Cooperative Agreement DEFE0031793

The Department of Energy's Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management awarded Universal Matter Limited a $515,000 cooperative agreement under the Fossil Energy Research and Development program (CFDA 81.089). The two-year award will support the development of facile technology for converting domestic United States coal into high-value graphene materials. The Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management seeks to minimize environmental impacts from fossil fuels while advancing net-zero...

The federal Project Grant award of $200,000.00 from the Department of Energy's Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) was provided to Vuronyx Technologies LLC, a minority-owned small disadvantaged business located in Woburn, Massachusetts. The grant supports the "DESIGN AND LOW-COST MANUFACTURING OF HIGH PURITY MAX POWDER" project, with a period of performance from July 22, 2024 to July 21, 2025. The objective of this grant is to advance U.S. energy security,...

Directed Vapor Technologies International, Inc. received a $199,959 Project Grant award from the Department of Energy Office of Science on June 28, 2021 to support its METAL CARBON COMPOSITE MANUFACTURING project. The project aims to develop manufacturing techniques for metal carbon composites through March 27, 2022. The award is being administered under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA No. 81.049), which supports scientific discoveries and tools to transform...

The U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, awarded a $200,000 Project Grant under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to Ark Power TECH Corporation in Coppell, TX. The funding supports the development of "Functionalized 3D Carbon Nanofiber Composites for High-Performance Autonomous Aerial Vehicles". The project aims to advance U.S. energy, economic, and national security priorities through transformative scientific discoveries in materials research...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (CFDA 81.087 Renewable Energy Research and Development) provides $9,279,968 to West Virginia University Research Corporation to design and build a hybrid microwave-assisted heating process (HMAP) for the calcination and sintering of solid-oxide electrolysis cell (SOEC) materials and cells. The project will span from lab demonstration of small samples to commercial size (up to...

The Department of Energy Office of Science awarded Microbeam Technologies Incorporated $249,974 under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to support optimization of coal waste and biomass gasification for hydrogen production from June 27, 2022 to June 26, 2023. The award will fund evaluation of potential gasifier technologies, including R-GASTM and E-GAS systems, to utilize waste coal and other feedstocks for dry entrained-flow gasification. A $249,974 subaward was...

The Department of Energy's Office of Science awarded a $200,000 Project Grant (CFDA 81.049) to Starfire Industries LLC to conduct research on "IN-LINE METROLOGY FOR REAL-TIME MANUFACTURING OF THIN-FILM PVD ATF COATINGS USING IMPULSE HIPIMS + POSITIVE KICK". The project aims to develop advanced in-line metrology techniques for the real-time manufacturing of thin-film physical vapor deposition (PVD) advanced technology fuel (ATF) coatings using impulse high-power impulse magnetron...

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...

This Cooperative Agreement award of $1,189,750.00 was provided by the Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E), CFDA 81.135, to Iowa State University of Science and Technology for the "Ferritic and Vanadium Alloys with Nanoparticle Strengthening for Fusion (FAVA-NSF)" project. The purpose is to develop novel nanoparticle-strengthened ferritic and vanadium-based alloys through an accelerated materials discovery process involving computational alloy design, rapid alloy...

This $9,015,658 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) is focused on optimizing the production throughput, capacity, and commercial competitiveness of non-platinum catalysts for P H Matter LLC, a small disadvantaged business based in Columbus, Ohio. The key objectives are to: 1) Increase catalyst production throughput by 5x to 5 kg/day,...