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NEDOL [New Energy Development Organization Liquefaction] A coal liquefaction process in development in Japan by the New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO), Tokyo. Crushed coal is mixed with a pyrite catalyst and slurried in a hydrogenated heavy oil. Liquefaction takes place at 450°C, 170 bar. The overall oil yield is 59%. The used solvent is hydrogenated and recycled. Piloted in Kashima, Japan, in 1997 to 1998. Two Chinese companies were licensed to build test units in 2006. 

Gardner C, Gardner C (2004). Technology licensing to nontraditional partners Nonprofit health product development organizations for better global health. Available http //www.mihr.org/ q=taxonomy menu/l/6. 

The University of Dayton Research Institute has developed a photo-thermal detoxification unit (PDU) that can completely destroy vapor-phase organic contaminants from soil, sludge, and aqueous streams. The PDU is a patented technology that is available for licensing. Engineering plans for construction of a PDU are commercially available. The technology has not been demonstrated on a field scale but has been used in laboratory studies of simulated wastes. 

Cansolv A flue-gas desulfurization process based on the selective absorption of sulfur dioxide in a proprietary, thermally regenerable, organic amine-based solution. Developed by Union Carbide Corporation the first plant was originally planned for startup at Newburgh, IN, in 1994, although the process was abandoned in 1993. Now licensed by Cansolv Technologies Inc. See HS. 

Recognition is due to the members of the Laboratory of Photonics Interfaces of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), some of whose work is referenced below to those industrial organizations whose interest in the molecular photovoltaic system has induced them to license the concept and thereby support our research to EPFL and FNRS (Swiss National Science Foundation) for financial support and to OFEN (Swiss Federal Office of Energy) for past encouragement and support. Thanks are also due to Dr. Pierre Bonhote for valuable help in the writing of Section 1.4.5. 

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