Cooperative Agreement DEEE0010460

This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of the Interior Bureau of Reclamation, under the Water Desalination Research and Development Program (CFDA 15.506), aims to demonstrate a continuous pilot photobioreactor operation using sunlight to remove scaling compounds from reverse osmosis concentrate. The project team at Texas State University has developed a new photobiological process that utilizes brackish diatoms and natural sunlight to remove scalants such as silica, phosphate,...

This $1,250,000 Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management (CFDA 81.089 - Fossil Energy Research and Development) is funding Global Algae Innovations, Inc., a small disadvantaged business, to develop and demonstrate an integrated process for producing algal-based polyurethane consumer products from flue gas carbon dioxide. The key objectives include: 1) scaling up algal oil extraction and fatty acid separation, 2) optimizing the...

This NSF Project Grant award to Mvmnt-X, Inc. in the amount of $275,000 under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program supports the development of new optical methods to improve the productivity of microalgae cultivation systems. The key products or services to be delivered through this 12-month project include: New illumination methods to enable ultra-high density, high-efficiency microalgae hybrid-photobioreactor scrubbers for capturing carbon dioxide and other...

The U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management, under the Fossil Energy Research and Development (CFDA 81.089) federal grant program, awarded a $1,248,841 Cooperative Agreement to Helios-Nrg LLC, a minority-owned, for-profit limited liability company based in East Amherst, New York. The project aims to leverage Helios-Nrg's multi-stage continuous algae-based process to transform brewery off-gas carbon dioxide emissions into algae biomass, which will then be...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy under the Conservation Research and Development program (CFDA 81.086) will complete a feasibility study of existing direct air capture technologies and their applicability in Alaska. The $3,539,998.00 award to Asrc Energy Services, LLC, a subsidiary of the Alaskan Native Corporation Arctic Slope Regional Corporation, will analyze the viability of deploying direct air capture...

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...

The Department of Energy's Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management awarded Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated $1.722 million under the Fossil Energy Research and Development program (CFDA #81.089) for the project "Tunable Rapid-Uptake Aminopolymer Aerogel Sorbent for Direct Air Capture of CO2 (TRAPS)." Through this cooperative agreement awarded February 16, 2021 and set to be completed by March 31, 2023, Palo Alto Research Center will develop tunable rapid-uptake...

Maine Shellfish Developers LLC received a $256,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program. The award will support the development of a cost-effective means of culturing large volumes of microalgae for land-based oyster farming through April 2023. The grantee aims to advance microalgae production at scale using spent yeast from breweries as a substrate. The microalgae will be used as feed for oysters farmed on land...

Federal Project Grant Award Summary Namaka Algae, Inc. received a $304,541 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP) program (CFDA 47.084) effective June 1, 2025, through May 31, 2026. The award funds development of cost-effective technology to enable dense microalgae cultivation by improving light capture and distribution. The core innovation involves passive solar concentrating elements...

This Cooperative Agreement award of $6,104,774 was granted on August 26, 2024 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. The objective of this feasibility study is to (1) assess, de-risk and validate a portfolio of direct air capture (DAC) technologies, (2) explore opportunities to optimize the balance of plant for economies of scale, and (3) assess the technical and commercial viability...