NETL’s project partner Svante Inc. is rapidly scaling up a new sorbent and intensified process technology to capture carbon dioxide (CO2), a greenhouse gas, from power generation and industrial point sources that could significantly lower the capital investment needed to develop carbon capture plants at gigaton scale.

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. The DOE/NETL Carbon Capture Program is developing the next generation of advanced carbon dioxide (CO2) capture technologies that can provide step-change reductions in both cost and energy requirements as compared to currently available technologies.

NETL’s geological and environmental systems (GES) research tackles the challenges of clean energy production by focusing on the behavior of natural systems at both the Earth’s surface and deep within the subsurface.

NETL Senior Researcher Sofiane Benyahia, Ph.D., was selected by the Particle Technology Forum of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) to receive this year’s prestigious Lectureship in Fluidization Award during the 2021 AIChE annual meeting. This award recognizes an individual’s outstanding scientific/technical research contributions with impact in the field of fluidization and fluid-particle flow systems.

Several NETL researchers will present some of the Lab’s recent groundbreaking geological and environmental systems (GES) research during the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting, held in New Orleans, Louisiana, Dec. 13-17. “As the nation transitions to a clean energy economy, technologies enabling carbon capture and storage (CCS) are becoming even more important,” said Ale Hakala, NETL senior fellow for Geological & Environmental Systems. “An important part of our GES work is making sure that these efforts are safe and reliable.”

In this quarter’s Research Associate Spotlight and Mentor Profile, up-and-coming environmental engineer Preom Sarkar discusses the important contributions she is making in collaboration with NETL experts to create more environmentally friendly methods of flue gas desulfurization (FGD).

Request for Information Will Guide the Selection and Management of Critical Climate Investments of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law 

NETL researchers will share their internationally recognized geo-data science and artificial intelligence/machine learning (AI/ML) expertise through an invited talk and other sessions during the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting, held in New Orleans, Louisiana, Dec. 13-17.

The December 2021 edition of the SSAE Newsletter provides updates about recent research initiatives undertaken within NETL’s Strategic Systems Analysis and Engineering (SSAE) directorate. Click here to access this latest edition and learn about activities that SSAE is leading to gain insights into new energy concepts, support the analysis of energy system interactions and advance its capabilities. Highlights in this edition include:

Today, the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management (FECM) announced its intent to fund projects through its University Training and Research Program, which is composed of the University Coal Research (UCR) program and the Historically Black Colleges and Universities and Other Minority Institutions (HBCU-OMI) program. The programs serve to prepare the next generation of engineers and scientists working to advance the Biden-Harris Administration’s goals of net-zero carbon emissions by 2050.