Cooperative Agreement DEAR0001812

This Cooperative Agreement award of $1,000,000 from the U.S. Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) under CFDA 81.135 is for a research and development project entitled "Hybridized High-Q Plasmonic Hydrogen Sensor" being conducted by 2Witech Solutions LLC. The purpose of this award is to meet technical performance targets for rapidly detecting 10 kg/hr hydrogen emissions within a 100m x 100m area under practical environmental conditions. This project...

The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) has awarded a $2,491,594 Cooperative Agreement to the University of Wisconsin System for the project titled "Large-Survey-Area H2 Leak Detector Based on a Quadcopter-Mounted Laser Imager". The project, which runs from January 1, 2025 to November 25, 2027, aims to develop a hydrogen (H2) leak detection system using a quadcopter-mounted laser imager to conduct large-area surveys. This award supports...

The Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy awarded a $6,699,894 Cooperative Agreement to Hight-Tech, Inc. under the Renewable Energy Research and Development program (CFDA 81.087). The project objective is to apply Ultrafast High-Temperature Sintering (UHS) to rapidly sinter Solid Oxide Electrolyzer Cells (SOECs), which could reduce or eliminate bottlenecks associated with long heating steps in the conventional manufacturing process. The project aims to develop a...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E), with CFDA program title "Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy", provides $2,238,393.00 to the University of Texas at Austin for a project entitled "Acoustic Methods for MCDR Based on Blue Carbon Burial in Seagrass Meadow". The project aims to utilize passive acoustic measurements to non-invasively monitor net ecosystem productivity (NEP) and the net burial of carbon in...

This $1.15 million cooperative agreement from the Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) program supports Texas Tech University's project titled "Advanced Materials Characterization and Nuclear Product Detection for LENR." The project period spans from June 19, 2023 to December 18, 2025. Under this award, Texas Tech University will conduct research related to low-energy nuclear reactions (LENR) to develop advanced materials characterization and...

The Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) awarded a $1,368,459 Cooperative Agreement to Hight-Tech, Inc. on December 9, 2024 under CFDA 81.135 for the project "Rapid Surface Graphitization of Carbon Anode for In Situ Regeneration of Batteries." The project aims to develop a simple approach to generate a stable solid electrolyte interphase (SEI) amenable to in-situ regeneration by coupling the modification of the surface of graphite powders using...

This $2,200,000.00 Cooperative Agreement award from the Department of Energy Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (CFDA 81.135) supports Underwriters Laboratories Inc. (UL Research Institutes) in developing a "Framework for Safety Evaluation of EVs4ALL Batteries." The project aims to advance battery safety research and standards through experimental testing and modeling work. Sub-awards to Purdue University and the University of Maryland, College Park will contribute technical...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) provides $999,926 to RTX Corporation to mature the technology developed under a previous ARPA-E award on additive manufacturing for high-temperature, high-pressure heat exchangers. Under this new award, RTX Corporation will verify a large-scale build and field test of an additive precooler heat exchanger for aircraft thermal management. The project aims to advance this...

Media & Process Technology Inc. was awarded a $500,000 Project Grant from the Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (CFDA 81.135) to demonstrate the technical feasibility and energy savings potential of a non-evaporative substrate drying process using supercritical carbon dioxide extraction combined with ceramic membrane ultrafiltration. The two-year award, issued on September 9, 2022, will support development of a process to dewater wet substrates without...

This $5,000,000 Cooperative Agreement was awarded by the U.S. Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) program (CFDA 81.135) to the University of Connecticut on September 25, 2023. The award supports the development of a high-performance, metal-supported solid oxide fuel cell (MS-SOFC) system for extending the range of commercial aviation. Key project milestones include designing and demonstrating 1-5 kW scale MS-SOFC stacks, fabricating 150 cm2 cells with...