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2023 Quarter Four Accomplishments

FY23 Quarter Four Accomplishments

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The Transformer Watchman, an integrated fiber optic-based sensor system that monitors large power transformers and distribution transformers and reports on the health of these critical components.

NETL’s Transformer Watchman Wins R&D 100 Award

Animated diagram depicting the beneficial factors and research thrusts of high-performing CFD computing

NETL-Supported Project Addresses Boiler Impingement with High Performance Computing

Animated map that visualizes energy data and affiliated environmental, community and justice data.

NETL Geo-data Helps Prioritize Energy Communities in America

Animated depiction of an underground carbon storage example.

Deep Learning Tool To Ensure Safe Carbon Storage Developed in NETL-Sponsored Project

The new underground CO2 pipelines.

NETL Releases Updated Version of CO2_T_COM Transport Cost Model

Animated depiction of a graphene molecule.

NETL-Supported Technology Transforms Coal and Coal-Wastes Into Nanomaterial That Is 200 Times Stronger Than Steel

Optic fiber sensor systems.

NETL Team Demonstrates Composite Coating to Enhance Fiber Optic Sensor Technology for Detecting Carbon Dioxide and Methane

NETL researchers, left to right, Dan Sorescu, Ranjani Siriwardane, Ray Boswell and Mehrdad Massoudi.

NETL Researchers on List of Best Scientists in the World

This image depicts a lightweight door made from carbon fiber and other innovative materials.

Lightweight Car Door Developed with NETL Oversight To Boost Fuel Efficiency

Animated hydrogen molecule

NETL Hydrogen Safety Review Report Now Available

Red hot metal.

NETL Produces a More Robust Pipeline Steel by Alloying with Small Amounts of the Rare Earth Element, Cerium

Pipeline corrosion

NETL Develops Coating Technology To Protect Pipelines From Corrosion and Improve Safety and Reliability

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]

NETL and Partners Develops Novel Embedded Sensors for Subsurface Wellbore Integrity

Navistar SuperTruck II

NETL Project Partner Navistar Develops Next Level of Freight Efficiency with the International SuperTruck II

Supertruck 2 on the highway

NETL Project Partner Daimler Truck North America Debuts Next Level of Freight Efficiency with the Freightliner SuperTruck II

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 Develops Framework for Assessing the Feasibility of Recovering REEs from Unconventional Sources

A technology, developed by XMAT with support from NETL, uses coal waste as an anode material in lithium-ion batteries. (Image courtesy of XMAT.)

With NETL Support, U.S. Company Develops Technology that Uses Coal Waste in Lithium-Ion Batteries

NETL Researcher Sophia O’Barr

NETL’s Geo-Data Science Research Helping Pinpoint Unconventional Rare Earth Element Deposits

NETL researchers, left to right, Sam Flett, Djuna Gulliver and Dan Ross.

NETL Innovation Efficiently Converts CO2 Into Acetate for Use in a Variety of Popular Products

NETL’s Hema Siriwardane, Ph.D.

NETL’s Hema Siriwardane Honored by Academy of Geo-Professionals