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DOE awarding $6.5M to 9 large-scale Phase I pilot coal projects

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Phase II (Design) selected projects will complete a front-end engineering design study and complete the National Environmental Policy Act process. The FEED will include technologies for lowering sulfur oxide and nitrogen oxide emissions to allow for operating the diesel engine on. syngas.DOE: $15,908 Non-DOE: $3,978 Total: $19,886.

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DOE Awarding More Than $3.3M to 7 Universities To Conduct Advanced Turbine Technology Studies for Advanced Coal-Based Power Generation

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The universities—located in Georgia, Texas, North Dakota, Louisiana, California, and New York—will investigate the technology needed for the efficient operation of turbines using coal-derived synthesis gas (syngas) and high hydrogen content (HHC) fuels. University of North Dakota , Grand Forks, N.D.

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New high-pressure dry-solids feed pump could make high-efficiency, lower-emission gasification economically competitive

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The first Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne commercial-scale high-pressure dry-solids feed pump was commissioned at the Environmental and Engineering Research Center on 10 April 2012. A rendering of the Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne high pressure, dry-solids feed pump. Source: NETL. Click to enlarge.

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DOE awarding $72M to 27 projects to develop and advance carbon capture technologies, including direct air capture

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Under the first FOA (DE-FOA-0002187), Capture Research and Development (R&D): Engineering Scale Testing from Coal- and Natural-Gas-Based Flue Gas and Initial Engineering Design for Industrial Sources, DOE selected nine projects to receive $51 million for cost-shared R&D. LH CO 2 MENT Colorado Project.

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DOE Selects 8 Projects to Advance Technologies for the Co-Production of Power and Hydrogen, Fuels or Chemicals from Coal-Biomass Feedstocks

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and the University of North Dakota Energy and Environment Research Center in Grand Forks, N.D., VPI will develop optimally engineered systems for manufacturing coal-biomass briquettes/pellets that are ideally suited for transportation, storage, and co-feeding fixed- and fluidized-bed gasifiers.

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DOE to award up to $12.4M to 11 projects focused on shale gas and enhanced oil recovery

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Colorado School of Mines (Golden, CO) - Novel Engineered Osmosis Technology: A Comprehensive Approach to the Treatment and Reuse of Produced Water and Drilling Wastewater. Current methods such as microseismic monitoring are valuable, but they can be expensive and are not applicable in some environments. million in federal funds.

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DOE awards $34M to 19 projects to advance clean hydrogen

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The team will conduct a series of scale-up experiments to achieve high yields of hydrogen and graphitic carbon in a representative solar environment with 40–50 kilowatt insolation to produce greater than 5 kilograms of hydrogen per day. The investigation will be performed on steels with a range of strength levels (e.g.,

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