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OSU team develops process to clean coal mine drainage and extract rare earth elements

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In an open-access paper in the journal Environmental Engineering Science , the team reports that the process successfully cleaned clean coal mine drainage while producing rare-earth elements in samples from various rivers across Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia. —Jeff Bielicki. Miranda, Jeffrey M. 2021.0378.

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NSF announces $55M toward national research priorities; intersection of food, energy and water systems

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The National Science Foundation (NSF) has made 11 awards totaling $55 million aimed at building research capacity to develop new innovations at the intersection of food, energy and water systems and to address fundamental questions about the brain. Research at the nexus of food, energy and water. Lead organization. Description.

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WVU opens new research facility to extract valuable rare earth elements from acid mine drainage

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

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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. million (DOE share: $6.9

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DOE Selects 19 Projects to Monitor and Evaluate Geologic CO2 Storage

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Optimized rock-fluid models will incorporate the seismic signatures of (1) saturation scales and free versus dissolved gas in a CO 2 -water mixture, (2) pore pressure changes, and (3) CO 2 -induced chemical changes to the host rock. West Virginia University Research Corporation , Morgantown, W.V.

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SCOPE Biofuels Project Releases Assessment on Environmental Effects of Biofuel Technologies

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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. However very few studies include water use impacts.

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ARPA-E awards $35M to 16 REFUEL projects for energy-dense carbon-neutral liquid fuels; leveraging ammonia

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The 16 REFUEL projects seek to develop scalable technologies for converting water and molecules from the air into energy-dense, carbon-neutral liquid fuels (CNLFs) using electrical energy from renewable sources. High-Efficiency Ammonia Production from Water and Nitrogen (Category 1). Earlier post.) hydrogen or electricity). Giner, Inc.

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