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The “Coal Communities Regional Innovation Cluster” project will explore concentrated solar applications, as well as conversion of waste products into fuels.
The U.S. Department of Energy’s NETL and its partner organizations are exploring concentrated solar applications, as well as conversion of waste products into fuels, in a project called “Coal Communities Regional Innovation Cluster (CCRIC)” in West Virginia’s Logan County ─ an effort supported by Congressionally directed funding. NETL engineer Matthew Adams said the project could have implications for communities across the nation.
President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law is advancing NETL’s data analysis projects to capture and safely sequester anthropogenic carbon dioxide in the geologic subsurface.
Supported with funding from President Biden’s Bipartisan Instructure Law (BIL), NETL’s development of computational models and software applications are poised to accelerate the commercialization of technologies to safely inject and store hundreds of years of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the subsurface.
NETL geologist Mark McKoy
NETL is part of an international team at work in Ireland to develop a project to demonstrate the feasibility of district-level hydronic heating using subsurface geothermal energy.
NETL used digital data to guide a search for orphan wells in Kentucky’s Daniel Boone National Forest
Daniel Boone, James Harrod and George Rogers Clark once explored the wilderness of Kentucky with little more than long rifles and curiosity to find places suitable for new settlements. More than 240 years later, a team of NETL researchers roamed much of the same turf with an array of sophisticated data and equipment to uncover long-abandoned oil and gas wells that could leak methane gas into the atmosphere.
Supercritical Transformation Electric Power (STEP) 10 MWe Pilot Plant Test Facility (DE-FE0028979) high bay during installation of turbine skid (left), high temperature recuperator (center), and main compressor/inventory system (right).
A 10-megawatt supercritical carbon dioxide (sCO2) test facility recently achieved supercritical CO2 conditions in its turbine compressor section — a milestone representing a significant step forward in the NETL-sponsored project, which offers a path to lower-cost power generation.
Funding Opportunity Announcement
The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management (FECM) is implementing the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) Section 40303.
NETL NEWS
International Women in Engineering Day is celebrated across the globe June 23 to raise awareness about the women pursuing engineering and transforming the world with their achievements. NETL is proud to recognize its women engineers who work to address the nation’s critical energy needs.
Funding Opportunity Announcement
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management (FECM) today announced up to $17.7 million in funding available to support novel, early-stage research and development at eligible U.S. colleges and universities, including creating new academic curricula related to geosciences and supporting interdisciplinary training in humanities-driven science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (HDSTEM) fields.
NETL researchers led by Jon Yang, Ph.D., discovered platinum group minerals ─ extremely rare mineral commodities used in industrial applications and consumer products ─ in samples from the Twin Sisters olivine mine in Whatcom County, Washington.
When NETL researchers began to research the potential to recover critical minerals from rocks that are processed to remove atmospheric carbon dioxide in a practice called mineral carbonation, they expected to find valuable commodities like chromium, cobalt, and nickel. But their work also discovered valuable quantities of platinum group minerals (PGMs) — extremely precious metal commodities that are critical for the clean energy economy.
NETL researcher Dirk Van Essendelft, Ph.D.
NETL, in partnership with California-based Cerebras Systems Inc., is embracing new, efficient computer architecture that can accelerate research project simulations to make a clean energy economy a reality.