Cooperative Agreement DEFE0031828

This federal Cooperative Agreement award, valued at $1,875,339.00 and issued on October 1, 2024 by the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management (CFDA 81.089 Fossil Energy Research and Development), aims to develop an integrative process for achieving three beneficial uses for produced water: valuable mineral recovery, carbon fixation, and irrigation water generation. The project involves bench-scale testing and optimization of key treatment process steps,...

Advanced Cooling Technologies Inc., doing business as Act, was awarded a $195,369.97 Project Grant from the Department of Energy Office of Science on February 22, 2021 to complete work by November 21, 2021. The grant was awarded under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to support Act's research into supercritical carbon dioxide dewatering enhanced by cosolvent and surfactant formulations. Specifically, Act will work to develop techniques using supercritical CO2,...

This Cooperative Agreement award, funded by the U.S. Department of Energy's Fossil Energy Research and Development (CFDA 81.089) program, aims to comprehensively characterize produced water from the Permian and San Juan Basins in New Mexico and develop a scalable membrane distillation-crystallization and adsorption (MDCRA) process for simultaneous water and critical elements recovery from produced water. The total award amount is $1,874,952.00, with a performance period from August 16, 2024 to...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP) program (CFDA 47.084) was provided to Aeris Water Technologies, LLC, a minority-owned small business located in Atlanta, GA. The $304,996 award, effective from March 1, 2025 to February 28, 2026, supports the development of an advanced atmospheric water extraction (AWE) device. The project aims to optimize AWE adsorbent materials and device configurations to create a...

The Department of Energy Office of Science awarded a $199,992 Project Grant to Advanced Cooling Technologies Inc. (Act) under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to develop a "Thermally Enhanced Obstructed Flow Board for Hot Spot Mitigation". The project aims to design and produce advanced thermal management solutions such as heat pipes, cold plates, and cooling systems for aerospace, defense, and energy applications. Act, a for-profit manufacturer of...

This $978,431 Cooperative Agreement award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP) program (CFDA 47.084) supports the development of an innovative two-phase cooling system using micro closed-loop pulsating heat pipes by Global Cooling Technology Group LLC, a small business specializing in advanced cooling technologies. The project aims to create a disruptive cooling solution that can enhance the performance of high-power density electronics,...

This EAGER (Early-concept Grants for Exploratory Research) project, awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems under CFDA Program 47.041 Engineering, will explore the mechanisms underlying the performance of a two-dimensional interfacial evaporator that uses microcapillaries and metal surfaces to enable highly efficient water evaporation through solar-thermal interfacial evaporation. The total award amount is...

This $100,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program will support the development of passive solar desalination technology for produced water from oil and gas extraction sites. The Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station will modify existing solar evaporation ponds using hierarchical nanstructured hydrogel materials to increase evaporation rates and superhydrophobic coatings to enhance water droplet departure on glass...

Ion Clean Energy Inc. was awarded an $816,759 cooperative agreement from the Department of Energy's Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management under the Fossil Energy Research and Development program (CFDA #81.089). The award will support a pilot test of electrodialysis reversal technology from July 1, 2021 through April 30, 2023. As part of its mission to minimize environmental impacts from fossil fuels while advancing net-zero emissions, the Office's program uses research, development,...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Reclamation under the Water Desalination Research and Development Program (CFDA 15.506) is providing $500,277.45 to the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) to develop field-effect transistor nanosensors for testing per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in water and air. The award, which commenced on Mar 5, 2025 and is scheduled for completion by Sep 30, 2026, supports NJIT's research and...