Brown Announces Selection of Case Western to Develop Clean Energy Technology for Innovative Federal Program
Case Western Reserve University Selected by the U.S. Department of Energy to Improve Existing Fossil Energy Power Plants
WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) today announced that the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has selected Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland to participate in its National Energy Technology Laboratory’s Advanced Research (AR) Program. The program is intended to help develop zero-emission power systems to improve existing fossil energy power plants.
The Case Western project, entitled “An Information Theoretic Framework and Self-Organizing Agent-Based Sensor Network Architecture for Power Plant Condition Monitoring,” will be conducted in collaboration with Massachusetts-based Charles Stark Draper Laboratories.
“Ohio researchers are pushing the boundaries of science—both by improving the efficiency of fossil fuels and by making strides in the field of clean energy,” Brown said. “Case Western’s selection for this innovative research project is just another way Ohio is leading the way in increasing efficiency, promoting energy independence, and creating good-paying, 21st-century jobs.”
According to the DOE, Case Western will use the $1.5 million contract to develop new sensing and control technologies to improve energy efficiency at existing fossil energy plants.
Research and development efforts within the AR Program are directed toward the full-scale implementation and operation of the next generation of fossil energy power systems and improvements to existing fossil energy power systems.
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