Number of Projects	Total Value* (Million $)	DOE Share (Million $)	Job Benefits**
Coal & Power Projects	7	$236.7	$123.4	6,745

*Includes DOE and private sector cost-sharing

**An average of 28.5 direct and indirect jobs per $1 million in R&D funding is used based on the Department of Commerce's Regional Input-Output Modeling System II formula.

West Virginia University Playing a Major Role in Fossil Energy Research

• Consortium for Emission Control By-Products: Treatment and Use - The National Research Center for Coal & Energy at West Virginia University (WVU), Morgantown, WV, has established an industry-driven consortium to determine what the future R&D needs are in the area of coal combustion by-products. Technologies for coal utilities and their suppliers will be developed that will solve problems related to the handling of by-products from flue gas desulfurization and low-NOx burner technologies. DOE is currently supplying $5.97 million of the $10.75 million effort.

• Carbon Products from Coal - WVU Research Corporation is conducting another project that is investigating the production of carbon products from coal. The project researchers are studying the direct conversion of coal into high-value carbon products using an extractive process that will minimize processing and solvent costs. DOE is funding $5.05 million of the $6.14 million project.

• Using Mine Water in Power Generation - The National Research Center for Coal & Energy at West Virginia University will develop and demonstrate a framework for assessing the costs, technical and regulatory aspects and environmental benefits of using mine water for thermo-electric power generation in lieu of traditional freshwater supplies. DOE is contributing $338,000 to this $425,000 project.

• Enhancing Metal Alloys - WVU researchers will focus their research on ductility enhancement of molybdenum alloys by adding nano-sized oxide particles to the alloy system. DOE is contributing $200,000 to this $278,000 project. 

West Virginia Companies Analyzing, Designing and Building Clean Coal Technologies

• Western Greenbrier Co-Production Demonstration Project - Western Greenbrier Co-Generation, LLC, Rainelle, WV, has been awarded a $215.00 million project (DOE share: $107.50 million) to design, construct and operate a 75 MWe clean-coal co-production facility in Rainelle, WV. This facility will use a combination of waste fuel from a 4 million ton refuse site in Anjean, WV, quality coal from the region, and wood waste also from the region. The integrated co-production facility will manufacture structural bricks certified to meet insulation and load-bearing specification requirements while simultaneously providing 75 MWe of power to the grid.  The patented structural bricks (trademarked "WoodBriks") developed by Midway Environmental Associates of Arvada, CO contain both ash and wood waste.

• Coal Gasification for Industrial Applications - Touchstone Research Laboratory Ltd., Triadelphia, WV, will show that industrial combustion equipment can operate equally well on syngas, which is significantly different than natural gas in its combustion characteristics. It is anticipated that the typical industrial combustion system designed for natural gas will require some degree of modification to operate on syngas, a factor in the economic decision for an industrial customer to consider in making the switch from natural gas. DOE is fully funding this $100,000 project.

• Fuel Cell Technology Analysis, Planning and Outreach - RDS, LLC, Morgantown, WV will receive $4.23 million from DOE to provide technology and project planning, analysis and outreach, and engineering design and analysis for the FE/NETL Fuel Cell program