Energy Department offers funding for clean-coal R&D
David Wagman | April 11, 2019The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and the National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) announced up to $87.3 million in federal funding for cost-shared research and development projects for advanced coal technologies and research.
The R&D projects will fall under five separate funding opportunity announcements:
Advancing Steam Turbine Performance for Coal Boilers: This funding opportunity is worth up to $22 million and seeks to improve the performance of steam-based power cycles, resulting in a lower cost of electricity with reduced emissions per megawatt-hour for coal-fueled boilers. It also includes an area of interest for conceptual engineering design for steam turbines in the 50 to 350 megawatt range in support of DOE’s Coal FIRST initiative.
Transformational Sensing Systems for Monitoring the Deep Subsurface: This funding opportunity is worth up to $4.8 million and seeks to reduce uncertainty and enable real-time decision making associated with subsurface carbon dioxide storage.
Crosscutting Research for Coal-Fueled Power Plants: This funding opportunity is worth up to $14.5 million and aims to develop innovative technologies that will enhance the performance and economics of the existing and future coal fleet.
Advanced Materials for High-Efficiency, Flexible and Reliable Coal-Fueled Power Plants: This funding opportunity is worth up to $26 million and is intended to reduce the cost and enhance the cyclic durability of materials used in advanced ultrasupercritical power plants.
Process Scale-Up and Optimization/Efficiency Improvements for Rare Earth Elements and Critical Materials Recovery from Coal-Based Resources: This funding opportunity is worth up to $20 million and is intended to support cooperative agreements to advance the development of technologies to recover rare earth elements and critical materials from domestic coal-based resources through novel and conventional extraction, separation and recovery processes.
DOE’s National Energy Technology Laboratory will manage all of the selected projects.
