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JULY 22, 2018

West Virginia University (WVU) researchers are opening a new facility to capture rare earth elements (REEs) from acid mine drainage (AMD) from coal mining. Conventional rare-earth recovery methods require an expensive, difficult and messy extraction process that generates large volumes of contaminated waste.

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MARCH 23, 2021

In recent years, a growing number of utilities responsible for clean water have moved from strict wastewater treatment to a broader model of water-resource management. They are based out of California, Colorado, Connecticut, Georgia, Hawaii, Illinois, Kansas, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, Ohio, and Virginia.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2018

A GRIDSMART traffic camera installed at an intersection in Leesburg, Virginia. The US Department of Energy estimates that idling from heavy- and light-duty vehicles combined wastes about 6 billion gallons of fuel per year. As vehicles idle at intersections and other locations, fuel is wasted. Photo courtesy of GRIDSMART.

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JULY 15, 2011

However, notes Virginia Tech Prof. Zhang proposes using a simple biomass-to-wheel (BTW) energy efficiency analysis to help make a more informed decision for how to utilize (limited) biomass resources more efficiently. vehicle service, taxes, subsidies, infrastructure costs for repairing and rebuilding, resource availability, etc.),

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JANUARY 19, 2010

Terrestrial bioenergy feedstock crops such as switchgrass, canola and corn have lower environmental lifecycle impacts than algae in energy use, greenhouse gas emissions, and water regardless of cultivation location, according to a new lifecycle assessment by researchers at the University of Virginia. 0.4 ± 0.05. 1.8 ± 0.58. 3.3 ± 0.86.

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Water Waste Energy Emissions 218

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FEBRUARY 13, 2009

A dewatering technology developed at Virginia Tech has succeeded in reducing the moisture content of ultrafine coal to less than 20%, transforming it to a salable product. the technology reduced the moisture to a level that the waste coal can now be marketed commercially. as part of a license agreement with Virginia Tech.

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AUGUST 22, 2016

Sensing and Educating the Nexus to Sustain Ecosystems (SENSE) This project expands and enhances the capabilities of Kentucky and West Virginia to study surface water, providing a foundation for understanding how agriculture and hydropower production affect water quality. Murray State University. David White. Jackson State University.

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Teslarati

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

On Saturday, February 19th, an uncrewed Northrup Grumman Cygnus spacecraft lifted off on an Antares rocket from Pad 0A at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in northeast Virginia. 77 pounds (35 kilograms) of computer resources. . 77 pounds (35 kilograms) of computer resources. tons (~8300 lb) of cargo into orbit.

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JANUARY 12, 2017

Researchers at West Virginia University have characterized pump-to-wheels methane emissions from heavy-duty (HD) natural-gas-fueled vehicles and the compressed natural gas (CNG) and liquefied natural gas (LNG) fueling stations that serve them. Sponsors provided access to vehicles or facilities. —Karen Hamberg. Clark, David L.

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DECEMBER 16, 2010

The Phase II project team of 10 organizations from 5 states—including universities and large and small businesses—will be managed by the Logos Technologies Energy Systems Division at its process-integration laboratory in northern Virginia. per gallon. DARPA Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) No. Shulin Chen.

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JANUARY 18, 2011

A collaboration including researchers from Boston College, MIT, the University of Virginia and Clemson University have achieved a peak ZT (thermoelectric figure of merit) of 0.8 for the materials and possibly good enough for consideration for waste heat recovery in automotive exhaust systems. The study by Biswas et al. and Emma H.

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JUNE 21, 2016

Process intensification breakthroughs can dramatically shrink the footprint of equipment needed on a crowded factory floor or eliminate waste by using the raw input materials more efficiently. of Virginia; Virginia Tech; U. West Virginia U. VRCO; and many more small and medium-sized manufacturers.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2009

West Virginia University. We will consider all aspects of energy resource recovery, not only traditional oil and natural gas production methods but also unconventional production, such as natural gas from shale or coal-bed methane. In addition to HARC and Texas A&M, founding members of the Alliance include: University of Wyoming.

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JUNE 24, 2010

Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maine, Michigan, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, Vermont, West Virginia. Woody biomass, municipal waste potential. Delaware, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Missouri, Ohio, Oklahoma, Maryland, Minnesota, Nebraska, North Dakota, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Wisconsin, Virginia.

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AUGUST 22, 2009

NETL’s goals for these projects are to improve management of water resources, water usage, and water disposal, and to support science that will aid the regulatory and permitting processes required for shale gas development. West Virginia University, Morgantown, W.Va. DOE share: $799,897; recipient share: $199,976; duration 18 months).

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NOVEMBER 20, 2012

program; and create the DriveElectricMN.org website as an online resource. gas-fueled school buses and solid waste collection vehicles and develop a. the District of Columbia, Maryland and northern Virginia will develop. Vehicle Workgroup and create a strategic plan for statewide natural gas. Bay Area Air Quality. Management.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2009

Researchers at Virginia Tech, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), and the University of Georgia have produced hydrogen gas in a spontaneous, “one-pot” process using an enzyme cocktail, cellulosic materials from non-food sources, and water. Hydrogen production from cellodextrin and water by a synthetic enzymatic pathway.

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Water Convert Hydrogen Virginia 150

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JUNE 26, 2021

Lynchburg, Virginia). ENTR Alliance (Charlottesville, Virginia). Real Time-Optimal Power Flow based Distributed Energy Resources Management System (DERMS), $299,329. Robust Carbonic Anhydrases for Novel Biological, Sustainable and Low Energy CO2 Scrubbing Process from Waste Gases, $250,000. NovaCentrix (Austin, Texas).

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OCTOBER 21, 2013

Researchers at Wake Forest University and Virginia Tech report on their development of sulfonated carbon catalysts for the conversion of low-quality fats and oils containing high concentrations of free fatty acids into biodiesel in a paper in the journal Bioresource Technology. Deshmane, Marcus W.

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AUGUST 25, 2009

West Virginia University Research Corporation , Morgantown, W.V. Advanced Resources International , Arlington, Va. DOE share: $1,046,917; recipient share: $470,646; duration: 36 months). High-sensitivity permanent downhole gauges will be placed in a formation where CO 2 is being stored.

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AUGUST 19, 2023

intends to develop a modular, sorbent-based air separation unit (ASU) for oxygen production to support low-cost hydrogen production from gasification of biomass and/or wastes. The team intends to address the requirement of advancing modular air separation to support modular gasification-based hydrogen production.

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APRIL 3, 2009

In general, biofuels made from organic waste are environmentally more benign than those from energy crops. The first steps towards sustainable energy and resource management should aim for significant reductions on the demand side, with greater conservation and improved efficiency. A recent study by Air Improvement Resources, Inc.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 26, 2023

Rahman, a power expert and professor of electrical and computer engineering at Virginia Tech , is the former chair of the IEEE ad hoc committee on climate change. And unlike traditional nuclear facilities, SMRs don’t need to be located near large bodies of water to handle the waste heat discharge.

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MAY 16, 2014

Zhang/Virginia Tech. In a perspective on the IBM paper, also published in Science , Dr. Tim Long from Virginia Tech noted that: Thermoplastics are polymers that become pliable or moldable at elevated temperatures, but return to a solid state when cooled. Click to enlarge. Jeannette M. García, Gavin O. Jones, Kumar Virwani, Bryan D.

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JUNE 4, 2017

Now, chemists from the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) and Virginia Tech have designed two supramolecular photocatalysts that incorporate individual components specialized for light absorption, charge separation, or catalysis. —lead author Gerald Manbeck. —Gerald Manbeck. 7b02142.

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DECEMBER 17, 2016

A Novel Catalytic Membrane Reactor for DME Synthesis from Renewable Resources (Category 1) The Gas Technology Institute team will develop a reactor to synthesize dimethyl ether (DME), which functions as a substitute for diesel fuel, from carbon dioxide, hydrogen, and electricity. West Virginia University Research Corporation.

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JUNE 19, 2015

The Energy Department’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) announced $55 million in funding for 18 innovative projects as part of ARPA-E’s two newest programs: Transportation Energy Resources from Renewable Agriculture (TERRA) and GENerators for Small Electrical and Thermal Systems (GENSETS).

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Transportation Energy West Virginia Engine 150

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

wasted energy in plants into energy-dense fuel molecules. Non-strategic Elements having Secure Supply Chains A Virginia Commonwealth University led team will. solar resources to produce precursors to synthetic fuels (e.g. use of renewable resources. energy resources (primarily wind and solar power) and storage.

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Cars That Think

JUNE 4, 2022

Xerox executives made all sorts of promises: we’ll buy 20,000, just talk to this executive in Virginia, then talk to this executive in Connecticut. No biological organism can live in its own waste products,” Kay said. “If It was the first portable computer run in an air­port. After a year I was ready to give up.” Alvy Ray Smith. “No

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APRIL 21, 2009

Though as the environmental lobby constantly points out, electric vehiclesonly provide a significant emissions benefit if their batteries are chargedby clean power from renewable resources. Matt Gentry, Aransas Pass , Tx, United States Instead of wasting time and money on an obvious SPIN Idea the government should put money into R&D.

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APRIL 10, 2010

A uniform price multi-round auction was used by the State of Virginia to auction its emissions allowances in the NO x Budget Trading Program in the eastern U.S. Support for this use of allowance value stems from the idea that the climate-regulating services of the atmosphere are a common property resource.

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