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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

 

Morgantown Energy Technology Center Grant; Financial Assistance 
Award to University of Oklahoma

AGENCY: Morgantown Energy Technology Center, Department of Energy 
(DOE).

ACTION: Notice of acceptance of an unsolicited financial assistance 
application for Grant award.

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SUMMARY: Based upon a determination made pursuant to 10 CFR 600.14 the 
DOE, Morgantown Energy Technology Center gives notice of its plans to 
award a 36 month Grant to the University of Oklahoma with an associated 
budget of approximately $1,206,445 of which the University of Oklahoma 
will cost share approximately 13 percent.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Laura E. Brandt, I-07, U.S. Department 
of Energy, Morgantown Energy Technology Center, P.O. Box 880, 
Morgantown, West Virginia 26507-0880, Telephone: (304) 291-4079, 
Procurement Request No. 21-94MC31170.000.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The pending award is based on an unsolicited 
application for the project entitled ``Enhancement of Methane 
Conversion Using Electric Fields''. The overall objective of this 
project is to develop a novel, economical process for the conversion of 
natural gas to more valuable products such as methanol, ethylene, and 
other organic oxygenates or higher hydrocarbons. Specifically, the 
University of Oklahoma will investigate and develop electric field 
conversion and electric field-enhanced catalytic conversion of methane, 
resulting in an economical process or processes for the direct 
conversion of natural gas to more valuable products. The most promising 
process configurations and the most promising operating conditions will 
be identified and the economic viability of the processes evaluated. 
The overall scientific or technical merits of the new technology from 
these research efforts in methane conversion are primarily in the areas 
of transportation and chemical feedstocks. Much of the natural gas 
occurs in remote areas in Alaska, and offshore reservoirs. Because of 
this remoteness, the cost of transporting this gas to markets may 
eventually prohibit the utilization of these resources. Therefore, 
considerable interest is being shown in developing a relatively simple, 
cost effective, process suitable for installation at the well-head for 
conversion of methane to transportable liquid. Technically this would 
provide new market areas for natural gas and would provide the means 
for transporting costly natural gas to market at acceptable costs. If 
these techniques were developed it could be used to offset imported oil 
to this country and would provide new transportation fuels, energy 
fuels and chemical feedstocks to the marketplace.
Louie L. Calaway,
Director, Acquisition and Assistance Division, Morgantown Energy 
Technology Center.
[FR Doc. 94-19534 Filed 8-9-94; 8:45 am]
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