Cooperative Agreement DEEE0010307

This Project Grant award from the Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture will support development of bioproducts from food and agricultural wastes through the Bioproduct Pilot Program (CFDA 10.236). The University of Illinois will receive $2,530,926 to operate a one ton per day continuous plug-flow hydrothermal liquefaction pilot reactor system. This system will process food waste and swine manure to produce biocrude and post-HTL wastewater. The biocrude will then...

Integrated Lipid Biofuels LLC was awarded a $650,000 Project Grant from the US Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program. The two-year award will support the company's efforts to develop a process for converting organic waste into biopolymers by synergizing anaerobic digestion and synthetic biology techniques. The SBIR Program aims to stimulate technological innovation through the investment of federal...

Oceanit Laboratories Inc. received a $200,000 project grant award from the Department of Energy Office of Science on February 14, 2022 to develop the Hydrogen-Recovery Using an AI-ARC-Plasma Learning Operational System (HALO) for Oilfield Waste Transformation to Value Added Products. The project aims to utilize an artificial intelligence-assisted atmospheric radio frequency cold plasma system to transform oilfield waste into marketable byproducts. This work directly supports the mission of the...

Iowa State University will receive $329,856 from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) for the project "Valorization of Solid Digestate through Autothermal Hydrothermal Liquefaction" from January 1, 2023 to December 31, 2024. The project aims to develop a calorimetric hydrothermal liquefaction reactor to intensify the process through direct autothermal operation. This approach will overcome heat transfer bottlenecks and allow for scale-up by providing...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering Program (CFDA 47.041) Project Grant award to the Research Foundation of the City University of New York (RFCUNY) provides $425,000 to accelerate the discovery of alternative high hydrogen capacity Liquid Organic Hydrogen Carriers (LOHCs) that are cost-effective, safe, and environmentally sustainable. The multidisciplinary research team will (1) rigorously evaluate the discharging and charging catalytic chemistries of ethanol-based LOHCs, (2)...

This $205,767 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports the development of a novel hydrothermal carbonization (HTC) technology to efficiently recover nutrients from animal manure into liquid fertilizer, while also producing value-added engineered carbon materials. The project aims to optimize nutrient recovery, improve resource utilization, and create new products to enhance the agricultural sector's sustainability and reduce...

This federal Cooperative Agreement award, provided by the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management under the Fossil Energy Research and Development (CFDA 81.089) program, will support the development of a process to treat oil and gas produced water for beneficial use outside of the oil and gas industries. The $1,875,000 award to Ohio University, with sub-awards to Exergy Systems, Inc. and Giner Inc., aims to: Characterize produced water from specific sites,...

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,...

This federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $425,000.00 to New York University (NYU) to accelerate the discovery and development of alternative liquid organic hydrogen carrier (LOHC) molecules for cost-effective, safe, and environmentally sustainable hydrogen storage and transportation. The project aims to: 1) rigorously evaluate the thermochemical and electrochemical discharging and charging properties of ethanol-based...

This $249,998 National Science Foundation Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships project grant funds the development of an advanced biotechnology to treat toxic wastewater produced in the biofuel industry at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University from March 2023 to February 2025. The university aims to demonstrate a pilot-scale bioprocess using a special type of marine microorganism shown in prior bench-scale studies to reduce or remove toxins in wastewater from biofuel...