Cooperative Agreement DEEE0009439

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems awarded a $175,000 Project Grant to The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York to support research under the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041). The project aims to advance a sustainable chemistry-based approach for extracting lithium ions from hypersaline aqueous brines, which have lower lithium-ion concentrations compared to other alkali metal cations. The...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of the Interior Bureau of Reclamation provides $497,339.95 in funding to the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology (New Mexico Tech) to develop an innovative hybrid membrane process for simultaneous recovery of clean water and lithium from high-salinity brines. The project aims to address challenges associated with the disposal of large volumes of high-salinity brines through a membrane distillation-crystallization system for...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering Directorate (CFDA 47.041) Project Grant award of $231,810 to the University of Louisville provides funding for a collaborative research project on the selective extraction of lithium from seawater. The principal investigators, Professors Xiaowei Teng and Badri Narayanan, aim to develop new classes of manganese oxide layered materials for electrochemical lithium extraction from seawater. The project will integrate materials synthesis,...

This $250,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences Division (CFDA 47.049) aims to develop methods for extracting lithium ions from unconventional, dilute sources such as oilfield-produced water, geothermal brines, or desalination brines. The goal is to enable domestic lithium production using an electrochemical intercalation process that selectively traps lithium ions in a solid crystalline host material, excluding other ions. This...

Sitration, Inc. was awarded a $320,000 project grant from the Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy to develop a new type of conductive nanomembrane filtration technology for selectively extracting lithium from existing lithium-ion battery recycling processes. The grant aims to support the Agency's objectives of advancing clean energy technologies and supporting the President's goals for the Department of Energy. Sitration will utilize the 18-month funding period...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) grant, under the Engineering (CFDA 47.041) program, provides $376,885 to Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) to develop new classes of manganese oxide layered materials for the selective extraction of lithium from seawater using electrochemical methods. The project aims to understand how material structure, dopants, defect chemistry, ion-hydration, and ion transport affect lithium extraction from seawater, which is a promising source to meet the growing...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) EAGER (Early-Concept Grants for Exploratory Research) grant award, under the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), provides $297,799 to the Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (Tees) to investigate the potential for extracting critical materials, specifically lithium, from oil and gas produced water using atmospheric pressure direct current non-equilibrium plasma discharges. The project aims to elucidate the mechanisms facilitating the...

This $100,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program will support the development of passive solar desalination technology for produced water from oil and gas extraction sites. The Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station will modify existing solar evaporation ponds using hierarchical nanstructured hydrogel materials to increase evaporation rates and superhydrophobic coatings to enhance water droplet departure on glass...

Greenpath Systems LLC was awarded a $199,948 project grant from the Department of Energy Office of Science on June 27, 2022 to develop a multi-stage nanofiltration process for extracting value-added minerals from produced water. The project is being conducted under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049), which supports basic research to transform understanding of nature and advance U.S. energy security and economic competitiveness. Specifically, Greenpath Systems will...

The Department of Energy Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy awarded Oregon State University a $500,000 cooperative agreement from July 2021 to December 2023 under the Conservation Research and Development program. The goal of the award is to develop microchannel-based membrane-less extraction technologies for lithium from unconventional sources and rare earth element separation. Oregon State University will work with the University of Pittsburgh to extract lithium from...