Cooperative Agreement DEEE0008373

The Department of Energy Office of Science awarded Makai Ocean Engineering Inc. a $199,441 Project Grant under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to develop a compact heat exchanger for next-generation concentrating solar power systems. The heat exchanger is intended to withstand the stringent operating conditions of Gen3 CSP technologies. Work on this project was conducted from June 2021 through March 2022 in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii. The Office of Science aims to...

The Department of Energy's Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) awarded a $250,000 Project Grant to TDA Research, Inc. to develop a "Regeneratable Salt Vapor and Chlorine Gas Dual Cartridge Sorbent System for Molten Salts Nuclear Reactors." The award was made on February 12, 2024, with a target completion date of November 11, 2024. Under this grant, TDA Research will collaborate with Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) to design and test functional...

The Department of Energy Office of Science awarded Cinco Research Corporation a $200,000 Project Grant under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to support the Advanced Manufacturing and Demonstration of Molten Salt Pump project. The grant funded Cinco Research Corporation, located in Knoxville, TN, to deliver products and services focused on advanced manufacturing and demonstrating molten salt pump technologies from June 28, 2021 through August 19, 2022. The...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program totaling $255,966 will support Powersilo Inc.'s development of updraft tower technology for geothermal power generation and cogeneration. The SBIR Phase I project aims to develop software models to analyze critical technology functions and optimize parameters for efficient power production from geothermal hot dry rock energy sources. Models will specifically examine air intake velocity...

The Department of Energy Office of Science awarded $200,000 to Ntre TECH LLC through its Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to support the PULSED FLUIDIZED BED DESIGN FOR HIGH-TEMPERATURE, SOLIDS TO SCO2, HEAT EXCHANGE FOR CONCENTRATED SOLAR APPLICATIONS project. This Project Grant funding will allow Ntre TECH LLC to develop a pulsed fluidized bed design to enable high-temperature heat exchange between solids and supercritical carbon dioxide for use in concentrated...

This Cooperative Agreement award, provided by the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) under the Renewable Energy Research and Development program (CFDA 81.087), aims to develop a particle media transport and storage solution to enable reliable power generation from Concentrating Solar Power (CSP) systems. The goal is to create a system that can achieve high-capacity factors and compare favorably to intermittent renewable energy sources like...

This federal Cooperative Agreement award for $4,688,123.00, 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), is supporting the development of a CO2 high-temperature heat pump (HTHP) system. The primary awardee, Echogen Power Systems (Delaware), Inc., is a for-profit technology company based in Akron, Ohio that specializes in advanced energy technologies, particularly...

This federal Cooperative Agreement award, provided by the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) under the Conservation Research and Development program (CFDA 81.086), will fund a $17,547,861 project to design, install, and demonstrate a 250 kW solid oxide electrolyzer cell (SOEC) system. The project aims to advance the SOEC technology from TRL 4 to TRL 6 by integrating it with an existing 1.6 million ton per year direct reduction of iron (DRI)...

The Department of Energy's Office of Science awarded a $200,000 Project Grant to Energy Driven Technologies LLC on July 22, 2024 under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049). The grant supports advancing supercritical carbon dioxide (sCO2) power systems and components for Molten Salt Reactors (MSRs). The project aims to conduct fundamental research and develop innovative technologies in areas such as materials engineering, plasma technologies, and next-generation...

This Cooperative Agreement award of $3,141,250, funded by the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy under the Renewable Energy Research and Development program (CFDA 81.087), aims to demonstrate low-temperature hydrogen production from proton-conducting solid oxide electrolysis cell (P-SOEC) technology with enhanced activity, efficiency, and durability. The award supports a multi-year project with the University of Oklahoma to advance P-SOEC materials,...