It didn’t take long for NETL’s Mariah Young to find her perfect fit.
Her first job after graduating from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh involved working on the system that powers NASA’s deep space missions, such as the Perseverance rover which was sent to Mars to collect rock and soil samples and conduct research.
A pair of microwave reactors recently installed at NETL provides researchers with tools to quickly screen materials called catalysts for their potential to trigger the chemical reactions needed to convert carbon dioxide (CO2) into useful chemicals and decarbonize industrial processes that emit greenhouse gas.
CO2-SCREEN, a user-friendly, yet sophisticated tool developed by a team of NETL researchers to estimate the resource potential of storing captured carbon dioxide (CO2) in underground geological environments, continues to attract a wide range of international users as the world intensifies efforts to address climate change.
José Figueroa, senior management and technical advisor for the Technology Development Center at NETL, is helping facilitate new efforts in greenhouse gas reduction by coordinating a methane emissions reduction program that supports the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Inflation Reduction Act statutory requirements of the Methane Emissions Reduction Program (MERP), adding to his long history of service with the Lab.
David Luebke, technical director of NETL’s Direct Air Capture (DAC) Center, will discuss the Lab’s efforts to accelerate the commercialization of DAC technologies during a presentation Wednesday, Aug. 16, at the fall meeting of the American Chemical Society in San Francisco, California.
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.
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 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 researchers have developed a biocatalyst with 99% efficiency that can convert carbon dioxide (CO2), a waste product of fossil energy industries that warms the planet and causes climate change, into acetate — an ingredient used in many products like cleaning supplies, textiles, and as a potential feedstock for biofuels.
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.
