This 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) provides $1,842,070.00 in funding to the Regents of the University of Michigan to validate and verify field deployment of novel flare and emissions monitoring technologies. The award period runs from January 13, 2025 through September 30, 2028. As a leading public research university, the University of Michigan will leverage...
This federal Cooperative Agreement award, provided by the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy under the Conservation Research and Development program (CFDA 81.086), supports the development and demonstration of recyclable-by-design polymer composite materials for lightweight vehicle shells and battery casings. The $2,111,714 award, with a performance period from August 2024 to May 2025, aims to enable the circularity of carbon-fiber reinforced polymer...
This federal Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Energy under the Manufacturing and Energy Supply Chain Demonstrations and Commercial Applications program (CFDA 81.253) will provide $45,306,144 to help small and medium-sized automotive facilities in Michigan currently producing internal combustion engine vehicle components modernize their capabilities to manufacture electric vehicle equipment. The award aims to strengthen domestic manufacturing and energy supply chains needed to...
The Department of Energy awarded a $750,000 Project Grant under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to the Regents of the University of Michigan, effective September 1, 2024 through August 31, 2025. The grant supports research on "CATALYTIC UPGRADING OF RENEWABLE FEEDSTOCKS", with a focus on developing ligands, metal complexes, investigating catalytic reactions, and examining reaction mechanisms, as well as the investigation of photochemical activation of...
The U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) awarded a $2.25 million Cooperative Agreement to Michigan Technological University under the Renewable Energy Research and Development program (CFDA 81.087). The grant, titled "FROM SORTED MSW TO CLEAN SYNGAS VIA SOLVENT TARGETED RECOVERY AND PRECIPITATION (STRAP)", will support research and development to advance renewable energy technologies. The project, with a performance period from October...
This Cooperative Agreement, awarded by 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 $251,943 in funding to the Regents of the University of Michigan to develop a scalable process for fabricating and characterizing coherent CdTe/Cd1-xZnxTe/ZnTe heterostructures. The primary objectives are to (1) develop the fabrication and structural characterization process, and (2)...
This $4,780,280 Cooperative Agreement, awarded by the Department of Energy under the Conservation Research and Development (CFDA 81.086) program, will enable the University of Detroit Mercy (UDM) to reduce energy use and emissions by an estimated 25% in 10-13 nonprofit facilities located in Detroit, Highland Park, and Hamtramck. UDM will conduct energy audits, building energy modeling, and construction planning to implement energy efficiency upgrades in these nonprofit buildings, with a focus on...
This $2,600,000 Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Conservation Research and Development program (CFDA 81.086) supports Collaborative Composite Solutions Corporation (CCS), a non-profit organization, in developing large-scale 3D printed steel tools for molding lightweight automotive composite components. The 1-year project aims to advance additive manufacturing and composite materials innovations to enable low-cost, high-rate production of durable and...
The University of Michigan has been awarded a $2,680,000 Cooperative Agreement from the U.S. Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) program under CFDA 81.135. The award is titled "Rapid State of Health Diagnosis by Model-Enabled Pulse Form Sequence" and will run from January 1, 2025 to December 31, 2027. The project aims to develop innovative technologies for advanced rechargeable batteries, including rapid state-of-health diagnosis and improved...
This $5,120,000 Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), under the Conservation Research and Development (CFDA 81.086) program, will support the Leland Stanford Junior University in conducting research, development, prototype or pilot-scale technology validation, and demonstration activities to advance strategies for industrial decarbonization. The funded activities will focus on cross-sector approaches for...