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Representatives from the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) recently visited the NSF Engineering Research Center for Environmentally Applied Refrigerant Technology Hub (EARTH) at the University of Kansas (KU) in Lawrence. Dana Denick, program director for NSF Engineering Research Centers, and Bert Chandler, program director for NSF CBET-Catalysis, spent two days...

The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering Research Center for Environmentally Applied Refrigerant Technology Hub (EARTH) proudly congratulates NSF EARTH industry members Icorium and Hudson Technologies on announcing a preliminary agreement to commercialize Icorium's patented extractive distillation technology for refrigerant reclamation. ...

As industries around the world work to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, researchers are searching for innovative ways to replace or recycle compounds that contribute to the atmospheric impact of emissions. One recent doctoral thesis has helped advance that effort by combining machine learning, optimization, and molecular simulation to improve the...