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Nominations for the European Inventor Award 2010
(10 Mar 2010)
Saving precious water, gentler cancer treatments and "football" molecules made of carbon
Twelve candidates from nine countries are competing this year for the European Inventor Award 2010, a highly regarded innovation prize presented annually by the EPO together with the European Commission to honour outstanding inventions. The ......
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Thermal Technology Produces Solar Grade Silicon From Rice Hulls
(04 Mar 2010)
Thermal Technology has developed a process for the production of solar-grade silicon using rice hulls as raw material. Matt Mede, Thermal Technology president and CEO, presented his research at the Materials Challenges in Alternative & ......
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New process yields high-energy-density, plant-based transportation fuel
(03 Mar 2010)
A team of University of Wisconsin-Madison engineers has developed a highly efficient, environmentally friendly process that selectively converts gamma-valerolactone, a biomass derivative, into the chemical equivalent of jet fuel. The simple ......
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GEA Process Engineering: Spray drying of nano particles allows safe industrial use
(01 Mar 2010)
GEA Niro, a technology centre in GEA Process Engineering, has helped to solve the problem of how nanotechnology can be used industrially, taking into account health, safety and environmental protection. A team from the company has developed a ......
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DuPont: Soluble Sulfonylurea Herbicides Science Award
(23 Feb 2010)
The Soluble Sulfonylurea Cereal Herbicides team – Robert Roche, Nora Blythe, Luann Pugh, Tim Obrigawitch – was recently awarded the Bolton/Carothers Innovative Science Award at the 2009 DuPont Excellence Awards. The Bolton/Carothers Innovative ......
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AkzoNobel Applies for Patent on Small Scale Chlorine Production
(11 Feb 2010)
AkzoNobel Industrial Chemicals, together with Uhde and Uhdenora, has filed an international patent application for remote controlled chlorine production units. The patent claim is for the design and development of a small scale chlorine plant ......
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New Argonne microscopy facility combines cutting-edge science, green architecture
(14 Dec 2009)
The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory's recently completed Sub-Angstrom Microscopy and Microanalysis facility (SAMM) received a Federal Water and Energy Management Award from DOE. The award – the only one given to a ......
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Tiny bubbles clean oil from water
(17 Nov 2009)
New method targets oil sheen, other pollutants
Small amounts of oil leave a fluorescent sheen on polluted water. Oil sheen is hard to remove, even when the water is aerated with ozone or filtered through sand. Now, a University of Utah engineer has developed an inexpensive new method to ......
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Magnetic mixing creates quite a stir
(03 Nov 2009)
Sandia researcher solves problem of mixing liquids in tiny volumes
Sandia researchers have developed a process that can mix tiny volumes of liquid, even in complicated spaces. Researchers currently use all types of processes to try and create mixing, with only "mixed" success. "In small devices," says Sandia ......
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UGA licenses technology to make fuel from dead forests and agricultural waste
(17 Sep 2009)
An innovative process for turning waste biomass – such as dead trees, agricultural waste and lumber byproducts – into a liquid fuel to power conventional engines has been licensed by the University of Georgia Research Foundation, Inc. to Tolero ......
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