Cooperative Agreement DEEE0009104

General Electric Company's GE Additive division was awarded a $1,466,390 cooperative agreement from the Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy to develop a novel additive manufacturing process for fabricating silicon carbide matrix composite heat exchangers. The objective is to utilize an advanced additive manufacturing machine and method to fabricate complex silicon carbide components and incorporate chopped fibers to enable composite properties for applications...

This National Science Foundation Project Grant of $300,000 supports research at Temple University from February 2022 to January 2024 to advance additive manufacturing of composite materials with transverse thermoelectricity under the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041). The university will study additive manufacturing techniques for producing thermoelectric semiconductors with perpendicular thermal and electrical transport properties. Such transverse thermoelectric materials could enable new...

This federal Cooperative Agreement award, provided 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), supports the development of an integrated cascaded heat exchanger system. The $812,500 award aims to demonstrate advanced manufacturing techniques to meet both power generation and industrial process heat demands. Key objectives include improving particle-side convective heat transfer,...

The National Science Foundation awarded a $135,113 Project Grant to the University of Michigan under the Engineering (47.041) federal grant program. The grant will support research to develop an additive manufacturing process using selective laser melting for thermoelectric waste heat recovery materials and devices. Key activities include establishing a correlation between laser processing variables and thermoelectric material characteristics to provide a net-shape and scalable additive...

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) was awarded a $2,328,897 cooperative agreement from the Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) to develop a Multiscale Porous High-Temperature Heat Exchanger Using Ceramic Co-Extrusion. The goal of the project is to design a novel ceramic heat exchanger capable of operating over 1,200°C for aerospace applications. MIT will work with sub-awardees General Electric Company and Purdue University to develop a high...

The U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy awarded a $2,950,000 Cooperative Agreement under the Conservation Research and Development (CFDA 81.086) federal grant program to the University of Texas at Dallas (UTD). The goal of this project is to reduce carbon emissions by 80%, energy consumption by 70%, and operating costs by 12% during the potato chip frying process. To achieve these performance metrics, UTD will conduct technology validation in laboratory...

This National Science Foundation Project Grant of $500,007 awarded to the University of Maryland Baltimore County supports research and education activities focused on flexible thermoelectric materials and devices. Specifically, the awardee will conduct research under the Engineering (47.041) program to develop additive printing methods for independently controlling the electrical and thermal properties of thermoelectric composite films through interfacial engineering. This work aims to enable...

The Department of Energy Office of Science awarded a $199,992 Project Grant to Advanced Cooling Technologies Inc. (Act) under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to develop a "Thermally Enhanced Obstructed Flow Board for Hot Spot Mitigation". The project aims to design and produce advanced thermal management solutions such as heat pipes, cold plates, and cooling systems for aerospace, defense, and energy applications. Act, a for-profit manufacturer of...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $150,000 in funding to the University of Colorado Boulder and the University of Wisconsin-Madison for a collaborative research project on a novel solid-state thermal energy conversion concept called zero-gap thermophotovoltaics (ZTPV). The researchers will explore the fundamental operational mechanisms of ZTPV and develop a detailed theory to predict device architecture, materials,...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) EAGER (Early-concept Grants for Exploratory Research) project grant, awarded under CFDA 47.041 - Engineering, provides $300,000 in funding from November 1, 2024 to October 31, 2026 to the University of Illinois to develop lock-in infrared thermography capabilities for measuring thermal resistances in 3D integrated circuits. The key objectives of this project are to advance the science and engineering of thermal property measurement and develop a metrology...