Energy & Environmental Research Center Foundation

Energy & Environmental Research Center

Jason D Laumb

Alexander Azenkeng

Edwin S Olson

John Henry Pavlish

Steven R Benson

Michael Jerome Holmes

Ye Zhuang

James Tibbetts

Upgraded coal, method of forming the same, and graphene films and quantum dots made therefrom. A method of upgrading coal includes cleaning coal to form a cleaned coal residue. The method also includes (A) reacting the cleaned coal residue with an oxidizable inorganic metallic agent, or (B) reacting the cleaned coal residue with a reducing agent, or a combination thereof, to form the upgraded coal.

Method of forming graphene quantum dots from coal

Methods and apparatuses for forming a graphene film, and graphene films produced thereby. A method of forming a graphene film includes depositing a carbon source onto a substrate within a deposition environment including a vacuum to form the graphene film on the substrate. The carbon source includes coal, a coal component, or a combination thereof.

Graphene films from carbon sources

Upgraded coal

An apparatus and a method that uses generated alkaline, alkaline-earth, and/or silica/alumina aerosols as a multifunctional additive to scavenge sulfur oxides in flue gas, minimize poisoning effects of sulfur oxides on mercury sorbent performance, and enhance particulate matter capture in electrostatic precipitators and other particulate filter devices by conditioning the fly ash.

Multifunctional abatement of air pollutants in flue gas

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Jason D Laumb