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DOE to award ~$13.5M to 16 R&D projects for solid-oxide fuel cell technologies

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SOFC technologies enable efficient, cost-effective electricity generation from abundant domestic coal and natural gas resources, with minimal use of water and near-zero atmospheric emissions of carbon dioxide and pollutants. Preliminary Design and Techno-Economic Analysis of MWe-Class Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Systems. FuelCell Energy Inc.

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ARPA-E Selects 37 Projects for $106M in Funding in Second Round; Electrofuels, Better Batteries and Carbon Capture

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ARPA-E’s first solicitation awarded $151 million to 37 projects aimed at transformational innovations in energy storage, biofuels, carbon capture, renewable power, building efficiency, vehicles, and other areas. Medical University of South Carolina. of South Carolina). Earlier post.). Earlier post.) Clemson Univ.,

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DOE Awards $377 Million in Funding for 46 Energy Frontier Research Centers

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Use fundamental knowledge about the interactions between catalysts and plant cell walls to design improved processes for the conversion of biomass to energy, fuels, or chemicals. Rational Design of Innovative Catalytic Technologies for Biomass Derivative Utilization. Center for Inverse Design. $20. Purdue University.

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Iowa State to manage biorefinery projects for new Manufacturing USA Institute

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Department of Energy’s Savannah River National Laboratory in South Carolina and the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta. The new process produces sugars that can be fermented to biofuels and a solid fuel suitable as a coal substitute. of Adel; and the Iowa Energy Center.

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How to Prevent Blackouts by Packetizing the Power Grid

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Second, conventional coal and nuclear plants are being retired for economic and policy reasons, removing stable sources from the grid. One is to do a modernized version of what we have done in the past: Build giant, centralized infrastructure. There are a few possibilities. Our projects have yielded some promising results. “A