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FAA awards $7.5M in research grants for integration of drones into national airspace

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million in research, education, and training grants to universities that comprise the agency’s Air Transportation Center of Excellence (COE) for Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS), also known as the Alliance for System Safety of UAS through Research Excellence (ASSURE). million recreational and commercial drones (PDF) in the active UAS fleet.

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Airbus launches flight test program to characterize composition of hydrogen contrails; Blue Condor

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In taking up this challenge we are making significant headway in our decarbonization strategy and our ambition to bring the world’s first zero-emission commercial aircraft into service by 2035. Test flights are scheduled for late 2022 in North Dakota in collaboration with the University of North Dakota.

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NETL says rare earth recovery projects meeting and exceeding expectations

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Another project goal is to develop REE recovery processes that are environmentally benign and that will lead to the economic recovery of REEs from coal and coal-based materials for potential future deployment at commercial scale. The University will build and test the technology in their laboratory.

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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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million in federal funding to develop conceptual designs of commercially viable technologies that will extract rare earth elements (REEs) from US coal and coal by-product sources. The selected projects will accelerate the advancement of these commercially viable technologies. University of North Dakota (Grand Forks, ND).

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DOE awarding ~$44M to seven carbon capture projects

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capture technologies, or 2) designing a commercial-scale, post-combustion CO? MTR) will scale up next-generation Polaris membranes and modules to a final form for commercial use and validate their potential in an engineering-scale field test at the Technology Centre Mongstad in Norway. University of North Dakota.

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DOE awarding $6.5M to 9 large-scale Phase I pilot coal projects

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The design of the large pilot plant will incorporate an advanced combustion design and control features that have been verified through performance testing on the sub-pilot unit at Ohio State University and further testing on the small-scale pilot at Babcock & Wilcox. University of Illinois. University of Alaska Fairbanks.

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EERC Licenses New Process for Cellulosic Biofuels and Fuel Additives to Whole Energy Fuels for Commercialization

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Whole Energy is using the license to jump-start Mercurius Biofuels, a new company formed with its help to develop and commercialize advanced biofuel technologies, according to Atul Deshmane, CEO and President of Whole Energy. cellulosic diesel. Block flow diagram of Mercurius’ process. Click to enlarge.