Cooperative Agreement DEEE0006346

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) Project Grant award of $275,000 to Mimic Systems Inc. aims to develop a refrigerant-free heat pump technology using high-performance thermoelectric materials and methods. The project seeks to increase the efficiency and cost-effectiveness of traditional solid-state heat pumps by leveraging new thermoelectric materials and manufacturing processes. The goal is to surpass the performance of traditional...

The Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture awarded Energy Concepts Company, LLC $175,000 under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program/Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Program to develop an innovative refrigeration cycle for small-scale refrigeration. Energy Concepts will modify an existing propane-fired diffusion absorption chiller to enable operation using heat from renewable energy sources like solar thermal, geothermal, waste heat,...

This federal Cooperative Agreement award of $4,443,737.00, provided by the Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy under the Conservation Research and Development (CFDA 81.086) program, supports the development of a "Flexible Industrial Heat Pump for Simultaneous Refrigeration and Steam Production." The award, with a performance period from September 1, 2024, to August 31, 2025, is granted to Atmoszero, Inc., a for-profit organization located in Fort...

This federal Project Grant award, provided by the U.S. Department of Energy under the Manufacturing and Energy Supply Chain Demonstrations and Commercial Applications program (CFDA 81.253), supports the establishment of a domestic production capacity of at least 10,000 cold climate air-to-air heat pumps, 5,000 geothermal water-to-air heat pumps, and 100 high-capacity cold climate air-to-water heat pumps annually. These products are designed to provide an efficiency increase of 25-75% compared to...

This $37,004,647 Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Energy's Manufacturing and Energy Supply Chain Demonstrations and Commercial Applications program (CFDA 81.253) aims to expand Honeywell International Inc.'s production capacity for HFO-1234yf, a low-global-warming potential refrigerant. The award will fund a three-stage project over 18 months, including front-end engineering design, detailed engineering and construction, and final commissioning of the new HFO-1234yf production...

The National Science Foundation awarded $275,000 under the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships federal grant program (CFDA 47.084) to Kazadi Enterprises LTD to develop a Hydrologic Open Cooling System. The project aims to create a renewable, closed container cooling system incorporating rechargeable vacuum insulation and a novel two-stage heat pump. The system is designed to maintain cooling chamber temperatures between 1.5-5 degrees Celsius using 10% or less of the electrical power of...

This federal Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program (CFDA 10.212) provides $649,988 to Energy Concepts Company, LLC to develop an innovative Diffusion Absorption Cycle with Generator Rectifier (DACGR) refrigeration technology. The DACGR system will enable small-scale refrigeration powered by renewable energy sources such as solar thermal, waste heat, biogas, and...

The National Science Foundation awarded a $249,551 Project Grant to the University of Kansas Center for Research Inc. under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships federal grant program (CFDA 47.084). The grant funds the development of a pilot-scale process using extractive distillation and an ionic liquid entrainer to separate the azeotropic refrigerant mixture R-410A into its pure component gases. R-410A, composed of 50% difluoromethane and 50% pentafluoroethane, is a widely used...

Harvest Thermal, Inc. was awarded a $1,000,000 cooperative agreement from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program to develop a low-emissions heating and hot water system. The 24-month project will address technical risks to enable large-scale deployment of residential heating and hot water load shifting using highly efficient heat pump systems. Harvest Thermal will systematically test system performance, reliability, and failure modes to...

This $7,460,680 Cooperative Agreement award from 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) aims to demonstrate the emissions, performance, and cost characteristics of Noble Thermodynamic Systems' Argon Power Cycle (APC) technology. The APC is a hydrogen-fueled, flexible combined heat and power (CHP) system designed to maintain high efficiency, flexibility, and zero NOx...