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DOE awards $8.4M for accessing geothermal potential from abandoned oil and gas wells

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The selected projects include: Geothermix, LLC (Austin, TX) Geothermix will harvest waste heat from existing oil and gas wells in Texas to generate commercial quantities of geothermal electricity. University of Oklahoma (Norman, OK). ICE Thermal Harvesting (Houston, TX). This program is part of the?Wells

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BuG ReMeDEE project seeks to use extremophile bacteria to convert methane to biofuels, biopolymers and electricity

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Establish a consortium for sustained collaborations among university partners in South Dakota, Montana, and Oklahoma in the field of methane regulation in extreme environments. Among the highlights were the oxidation of mixed methane gas to liquid biofuel by Methyloferula sp , an obligately methanotrophic bacterium. 2018.02.128.

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US Air Force Office of Scientific Research Makes Two Awards for Thermoelectric Waste Heat Recovery Technology

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The US Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) has recently made two awards to researchers to support multi-year projects on the development of thermoelectric (TE) waste heat recovery technologies. Such devices can recover some of the energy embedded in waste heat, such as that produced by exhaust gas from an engine.

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Port of Corpus Christi, Howard announce to convert Javelina refinery services facility to blue hydrogen production

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Javelina controls approximately sixty million cubic feet per day (MMcf/d) of hydrogen production through a combination of hydrogen entrained in the refineries’ waste gas that the facility processes, and hydrogen produced through a steam methane reformer process.

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DOE and USDA Select Projects for More Than $24M in Biomass Research and Development Grants

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Yenkin-Majestic Paint Corporation (Columbus, OH) up to $1,800,000: to demonstrate, at scale, the operation of a dry fermentation system that uses pre- and post-consumer food wastes from supermarkets and restaurants, waste sawdust, grass, leaves, stumps and other forms of wood waste to produce biogas, heat, and electrical power.

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DOE to award more than $27M to 12 plastics recycling R&D projects

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BOTTLE Consortium Collaborations to Tackle Challenges in Plastic Waste: Create collaborations with the BOTTLE Laboratory Consortium to further the long-term goals of the Consortium and the Plastics Innovation Challenge. Partners include Algenesis, BASF, Pepsi, Reef, and University of California – Davis.

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DOE Awards Up to $6.9M to Nine Projects for Shale Gas and Coalbed Methane Production

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West Virginia University, Morgantown, W.Va. University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Ark. Ground Water Protection Research Foundation, Oklahoma City, Okla. University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pa. Texas Engineering Experiment Station, College Station, Tex. DOE share $794,225; recipient: $269,011; duration 36 months).

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