The U.S. Department of Energy’s National Energy Technology Laboratory has selected West Virginia University to move forward with its program to extract valuable rare earth elements, vital to the technology industry, from coal mining by-products.
A
new study published today (August 23, 2017) in the
Journal of Air and Waste Management Association builds upon recent heavy-duty
natural gas vehicle methane emission measurements to model methane emissions from
a future, much larger vehicle fleet. The predicted methane emissions rates from a
2035 natural gas fleet cover a wide range depending on technologies adopted and best
management practices employed.
One of the biggest factors hampering the growth of renewable energy is storage. Sun and wind are intermittent and dependent on geography, requiring energy storage and transportation. Batteries are a means of addressing the storage problem, but they have a low-energy density, and are relatively expensive and difficult to transport. A researcher at West Virginia University will be investigating one possible alternative that could potentially create a route to “green” hydrocarbons.
The technology developed by researchers at West Virginia University that helped them win the NASA Sample Return Robot Challenge may be headed to Mars.
Researchers at West Virginia
University have long studied emissions from diesel vehicles to provide
independent data about emissions performance both in the laboratory and on the
road, as well as provide technology demonstration, other research and design
support.
While most recent graduates of West Virginia University’s Statler College of Engineering and Mineral Resources are pursuing careers in their respective fields, one is taking a different path: slam poetry.
With one year left to go in the four-year EcoCAR 3 competition, the team from West Virginia University finds itself in some pretty good company. After a two-week stint that featured stops in Michigan and Washington, D.C., the team from WVU placed fourth overall, joining Ohio State University, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University and Georgia Tech at the top.
Two West Virginia University students will take their research projects to a new level and one NSF fellow will bring her research to the Statler College of Engineering and Mineral Resources thanks to prestigious graduate fellowships from the National Science Foundation.