The latest edition of Water-Energy Nexus News is packed with research efforts undertaken by NETL and its partners to deliver world-class technology solutions that enhance the nation’s energy foundation while helping to protect water resources for future generations.

This quarter’s newsletter welcomes Vanessa Núñez-López, the new director at the Office of Resource Sustainability. Núñez-López is focused on restructuring the division’s research and development portfolio to showcase the best advanced technologies and processes that minimize the environmental impacts associated with the extraction of oil and gas resources.

Other updates in this edition of the newsletter include:

·       NETL’s Nicholas Siefert is leading a project on the co-treatment of flue gas desulfurization effluent from Longview Power Plant in Maidsville, West Virginia, and produced water from oil and gas wells near Morgantown, West Virginia.

·       Funded by DOE through a cooperative agreement, ZwitterCo Inc., a water treatment and water separation company, is advancing the development of a membrane technology that can reject key constituents from produced water while maintaining immunity to detrimental and irreversible membrane fouling. The project will optimize membrane technology for the demanding operational parameters of produced water treatment.

·       The quarterly Researcher Spotlight focuses on Ruishu Wright, Ph.D., a research physical scientist on NETL’s Functional Materials Team. Her research interests include the development of advanced sensors for real-time measurements, characterization and monitoring of geochemical parameters in subsurface wellbores and sensor technologies for real-time structural health monitoring of water pipeline infrastructures.

Water-Energy Nexus News is also a one-stop shop for links to recent journal articles, upcoming conferences and more. Check out this quarter’s Water-Energy Nexus News today!

NETL is a U.S. Department of Energy national laboratory that drives innovation and delivers technological solutions for an environmentally sustainable and prosperous energy future. By leveraging its world-class talent and research facilities, NETL is ensuring affordable, abundant and reliable energy that drives a robust economy and national security, while developing technologies to manage carbon across the full life cycle, enabling environmental sustainability for all Americans.