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Pinto Energy to build 2,800 bpd small-scale GTL plant in Ashtabula; Velocys microchannel technology

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Pinto Energy LLC (Pinto), a developer of smaller scale Gas-to-Liquids (GTL) facilities, will build a 2,800 barrel per day (bpd) GTL plant at Pinto’s 80-acre industrial site to the east of Ashtabula, Ohio. Pinto has chosen Ventech Engineers International LLC (Ventech) as the project’s EPC Contractor.

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Students Use Their Tech Know-How to Protect the Environment

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Waterproof sensors that track flooding As part of the Sunny Day Flooding Project, Katherine Anarde, assistant professor in North Carolina State University’s Environmental, Water Resources, and Coastal Engineering Group [right] and another researcher install low-cost water-level sensors in storm drains.

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DOE awarding >$24M to 77 projects through Technology Commercialization Fund

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Low Cost Roll-to-Roll Manufacturing of Reusable Sorbents for Energy and Water Industries, $150,000 Qualification of SAS4A/SASSYS-1 for Sodium-Cooled Fast Reactor Authorization and Licensing, $674,484 Advanced Reactor Concepts LLC, Chevy Chase, Md. Institute for Building Technology and Safety (IBTS), San Jose, Calif.

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Climate Change is NSF Engineering Alliance’s Top Research Priority

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She is a vice president for knowledge enterprise at Ohio State University , in Columbus. During the virtual visioning event in December, experts explored solar and renewable energy, carbon sequestration, water management, and geoengineering. Water, ecosystem, and geoengineering assessments.

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University of Tennessee to head $250M advanced composites manufacturing institute; Ford, Honda and Volkswagen members

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IACMI is dedicated to overcoming these barriers by developing low-cost, high-production, energy-efficient manufacturing and recycling processes for composites applications. In the wind energy industry, advances in low-cost composite materials will help manufacturers build longer, lighter and stronger blades to create more energy.

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DOE awarding $72M to 27 projects to develop and advance carbon capture technologies, including direct air capture

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will demonstrate its low-cost ICE-31 solvent with enhanced stability technology on a flue gas slipstream at Los Medanos Energy Center, a commercially dispatched natural gas combined-cycle power plant in Pittsburg, CA. Engineering-Scale Test of a Water-Lean Solvent for Post-Combustion Capture. ION Clean Energy Inc.

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DOE Awarding $620M for Smart Grid Demonstration and Energy Storage Projects

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Smart grid regional demonstrations involving plug-in vehicles include (ranked by DOE funding): Columbus Southern Power Company (doing business as AEP Ohio). DOE funding $75,161,246, total project value with cost share $150,322,492). Los Angeles Department of Water and Power. Pecan Street Project (TX). 29,561,142. 125,006,103.