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 Microchannel hydroprocessing technology for Biofuels
Engineers Edge - Microchannel processing has the potential to greatly increase the efficiency, effectiveness and commercial value for next generation biofuel production. A $2.7 million technology grant from the USDA-CSREES Biomass Research and Development ( more...) | | 11/19/2009, 09:44:27
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Detecting counterfeit money with an optical mouse
Engineers Edge - The sensor of some optical mice can be used to easily and cheaply detect counterfeit euros, according to a study published by researchers of the University of Lleida (UdL) in the scientific journal Sensors. Almost 80% of counterfeit coins ( more...) | | 11/18/2009, 09:30:16
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Wastewater as a source of energy and raw materials
Engineers Edge - Wastewater is not a useless by-product but a source of valuable raw materials and energy. Developing countries, in particular, can benefit from this new perspective. This will be the thrust of Prof. Jules van Lier's inaugural address at TU ( more...) | | 11/18/2009, 09:23:50
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Designing underground lines to protect monuments
Engineers Edge - A team of mathematicians from the Engineering and Architecture Schools of the University of Seville has created a method to design underground lines whereby a city's historical buildings are unaffected. The results of the study, which has ( more...) | | 11/16/2009, 20:19:01
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Designing robust silicon chips
Engineers Edge - Designers of high-speed silicon chips have often had to compromise on performance levels for their integrated circuit designs because of physical weaknesses appearing during design verification or even in production. This has necessitated ( more...) | | 11/16/2009, 20:09:17
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Programmable Quantum Processor
Engineers Edge - Physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have demonstrated the first "universal" programmable quantum information processor able to run any program allowed by quantum mechanics—the rules governing the submicr ( more...) | | 11/16/2009, 20:04:42
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Electric cars for urban commuting
Engineers Edge - Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute have converted a 2001 Scion xB into an electric commuter vehicle that will serve as a test bed for a new community-based approach to electric vehicle design, conversion and ope ( more...) | | 11/16/2009, 19:59:22
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Wet ethanol production process produces more ethanol
Engineers Edge - Using a wet ethanol production method that begins by soaking corn kernels rather than grinding them, results in more gallons of ethanol and more usable co-products, giving ethanol producers a bigger bang for their buck – by about 20 percen ( more...) | | 11/10/2009, 15:28:00
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Face recognition technology
Engineers Edge - A number of U.S. states now use facial recognition technology when issuing drivers licenses. Similar methods are also used to grant access to buildings and to verify the identities of international travelers. Historically, obtaining accura ( more...) | | 11/10/2009, 15:25:45
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Multiple channel plasmonic sensors
Engineers Edge - Sensors, communications devices and imaging equipment that use a prism and a special form of light -- a surface plasmon-polariton -- may incorporate multiple channels or redundant applications if manufacturers use sculptured thin films.
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Quantum gas microscope
Engineers Edge - Physicists at Harvard University have created a quantum gas microscope that can be used to observe single atoms at temperatures so low the particles follow the rules of quantum mechanics, behaving in bizarre ways. Research creates a readou ( more...) | | 11/05/2009, 09:00:41
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Water-conserving irrigation strategies
Engineers Edge - Conserving water and reducing the environmental impact of runoff are two of the most important issues confronting container nursery operations. Current regulations and laws in five states limit water consumption by container nurseries, and ( more...) | | 11/05/2009, 08:52:42
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Personalized solar energy
Engineers Edge - New scientific discoveries are moving society toward the era of "personalized solar energy," in which the focus of electricity production shifts from huge central generating stations to individuals in their own homes and communities. That' ( more...) | | 11/04/2009, 11:54:13
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3D laser scanning works of art
Engineers Edge – If you don’t have the time to travel to Florence, you can still see Michelangelo’s statue of David on the Internet, revolving in true-to-life 3D around its own axis. This is a preview of what scientists are developing in the European joint ( more...) | | 11/03/2009, 09:56:24
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Polishing metals with lasers
Engineers Edge - Jobs are in short supply, and yet some sectors have difficulty in finding suitable trainees for specialist tasks, such as polishing injection molds. The work is time-consuming and monotonous but requires highest levels of concentration, be ( more...) | | 11/03/2009, 09:49:52
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Simulation method improves the sintering process
Engineers Edge It all happens very quickly: the feed shoe, configured as an open-bottomed box, moves across a surface in which a recess forms the shapeof the desired part. The fine-grained metal powder dropping from the feed shoe settles in the mold. Stamp ( more...) | | 11/03/2009, 09:39:57
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Improved grippers for solar wafers
Engineers Edge - Accidents will happen: if you are washing a wine glass and apply just a little too much pressure it will break. A similar thing happens to technicians in the production of photovoltaic systems when they handle solar wafers. With a thicknes ( more...) | | 11/03/2009, 09:24:20
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Faster lasers measuring distances developed
Engineers Edge - Will the massive truck be able to pass under the bridge or should it take another route? Do the houses lining the street leave enough room for the oversized vehicle to pass through? Such questions are answered by sending out a car fitted w ( more...) | | 11/03/2009, 09:15:45
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Designing advanced laser-plasma accelerators
Engineers Edge - Scientists leverage special relativity to speed up computational modeling and open a new era for designing advanced laser-plasma accelerators
Using Einstein's theory of special relativity to speedup computer simulations, scientists have d ( more...) | | 11/03/2009, 08:44:39
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Research shows how to block stealthy computer virus attacks
Engineers Edge - The spread of malicious software, also known as malware or computer viruses, is a growing problem that can lead to crashed computer systems, stolen personal information, and billions of dollars in lost productivity every year. One of the m ( more...) | | 11/03/2009, 08:37:21
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Harvesting energy from nature's motions
Engineers Edge - By taking advantage of the vagaries of the natural world, Duke University engineers have developed a novel approach that they believe can more efficiently harvest electricity from the motions of everyday life.
Energy harvesting is the pro ( more...) | | 11/02/2009, 08:07:17
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Robot fish carry water quality sensors
Engineers Edge - Nature inspires technology for an engineer and an ecologist teamed up at Michigan State University. They're developing robots that use advanced materials to swim like fish to probe underwater environments.
"Fish are very efficient," expla ( more...) | | 11/02/2009, 08:04:27
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Earthquake energy dissipaters to protect buildings
Engineers Edge - Researchers from the Buildings and Hydraulic Engineering Department of the Granada University are working on the design of energy dissipaters, that is, devices that act as the fuses of an electrical system during an earthquake, causing the ( more...) | | 10/30/2009, 09:19:20
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New ultrafast digital signature scheme for internet
Engineers Edge - What are the odds that your digital identity will be stolen by cyber criminals? Why do bank payment systems crash when everybody is trying to pay for Christmas gifts by credit card? We all know that Internet banking systems struggle to dea ( more...) | | 10/30/2009, 09:15:06
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Mobile phones collecting scientific data
Engineers Edge - Mobile phones are on the verge of becoming powerful tools to collect data on many issues, ranging from global health to the environment.
Computer scientists at the University of Washington have used Android, the open-source mobile operati ( more...) | | 10/30/2009, 09:06:40
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New embedded computer systems modelling framework
Engineers Edge - Embedded computer systems must be fast and efficient. A European consortium has created a new modelling framework that lets designers strike the best balance between static, reconfigurable and analogue hardware and the software that runs o ( more...) | | 10/29/2009, 07:26:07
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Renewable fuel talk turning to cellulosic gas, diesel
Engineers Edge - A Purdue University agricultural economist and energy policy analyst has changed his tune on renewable fuels. "We don't just talk about ethanol. We talk about biofuels," said Wally Tyner.
"Ethanol is the product from corn, but you also ca ( more...) | | 10/29/2009, 07:16:35
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Improved level measurement in oil separators
Engineers Edge - Scientists at SINTEF and StatoilHydro have developed a level-gauge staff that uses pressure differences to measure the levels of water, oil and gas in oil separators.
Some measurements are harder to make than others. Accurately gauging th ( more...) | | 10/29/2009, 07:12:40
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Submarine dives to depth of 3.5 miles
Engineers Edge - The United Kingdom's deepest diving Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV), Autosub6000, has been put through its paces during an extremely successful engineering trials cruise on the RRS Discovery, 27 September to 17 October 2009.
Autosub60 ( more...) | | 10/28/2009, 11:00:53
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World's fastest supercomputer models high-power lasers
Engineers Edge - For years scientists have struggled with the difficult physics of inertial confinement fusion. This is the attempt to compress a target capsule containing isotopes of hydrogen with high-powered lasers to high enough pressure and temperatur ( more...) | | 10/28/2009, 10:56:50
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Researchers create all-electric spintronics
Engineers Edge - A multidisciplinary team of UC researchers is the first to find an innovative and novel way to control an electron's spin orientation using purely electrical means.
Their findings were recently published in the prestigious, high-profile j ( more...) | | 10/27/2009, 15:37:22
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Harvesting energy from Sugarcane
Engineers Edge - Sugarcane biomass, a significant waste product from sugar production, could be a renewable energy source for electricity production, according to research published in the current issue of the international journal Progress in Industrial E ( more...) | | 10/27/2009, 11:45:59
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Plugging into an electric vehicle revolution
Engineers Edge - A road trial of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs), which could one day end up in every Australian driveway, is underway.
Over the next three months, staff from Victorian energy distributor SP AusNet will use the PHEVs for their dai ( more...) | | 10/27/2009, 10:44:14
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Biosensor identifies cells that suppress tumor growth
Engineers Edge - A powerful new biosensor developed by European researchers will help identify cells in the immune system that actively suppress tumor growth, and then put them to use. Enlisting the patient’s own immune system would be like sending reinfor ( more...) | | 10/26/2009, 15:36:08
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Robotic perception, on purpose
Engineers Edge - European researchers developed technology that enables a robot to combine data from both sound and vision to create combined, purposeful perception. In the process, they have taken the field to a new level.
Currently, computer vision is g ( more...) | | 10/26/2009, 15:27:04
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Mushrooms and water-repellants similar?
Engineers Edge - What do spore-launching mushrooms have in common with highly water-repellant surfaces?
According to Duke University engineers, the answer is "jumping" water droplets. As it turns out, the same phenomenon that occurs when it's time for cer ( more...) | | 10/26/2009, 15:13:09
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Fingerprint technology reads the rough stuff
Engineers Edge - Technology developed by the University of Warwick that can identify partial, distorted, scratched, smudged, or otherwise warped fingerprints in just a few seconds has just scored top marks in the world’s two toughest technical fingerprint ( more...) | | 10/26/2009, 09:38:52
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Oxygen exchangers increase propene production
Engineers Edge - Dutch researcher Jurriaan Beckers has shown that the yield of propene can be increased by adding cerium oxide during the production process. Propene is an important raw material for the chemical industry and its uses include the production ( more...) | | 10/23/2009, 08:46:36
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Green and efficient airports
Engineers Edge - A new computerised approach to airport operations is being developed that will reduce delays, speed up baggage handling and decrease pollution. The project is funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) and led ( more...) | | 10/21/2009, 09:15:03
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New plastic optical fiber technology
Engineers Edge - It may look like little more than fishing line, but plastic optical fiber or POF promises to revolutionize high-speed last-mile communications networks. Its evolution is being aided by groundbreaking research in Europe.
Plastic optical fi ( more...) | | 10/21/2009, 09:10:26
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High Tech materials for Bicycles
Engineers Edge - Carbon fiber composite materials (CFRP’s) not only make cars and airplanes lightweight but also benefit the light weight constructions for valuable bicycle concepts. At the Composites Europe trade show in Stuttgart (October 27-29), Fraunho ( more...) | | 10/21/2009, 09:05:20
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Assuring quality in lightweight construction
Engineers Edge - Aerospace, automotive and airplane construction count on lightweight construction. But to make sure that lightening the load does not come at the cost of safety, Fraunhofer researchers are working on new quality assurance systems for mater ( more...) | | 10/21/2009, 09:03:04
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High Performance Stainless Steel
Engineers Edge - Researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the U.S. ITER Project Office, which is housed at ORNL, have developed a new cast stainless steel that is 70 percent stronger than comparable steels and is being evaluated for use in the huge ( more...) | | 10/20/2009, 16:01:03
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New material allows for fingernail-size computer chip
Engineers Edge - North Carolina State University engineers have created a new material that would allow a fingernail-size computer chip to store the equivalent of 20 high-definition DVDs or 250 million pages of text, far exceeding the storage capacities of ( more...) | | 10/20/2009, 10:10:54
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Research world’s biggest tunnel construction project
The vision of a city without cars in which particulate matter and noise has been banished underground and whose parks are green oases of recreation for its citizens was the vision at the start of the project.
In the framework of TUNCONSTRUCT (Technology I ( more...) | | 10/20/2009, 10:07:18
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Innovative car sheet metal manufacturing
Engineers Edge - At one of its installations in the Bizkaia Technology Park, TECNALIA Technology Corporation has inaugurated an innovative prototype for vehicle body panels, within the remit of the European PROFORM research Project.
The aim of this resear ( more...) | | 10/20/2009, 09:58:48
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The future of internet technology
Engineers Edge - It is estimated that over one billion people have access to the internet, but with an insufficient bandwidth to support the new applications of the XXI century. Transparent optical networks are the best alternative possible to provide the ( more...) | | 10/20/2009, 09:49:11
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Faster computing, communications with plasmonic devices
Engineers Edge - A team of European researchers has demonstrated some of the first commercially viable plasmonic devices, paving the way for a new era of high-speed communications and computing in which electronic and optical signals can be handled simulta ( more...) | | 10/16/2009, 09:28:24
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