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an oil sands exploration and development company operating in the state of Utah, announced the successful operation of its oil sand recovery pilot facility. As a result, CEO William Gibbs said that the company is now ready to submit a mine permit application and begin development of a 5,000 barrel per day facility at its Utah property.
The UtahWater Quality Board, in a 9-2 vote this week, agreed with the August 2012 recommendations of an administrative law judge (ALJ) upholding a permit-by-rule issued by the Division of Water Quality (DWQ) for the proposed PR Spring an oil sands mine on state land in eastern Utah. Source: USOS, DWQ. Click to enlarge.
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The Intermountain Power Agency (IPA) has awarded Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems (MHPS) a contract for two M501JAC power trains for the Intermountain Power Plant (IPP) in Delta, Utah. The renewed generation facility will be owned by IPA and operated by the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP). Earlier post.).
bacteria, fungi, and algae) may be grown on non-arable land and with saline water, wastewater or/and produced water from mineral and petroleum extraction. —University of Utah chemical engineering assistant professor Swomitra “Bobby” Mohanty, co-author. corn), microorganisms (e.g., —Leonard Pease, co-author.
physically moving the macroalgae between deep nutrient-rich water at night and shallow depths within the photic zone during the day to optimize growth. 13 C values suggesting that the depth-cycled kelp were not nitrogen-deficient and assimilated nutrients from deep water. The researchers used a depth-cycling approach—i.e.,
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A University of Utah engineer has developed an inexpensive new method to remove oil sheen by repeatedly pressurizing and depressurizing ozone gas, creating microscopic bubbles that attack the oil so it can be removed by sand filters. Water from mining of oil sands and oil shale.
The projected water year 2021 unregulated inflow into Lake Powell—the amount that would have flowed to Lake Mead, the reservoir created by Hoover Dam, without the benefit of storage behind Glen Canyon Dam—is approximately 32% of average. Lake Powell water elevation. Under this tier, Lake Powell will release 7.48
GMC is showcasing some of the HUMMER EV Pickup’s off-road testing on challenging trails near Moab, Utah in the lead-up to its production debut this fall. The GMC HUMMER EV was a blank slate that was filled out by a dedicated team of engineers who are hardcore off-road enthusiasts.
The US Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has published the Notice of Availability (NOA) of the Draft Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (PEIS) and Possible Land Use Amendments for Allocation of Oil Shale and Tar Sands Resources on Lands Administered by the BLM in Colorado, Utah and Wyoming.
The US Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) announced $11 million in funding for 7 projects in the fourth and fifth cohorts of the agency’s OPEN+ program: Energy-Water Technologies and Sensors for Bioenergy and Agriculture. Energy-Water Technologies cohort.
This site is atop a massive salt dome in Delta, Utah, and adjacent to the Intermountain Power Project, which has transmission interconnections to major western demand centers. Brine, a mixture of salt and water, is produced during the solution mining of salt formations.
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The US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) will award $38 million to 12 projects that will work to reduce the impacts of light-water reactor used nuclear fuel (UNF) disposal. Upon discharge from a nuclear reactor, the UNF is initially stored in steel-lined concrete pools surrounded by water.
In addition to Deutch, the SAB includes: MIT Chemistry Professor Daniel Nocera (Sun Catalytix founder); Harvard University Professor George Whitesides; Washington University Chancellor and Professor of Chemistry Mark Wrighton; MIT Chemical Engineering Professor Kenneth Smith; and University of Utah Distinguished Professor Henry White.
The company manages 160,000 acres of leasehold on the bed of the Great Salt Lake, together with held water rights, 55,000 acres of existing ponds and active mineral extraction permissions. The company is currently undertaking a formal life cycle assessment of various lithium development scenarios with Minviro Ltd.
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NuScale Chairman and CEO, John Hopkins announced the WIN initiative following the Western Governors’ Association annual meeting held in Park City, Utah, this past weekend. As the only US-based company established solely for the commercialization of its SMR, NuScale has developed technology for a scalable small modular reactor.
Tests of electrodes that blend Ionisil with graphite showed that a 15% Ionisil substitution of graphite in a water-based CMC/SBR binder system achieves 91% ICE and 740 mAh/g stable capacity, more than doubling the capacity of pure graphite anode. million metric tons of synthetic graphite.
The Penn State separation method uses very little energy and water, and all solvents are recycled and reused. The separation takes place at room temperature without the generation of waste process water. Significant quantities of oil sands (estimated to contain 32 billion barrels of oil) can also be found in Eastern Utah in the US.
The analyzed samples consisted of a sand/soil mixture: 41% - 41%; water: 25% - 26%; bitumen: 31% - 32%; cellulose and other impurities: less than 1%. Clean sand/soil and clean water with the solids content of less than 0.36% were obtained as three separate end products of the MCW extraction process.
This will allow NuScale to meet a commercial operation date of 2023 for its first planned project, in Idaho, with partners Energy NorthWest and Utah Associated Municipal Power Systems. NuScale Power, LLC is developing a safer, smaller, scalable version of pressurized water reactor technology, designed with natural safety features.
The Energy Commission also approved a recommendation allowing the cities of Burbank, Glendale, Pasadena, and Riverside, and the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, to enter a power sales contract to procure energy from an 840-megawatt natural gas facility called the Intermountain Power Project Repowering Project.
The Green Hydrogen Coalition, in conjunction with the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) and other key partners, launched HyDeal LA , an initiative to achieve at-scale green hydrogen procurement at $1.50/kilogram kilogram in the Los Angeles Basin by 2030. —Martin Adams, General Manager and Chief Engineer at LADWP.
GM is supplying HYDROTEC fuel cell power cubes to Renewable Innovations of Lindon, Utah to build the Mobile Power Generator. It generates less noise than a conventional diesel engine at full load and emits water which can be captured and repurposed in the field. Mobile Power Generator.
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A biofuels company, Utah-based Genifuel Corp., Catalytic hydrothermal gasification is applied for HTL byproduct water cleanup and fuel gas production from water soluble organics, allowing the water to be considered for recycle of nutrients to the algae growth ponds. Clean water, which can be re-used to grow more algae.
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With an abundance of coal, oil, gas, uranium, water and transmission lines, the tribe’s energy plan hopes to outline a better utilization of their resources. —Steve Grey, program manager at LLNL. American Indian tribes in the United States own about 15% of the natural resources in the country.
Ceres recently released a new report concluding that coal-to-liquid (CTL) and oil shale technologies face significant environmental and financial obstacles—from water constraints, to technological uncertainties to regulatory and market risks—that pose substantial financial risks for investors involved in such projects.
The US Department of the Interior (DOI) is offering additional opportunities for energy companies to conduct oil shale research, development and demonstration (RD&D) projects on public lands in Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming. Earlier post.) The allotted acreage for commercial development represents an 87.5% Earlier post.) Secretary Salazar.
A report on what they termed “ the first economical way to produce biodiesel from algae oil ” was presented at the 237 th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society in Salt Lake City, Utah. This is the first economical way to produce biodiesel from algae oil.
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This one has a crate motor with 20,000 to 25,000 miles on it, and it passes Utah emissions. There are some issues such as A/C that doesn't blow cold, some minor water damage to the camper, and aging paint. It has air shocks, new brake booster and master cylinder, relatively new leaf springs, and a whole bunch of other new parts.
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Deuterium atoms diffuse into the electrode material from the heavy water used in the electrolyte. George, Utah. The process is created by purposely creating defects in the metal electrode of the cell. He is with Dixie State College in St. Vladimir Vysotskii, Ph.D.,
million to a team comprising researchers from the University of Utah, HRL Laboratories and GM Global R&D for a project to develop a new generation of high-density thermal battery based on advanced metal hydrides. In 2011, the Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) awarded $2.7 Earlier post.) In the video, Dr. John J.
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