Cooperative Agreement DEEE0008309

The Department of Energy's Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management awarded a $312,719 Cooperative Agreement (CFDA 81.089 Fossil Energy Research and Development) to the University of Kentucky Research Foundation. The project aims to develop a near-zero carbon direct iron production process using chemical looping technology with hydrogen co-production. This will help decarbonize steel manufacturing, which accounts for 8-10% of global carbon emissions. The University of Kentucky Research...

This $12,286,600 Cooperative Agreement awarded by the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy under the Conservation Research and Development (CFDA 81.086) program supports a nationwide collaboration between industry and academia to pioneer an industrial-scale demonstration of alternative injectant refining and electromagnetic stirring (EMS) electric arc furnace (EAF) operation in the U.S. The project aims to enable complete decarbonization of the EAF...

The Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) awarded a $900,146 Cooperative Agreement to The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) under the Conservation Research and Development (CFDA 81.086) program. The project will propose a carbon-free electrochemical process that converts iron ore directly into iron metal at the cathode and uses a liquid molten metal at the anode for oxygen evolution. This innovative approach aims to develop a new technology for...

This EAGER (Early-Concept Grants for Exploratory Research) award from the National Science Foundation (CFDA 47.041 - Engineering) provides $300,000 to New York University (NYU) to develop a novel plasma-electrochemical approach for decarbonizing steel manufacturing. The project aims to eliminate the need for carbon-based reducing agents and fuels in steel production, which currently accounts for 20% of industrial CO2 emissions. Key activities include: 1) Establishing design principles for a...

The Department of Energy (DOE) awarded a $500,000,000 Cooperative Agreement under the Clean Energy Demonstrations (CFDA 81.255) program to Cleveland-Cliffs Steel Corporation to retrofit their Middletown Works facility in Ohio. The project plans to replace the existing blast furnace with a 100% hydrogen-ready, flex-fuel direct reduced iron (DRI) and two electric melting furnaces (EMF). This demonstration project aims to significantly reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) and criteria air pollutant (CAP)...

This National Science Foundation Small Business Innovation Research Phase I Project Grant of $273,920 was awarded to American Magnet Company, LLC on April 1, 2023 for completion by March 31, 2024. The grant is being used to demonstrate the feasibility of producing reduced-carbon emissions steel using super-pure iron ore powder and hydrogen under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program (CFDA 47.084). Specifically, the company is developing a process to directly reduce...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Clean Energy Demonstrations (CFDA 81.255) program provides $282,853,384 to Vale USA LLC to construct a first-of-its-kind facility in Convent, Louisiana that will manufacture a low-emissions, cold-agglomerated iron ore briquette for use in cleaner steel production. The project aims to develop a viable low-emissions alternative to traditional direct reduced iron (DRI) pellets, with the cold-agglomeration briquette...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) under CFDA 81.135 provides $999,873 to Form Energy, Inc. to develop a novel ironmaking process with net-negative CO2 emissions at cost parity with traditional pig iron production. The project, titled "Alkaline Electrochemical Ironmaking with Net-Negative CO2 Emissions at Cost Parity with Pig Iron", will demonstrate a radical departure from conventional aqueous metal...

This Cooperative Agreement award, provided by the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management under the Fossil Energy Research and Development program (CFDA 81.089), aims to decarbonize iron production in a direct reduction of iron plant. The project will integrate biomass chemical looping technology to generate syngas from carbon-neutral biomass feedstocks, while also incorporating in-situ carbon capture. Awarded to The Ohio State University on August 1, 2024,...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) Conservation Research and Development program (CFDA 81.086) will establish an Oregon hub for demonstrating and scaling electrolysis pathways for producing iron, iron alloys, and steel. The $917,112 award to the University of Oregon aims to develop an electrochemical stack capable of generating iron from low-cost ores used in primary steel production. The project,...