Cooperative Agreement DEEE0008317

This $12,286,600 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) 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. The goal is to enable complete decarbonization of the EAF steelmaking process by replacing...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program (CFDA 47.084) provides $250,000 to Purdue University to develop an energy-efficient manufacturing process for producing lightweight titanium alloy sheet, foil and wire. Specifically, the award will support optimizing hybrid machining process parameters to influence material structure and properties for these thin gauge formats. The project will also characterize the new...

The Department of Energy awarded a $75,000,000 Cooperative Agreement under the Clean Energy Demonstrations program (CFDA 81.255) to Cleveland-Cliffs Steel Corporation to construct four new induction reheat furnaces (IRFs) at their Lyndora, PA facility. This project will upgrade the existing steelmaking infrastructure to electrify the slab reheating process and produce high-silicon grain oriented electrical steel (GOES) used in electrical transformers. By idling two natural gas-fired reheat...

This federal Cooperative Agreement award, with a total funding of $1,250,000.00, was issued 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. The award supports a research project led by the University of Tennessee to develop low-density Fe-Mn-Al multi-principal element alloys for lightweight automobile structural components. The project aims to advance cost-effective and sustainable...

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) awarded a $75,000,000 Cooperative Agreement to the American Cast Iron Pipe Company (AMERICAN) under the Clean Energy Demonstrations Federal Grant Program (CFDA 81.255). This project will retrofit AMERICAN's Birmingham, Alabama facility by installing four medium frequency coreless induction furnaces and three channel induction holding furnaces to shift iron and steel production towards low-carbon electric heating methods. The project aims to demonstrate at...

The Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) awarded the University of Delaware a $3,060,498 cooperative agreement under the ARPA-E program (CFDA #81.135) on September 13, 2022 to develop efficient manufacturing of lightweight composite architected structures for transportation vehicles through September 12, 2025. Under the award, the University of Delaware will lead a consortium to develop and commercialize Composite Architected Materials Processing (CAMP), a...

This Cooperative Agreement award, funded 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), provides $15,213,183.00 to Seerstone Development LLC, a woman-owned small business, to research and develop the use of CO2-sourced graphite electrodes in electric arc furnace (EAF) steelmaking as a decarbonization technology. The project aims to demonstrate the viability of this approach to reduce...

The Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy awarded a $2,111,714 Cooperative Agreement under the Conservation Research and Development (CFDA 81.086) program to the University of Utah to develop and demonstrate the circularity of carbon-fiber reinforced polymer (CFRP) materials for use as lightweight vehicle door panels and structural battery casings. The project aims to achieve this through the use of recyclable-by-design thermoset resins sourced from waste...

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 Cooperative Agreement award, worth $500,000,000 and granted by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) under the Clean Energy Demonstrations program (CFDA 81.255), aims to demonstrate the successful retrofit of Cleveland-Cliffs Steel Corporation's 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) system and two electric melting furnaces. This retrofit is expected to significantly reduce...