Happy Thursday!
We decided to start thinking out
of the box, when this email caught our eye from the DOE EREE News. Did anyone receive the newsletter from the US
Department of Energy’s Office of Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy on
Thursday, June 15, 2023, the EREE Newsletter’s article titled, “Biden-Harris
Administration Announces $135 Million to Reduce Emissions Across America’s
Industrial Sector”? In the article, the
EERE speaks about forty projects across twenty-one states which will help
reduce carbon pollution from the industrial sector and help the U.S. get to
net-zero emissions economy by 2050 by helping with the next generation workforce. The U.S. industrial sector will be the
hardest to reduce its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions because it is a major contributor
(one-third of the GHG gases), and it is where the products we use every day
come from and it is a high energy user. The DOE in the past identified five energy-intensive
subsectors which will have the most benefit from decarbonization and reduction of
energy use, and they are cement and concrete, chemicals, food and beverage,
iron and steel, and petroleum refining. The
DOE wants to clean up and modernize the paper and wood industries too. The DOE’s Industrial Efficiency and
Decarbonization Office has chosen forty projects comprised of thirty-six different
universities, National Laboratories, and companies who will help with research
and development as well as proto-type scale demonstrations into ways to cut
energy use and emissions from the five energy-intensive subsectors of the
industrial complex. In the chemical subsector,
nine projects worth $38.3 million were selected to help with reducing their carbon
footprint and reducing their energy use by innovating technology in the
separators and reactors they use as well as coming up with better more efficient
ways make heat. In Texas, Rice
University was one of the universities selected to be one of the projects. In the Iron and Steel subsector, ten projects
worth $31.9 million were selected in which they will be making the blueprint
for DOE’s Low Emissions Steel Manufacturing Research Program and using clean
energy sources and electrification. They
will be getting some of this funding from the Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technologies
Office for these projects. In Texas, Hertha Metals, Inc. in Brownsville was
selected to be one of the projects. In
the Food and Beverage subsector, three projects worth $11.4 million were
selected and they will be trying to design innovative technology to reduce
emissions and reduce energy use for its heating operations. In Texas, Texas A&M Engineering Experiment
Station in College Station was selected in this subsector for a project. In the Cement and Concrete subsector, five
projects worth $16.4 million were selected and they will be trying to invent
the next generation for cement mixtures and processes as well as using carbon
capture and utilization technologies to help with all its emissions. DOE has included the Paper and Forests
Products in this group of funded projects, and there are six projects worth
$16.2 million were selected to help with reducing the GHG emissions by carbon
capture and electrification of the industry by concentrating on better
processes for novel paper and wood drying technologies, and unconventional pulping
and paper forming technologies. The last
seven projects are worth $20.4 million were selected to make gains in all industry
sectors by coming up with unconventional ways to reduce GHG emissions and energy
use by coming up with more efficient heat pump and making power from low
temperature waste heat. In Indiana,
Purdue University was selected for its project.
All these projects are part of what will be the DOE’s Technologies
for Industrial Emissions Reduction Development Program (TIEReD) which uses
resources from across its department’s applied research offices to invest in America’s
future as an innovator, as well as help us clean up the industrial complex, and
helping our future workforce. If you
would like to read more about the DOE money selected projects, please click the
link: Biden-Harris Administration Announces $135 Million to Reduce Emissions Across America’s Industrial Sector | Department of Energy.
If you would like to read about the
U.S. DOE’s Technologies for Industrial Emissions Reduction Development Program,
please click the link: Decarbonizing America's Industrial Sector | Department of Energy.
If you would like help in looking
into how to update your facility or terminal to make it more efficient or clean
up your emissions, contact us via the email in the blog and check out our ESC's website!
We hope you have a great and
productive rest of your week! Keep cool
in this heat wave!