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SwRI, UTSA researchers show biochar is low-cost, effective method to treat fracking water

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Researchers at Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) and The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) have determined that biochar, a substance produced from plant matter, is a safe, effective and inexpensive method to treat flowback water following hydraulic fracturing, or fracking. —Maoqi Feng, SwRI. —Zhigang Feng, USTA.

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Texas Awards Terrabon $2.75M to Support Biofuels Work

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Texas Governor Rick Perry has awarded $2.75 million from the Texas Emerging Technology Fund (TETF) to Terrabon for its work in biofuel technology development. The AdVE process will remove impurities using advanced vapor compression evaporation to produce drinkable water for Laredo. Earlier post.).

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Terrabon awarded $9.6M by Logos Technologies to produce 6,000 liters of renewable jet fuel for DARPA via MixAlco process

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MixAlco converts low-cost, readily available, non-food, non-sterile biomass into valuable chemicals such as acetic acid, ketones and alcohols that can be processed into renewable fuels. SoluPro, a bio-products process that converts inexpensive protein-bearing waste material into animal feed and green commercial adhesives.

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DOE Awards Up to $6.9M to Nine Projects for Shale Gas and Coalbed Methane Production

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NETL’s goals for these projects are to improve management of water resources, water usage, and water disposal, and to support science that will aid the regulatory and permitting processes required for shale gas development. Ground Water Protection Research Foundation, Oklahoma City, Okla. million (DOE share: $6.9

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ARPA-E Selects 37 Projects for $106M in Funding in Second Round; Electrofuels, Better Batteries and Carbon Capture

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This project will develop and optimize a novel, engineered microorganism that produces a biodiesel-equivalent fuel from renewable hydrogen and carbon dioxide, at costs of less than $2.50 Water will be the primary byproduct. A novel metal complex for electrolysis of water will be used to generate the hydrogen at high rates.

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DOE awards $34M to 19 projects to advance clean hydrogen

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plans to develop a novel membrane system from Osmoses’ proprietary polymer composition that can produce enriched oxygen from air for integration into modular gasification systems for low-cost hydrogen production. The team intends to demonstrate high-purity (greater than 98% by volume, preferably above 99.5%

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DOE Selects 19 Projects to Monitor and Evaluate Geologic CO2 Storage

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million of non-Federal cost sharing. In order for low-cost electricity from coal-fired power plants to remain available, the DOE said, economical methods for capturing and storing the greenhouse gas emissions from these plants must be developed. Fusion Petroleum Technologies , The Woodlands, Texas.

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