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Left to Right: Chad Epling, Jeremy Stout (foreground), Jeff Cotton (background), Michael Prinkey (background), Josh Kaplon (on computer) in the Modular Data Center of the NETL Super Computer.
Left to Right: Mark Donoghue, Chad Epling, Jeff Cotton (background), Jeremy Stout (foreground), Michael Prinkey (background), Josh Kaplon (on computer).
Traffic narrows to two lanes as Greenpeace USA climbers form a blockade on the Fred Hartman Bridge in Baytown, Texas shutting down the largest fossil fuel thoroughfare in the United States ahead of the third Democratic primary debate in nearby Houston. The climbers are preventing the transport of all oil and gas through the Houston Ship Channel, home to the largest petrochemical complex in the United States. Their action is a call to the country’s present and future leaders to imagine a world beyond fossil fuels and embrace a just transition to renewable energy. Photo by Greg Baldwin
Participants in the People's Climate March make their way through the streets of New York City on September 21, 2014. The march, two-days before the United Nations Climate March, is billed as the largest climate march in history. Photo by Kate Davison/Greenpeace
Vyacheslav Romanov discusses the visualization lab with Terry Jordan, Dirk Van Essendelft, and Kyle Buchheit (Mickey Leland intern).
Immersion Autoclave
NETL researcher Dr. Burt Thomas
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The High Pressure Immersion and Reactive Transport Laboratory is a multi-functional, state-of-the-art facility capable of performing geological studies at simulated depths up to 10,000 feet, providing an experimental basis for modeling of various subsurface phenomena and processes. Research is aimed at monitoring the long-term storage stability and integrity of CO2 stored in geologic formations to better simulate conditions found in potential geologic storage sites. The laboratory has a wide range of tools and instrumentation to ensure a complete cycle of scientific studies from preparation of representative samples, through the preliminary measurements of basic properties, to the advanced investigation of the processes of interest under simulated subsurface conditions. The Autoclave Test Facility uses continuously-stirred autoclave reactors to conduct experiments at high pressures and temperatures to investigate gas/liquid and gas/slurry interactions. The Geological Storage Core Flow Facility includes three flow-through test systems that can measure permeability, CO2-enhanced oil recovery, and CO2.
Sharing a Little Bit of Albany History
By Joe Licavoli
On February 2nd, students from West Albany High School finally got to meet and know a little bit about their next-door neighbors from NETL’s Albany site. As part of continuing outreach efforts by both NETL and other community leaders, 28 advanced placement (AP) chemistry students attended a two-and-a-half hour set of talks at the Albany Regional Museum. These talks focused on Albany’s specialty metals history on the production of zirconium and titanium. In planning the event, NETL’s Joseph Licavoli worked with Sylvia Harvey (Teacher at West Albany High), Howard Poppleton (Retired—US Bureau of Mines), Mark Sidall (Retired—ATI Wah Chang), Dennis Emerson (Retired—ATI Wah Chang), Barry Valder (Retired—ATI Wah Chang), Judy Weissert (Director, Albany Regional Museum) and Mae Yih (Retired State Senator). The talks included an introduction to materials science, the history of specialty metals processing in Albany, and current/future uses of titanium, zirconium, hafnium, niobium, and tantalum.
After the talks, students and speakers held casual conversations about careers in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) fields and about specific research topics that had been discussed.
Mae Yih graciously offered to provide lunch for the students as well. Students were very engaged in the talks and grateful for the opportunity to discuss science with people that have helped make Albany a key player in metallurgy over the years. As part of her “Albany Renaissance” project, Mae Yih is sponsoring an essay contest for Albany area schools with this year’s topic focusing on the metal titanium and its uses. This essay contest and the high school visit are a part of ongoing efforts by members of the Albany community to help advance STEM education and bring more attention to the strong influence and positive effects that metallurgical processing facilities have had in shaping Albany’s history
Dennis Emerson (Retired—ATI Wah Chang) is shown presenting
The Greenpeace thermal airship A.E. Bates flies by Glacier National Park near St. Mary's, Montana on August 5, 2014. The Greenpeace One World Balloon was also on the scene. The airship flew with banners reading, "Coal exports fuel climate change" and "Keep our coal in the ground" to highlight the risks of coal export and mining. Coal mining companies are trying to boost exports of publicly owned coal in Montana and Wyoming to Asia, which would mean more carbon pollution and disruption to the environment and communities in the Western United States. Photo by Greenpeace
An Aera Energy pipeline spilled an estimated 29,000 gallons of crude oil in a gorge called Prince Barranca near homes in Ventura, California June 23, 2016. Crude oil has coated rocks and creek beds, but details on the environmental impact were not immediately available. A pipe line is being brought down to a staging area where a pump will pump all contaminated water out of the creek. Photo by Ann Johansson/Greenpeace
Participants in the People's Climate March make their way through the streets of New York City on September 21, 2014. The march, two-days before the United Nations Climate March, is billed as the largest climate march in history. Photo by Michael Nagle/Greenpeace
Nate Weiland, a post-doctoral research associate in the Office of Research and Development at the Department of Energy’s National Energy Technology Laboratory, observes an experiment in NETL’s Fundamental Combustion Laboratory. This lab provides important data that relates to the use of hydrogen as a fuel in DOE’s planned FutureGen plant.
People participate in the Washington D.C. March For Science is held on Earth Day 2017. Scientist, students and researchers rallied from the Brandenburg Gate to the Washington Monument conveying a global message of scientific freedom without political interference and spending necessary to make future breakthroughs.
Greenpeace activists set up two 13' tall, 15' wide 'pinboards' outside of the Pinterest office in the SOMA neighborhood of San Francisco, California May 6, 2014. Each of the boards featured real-life 'pins' with the message "Make Our Pins Green". Designers, photographers and other influential Pinterest users who partnered with Greenpeace's #clickclean campaign for a green internet designed many of the pins on the boards. Photo by Greenpeace/George Nikitin
From the toxic waste created by the extreme extraction of tar sands destroying indigenous communities in Canada, to toxins created by the BP Whiting refinery producing sacrifice communities in the Greater Chicago area, to the resultant catastrophic effect on our climate, the urgent need for a just transition away from fossil fuels to a 100% renewable energy economy is abundantly clear.
The Greenpeace Arctic Sunrise displays a banner message near the US Oil facility in Tacoma. The ship is on a tour following the route that would experience a seven-fold increase in tar sands tanker oil traffic if the pipeline expansion is completed. The report documents the communities threatened by the Trans Mountain Expansion Project, which would worsen the effects of global warming, risk poisoning water, jeopardize the hundreds of thousands of jobs that depend on clean coasts, violate Indigenous sovereignty, and threaten the extinction of the Southern Resident Orca Whale, of which only 75 remain.
Vyacheslav Romanov discusses the visualization lab with Terry Jordan, Dirk Van Essendelft, and Kyle Buchheit (Mickey Leland intern).
NETL’s High Bay Reaction lab conducts gasification research, testing materials in environments that simulate real-world application. Research is conducted in a large vertical tubular reactor, which examines changes to the gasification process that occur when biomass is mixed with coal prior to gasification. Biomass, like switchgrass and poplar, is a net-zero CO2 emissions material, making coal-biomass mixtures a desirable feedstock for the gasification process. However, the introduction of biomass alters the gasification process. By injecting coal-biomass mixtures into the reactor, the lab can monitor the gasification reactions and collect data that is vital to the development and optimization of using coal-biomass as a feedstock.
An activist sits elevated in a tree with his "Stop KM" sign in the latest day of resistance following the March 17th blockade at Kinder Morganճ Burnaby tank farm. Concerned seniors and supporters, including Greenpeace founders, came together in solidarity with Coast Salish communities.Indigenous Peoples, senior citizens and members of Greenpeace founding families block the front gates to Kinder Morganճ construction site on Burnaby Mountain.in British Columbia. In solidarity with Coast Salish communities, they aim to show the world that Canada is going down the wrong path on climate and on reconciliation with Indigenous Nations in building this pipeline.
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Leco CS744 - Oxygen/Nitrogen by Inert Gas Fusion Infrared and Thermal Conductivity Detection
The Leco CS744 is designed for routine measurement of carbon and sulfur in primary steels, ores, finished metals, and other inorganic materials. Additional features—such as a high-frequency combustion furnace, improved IR cell design, rugged design, and available automation assists in acquiring an accurate analysis of carbon and/or sulfur.
Request by Peter Hsieh
National Energy Technology Laboratory - NETL-Albany, 1450 Queen Ave. SW, Albany, Oregon.
Reference by Peter Hsieh
Trace amounts of carbon, sulfur, nitrogen, and oxygen can make a big difference in the structure and properties of many alloys. Combustion analysis can be used to measure the concentration of carbon and sulfur in a number of different ores and metals. A small amount of the sample is first combusted in oxygen. The amount of carbon
dioxide and sulfur dioxide produced from the reaction is then measured with an infrared detector.
A similar approach is applied to measure the amount of nitrogen and oxygen present in each sample. The sample is placed inside a graphite crucible and heated rapidly. Oxygen present in the molten sample reacts readily with the graphite crucible, and the amount of carbon dioxide formed from the combustion reaction is measured with an infrared detector and used to calculate the amount of oxygen originally present in the sample. Nitrogen gas escaping from the molten sample is measured with a separate thermal conductivity detector, as it is invisible to the infrared detector.
By measuring the composition of alloys down to parts-per-million levels, it is possible to work out how changes to ingredients and processing conditions affect their composition.
Mickey Leland intern Carol Sadek working on the NETL Chemical Looping Reactor along with fellow intern Jared Carpenter and mentor Justin Weber. The chemical looping reactor can be used in conjunction with MFiX for simulation and data analysis.
A Greenpeace activist (right) hands out "secret message" coffee mugs to Amazon employees outside their offices in Seattle, Washington on September 25, 2014. They were encouraging the company to use its innovation to power the Internet with renewable energy. Photo by Marcus Donner/Greenpeace
Activists protest against fracking in Preston.
Camp Frack mobilised over 100 climate activists and local residents against plans by Cuadrilla Resources to drill for shale gas in Lancashire, UK.
"Camp Frack", named after "fracking", the process of pumping vast quantities of water underground and fracturing rocks with chemicals to release shale gas, set up outside the Lancashire village of Banks, close to a drilling rig that Cuadrilla Resources is using to drill up to 3.5km deep.
Environmentalists have argued that the "fracking" process is inherently risky. In the US, where shale gas is being hailed by industry as a potential substitute for oil, fears have been raised about the effect of the chemicals used, explosions, links with seismic activity and allegations of illness. A Cornell University study also concluded that greenhouse gas emissions from shale gas are higher than those for coal.
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Hydrology intern Aubrey Harris, performing research pertaining to the fate and transport of hydraulic fracturing pollutants through surface and ground waters.
Left to right: Vyacheslav Romanov, Kyle Buchheit (Mickey Leland intern), Dirk Van Essendelft, Terry Jordan.
Rupendranath Panday preparing to test a carbon capture sorbent in the Mini-Carbon Capture Unit (Mini-C2U).
NETL’s Albany lab specializes in metals research for energy applications, and its Fabrication Laboratory helps develop strong, durable alloys for use in energy production. Researchers in the Lab work on projects for the Department of Energy but have also developed alloys for Shell, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, GE, Pratt & Whittney-Rockedyne (P&W), medical stent applications for Boston Scientific Laboratories, and others.
Greenpeace activists (right) as they hand out "secret message" coffee mugs to Amazon employees (left) outside Amazon headquarters in Seattle, Washington on September 25, 2014. They were encouraging the company to use its innovation to power the Internet with renewable energy. Photo by Marcus Donner/Greenpeace
Oakland, CA - On October 23rd, ninety-two of the world's largest banks met in São Paulo, Brazil to vote on a policy that upholds Indigenous people's right to Free, Prior, and Informed Consent (FPIC) to allow or disallow projects on their lands. Local activists and environmental allies protested against three of the banks involved with the financing of dirty fossil fuel projects (like the Dakota Access Pipeline and Keystone XL). The day started off with a prayer circle, followed by three divestment actions at Wells Fargo, Citibank, and JPMorgan Chase. This action was part of a global divestment movement, where over 50 actions were held across the world.
Photos: Jake Conroy / RAN
Participants in the People's Climate March hold their hands in the air as they remember victims lost to climate change in New York City on September 21, 2014. The march, two-days before the United Nations Climate March, is billed as the largest climate march in history. Photo by Michael Nagle/Greenpeace
NETL’s Hybrid Performance, or Hyper, facility is a one-of-a-kind laboratory built to develop control strategies for the reliable operation of fuel cell/turbine hybrids and enable the simulation, design, and implementation of commercial equipment. The Hyper facility provides a unique opportunity for researchers to explore issues related to coupling fuel cell and gas turbine technologies
Greenpeace USA activists protested the New York City arrival of a 50,000-ton oil tanker carrying Russian fossil fuel products, in turn, financing Vladimir Putin's war in Ukraine. The tanker came from a Russian port and is carrying Russian fossil fuel products, it is sailing under the flag of Greece.
The tanker entered Upper New York Bay just before the end of a 45 day grace period from President Biden.
From the toxic waste created by the extreme extraction of tar sands destroying indigenous communities in Canada, to toxins created by the BP Whiting refinery producing sacrifice communities in the Greater Chicago area, to the resultant catastrophic effect on our climate, the urgent need for a just transition away from fossil fuels to a 100% renewable energy economy is abundantly clear.
Naughton Power Plant is a mine-mouth power station owned by PacifiCorp of MidAmerican Energy, part of Berkshire Hathaway. The plant, built in 1963, now has three units with a capacity of 700 megawatts. The plant is fueled by coal from the adjacent Westmoreland Mine, a strip mine operated by the Westmoreland Coal Co. Near Kemmerer, Lincoln Co., Wyoming.
NETL’s Hybrid Performance, or Hyper, facility is a one-of-a-kind laboratory built to develop control strategies for the reliable operation of fuel cell/turbine hybrids and enable the simulation, design, and implementation of commercial equipment. The Hyper facility provides a unique opportunity for researchers to explore issues related to coupling fuel cell and gas turbine technologies
An aerial view shows homes and businesses as workers on the scene of a crude oil train derailment assess the damage in Watertown, Wisconsin on November 9, 2015. The 110-car Canadian Pacific train derailed about 200pm on November 8, 2015 forcing the evacuation of about 35 homes in the area. A total of 13 cars derailed and one car was punctured, spilling less than 1,000 gallons of crude oil, according to the company. The issue of trains filled with crude oil and the potential for explosions has emerged as a concern for residents who live in bigger cities. Photo by Allen Fredrickson
Fossil Fuel playing somewhere in Marin County, California.
I think this is the sound technician sitting off to the side of the stage.
Hear them play