Cooperative Agreement DEEE0010467

This $150,000 federal grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083) supports collaborative research between Brown University and the University of Connecticut to develop an innovative system for direct air capture and electrochemical conversion of CO2 to ethanol and other liquid fuels. The project aims to create a novel cellulose-based membrane system integrated with cobalt nanosheet catalysts on graphene to efficiently capture CO2 from air...

The Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) awarded a $3,750,000 Cooperative Agreement under the Conservation Research and Development (CFDA 81.086) program to Giner Inc., a small business R&D firm in Auburndale, MA. The goal of this 1-year project is to develop a dual-recycle carbon dioxide (CO2) conversion platform to exclusively convert CO2 into ethylene (C2H4) with high carbon efficiency, energy efficiency, C2H4 selectivity and productivity,...

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...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) Program grant award provides $275,000 to Encore CO2 LLC, a small business located in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, to advance sustainable manufacturing by developing scalable technology to convert CO2 into high-value products, starting with ethanol production. The key objectives of this 17-month project are to design new electrolyzer systems and high-performance electrocatalysts to maximize CO2 conversion...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $981,840 Cooperative Agreement to Renewco2 Inc., a small disadvantaged business, to develop a scalable CO2 electrolyzer system for the competitive carbon-negative production of formic acid. The project aims to create an electrocatalytic process that can convert CO2 and electricity into formic acid, a valuable industrial chemical used in agriculture, leather treatment, and environmentally-friendly deicing. By utilizing waste CO2 from sources like...

This $300,000 project grant from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Integrative Activities (CFDA 47.083) program aims to advance electrocatalytic technologies for capturing and converting carbon dioxide (CO2) into valuable fuels like methane and ethylene. The award to Clemson University's Division of Research will fund research to utilize captured (bi)carbonate ions rather than pure CO2 gas as the feedstock for the electrochemical reduction process. This approach seeks to improve the energy...

This $736,200 Cooperative Agreement award from the Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) program, with a performance period from September 2024 to March 2026, supports Northeastern University's research and development project titled "Modular Electrochemical Ethanol Production Using Intermittent Power (Electricity)". The key objectives of this project are: 1) To demonstrate over 60% conversion efficiency (Faradaic efficiency) in producing ethanol...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E), under the Department of Energy's CFDA Program 81.135, provides $700,000.00 to New York University for a research and development project titled "The RenewEthanol Process: CO2-Derived Ethanol Production via Tandem Electro- and Thermo-Catalytic Conversions." The project aims to demonstrate stable production of ethanol powered directly by variable renewable energy, leveraging innovations in...

This federal Cooperative Agreement award, totaling $4,275,642.00, was granted by the Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) under the ARPA-E program (CFDA 81.135). The award supports a multi-year project led by Columbia University to develop a membrane-free electrochemical reactor ("electrolyzer") for converting carbon dioxide into energy-dense liquid ethanol fuel. The key objectives of this project are to incorporate the developed membraneless...

This three-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems, under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), provides $273,000 to Purdue University to develop porous bi-layer catalysts for converting carbon dioxide into valuable C2+ products like ethylene at industrially relevant rates. A collaborative team from Purdue University and University of Wisconsin-La Crosse will engineer novel layered catalyst structures...