Alabama, Resource and Waste

DOE awards $19M to 13 initiatives in fossil-fuel areas to produce rare earth elements and critical minerals

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MAY 3, 2021

San Juan River-Raton-Black Mesa Basin (Arizona, Colorado and New Mexico): New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology plans to determine the rare earth elements and critical minerals resource potential in coal and related stratigraphic units in the San Juan and Raton basins in New Mexico. DOE Funding: $1,499,999. DOE Funding: $1,483,787.

West Virginia

West Virginia Wyoming Coal North Dakota

DOE awards $97M to 33 bioenergy research and development projects

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AUGUST 1, 2020

These projects will improve the performance and lower the cost and risk of technologies that can be used to produce biofuels, biopower, and bioproducts from biomass and waste resources. University of Alabama. Scale-up and Qualification of Net-Zero Sustainable Aviation Fuels from Wet Waste. Project title. Federal share.

Waste

Waste Conversion Universal San Diego

Study of californium borate could lead to new technologies for radioactive waste storage and nuclear fuel recycling

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APRIL 2, 2014

Albrecht-Schmitt said that the discoveries could help scientists build new storage containers for radioactive waste, plus help separate radioactive fuel, aiding in its recycling. A paper on the study is published in the journal Nature Chemistry. Polinski, Edward B. Garner, Rémi Maurice, Nora Planas, Jared T. Stritzinger, T. Cross, Thomas D.

Waste

Waste Florida Fuel Alabama

Successful demonstration of advanced hyperbaric centrifuge technology for recovering fine coal particles from waste slurries

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JANUARY 4, 2011

A full-scale test of advanced hyperbaric centrifuge technology at a Jim Walter Resources Inc. coal-cleaning plant in Alabama successfully reduced moisture from ultrafine coal waste. Coal recovery from the sludge was greater than 97%.

Coal

Coal Waste Virginia Water

USDA providing $405M in conditional loan guarantees for three biorefinery projects

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JANUARY 20, 2011

received a letter of intent for a $250-million loan guarantee to construct and operate a cellulosic ethanol biorefinery facility in rural western Alabama. Enerkem uses gasification followed by catalytic synthesis to produce synthetic fuels from biomass and waste. Coskata, Inc. Earlier post.). Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

Waste

Waste 2008 Alabama Renewable

Hyundai Motor to invest $85B over next 10 years to accelerate transition to smart mobility provider

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JUNE 21, 2023

Compared to Hyundai Motor’s plant in Montgomery, Alabama, the company expects to improve logistics and assembly automation rates significantly and the number of vehicles that can be produced. The company will apply the smart manufacturing platform to factories dedicated to EVs.

Hyundai

Hyundai Motor Motors Motoring

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

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AUGUST 22, 2016

Emergent Polymer Sensing Technologies for Gulf Coast Water Quality Monitoring This collaboration between Mississippi and Alabama develops advanced polymer-based sensing technologies to detect pollutants in Gulf Coast aquatic ecosystems.

Water

Water Puerto Rico West Virginia Energy

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

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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. Geological Survey of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Ala. University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pa.

Gas

Gas Arkansas Water West Virginia

NRC report concludes hydraulic fracturing poses low risk for causing earthquakes, but risks are higher for wastewater injection wells; CCS impact undetermined

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JUNE 17, 2012

Waste water disposal from oil and gas production, including shale gas recovery, typically involves injection at relatively low pressures into large porous aquifers that are specifically targeted to accommodate large volumes of fluid. The resulting consensus reports undergo external peer review before completion. National Research Council.

Oil-Sands

Oil-Sands Gas Water Oil

USDA Report Provides Regional Roadmap To Meeting the Biofuels Goals of the Renewable Fuels Standard by 2022; Southeast to Provide ~50% of Advanced Biofuels

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JUNE 24, 2010

Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas. Woody biomass, municipal waste potential. 0.3% (this is only for dedicated energy crops and woody biomass from logging waste). Resources. Southeast and Hawaii. million acres, 11.4% Central East.

Renewable

Renewable Standards Fuel Rhode Island

DOE to award $11M to 20 new Clean Cities projects for alt fuel cars and trucks

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NOVEMBER 20, 2012

program; and create the DriveElectricMN.org website as an online resource. includes Georgia, Alabama, South Carolina and Tennessee, will provide first. gas-fueled school buses and solid waste collection vehicles and develop a. Vehicle Workgroup and create a strategic plan for statewide natural gas. Bay Area Air Quality.

Clean

Clean Cleaning Alternative Fuels Fuel

DOE Selects High-Tonnage Biomass Feedstock Projects for up to $21M in Funding

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AUGUST 31, 2009

switchgrass, miscanthus, energycane, sorghum, poplar, willow), forest resources (e.g., forest thinnings, wood chips, wood wastes, small diameter trees), and urban wood wastes. Auburn University of Auburn, Alabama (up to $4.9

Alabama

Alabama Columbus Kansas Supplies

DOE ARPA-E awards $156M to projects to 60 projects to accelerate innovation in clean energy technologies

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

wasted energy in plants into energy-dense fuel molecules. University of Alabama. type Hexaferrite The University of Alabama led team will demonstrate. solar resources to produce precursors to synthetic fuels (e.g. use of renewable resources. energy resources (primarily wind and solar power) and storage.

Energy

Energy Clean Cleaning Grid

EV Driven

DOE awards $19M to 13 initiatives in fossil-fuel areas to produce rare earth elements and critical minerals

DOE awards $97M to 33 bioenergy research and development projects

Study of californium borate could lead to new technologies for radioactive waste storage and nuclear fuel recycling

Successful demonstration of advanced hyperbaric centrifuge technology for recovering fine coal particles from waste slurries

USDA providing $405M in conditional loan guarantees for three biorefinery projects

Hyundai Motor to invest $85B over next 10 years to accelerate transition to smart mobility provider

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

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

NRC report concludes hydraulic fracturing poses low risk for causing earthquakes, but risks are higher for wastewater injection wells; CCS impact undetermined

USDA Report Provides Regional Roadmap To Meeting the Biofuels Goals of the Renewable Fuels Standard by 2022; Southeast to Provide ~50% of Advanced Biofuels

DOE to award $11M to 20 new Clean Cities projects for alt fuel cars and trucks

DOE Selects High-Tonnage Biomass Feedstock Projects for up to $21M in Funding

DOE ARPA-E awards $156M to projects to 60 projects to accelerate innovation in clean energy technologies

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