Cooperative Agreement DEFE0032248

The Department of Energy's Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management awarded a $312,500 Cooperative Agreement under the Fossil Energy Research and Development (CFDA 81.089) program to Electricore Inc., a non-profit organization based in Valencia, California. The objective of this 20-month project is to perform the conceptual design of an oxy-fuel combustion system for retrofitting existing rotary lime kilns. This system is intended to enhance the energy efficiency and reduce the carbon...

This Cooperative Agreement award, funded by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) under the Clean Energy Demonstrations program (CFDA 81.255), provides $500,000,000.00 to the National Cement Company of California (NCC-CA) to construct and operate an integrated carbon capture and storage (CCS) system at their cement plant in Lebec, California. The project will utilize three key processes: 1) replacing a portion of the plant's fossil fuel use with locally sourced biomass, 2) producing limestone...

The Department of Energy (DOE) awarded a $189,000,000 Cooperative Agreement under the Clean Energy Demonstrations program (CFDA 81.255) to Brimstone Commercial, LLC to construct and operate a new plant that will commercialize a deeply decarbonized process for making ordinary Portland cement (OPC) and co-products, including supplementary cementitious materials (SCM) and smelter-grade alumina (SGA). The project will develop a transformative technology that applies a chemical-based process for...

This Cooperative Agreement award of $1,743,635 from the National Science Foundation's Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083) aims to transform industrial and biomass wastes into low-cost, low-carbon construction materials using a novel negative emission technology (NET). The project is a collaborative effort involving researchers from the University of Alabama, University of New Mexico, University of Idaho, and Alabama A&M University, a Historically Black College and University. The...

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. for the Mitchell Cement Plant Decarbonization Project. This project aims to construct and operate an integrated carbon capture, transport, and storage system at Heidelberg Materials' cement plant located in Mitchell, Indiana. The project is designed to capture at least 95% of carbon dioxide emissions from the plant's operations...

Sublime Systems, Inc. was awarded a $498,253 project grant from the Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy to develop an alternative process for lime production using renewable electricity. The goal of the project is to produce lime, a key ingredient in cement, through an electrochemical synthesis method instead of using fossil fuels. This new production method aims to create lime with exceptional purity, consistency, and reactivity to enable next-generation low-carbon...

This $491,763 Cooperative Agreement award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083) aims to transform hazardous industrial waste and biomass into sustainable, low-carbon construction materials using negative emission technology (NET). The project revolves around developing a process to capture and mineralize CO2 from alkaline industrial waste streams, creating calcium-rich compounds that can partially replace Portland cement in concrete. This...

This $950,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation, under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), will fund research at Arizona State University to develop carbon-neutral cement manufacturing technologies. The goal is to enable production of Portland cement and other lime-based cements in an energy-efficient and carbon-neutral manner through technological innovations, including a low-temperature process to decompose...

The U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management awarded C-Crete Technologies LLC a $2,500,000 Cooperative Agreement under the Fossil Energy Research and Development program (CFDA 81.089). The project aims to develop a low-cost, high-yield, and scalable process to mineralize carbon dioxide (CO2) into a specialized formulation of carbon-negative concrete. C-Crete Technologies will apply advanced synthesis, green chemistry, and standard concrete testing and scale-up...

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...