Cooperative Agreement DEFE0032057

This federal Cooperative Agreement award, valued at $1,875,000.00 and issued by the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management under the Fossil Energy Research and Development (CFDA 81.089) program, aims to develop a process to make the treatment of oil and gas produced water (PW) for beneficial use outside of the industry economically feasible. The project, led by Ohio University, will characterize PW from specific sites, including the Marcellus and Utica areas,...

This 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) provides $2,013,151 to Texas Tech University System to develop an integrated system engineering approach for recovering water, critical minerals, and other elements of interest from produced water in oil and gas operations. The project, titled "Strategic Management and Resource Recovery Transformation (SMAR2T): Recovery of...

The Department of Energy's Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management has awarded a $1,875,339 Cooperative Agreement under the Fossil Energy Research and Development (CFDA 81.089) program to Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University (Virginia Tech) for the project "Valuable Mineral Recovery and Alternative Utilization of Produced Water Through a Novel Process". The overall objective is to develop an integrated process for recovering valuable minerals, sequestering...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the Department of Energy (DOE) under the Clean Energy Demonstrations program (CFDA 81.255) provides $6,124,821 to United Power, Inc. to replace an aging diesel generator with a microgrid system at a municipal water treatment plant in Fort Lupton, Colorado. The microgrid will consist of an 850-kilowatt floating solar PV array and a 500 kilowatt (kW) / 1,147 kilowatt-hour (kWh) battery storage system. This project aims to increase the reliability of the...

This Cooperative Agreement award, with a total funding of $1,874,952.00, was provided by the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management under the Fossil Energy Research and Development (CFDA 81.089) federal grant program. The project aims to comprehensively characterize produced water from the Permian and San Juan Basins in New Mexico and develop a scalable and highly efficient membrane distillation-crystallization and adsorption (MDCRA) process for simultaneous...

The Bureau of Reclamation, through its Desalination and Water Purification Research (DWPR) program (CFDA 15.506), awarded a $500,972 cooperative agreement to Temple University on Sep 13, 2023. The goal of this 2-year effort is to develop an energy-neutral desalination system by integrating electroactive forward osmosis (EFO) and microbial desalination cells (MDCs). The EFO process will recover clean water from wastewater, producing concentrated wastewater and diluted seawater. The concentrated...

The U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) awarded a $2,357,187 Cooperative Agreement to Sea Potential LLC under the Renewable Energy Research and Development program (CFDA 81.087). This project will optimize the design of Sea Potential's DUO-DS wave-powered desalination system, building on a previous device developed for the Waves-to-Water Prize. The project will design, build, test, and qualify a full-scale DUO-DS device for remote coastal...

The U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management awarded a $6,941,566 Cooperative Agreement to Aris Water Solutions, Inc. under the Fossil Energy Research and Development program (CFDA 81.089) to advance research on the beneficial reuse of produced water in the Permian Basin. The project aims to develop cost-effective treatment and valorization of resources in produced water, thereby reducing the volumes of water injected in disposal wells and creating a new source...

The Bureau of Reclamation has awarded a $15,000,000 Cooperative Agreement to the San Luis & Delta-Mendota Water Authority under the SECURE Water Act - Research Agreements (CFDA 15.560) program. The 5-year pilot project aims to identify viable solutions for enabling the nation's canals (federal, state, and irrigation water districts) to serve a dual purpose of traditional water conveyance and renewable energy generation. The project will explore the installation of solar panels over canals to...

This $2,484,023 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 (CFDA 81.089) program, aims to advance the characterization of coal combustion residual effluents and illustrate the use of such characterization to determine environmental impact and resource recovery. The prime awardee is the University of Illinois, a renowned public land-grant research university that will lead...