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DOE to Build Hydrogen Fuel Test Facility at West Virginia Airport

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The facility will use grid electricity to split water to produce pure hydrogen fuel. The fuel will be used by the airport’s operations and the 130 th Air Wing of the West Virginia Air National Guard. Alternatively, the electricity for the hydrolysis of water will come from coal-based power generation.

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OSU team develops process to clean coal mine drainage and extract rare earth elements

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In an open-access paper in the journal Environmental Engineering Science , the team reports that the process successfully cleaned clean coal mine drainage while producing rare-earth elements in samples from various rivers across Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia. CMD, coal mine drainage; TEP, trap-extract-precipitate.

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UGI and Vertimass in 15-year agreement to produce renewable fuels in the US and Europe; $500M investment; propane and SAF

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Other benefits include the ability to lower plant water usage, reduce overall energy consumption, and drop GHG emissions to levels required for the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) Advanced Biofuel category.

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NSF announces $55M toward national research priorities; intersection of food, energy and water systems

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The National Science Foundation (NSF) has made 11 awards totaling $55 million aimed at building research capacity to develop new innovations at the intersection of food, energy and water systems and to address fundamental questions about the brain. Research at the nexus of food, energy and water. Lead organization. Description.

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

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WVU opens new research facility to extract valuable rare earth elements from acid mine drainage

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West Virginia University (WVU) researchers are opening a new facility to capture rare earth elements (REEs) from acid mine drainage (AMD) from coal mining. Paul Ziemkiewicz, director of the West Virginia Water Research Institute and principal investigator on the project, is an expert in acid mine drainage.

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DOE awarding up to $3.5M to 3 projects for nuclear-compatible high-temperature electrolysis for H2 production

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The technology of hydrogen production through conventional water electrolysis is well-established; high-temperature electrolysis (HTE) adds in some of the energy needed to split the water as heat instead of electricity (by using steam instead of liquid water), thus reducing the overall energy required.