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(Champaign, IL : Illinois Sustainable Technology Center, 2009-04)Polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) are ubiquitous flame retardants and known endocrine disruptors used in many household products since the 1970s. They are lipophilic and bioaccumulate, with tissue residues in humans ...
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(U.S. Department of Energy National Energy Technology Laboratory, 2018-06)Linde, LLC, with partners University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), Washington University in St. Louis (WUSTL), and Affiliated Construction Services (ACS), will design, construct, and validate enabling technologies ...
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(Champaign, IL : Illinois Sustainable Technology Center, 2007)It was initially thought that no metalworking fluid could be developed to meet industry specifications and be compatible with membranes to use microfiltration to remove contaminants. However, Rajagopalan’s team developed ...
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(2014)A team at ISTC and scientists from Argonne national Laboratory have successfully produced multi-component Si-based materials from rice husk and demonstrated their potential as Li-ion anode materials.
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(U.S. Department of Energy National Energy Technology Laboratory, 2021-01)The University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign (UIUC) is leading a project to complete a Front-End Engineering Design (FEED) for a Hybrid Gas Turbine and USC Coal Boiler Concept (HGCC) with post combustion carbon capture ...
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(2021-01-20)This front-end engineering and design (FEED) study is for a carbon dioxide (CO2) capture system for Unit #2 (816 MW) at the Prairie State Generating Company’s (PSGC) Energy Campus in Marissa, IL. The capture technology ...
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(U.S. Department of Energy National Energy Technology Laboratory, 2019-11)The overall goal of this project is to perform a front-end engineering design (FEED) study for the retrofit of Unit 2 (approximately 816 megawatt-electric [MWe]) of Prairie State Generation Company’s (PSGC) coal-fired power ...
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Gear Oil (2012)Gear oil is an important industrial lubricant. If stable and high-quality bio-based gear oils and additives can be developed, petroleum-based lubricants may be a thing of the past. Researchers, including ISTC’s Dr. B.K. ...
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(2014)Green diesel, or renewable diesel-grade hydrocarbons, can be produced from microalgae, waste grease, or other lipid-rich feedstocks. Green diesel consumes less fossil fuel and produces fewer greenhouse gas emissions than ...
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(2014)Petroleum-based industrial lubricants present undesirable environmental and health effects, including toxicity to wildlife and humans, as well as poor biodegradability. Therefore, there is a growing interest in developing ...
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(Champaign, IL : Illinois Sustainable Technology Center, 2003)Kishore Rajagopalan and his colleague explored how contaminants like tramp oils and salts impact the productivity of recycled metalworking fluids. They found that metalworking fluids had no losses in cooling and lubricating ...
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(U.S. Department of Energy National Energy Technology Laboratory, 2021-10)University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) is performing research to improve the cost-effectiveness of algal carbon dioxide (CO2) utilization by synergistic integration with power plant and wastewater treatment ...
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(U.S. Department of Energy National Energy Technology Laboratory, 2017)The Illinois Sustainable Technology Center (ISTC) at the University of Illinois, in partnership with Helios-NRG, will further develop a novel algae-based technology for efficient cost-effective capture and utilization of ...
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(Champaign, IL : Illinois Sustainable Technology Center, 1999)A ceramic membrane filtration system can be an effective tool to increase the lifespan of medalworking fluids and reduce biological hazards. However, the usefulness of the membranes may be reduced by different additives ...
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(2009)Jojoba (Simmondsia chinensis) grows in the arid southwestern United States. A thick wax on the outside of the plant and in its seeds helps the plants conserve water, but that's not the only thing it's good for. The wax ...
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(Illinois Natural History Survey, Prairie Research Institute, University of Illinois, 2014-07-09)The objective of this study was to provide data to help address the following questions: Have land use practices become safer for the environment and ...
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(U.S. Department of Energy, 2017-08-18)The work summarized in this report is the first step towards a project that will re-train and create jobs for personnel in the coal industry and continue regional economic development to benefit regions impacted by previous ...
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(Champaign, IL : Illinois Sustainable Technology Center, 2017)The work summarized in this report is the first step towards a project that will re-train and create jobs for personnel in the coal industry and continue regional economic development to benefit regions impacted by previous ...
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(2021-01-20)This first-of-its-kind, large-scale pilot is vital to the carbon capture knowledge base and experience. It will also serve as a reference for future commercial projects and provide critical design and operations information ...
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(Champaign, IL : Illinois Sustainable Technology Center, 2019-10-01)Project objectives: Design, construct, and operate a 10 MWe capture system based on the Linde / BASF advanced amine-based, post-combustion carbon dioxide (CO2) capture technology at CWLP Dallman Unit 4, Springfield, IL. ...
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