Power and Electrical Engineering

Power and Electrical Engineering

Students and Researchers Build Small CubeSat Satellites

Undergraduate and graduate students will be heavily involved in this Radio Aurora Explorer (RAX) project, led by the University of Michigan and SRI…

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SABRE Project: Advancing Reliable Electronic Systems

The project is called SABRE (Self-healing cellular Architectures for Biologically-inspired highly Reliable Electronic systems). The part of the project to be…

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Swansea Engineers Innovate Smart Electricity Meters for Sustainability

And the team is now supplying nearly 1.5MWh per year of free ‘Green electricity’ to the University, helping to reduce its carbon footprint.The team, based…

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Engineers Aim to Solve 'Burning' Computer Problem

If you've balanced a laptop computer on your lap lately, you probably noticed a burning sensation. That's because ever-increasing processing speeds are…

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Foam reactor is ten times more energy efficient

In this project, Charl Stemmet investigated a new, structured support for catalysts for use in gas-liquid reactors. He used a highly porous solid foam as the…

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Boost Gas Efficiency with Innovative Electric Field Device

According to Rongjia Tao, Chair of Temple’s Physics Department, the small device consists of an electrically charged tube that can be attached to the fuel line…

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FSU Joins Coalition Working to Improve Nation’s Power Grid

CAPs is now a member of the GridWise Alliance, a group of 69 leading companies and academic institutions whose goal is to combine their knowledge and…

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New Propulsion Concepts Address Shipping’s Energy Challenges

Challenged by high energy costs and rising environmental requirements, more and more shipping companies are looking to new propulsion concepts as a solution to…

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New Hybrid Propulsion Solution Cuts Energy Use for Small Vessels

The central feature of this new diesel hybrid propulsion is the capability to provide an extremely flexible and compact propulsion solution in the power range…

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Harnessing Solar Energy: Innovative Thin-Film Power Solutions

Focusing on creating autonomous power systems based on flexible thin-film solar cells, Desu is hoping to increase efficiency through novel design and…

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New process derives 'green gasoline' from plant sugars

That's because the new fuels are identical at the molecular level to their petroleum-based counterparts. The only difference is where they come from.Funded by…

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Carbon Nanotubes in Interconnects: Risks and Insights

The work reported in Nano Letters (reference below) reveals that squashing and twisting a double-walled nanotube opens an electronic band gap in an otherwise…

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New Biomass Energy Mechanism Enhances Gas Reactions

One of the challenges that chemical engineers face is placing solid materials in contact with gases to generate certain reactions. One of the options is to use…

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New Wafer-Cutting Method Cuts Solar Power Costs

The expensive solar cells now are used mainly on spacecraft, but with the improved wafer-slicing method, “the idea is to make germanium-based, high-efficiency…

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ITER Technology Achieves Key Milestone in Fusion Innovation

“This is a breakthrough for the fusion community. We have successfully tested and demonstrated a key technology milestone which is integral to the success of…

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Clean Technologies: Key Innovations from Japan’s Top Universities

The three universities from Japan were Tokyo University of Science, Tokai University and Tokyo Institute of Technology. Summaries of the technologies presented…

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