Cooperative Agreement DEAR0001897

The Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) awarded a 3-year, $35 million Cooperative Agreement under the ROSIE (Revolutionizing Ore to Steel to Impact Emissions) program to Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI). The ROSIE program seeks to develop and demonstrate novel technologies that can produce iron-based products from iron-containing ores and alternative feedstocks without process emissions in the ironmaking step, while achieving cost parity with traditional ironmaking. The funded technologies must have the potential to achieve zero non-biogenic greenhouse gas emissions from the ironmaking process, ultra-low cradle-to-gate lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions, and significant scalability and materials properties for commercial applications. By the end of the project, the awardee is required to produce at least 10 kg of the proposed iron or steel product and demonstrate a production rate of 1 kg per hour. If successful, the technologies developed under this program have the potential to enable over 65 million metric tons of annual CO2 emissions reductions in the U.S. and over 2.9 gigatons globally.