HSE & Sustainability
Researchers at KAIST developed an integrated chemobiological platform that converts renewable feedstocks like glucose and glycerol into essential aromatic hydrocarbons (BTEX) using engineered E. coli strains and a solvent-integrated catalytic process, offering a sustainable alternative to petroleum-based production.
The two projects under the university’s Targeted Proposal Teams program will focus on underground hydrogen and geologic storage solutions.
Researchers at Colorado School of Mines explore an internally deployed fiber-optic distributed acoustic sensing (DAS) method for continuous gas-pipeline monitoring, demonstrating its potential to improve leak detection, enable early intervention, and enhance overall pipeline-integrity management compared to conventional inspection techniques.
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Lorena Moscardelli will serve as the ninth director and first woman director since the bureau’s inception in 1909. -
The grant from the US Department of Energy will fund the project through 2027 as two researchers focus on developing a two-step approach to treating produced water.
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The program, set to launch in spring 2025, will offer courses in energy production and storage, AI and data science for energy transition, and energy process design.
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The research, aimed at safely extracting metals such as lithium, cobalt, and nickel, was awarded a $1-million grant from the US Department of Energy.
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Two hubs were launched in September 2024 at Pembrokeshire College and Fife College with a third planned to launch in 2025 at North East Scotland College (Aberdeen).
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In part three of the Decoding Sustainability series, Mercedes Maroto-Valer, director of the UK Industrial Decarbonization Research and Innovation Center, shares her insights on diversity and inclusion, drawing from her personal experiences and position as a leader in the field.
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The three projects will focus on carbon capture, utilization, and storage and carbon dioxide removal.
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Explore hydrogen's role in industrial decarbonization through three real-world examples.
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Researchers say the environmentally friendly method to extract lignin from pine will allow it to replace 20% of the fossil fuel-based chemicals in polyurethane foams.
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Four technologies included in the Global CCS Institute's latest CCS Technologies 2024 report are explored in this article.
