Cooperative Agreement DEEE0009618

The Southwest Research Institute received a $250,000 Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management to complete a conceptual design and optimization study of a commercial-scale Liquid Air Combined Cycle system integrated with a natural gas combustion turbine. The study will be carried out in collaboration with sub-awardee Pintail Power LLC. The award supports the Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management's Fossil Energy Research...

This federal Project Grant award, provided by the U.S. Department of Energy under the Manufacturing and Energy Supply Chain Demonstrations and Commercial Applications program (CFDA 81.253), supports the establishment of a domestic production capacity of at least 10,000 cold climate air-to-air heat pumps, 5,000 geothermal water-to-air heat pumps, and 100 high-capacity cold climate air-to-water heat pumps annually. These products are designed to provide an efficiency increase of 25-75% compared to...

Mohawk Innovative Technology, Inc. received a $199,983 Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science on June 27, 2022 to develop a configurable array of 3D-printed lubrication-free turbocompressors for high temperature industrial heat pump applications. The award is being administered under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA #81.049), which supports basic research to deliver scientific discoveries and tools that transform understanding of nature...

The Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture awarded Energy Concepts Company, LLC $175,000 under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program/Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Program to develop an innovative refrigeration cycle for small-scale refrigeration. Energy Concepts will modify an existing propane-fired diffusion absorption chiller to enable operation using heat from renewable energy sources like solar thermal, geothermal, waste heat,...

The Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) awarded a $1,874,838 Cooperative Agreement to Aurora Flight Sciences, a Boeing company, to develop an innovative aluminum (Al) air energy storage and power generation (ESPG) system. The goal is to meet ARPA-E's PROPEL 1K program targets for zero-emissions, high energy density, and high efficiency to enable electrification across the aviation, rail, maritime, and trucking industries. The project team, which includes the University of...

The Department of Energy's Office of Science awarded a $206,495 Project Grant under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to Energy Concepts Company, LLC to develop an "Industrial Grid Flexibility by Refrigerant Energy Management System". The project aims to advance innovative refrigeration technologies that can enable industrial grid flexibility through the use of renewable energy sources such as solar thermal, waste heat, biogas, and biomass. The project...

The Department of Energy's Office of Science awarded a $200,000 Project Grant to Combustion Research & Flow Technology Inc. (Craft-Tech) on July 22, 2024 under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049). The grant supports the development of "EFFICIENT AND ROBUST COMPRESSOR DESIGNS FOR SUPERCRITICAL CO2 POWER CYCLES". Craft-Tech, a small business specializing in computational fluid dynamics (CFD) services, will leverage its expertise in areas such as...

The U.S. Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) awarded a $2,073,897 Cooperative Agreement to the Georgia Institute of Technology, in partnership with the University of California, Berkeley, and Princeton University, to develop a transformative modular chemical manufacturing process that efficiently converts carbon dioxide (CO2) and intermittent electricity and hydrogen (H2) into a liquid hydrocarbon/low-oxygen organic mixture. The overall goal is to create a...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), under the Conservation Research and Development program (CFDA 81.086), provides $1,698,000.00 to Dover Pumps & Process Solutions Segment, Inc. (doing business as Cook Compression) to conduct research and development on advanced dynamic sealing technologies for hydrogen compression in fueling applications. The goal is to advance building, vehicle, lighting,...

Grant Award Summary Colorado School of Mines received a $500,000 Project Grant from the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E, CFDA 81.135) for the SCOPE CO2 project, awarded April 1, 2026, with a completion date of March 31, 2028. This award supports the development of a novel detection system for impurities in concentrated gaseous and supercritical carbon dioxide (CO2) used in pipeline transport, storage, and utilization applications. The project addresses a critical need for safe...