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Why North Dakota Is Like Iran, Iraq, Nigeria & Russia: Wasted Natural Gas

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What does North Dakota have in common with Iran? If North Dakota were a country, it would rank fifth behind Russia, Nigeria, Iran, and Iraq on the list of worst natural-gas wasters, according to the World Bank.

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

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The method is already being tested in Texas, North Dakota, and most recently in New Stanton, Pa. However, the low energy efficiency of this technology makes the operating cost of MD systems relatively high, especially in the absence of waste heat.

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DOE awards $19M to 13 initiatives in fossil-fuel areas to produce rare earth elements and critical minerals

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Illinois Basin (Kentucky, Illinois, Indiana and Tennessee): Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois aims to lead a project to evaluate the domestic occurrence of strategic elements in coal, coal-based resources and waste streams from coal use. DOE Funding: $1,499,987. DOE Funding: $1,500,000. DOE Funding: $1,500,000.

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Marathon Petroleum implements Topsoe technology at Martinez Renewables facility in California

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The continued partnership between Topsoe and Marathon builds upon the successful operation at Marathon’s Dickinson facility in North Dakota, which also uses Topsoe’s HydroFlex renewable fuels technology and achieved design capacity in the second quarter of 2021.

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Enel Green Power and NextChem sign MoU for green hydrogen production in US

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In the US, the company is focused on states with an existing operational presence, such as Texas, Utah and North Dakota. In the area of circular economy, NextChem is actively developing the market for its proprietary Upcycling technology MyReplast and for waste to chemicals solutions.

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

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These projects will improve the performance and lower the cost and risk of technologies that can be used to produce biofuels, biopower, and bioproducts from biomass and waste resources. University of North Dakota. Scale-up and Qualification of Net-Zero Sustainable Aviation Fuels from Wet Waste. Project title.

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Syntec Biofuel and EERC Enter Joint Development Program to Convert Biomass and Waste to Bio-Butanol

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has entered into a joint development program with the Energy & Environmental Research Center ( EERC ) at the University of North Dakota (UND) in Grand Forks for converting a wide variety of biomass and waste into bio-butanol. Syntec Biofuel Inc.

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