Cooperative Agreement DEEE0010995

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) Project Grant award of $275,000 provides funding to Circularity Fuels, Inc., a small business located in Redwood City, CA, to develop a sorbent-enhanced catalytic process for upgrading biogas from wastewater treatment facilities into renewable natural gas (RNG). The project aims to increase the yield of RNG production by converting the carbon dioxide in the biogas into additional methane, while also...

This Project Grant award, provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program, supports the development of a light-based, energy-generating carbon removal process. The $274,094 award to Banyu Carbon Inc. aims to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by sequestering or reusing captured carbon dioxide. Key objectives include improving the resistance of the proprietary photoacid catalyst to degradation and replacing expensive...

Media & Process Technology Inc. was awarded a $500,000 Project Grant from the Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (CFDA 81.135) to demonstrate the technical feasibility and energy savings potential of a non-evaporative substrate drying process using supercritical carbon dioxide extraction combined with ceramic membrane ultrafiltration. The two-year award, issued on September 9, 2022, will support development of a process to dewater wet substrates without...

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...

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 $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...

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...

This three-year $109,380 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems, under the Engineering (47.041) program, will fund research at Florida State University to develop validated mathematical and computational models to optimize the operation of hollow fiber ultrafiltration membrane systems used in wastewater reclamation plants. The models aim to maximize water production while reducing energy consumption. The...

Coflux Purification, Inc. received a $175,000 Project Grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program (CFDA 10.212), awarded September 1, 2025, with completion targeted for April 30, 2026. The company is developing a field-ready water treatment reactor designed to address per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) contamination in agricultural areas and rural watersheds. The technology...

This $255,982 National Science Foundation project grant supports the development of sustainable, cost-effective viral clearance membranes by Filtravate, Inc. to enable efficient monoclonal antibody processing. The NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program seeks technologies leading to breakthrough solutions for national challenges. Specifically, Filtravate will develop a virus filtration membrane using a synthesis process that is more sustainable and affordable than conventional...