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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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A novel process to convert the extracted sulfur to a pure elemental sulfur product will also be tested. RTI’s syngas cleanup technologies will be tested at Tampa Electric Company’s 250-MW IGCC power plant, using up to 20% of the syngas produced by the coal gasifier. of the sulfur from the syngas.

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

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The most significant maintenance cost of a CSP plant is cleaning and replacing the mirrors, and thus this new reflector design could have a significant impact on total plant cost. University of South Florida – Tampa, FL – up to $2.5 SENER Engineering and Systems Inc. – San Francisco, CA – up to $3.1 SkyFuel, 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. streamline the process by which green plants convert carbon. converted into a type of diesel fuel.

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