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DOE, RTI to Design and Build Coal Syngas Cleanup System for IGCC Power Plants to Reduce Cost of Removing Contaminants, Capturing CO2; Potential for Synthetic Chemicals and Fuels

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DOE and RTI will design, build, and test a warm gas cleanup system—based on RTI’s high-temperature syngas cleanup technology—to remove multiple contaminants from coal-derived syngas. Data on thermal efficiency, emissions, and cost benefits will be gathered during more than 5,000 hours of testing the warm syngas cleaning system.

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US DOE Awarding Up To $62M for Concentrating Solar Power Research and Development

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eSolar will design, build, and test a CSP power plant system with fundamentally new components. Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne will build on and advance the current solar power tower plant design. University of South Florida – Tampa, FL – up to $2.5 eSolar, Inc. Pasadena, CA – up to $10.8 SENER Engineering and Systems Inc. –

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

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The new ARPA-E selections focus on accelerating innovations in clean technology while increasing US competitiveness in rare earth alternatives and breakthroughs in biofuels, thermal storage, grid controls, and solar power electronics. Florida, Tampa). fossil fuel consumption and emissions, enabling clean solar. of Technology.

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