FE's Advanced Energy Systems program focuses on improving the efficiency of coal-based power systems, enabling affordable CO2 capture, increasing plant availability, and maintaining the highest environmental standards. The program supports gasification R&D to convert coal into synthesis gas that can be converted into electricity, chemicals, hydrogen, and liquid fuels. The program also advances hydrogen turbine designs to improve the performance of pre-combustion CO2 capture systems and supports advanced combustion systems through R&D focused on new high-temperature materials and the continued development of oxy-combustion technologies.
- Advanced Turbine Systems
- Advanced Energy Materials
- Gasification Systems
- Transformative Power Systems
- Solid Oxide Fuel Cells
- Improving the Competitiveness of Coal
- Plant Optimization Technologies
- sCO2 Power Cycles for Fossil Fuels
- Rare Earth Elements