NETL’s Research & Innovation Center’s (RIC) work to develop domestic supply chains of critical minerals (CMs) and rare earth elements (REEs) from unconventional sources such as carbon ore ash, acid mine drainage and other sources has resulted in several milestones in technological applications of sensors and geoscience.
The August 2021 edition of the SSAE Newsletter features the latest updates about various research initiatives and breakthroughs undertaken within NETL’s Strategic Systems Analysis and Engineering (SSAE) directorate.
Click here to access this month’s newsletter and learn about recent activities that SSAE is leading to gain insights into new energy concepts, support the analysis of energy system interactions and advance its capabilities.
This month’s edition highlights:
NETL’s Mary Anne Alvin sees a brighter future ahead for the nation’s energy communities that have powered the nation for more than a century as the U.S. undergoes a historic transformation to clean energy.
NETL Director Brian Anderson, Ph.D., will speak at the Hydrogen Shot Summit, a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) event set for Tuesday, Aug. 31, and Wednesday, Sept. 1, to accelerate the development of breakthrough technologies that can expand the use and lower the cost of this clean-burning fuel.
The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management (FECM) announced the selection of six projects to receive a total of nearly $1 million in federal funding for cost-shared research and development (R&D) under funding opportunity announcement (FOA) 2404, Advanced Processing of Rare Earth Elements and Critical Minerals for Industrial and Manufacturing Applications.
NETL’s innovations toward transforming carbon dioxide (CO2) from an environmental liability into an economic asset will be detailed during the Lab’s upcoming Annual Project Review Meeting on Carbon Utilization, scheduled for Aug. 30-31 in a virtual setting.
NETL, through the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management (FECM), is collaborating on projects at universities and companies across the country to extract rare earth elements (REEs) and other critical minerals (CMs) from materials such as carbon ore and its waste materials. These projects have the potential to strengthen the U.S. economy and support revitalization in regions across the country that face economic adversity due to declines in carbon ore production and power plant communities.
Presenters at the Oil and Gas virtual session of NETL’s Carbon Management Oil and Gas Research project review meetings will discuss advances in oil and gas research from Aug. 23-27. The session will feature a number of projects in development with NETL partners to deliver solutions for an environmentally sustainable and prosperous energy future.
The August 2021 edition of RWFI E-Note Monthly, the newsletter of NETL’s Regional Workforce Initiative, outlines how schools and worker education programs can apply for funding from the National Science Foundation to prepare the next generation of technicians for high-technology fields.
Today, the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management (FECM) announced the selection of four additional research and development (R&D) projects that will receive $6 million to study new structured material systems and/or component designs for direct air capture (DAC) technology. These four projects join six previously announced DAC projects selected to receive $12 million in DOE funding. View the June 2021 selections here.
