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08.31.2012
Energy Department Advances Research on Methane Hydrates - the World's Largest Untapped Fossil Energy Resource
The Energy Department today announced the selection of 14 new research projects across 11 states that will be a part of an expanding portfolio of projects designed to increase our understanding of methane hydrates’ potential as a future energy supply. Methane hydrates are 3D ice-lattice structures with natural gas locked inside, and are found both onshore and offshore – including under the Arctic permafrost and in ocean sediments along nearly every continental shelf in the world. Today’s projects build on the completion of a successful, unprecedented test earlier this year that was able to safely extract a steady flow of natural gas from methane hydrates on the North Slope of Alaska. |
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08.23.2012
Favorable Supplies, Costs, Environmental Profile for Natural Gas Revealed in New Department of Energy Study
The nation’s large resource base of natural gas can be used for cost-effective power generation, with environmental burdens coming primarily from fuel combustion, not resource extraction, according to a new Department of Energy (DOE) study. |
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08.22.2012
DOE-Sponsored Project Begins Demonstrating CCUS Technology in Alabama
Carbon dioxide (CO2) injection has begun at the world’s first fully integrated coal power and geologic storage project in southwest Alabama, with the goals of assessing integration of the technologies involved and laying the foundation for future use of CO2 for enhanced oil recovery (EOR). |
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08.21.2012
Novel Sorbent Achieves 90 Percent Carbon Capture in DOE-Sponsored Test
The successful bench-scale test of a novel carbon dioxide (CO2) capturing sorbent promises to further advance the process as a possible technological option for reducing CO2 emissions from coal-fired power plants. |
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08.16.2012
NETL Researcher Wins HENAAC Award for Outstanding Technical Achievement
The National Energy Technology Laboratory’s (NETL’s) Alexandra Hakala has been honored with a Great Minds in STEM™ Hispanic Engineer National Achievement Awards Corporation (HENAAC) award for Outstanding Technical Achievement. |
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08.15.2012
AVESTAR™ Captures Prestigious Technology Transfer Award
NETL is proud to announce that Dr. Stephen Zitney, along with research engineers Mr. Eric Liese and Dr. Priyadarshi Mahapatra, have earned a 2012 Federal Laboratory Consortium (FLC) Technology Transfer award in the Mid-Atlantic region for their work developing the AVESTAR™ (“Advanced Virtual Energy Simulation Training And Research”) system. |
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08.14.2012
NETL-Supported Nanotechnology Benefits Transportation, Energy Sectors
The commercialization of an advanced, erosion-resistant nanocoating for compressor blades, developed with assistance from NETL, promises to benefit both the nation’s transportation and energy sectors—saving fuel, cutting carbon emissions, reducing operational costs, and extending part life. |
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08.09.2012
Second Phase of Innovative Technology Project to Capture CO2, Produce Biofuels Launched in Ohio
A novel method to capture carbon dioxide (CO2) from flue gas and produce biofuels has been formally launched in the second phase of a Department of Energy (DOE) project at a nursery in Ohio. Successful application of the process could eventually help reduce greenhouse gas emissions and provide a source of liquid biofuels and biogas, reducing U.S. dependence on foreign energy sources. |
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