This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of Energy's Clean Energy Demonstrations (CFDA 81.255) program provides $189,000,000 to Brimstone Commercial, LLC to construct and operate a new plant that will commercialize a deeply decarbonized process for making ordinary Portland cement and co-products, including supplementary cementitious materials and smelter-grade alumina. The project will develop a transformative technology that applies a chemical-based process for cement...
The National Cement Company of California (NCC-CA) was awarded a $500,000,000 Cooperative Agreement from the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Clean Energy Demonstrations program (CFDA 81.255). This award will support the construction and operation of an integrated carbon capture and storage (CCS) system at NCC-CA's cement plant in Lebec, California. The project will replace a portion of the plant's fossil fuel use with locally sourced biomass, produce limestone calcined clay cement (LC3) to...
This federal Cooperative Agreement award from the Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), under the Conservation Research and Development program (CFDA 81.086), provides $3,026,792.00 in funding to Calcify LLC's Carbon Capture Machine (CCM) division to develop a low-emissions, carbon-neutral cement production process. The project aims to utilize a proprietary carbonation reactor and a reactive form of calcium carbonate synthesized from captured...
This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (CFDA 81.086 - Conservation Research and Development) will provide $5,296,800 to Calportland Co, a subsidiary of Taiheiyo Cement Corporation, to develop and demonstrate an innovative method for mineralizing CO2 with processed recycled concrete. The goal is to use the carbonated paste from this process as a supplementary cementitious material (SCM) to decrease the embodied CO2...
The Department of Energy awarded a $86,907,197 Cooperative Agreement to Sublime Systems, Inc., a woman-owned small business, under the Clean Energy Demonstrations federal grant program (CFDA 81.255). The project aims to build the first commercial-scale electrochemical cement manufacturing facility in Holyoke, Massachusetts. Sublime Systems' innovative technology replaces carbon-intensive limestone with alternative calcium silicate-based feedstocks, producing industry-standard cement through...
This $3,790,157 Cooperative Agreement was awarded on September 1, 2024 by the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy under the Conservation Research and Development program (CFDA 81.086). The goal of the award, titled "INTER-GRINDING OF WASTE ACTIVATORS AND LOW-GRADE CALCINED KAOLIN CLAY FOR ONE-PART ALKALI-ACTIVATED CONCRETE TECHNOLOGY (INTERAACT)", is to conduct research and development on innovative concrete technologies that can reduce...
The federal Cooperative Agreement award, with ID DEEE0011221, was granted by the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) under the Conservation Research and Development program (CFDA 81.086). The $9,509,202 award supports the development of an advanced electrolytic cement production process at Sublime Systems, Inc., a woman-owned small business, that aims to lower energy use and leverage alternative calcium sources for cement manufacturing....
The Department of Energy's Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management, under the Fossil Energy Research and Development (CFDA 81.089) federal grant program, awarded a $312,500 Cooperative Agreement (Award ID: DEFE0032504) to Electricore Inc. to perform the conceptual design of an oxy-fuel combustion system for retrofitting existing rotary lime kilns. The project aims to enhance the energy efficiency and reduce the carbon dioxide emissions of lime production.
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The U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management awarded C-Crete Technologies LLC a $2,500,000 Cooperative Agreement under the Fossil Energy Research and Development program (CFDA 81.089). The project aims to develop a low-cost, high-yield, and scalable process to mineralize carbon dioxide (CO2) into a specialized formulation of carbon-negative concrete. C-Crete Technologies will apply advanced synthesis, green chemistry, and standard concrete testing and scale-up...
This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of Energy, under the Manufacturing and Energy Supply Chain Demonstrations and Commercial Applications program (CFDA 81.253), provides $40,000,000 in funding to Furno Materials Inc. to commercialize the company's modular cement production technology through the construction and operation of a facility in Chicago, IL.
The key objectives of this project are to: 1) Commercialize a process that uses at least 44% industrial waste materials...