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DOE awards $1.95M for conceptual designs that extract critical minerals and rare earth elements from coal sources

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A secure, reliable, and sustainable domestic supply of CMs and REEs is essential to the continued health of the US energy and electronics industries and is an important contributor to national security. Winner Water Services Inc. The selected projects will accelerate the advancement of these commercially viable technologies.

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How Remote Sensing Technologies Increase Food Production

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TITLE ‘Professor of civil engineering, agronomy, and electrical and computer engineering MEMBER GRADE Fellow ALMA MATERS University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Ohio State University, Columbus But her engineering path eventually led her back to agriculture. space program; she initially aimed for a career in the aerospace industry.

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OSU team demonstrates Coal-Direct Chemical Looping for more efficient and low carbon coal heat release

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The Ohio State group typically studies coal in the two forms that are already commonly available to the power industry: crushed coal “feedstock,” and coal-derived syngas. The latter fuel has been successfully studied in a second sub-pilot research-scale unit, through a similar process called Syngas Chemical Looping (SCL). CONSOL Energy, Inc.;

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Climate Change is NSF Engineering Alliance’s Top Research Priority

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National Science Foundation —holds what are termed visioning events, wherein IEEE members and hundreds of other experts from academia, industry, and nonprofits can conceptualize bold ideas. She is a vice president for knowledge enterprise at Ohio State University , in Columbus. Water, ecosystem, and geoengineering assessments.

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Battelle wins $6M in contracts to advance carbon management and shale development

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Battelle recently won multiple awards from the US Department of Energy and the World Bank for projects totaling about $6 million to address carbon management and oilfield-produced waters. The first project is Systematic Assessment of Wellbore Integrity for Geologic Carbon Storage Using Regulatory and Industry Information.

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Study finds HTL algal biofuels offer 50-70% lifecycle CO2 reduction compared to petroleum fuels; EROI and GHG comparable to or better than other biofuels

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Industry has been exploring a number of different pathways to convert algae biomass into energy including lipid extraction (LE) and subsequent transesterification to produce biodiesel; direct ethanol production; heterotrophic metabolism; or thermochemical conversion of the entire algae cell.

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The Essential Vannevar Bush

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Bush was a fount of wisdom, particularly when it came to defining the engineer's role in the industrial research and development enterprise. He can dive under water and come up dry. In our modern tempo that industry is in danger which is in a static state.

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