All projects in the State of New York

1. Advanced IGCC/Hydrogen Gas Turbine Development
   The objective of this project is to design and develop a fuel flexible (coal derived hydrogen or syngas) gas turbine for IGCC and FutureGen type applications that meets DOE turbine performance goals. The overall DOE Advanced Power System goal is to conduct, by 2010, the research and development (R&D) necessary to produce coal-based IGCC power systems with high efficiency (45-50% (... Read more >
   

   ID:	Start Date:	End Date:	Est. Cost:	State:
   DE-FC26-05NT42643	10/01/2005	09/30/2012	$86,229,073	NY

2. BNL: In Field, Continuous, Non-Invasive Soil Carbon Scanning System
   This project develops a robust, flexible, non-invasive, scanning system for monitoring and verifying temporal changes in soil carbon in situ over large areas. The objectives of this project are: (1) to design and construct a continuous Soil Carbon Scanning (SCS) system for field measurements, and (2) to characterize, calibrate and test the SCS system in a calibrated sand pit and i... Read more >
   

   ID:	Start Date:	End Date:	Est. Cost:	State:
   13W0205-AACH133	06/01/2003	09/30/2010	$1,540,200	NY

3. Carbon Dioxide Sealing Capacity: Textural or Compositional Controls?
   This project will investigate the role of textural and compositional parameters that control the carbon dioxide (CO2) sealing capacity of cap rocks. The proposed research project will advance our knowledge of the sealing capacity of rocks such as shales and anhydrites and, in turn, will provide a better understanding of the processes taking place in geologic reservoirs subject to C... Read more >
   

   ID:	Start Date:	End Date:	Est. Cost:	State:
   DE-FE0002028	12/01/2009	05/31/2012	$296,881	NY

4. Characterization & Decomposition Kinetic Studies of Methane Hydrate in Host Sediments Under Subsurface Mimic Conditions
   The purpose of this study is to establish lithology of fine-grained sediments from GOM and other known sites of methane hydrate occurrences and measure changes induced by hydrate forming events under subsurface-mimic conditions. The collected formation/decomposition data will be modeled to understand hhydrate occurrences in marine-based natural systems. The focus is on hydr... Read more >
   

   ID:	Start Date:	End Date:	Est. Cost:	State:
   EST-380-NEDA	10/01/2004	12/31/2009	$425,000	NY

5. Cost Effective Recovery of Low-TDS Frac Flowback Water for Re-Use
   The objective of this project is to develop a low-cost, mobile process to treat the low- total dissolved solids (TDS) portion of the flowback water from a hydrofracturing operation in order to reduce the cost of shale gas production. This project aims to develop both a flowback water pretreatment process and a membrane-based partial demineralization process that yields a clean prod... Read more >
   

   ID:	Start Date:	End Date:	Est. Cost:	State:
   DE-FE0000784	10/01/2009	03/31/2011	$976,055	NY

6. Designing and Validating Ternay Pd Alloys for Optimum Sulfur/Carbon Resistance
   Develop an economicallly-viable H2/CO2 separation membrane system that would allow efficient capture of CO2 at high temperature and pressure from gasified coal in presence of typical contaminants.... Read more >
   

   ID:	Start Date:	End Date:	Est. Cost:	State:
   DE-FE0001181	10/01/2009	09/30/2010	$505,377	NY

7. Development of Standard Packaging and Integration of Sensors for On-Line Use in Harsh Environments
   This project is Phase I which will develop new sensor packaging concepts to (1) encapsulate low profile temperature and strain gages with moisture-corrosion barrier coatings and (2) to improve lead-wire connections to sensors using Direct Write processes to enable robust sensor routing and connections in high temperature oxidizing environments for steam turbines, gas turbines, a... Read more >
   

   ID:	Start Date:	End Date:	Est. Cost:	State:
   DE-FG02-09ER85495	06/01/2009	04/19/2010	$100,000	NY

8. Geo-Chemo-Mechanical Studies for Permanent CO2 Storage in Geologic Reservoirs
   The Recipient shall test and quantify the hypothesis that rapid via mineral carbonation in peridotite and basalt leads to positive feedback via "reactive cracking," in which cracks caused by stress due to volume changes enhance porosity, permeability and reactive surface area. The Recipient shall conduct mineral carbonation rate experiments to maximize reaction rates in peridotite ... Read more >
   

   ID:	Start Date:	End Date:	Est. Cost:	State:
   DE-FE0002386	12/01/2009	11/30/2012	$469,268	NY

9. Microbial and Chemical Enhancement of In-Situ Carbon Mineralization in Geologic Formation
   The Recipient shall develop a microbial and chemical enhancement scheme for in-situ carbon mineralization in geologic formations. This system shall consist of thermodynamic and kinetic studies of CO2-mineral-brine systems and shall investigate the influence of organic acids produced by a microbial reactor on in-situ mineral carbonation.... Read more >
   

   ID:	Start Date:	End Date:	Est. Cost:	State:
   DE-FE0002389	12/01/2009	11/30/2012	$365,922	NY

10. Near Zero Emissions Oxy-Combustion Flue Gas Purification
    The overall objective of the project is to reduce the cost of CO2 capture and achieve >95% CO2 recovery with oxy-combustion in existing PC (pulverized coal) power plants by integrating a unique combination of existing chemical processing technologies for contaminant removal (NOx, SOx, Hg) with Praxair's advanced CO2 compression and purification concept. Specific objectives are to c... Read more >
    

    ID:	Start Date:	End Date:	Est. Cost:	State:
    DE-FC26-08NT0005341	10/01/2008	12/31/2011	$5,400,745	NY

11. New York City Parks Randall's Island Fossil Fuel Project
    This project seeks to construct a 200 kW solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) on Randall's Island, New York. The fuel cell will utilize natural gas and provide energy for the new tennis center. If possible, it will also utilize methane provided by New York City's Department of Environmental Protection if excess methane is available. The standard fuel cell electric operating mode will be... Read more >
    

    ID:	Start Date:	End Date:	Est. Cost:	State:
    DE-FC26-08NT42814	08/30/2006	09/30/2009	$2,152,500	NY

12. Novel Hydrogen Purification Device Integrated with PEM Fuel Cells
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    ID:	Start Date:	End Date:	Est. Cost:	State:
    DE-FC26-07NT43054	01/22/2007	09/30/2010	$1,546,849	NY

13. OTM-Based Oxycombustion for CO2 Capture from Coal Power Plants
    Under the new project, Praxair proposes to develop and ultimately commercialize a novel oxycombustion process based on oxygen transport membranes (OTM) for capturing CO2 from coal-fired power plants. This technology has the potential to capture > 90% of CO2 while keeping the increase in cost of electricity (COE) to 7 - 20% as compared to IGCC plants that can be built today. Such hi... Read more >
    

    ID:	Start Date:	End Date:	Est. Cost:	State:
    DE-FC26-07NT43088	02/01/2007	12/31/2010	$8,674,683	NY

14. Performance Degradation of LSCF Cathodes
    This project will identify the mechanisms by which a solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) degrades. This information will be utilized to develop mitigation strategies that will hold SOFC power degradation to 1% or less (while maintaining high initial power densities greater than 0.75 W/cm2). The objective is the development of an SOFC that retains high electrochemical activity over the ope... Read more >
    

    ID:	Start Date:	End Date:	Est. Cost:	State:
    DE-NT0004109	08/22/2008	09/30/2010	$5,400,127	NY

15. Plasmonics Based Harsh Environment Compatible Chemical Sensors
    The development of parallel materials deposition techniques will be used to engineer libraries of metal nanoparticle based films with a metal oxide matrix for the rapid development of prototype sensing materials. Likewise, these film libraries will have their optical properties analyzed in parallel, which will provide an efficient means to study their sensing characteristics on cha... Read more >
    

    ID:	Start Date:	End Date:	Est. Cost:	State:
    DE-NT0007918	01/16/2009	01/15/2012	$432,230	NY

16. Tagging Carbon Dioxide to Enable Quantitative Inventories of Geological Carbon Storage
    The Recipient shall construct a system for tagging a high flow stream of fossil CO2 with 14CO2 to a C-14 level that never exceeds that of atmospheric CO2. The purpose of the C-14 tracer or the alternative SF6 tracer is to enable accurate accounting of CO2 stored in geological reservoirs.... Read more >
    

    ID:	Start Date:	End Date:	Est. Cost:	State:
    DE-FE0001535	10/01/2009	09/30/2012	$2,183,481	NY

17. Technology to Facilitate the Use of Impaired Waters in Cooling Towers
    The objective is to develop a new ligand-functionalized core material (LFCM) for the removal of silica from impaired water and couple this technology to electodialysis reversal (EDR) for the 50% reduction of fresh water withdrawal at less than $3.90 kgal of water. The project is divided into three phases with milestones and go/no-go decision points. The objectives of each phase of ... Read more >
    

    ID:	Start Date:	End Date:	Est. Cost:	State:
    DE-NT0005961	10/01/2008	09/30/2011	$1,934,723	NY

18. Viscous Glass/Composite SOFC Sealants
    Identify, develop, and characterize a viscous glass amenable to forming composite "self-healing" seals for SOFCs. If successful, Alfred researchers will collaborate with SECA Core Technology Program participants to develop and evaluate proof-of-concept engineered seals.... Read more >
    

    ID:	Start Date:	End Date:	Est. Cost:	State:
    DE-NT0005177	09/01/2008	09/30/2011	$338,310	NY