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Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) is a huge untapped renewable feedstock resource to produce hydrogen through gasification. Currently, the utilization MSW for hydrogen production is not realized due to the presence of chlorine that causes degradation of gasifier components and formation of pollutants during gasification. This proposed technology has the potential to remove chlorine and produce a consist ...

Decades of coal use in the United States has resulted in large amounts of waste coal materials produced from coal preparation plants. Currently, these coal wastes are stored in piles and ponds, and many are causing environmental problems such as acid mine drainage. Technologies must be developed that can utilize these coal waste materials. Gasification of coal waste combined with biomass has the p ...

This Small Business Innovation Research project addresses the issue of high variability of critical minerals (CM) that includes rare earth elements (REE) in coal feedstocks. The proposed project is aimed at developing a technology to sort coals based on REE-CM concentration. Sorting the high CM from low CM-containing feedstocks is essential to the economic viability of a commercial CM concentrate ...

This Small Business Innovative Research project targets the development of a computer-based tool (model) for use by coal-fired power plants to predict heat transfer losses in the water wall and convective pass sections of the boiler. The proposed tool combines Microbeam’s mechanistic ash generation and deposition models (AGM) for use in the Institute for the Design of Advanced Energy Systems (ID ...

This Small Business Innovation Research project targets the development of mitigation strategies to decrease mercury and other potential hazardous elements in coal prior to combustion or gasification. The Microbeam team including the University of North Dakota and Envergex, LLC is developing a method of coal beneficiation that not only removes mercury, sulfur and other hazardous trace elements, bu ...

There are imminent needs for improvements and advancements in the research and development of new sensor materials and measurements techniques for nuclear material control and accountability. Nuclear storage facilities for used fuel and electrochemical recycling facilities need more robust safeguards and security than ever. In addition, fuel monitoring must be done in a cost effective manner. How ...

50815-98-I High Spatial Resolution Optical Sensors for DNAPLs--Dakota Technologies, Inc., 2301 12th Street, North, Suite E, Fargo, ND 58102-1805; (701) 237-4908 Mr. Randy W. St. Germain, Principal Investigator Dr. Gregory D. Gillispie, Business Official DOE Grant No. DE-FG03-98ER82564 Amount: $75,000 Chlorinated organic solvents in the form of dense non-aqueous phase liquids (DNAPLs) continuou ...

MANY LOW RANK COALS (ESPECIALLY LIGNITES) HAVE ONLY MARGINALLY HIGH SULFUR CONTENTS, RESULTING IN EMISSIONS OF 2 TO 3 POUNDS OF SULFUR DIOXIDE (SO2) PER MILLION BTU. THIS SULFUR IS PRESENT IN ABOUT EQUAL AMOUNTS OF PYRITIC, SULFATIC, AND ORGANIC SULFUR. THEREFORE, PHYSICAL CLEANING METHODS ARE TYPICALLY NOT APPLICABLE. HOWEVER, THESE COALS HAVE HIGH OXYGEN CONTENTS, AND MUCH OF THIS OXYGEN IS P ...

79671S Attempts to produce Carbon Nano Tube(CNT) in large quantities have been fraught with overwhelming challenges due to poor yield, costly fabrication, and the need for the purifying processes required to make them useful in applications. This project will develop an alternative nanoscale carbon material with comparable properties that can be produced cost-effectively and in larger quantities ...

This project will develop a new class of nanocomposites containing isolated, individual, nano-scaled graphene plates (NGPs). Like carbon nano-tubes, NGP materials exhibit attractive properties like carbon nano-tubes, but can be readily mass-produced and are expected to become available at much lower costs and in larger quantities. When incorporated as a nano filler in a matrix, isolated NGPs are ...