Cooperative Agreement DEEE0011197

General Electric Company's GE Additive division was awarded a $1,466,390 cooperative agreement from the Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy to develop a novel additive manufacturing process for fabricating silicon carbide matrix composite heat exchangers. The objective is to utilize an advanced additive manufacturing machine and method to fabricate complex silicon carbide components and incorporate chopped fibers to enable composite properties for applications...

This $12,286,600 Cooperative Agreement awarded 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 supports a nationwide collaboration between industry and academia to pioneer an industrial-scale demonstration of alternative injectant refining and electromagnetic stirring (EMS) electric arc furnace (EAF) operation in the U.S. The project aims to enable complete decarbonization of the EAF...

The American Cast Iron Pipe Company (AMERICAN) was awarded a $75,000,000 Cooperative Agreement by the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Clean Energy Demonstrations program (CFDA 81.255) to retrofit its Birmingham, Alabama facility. The project will install four medium frequency coreless induction furnaces and three channel induction holding furnaces to replace the facility's existing cupola and induction furnaces. This will enable AMERICAN to shift its iron and steel production towards...

The Department of Energy (DOE) awarded a $44,714,384 Cooperative Agreement to Golden Aluminum Inc. under the Clean Energy Demonstrations program (CFDA 81.255) to demonstrate the NexCast-Caster, a groundbreaking continuous cast equipment, as an alternative to the energy-intensive direct-chill casting process. The project aims to produce flat-rolled, low-carbon aluminum products for automotive and packaging customers while increasing scrap usage and reducing natural gas use and associated...

This EAGER (Early-Concept Grants for Exploratory Research) award from the National Science Foundation (CFDA 47.041 - Engineering) provides $300,000 to New York University (NYU) to develop a novel plasma-electrochemical approach for decarbonizing steel manufacturing. The project aims to eliminate the need for carbon-based reducing agents and fuels in steel production, which currently accounts for 20% of industrial CO2 emissions. Key activities include: 1) Establishing design principles for a...

The Department of Energy (DOE) awarded a $75,000,000 Cooperative Agreement under the Clean Energy Demonstrations program (CFDA 81.255) to Cleveland-Cliffs Steel Corporation to construct four new induction reheat furnaces (IRFs) at its Lyndora, PA facility. The project aims to upgrade the steel slab reheating process to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and enhance the production of high-silicon grain oriented electrical steel (GOES), which is used to manufacture electrical transformers. This...

The Department of Energy (DOE) awarded a $500,000,000 Cooperative Agreement under the Clean Energy Demonstrations program (CFDA 81.255) to Century Aluminum Co. to commence commercial operations of a new primary aluminum smelting and processing facility in Chicago, IL. The key objectives of the project are to: Produce approximately 500,000 tons per year of high-quality primary aluminum, including 20,000 tons per year of high-purity aluminum suitable for national defense applications....

The Enabled Manufacturing LLC received a $200,000 Project Grant award from the Department of Energy Office of Science under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to conduct research on the synthesis and direct manufacturing of high conductivity aluminum alloys. The one-year project period, which began on June 27, 2022, will support the development of an energy efficient solid-state process for producing advanced aluminum conductors and their characterization. As part...

The U.S. Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) awarded a $1,788,621 Cooperative Agreement to the University of Illinois for the "HIGH EFFICIENCY, SOLID STATE MICROWAVE-POWERED HYDROGEN PLASMAS FOR USE IN DIRECT REDUCTION OF TACONITE ORE AND ORE CONCENTRATES IN A ROTARY KILN FURNACE" project. This 3-year project, with a start date of August 15, 2024, will develop a microwave-powered hydrogen plasma rotary kiln process for directly reducing iron ore...

The Department of Energy (DOE) awarded a $67,314,320 Cooperative Agreement under the Clean Energy Demonstrations program (CFDA 81.255) to Real Alloy Recycling, LLC. The objective is to design, construct, and operate a closed-loop salt slag recycling unit at Real Alloy's aluminum recycling facility in Wabash, Indiana. The project aims to divert approximately 70% of the facility's salt slag waste from landfill to recycling processes that produce marketable products such as flux, aluminum oxide,...