This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) program (CFDA 81.135) provides $2,100,490 to the University of Pittsburgh for a project entitled "Hybrid Distributed pH, CO2, Temperature, and Acoustic Sensing for Monitoring and Verification of Marine Carbon Dioxide Removal Applications." The project aims to develop advanced ocean monitoring technologies, including specialized buoys, sensors, and data platforms, to...
The University of North Dakota was awarded a $2,500,000 Cooperative Agreement from the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management (CFDA 81.089 - Fossil Energy Research and Development) to demonstrate the Polar Bear™ system for capturing tank vapors, heater treater gas, and producing liquids at wellsite(s) within the Williston Basin of North Dakota. The project aims to improve pressure management and enable on-lease use of produced gas. The award period is from...
The University of North Dakota received a $14,500,000 Cooperative Agreement award from the Department of Energy's Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management (CFDA 81.089 - Fossil Energy Research and Development) to investigate the use of carbon dioxide (CO2) injection for enhanced oil recovery (EOR) and geologic CO2 storage in the Bakken formation. The project aims to conduct laboratory studies and a minimum 18-month field pilot test to evaluate the potential for incremental oil recovery...
The Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) awarded a $2,897,686 cooperative agreement to The Regents of the University of California, Santa Barbara under the Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy program (CFDA #81.135). The award will support the development of a robust plan to remove at least 0.1 gigatons of carbon dioxide per year from the atmosphere through 2025 by cultivating and sequestering fast-growing macroalgae in the deep ocean. Specifically,...
The Department of Energy's (DOE) Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) awarded a $1,018,902 Cooperative Agreement to the Virginia Institute of Marine Science (VIMS) on May 6, 2024 under the agency's Marine Carbon Dioxide Removal (MCDR) program (CFDA 81.135). This funding supports the development of scalable measurement, reporting, and validation (MRV) technologies to quantify marine carbon drawdown as part of the emerging negative emissions industry. Key activities include: Assisting...
The U.S. Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) awarded a $500,000 Project Grant to Duke University to develop an innovative approach for upgrading plastic waste into low-cost porous adsorbents for direct air capture. The purpose of this project is to leverage the inherent properties of plastics to create high-value adsorbents that can enable cost-effective carbon capture technologies. Duke's research focuses on deconstructing polymers into functionalized...
The U.S. Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) has awarded a $1,221,032 Cooperative Agreement under its CFDA #81.135 Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy program to Precision Combustion, Inc. The purpose of the award is to accelerate the development of the marine carbon dioxide removal (MCDR) industry through the advancement of scalable measurement, reporting, and validation (MRV) technologies. The project aims to drive a paradigm shift in chemical...
The Department of Energy Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA-E) awarded a $431,915 Project Grant to the Regents of the University of Michigan under the Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) federal grant program (CFDA #81.135). The grant will fund research from February 2021 to February 2023 to develop electrochemical direct air capture of carbon dioxide using redox-active textiles. The University of Michigan will investigate fabrication and functionalization methods to...
The University of Washington received a $500,000 Project Grant from the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E), CFDA Program 81.135, to develop an adaptive catalytic reactor that can store intermittent green hydrogen using plastic waste. The proposed technology aims to address two global challenges: the need for long-term storage of intermittent renewable energy, and management of plastic waste. By utilizing plastic waste as a carbon source, the technology will produce liquid...
The University of North Carolina at Charlotte has been awarded a $531,316 Cooperative Agreement from the Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) CFDA 81.135 program. The award, spanning May 2024 to May 2026, will support the project "Orange Hydrogen from Catalytic Low-Temperature Serpentinization". This research aims to develop new catalysts and processes to enhance the rate of hydrogen production from the iron (II) liberated during the serpentinization...