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Department of Energy and Mineral Engineering

Department of Energy and Mineral Engineering

Fengyuan Zhang, Ph.D. doctoral student in petroleum and natural gas engineering, was recently awarded the 2019 Nico van Wingen Memorial Graduate Fellowship from the Society of Petroleum Engineers.

Fengyuan Zhang receives 2019 Nico van Wingen Memorial Graduate Fellowship

Mark Klima leading a tour of laboratory used to process coal byproducts

Penn State launches Center for Critical Minerals

Transformers at an electric substation

NSF grant aims to enhance resilience of U.S. electricity grids

windmills

Penn State chosen by Department of Energy to help modernize the power grid

unconventional oil recovery

Understanding physics could lead to big gains in shale oil recovery

Chunshan Song and Xiao Jiang

Carbon dioxide-to-methanol process improved by catalyst

CO2 diagram

$2.5M grant funds real-time monitoring of underground carbon sequestration

SPE Outstanding Chapter Award

Petroleum engineering club wins second straight outstanding chapter award

Sanjay Srinivasan

New EME head: Department best positioned to lead ‘energy university’ push

5 rare-earth oxides

DOE grant continues research into rare-earth elements extraction from coal

Shimin Liu

$1.1 million grant aimed at preventing coal mine collapses

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$1.3 million grant to predict fluid behavior, enhance oil recovery

windmills, power towers

Microgrids, not always economically efficient in regulated electricity

J. Thomas Hill

Vulcan Materials Company CEO to speak April 8 on aggregate mining

carbon sequestration sequence

Carbon dioxide stored underground can find multiple ways to escape

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