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 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 Project Grant award in the amount of $500,000.00 was made by the Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) program (CFDA 81.135) to Northeastern University. The award, with a period of performance from September 29, 2023 to September 28, 2025, is for a project titled "Accelerating Electrocatalyst Innovation: High-Throughput Automated Microkinetic, Multiscale and Techno-Economic Modeling." The objective is to conduct research and development on...
The U.S. Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) awarded a $2,073,897 Cooperative Agreement to the Georgia Institute of Technology, in partnership with the University of California, Berkeley, and Princeton University, to develop a transformative modular chemical manufacturing process that efficiently converts carbon dioxide (CO2) and intermittent electricity and hydrogen (H2) into a liquid hydrocarbon/low-oxygen organic mixture. The overall goal is to create a...
The American Center for Mobility (ACM) was awarded a $1,529,629 Cooperative Agreement from the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E), under the CFDA 81.135 program, to conduct research on converting carbon dioxide to ethanol. The key objectives of the project are: 1) to demonstrate conversion of dilute CO2 to ethanol with at least 60% selectivity at a maximum full cell voltage of 2V, to achieve a fuel cost of $0.03/MJ; 2) to develop and integrate a new anion exchange membrane...
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...
This Cooperative Agreement awarded by the U.S. Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) program provides $3,784,848 in funding to the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) to demonstrate a 5kW prototype system for renewable propane production using dynamic CO2 electrolysis. The multi-institutional collaboration also includes GTI Energy, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, Propane Education and Research Council, and SHV Energy. The project aims to achieve 97%...
This Cooperative Agreement award from the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E), under the 81.135 - Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy federal grant program, provides $2,339,828 to Emvolon, Inc. to develop a dynamically operable chemical reactor system capable of storing at least 50% of intermittent electricity from renewable sources as carbon-containing liquid fuels. The project aims to produce sustainable carbon-based liquid fuels from renewable energy and carbon dioxide...
The U.S. Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) awarded a $4,999,500 Cooperative Agreement to Susteon Inc., a minority-owned technology company based in Morrisville, North Carolina. The purpose of this 3-year award, which began on September 11, 2024, is to develop a novel, inexpensive, and modular technology platform for producing sustainable aviation fuel and other valuable chemicals from CO2 and renewable electricity. The project, titled "ECHO-SAF:...
The U.S. Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) has awarded a $3,648,906 cooperative agreement to SRI International and the University of Houston to develop a "Printed Microreactor for Renewable Energy Enabled Fuel Production (PRIME-FUEL)." This project, funded under ARPA-E's GREENWELLS program (CFDA 81.135), aims to create a highly energy-efficient, modular catalytic microreactor that will convert carbon dioxide to methanol using intermittent...