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DOE Awarding More Than $3.3M to 7 Universities To Conduct Advanced Turbine Technology Studies for Advanced Coal-Based Power Generation

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million to 7 universities to conduct advanced turbine technology studies under the Office of Fossil Energy’s (FE) University Turbine Systems Research (UTSR) Program. The selected projects, each 36 months in duration, include: Georgia Tech Research Corporation , Atlanta, Ga. Texas A&M University , College Station, Texas.

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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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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. In prior work with DOE, MTR has advanced membrane CO 2 capture technology for coal power plants through small engineering scale testing and studies.

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DOE selects 16 research projects for more than $19M in funding to advance Solid Oxide Fuel Cell technology

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The 400 kilowatt SOFC prototype system represents an important advancement in SOFC technology development and demonstration toward the ultimate goal of deploying SOFCs in highly efficient coal-based central generation systems with carbon capture. The University of South Carolina. The Tennessee Technological University.

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The Complex Calculus of Clean Energy and Zero Emissions

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These investments are one reason why the International Energy Agency (IEA) in September insisted that there’s still hope to hold global temperature rise to 1.5 °C Jesse Jenkins, Princeton University When I entered the field, commercial wind was starting to scale up and the questions were about engineering feasibility.

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Q&A: Inside DARPA’s Subterranean Challenge

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With direct funding plus prize money that reached into the millions, DARPA encouraged international collaborations among top academic institutions as well as industry. and Team CSIRO Data61—consisting of CSIRO’s Data61; Emesent; and Georgia Tech. What was special about the Subterranean Challenge?

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DARPA SubT Finals: Meet the Teams

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University of Nevada, Reno. University of California, Berkeley. Norwegian University for Science and Technology (NTNU), Norway. California State University Channel Islands. Lulea University of Technology, Sweden. Georgia Institute of Technology. Czech Technological University, Czech Republic.

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ARPA-E Awards $151M to 37 Projects for Transformative Energy Research

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Arizona State University, in partnership with Fluidic Energy Inc., RTI International will work with ADM, Albemarle and ConocoPhillips to develop a novel single-step catalytic biomass pyrolysis process with high carbon conversion efficiency to produce stable bio-crude oil with low oxygen content. DOE grant:$5,349,932).

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