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million in research, education, and training grants to universities that comprise the agency’s Air Transportation Center of Excellence (COE) for Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS), also known as the Alliance for System Safety of UAS through Research Excellence (ASSURE). Mississippi State University – lead University.

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OCTOBER 14, 2019

The states of Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Wisconsin, Illinois, Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, North and South Dakota, Nebraska and Kansas are home to a quarter of the US population and consume 30% of electric power generated in the US.

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MAY 3, 2021

Illinois Basin (Kentucky, Illinois, Indiana and Tennessee): Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois aims to lead a project to evaluate the domestic occurrence of strategic elements in coal, coal-based resources and waste streams from coal use. DOE Funding: $1,483,787. DOE Funding: $1,500,000. DOE Funding: $1,499,817.

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West Virginia Wyoming Coal North Dakota 305

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JUNE 18, 2021

million in additional financing from several investors, including the Iowa, Minnesota, Kansas and Illinois Corn Growers Associations. ClearFlame Engine Technologies , a growing startup dedicated to the development of clean engine technology ( earlier post ), secured $2.5

Diesel 321

Diesel Engine Fuel Iowa 321

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APRIL 24, 2010

Using innovative seismic-based technologies developed with funding from the US Department of Energy (DOE), a Kansas drilling company has discovered an untapped, 10-foot-thick oil zone in a developed Colorado reservoir. In 2009, the company drilled a well into a 6-foot-thick tight formation in Gove County, Kan.,

Oil 218

Oil Kansas Wichita Oklahoma 218

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AUGUST 5, 2009

Companies and universities in Michigan are receiving more than $1 billion of the grants. Manufacturing: Michigan and Kansas City, MO; Deployment: several utility partners’ fleets. Manufacturing: Kansas City, MO; Deployment: Several partners’ fleets. West Virginia University (NAFTC). Purdue University. Technology.

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Grant Lithium Ion Obama St. Louis 317

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OCTOBER 29, 2021

ClearFlame’s solution, grounded in technology developed during doctoral studies at Stanford University and validated using more than $3 million in grant funding, elevates combustion temperatures in order to enable use of non-traditional fuels without sacrificing performance. —BJ Johnson, ClearFlame CEO and co-founder.

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Financing Engine Iowa Diesel 318

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AUGUST 12, 2011

The 10 projects are located in California, Colorado, Illinois, Florida, Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, South Carolina and Virginia: Association Mapping of Cell Wall Synthesis Regulatory Genes and Cell Wall Quality in Switchgrass. Bartley, University of Oklahoma, Norman. Eric Beers, Virginia Polytechnic and State University, Blacksburg.

South Carolina 239

South Carolina Production St. Louis Missouri 239

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OCTOBER 30, 2018

A team from Georgia Tech, with colleagues at the university of Kansas, has designed a high-performance solid-oxide fuel cell that operates directly on nearly dry (only ~3.5 vol% H 2 O) methane at 500 °C, demonstrating a peak power density of 0.37

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Georgia Fuel Kansas Automobile 299

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JANUARY 8, 2010

The US Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has awarded more than $123 million in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act grants to support the construction of new scientific research facilities at 11 universities and one non-profit research organization. million to the University of Maine (Orono, Me.)

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Grant Kentucky Manufacturer Universal 225

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AUGUST 1, 2013

New Mexico State University ($5 million DOE investment): For its project, New Mexico State University will increase the yield of a microalgae, while developing harvesting and cultivation processes that lower costs and support year-round production. California Polytechnic State University ($1.5

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Supplies Fuel San Diego Hawaii 218

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DECEMBER 22, 2010

—Jake Beaulieu of the University of Notre Dame and the US EPA, and lead author of the PNAS paper. Linda Ashkenas of Oregon State University; Lee Cooper of the Chesapeake Biological Laboratory in Solomons, Md.; Linda Ashkenas of Oregon State University; Lee Cooper of the Chesapeake Biological Laboratory in Solomons, Md.;

New Hampshire 199

New Hampshire Global Climate Change Ozone 199

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MAY 6, 2011

University of Florida , Gainesville, Fla., The University will identify genetic traits in sorghum associated with drought tolerance through genetic mapping and will select strains that produce high biomass yields and can be easily converted to fermentable sugars. University of Kansas Center for Research , Lawrence, Kan.,

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Grant Production Conversion Hawaii 231

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MAY 16, 2023

Chemists at the University of Kansas and the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory have unraveled the entire reaction mechanism for a key class of water-splitting catalysts. Their work was published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).

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Hydrogen Kansas Universal United States 210

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JANUARY 11, 2013

The following projects have been selected for awards: Kansas State University, $5,078,932. Ohio State University, $6,510,183. The goal of this project is to make the oilseed crop camelina a cost-effective biofuel and bioproduct feedstock.

Montana 231

Montana Wyoming Convert Kansas 231

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AUGUST 14, 2018

Awards in this topic area, with the Federal share, include: Northeastern University: Developing Platinum Group Metal-Free Catalysts for Oxygen Reduction Reaction in Acid: Beyond the Single Metal Site. Indiana University, Purdue University: Mesoporous Carbon-based PGM-free Catalyst Cathodes. 880,034. . 1,600,000. . 600,000. .

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Hydrogen Fuel Universal Polymer 186

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AUGUST 2, 2012

Utah State University. Utah State University will develop electronic hardware and. Pennsylvania State University. Pennsylvania State University is developing an innovative. Washington University. Washington University in St. the University of Kansas, and Vanderbilt. This improvement in.

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Energy Storage Grid Electric Vehicles Energy 299

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DECEMBER 17, 2013

The University of Texas’s Center for Electromechanics, Electric Vehicles International, Hydrogenics USA and Valence Technology will also participate in this project. Sprint ($250,000 DOE investment): Headquartered in Overland Park, Kansas, Sprint will deploy fuel cell-powered backup power systems for rooftop telecommunications equipment.

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Hydrogen Fuel Memphis Atlanta 236

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AUGUST 12, 2010

Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford, Calif.) Clemson University (Clemson, S.C.) Clemson University researchers will evaluate the feasibility of using wellbore deformations to assess reservoir, caprock, and wellbore conditions. Montana State University (Bozeman, Mont.) Lawrence, Kan.)

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CO2 Oil-Sands Austin Universal 199

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AUGUST 22, 2016

Montana State University. Murray State University. University of Southern Mississippi. University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez. University of Kansas Center for Research Inc. Jackson State University. Research at the nexus of food, energy and water. Lead organization. Description. Benjamin Poulter.

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Water Puerto Rico West Virginia Energy 150

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APRIL 4, 2010

However, growing dedicated energy crops as an alternative to crop residue removal can provide a range of benefits. Crop residue removal can make no-till soils a source rather than a sink of atmospheric carbon ,” says Blanco, even at rates lower than 50%.

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Environment Energy Kansas Carbon 199

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FEBRUARY 19, 2014

A team led by Yang-Kook Sun at Hanyang University (South Korea), Bruno Scrosati at University of Rome Sapienza, and Khalil Amine at Argonne National Laboratory reports the development of a sodium-ion battery based on a carbon-coated Fe 3 O 4 anode, Na[Ni 0.25 Credit: ACS, Oh et al. Click to enlarge.

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Energy Storage Low Cost Conversion Sodium 230

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JULY 5, 2010

Washington State University has more than a decade of work on perennial wheat led by Stephen Jones, director WSU’s Mount Vernon Research Center. It really depends on the breakthroughs. The more people involved in this, the more it cuts down the time.

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Available Washington Argentina Kansas 170

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FEBRUARY 11, 2013

A team at the University of Kansas has demonstrated the feasibility of an integrated wastewater algae-to-biocrude process using hydrothermal liquefaction (HTL) that can sustainably cultivate algal biomass for biofuel production. Flow diagram of the solvent extraction and product recovery method used. Credit: ACS, Roberts et al.

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Conversion Water Carbon Oil 285

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AUGUST 10, 2016

The grants, which are funded through the EPA’s Science to Achieve Results ( STAR ) program, are being awarded to the following: Carnegie Mellon University will research the accuracy of air pollution sensors and the usefulness of the sensor data.

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EPA Denver Hawaii Low Cost 150

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APRIL 14, 2009

Smith Electric Vehicles US Corporation (SEV-US) and the Ohio State University Center for Automotive Research are participating in the Ohio Electric Drive Initiative as major program partners. SEV-US Corp will assemble all-electric commercial vehicles in Kansas City beginning in the third quarter of 2009. Bryan Hansel, CEO of SEV-US.

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Ohio Clean Cleaning Electric Vehicles 150

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APRIL 12, 2010

Organizations engaged in Phase One include Royal Mail, Transport for London, Warwick University and the councils of Camden, Gateshead, Islington, Leeds, Liverpool, Newcastle, Wakefield and Warwick.

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Kansas City Fleet Kansas Lithium Ion 186

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AUGUST 18, 2015

It also can be rotated with wheat and could become a biofuel crop for semi-arid regions, including western Kansas and Colorado. Camelina can grow on poorer quality farmland, needs little irrigation or fertilizer, and produces seeds that can provide gallons of oil, Durrett said. The researchers have been supported with a four-year $1.5

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Oil Industry Industrial Nebraska 150

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NOVEMBER 20, 2012

The Mid-America Collaborative for Alternative Fuels Implementation project will focus diversifying transportation fuel options in Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa, and Missouri. University, North. University of Central. . $750,000. Metropolitan Energy. Center, Inc. These efforts include: developing an. North Carolina State. 500,000.

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Clean Cleaning Alternative Fuels Fuel 308

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OCTOBER 10, 2009

Inclusion of fundamental ecological interactions between carbon and nitrogen cycles in the land component of an atmosphere-ocean general circulation model (AOGCM) leads to decreased carbon uptake associated with CO 2 fertilization, and increased carbon uptake associated with warming of the climate system.

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Climate Climate Change CO2 2009 199

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JUNE 13, 2012

The crop propagations, planting and mitigation and monitoring plan for Freedom Giant Miscanthus, a crop based on strains developed by Mississippi State University, will be coordinated by REPREVE Renewables LLC. REPREVE Renewables, based in Georgia, also is the sponsor of the project’s accompanying environmental assessment.

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Arkansas North Carolina Energy New York 218

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APRIL 14, 2009

Kentucky was selected over Texas, Illinois, Kansas, Missouri, New York, Pennsylvania and South Carolina. The National Alliance for Advanced Transportation Batteries (NAATBatt) ( earlier post ) has selected a site in Hardin County, Kentucky to build a more than $600-million automotive lithium-ion battery plant. Earlier post.).

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Li-ion Kentucky Transportation Lithium Ion 150

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APRIL 3, 2015

Results of a 14-week study by Rice University researchers suggest that algae monocultures for biofuel feedstock can be grown in open tank bioreactors using municipal wastewater as a nutrient source. For instance, the algae in the Rice study was four times more effective at removing phosphorous than were the algae in a Kansas study.

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Houston Kansas Production Oil 150

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“it’s gonna happen, but I don’t I don’t know if it’ll happen in your lifetime and mine,” says Ron Barrett-Gonzalez , an aerospace engineering professor at the University of Kansas. The University of Kansas team’s GoFly entry, called Mamba , had been one of 10 Phase I winners for best design. million machine.

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Kansas Universal Fusion Russia 93

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AUGUST 31, 2009

Auburn University of Auburn, Alabama (up to $4.9 million) will primarily target Abengoa Bioenergy’s cellulosic biorefinery, which is currently under development in Hugoton, Kansas. FDC Enterprises Inc. of Columbus, Ohio (up to $4.9 FDC Enterprises Inc.’s

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Alabama Columbus Kansas Supplies 186

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OCTOBER 3, 2009

University of Utah. More than 1 million tons of CO 2 per year will be captured from various industrial sources, compressed, and transported via two new intra-state pipelines for CO 2 enhanced oil recovery and deep saline sequestration research in Kansas. DOE Share: $2,723,512). DOE Share: $2,696,556). Praxair Inc.

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Carbon Industry Industrial Coal 210

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Arizona-based startup Local Motors has unveiled Olli ( earlier post ), a 12-passenger minibus that may hit university campuses in Las Vegas and Miami later this year. In 2015, the one-year pilot program, Bridj, created a “microtransit” hybrid of ride-hailing and bus service in Kansas City. The possibilities of microtransit systems.

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Transportation Emissions Fuel Las Vegas 284