APECS v2.0 with ANSYS® DesignXplorer™ and ROM Builder is a powerful software toolkit making it easier, faster, and cheaper to design future power plants.

Clean power technologies, integrated gasification, carbon capture, and quantum mechanical simulations—words like these mean the future of energy to NETL's in-house researchers. And as technology transfer professionals who gather NETL cutting-edge inventions to present a wide energy research portfolio, we find the excitement contagious. We want to see these technologies reach the commercial marketplace and we utilize a variety of mechanisms to help this happen. Licenses, cooperative research and development agreements (CRADAs), contributed funds agreements, and non-disclosure agreements are a few examples.

An NETL/Boston Scientific-developed platinum/chromium alloy is highly x-ray visible and has improved physical property for producing improved human coronary stents (image courtesy of Boston Scientific).

As a federal laboratory, we welcome the opportunity to build mutually beneficial partnerships with industry, entrepreneurs, and other agencies. From nanotechnology and computer modeling to bench-scale testing and large-scale industrial process improvements, our laboratory has established a reputation for quality research and innovation. Our three state-of-the-art research sites located in Oregon, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia offer a wide range of facilities and capabilities with research in areas like hydrogen and clean fuels; oil and natural gas; coal and power systems; carbon capture, utilization, and sequestration; alloy development; and performance testing. NETL is one of the few places in the world where research in all of these areas can be conducted at one laboratory.

Teaming together through partnerships will help solve our nation's energy problems while giving the U.S. a competitive edge in global competition. Visit NETL's Available Technologies page and join us in our mission to foster innovation!

Contact

For more information regarding NETL's Technology Transfer Group, e-mail us at techtransfer@netl.doe.gov.

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