Green Car Congress

MARCH 20, 2009

the developer of a thermochemical (gasification and catalytic synthesis) process to produce synthetic fuels from biomass and waste ( earlier post ) plans to build and operate a second-generation biofuels production facility located in Pontotoc, Mississippi. Enerkem Inc., The total project represents a US$250 million investment.

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Mississippi Waste Convert Universal 150

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MAY 3, 2021

Illinois Basin (Kentucky, Illinois, Indiana and Tennessee): Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois aims to lead a project to evaluate the domestic occurrence of strategic elements in coal, coal-based resources and waste streams from coal use. DOE Funding: $1,483,787. DOE Funding: $1,500,000. DOE Funding: $1,499,817.

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West Virginia Wyoming Coal North Dakota 305

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 1, 2020

These projects will improve the performance and lower the cost and risk of technologies that can be used to produce biofuels, biopower, and bioproducts from biomass and waste resources. University of Alabama. University of North Dakota. Scale-up and Qualification of Net-Zero Sustainable Aviation Fuels from Wet Waste.

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Waste Conversion Universal San Diego 186

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AUGUST 22, 2016

Montana State University. Murray State University. University of Southern Mississippi. Emergent Polymer Sensing Technologies for Gulf Coast Water Quality Monitoring This collaboration between Mississippi and Alabama develops advanced polymer-based sensing technologies to detect pollutants in Gulf Coast aquatic ecosystems.

Water 150

Water Puerto Rico West Virginia Energy 150

Green Car Congress

MAY 21, 2010

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has selected 42 university-led research and development projects for awards totaling $38 million. These projects, funded over three to four years through the Department’s Nuclear Energy University Program, are intended to help advance nuclear education and develop the next generation of nuclear technologies.

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Universal Las Vegas Wisconsin Idaho 186

Green Car Congress

MARCH 19, 2018

Researchers at Mississippi State University are developing technology that would alert pipeline managers about leaks as soon as failure begins, avoiding the environmental disasters and fuel distribution disruptions resulting from pipeline leaks. We no longer have to wait until the leak is out of hand. —Veera Gnaneswar Gude, Ph.D.,

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Oil Water Mississippi Gas 170

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

The giant miscanthus was developed at the University of Mississippi and provided from a high yield plot by Repreve Renewables. Agricultural waste from food crops can also produce up to 1,000 gallons of gasoline/acre using this new technology. —Mike Cheiky, Cool Planet’s founder and CEO.

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Gasoline Conversion Gasoline-Electric Mississippi 304