Cooperative Agreement DEAR0001616

The U.S. Department of Energy's Fossil Energy Research and Development program (CFDA 81.089) awarded a $1,619,426 Cooperative Agreement to RTX Corporation's Raytheon Technologies Research Center to advance the technology readiness level of an electrochemically activated oxygen sorbent and reactor system. The project aims to develop a scalable, efficient, and durable electrochemical oxygen separation technology to enable high-quality syngas production and carbon capture for hydrogen production...

The Department of Energy Office of Science awarded Media and Process Technology Inc. a $400,000 project grant under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to support research on Advanced Inorganic Membranes for Fuel Separation and Recycle in the Fusion Fuel Cycle. This project aims to develop advanced inorganic membrane technologies for separating and recycling tritium in the fusion fuel cycle, with work taking place in Blawnox, PA from June 2022 through March 2023. The...

The U.S. Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) awarded a $2,697,458 Cooperative Agreement to North Carolina State University on September 30, 2024. The project, titled "Distributed Gasoline from Carbon Dioxide (CO2) via Plasma-Enhanced Catalysts-in-Tandem (PECT)," aims to develop highly dynamic distributed off-grid systems that can convert renewable power, water, and CO2 into transportable and sustainable fuels. The project involves catalyst synthesis...

The Department of Energy's Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) awarded a $250,000 Project Grant to TDA Research, Inc. to develop a "Regeneratable Salt Vapor and Chlorine Gas Dual Cartridge Sorbent System for Molten Salts Nuclear Reactors." The award was made on February 12, 2024, with a target completion date of November 11, 2024. Under this grant, TDA Research will collaborate with Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) to design and test functional...

This $2.8 million cooperative agreement from the Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) will fund the PIONEERING A CERMET WASTE FORM FOR DISPOSAL OF WASTE STREAMS FROM ADVANCED REACTORS (PACE-FORWARD) project led by Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. The three-year project aims to develop and demonstrate to Technology Readiness Level 6 a high-density, durable ceramic-metal (cermet) waste form suitable for immobilizing all types of wastes from...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program, CFDA 47.084, provides $550,000 to develop an advanced membrane-contact reactor system for fuel alcohol production from distributed biomass and natural gas resources. The awardee, Power Environmental Energy Research Institute of Covina, California, will design a highly efficient methanol production process using a sweep liquid-facilitated membrane contact reactor. This integrated reactor...

This federal Cooperative Agreement award, valued at $1,875,000.00 and granted by the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management (CFDA 81.089 - Fossil Energy Research and Development), aims to develop a process to make the treatment of oil and gas produced water for beneficial use economically feasible. The project will characterize produced water from specific sites, including the Marcellus and Utica areas, and develop a multi-step treatment process combining...

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...

This $500,000 federal Project Grant award from the Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) program (CFDA 81.135) supports Chemfinity Technologies, Inc., a minority-owned small disadvantaged business located in Brooklyn, NY, to develop an adsorption-based column process for the selective recovery of critical minerals and materials from waste streams. Chemfinity's innovative porous polymer network materials have demonstrated high selectivity, capacity, and...

The federal Cooperative Agreement award, provided by the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E, CFDA #81.135), supports the development of a transformative modular chemical manufacturing process that efficiently converts carbon dioxide (CO2), intermittent electricity, and hydrogen (H2) into liquid hydrocarbon/low-oxygen organic mixtures. The $2,073,897 award to the Georgia Institute of Technology, with sub-awards to the University of California, Berkeley and Princeton University, aims...