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Fuel Cells – Commercial Innovation Built on High Electrical Efficiency

Rowe T., Ceramic Fuel Cells Limited, AU

Ceramic Fuel Cells has developing an innovative solid oxide fuel cell technology that offers the world’s highest level of electrical conversion efficiency. CFCL’s fuel cells provide highly efficient and low-emission electricity from widely available natural [...]

Simulation of a Range Extender Power Train for a City Bus

Andaloro L., Sergi F., Napoli G., Dispenza G., Antonucci V., CNR ITAE, IT

Within a national project, called “H-BUS”, CNR TAE Institute is involved in a zero emission city bus development, in which the optimized level of hybridization will be evaluated on the basis of several aspects. The [...]

Nickel-Zinc Rechargeable Batteries – the High Performance, Low Cost, Clean Solution for Hybrid Vehicles

Squiller D., PowerGenix, US

Rising interest in Hybrid Electric Vehicles (HEVs) has created pressure to develop more powerful and efficient vehicle battery systems. While Lithium-Ion batteries have shown potential in fully electric applications, cost and safety issues leave little [...]

Properties of Linear Low Density Polyethylene Reinforced with Multi-walled Carbon Nanotubes by Cryogenic Ball-Milling

Narh K.A., Terife G., New Jersey Institute of Technology, US

The combination of high aspect ratio, small size, very low density, and more importantly, excellent physical properties, such as extremely high mechanical strength and stiffness, high electrical and thermal conductivity, make carbon nanotubes (CNTs) perfect [...]

Advanced p- and n-Dopable Polymer Supercapacitors

Kim Y.-G., Kinlen P.J., Jung J.H., Mbugua J., Besic S., Birschbach M., Tregre G., Nguyen H.-L., Crosslink, US

Metallic conductive PAC 1003, an inherently conductive polymer product of Crosslink, has been developed to have remarkably high electrical conductivity of >1000 S/cm which can be applied to advanced polymer supercapacitor designs. The metallic conductivity [...]

Beta-glucosidase immobilization on synthetic superparamagnetic magnetite nanoparticles and their application in saccharification of wheat straw and Eucalyptus globulus pulps

Valenzuela R., Castro J.F., Parra M.C., Baeza J., Free J., Biotechnology Center, University of Concepcion, CL

Beta-glucosidase from T. reesei was successfully immobilized on synthetic superparamagnetic magnetite (Fe3O4) nanoparticles with a mean diameter of 10 nm, silanized and amino-functionalized with 3-aminopropyltriethoxysilane (3-APTS). When silanized and coated the saturation magnetization decreased from [...]

Replacing Crude Oil by Renewable Sugar through a Cell-free Synthetic Biology Technology

Percival Zhang Y-H., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, US

“What will replace oil and when” is one of the central questions for the coming sustainability revolution. Since approximately 70% of crude oil is used for the transportation sector in the USA, this question would [...]

Biogas Production from Co-Digestion of Horse Manure and Waste Sewage Sluge

Agayev E., Ugurlu A., Hacettepe University, TR

Biogas yield of horse manure was evaluated in batch and continous digesters. Studies were carried out in three stages. The biogas yields of horse manure in the batch studies after 35 days of the digestion [...]

Improvement of Biogas Production from Animal Manure via Bacteria Enrichment using CASCADE Technology

Zhi Y., Zhou C., Cascade Clean Energy, Inc., US

Computer Modeling: We applied a machine learning system – Computer Assisted Strain Construction and Development Engineering, or CASCADE for short, to a collection of organisms and found correlations and predictive patterns between the organisms’ genetic [...]

Innovative Process for Continuous Esterification of Cottonseed Oil for Synthesis of Biodiesel

Wankhade P.R., Shinde G.B., Sapkal R.S., Sapkal V.S., Sapkal R.S., Sapkal V.S., SVIT, Nashik, IN

Due to the predicted shortness of conventional fuels and environmental concerns, a search for alternative fuels has gained recent significant attention. Biodiesel is well known as the replacement for the traditional mineral diesel fuel . [...]