Cooperative Agreement DEEE0009394

Media & Process Technology Inc. was awarded a $500,000 Project Grant from the Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (CFDA 81.135) to demonstrate the technical feasibility and energy savings potential of a non-evaporative substrate drying process using supercritical carbon dioxide extraction combined with ceramic membrane ultrafiltration. The two-year award, issued on September 9, 2022, will support development of a process to dewater wet substrates without...

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...

The Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) awarded a $2,100,000 Cooperative Agreement to Advanced Cooling Technologies Inc. (ACT) under the Conservation Research and Development (CFDA 81.086) program. The funding will support the development of an Energy-Water-Emission Recovery (EWER) system to enable decarbonization in industrial bakery operations. ACT, a small business manufacturer of thermal management solutions, will leverage its expertise in...

The Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) awarded a $3,897,428 Cooperative Agreement under the Conservation Research and Development (CFDA 81.086) program to the Georgia Tech Research Corporation (Georgia Tech) on November 1, 2024. The goal of this award is to support a comprehensive approach to innovative refining, paper forming, and drying technologies that will eliminate CO2 emissions from paper machines. The performance period for this project...

The Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) awarded a $3,790,157 Cooperative Agreement to Princeton University on September 1, 2024 under the Conservation Research and Development program (CFDA 81.086). The project, titled "INTER-GRINDING OF WASTE ACTIVATORS AND LOW-GRADE CALCINED KAOLIN CLAY FOR ONE-PART ALKALI-ACTIVATED CONCRETE TECHNOLOGY (INTERAACT)", will focus on bench-top testing and industrial pre-demonstration scale trials to develop an...

The U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy awarded a $6,065,126 Cooperative Agreement under the Conservation Research and Development (CFDA 81.086) program to Ash Grove Cement Co Inc. The project, titled "PROJECT REDRESS", will evaluate dredged sediment from U.S. Army Corps of Engineers confined disposal facilities and develop a feedstock criteria and treatment protocol to integrate the treated sediment (calcined clay) as a feedstock for new...

The Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy awarded Giner Inc. a $3,750,000 Cooperative Agreement under the Conservation Research and Development (CFDA 81.086) federal grant program. The goal of this 1-year project is to develop a dual-recycle carbon dioxide (CO2) conversion platform tailored for the exclusive conversion of CO2 into ethylene (C2H4). The project aims to achieve high carbon efficiency, energy efficiency, C2H4 selectivity and productivity, and...

This $695,652 project grant awarded by the USDA's National Institute of Food and Agriculture under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) program aims to develop and evaluate a novel cyber-physical system for real-time optimization of thermal food processing operations. The project will create first-principle models and reduced-order computational techniques to accurately estimate unmeasurable process variables and enable optimal control of food drying, cooking, and...

The Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) awarded a $9,509,202 cooperative agreement to Sublime Systems, Inc., a woman-owned small business, to develop an advanced electrolytic cement production process that uses lower-energy and alternative calcium sources. The project, funded under the Conservation Research and Development (CFDA 81.086) program, aims to demonstrate transformational low-carbon cement manufacturing techniques, strengthen U.S. supply...

The Department of Energy's Office of Science awarded a $199,927 project grant to Stel Controls LLC under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) on July 22, 2024. The grant supports research on "Concentrated Solar Thermal Drying for Mined Minerals" with a planned completion date of August 14, 2025. The Office of Science Financial Assistance Program funds a wide range of fundamental scientific research projects across multiple disciplines to advance U.S. energy,...