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Current Projects

  • Rare Earth Elements in U.S. Coal-Based Resources: Sampling, Characterization, and Round-Robin Interlaboratory Study
  • Spouted Fluid Beds for Chemical Looping Combustion
  • Economic Extraction and Recovery of REEs and Production of Clean Value-Added Products from Low-Rank Coal Fly Ash
  • Improvement of Alstom’s Limestone Chemical Looping Combustion Process for Higher Purity Flue Gas Production
  • Improving Coal Fired Plant Performance through Integrated Predictive and Condition-Based Monitoring Tools
  • Phase 2: Investigation of Rare Earth Element Extraction from North Dakota Coal-Related Feedstocks
  • Low-Cost and Recyclable Oxygen Carrier and Novel Process for Chemical Looping Combustion
  • Method for Separation of Coal Conversion Products from Sorbents/Oxygen Carriers
  • Methodology for Attrition Evaluation of Oxygen Carriers in Chemical Looping Systems
  • A Low Cost and Reproducible Synthetic Procedure for Mass Production of Lithium Iron Phosphate Cathode Materials for Lithium Ion Batteries
  • Evaluation of a Novel Crude Oil Conditioning Technology

Institute for Energy Studies / Priority Initiatives

Use of fossil fuels in a carbon constrained environment / carbon management:

  • Capture of CO2 using sorbent materials
  • Novel combustion technologies with a focus on chemical looping combustion
  • Co-production of products with energy production / activated carbon-steam-electricity
  • Modular-scale gasification (5 to 20 MW)
  • Efficiency improvement / Impacts of cyclic operation
  • New products from coal

Recovery of valuable/rare minerals and elements:

  • Recovery of rare earth elements from coal and coal by-products
  • Recovery of lithium, nickel and other valuable materials from oil field process waters
  • Recovery of rare earth elements and other valuable materials from recycled electronic wastes
  • Rare earth value chain including recovering other critical materials
  • Co-producing graphene and rare earth elements from Leonardite and lignite
  • Recycle lithium, nickel and others materials from waste batteries and other electronic wastes

Building a renewable energy portfolio – moving beyond fossil fuel:

  • Lithium iron phosphate batteries (cathode material development, battery management systems)
  • Developing and integrating energy storage devices into the grid – chemical (battery); thermochemical (CLC), and others
  • Energy policy using system dynamic analysis
  • Geothermal energy development
  • Wireless power generation

Support for Industry:

  • Advanced analytical characterization lab
  • Bench-scale systems for quick and low-cost analysis of combustion and gasification technologies
  • Build and test bench- and pilot-scale systems for new processes
  • Technological and economic feasibility analysis of new or modified processes
  • SBIR/STTR support

Other general areas of development / interest

  • Process water treatment
  • Development of wireless sensors for hostile environments (high temperature and/or corrosive)
  • Systems dynamics applications
  • Energy/water/food nexus
  • Synthesis of advanced materials (new rare earth alloys, materials for hostile environments, etc)
  • Oil & gas related research
  • Distributed energy
  • Environmental issues
Institute for Energy Studies
Collaborative Energy Complex Room 246
243 Centennial Dr Stop 8153844
Grand Forks, ND 58202-8153
P 701.777.3852
UND.ies@UND.edu

 

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