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ARPA-E announces $11M for innovations in energy-water processing and agricultural sensing technologies; fourth, fifth OPEN+ cohorts

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The Sensors teams will develop ultra-low-energy distributed sensors to improve production efficiency in agriculture, boosting viability for bioenergy crops and reducing the energy and water requirements for agriculture more broadly. Energy-Water Technologies cohort. Sensors for Bioenergy and Agriculture cohort.

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DOE Awards Up to $6.9M to Nine Projects for Shale Gas and Coalbed Methane Production

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The Office of Fossil Energy’s National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) has selected nine new projects targeting environmental tools and technology for shale gas and coalbed methane (CBM) production. West Virginia University, Morgantown, W.Va. University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Ark. million (DOE share: $6.9

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Alkaline surfactant polymer flooding shown to improve recovery in very mature oilfield by more than 300%

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This method of extraction could help pull as many as 130 million additional barrels of oil from the depleted field, which is past peak production using traditional drilling. The principal advantage of this process is its low cost. water production. water production.

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DOE awarding $35.4M to 13 projects to advance deepwater drilling technologies

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The Board of Regents of the University of Oklahoma — Intelligent Casing-Intelligent Formation Telemetry System. This project will focus on reducing the risk of environmental and operational safety problems associated with hydrate blockages forming in flexible subsea production tubulars.

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DOE announces more than $65M in public and private funding to commercialize promising energy technologies

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Application of Advanced Materials Processing to Enable Direct Production of Fast Reactor Fuel Alloys, $1,000,000. Northern Illinois University (DeKalb, Illinois). Highly Efficient Low-Thermal-Budget Hydrogen and Chemical Co-Production via an Electrochemical Activation of Propane, $100,000. Nu:Ionic (Tulsa, Oklahoma).

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DOE awards $25M to improve natural gas operations

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These projects aim to develop tools, methods, and technologies to enhance cost-effectively the safety and efficiency of the US’ natural gas production, gathering, storage, and transmission infrastructure. AOI 2: Process-Intensified Technologies for the Upcycling of Flare Gas into Transportable, Value-Added Products.

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ARPA-E Awards $151M to 37 Projects for Transformative Energy Research

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Eagle Picher, in partnership with the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, will develop a new generation of high energy, low cost planar liquid sodium beta batteries for grid scale electrical power storage applications. Low Cost, High Energy and Power Density, Nanotube-Enhanced Ultracapacitors. Earlier post.)

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