Safe large-scale geological hydrogen storage is important in the national drive to use hydrogen to attain net-zero carbon emission goals by 2050. Conclusive research to determine the effect of gas injections on the naturally occurring underground microbial community and geochemical reactions between hydrogen and rock mineralogy are critical research subjects in that effort.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management (FECM) today announced more than $31 million in funding for 10 projects to develop carbon capture technologies capable of capturing at least 95 percent of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions generated from natural gas power plants, waste-to-energy power plants, and industrial applications, including cement and steel.

The latest developments in sensor technologies and their applications to the power sector and other fields were the highlight of the Infrastructure Sensing Collaboration Workshop held Aug. 24-25 for research leaders at NETL and its partners with the University of Pittsburgh.

A cutting-edge optical fiber sensor technology developed by the University of Pittsburgh and NETL that provides unprecedented measurement capabilities in environments previously thought impossible to probe has earned a 2022 R&D 100 Award.

The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management (FECM) has selected a clean energy technology company for developing a first-of-its-kind tool that will use science-based machine learning and data analytics to visualize key subsurface features and quickly and accurately reveal how the subsurface behaves.

Underground storage of hydrogen is a key research area associated with NETL’s overall contribution to the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Hydrogen Shot.

NETL’s Targeted Rare Earth Extraction (TREE) process, a groundbreaking approach to recover critical materials from coal and coal byproducts for manufacturing computers, clean energy technologies, defense systems and more, has been named a finalist in the 2022 R&D 100 Awards competition.

The leaders from NETL and the University of Pittsburgh will gather in the city Aug. 24-25 to share the latest developments, demands and applications of emerging sensor technologies in the nation’s energy future during the Infrastructure Sensing Collaboration Workshop.

Learn about the latest developments in the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)/NETL Carbon Capture Program in this month’s edition of the Carbon Capture Newsletter.

NETL’s expertise in geo-data science and computational data management and virtualization has supported the development and deployment of a web-based platform to connect entities that generate carbon dioxide (CO2) with the technology and commercial sectors that offer capabilities to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.