Cooperative Agreement DEEE0009435

This Project Grant award from the Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) provides $206,497.00 to CF Technologies, Inc. to conduct research and development on chromatographic separation of rare earth elements. CF Technologies, a for-profit manufacturer and small disadvantaged business, specializes in CO2 extraction, fractionation, separation and chromatography. Through this one-year grant awarded on July 10, 2023, the company will research and...

This $275,999 National Science Foundation Project Grant supports the development of an environmentally friendly rare earth element extraction process from recycled fluorescent light bulb powder. The awardee, IM Technologies LLC, will engineer a prototype reactor system that uses precision ultra-high temperature heating to evaporate and subsequently condense targeted rare earth constituents from light bulb waste. Research tasks include optimizing thermal energy applications to efficiently extract...

This Cooperative Agreement, awarded by the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management (CFDA 81.089 - Fossil Energy Research and Development), plans to conduct pilot testing to obtain aqueous solutions rich in mixed rare earth elements, critical minerals, and materials such as manganese, cobalt, nickel, and strontium, as well as a lithium-containing raffinate. The total funding amount is $6,390,593, with a performance period from September 1, 2024 to August 31,...

The Department of Energy's Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management awarded a $5,000,226 Cooperative Agreement under the Fossil Energy Research and Development (CFDA 81.089) program to the University of Illinois. The project, titled "Illinois Rare Earth Novel Extraction and Supply (IRENES)", seeks to perform front-end engineering and design to establish an integrated supply chain for critical minerals and rare earth metals within Illinois. Key focus areas include developing an...

TDA Research, Inc. received a $250,000 project grant award from the Department of Energy Office of Science under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to support work on "IONIC LIQUID-BASED ELECTROWINNING FOR REFINING OF RARE EARTH OXIDES/SALTS." The project aims to develop ionic liquid-based electrochemical processes for refining rare earth oxides and salts into purified individual rare earth elements. The Office of Science Financial Assistance Program...

The Department of Energy's Office of Science awarded a $660,000 Project Grant under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to the University of Missouri System for the project "EXTRACTION OF RARE EARTH ELEMENTS USING CHEMICALLY-ENHANCED ELECTRODIALYSIS (CEED)". The project aims to develop a novel approach to rare earth element extraction using a class of electrodialysis membranes with ion-gating functionality for selective extraction. The University of...

This $289,851 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Integrative Activities (IA) program supports research at the University of Delaware that aims to develop new pathways for the recovery and recycling of rare-earth elements (REEs). The project focuses on investigating the formation and properties of high-temperature REE-sulfate liquids, with the goal of advancing alternative REE extraction and separation technologies that could enable more circular manufacturing...

This Cooperative Agreement award, provided by the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management under the Fossil Energy Research and Development (CFDA 81.089) program, supports a $6,250,000 project to develop advanced processing technologies for the extraction, recovery, separation, and purification of rare earth elements (REEs) and critical minerals and materials (CMMs). The key objectives of the project are to: 1) evaluate physical upgrading technologies for...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) Phase I SBIR grant of $275,000 awarded to Rivalia Chemical Co. on February 15, 2024 aims to develop a novel ionic-liquid-based process to extract and recover rare earth elements (REEs) from coal fly ash. The broader impact is to establish a sustainable, domestic supply chain for critical REEs needed for clean energy and other advanced technologies, reducing reliance on foreign sources. The project...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $650,000 over 4 years to the University of Illinois for research on developing sustainable strategies for separating and recovering rare-earth elements (REEs) and platinum group metals (PGMs) from waste streams. The project aims to create new electrically-driven separation systems using conductive polymer and carbon nanotube-based electrode materials that can selectively and...