This Cooperative Agreement, awarded by the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) under the 81.135 Federal Grant Program, provides $4,275,642.00 to Columbia University for the development of a membrane-free electrochemical reactor ("electrolyzer") that can efficiently convert carbon dioxide into energy-dense liquid ethanol fuel. The key objectives of this 3-year project are to: 1) Develop a novel electrode assembly and state-of-the-art cathode catalysts to enable the...
This $736,200 Cooperative Agreement award from the Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) program, with a performance period from September 2024 to March 2026, supports Northeastern University's research and development project titled "Modular Electrochemical Ethanol Production Using Intermittent Power (Electricity)". The key objectives of this project are: 1) To demonstrate over 60% conversion efficiency (Faradaic efficiency) in producing ethanol...
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 provides $700,000 to New York University for a 2-year project titled "The RenewThanolProcess: CO2-Derived Ethanol Production via Tandem Electro- and Thermo-Catalytic Conversions." The project aims to demonstrate stable production of 30 MJ/day of ethanol powered directly by variable renewable energy. Key innovations include advances in...
This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) under the Conservation Research and Development (CFDA 81.086) program provides $6,046,425 to deploy an Electric Vehicle (EV) Charging Interoperability Test Bed. The project aims to increase industrial capacity, competition, redundancy, and broad access to validation testing and certification of Direct Current (DC) fast chargers with power ratings between 150 kilowatts...
The Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) awarded a $1,570,309 cooperative agreement to Carnegie Mellon University on May 2, 2022 with a projected completion date of July 31, 2025. The award will support development of ionomer-free electrodes for ultrahigh power density proton exchange membrane fuel cells (PEMFCs). Specifically, the university aims to create a mixed conducting cathode support that eliminates the separate ionomer phase currently used in...
This Cooperative Agreement award, valued at $210,526.00, was provided by the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) under the U.S. Department of Energy's CFDA 81.135 program. Washington State University (WSU) is leading an innovative project to develop a dynamic carbon dioxide (CO2) hydrogenation process that converts CO2 and hydrogen (H2) into liquid hydrocarbons using renewable energy sources. The project integrates novel metal alloy catalysts with an innovative modular induction...
This Cooperative Agreement award from the Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) program, CFDA 81.135, provides $2,697,458.00 in funding to North Carolina State University to develop a dynamic, distributed off-grid system that can convert renewable power, water, and CO2 into transportable and sustainable fuels. The project, titled "Distributed Gasoline from Carbon Dioxide (CO2) via Plasma-Enhanced Catalysts-in-Tandem (PECT)," aims to address the challenge of limited grid...
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 University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) was awarded a $3,076,000 Cooperative Agreement from the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E), a program under the U.S. Department of Energy (CFDA 81.135 - Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy). The project, titled "E-CO2LUMN: The Dynamic CO2 Electrolyzer Column," aims to develop a novel CO2 electrolyzer prototype that can produce a highly concentrated liquid fuel with lower energy requirements for separation and...
This $870,626 Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) CFDA Program 81.135 supports the "PROPEL-1K" project at The Johns Hopkins University to develop "HIGH ENERGY DENSITY FUEL CELLS WITH CYCLIC HYDROGEN CARRIERS". The project aims to advance railroad, oceanic, and aviation electrification through 1 kWh energy storage systems. Key tasks include system integration for metal-ceramic composite hydrogen...