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SouthAfrica is reinvigorating its efforts to develop automotive lithium-ion batteries, with the government’s Industrial Development Corporation (IDC) now determining the commercial feasibility of battery manufacturing in the country. Engineering News.
Airbus and SouthAfrica’s National Aerospace Centre will jointly fund research by Hydrogen SouthAfrica (HySA) into the application of fuel cells on airliners. The initial three-year project is being undertaken by HySA Systems Competence Centre at its University of the Western Cape research facility.
Universal Hydrogen Co. earlier post ) has signed a letter of intent (LOI) with ACIA Aero Leasing (ACIA), a regional aircraft lessor with offices in Ireland, France, Canada, Mauritius, and SouthAfrica. The conversion consists of a fuel cell electric powertrain that replaces the existing turboprop engines.
A new Ford Motor Company pilot program aims to enhance mobility health services in rural areas of SouthAfrica and Nigeria. Two modified Ford Rangers will work as mobile clinics to deliver health services, dispense medication for chronic conditions, and monitor the growth of children in SouthAfrica. Investing $4.5
A research collaboration between SouthAfrica-based Sasol and the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering at the University of Pretoria (UP) has led to the commissioning of high-tech equipment to gain better insights into the properties and performance of synthetic diesel fuels.
and the University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, SouthAfrica (Wits) signed an exclusive representation agreement to commercialize the Fischer-Tropsch-based fuel and chemical production process developed by the Centre of Materials and Process Synthesis (COMPS) located at The University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, SouthAfrica.
Gabon, SouthAfrica, Australia, Georgia. Michael Sivak is the managing director of Sivak Applied Research and the former director of Sustainable Worldwide Transportation at the University of Michigan. Major import sources. Natural graphite. China, Mexico, Canada, India. Chile, Canada, Mexico. Canada, Norway, Finland, Russia.
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded Rutgers University two grants worth $6.4 The foundation also has awarded the university up to $1.25 Lam and his colleagues will collaborate with University of Puerto Rico and two historically black universities, Virginia Union University and Delaware State University.
A new biofuels technology company, Stellenbosch Biomass Technologies (SBMT) was launched on 2 July in Sandton, SouthAfrica. SBMT, which is associated with Stellenbosch University as a research partner, holds the rights to commercialize and adapt the latest conversion technology developed by USA-based Mascoma Technologies company.
As of 20 July, participating governments include China, France, Germany, Japan, SouthAfrica, Spain, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States. to support the scale-up of electric vehicles; Exploring universal standards for vehicle evaluation, infrastructure, and communication protocols; and.
TMETC will be joined in the NAIC project by its partners, Jaguar Land Rover and the Warwick Manufacturing Group (WMG) at the University of Warwick, which will be built at the University campus. Through subsidiaries and associated companies, Tata Motors has operations in the UK, South Korea, Thailand, Spain, SouthAfrica and Indonesia.
Strengthened land-use/transport planning, codes and enforcement; for example, ensuring universal access to safe cycling and pedestrian routes and to rapid transit/public transport for basic routines.
million kilometers in Europe, the US, China, Australia and SouthAfrica, and more than 1.2 In this process, Mercedes-Benz cooperates in, among others, a joint research project with Tsinghua University. The performance of the driver assistance systems was assessed on some 9.5 China is the largest automobile market in the world.
SouthAfrica-based Anglo American Platinum , the world’s leading primary producer of platinum group metals (PGMs), has invested in the first close of the Series A financing round of Hydrogenious Technologies, a company developing liquid organic hydrogen carrier (LOHC) hydrogen storage technology. Click to enlarge. Resources.
A study by a team from The Ohio State University and Ford is providing insight into the deactivation mechanism of rhodium in three-way catalysts (TWC) for automotive emissions control. SouthAfrica is the major source, accounting for almost 60% of the world’s rhodium supply; Russia is the second-largest producer.
It enables smart real-time control—simultaneously in Wolfsburg and Shanghai, Dresden and Uitenhage (SouthAfrica). For example, the material flow can be organized more efficiently and delivery bottlenecks and process disruptions can be detected at an early stage.
Source: University of Leicester. Source: University of Leicester. Cooper, from the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, chairs the TOAR Steering Committee and has been working to develop the assessment since 2014. Click to enlarge. Click to enlarge. Owen Cooper.
Ltd) to establish a global joint venture to capitalize on the world-wide railroad tie market through the manufacture and sale of Recycled Structural Composite (RSC) ties/sleepers utilizing their respective geographic licenses from Rutgers University. The joint venture will be 65% owned by Axion and 35% owned by Sicut.
Of 9 reports from the TEF project, four deal with reducing transportation demand. Zielinski, S. 2010) Connecting (and transforming) the future of transportation: a brief and practical primer for implementing sustainable door-to-door transportation systems in communities and regions.
Countries meeting in Durban, SouthAfrica, managed to deliver an agreement after an extension to negotiations. Governments at the COP17 meeting decided to adopt some form of a universal legal agreement on climate change as soon. as possible, but not later than 2015.
This development is a significant step towards the implementation of CO 2 hydrogenation technology in SouthAfrica. In recent years, the university has also been working on CO 2 conversion technology and has built up extensive experience in CO 2 hydrogenation.
The worldwide challenges kicked off in Lisbon, Portugal; Los Angeles, United States; and Mumbai, India; before moving on to Delhi and the Chennai region in India; Shanghai, China; Johannesburg, SouthAfrica; and a countrywide challenge in Argentina. The submission period will run from 14 August to 14 November.
Sales compiled from 1996–2003 by producers in Europe, Japan, USA, and SouthAfrica (not including China and Russia) showed that, on an annual average basis, 80% of the SF 6 produced during this period was consumed by electric utilities and equipment manufacturers for electric power systems. —Simmonds et al.
Oyster is fitted with an 18m-wide oscillator based on fundamental research at Queen’s University Belfast led by Professor Trevor Whittaker. But globally there is huge scope in areas like the North West coast of the USA and coastlines off SouthAfrica, Australia and Chile. Ronan Doherty.
Southwest Research Institute and The University of Texas at San Antonio (USTA) are collaborating to combine two catalytic processes into a single reactor, with the overall goal of recycling carbon from COCO 2 2 to produce low-cost hydrocarbon fuels.
An advanced trial of the prototype truck is being run at Anglo-American’s Mogalakwena platinum group metals mine in SouthAfrica. Aurizon has also commenced research & development for battery-powered trains with a number of industry parties and Australian universities.
Inspired by the high-speed maneuvering of cheetahs, roboticists at the University of Cape Town, in SouthAfrica , have started experimenting with the old-school sibling of hydraulic actuators—pneumatics. University of Cape Town, SouthAfrica With a boom for support, the 7-kilogram Kemba is able to repeatedly jump to 0.5
With the current raw material production levels there will not be enough of these metals in future—not even if recycling increases, according to the findings of a major survey led by Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, on behalf of the European Commission. The increasing dependence on them is thus problematic for several reasons.
The patent success in SouthAfrica was thanks to Thaler’s attorney, Ryan Abbott. Abbott, a physician as well as a lawyer, is a professor of law and health sciences at the University of Surrey’s School of Law. The patent’s owner, AI pioneer Stephen L. More than 340 people attended.
New research led by the University of Washington (UW) is the first to measure this phenomenon’s effect over years and at a regional scale. The new study uses observations from 2003 to 2015 in spring, the cloudiest season, over the shipping route between Europe and SouthAfrica. Michael Diamond/University of Washington.
Boeing, the University of British Columbia (UBC) and SkyNRG, with support from Canada’s aviation industry and other stakeholders, are collaborating to turn leftover branches, sawdust and other forest-industry waste into sustainable aviation biofuel.
Dr. Field is also founding director of the Carnegie Institution’s Department of Global Ecology, professor of biological sciences at Stanford University and faculty director of Stanford’s Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve. —Christopher Field, Ph.D., Co-chair of IPCC Working Group II.
RWTH Aachen University, Forschungszentrum Jülich, and DECHEMA are coordinating the full project, which is concerned with the storage and use of electrical energy from renewable sources by converting it into material energy carriers and chemical products. The topic “Power-to-X” addresses the storage of surplus renewable electricity.
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The international effort to sequence and analyze the genome of Eucalyptus grandis engaged more than 80 researchers from 30 institutions, representing 18 countries.
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There are student chapters at universities around the globe. Winnie Ye , the current WIE chair and an electronics professor at Carleton University , which is just south of Ottawa, reports that, as of February, the number of members and student members was up over the same period last year. The groups hard work is paying off.
Partially funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), the working group is co-led by Jessica Hellmann and Jason McLachlan of the University of Notre Dame, Dov Sax of Brown University, and Mark Schwartz of the University of California at Davis.
FRAPPÉ is a collaborative effort between the Colorado Department of Public Health and the Environment, the University of Colorado and Colorado State University, UC Berkeley, and other university collaborators, local projects and agencies including local school districts, NASA, NOAA, and NCAR. Supercomputing. Pfister, G.
Researchers at the University of Witwatersrand and the University of SouthAfrica are proposing replacing the final purification steps of conventional bio-ethanol production with a simple gasoline-blending step.
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The Wakoma team operates out of four countries and supports Nimbles in Canada, the Czech Republic, SouthAfrica and the United States, with upcoming deployments planned in India, Kenya, and Mexico. The web of wireless nodes is resilient to the failure of individual nodes, Nitschke says. www.youtube.com.
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