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SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Vitalie Stavila, Mark Allendorf, Matthew Witman and Sapan Agarwal are part of the Sandia team that published a paper in conjunction with researchers from Ångström Laboratory in Sweden and Nottingham University in the United Kingdom in the ACS journal Chemistry of Materials detailing the approach. —Witman et al.

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DECEMBER 26, 2020

ABB has provided electrification, connected control and operations management systems, high-visualization and mobile operator workplaces as part of a global mining partnership to visualize a once-in-a-generation technology shift and reduce climate impact.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2018

Even so, during 2010-2014, people in parts of California, Arizona, Colorado, Texas, the Midwest and the Middle Atlantic still experienced more than 15 days a year in which ozone levels exceeded the US health-based air quality standard of 70 parts per billion (ppb) averaged over eight hours. Source: University of Leicester.

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JANUARY 1, 2023

In an open-access paper in the journal Energy & Fuels, a team from VTT Technical Research Center of Finland, with colleagues from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) and Ghent University, provides an overview of co-processing options for such bio-liquids.

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MARCH 10, 2021

Chalmers University of Technology and RISE are now commencing construction of Sweden’s electromobility test center: Swedish Electric Transport Laboratory (SEEL). Together, the governmental allocation, the industry partners’ commitments and proprietorial responsibility on the part of RISE and Chalmers will allow an investment of SEK 1.3

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JUNE 5, 2014

Researchers in Sweden are exploring the use of carbon fiber as an active electrode in a multifunctional structural Li-ion battery in an electric car; i.e., electrical storage is incorporated into the body of the car. For example, he suggests, the hood of the car could be part of the battery. Photo: Peter Larsson) Click to enlarge.

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MAY 19, 2020

The construction sector accounts for a quarter of CO 2 emissions, in Sweden and globally. Ida Karlsson’s research is part of the project Mistra Carbon Exit, which focuses on transformative solutions. We could be better at transport logistics in Sweden. Karlsson et al. Replacement of cement clinker as a binder in concrete.

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AUGUST 7, 2010

The Bio-oil Refinery Project is part funded by the Research Council of Norway (RENERGI) program, and will develop new, integrated bio-oil technology to transform biomass more efficiently into biofuels through fast pyrolysis. Tony Bridgwater, Professor of Chemical Engineering and Head of BERG at Aston University.

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DECEMBER 13, 2021

Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, in collaboration with Volvo Group Trucks Technology, have developed a method to help electric delivery vehicles navigate strategically to use as little energy as possible. We have developed systematic tools to learn optimal energy usage. 2021.102496.

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OCTOBER 4, 2010

In its project, Scania is working together with experts in combustion and emission technology at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm, Lund University and Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, Sweden.

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APRIL 29, 2019

Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, have developed a free-standing reduced graphene oxide (r-GO) aerogel for use as a supporting electrode for the electrochemical redox reaction of sulfur in a catholyte-based lithium-sulfur battery. Credit: Yen Strandqvist/Chalmers University of Technology.

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MAY 28, 2014

The project, which is co-funded by the European Commission as part of the European Green Vehicles Initiative, is coordinated by Institute for Automotive Engineering (ika) of RWTH Aachen University and gathers ten partners from across Europe, including major OEMs, research partners and cities’ representatives.

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JANUARY 16, 2012

Citing a lack of acceptance for plant technology in many parts of Europe, BASF announced that it is concentrating its plant biotechnology activities on the main markets in North and South America. However, there is still a lack of acceptance for this technology in many parts of Europe – from the majority of consumers, farmers and politicians.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2010

The novel design is enabled by using powdered iron materials that enable complex magnetic parts to be manufactured easily. The company is continuing to develop new markets for hybrid and electric vehicles, through ongoing collaborations with Delta Motorsport and Morgan Motor Cars in the UK, plus Electroengine in Sweden.

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APRIL 16, 2011

A team at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) in the Netherlands is developing a new, active electromagnetic suspension system. Built in cooperation with SKF of Sweden, this suspension system is fitted in cars, making them safer because they no longer roll on turns.

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MARCH 22, 2017

The second-generation concept machine is part of an electric site research project that aims to transform the quarry and aggregates industry, reducing carbon emissions by up to 95% and total cost of ownership by up to 25%. Skanska Sweden is providing logistical solutions, application relevance and job site knowledge.

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JULY 16, 2013

SmartBatt ( earlier post ), an EU-funded program to develop the next generation of electric vehicle propulsion batteries which are both lighter and safer than their predecessors, has relied on technology and input from Axeon, part of the Johnson Matthey group.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Naval Group and Centrale Nantes have printed the first demonstrator of hollow propeller blades by metal additive manufacturing as part of the European H2020 project, RAMSSES (Realization and Demonstration of Advanced Material Solutions for Sustainable and Efficient Ships). Design example of a hollow propeller.

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MARCH 28, 2022

A research group from Uppsala University has now identified the processes that are limiting the performance of the sulfur electrodes that in turn reduces the current that can be delivered. The study was carried-out as part of a co-operation with Scania CV AB. However, they suffer from short lifetimes and energy loss. 2022.03.001.

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DECEMBER 16, 2018

For the recently published study, the team with researchers from Bolivia, Germany, France, the USA, Sweden and Italy could benefit from unique conditions: With three stations at different altitudes (downtown La Paz at 3590m, El Alto Airport at 4040m and Chacaltaya Observatory at 5240m), it was possible to explain the vertical transport of soot.

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MARCH 11, 2014

As one example, the California PATH (Partners for Advanced Transportation TecHnology) Program at the University of California at Berkeley in the 1990s developed one such system using magnetic markers embedded under the roadway for lateral guidance. A pattern of round ferrite magnets (40x15 mm) was located 200 mm below the road surface.

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JUNE 13, 2022

A team at Chalmers University in Sweden has analyzed the results of the integration of a chemical looping gasification (CLG) process with a Fischer-Tropsch synthesis (FTS) process and found that this biomass-to-liquids process can produce FT crude with net-negative CO 2 emissions. 2c00819.

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DECEMBER 24, 2024

This article is part of our special report Top Tech 2025. As this article was going to press, two undersea cables in the Baltic Seaconnecting Sweden with Lithuania and Finland with Germanyhad been severed, with suspicion resting on a Chinese merchant vessel in the region. These tiny, drawn-out strands of glass fiber stretch some 1.2

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, have identified two main challenges for renewable biofuel production from cheap sources: lowering the cost of developing microbial cell factories; and establishing more efficient methods for hydrolysis of biomass to sugars for fermentation.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2015

A number of groups have recently or are currently investigating the use of free piston engine power generation applications with a focus on automotive, including work at West Virginia University (WVU), Sandia National Laboratory (SNL), Chalmers University of Technology (Sweden), and Shanghai Jiaotong University.

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JULY 21, 2016

A number of groups have recently or are currently investigating the use of free piston engine power generation applications with a focus on automotive, including academic work at West Virginia University (WVU), Sandia National Laboratory (SNL), Chalmers University of Technology (Sweden), and Shanghai Jiaotong University.

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JULY 30, 2015

Now, however, with the addition of a single gene from barley (SUSIBA2), a team of researchers in China, Sweden and the US has engineered a strain of rice—now named SUSIBA2—that can be cultivated to emit virtually no methane from its paddies during growth. It’s an issue that must be addressed. —Christer Jansson.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2016

The international research team is a long-standing collaboration between SLAC and Berkeley Lab, and includes Humboldt University in Germany, Umeå University and Uppsala University in Sweden, Stanford University, Brookhaven National Laboratory and University of Oxford in the United Kingdom.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2017

This research drew on IIASA research that was part of a European-Union funded project, Evaluating the Climate and Air Quality Impacts of Short-lived Pollutants (ECLIPSE). —Patrik Winiger, a researcher at Stockholm University in Sweden who led the study. —Zbigniew Klimont. 1613401114.

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APRIL 6, 2015

Researchers at Lund University (Sweden) have developed an optimized two-phase enzymatic (lipase) system for the conversion of plant oils to biodiesel. This part is oriented towards the organic layer, such that the lipid can easily enter the active site and the hydrophilic products can diffuse into the aqueous layer.

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JULY 23, 2018

Encouraging the use of low-carbon alternatives is an essential part of meeting climate change targets as well as improving local air quality and health. Transport is responsible for 25% of energy-related CO 2 emissions globally, with half of that coming from private passenger vehicles.

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JANUARY 17, 2024

The service is currently available around the University of Nevada Las Vegas and the city’s arts district renting out cars by the minute. ” Vay has so far raised about USD 110 million from investors including Sweden’s Kinnevik, Coatue and France’s Eurazeo and has conducted tests on European and U.S.

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OCTOBER 22, 2021

MIT ] Using a mix of 3D-printed plastic and metal parts, a full-scale replica of NASA's Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover, or VIPER, was built inside a clean room at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston. The activity served as a dress rehearsal for the flight version, which is scheduled for assembly in the summer of 2022.

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JULY 30, 2024

As a part of the media myself – and thus allegedly a purveyor of fake news and a habitually horrible human – it pains me to point out that large sections of the media seem to have a disturbing obsession with electric vehicles and the idea that they are basically big, dangerous fireworks on wheels.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Sara talks to the actors about research happening at the university and how this might impact society, and how it hopes the students might consider coming to study with us. In total, over 300 high school students aged 10 to 15 took part in the study, each seeing one version of our robot—counterattacking, argumentative, or control.

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AUGUST 12, 2024

Sweden is considering using small modular reactors to power future data centers. Kevin Schneider , a power system expert at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and research professor at Washington State University, says it’s only natural that data center operators want the constant, consistent nature of nuclear power. “If

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DECEMBER 19, 2021

The first SCoPEx test was originally planned for early 2021 in northern Sweden, but backlash from environmental and indigenous groups prompted the team to. The first SCoPEx test was planned for an early 2021 launch from the Esrange Space Center in northern Sweden, but backlash prompted the team to cancel the launch. cancel the launch.

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