Graduate Student Energy and mineral engineering graduate student awarded fellowship grant 03/16/2023 Elham Rahimi, a graduate student in the John and Willie Leone Family Department of Energy and Mineral Engineering, received the SME Ph.D. Fellowship grant from the Society for Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration (SME). |
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Women in energy and water research seminar to feature Erin Baker on Mar. 16 03/14/2023 The spring 2023 Celebrating Women in Energy and Water Research seminar series continues on Thursday, March 16, with two seminars by Erin Baker, distinguished professor of industrial engineering and operations research at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. The free seminars are open to Penn State faculty, staff and students. |
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Women in energy and water research seminar to feature Barbara Kutchko on Feb. 9 02/06/2023 The spring 2023 Celebrating Women in Energy and Water Research seminar series continues Thursday, Feb. 9, with two seminars from Barbara Kutchko, a senior research scientist with the National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL). The free seminars are open to Penn State faculty, staff and students. |
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Sanjay Srinivasan named Earth and Mineral Sciences Energy Institute director 02/06/2023 Sanjay Srinivasan, professor of petroleum and natural gas engineering, has been named director of the Penn State College of Earth and Mineral Sciences (EMS) Energy Institute (EI), effective July 1. |
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Research Penn State's Center for Critical Minerals to receive $2.1M for pilot program 02/06/2023 Penn State’s Center for Critical Minerals will receive $2.1 million in federal funding to design, build and test a modular pilot-scale research and development unit intended to recover vital rare earth elements and other critical minerals from Pennsylvania streams and other environmental sources. |
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Colorado River basin: Machine learning approach may aid water conservation push 01/27/2023 The Colorado River basin, which supplies water to 40 million people in the Western United States, is threatened by historic drought, a changing climate and water demands from growing cities. One potential response involves encouraging individuals to conserve water, and a new study may help identify those most likely to change their behaviors to contribute, according to scientists. |
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Sloan Foundation grant to fund research on governance of the U.S. electric grid 01/04/2023 Seth Blumsack, professor of energy and environmental economics and international affairs, was awarded a $1,193,307 grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to sustain and expand an interdisciplinary research network focused on the regional organizations that manage the electric power transmission grid in the United States and how the governance of these regional transmission organizations (RTOs) impacts outcomes for market efficiency, sustainability, equity, reliability and resilience. |
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Research New process developed to extract high purity rare earth element oxides 11/28/2022 Critical minerals, including rare earth elements, are used to power devices like smartphones and computers and are essential to our nation’s economy and national security. Penn State’s Center for Critical Minerals has developed a new purification process that extracts mixed rare earth oxides from acid mine drainage and associated sludges. |
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Fossil fuel past, green future: Abandoned wells may offer geothermal power 11/28/2022 Tapping into abandoned oil and gas wells in Pennsylvania, products of the state’s long history of energy extraction — could provide a future source of affordable geothermal energy, according to Penn State scientists. |
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Power plant pipe corrosion focus of industry research project 11/28/2022 A team of researchers at Penn State is investigating how contaminants in power plant water cycles affect the integrity of steel pipes and tubing in power generation systems. |