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NASEM announces provisional committee for new study on life cycle analyses of low-carbon fuels

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The committee will include these considerations: Direct GHG emissions over the entire lifecycle of a given transportation fuel, including feedstock generation or extraction, feedstock conversion to a finished fuel or blendstock, distribution, storage, delivery, and use of the fuel in vehicles. Shrestha, PhD, University of Idaho.

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DOE awarding >$24M to 77 projects through Technology Commercialization Fund

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Idaho National Laboratory. Idaho National Laboratory Wireless Project, $150,000. Novel chemical looping process for conversion of natural gas to pure hydrogen, $150,000 CanmetENERGY, Ottawa, Canada Glowink Inc., Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Ga. El Centro, Calif. Louisville, Colo. Louisville, Colo.

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DOE to award up to $13M to four advanced biofuels projects

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The University of Tennessee-Knoxville, Georgia Institute of Technology, Pall Corporation, OmniTech International, and FuelCellsEtc will also participate in this project. Idaho National Laboratory will also bring their feedstock pre-processing capabilities to the project. University of Oklahoma (up to $4 million).

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DOE Selects 42 University-Led Nuclear Research and Development Projects for $38 Million in Funding

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Idaho State University - $650,000. The research program is focused on the key technology challenges for these concepts and supports cross-cutting activities, including Modeling and Simulation, Structural Materials, Energy Conversion, Nuclear Instrumentation and Control, and Innovative Manufacturing Approaches.

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Idaho National Laboratory low-energy electrochemical process could eliminate need for steam cracking of hydrocarbons

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A team of Idaho National Laboratory (INL) researchers, with colleagues at Georgia Tech, has pioneered an electrochemical process that could eliminate the need for high-energy steam cracking. Typically the steam cracking of ethane has a conversion rate of 70%, with ethylene yields of about 50%.

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USDA Report Provides Regional Roadmap To Meeting the Biofuels Goals of the Renewable Fuels Standard by 2022; Southeast to Provide ~50% of Advanced Biofuels

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USDA’s report identifies numerous biomass feedstocks to be utilized in developing biofuels and calls for the funding of further investments in research and development of: Feedstock; Sustainable production and management systems; Efficient conversion technologies and high-value bioproducts; and. Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington.

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