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Tech Breakthrough Could Upend the $650 Billion Plastics Market

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Most methods rely on high-heat extrusion and mechanical separation, degrading the material each cycle until its useless. new depolymerization breakthrough now makes it possible to reverse-engineer plastic not by melting it, For decades, recycling plastic has been a losing game too slow, too expensive, and too limited in scope.

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Chemical Breakthrough Could Solve Our Plastic Waste Problem

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Most methods rely on high-heat extrusion and mechanical separation, degrading the material each cycle until its useless. new depolymerization breakthrough now makes it possible to reverse-engineer plastic not by melting it, For decades, recycling plastic has been a losing game too slow, too expensive, and too limited in scope.

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The POWER Interview: The Best Use of Digital Construction in Electrical Engineering and MEP Design

POWER Magazine

Engineering firms are increasingly recognizing the importance of digital construction and its transformative impact on electrical engineering and MEP (mechanical, electrical, and plumbing) design.

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Tennessee Transportation Agency Deploying First All-Electric Shuttle Bus

NGT News

associate professor of mechanical engineering at Tech. “We Phoenix Motorcars has delivered an all-electric Z400 shuttle bus to the Upper Cumberland Human Resource Agency (UCHRA) in partnership with Tennessee Technological University. The project was headed by a team of dedicated faculty and graduate students led by Pingen Chen, Ph.D.,

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THE 4 POPULAR COURSES AFTER MECHANICAL ENGINEERING

Institute for Oil & Gas Sector

Mechanical Engineering is the oldest form of disciplines in the department of engineering.

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Carnot Heat Engines

Energy Central

Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot was a young French mechanical engineer. You’ll remember Archimedes asserted, ‘Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.'

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Atnospheric Engine

Energy Central

Atmospheric Engine. Introduction The atmosphere is an engine heated from the bottom by solar radiation and cooled from the top of the atmosphere by infrared radiation back to space.