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Location: WA, United States
In a fuel cell, the anode facilitates the reaction between hydrogen, carbon
monoxide and hydrocarbon fuels with oxygen ions that permeate the electrolyte
from the cathode side of the cell. An ideal anode should have high electrical...
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Location: Cambridge, United States
Professor Ernest Moniz, director of the MIT Energy Initiative (MITEI) unveiled a report on reducing carbon dioxide emissions from existing coal plants. The report is based on the findings of a major MIT symposium on retrofitting coal-fired power...
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Location: Paris, France
Today, olefins, which are then converted into polyolefins, the raw material for plastics, are produced from their derivatives, naphtha or ethane. Or to diversify the sources of raw material for plastic products, Total has just opened a new way to...
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Location: baijing, China
Researcher: Qingfeng Li and colleagues
Abstract: In an advance toward introduction of an amazing new kind of
internal combustion engine, researchers in China are reporting development and
use of a new and more...
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Location: UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, United States
Environmentally friendly hydrogen gas fueled vehicles can
dramatically reduce greenhouse gas emissions and lessen the country’s dependence
on sources of fossil fuel. Though several hydrogen vehicles exist on the market...
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Location: Argonne National Laboratory, U.S. Department of Energy, United States
Standard microscopy and visible light imaging techniques cannot peer into the
dark and murky centers of dense-liquid jets, which has hindered scientists in
their quest for a full understanding of liquid breakup in devices such as
automobile...
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Location: Durham University, United Kingdom
A national team of scientists led by experts at Durham
University are embarking on one of the UK’s largest ever research projects
into photovoltaic (PV) solar energy.
The £6.3million...
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Location: Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, United States
Biofuels
reduce greenhouse-gas
emissions in comparison to fossil fuels. In the...
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Location: Iowa State University, United States
Let's say a fuel derived from biomass
produces too much soot when it's burned in a combustion chamber designed for
fossil fuels.
How can an engineer find the source...
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Location: University of Leeds, United Kingdom
Scientists at the University of Leeds
are turning low-grade sludge into high-value gas in a process which could make
eco-friendly biodiesel even greener and more economical to produce.
Biodiesel –...
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Location: 5801 South Ellis Ave., Chicago, IL 60637 773-702-1234, United States
If space travelers ever visit Saturn's largest moon, they will
find a tropical world where temperatures plunge to minus 274 degrees Fahrenheit,
methane rains from the sky and dunes of ice or tar cover the planet's most arid
regions. These...
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Location: WESTERN REGIONAL RESEARCH CENTER,800 BUCHANAN STREET,ALBANY, CA, 94710, United States
Ethanol to fuel cars, trucks and other
vehicles might tomorrow take less energy to produce, thanks to a device invented
by Agricultural Research Service (ARS)
scientists in California.Chemical engineers...
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Location: Central university administration,Department for research and project management,
Line: Dr. Jens Hemmelskamp,Secretariat: Claudia Wessling ,,Seminarstr. 269117 HeidelbergUniversity of Heidelberg, Germany
A salient example of global changes, which concern no longer individual countries or regions, but mankind as a whole, is the trend for urbanization (urbanisation) and the propagation of million and “megacities” on all continents of the earth, in...
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