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JANUARY 11, 2023

ARPA-E selected the following 12 teams from universities, national laboratories and the private sector to address and remove key technology barriers to EV adoption by developing next-generation battery technologies: 24M Technologies will develop low-cost and fast-charging sodium metal batteries with good low-temperature performance for EVs.

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JULY 10, 2022

The project will successfully construct, operate, test, refine and evaluate the CO 2 LOC processes and technologies and provide data to support a computer model of a full-scale plant designed to deliver 50kt CO 2 capture per annum. Lapwing Energy Limited, “Reverse Coal”. Reverse Coal is a disruptive system change that can be scaled to?remove

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AUGUST 31, 2011

(SES), a global energy and gasification technology company that provides products and solutions to the energy and chemicals industries, has entered into a Technical Study Agreement with Ambre Energy of Australia to supply a proprietary gasification design to support Ambre’s development of a planned Coal to Liquids Project (ambreCTL).

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JULY 26, 2012

The US Department of Energy (DOE) selected eight projects to advance the development of transformational oxy-combustion technologies capable of high-efficiency, low-cost carbon dioxide capture from coal-fired power plants. DOE Investment: $1,000,000; Recipient Cost-Share: $391,000.

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MAY 26, 2023

It uses the oxy-combustion of carbon fuels and a high-pressure supercritical CO 2 working fluid in a highly recuperated cycle that captures all emissions by design. 8RH2-produced ammonia will provide a transportable low-carbon source of hydrogen, a low-cost and scalable solution to accelerate the global transition to net-zero.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

LanzaTech and its partners, The City College of New York (CUNY), Louisiana State University (LSU) and Michigan Technological University (Michigan Tech) will collaborate to extend LanzaTech’s core fermentation technology to unlock the potential of waste methane gases through novel and smaller-scale bioreactor design.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2011

The US Department of Energy (DOE) will award up to $14 million to six projects aimed at developing technologies to lower the cost of producing electricity in integrated gasification combined cycle (IGCC) power plants using carbon capture. EPRI will team with Dooher Institute of Physics and Energy, Worley Parsons Group, Inc.,

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MAY 18, 2011

a development stage company, has signed a definitive agreement with PT Enviro Energy to field-test Next Fuel’s microbial Coal-to-Gas technology (CTG) to determine the commercial viability of utilizing it to produce natural gas at PT Enviro Energy’s coal deposits in Indonesia. Next Fuel, Inc.,

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MAY 20, 2011

Two days ago, Next Fuel announced the signing of a definitive agreement with PT Enviro Energy to field-test Next Fuel’s CTG technology to determine the commercial viability of utilizing it to produce natural gas at PT Enviro Energy’s coal deposits in Indonesia. Next Fuel, Inc.,

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DECEMBER 1, 2021

Another 45% could come from recycled material, and the rest from a combination of older, coal-fired plants fitted with carbon capture systems and innovative processes using electricity to refine iron ore into iron and steel. Retrofit or close any remaining coal-fired capacity by 2050.

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APRIL 1, 2022

DOE’s National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) will manage the projects: Sand Thermal Energy Storage (SandTES) Pilot Design. The use of sand as a heat transfer material offers the advantages of widespread availability, low cost, and high thermal capacity. WE New Energy Inc.

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DECEMBER 3, 2021

The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced $35 million in funding for twelve projects focused on developing technologies to reduce methane emissions in the oil, gas, and coal industries. will adapt their combustor design to ensure 99.5% proposes a hybrid flare design coupled with advanced controls to ensure 99.5%

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DECEMBER 9, 2009

Australia-based underground coal gasification (UCG) company Linc Energy ( earlier post ) has signed an exclusive agreement with the UK-based alkaline fuel cell technology company AFC Energy Plc and its related company, B9 Coal ( earlier post ). Tags: Coal Gasification Hydrogen Production Power Generation.

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AUGUST 22, 2012

The successful bench-scale test of a novel carbon dioxide capturing sorbent promises to further advance the process as a possible technological option for reducing CO 2 emissions from coal-fired power plants. SRI’s carbon capture process, which includes both the sorbent and unique process design, looks promising for future applications.

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JULY 22, 2018

West Virginia University (WVU) researchers are opening a new facility to capture rare earth elements (REEs) from acid mine drainage (AMD) from coal mining. China has been able to provide a low-cost supply of rare earths using these methods, and therefore, dominates the global market. —Paul Ziemkiewicz.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Under this cost-shared research and development (R&D), DOE is awarding $51 million to nine new projects for coal and natural gas power and industrial sources. These efforts aim to design initial engineering studies to develop technologies to capture CO 2 generated as a byproduct of manufacturing at industrial sites.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2014

The purpose of the FOA is to advance the reliability, robustness and endurance of low-cost solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) technology suitable for ultimate deployment in equal to or greater than (?) CCRP has recently established new goals for coal power with carbon capture. is anticipated in order to meet the program goals.

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JULY 2, 2018

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.

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JANUARY 16, 2021

When coupled with carbon capture and storage capabilities, low-cost hydrogen sourced from fossil energy feedstocks and processes will significantly reduce the carbon footprint of these processes and enable progress toward hydrogen production with net-zero carbon emissions, the DOE said. Carbon Capture.

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APRIL 5, 2016

Altex Technologies has selected Unitel to provide engineering services to design and build a pilot system that will produce 1 BPD of synthetic gasoline from biomass (Biomass Conversion to Synthetic Gasoline System, BCSGS). lower cost) and gasification/F-T processes (e.g., Carbonaceous materials—e.g., —US 9199889.

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AUGUST 26, 2016

million in federal funding for cost-shared projects that will develop technologies that utilize CO 2 from coal-fired power plants to produce useful products. However, they may be considered in order to establish a baseline for making comparisons with results from coal-derived flue gas. coal, metals, etc.),

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JUNE 24, 2011

Transphorm says its Total GaN solution reduces power waste by 90%, and simplifies the design and manufacturing of a wide variety of electrical systems and devices, including motor drives, power supplies and inverters for solar panels and electric vehicles. GaN (gallium nitride) power electronics provider Transphorm Inc.

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OCTOBER 29, 2020

The US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy (FE) has selected four projects for cost-shared research and development under the funding opportunity announcement (FOA), DE-FOA-0002180, Design Development and System Integration Design Studies for Coal FIRST Concepts.

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APRIL 17, 2010

In this initial study phase, GE and CPECC will evaluate the cost and performance of an IGCC design. Gasification technology has become a critical tool in the expansion of the Chinese economy, allowing a wide variety of industrial products and fuels to be created from low-cost, abundant coal resources.

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JULY 14, 2015

The FOAs were awarded with two primary objectives: to design, construct, and field-test a SOFC prototype system; and to support innovations that improve the reliability, robustness, and endurance of SOFC cell and stack technology. DOE: $200,000 Non DOE: $91,152 Total: $291,152 (31% cost share). FuelCell Energy, Inc.

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APRIL 2, 2010

The focus of the effort is on hydrogen separations technology, including advanced separation membranes (inorganic, metallic and both materials), that provide high purity hydrogen and/or offer a combination of hydrogen separation with low-cost removal of CO 2 and other trace impurities from hydrogen-CO 2 mixtures.

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MARCH 14, 2016

Kawasaki aims to complete development design in 2016, then subsequently move forward with commercialization. According to the report, the partners will produce hydrogen from low-quality brown coal abundant in Australia at low cost and then ship liquefied hydrogen.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2009

The projects—led by FuelCell Energy, in partnership with VersaPower Systems, and Siemens Energy—have successfully demonstrated solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs) designed for aggregation and use in coal-fueled central power generation.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2010

The program, which is scheduled to start in 2012, will affect about 63 large stationary sources that emit at least 25,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide—mainly coal- and gas-fired power plants, and oil and gas operations. Those sources include electric generators and the largest emission sources in the oil and gas sector.

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APRIL 25, 2010

is a research & development organization engaged in the design, development and prototype manufacturing of advanced fuel systems for use with DME. Dimethyl ether is a diesel fuel replacement that can be produced from abundant resources including natural gas, landfill methane, coal and biomass. Alternative Fuel Technologies, Inc.

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MAY 8, 2010

The US Department of Energy has selected 13 projects for investment of up to $62 million over five years to research, develop, and demonstrate Concentrating Solar Power (CSP) systems capable of providing low-cost electrical power. eSolar will design, build, and test a CSP power plant system with fundamentally new components.

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AUGUST 4, 2015

However, the cost and effectiveness of the cycle’s recuperators are currently seen as a barrier to the full-scale SCO 2 power cycle demonstration and economic viability.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2009

The legislation directs the Department of Energy to conduct five “Mini-Manhattan Projects” to study carbon capture technologies, non-ethanol biofuels, electric vehicles and electricity storage, cost-competitive solar power, and Generation IV reactors and technologies that will ultimately reduce nuclear waste.

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JANUARY 31, 2012

Borla Performance Industries , a leader in the design and manufacture of stainless steel performance exhaust, has an option to license a novel nanopore membrane technology developed at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). This water reclamation system is energy neutral and designed to simplify water management operations.

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JANUARY 20, 2015

IFP Energies nouvelles (IFPEN) and its subsidiary Axens have formed a strategic alliance to develop and to commercialize a new technology for the low cost production of bio-based benzene, toluene and paraxylene using Anellotech’s process of Catalytic Fast Pyrolysis (CFP) of non-food biomass. Anellotech Inc., Earlier post.).

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JUNE 1, 2015

The design results in a class of hierarchically porous graphitic (HPG) carbons at temperature as low as 800 °C with record-high surface area (4,073 m 2 g –1 ); large pore volume (2.26 Furthermore, they are generally synthesized from coal or biomass (e.g., cm –3 ), and hierarchical pore architecture. .

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DECEMBER 25, 2022

For several months now, 20 teams of Australian high-school students have been designing fuel-cell cars to compete in the country’s inaugural Hydrogen Grand Prix. And while coal plants still supplied over half of Australia’s power in 2021, change is afoot. Why a hydrogen truck?

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