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Press Release: Six project teams named as grant awardees.

• The Request for Proposals on the Beneficial Use and Management of Coal Combustion Products is now available.

• Full proposal submission has ended and the review process is beginning. We hope to announce awardees in late January 2010, along with a summary of the proposed funded research.

 

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The Request for Proposals on the Beneficial Use and Management of Coal Combustion Products is now available. Pre-proposals are due March 14, 2010.

Announcing Grant Awardees

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Kejin Wang, Iowa State University, and Surendra Shah, Northwestern University $449,938—Increasing Use of Fly Ash in Concrete Through Nanomaterial Modification, Multiscale Characterization, and Improved Processing [27 KB]

Avner Vengosh and Heileen Hsu-Kim, Duke University, Jim Hower, University of Kentucky, and Thomas Johnson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign $357,114—Geochemical and Isotope Characterization of TVA Coal Combustion Products: Identification of Contaminants and Modeling Their Fate in the Environment [141 KB]

Joseph Ryan, University of Colorado at Boulder, and George Aiken, U. S. Geological Survey $299,874—Effects of Dissolved Organic Matter on the Release of Trace Elements of Coal Ash in Natural Waters [141 KB]

Dean Hesterberg, David Buchwalter and Owen Duckworth, North Carolina State University $363,397—Predicting Mobilization and Bioaccumulation of Trace Elements of Coal Ash Using Speciation Analysis [19 KB]

Peter Sedwick and Gregory Cutter, Old Dominion University $298,924—A New Approach to Quantifying the Release of Bioactive Trace Elements from Coal Combustion Products to Natural Waters [174 KB]

Gregory Cutter, Old Dominion University $275,228—Selenium Biochemistry in Rivers Receiving Direct Coal Ash Inputs [104 KB]

 

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