Carnegie Mellon, the University of Pittsburgh, and West Virginia plan to develop clean and efficient fossil fuel technologies.
A group of three universities is set to receive up to $26 million in funding to design cleaner, more efficient uses of fossil fuel.
Carnegie Mellon University, the University of Pittsburgh, and West Virginia University will receive the funding, through a subcontract, over the next two years from the U.S. Department of Energy's National Energy Technology Laboratory.
"We need to develop improved turbine generators and new fuel cell technologies that use coal-derived synthetic fuels, along with new ways to capture and store greenhouse gases instead of releasing them into the atmosphere," said Carnegie Mellon chemical engineering professor Andrew Gellman.
Gellman was appointed research director of the university consortium.
The consortium, called CWP, said Pennsylvania and West Virginia, where the universities are located, hold millions of tons of coal.
Gellman said scientists can advance research into better ways to use coal and convert it into cleaner-burning fuels.
Under the funding program, more than 75 university scientists, along with student researchers, will work with over 150 National Energy Technology Laboratory scientists and researchers on the fossil fuel projects.
The consortium plans to focus on eight program areas, including materials for energy technologies; process and dynamic systems modeling; catalyst and reactor development; carbon management; sensor systems and diagnostics; energy conversion devices; gas hydrates; and ultradeep and unconventional oil and gas production technology.
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