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Pitt engineers using membrane distillation to recycle water used in fracking and drilling

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Engineers at the University of Pittsburgh Swanson School of Engineering are using membrane distillation technology to enable drillers to filter and reuse the produced water in the oil and gas industry, in agriculture, and other beneficial uses. The team is back in the lab to find a fix. Shamlou, Elmira & Vidic, Radisav & Khanna, Vikas.

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

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We know that hydrogen emits no carbon dioxide when burned, but we also know that with water vapor and heat being the most significant by-products, hydrogen combustion does produce contrails. Test flights are scheduled for late 2022 in North Dakota in collaboration with the University of North Dakota.

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DOE selects 2 projects to demonstrate feasibility of enhanced water recovery; producing usable water from CO2 storage sites

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The US Department of Energy (DOE) has selected two projects that will test emerging enhanced water recovery (EWR) technologies for their potential to produce useable water from CO 2 storage sites. Once treated, the clean water could be re-used for beneficial purposes, including supplemental cooling water at a power station.

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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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University of North Dakota (Grand Forks, ND). West Virginia University Research Corporation (Morgantown, WV). Winner Water Services Inc. (Pittsburgh, PA) Project 1. Tetra Tech, Inc. Pittsburgh, PA) Project 2. Texas Mineral Resources Corp (Sierra Blanca, TX). UPSHOTS, LLC (Forsyth, GA). Sharon, PA).

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DOE awards $97M to 33 bioenergy research and development projects

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University of Alabama. University of North Dakota. North Carolina State University. Oregon State University. University of Cincinnati. University of Maryland - College Park. Princeton University. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Utah State University.

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DOE awarding ~$44M to seven carbon capture projects

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Engineering-Scale Testing of Transformational Non-Aqueous Solvent-Based CO 2 Capture Process at Technology Centre Mongstad RTI International will advance its non-aqueous (water lean) solvent-based CO 2 capture technology and tests will be performed using the existing large-scale pilot infrastructure at the Technology Centre Mongstad in Norway.

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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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