WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management (FECM) today announced up to $19 million in funding for research that will develop cutting-edge technology solutions to make clean hydrogen a more available and affordable fuel for electricity generation, industrial decarbonization, and transportation.

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.

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management (FECM) today announced $6.4 million for university-based research and development projects that will develop advanced materials and components to improve the performance of hydrogen-fueled turbines. This research will support the increased use of low-carbon fuels like hydrogen in industrial and power sectors, helping to achieve the Biden-Harris Administration goal of net-zero emissions by 2050.

NETL has released an updated version of its popular open-source tool that helps industry decision makers, planners, and researchers calculate the cost of transporting carbon dioxide (CO2) by pipeline from where it is captured to where it can be stored underground or converted into useful products.

Four Regional Initiatives (RIs) funded by the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) are augmenting previous nationwide efforts to identify and address challenges facing stakeholders for commercial deployment of carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS), a key component to realizing a decarbonized power sector and economy.

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management (FECM) today announced up to $30 million for the development of advanced technologies to reduce or eliminate the need for natural gas flaring at oil production sites, a known source of methane emissions, by converting unused and otherwise wasted natural gas produced at those operations into value-added products such as sustainable chemicals and fuels.

An innovative technology that transforms carbon-rich materials including coal and coal-wastes into high quality graphene for use in a wide range of products is closer to reality as a result of support from NETL — progress that could have positive implications for a wide array of materials that are a part of everyday life.  

NETL’s Michael Buric, Ph.D., will discuss the use of the Lab’s Raman Gas Analyzer — a laser and waveguide-based system to determine the composition of hydrogen fuel gas blends transported in pipelines — at a webinar set for 10 a.m. EDT Friday, Sept. 8.

An NETL and University of Pittsburgh research team demonstrated how the use of plasmonic nanomaterials (pNPs) and porous polymer composite coating in optical fiber sensing technologies can detect energy-relevant gases, such as carbon dioxide (CO2) and