Details of an advanced study of the treatability of wastewaters from the fixedbed gasification of lignite.
The objective of the JSRP was to advance the deployment of advanced technologies for improving energy efficiency and environmental performance through jointly sponsored research on topics that would not be adequately addressed by the private sector alone. The selection of particular research projects was guided by a combination of DOE priorities and market needs, as provided by the requirement for joint venture funding approved both by DOE and the private sector sponsor. The JSRP is a complement to an associated Base Program, which seeks to further the understanding of basic scientific and engineering foundations for new and improved technologies. This JSRP Cooperative Agreement and the complementary Base Cooperative Agreement were designed as a model for research, development, demonstration, and commercialization partnerships between government, industry, and the applied science and engineering community that can bring cutting-edge science closer to commercial application. Under this agreement covering the period from fiscal year 1993 through 1997, the EERC negotiated the 64 JSRP tasks shown in Table 1. The DOE share of these projects was $11,997,297 (43%), while the nonfederal share totaled $16,189,257 (57%). The nonfederal sponsors are listed on Table 2. The EERC's internal goal of 60% nonfederal funding was achieved in each of the last three fiscal years. The JSRP tasks funded under this agreement covered a broad range of topics of mutual interest to both DOE's Office of Fossil Energy and nonfederal sponsors, ranging from fundamental research to highly applied development. The topics addressed included climate change; resource characterization; underground coal gasification; air toxic emissions; groundwater quality; environmental remediation of soils; fuel upgrading, blending, and switching; boiler performance indices addressing ash fouling and other operational issues; optimizing atmospheric fluid-bed combustion sulfur removal and reducing bed agglomeration; ash behavior under reducing conditions; hot-gas filter blinding; coal combustion byproduct utilization; alternative fuels and chemicals; plastics recycling; and distributed power generation.
In June 2009, the Energy & Environmental Research Center (EERC) completed 11 years of research under the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Base Cooperative Agreement No. DE-FC26-98FT40320 funded through the Office of Fossil Energy (OFE) and administered at the National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL). A wide range of diverse research activities were performed under annual program plans approved by NETL in seven major task areas: 1) resource characterization and waste management, 2) air quality assessment and control, 3) advanced power systems, 4) advanced fuel forms, 5) value-added coproducts, 6) advanced materials, and 7) strategic studies. This report summarizes results of the 67 research subtasks and an additional 50 strategic studies. Selected highlights in the executive summary illustrate the contribution of the research to the energy industry in areas not adequately addressed by the private sector alone. During the period of performance of the agreement, concerns have mounted over the impact of carbon emissions on climate change, and new programs have been initiated by DOE to ensure that fossil fuel resources along with renewable resources can continue to supply the nation's transportation fuel and electric power. The agreement has addressed DOE goals for reductions in CO 2 emissions through efficiency, capture, and sequestration while expanding the supply and use of domestic energy resources for energy security. It has further contributed to goals for near-zero emissions from highly efficient coal-fired power plants; environmental control capabilities for SO 2 , NO x , fine respirable particulate (PM 2.5 ), and mercury; alternative transportation fuels including liquid synfuels and hydrogen; and synergistic integration of fossil and renewable resources (e.g., wind-, biomass-, and coal-based electrical generation).
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