The University of Tennessee received a $812,500 Cooperative Agreement award from the Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) under the Renewable Energy Research and Development (CFDA 81.087) program. The objective is to demonstrate an integrated approach leveraging advanced manufacturing to meet both power generation and industrial process heat demands. Key products and services include: Developing a cascaded heat exchanger design with a primary heat...
The University of Tennessee received a $6,250,000 Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy under the Conservation Research and Development program (CFDA 81.086). The objective of this 3-year project, with a completion date of August 31, 2027, is to develop and integrate an 800V/200kW GaN-based three-level high-power-density inverter and permanent magnet assisted synchronous reluctance motor (PMSYNRM). The University...
This federal Cooperative Agreement award, with a total funding amount of $1,271,416.00, was granted by the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy under the Conservation Research and Development (CFDA 81.086) program. The objective of this project is to develop a novel pultruded composite material for lightweight vehicle structural components. The award was made to the Regents of the University of Michigan, a prominent U.S. state government-owned...
The University of Texas at Austin was awarded a $1,250,000 Cooperative Agreement 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). This 1-year award, effective July 1, 2024, will fund research and development of high-thermal conductivity metallic compounds for industrial heat decarbonization. The goal is to advance innovative energy efficiency and decarbonization technologies that can help...
The Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy awarded a $2,111,714 Cooperative Agreement under the Conservation Research and Development (CFDA 81.086) program to the University of Utah. The objective of this 22-month project is to develop and demonstrate the circularity of carbon-fiber reinforced polymer (CFRP) materials used as vehicle door panels and structural battery casings, enabled by recyclable-by-design thermoset resins sourced from waste plastic...
This Cooperative Agreement award of $1,631,000.00 was provided by the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E), a program under the U.S. Department of Energy (CFDA 81.135), to Purdue University. The award is for the project "Integrated Technoeconomic, Lifecycle, and Circularity Analyses Tool for EV Batteries", with a period of performance from January 1, 2025 to January 9, 2028. The project aims to develop an integrated analysis tool to support the lifecycle and circularity...
This $640,000 cooperative agreement from the Department of Energy's Office of Nuclear Energy through the Nuclear Energy Research, Development and Demonstration program (CFDA 81.121) supports nuclear energy safety analysis and fuel performance modeling at the University of Tennessee from October 2021 through September 2024. The University will perform safety analysis of high-burnup fuel for a Westinghouse 4-loop pressurized water reactor, encompassing normal operation, anticipated operational...
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 $500,000 in funding to Tennessee Technological University (Tennessee Tech) to develop and evaluate novel oxidation- and erosion-resistant Tribaloy-based coatings for protecting critical concentrating solar-thermal power (CSP) components. The project aims to optimize the Tribaloy...
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) provides $746,269 to the University of Tennessee to conduct research and development on boron nitride (h-BN) catalysts for liquid organic hydrogen carriers (LOHCs). The key objectives are to: 1) optimize h-BN catalysts for dehydrogenation of saturated carbazole-based LOHCs, achieving over 100x...
The Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy awarded a $999,975 Cooperative Agreement to Louisiana State University (LSU) on February 1, 2024 under the Renewable Energy Research and Development program (CFDA 81.087). The overarching goal of this 1-year project is to develop a safe, inexpensive, and recyclable hydrogen storage and generation system based on formate dehydrogenation and bicarbonate hydrogenation reactions. The primary objective is to create...