The Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) awarded a $2,910,346 Cooperative Agreement under the CFDA 81.135 - Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy program. The award, titled "REVOLUTIONIZING ORE TO STEEL TO IMPACT EMISSIONS (ROSIE)," supports the development and demonstration of novel technologies that can produce iron-based products from iron-containing ores and alternative feedstocks without process emissions in the ironmaking step. The...
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...
The Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E), under the U.S. Department of Energy, awarded a $1,000,000 cooperative agreement on September 10, 2024 to Phoenix Tailings Inc., a mining and metals production company located in Woburn, Massachusetts. This 3-year, $35 million "ROSIE" program supports the development and demonstration of novel technologies that produce iron-based products from iron-containing ores and alternative feedstocks without process emissions in the...
The Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) awarded a $2,102,353 Cooperative Agreement to the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, a Hispanic-Serving Institution, under the ROSIE (Revolutionizing Ore to Steel to Impact Emissions) program. The 3-year, $35 million ROSIE program is developing novel technologies to produce iron-based products from iron-containing ores and alternative feedstocks without process emissions in the ironmaking step. The goal is to achieve cost...
The Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) awarded a $2,872,216 Cooperative Agreement under CFDA 81.135 to Electrasteel, Inc. in Boulder, Colorado. The award supports the development of an electrochemical and hydrometallurgical process to convert low-grade iron ore feedstocks, such as steel slag, into iron metal and valuable mineral byproducts including aluminum oxide, calcium oxide, manganese oxide, and magnesium oxide. This "LOW-TEMPERATURE GREEN...
The Regents of the University of Minnesota received a $2,820,071 Cooperative Agreement award from the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) under the DE-FOA-0003117 - Revolutionizing Ore to Steel to Impact Emissions (ROSIE) program. The award will fund a 3-year project titled "Ultrafast Hydrogen Microwave Plasma Reduction of Iron Ore" that aims to develop an innovative, fully electrified microwave hydrogen plasma process as a carbon-free approach to iron ore reduction. This...
This $2,909,514 Cooperative Agreement award from the Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E, CFDA #81.135) supports Tufts University's project titled "Solving Ore Concentrate Reduction with New Chemistry" to revolutionize the ore-to-steel process and reduce emissions. The project aims to directly reduce iron ore concentrates using ammonia, eliminating CO2 emissions from ironmaking and reducing costs by 10-25%. As part of the project, the University of Minnesota's Natural...
This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E), under the CFDA program 81.135 Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy, provides $999,873 in funding to Form Energy, Inc. to develop and demonstrate novel zero-emissions ironmaking and ultra-low lifecycle emissions steelmaking technologies. The 18-month project, with a completion date of January 18, 2026, aims to advance transformative ironmaking processes that can achieve...
The U.S. Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) awarded a $1,788,621 Cooperative Agreement to the University of Illinois for the "HIGH EFFICIENCY, SOLID STATE MICROWAVE-POWERED HYDROGEN PLASMAS FOR USE IN DIRECT REDUCTION OF TACONITE ORE AND ORE CONCENTRATES IN A ROTARY KILN FURNACE" project. This 3-year project, with a start date of August 15, 2024, will develop a microwave-powered hydrogen plasma rotary kiln process for directly reducing iron ore...
This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) provides $2,814,082 to the University of Utah, in collaboration with the National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) and the Center of Powder Metallurgy Technology (CPMT), to develop an innovative "Hydrogen-Reduction Melt-Less Steelmaking (HRMLES)" technology. This project aims to produce steel products through an integrated process of directly reducing iron ore...
The Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E), under the Department of Energy, awarded a $3,159,114 Cooperative Agreement (CFDA 81.135) to Georgia Tech Research Corporation on July 29, 2024. The 3-year ROSIE (Revolutionizing Ore to Steel to Impact Emissions) program aims to develop novel technologies for producing iron-based products from ore with zero greenhouse gas emissions from the ironmaking process and ultra-low lifecycle emissions. Key objectives include demonstrating technologies with cost and materials properties parity to traditional steelmaking, scalable production capacity, and the ability to produce at least 10 kg of the proposed product by the end of the project.
Under this Cooperative Agreement, Georgia Tech Research Corporation is collaborating with Michigan Technological University, which is developing processes to produce high-grade iron oxide powders from taconite ore tailings, and Applied Ceramics, Inc., which is scaling up the fabrication of net-shaped engineered lattice and cellular steel structures using hydrogen-based direct reduction.