Cooperative Agreement DEFE0032187

This $595,400 Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (CFDA 10.310) aims to apply genome-scale metabolic models to enhance the nutrient content, flavor profiles, and production efficiency of microalgae as a sustainable and nutritious protein source. The key products and services to be delivered through this 3-year project include: 1) Increasing protein and antioxidant pigment levels in microalgae while reducing bitterness and...

This $1,250,000 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) is funding Global Algae Innovations, Inc., a small disadvantaged business, to develop and demonstrate an integrated process for producing algal-based polyurethane consumer products from flue gas carbon dioxide. The key objectives include: 1) scaling up algal oil extraction and fatty acid separation, 2) optimizing the...

This $1,000,000 Project Grant from the US Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture (USDA NIFA) Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) program (CFDA 10.310) will fund research at Purdue University to develop an intensive aquaculture production system with near-zero emissions through integrating recirculating aquaculture systems (RAS), phycoremediation using algae to treat wastewater, and anaerobic digestion for nutrient reuse, energy production and carbon...

This Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program provides $304,541 to Namaka Algae, Inc. to develop an area-efficient cultivation technology for dense microalgae cultures. The goal is to create a disruptive algal production system that lowers costs while reducing land and water use, supporting the U.S. algae industry for aquaculture feed production and enhancing food security. The technical innovation...

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, awarded a $1,248,841 Cooperative Agreement to Helios-Nrg LLC, a minority-owned, for-profit limited liability company based in East Amherst, New York. The project aims to leverage Helios-Nrg's multi-stage continuous algae-based process to transform brewery off-gas carbon dioxide emissions into algae biomass, which will then be...

This NSF Project Grant award to Mvmnt-X, Inc. in the amount of $275,000 under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program supports the development of new optical methods to improve the productivity of microalgae cultivation systems. The key products or services to be delivered through this 12-month project include: New illumination methods to enable ultra-high density, high-efficiency microalgae hybrid-photobioreactor scrubbers for capturing carbon dioxide and other...

The Department of Energy's Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management has awarded a $1,250,095 Cooperative Agreement under the Fossil Energy Research and Development (CFDA 81.089) federal grant program to Microbio Engineering Inc., a for-profit company located in San Luis Obispo, CA. The funding will support the development of a novel agricultural technology based on cultivating nitrogen-fixing cyanobacteria ("blue-green" microalgae). The harvested biomass will be used to produce...

This $650,000 Project Grant was awarded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (USDA NIFA) under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR)/Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Program (CFDA 10.212). The grant was awarded to Max-Ir Labs Incorporated, a woman-owned small business based in Dallas, Texas, to develop an advanced sensor capable of real-time monitoring of key chemicals in algae growth media. The sensor will leverage novel waveguide...

This Project Grant award of $420,000 from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) will support research by the University of Massachusetts to develop an affordable and energy-efficient technology for removing nitrogen and phosphorus from municipal wastewater. The project will explore the use of oxygenic photogranules (OPGs) - dense, naturally forming clusters of algae and bacteria that can remove nutrients from wastewater through photosynthesis and microbial...

This $650,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program will support the development and testing of a new biomanufacturing process for creating nutraceuticals (plant-based compounds that support human health) and a climate-friendly precipitated calcium carbonate (PCC) product at the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science (UMCES). The key objectives are to build and test a...