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AirCapture, OCOchem and partners win $2.93M DOE grant for direct air capture of CO2 and conversion to formic acid

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AirCapture develops on-site, modular technology that captures CO 2 from the air using waste heat from manufacturing plants, enabling customer operations to go carbon neutral and even negative. We are converting common industrial waste streams into product streams —Todd Brix.

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DOE awarding $73.9M to 10 battery recycling projects

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Supplying Refined Battery Materials into the United States Electric Vehicle Battery Supply Chain by Synergizing Lithium-ion Battery Recycling with Mine Waste Reclamation. The University of Alabama. Element Energy. Michigan Technological University. Princeton NuEnergy. 10,000,000. UC San Diego. 10,000,000. 4,000,000.

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DOE awards $19M to 13 initiatives in fossil-fuel areas to produce rare earth elements and critical minerals

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Illinois Basin (Kentucky, Illinois, Indiana and Tennessee): Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois aims to lead a project to evaluate the domestic occurrence of strategic elements in coal, coal-based resources and waste streams from coal use. DOE Funding: $1,499,999. DOE Funding: $1,499,987. DOE Funding: $1,499,647.

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Li-Cycle starts operations at its first European lithium-ion battery recycling facility

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The Germany Spoke utilizes Li-Cycle’s Generation 3 Spoke technology to directly process all forms of lithium-ion battery waste, including full electric vehicle (EV) battery packs, without the need for discharging, dismantling or thermal processing.

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Study of californium borate could lead to new technologies for radioactive waste storage and nuclear fuel recycling

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Albrecht-Schmitt said that the discoveries could help scientists build new storage containers for radioactive waste, plus help separate radioactive fuel, aiding in its recycling. A paper on the study is published in the journal Nature Chemistry.

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DOE awards $97M to 33 bioenergy research and development projects

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These projects will improve the performance and lower the cost and risk of technologies that can be used to produce biofuels, biopower, and bioproducts from biomass and waste resources. University of Alabama. Scale-up and Qualification of Net-Zero Sustainable Aviation Fuels from Wet Waste. Project title. Federal share.

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Successful demonstration of advanced hyperbaric centrifuge technology for recovering fine coal particles from waste slurries

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coal-cleaning plant in Alabama successfully reduced moisture from ultrafine coal waste. In some cases the water is evaporated to stabilize the deposits before they are recovered in surface reclamation; in others, the waste coal is not recovered for a variety of technological, operational, market, or other reasons.

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