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NETL’s JOULE 2.0 supercomputer.
Representatives of energy institutions throughout the country got a first-hand look at the technologies and talent at the NETL campuses across Appalachia as the Lab hosted the National Association of State Energy Officials (NASEO).
Additive manufacturing methods were used for integration of optical fibers into steel parts with capability of high-resolution temperature and strain sensing. [Image provided by University of Pittsburgh]
The U.S. Department of Energy’s NETL and its partner organizations successfully developed and demonstrated a suite of embedded sensor technologies enabled with sensing materials for subsurface wellbore integrity monitoring — technology that can help realize effective geologic carbon storage, hydrogen storage and geothermal projects and reduce the wellbore integrity risks.
Funding Opportunity Announcement
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management (FECM) today announced 23 projects to receive a total of more than $13 million in funding supporting research and development (R&D) for carbon management technologies and applications that will reduce carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions to address the impacts of climate change.
NETL's Leah Arnold
Leah Arnold, IT manager within NETL’s Laboratory Operations Center, has an extensive career in public service marked by resilience and a knack for embracing new practices and technologies to excel in a rapidly changing work environment. Arnold has been the supervisor of the Lab’s enterprise applications area since she joined NETL in September 2012. She also held several interim leadership roles over the years, supporting the IT Director and the Cybersecurity team.
Navistar SuperTruck II
Illinois-based Navistar Inc., and their subsidiary International Truck, working in partnership with NETL, developed the Navistar SuperTruck II, which represents the cutting edge of heavy-duty truck design incorporating several improvements resulting in increased operational efficiency, lower costs and decreased fuel consumption.
Supertruck 2 on the highway
Daimler Truck North America, LLC (DTNA), working in concert with NETL, has debuted the Freightliner SuperTruck II, which represents the cutting edge of heavy-duty truck design and engineering to reduce carbon emissions while improving the real-world operational efficiency of the truck.
A scientist in a lab
As part of its mission to advance energy innovation, NETL organized and maintains a growing information-sharing consortium of researchers from sister national laboratories, private companies, federal agencies, and academia to gain a greater technical understanding of how to use ammonia in combustion processes like industrial furnaces, internal combustion engines and gas turbines — actions that can help the world transition to a carbon-free economy for net-zero carbon emissions by 2050.
NETL geologist and geochemist Scott Montross
NETL geologist Scott Montross presented at one of the world’s leading research conferences focused on carbon and coal-to-products research where he joined leading carbon and material scientists and two U.S. senators from the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources for discussions on coal’s future role in energy transition and the processes for discovering rare earth elements (REEs) and critical minerals (CMs) in carbon ore deposits.
NETL researcher Mac Gray (right) works with colleague Chris Wilfong.
On more than one occasion, colleagues have suggested that NETL’s McMahan “Mac” Gray may soon need a larger display case to hold the numerous honors and awards he has received for advancing cutting-edge solutions to complex energy issues.
NETL created a framework to assess the economic viability of recovering rare earth elements from unconventional feedstocks like coal fly ash. NETL Researchers Alison Fritz and Thomas Tarka’s journal article on the work appears in this month’s Nature Sustainability.
NETL recently created a framework to assess the economic viability of recovering rare earth elements (REEs) from unconventional feedstocks like coal and coal waste — an advance that is part of NETL efforts to unlock new domestic sources of critical minerals (CM) that can ease the Nation’s dependence on foreign sources for the minerals. The success was the subject of a new article in a prestigious science journal.