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The Department of Energy's Fossil Energy Advanced Research Program serves as a bridge between basic research and the development of innovative systems capable of improving efficiency and environmental performance while reducing costs of fossil energy systems. The program's emphasis on pre-engineering research provides the means by which potential breakthroughs are transformed from laboratory ideas into the working technologies of the future.
The Advanced Research Program identifies new directions and provides a set of cross-cutting fundamental and applied research programs focused on developing the technology base needed for 21st century power and fuels production plants. These programs include: materials research; coal utilization science, university coal research; research by historically black colleges and universities and other minority institutions; and a focus area for computational energy science.
These areas are critical to the successful development of both ultra-clean, very high efficiency coal-based power systems, and coal-based fuel systems with greatly reduced or no net emissions of carbon dioxide.
The Advanced Research Program is an integral part of and supports the Office of Fossil Energy's initiatives to develop the pollution-free energy plant of the future.
The Department's concept for the ultimate class of fossil fueled energy plants will be fuel flexible, highly efficient, cost competitive, and virtually emission free (including greenhouse gas emissions when carbon sequestration is integrated into the energy system).
Though not meant to be an exhaustive list of the research topics supported by the Advanced Research program, some areas of emphasis include:
- Advanced materials research, such as high temperature alloys and refractories and materials for ultra-supercritical systems;
- Advanced carbon products, including nano-structural materials;
- Advanced sensors, controls and instrumentation;
- Fundamental studies of carbon sequestration mechanisms such as mineral sequestration; and
- Computer-based advanced modeling and virtual simulations of new technologies.
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PROGRAM CONTACTS
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Fred Glaser
Office of Fossil Energy
(FE-22)
U.S. Department of Energy
Washington, DC 20585
301-903-2786 |
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Robert Romanosky
National Energy Technology Laboratory
PO Box 880
U.S. Dept. of Energy
Morgantown, WV 26507
304-285-4721 |
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Regis Conrad
Office of Fossil Energy
FE-22
U.S. Department of Energy
Washington, DC 20585
301-903-2827 |
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Samuel Biondo
Office of Fossil Energy
(FE-22)
U.S. Dept. of Energy
Washington, DC 20585
301-903-2700 |
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