This $6,250,000 Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management, under CFDA Program No. 81.089 - Fossil Energy Research and Development, aims to advance technologies for critical materials extraction, recovery, separation, and purification. The key objectives are to: 1) evaluate physical upgrading technologies for sample feedstock materials, 2) extract rare earth elements (REEs) and critical minerals/materials (CMMs) using...
The Department of Energy's Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management awarded $362,497 to West Virginia University Research Corporation under the Fossil Energy Research and Development program (CFDA 81.089) for a cooperative agreement titled "Advanced Processing of Rare Earth Elements and Critical Minerals from Acid Mine Drainage Feedstocks." The award, made in January 2022, will support research to develop processes for extracting rare earth elements and critical minerals from acid...
This $6,390,593 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) plans to conduct pilot testing to obtain aqueous solutions rich in mixed rare earth elements, critical minerals and materials, and a lithium-containing raffinate. The primary recipient, the University of Kentucky Research Foundation, will work with sub-recipient Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University...
This Cooperative Agreement award from the Department of Energy's Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management (CFDA 81.089 Fossil Energy Research and Development) provides $1,250,000.00 in funding to Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University, doing business as Virginia Tech, to complete the development and validation of novel processes for the recovery of carbonaceous materials and rare earth elements (REEs) from coal waste. The project period runs from February 15, 2024 to February...
This $6,250,007 Cooperative Agreement was awarded by the 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 overall objective of this 3-year project is to design, develop, and deploy innovative process technologies to produce salable rare earth metals and critical minerals from acid mine drainage feedstocks at a reduced cost. This will help reduce the nation's vulnerability to...
The federal Cooperative Agreement award, titled "The Alliance for Critical Mineral Extraction and Production from Coal-Based Resources for Vitality Enhancement in Domestic Supply Chains (ACME-REVIVE)", is funded 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. The $6,265,773 award supports research, development, and demonstration of innovative technologies to revive a robust, 100%...
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), awarded a $9,993,082 Cooperative Agreement to Winner Water Services Inc. on July 9, 2024. Through this funding, the recipient will perform a Front End Engineering and Design (FEED) study for a 1-3 ton per day mixed rare earth oxide (MREO) extraction, separation, and refining facility capable of recovering high purity or binary rare earth metals...
The U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management awarded a $2,500,000 Cooperative Agreement to Lehigh University under the Fossil Energy Research and Development (CFDA 81.089) program. The project aims to characterize the rare earth elements/elements of interest in coal combustion residual wastewater and solid wastes associated with coal power generation. The secondary objective is to demonstrate recovery technologies to enable beneficial use of these coal combustion...
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management awarded a $500,000 Project Grant under CFDA 81.089 - Fossil Energy Research and Development to Georgia TECH Research Corporation. The grant aims to develop a set of robust, environmentally-friendly, and scalable ionic liquids that can efficiently leach, extract, and separate rare earth elements (REEs) from coal fly ash. The project will also work to effectively electrodeposit the REE mixture to produce purified...
The federal Cooperative Agreement award in the amount of $6,740,943.00 was granted 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. The award is for the establishment of a demonstration-scale modular plant to produce rare earth metals, alumina, and lithium carbonate from bituminous coal underclay. The project, which has a performance period from October 1, 2024 to December 31, 2025, aims to...