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FEBRUARY 26, 2014

The US DOE is soliciting ( DE-FOA-0001051 ) projects for up to $10 million in awards to target technological advancements to lower the cost of producing hydrogen and/or high-hydrogen syngas from coal for use in 90% carbon capture power generation and/or gasification-based liquid (transportation) fuel production: methanol or diesel.

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MARCH 21, 2016

This could make it more attractive to make olefins from alternative sources of carbon, such as biomass, natural gas, or coal. The design of bifunctional catalysts could result in further breakthroughs in developing one-step processes for selective production of fuels and chemicals such as gasoline, diesel, and aromatics from synthesis gas.

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JULY 10, 2009

Ignite Energy Resources supercritical water process diagram. IER’s proprietary supercritical water technology (SCW) transforms low-ranked coals, including lignite, directly into higher-valued oils and cleaner coal products. tonnes of high-ranked coal. Source: IER. Click to enlarge. The region for supercritical fluids.

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JUNE 9, 2011

A new assessment of the viability of coal-to-liquids (CTL) technology by researchers from the MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change (JPSPGC) found that without climate policy, CTL has the potential to account for around a third of global liquid fuels by 2050. Credit: Chen et al., 2011 Click to enlarge.

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MAY 15, 2012

The National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) has released a follow-on study to its 2009 evaluation of the economic and environmental performance of Coal-to-Liquids (CTL) and CTL with modest amounts of biomass mixed in (15% by weight) for the production of zero-sulfure diesel fuel. Earlier post.). —White and Gray.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

Using bituminous coal from southern Wyoming, the Medicine Bow facility will produce 11,600 barrels per day of very low sulfur gasoline using GE gasification technology and methanol?to?gasoline Denbury Resources Inc., ton Carbon Basin coal reserve owned by Arch Coal, which is also an equity investor in the project.

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MARCH 13, 2013

million to seven research teams—six from Stanford and one from Carnegie Mellon University—to advance research on technologies for renewable energy conversion to electricity or fuels and for capturing CO 2 emissions and converting CO 2 to fuels. Stanford’s Global Climate and Energy Project (GCEP) is awarding $6.6

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AUGUST 20, 2010

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has selected 8 research projects for funding that will focus on gasification of coal/biomass to produce synthetic gas (syngas) as a pathway to producing power, hydrogen, fuel or chemicals. will blend coal and biomass to develop a feedstock for co-gasification. Clean Coal Briquette Inc.

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JULY 10, 2022

The project will successfully construct, operate, test, refine and evaluate the CO 2 LOC processes and technologies and provide data to support a computer model of a full-scale plant designed to deliver 50kt CO 2 capture per annum. Lapwing Energy Limited, “Reverse Coal”. Reverse Coal is a disruptive system change that can be scaled to?remove

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MARCH 3, 2011

A new study by Michael Wang and Jeongwoo Han at Argonne National Laboratory and Xiaomin Xie at Shanghai Jiao Tong University assesses the effects of carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology and cellulosic biomass and coal co-feeding in Fischer-Tropsch (FT) plants on energy use and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of FT diesel (FTD).

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JUNE 26, 2010

Natural gas will play a leading role in reducing greenhouse-gas emissions over the next several decades, largely by replacing older, inefficient coal plants with highly efficient combined-cycle gas generation, according to a major new interim report out from MIT. The first two reports dealt with nuclear power (2003) and coal (2007).

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DECEMBER 9, 2010

A detailed study by researchers from China and the US has concluded that Fischer-Tropsch synthetic liquid fuels (FTL) are typically less costly to produce when electricity is generated as a major coproduct than when the plants are designed to produce mainly liquid fuels. Guangjian Liu, Eric D. Larson, Robert H. Williams, Thomas G.

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APRIL 5, 2016

Altex Technologies has selected Unitel to provide engineering services to design and build a pilot system that will produce 1 BPD of synthetic gasoline from biomass (Biomass Conversion to Synthetic Gasoline System, BCSGS). Unitel is a designer and builder of modular pilot and mini-plants. Carbonaceous materials—e.g.,

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DECEMBER 14, 2013

TIPS has developed a novel method of conversion for gas, biomass and coal to liquid hydrocarbons (XTL) that is more efficient and easier to apply on small scale than the commonly used Fischer-Tropsch process. The first step is to create a company that is licensed to use this new method. Kolesnikova, E.; Biryukova, E.; Kolesnichenko, N.;

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FEBRUARY 4, 2010

Second, the US Department of Agriculture proposed a rule on the Biomass Crop Assistance Program (BCAP) that would provide financing to increase the conversion of biomass to bioenergy. It’s been said that the United States is the Saudi Arabia of coal—and that’s because, as I said, it’s one of our most abundant energy resources.

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AUGUST 5, 2022

This work creates a general industrialization method toward carbon dioxide capture via DCC atomic-level design strategies. UC Berkeley chemists created the first such carbon-capture MOF in 2015, and subsequent versions have proved even more efficient at removing carbon dioxide from flue gases, such as those from a coal-fired power plant.

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MAY 27, 2022

The Rice lab of chemist James Tour introduced flash Joule heating in 2020 to convert coal, petroleum coke and trash into graphene. The lab flashed the powder in two steps, first under low current and then high current in a heater Wyss custom designed for the experiment. Wyss, K.M., De Kleine, R.D., Couvreur, R.L.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2015

billion core hours represents 1,000-fold growth in computational resources provided to award recipients. Despite continued upgrades, expansions, and advances in computing power, demand for leadership-class resources such as Mira and Titan continues to exceed availability. Today’s collective allocation of 5.8

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MARCH 4, 2011

MPa enable the system to operate with very high thermal efficiency, exceeding even those of a large coal-generated power plant and nearly twice as efficient as that of a gasoline engine (about 25%). Turbo-alternator-shaft design for the SNL S-CO 2 test loop. Resources. Nuclear Engineering and Design. Source: Wright et al.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

This work continues his long-standing research into nanostructured thermoelectrics and thermoelectric energy conversion. Qian Zhang, a research associate in Ren’s group who designed the experiment, said she ultimately decided to add the indium dopant to alter the electrical properties of the tin telluride.

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MAY 23, 2022

With this finding, Wang became curious about what this reaction would look like in even colder, more extreme regions, so he began designing an experiment to test it in upper troposphere-like conditions. What we found is that the nitric acid and ammonia are susceptible to temperature changes. The emission sources are limited up there.

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JANUARY 24, 2023

The new PNNL carbon capture and conversion system brings the cost to capture CO 2 down to about $39 per metric ton. As described in an open-access paper in the journal Advanced Energy Materials , the new system is designed to fit into coal-, gas-, or biomass-fired power plants, as well as cement kilns and steel plants.

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JUNE 29, 2009

During the first half of 2009, the Linc Energy Limited Underground Coal Gasification (UCG) to Liquids demonstration plant at Chinchilla ( earlier post ) ran four major production campaigns each of which has seen further improvements in plant performance, according to the company. Peter Bond, Linc Energy CEO.

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JANUARY 20, 2015

Based on Anellotech’s innovative proprietary CFP technology, patents licensed from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, and Axens’ proprietary post-treatment hydrotreating process, this new technology will open the way to a competitive production of bio-aromatics from renewable resources with lower energy consumption and lower CO 2 emissions.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

Scientists from the Max Planck Institutes for Chemical Energy Conversion and Coal Research and from the research group Photobiotechnology at Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB) have discovered a way of increasing the efficiency of hydrogen production in microalgae by a factor of five by using a combined metabolic engineering approach.

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MARCH 28, 2010

The completely integrated industrial process chain will enable various biomasses and fossil resources, in both liquid and solid form, to be applied to produce high-quality biofuels. The PRENFLO Direct Quench (PDQ) process is an optimized design of Uhde’s PRENFLO PSG gasification process (steam generation) for chemical applications (e.g.

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JULY 31, 2010

Modern interest substituting biomass for coal or natural gas as a gasification or reforming (respectively) feedstock to provide syngas for catalytic conversion to methanol reaches back several decades. note that: The composition of syngas derived from biomass is different from that derived from natural gas and coal.

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MARCH 7, 2011

Transphorm says that its solutions cut energy waste by 20% and simplify the design and manufacturing of a wide variety of electrical systems and devices, including motor drives, power supplies and inverters for solar panels and electric vehicles. At APEC, startup Transphorm Inc. Our goal is to build [Transphorm] to be a legacy company.

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MARCH 27, 2014

They also note that large-scale production of synthetic fuels or hydrogen from coal or gas offers the potential for GHG emissions reduction—but only if CO 2 can be captured and stored. These pathways are therefore fundamentally inefficient in the way they use biomass, a limited resource. ICE-based vehicles and fuels.

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AUGUST 13, 2009

Plants with electric power output greater than 50% of total energy output that operate on more than 55% coal as a feedstock are ineligible. The sequestration opportunities include deep saline formations, and deep geologic systems including basalts, operating oil and gas fields, depleted oil and gas fields, and unmineable coal seams.

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JULY 5, 2011

trillion in 2010) would be required to overcome poverty; increase food production to eradicate hunger without degrading land and water resources; and avert the climate change catastrophe. The reports estimates that incremental green investment of about 3% of world gross product (WGP) (about $1.9

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OCTOBER 3, 2009

Projects that best demonstrate the ability to address their mission needs will be in the final portfolio that will receive additional funding for design, construction, and operation. Noting that coal accounts for roughly 25% of the world energy supply and 40% of the carbon emissions. C6 Resources. DOE Share: $3,014,666).

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FEBRUARY 24, 2011

The technology is estimated to be more efficient than traditional geothermal binary systems, allowing lower-temperature geothermal resources to be used for power generation. Unlike coal-fired and natural gas-fired power generation plants, geothermal plants produce virtually no greenhouse gas emissions. Bliem and G.L.

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DECEMBER 7, 2010

However, the two conclude in their review, substantial advances in catalyst, electrolyte, and reactor design are needed to enable CO 2 utilization via electrochemical conversion a technology that can help address climate change and shift society to renewable energy sources. —Whipple and Kenis. —Whipple and Kenis.

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MAY 8, 2009

In the assessment, the team used The Energy and Resources Group Biofuel Analysis Meta-Model (EBAMM) to consider scenarios covering a range of feedstocks and energy conversion technologies including corn and cellulosic ethanol, and four different vehicle classes: small- and mid-size cars and small and full-size SUVs. Resources.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2010

First versions of the engine chassis will be designed for use in urban delivery trucks and school buses. Conversion kits also will be available to switch medium-duty gasoline vehicles to run on propane. The process uses synthesis gas produced from natural gas (NG), coal or petroleum coke. primarily produce bio-propane. (JGS)

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MAY 1, 2009

For comparison, they also modeled the production of methanol using only biomass as a fuel and also using coal as source of both carbon and energy. Transferring the high temperature heat from the solar concentrator to the gasifier and designing the available configuration of the gasifier are technological challenges.

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