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JUNE 8, 2022

Engineers at the University of Pittsburgh Swanson School of Engineering are using membrane distillation technology to enable drillers to filter and reuse the produced water in the oil and gas industry, in agriculture, and other beneficial uses. The team is back in the lab to find a fix. Shamlou, Elmira & Vidic, Radisav & Khanna, Vikas.

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MARCH 16, 2025

In a Saturday video originally posted by user on Douyin , the Chinese version of TikTok, a driver utilizes the Supervised FSD system while performing what’s called the “water challenge,” in which a cup of water is balanced on the driver’s side window ledge to see if driving is smooth enough to avoid spilling.

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DECEMBER 29, 2020

Researchers from Trinity College Dublin have shed new light on the formation mechanisms of a rare earth-bearing mineral that is in increasingly high demand across the globe for its use in the green energy and tech industries. Vegetation appears red, grassland is light brown, rocks are black, and water surfaces are green. Image: NASA.

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MARCH 6, 2023

Dow and X-Energy Reactor Company entered into a joint development agreement (JDA) to demonstrate the first grid-scale advanced nuclear reactor for an industrial site in North America. Earlier post.) Built with a high-temperature-tolerant graphite core structure, the Xe-100 is designed for a 60-year operational life.

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DECEMBER 13, 2020

Minneapolis-based Xcel Energy will work with Idaho National Laboratory to demonstrate a system that uses a nuclear plant’s steam and electricity to split water. The resulting hydrogen will initially be used at the power plant, but it could eventually be sold to other industries. Earlier post.) Prairie Island.

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JUNE 12, 2023

Unlike exhaust from burning coal and gas that contains CO 2 , burning hydrogen emits only water vapor and oxygen. Hydrogen is not a greenhouse gas, but its chemical reactions in the atmosphere affect greenhouse gases such as methane, ozone, and stratospheric water vapor. Sand et al. A global warming potential of 11.6 Skeie, R.B.,

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OCTOBER 25, 2021

The technology developed by the UBC researchers—thermal methane cracking (TMC)—can produce up to 200 kilograms of hydrogen a day using natural gas, without using water, while reducing or eliminating greenhouse gas emissions. SMR still emits a significant amount of carbon dioxide and uses large quantities of water and energy.

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MARCH 31, 2023

Demand for large-scale hydrogen projects from industry is steadily increasing. In response, H-TEC SYSTEMS, a subsidiary of MAN Energy Solutions, has developed a new Modular Hydrogen Platform (MHP)—a scalable system for the industrial production of green hydrogen.

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MAY 11, 2021

The water-atomized steel powder delivers mechanical properties superior to conventional metal manufacturing techniques, paving the way for advances in the use of 3-D printing technology for metal parts. —Rio Tinto Iron and Titanium Managing Director Stéphane Leblanc.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

Norwegian wholesaler Asko is among the first to operate a goods vehicle that runs on hydrogen, thanks to a collaborative effort by research scientists and industry. —Project Manager Anders Ødegård at SINTEF Industry. In addition to solar, Asko is a major industrial wind power producer.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

The feed-stock reduction is achieved primarily by supplementing the process with oxygen and hydrogen produced by water electrolysis units that are powered by clean wind and solar generated electricity. DGF’s cellulosic feedstock does not impair food supply and is essentially water neutral. —Christopher J.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

(a) A schematic diagram of the DAE module with a water harvesting unit made of porous medium soaked with the hygroscopic ionic solution. (b) c) Equilibrium water uptakes of hygroscopic solutions at different air R.H. (e) In the meanwhile, water scarcity has been exacerbated by pollution, industrial consumption, and global warming.

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DECEMBER 28, 2020

These are important raw materials for the petrochemical industry and are presently also only obtained from fossil crude oil. Jet fuel can then be obtained from the products after industrially recognized treatments such as distillation or hydro-isomerization. Fe 5 C 2 by CO 2 /water in the first hours of the catalytic reaction.

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MAY 4, 2022

As a comparison, LNG tankers use ballast water to compensate the loss of weight following delivery to ensure enough draft. The tanks will have a much lower boil off than those currently used in the maritime industry. Liquid hydrogen provides unique challenges in ship design and engineering.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 3, 2021

Scientists at the USC Wrigley Institute for Environmental Studies on Santa Catalina Island, working with private industry, report that a new aquaculture technique on the California coast significantly increases kelp growth, yielding four times more biomass than natural processes. The researchers used a depth-cycling approach—i.e.,

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 11, 2020

This award marks the first Advanced Class Gas Turbines in the industry specifically designed and purchased as part of a comprehensive plan to sequentially transition from coal, to natural gas and finally to renewable hydrogen fuel, and creates a roadmap for the global industry to follow. Earlier post.). and Hitachi, Ltd.

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APRIL 18, 2023

The key input/output/intermediate energy streams are composed of the PV-generated electrical work available for electrolysis, heat output from the heat exchanger and the external work required for water pumping. Within this reactor, photoelectrochemical cells use solar energy to split water molecules into hydrogen and oxygen.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2021

In this regard, photocatalytic water splitting has attracted significant interest as a cost-effective means to convert sustainable solar energy into valuable chemicals. Kazuhiro Sayama from the National Institution of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, and Prof. Kazunari Domen from The University of Tokyo, Prof. Credit: DICP.

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APRIL 13, 2021

As the heavy-duty transportation industry seeks greener alternatives to combustion engines, HT-PEM fuel cells promise a clean, efficient alternative. HT-PEM fuel cells have potential to revolutionize the heavy-duty transportation industry. —Rod Borup, Los Alamos program manager for Fuel Cells and Vehicle Technology.

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MAY 10, 2023

million to 10 industry-led projects to advance nuclear technologies, including two aimed at expanding clean hydrogen production with nuclear energy. Westinghouse Electric Company, Front-End Engineering Designs and Investigative Studies for Integrating Commercial Electrolysis Hydrogen Production with Selected Light-Water Reactors.

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MAY 6, 2023

Westinghouse Electric Company launched its newest nuclear technology, the AP300 small modular reactor (SMR), a 300-MWe (900MWth) single-loop pressurized water reactor. This brings licensing advantages and substantially reduces delivery risk for customers in the utility, oil & gas and industrial space.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

The system pierces the housing, applying the water exactly where it is needed: to cool the cells and modules in the battery housing. The piercing nozzle is driven into the battery with a force of several tons and the water is discharged directly into the battery through the perforated nozzle. Image: Rosenbauer.

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MAY 25, 2022

In addition, the metered addition of the urea-water solution can cause particles to form. Among other things, SCR technologies with urea-water solution are used as reducing agents for optimum nitrogen oxide conversion. These systems are now being adapted to the CO 2 -neutral fuel.

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MARCH 3, 2022

Green hydrogen, which is produced using an electrolyzer powered by renewable electricity to split water into hydrogen and oxygen, is expected to play an important role in the energy transition in coming decades with overall hydrogen demand expected to grow 5-7x over the next 30 years according to the Hydrogen Council.

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JULY 17, 2020

The partnership is part of Europe’s strategic industry initiative, the European Battery Alliance, aimed at building an independent, sustainable, and resilient battery industry in Europe. Over time, production volumes are expected to increase substantially. —CEO of EIT InnoEnergy Germany, Christian Müller.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 3, 2021

The blue crude process will use renewable electricity, water and CO 2 as feedstocks. The process starts when water vapor is broken down into hydrogen and oxygen. The plant NBC plans to build at Herøya Industrial Park will have a “significant capacity”. e-Fuels production use electrical power in the process.

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MAY 11, 2020

Just over a century ago, the discoveries by Haber and Bosch made possible the industrial production of ammonia and ammonia-based fertilizers that today feed the world and are the source of most of our nitrogen-containing chemicals, materials, and pharmaceuticals. Credit: Joule , MacFarlane et al. —MacFarlane et al. Generation 1.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2023

The use of vast amounts of high-purity water for hydrogen production may aggravate the shortage of freshwater resources. This is achieved by introducing a Lewis acid layer (for example, Cr 2 O 3 ) on transition metal oxide catalysts to dynamically split water molecules and capture hydroxyl anions. A cm −2 at 1.87 V V and 60 °C.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 31, 2020

Scottish Enterprise, Transport Scotland and the Hydrogen Accelerator, based at the University of St Andrews, have appointed Arcola Energy and a consortium of industry leaders in hydrogen fuel cell integration, rail engineering and functional safety to deliver Scotland’s first hydrogen powered train.

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MAY 2, 2022

Using a hematite photocatalyst, a team led by researchers from Kobe University has succeeded in producing both hydrogen gas and hydrogen peroxide at the same time from sunlight and water. Normally, photocatalytic water-splitting using hematite results in oxygen being produced from the oxidation of the water. Tachikawa et al.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 2, 2021

Moreover, they plan to transfer the action plan and the individual technologies for the production of fuel cells from research to industrial application. Hydrogen is set to be used in industry and in the future also in road traffic, finally heralding a shift away from gasoline and diesel fuel. © Fraunhofer IPT.

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APRIL 7, 2022

Veolia has been a major supplier to the pulp and paper industry since the 1960s for HPD black liquor evaporation systems. The Veolia black liquor evaporation systems for the pulp and paper industry feature methanol rectification and handling systems, among other characteristics.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 22, 2021

The green hydrogen produced by this new technology can be used for clean transportation or industrial applications or blended with natural gas. Less expensive technologies such as this can start a “virtuous cycle” of cost reductions, increased scale-up, and further cost reductions in turn.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 6, 2022

Northvolt and Stora Enso recently signed a letter of intent on a purchase of the Kvarnsveden Mill and the surrounding industrial area in Borlänge, Sweden. With its access to energy, industrial water and the broad production know-how in the region, Kvarnsveden is an optimal site for a gigafactory.

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APRIL 5, 2021

They precipitated lithium phosphate with a purity of 99.94% directly from the enriched solution, thereby meeting the purity requirements for application in the lithium battery industry. Preliminary economic analysis shows that the process can be made profitable when coupled with the Chlor-alkali industry.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

The engine block is derived from a Cursor 11 commercial vehicle engine manufactured by FPT Industrial and has already served us for five years in various research projects. The results of the project are partly public and are discussed jointly among competitors in the vehicle industry. Water is formed as a by-product.

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JULY 2, 2021

Bottom, secondary products recovered from the ash, from left to right: liquid sodium silicate or “water glass”, precipitated SiO 2 , precipitated ZnSO 4. Around three kilograms of carbon black—also known as industrial soot—are found in a standard car tire. © Fraunhofer IBP. billion add to the pile every year.

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