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P5 Requests US to Build $1 Billion Neutrino Project

Posted on May 25, 2014 by Nanthakumar Victor Emmanuel, P.Eng Leave a comment

The Particle Physics Project Prioritization Panel (P5) recently declared their 10-year plan for physics projects during the next two decades. The organization requested the U.S. authorities to build a billion-dollar neutrino project that will make the country a major hub for particle physics.

The P5 is part of the US Department of Energy’s High Energy Physics Advisory Panel (HEPAP).

Patents aim to advance dev’t of solid state Lithium ion batteries

Posted on May 12, 2014 by Nanthakumar Victor Emmanuel, P.Eng Leave a comment

Ilika of Southampton UK has announced that two of its British patent applications, jointly filed with Toyota Motor Co., had been granted. The two patents cover the vapour deposition processes used in producing solid-state batteries directly from the elements, the company stated.

Solid-state lithium ion batteries offer a number safety and performance benefits compared with existing commercially available lithium ion batteries. The solid-state batteries are non-flammable and can be charged six times faster. Solid-state batteries, which are longer lasting and are able to retain charge four times longer, also provide increased energy density being capable of containing twice the energy for the same volume and weight.

Device can identify the chemical composition of liquids sealed within non-metallic containers

Posted on April 29, 2014 by Nanthakumar Victor Emmanuel, P.Eng Leave a comment

A new machine which can identify the chemical composition of liquids sealed within non-metallic containers without opening them is one of three candidates announced today as in the running to win the UK’s premier engineering prize, the MacRobert Award. Already being deployed in 65 airports across Europe, this innovation can protect travelers by screening for liquid explosives and could spell the end of the ban on liquids in hand luggage.

Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2014-04-device-chemical-composition-liquids-non-metallic.html#jCp

A $15 trillion dream of GE-Silicon Valley hybrid

Posted on April 22, 2014 by Nanthakumar Victor Emmanuel, P.Eng Leave a comment

GE economists estimate that the wave of innovation unleashed by the industrial Internet could boost global GDP by as much as $10 trillion to $15 trillion over the next 20 years. The conglomerate recently launched Predix, a software development platform engineers can use to create applications for any machine connected to the industrial Internet.

Read more at: http://www.cnbc.com/id/101599574

Publications | International Peat Society

Posted on April 17, 2014 by Nanthakumar Victor Emmanuel, P.Eng Leave a comment

Publications | International Peat Society.

Nickel Rises to 14-Month High on Indonesia Ban, Ukraine

Posted on April 14, 2014 by Nanthakumar Victor Emmanuel, P.Eng Leave a comment

The metal for delivery in three months on the London Metal Exchange climbed as much as 2.6 percent to $17,845 a metric ton and traded at $17,796 at 3:22 p.m. in Shanghai. Today’s gain marks the longest winning streak since October 2010.

Shanshan to invest $486 million to build China’s biggest Lithium battery material production base | China | SCRAP REGISTER NEWS

Posted on April 12, 2014 by Nanthakumar Victor Emmanuel, P.Eng Leave a comment

Shanshan to invest $486 million to build China’s biggest Lithium battery material production base | China | SCRAP REGISTER NEWS.

NASA is seeking proposals for the development of new energy storage technologies Read more: NASA is seeking proposals for the development of new energy storage technologies

Posted on April 9, 2014 by Nanthakumar Victor Emmanuel, P.Eng Leave a comment

The core technologies solicited in the Wednesday call for proposals will advance energy storage solutions for the space program and other government agencies, such as the Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA-E) through ongoing collaboration with NASA and industry.

General Electric on 3D printing: ‘We are on the verge of the next industrial revolution’

Posted on April 3, 2014 by Nanthakumar Victor Emmanuel, P.Eng Leave a comment

NEW YORK — It’s not every day you get a 20-year-old Indonesian student outsmarting some of General Electric’s greatest minds and designers.

According to GE’s general manager for technology Christine Furstoss, the unnamed student helped General Electric save considerable sums of money in development and manufacturing costs by designed a critical aircraft part that was 83 percent lighter and yet still met the safety and design criteria.

Analysis probes charge transfer in porous battery electrodes for the first time

Posted on April 3, 2014 by Nanthakumar Victor Emmanuel, P.Eng Leave a comment

The electrochemical reactions inside the porous electrodes of batteries and fuel cells have been described by theorists, but never measured directly. Now, a team at MIT has figured out a way to measure the fundamental charge transfer rate—finding some significant surprises.

The study found that the Butler-Volmer (BV) equation, usually used to describe reaction rates in electrodes, is inaccurate, especially at higher voltage levels. Instead, a different approach, called Marcus-Hush-Chidsey charge-transfer theory, provides more realistic results—revealing that the limiting step of these reactions is not what had been thought.