Cooperative Agreement DEEE0008478

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) provides $9,495,087 to Cummins Inc. to research, develop, and validate a 100% hydrogen-powered internal combustion engine that achieves peak brake thermal efficiency, as well as demonstrate an engine and aftertreatment system that meets EPA's 2027 heavy-duty emissions regulations. The project period runs from August 1, 2024...

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This $339,497 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports research to advance the understanding of combustion and flame characteristics of hydrotreated vegetable oil/air/exhaust gas mixtures, with an emphasis on conditions relevant to diesel engines. The research will investigate the ignition and combustion kinetics of these mixtures using a rapid compression machine and measure laminar flame speeds and Markstein lengths in a...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under CFDA program 47.041 (Engineering) provides funding of $200,222 to the University of Connecticut to quantify soot production rates from common jet and diesel fuel components. The 3-year project aims to establish opposed jet gaseous diffusion flames doped with pre-vaporized fuel components and measure soot volume fraction through pyrometry. Numerical simulations will complement the experimental work to accurately describe the flame...

The American Center for Mobility (ACM) was awarded a $1,529,629 Cooperative Agreement from the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E), under the CFDA 81.135 program, to conduct research on converting carbon dioxide to ethanol. The key objectives of the project are: 1) to demonstrate conversion of dilute CO2 to ethanol with at least 60% selectivity at a maximum full cell voltage of 2V, to achieve a fuel cost of $0.03/MJ; 2) to develop and integrate a new anion exchange membrane...

This $166,992 National Science Foundation project grant supports the development of control-oriented modeling and predictive control tools for high-efficiency, low-emission natural gas engines through a collaboration between Clemson University, the University of Georgia, and Cummins Inc. The National Science Foundation Engineering Directorate aims to improve engineering research and education through funding such as this award provided under the Congressionally Designated CFDA program for...

This $199,990 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports a research study to develop a simple method for quantifying soot production rates of relevant fuels. The study aims to establish opposed jet gaseous diffusion flames doped with common jet and diesel fuel components, measure soot volume fraction through pyrometry, and numerically simulate the flame structure to accurately quantify soot production rates. The goal is to create a...

The U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management awarded a $4,824,449 Cooperative Agreement on January 17, 2025 to Advanced Cooling Technologies Inc. (ACT) under the Fossil Energy Research and Development program (CFDA 81.089). The project, titled "Efficient Compact Combustors for Methane Mitigation (ECOMM)", aims to mature the technology by demonstrating its long-term operation, material durability, and sustained performance for different methane emissions...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) under the Renewable Energy Research and Development program (CFDA 81.087) provides $425,309 to the University of Dayton Research Institute to develop scalable performance and optimization tools for narrow-channel designs in particle-to-SCO2 heat exchangers and for commercial-scale trough designs in multi-stage falling particle receivers for concentrating solar power (CSP)...

This National Science Foundation project grant of $318,990 will fund research at Marquette University from January 2023 through December 2025 to develop a state-of-the-art combustion simulation tool for modeling multicomponent fuel droplets in high-pressure engine environments. The tool aims to capture the impact of realistic fuel composition on soot formation with greater fidelity than existing surrogate approaches. As part of the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), the research seeks to...