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MAY 24, 2013

Researchers from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and Ormat Industries Ltd. in Israel report the development of a comercially-viable, one-step catalytic hydrotreating process for the conversion of soybean oil to renewable diesel-type fuel in a paper in the journal Fuel.

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OCTOBER 13, 2020

Every year, Netherland-based student company TU/ecomotive produces an electric car with a team of 21 BA students from the Eindhoven University of Technology, with the aim of showing the world that a hypothetical, sustainable car of the future can be a reality today.

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DECEMBER 22, 2010

An EU-funded collaboration between universities and industry in Europe, Israel and the US is working to develop new engines, combustion technologies and fuels that will allow a substantial increase in the use of bioethanol in an urban context. United States: Exxonmobil Research and Engineering Company.

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APRIL 3, 2020

Ilika Technologies Ltd was founded in 2004 as a spin-out from the School of Chemistry at the University of Southampton. Ilika is headquartered in the UK and has operations in the US, China and Israel.

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JANUARY 6, 2013

Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) researchers are showing that data culled from geosocial networks such as the GPS traffic app Waze can help prevent traffic incidents with better deployment of police resources at the most accident-prone areas. Police were reported at least 15 times at more than 3,500 locations.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2013

Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) researchers are developing a process to hydrogenate carbon dioxide to produce a renewable alternative for crude oil. Moti Herskowitz is the Israel Cohen Chair in Chemical Engineering and the vice president and dean of research and development at BGU. — BGU’s Prof. Moti Herskowitz.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Israel-based StoreDot, the developer of extreme fast charging battery technology for electric vehicles ( earlier post ), has demonstrated a prototype 4680 form factor cell that is fully charged in just 10 minutes. StoreDot’s extreme fast charging cells have been in development for more than three years.

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JANUARY 5, 2011

Researchers at Tel Aviv University, Israel (TAU) have found that the exoskeleton of the Oriental hornet can harvest solar energy. Results of their study were recently published in the journal Naturwissenschaften. They also noticed that the hornet digs more intensely as the sun’s intensity increases.

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APRIL 2, 2012

Researchers from Bar-Ilan University (Israel) have accelerate the fermentation of sugars by yeast to produce ethanol by applying soft sonication. A paper on their results is published in the ACS journal Energy & Fuels.

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DECEMBER 3, 2011

Researchers from Bar-Ilan University in Israel and BASF report in a paper in press in the journal Electrochemistry Communications on the development of rechargeable lithiated silicon–sulfur (SLS) battery prototypes.

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JANUARY 31, 2011

Engineers at Tel Aviv University (TAU) in Israel are developing a mathematical model to lead to a software solution to improve urban bike sharing systems management. Tel Aviv University research is contributing to this plan, and the results will be used in a pilot site in Israel.

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MARCH 2, 2011

in Israel and Denmark by year end. Leading research institutes in Germany (RWTH Aachen, Fraunhofer Institute für Produktionstechnik und Automatisierung, and Technische Universität München), Denmark (Danish Technological Institute) and Israel (University of Haifa) will team together to provide research support.

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JULY 17, 2011

Researchers from Israel Institute of Technology and Pennsylvania State University report in a paper in the journal ChemSusChem on a Si–air/ionic liquid electrolyte battery whose performance improves with small amounts of water in the electrolyte.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2009

Separately, Capstone announced that it received notice of grant awards from the US Department of Energy (DOE) and from Israel’s Binational Industrial Research and Development (BIRD) Foundation to participate in two separate clean energy product development projects valued in excess of $3 million. DOE and BIRD Grants.

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JANUARY 25, 2022

Researchers from Lehigh University, in collaboration with colleagues from the East China University of Science and Technology (ECUST), have developed an induced activation strategy to enhance the performance of the ternary Cu/Zu/AL 2 O 3 catalyst towards the methanol steam reforming (MSR) reaction (used as a model reaction).

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MAY 24, 2011

The development team will train on existing prototypes in Israel, Portugal and Italy, then scale up the process at a 10-hectare demonstration plant. The process begins with strain selection and proceeds to biological optimization of the culture media, monitored algae cultivation, low energy harvesting and technology integration.

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MARCH 13, 2012

Tel Aviv University (TAU) has launched a pilot project in collaboration with a team from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to revitalize this aging model. Last month, a team of five TAU and 11 MIT graduate students visited Kiryat Gat, a mid-sized town in the south of Israel.

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JULY 15, 2013

Researchers from EPFL in Switzerland and Technion-Israel Institue of Technology have developed nanoparticle-based ?-Fe Avner Rothschild at Technion in Israel, developed an approach for correlating the spatial distribution of crystalline and current-carrying domains in entire nanoparticle aggregates. © LPI / EPFL. Click to enlarge.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Co-authors of the paper are Nikolaos Soultanidis, a Rice chemical engineering graduate student in Wong’s lab; Israel Wachs, Wu Zhou and Christopher Kiely of Lehigh University; Antonis Psarras and Eleni Iliopoulou of the Centre for Research and Technology Hellas; and Alejandro Gonzalez of the DCG Partnership, Pearland, Texas.

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JANUARY 3, 2012

Zhanqing Li (lead author), Feng Niu and Yanni Ding of the University of Maryland; Jiwen Fan of Pacific Northwest National Laboratory; Yangang Liu of Brookhaven National Laboratory; and Prof. Daniel Rosenfeld of The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Aerosols alter cloud density and the radiative balance of the atmosphere.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2014

Yissum , the Research and Development Company of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, is offering a novel anode for sodium-ion batteries (Na-ion, NIB) which enables the production of a battery with high capacity, excellent rate capability and good cycle performance. Yissum is the technology transfer company of the University.

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MARCH 9, 2022

Israel-based Electreon, a developer ofin-road wireless electric vehicle charging technology for shared, commercial and passenger vehicles, and ASPIRE (Advancing Sustainability through Powered Infrastructure for Roadway Electrification), an NSF-funded engineering research center, are launching a joint demonstration project.

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JUNE 7, 2023

The IEEE Fellow was a professor at the University of Texas at Arlington for more than 40 years. He founded the university’s Energy Systems Research Center in 1968 and served as its director until he retired in 2003. The attendees came from more than 750 universities and companies worldwide. Chen created UTA’s first Ph.D.

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AUGUST 24, 2022

As a step toward better understanding the prevalence of airborne nanoplastics, researchers from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel have developed a sensor that detects these particles and determines the types, amounts and sizes of the plastics using colorful carbon dot films.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2012

Air pollution, even at levels generally considered safe by federal regulations, increases the risk of stroke by 34%, according to a new study by researchers at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. —Gregory Wellenius, ScD, the study’s lead author and an Assistant Professor of Community Health at Brown University. —Murray A.

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JANUARY 13, 2010

The Environmentally Friendly Inter-City Aircraft powered by Fuel Cells (ENFICA-FC) project, led by Turin Polytechnic University, is ready for flight-testing its fuel-cell powered, manned inter-city aircraft. University of Pisa (IT) (laboratory tests on the electric system). The Rapid 200-FC in an aircraft braking test. Earlier post.).

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NOVEMBER 12, 2010

ETV Motors, an Israel-based technology start-up focused on developing battery technology for electric vehicles, has demonstrated the ability of its high-voltage High5ive battery technology to propel a radio-controlled airplane. The battery pack that powered ETVM’s RC airplane is based on the 4.7-volt

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JANUARY 28, 2019

Natron was founded as Alveo Energy in 2012 as a spin-out from research originally performed at Stanford University. Natron is backed by leading venture capital investors and has received support from the US Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E). Resources. Firouzi, R. Motallebi, C.W. Valencia, H.S.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2024

The IEEE Life Fellow, who in 2006 was head of Tel Aviv University ’s Porter School of Environmental Studies , was at the school’s cafeteria with a meteorological researcher. The method was first demonstrated in Israel. A passion for teaching Growing up in Israel, Messer-Yaron was interested in art, literature, and science.

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APRIL 15, 2010

A life cycle assessment (LCA) of biodiesel produced from castor bean varieties being developed by Israel-based Evogene Ltd. earlier post ) found that such biodiesel reduces greenhouse gases (GHG) emissions by 90% compared to petroleum diesel in the US.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

Researchers led by a team from Bar-Ilan University in Israel have designed a solar reactor for the solar-driven conversion of starch to bioethanol in a single step, with no additional energy input. They describe their work in a paper in the journal ChemSusChem. wt % ethanol collected daily (ca. 25 mL day −1 ).

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JANUARY 2, 2012

The two have joined forces with the company’s largest shareholder Israel Cleantech Ventures, a venture capital fund focused on backing Israel’s emerging clean technology companies, as well as B-2-V Partners and private investors. exchange membrane fuel cell (HEMFC) technology, recently announced a $9.2-million

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MAY 24, 2011

Shuguang Zhang, associate director of MIT’s Center for Biomedical Engineering, and postdocs Iftach Yacoby and Sergii Pochekailov, together with colleagues at Tel Aviv University in Israel and the in Colorado, have found a way to use bioengineered proteins to flip this preference, allowing more hydrogen to be produced.

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JUNE 30, 2014

The University of Sunderland (UK), working with a consortium of five other research partners from Italy, Spain and Germany, has been selected for funding by the €1-billion (US$1.4-billion) Source: University of Sunderland. billion) Graphene Flagship research initiative in Europe ( earlier post ) for their iGCAuto proposal.

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MARCH 2, 2014

The notion of combining the Atkinson cycle at part loads with the Otto cycle at full loads stretches back more than 30 years to a 1982 paper by a team of researchers from Tel-Aviv University and the Israel Institute of Technology. In a 1995 paper, Boggs et al. from Ford tested a modified 1.6L

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MARCH 31, 2020

Hyundai also will pursue open innovation with world-class educational institutions such as the Nanyang Technological University by conducting joint projects as well as co-founding separate research centers. The lab also will test a service using multiple modes of transport, as well as on-demand shuttle and last-mile mobility via e-scooter.

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The establishment of Open Innovation Labs forms part of the culture and innovation strategy of the Renault-Nissan Alliance: they enable opportunities for innovation to be cultivated on the basis of an open ecosystem (startups, universities, investors) and the local economy (local authorities, community organisations, customers, the market).

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