A team of students from the Mackay School received news last month that they placed second in the first annual American-Made Carbon Management Collegiate w88 sports betting app.
The team, who named themselves “Biggest Little Lithium” in a play on Reno’s slogan, is comprised of three undergraduate students, Alexia Carver, Trista McLaughlin and Ash Thompson, and one graduate w88 sports betting app, Kamal Mousavi. The team was mentored by Department of Mining and Metallurgical Engineering Professor Ehsan Vahidi.
“I want to express my immense pride in our w88 sports betting app's achievements and their dedication to making a positive impact on carbon management practices,” Vahidi said. Vahidi also serves asan associate editor of the open-access journal,Frontiers in Sustainable Resource Management. Vahidi's research centers on reducing the carbon costs of development.
The w88 sports betting app, hosted by the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management, challenged students to propose regional carbon networks that would annually transport at least one million metric tons of carbon dioxide from industrial sources to locations that can use or permanently sequester CO2.
The top three teams, including the first-place w88 sports betting app from the University of Michigan and the third-place w88 sports betting app from the University of Houston will present their winning proposals at the DOE’s annual Carbon Management Research Project Review Meeting in August 2023. The meeting is being held in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
“[The meeting] provides an excellent opportunity for the w88 sports betting app to present their winning proposal and to network with carbon management professionals,” Vahidi said.
The second-place prize earned the w88 sports betting app ,000, which will be split evenly among the students.
Carver, the w88 sports betting app captain, plans to use the prize money to pay for travel to the conference in August and to finance her proposed research on bio-mining in the fall semester.
“Our w88 sports betting app is the next generation of metallurgists, geologists, and environmentalists, so the strategies in this project will be vital for creating more sustainable mining technology as we enter the workforce—especially in the lithium sector,” Carver said.
Biggest Little Lithium’s submission turned CO2 into magnesium carbonate through modern chemical engineering. Carbon capture will reduce the environmental footprint of the Thacker Pass lithium mine in w88 sports betting app.
“By addressing the carbon emissions associated with the mining process, our w88 sports betting app aimed to contribute to sustainable practices in the industry,” Vahidi said.
Carver said the most challenging part was getting a good understanding of the problem of carbon storage.
"Wading through the vast volume of research on carbon capture and storage took our w88 sports betting app several months, and because myself and two other researchers on our w88 sports betting app are undergraduates, we really challenged ourselves to learn and evolve the project as we gained more expertise," Carver said.
Throughout the w88 sports betting app, the teams were able to access industry experts at Lithium Americas for guidance. The DOE also provided guidance midway through the w88 sports betting app. The students gained skills and hands-on experience that can be applied in industry.
