Cooperative Agreement DEFE0031949

The Department of Energy's Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management awarded a $9,622,050 Cooperative Agreement (CFDA 81.089 - Fossil Energy Research and Development) to Membrane Technology and Research, Inc. (MTR) on December 1, 2024. The goal of this project is to design, build, and test an engineering-scale membrane hybrid carbon capture system at a cement plant. The system aims to efficiently capture over 95% of the plant's carbon dioxide emissions. The project includes a six-month field...

The Department of Energy (DOE) awarded a $500,000,000 Cooperative Agreement under the Clean Energy Demonstrations program (CFDA 81.255) to Heidelberg Materials US Inc. to construct and operate an integrated carbon capture, transport, and storage system at their cement plant in Mitchell, Indiana. The project aims to capture at least 95% of carbon dioxide emissions from the plant during steady state conditions and permanently store the CO2 in a geologic formation beneath the plant property. This...

This federal Cooperative Agreement award, issued by the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management under the Fossil Energy Research and Development program (CFDA 81.089), provides $6,250,000 in funding to The Ohio State University to conduct engineering-scale testing of its transformational membrane technology for carbon dioxide capture from natural gas combined cycle flue gas. The key objectives are to: 1) repurpose and modify an existing 5 tonne per day...

This $250,000 Project Grant was awarded on July 10, 2023 by the Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to Media And Process Technology Inc., a minority-owned, for-profit manufacturer. The funding supports the company's research and development of reactive carbon capture processes to produce on-site green chemicals, through absorbent recycling. Specific efforts include bench-scale testing of ceramic membranes, modules,...

Media & Process Technology Inc. was awarded a $500,000 Project Grant from the Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (CFDA 81.135) to demonstrate the technical feasibility and energy savings potential of a non-evaporative substrate drying process using supercritical carbon dioxide extraction combined with ceramic membrane ultrafiltration. The two-year award, issued on September 9, 2022, will support development of a process to dewater wet substrates without...

This $8,750,000 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) supports the design, fabrication, and testing of an engineering-scale transformational Rota-Cap carbon dioxide capture system on real flue gas conditions at the Institute of Gas Technology's (GTI Energy) facilities in Des Plaines, Illinois. The project objective is to advance carbon capture technology for...

This federal Cooperative Agreement award from the Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), under the Conservation Research and Development program (CFDA 81.086), provides $3,026,792.00 in funding to Calcify LLC's Carbon Capture Machine (CCM) division to develop a low-emissions, carbon-neutral cement production process. The project aims to utilize a proprietary carbonation reactor and a reactive form of calcium carbonate synthesized from captured...

Compact Membrane Systems Inc. received a $250,000 Project Grant award from the Department of Energy Office of Science on June 28, 2021 to develop low cost membranes for carbon capture. The award is part of the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049), which aims to deliver scientific discoveries and tools to transform understanding of nature and advance U.S. energy security and economic competitiveness. Under the one-year award concluding on June 26, 2022, Compact Membrane...

This 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 program (CFDA 81.086) provides $5,296,800 to Calportland Co. to develop a new and innovative method for mineralization of CO2 with processed recycled concrete. The goal is to use the carbonated paste as a supplementary cementitious material (SCM) in blended cement formulations to decrease the embodied CO2 of cement and...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program, CFDA 47.084, provides $550,000 to develop an advanced membrane-contact reactor system for fuel alcohol production from distributed biomass and natural gas resources. The awardee, Power Environmental Energy Research Institute of Covina, California, will design a highly efficient methanol production process using a sweep liquid-facilitated membrane contact reactor. This integrated reactor...