization and upgrading of high-sulfur crude oil into high-value, cleaner fuels such as gasoline without using hydrogen—a major change in refining technology that would reduce costs, energy use, and CO 2 emissions.

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MAY 26, 2020

Now, a team of researchers at MIT, Argonne National Laboratory, and other institutions, has for the first time been able to study the process at an atomic level directly. —MIT Professor Yang Shao-Horn. The new findings are reported in the journal Nature Catalysis. Giordano, L.

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APRIL 11, 2017

As part of MIT’s five-year Plan for Action on Climate Change, the MIT Energy Initiative (MITEI) has launched a major study—“Mobility of the Future”—to explore how consumers and markets will respond to potentially disruptive technologies, business models, and government policies.

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MAY 22, 2023

Amogy’s proprietary technology enables the on-board cracking of ammonia into hydrogen, which is then sent directly into a fuel cell. Founded in 2020 by four MIT PhD alumni with a shared vision, Amogy aims to enable the decarbonization of the heavy-duty transportation sector.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2019

At that temperature, Heliogen can perform CO 2 -splitting and water-splitting to make 100% fossil-free fuels such as hydrogen or syngas. The Heliogen team includes scientists and engineers from Caltech, MIT, and other leading institutions and is based in Pasadena, California.

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