This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) under the Renewable Energy Research and Development program (CFDA 81.087) aims to accelerate the domestic manufacturing of Pajarito Powder's durable engineered catalyst support (ECS) materials and supported Pt and Pt alloy-based catalysts. The $10,950,000 award will advance the technology readiness level of ECS and catalyst production from 4 to 8, scaling...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (CFDA 47.049 - Mathematical and Physical Sciences) provides $643,347.00 to the University of Alabama-Tuscaloosa to develop computational tools that empower the design of efficient molecular catalysts. The key products and services to be delivered under this 5-year award include: Using high-performance computational screening to identify optimal catalyst structures, compositions, and kinetics to increase activity, selectivity, and...
This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) under the Renewable Energy Research and Development program (CFDA 81.087) provides $425,309 to the University of Dayton Research Institute to develop scalable performance and optimization tools for narrow-channel designs in particle-to-SCO2 heat exchangers and for commercial-scale trough designs in multi-stage falling particle receivers for concentrating solar power (CSP)...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems (CBET), under the Engineering (CFDA 47.041) program, provides $250,000 to the Trustees of the Colorado School of Mines to develop and demonstrate an electrified catalytic process for converting CO2 into sustainable liquid hydrocarbon fuels. The project aims to use rapid heating and cooling cycles within a reactor to drive the CO2 conversion reaction,...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems awarded a $474,379 Project Grant to the Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (Tees), a government entity and state institution of higher learning, to conduct research on the intensification of catalytic hydrogenation of CO2 to produce hydrocarbons. The project will develop cooperative tandem catalysts that promote sequences of chemical reactions, which could enable new process...
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 Cooperative Agreement award of $3,141,250, funded by the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy under the Renewable Energy Research and Development program (CFDA 81.087), aims to demonstrate low-temperature hydrogen production from proton-conducting solid oxide electrolysis cell (P-SOEC) technology with enhanced activity, efficiency, and durability. The award supports a multi-year project with the University of Oklahoma to advance P-SOEC materials,...
This federal Cooperative Agreement award, provided by the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) under the Conservation Research and Development program (CFDA 81.086), will fund a $17,547,861 project to design, install, and demonstrate a 250 kW solid oxide electrolyzer cell (SOEC) system. The project aims to advance the SOEC technology from TRL 4 to TRL 6 by integrating it with an existing 1.6 million ton per year direct reduction of iron (DRI)...
Polykala Technologies, LLC received a $206,500 Project Grant award from the Department of Energy Office of Science on June 27, 2022 to support development of "NANOCATALYSTS AND SINGLE-ATOM CATALYSTS DEVELOPMENT AND MANUFACTURING ASSISTED BY INEXPENSIVE CUSTOM DESIGNED LOW-TEMPERATURE PLASMA." The work will be performed in San Antonio, TX through June 26, 2023. The award is funded through the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA #81.049), which supports basic research to...
This Project Grant award of $275,000 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) will support research by the University of California, Irvine (UCI) to elucidate the cycling and deactivation mechanisms of earth-abundant CO2 looping sorbents, such as calcium oxide, under precise temperature control. The research aims to develop a computational modeling framework and validate it experimentally using advanced microscopy techniques. This will enable the design of...