Cooperative Agreement DEEE0009753

This $800,000 project grant from the United States Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) federal grant program (CFDA #10.310) will fund research at Georgia Tech Research Corporation and the University of New Haven to develop new catalytic processes for converting lignin byproducts from biorefineries into high-value chemicals and sustainable aviation fuel. Specifically, the awardee and sub-awardee will work to...

The U.S. Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) awarded a $4,999,500 Cooperative Agreement to Susteon Inc., a minority-owned technology company based in Morrisville, North Carolina. The purpose of this 3-year award, which began on September 11, 2024, is to develop a novel, inexpensive, and modular technology platform for producing sustainable aviation fuel and other valuable chemicals from CO2 and renewable electricity. The project, titled "ECHO-SAF:...

The Arcadia Efuels Project is a $19,502,000 federal Project Grant award made by the U.S. Department of Transportation Federal Aviation Administration Eastern Region under the Fueling Aviation's Sustainable Transition via Sustainable Aviation Fuels (FAST-SAF) and Low-Emissions Aviation Technologies (FAST-Tech) Grant Program (CFDA 20.115). The funding will support the development and demonstration of innovative sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) production methods and low-emission aviation...

The University of Maine System (UMS) received a $10,000,000 five-year federal Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (CFDA 10.310) program to advance technologies that co-produce sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) and fish feed ingredients from low-grade woody biomass. Key objectives of the project include: 1) developing AI-based models to optimize hydrothermal liquefaction (HTL) processes for converting woody biomass into SAF, 2)...

Lanzatech, Inc. was awarded a $3.71 million cooperative agreement from the Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) to develop a carbon-negative chemical production platform. Under the three-year award beginning October 2021, Lanzatech will engineer a non-traditional host strain to maximize stable ethanol production from high hydrogen-to-carbon monoxide gas uptake ratios, enabling a single-step, direct carbon dioxide gas fermentation process integrated with...

The Department of Energy Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy awarded Tallgrass MLP Operations, LLC $1.6 million under the Renewable Energy Research and Development federal grant program (CFDA 81.087) for a Cooperative Agreement from October 1, 2022 to October 10, 2022. Under this award, Tallgrass MLP Operations will demonstrate robust engineered catalysts for converting ethanol to sustainable aviation fuel via an oxygenate intermediate. The Renewable Energy Research and...

The University of Illinois received a $650,000 Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) program. The goal of this 3-year project is to lower the carbon intensity (CI) of corn-based ethanol production by replacing at least 40% of the natural gas used with a renewable fuel gas generated from ethanol production byproducts. The project aims to achieve an 18% reduction in...

The U.S. Department of Transportation Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Eastern Region awarded Apijet, LLC a $6,000,000 Project Grant under the Fueling Aviation's Sustainable Transition via Sustainable Aviation Fuels (FAST-SAF) and Low-Emissions Aviation Technologies (FAST-Tech) Grant Program (CFDA 20.115). The grant will fund a project to optimize flight routes using real-time operating constraints to maximize the reduction of CO2 emissions via scalable ground-based software. The project...

The U.S. Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory awarded Jetzero, Inc. a $10,830,327.73 Project Grant under the Fueling Aviation's Sustainable Transition via Sustainable Aviation Fuels (FAST-SAF) and Low-Emissions Aviation Technologies (FAST-Tech) Grant Program (CFDA 20.115). The three-year grant, running from January 2, 2025, to December 31, 2027, will support the development of "Blended Wing Body Lightweight Stitched Composite Structures" to advance...

This $274,042 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program supports the development and demonstration of a bench-scale reactor for a high-temperature reverse water-gas shift (RWGS) process. The project aims to improve the materials and design of the RWGS reactor, which can produce electrofuels (e-fuels) from electricity, carbon dioxide, and hydrogen as a low-carbon alternative to fossil fuels,...