The Department of Energy's Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management awarded the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois a $5 million cooperative agreement under the Fossil Energy Research and Development program (CFDA #81.089). The award will support the project "Direct Air Capture-Based Carbon Dioxide Removal with United States Low-Carbon Energy and Sinks" from October 1, 2021 through December 31, 2023. Under this cooperative agreement, the University of Illinois will...
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...
The U.S. Department of Energy's Fossil Energy Research and Development (CFDA 81.089) program awarded a $3,709,032 Cooperative Agreement to the University of Illinois to complete a feasibility study for a regional Direct Air Capture (DAC) hub in Florida. The key objectives are to define the DAC hub organization, select technologies, assess life cycle emissions, identify safety/regulatory requirements, and develop financing, business, and community benefits plans. Planned sub-awards include...
This $11,247,972 Cooperative Agreement award, funded by the Department of Energy's Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management under the Fossil Energy Research and Development (CFDA 81.089) program, will conduct a feasibility assessment of an integrated carbon capture and storage (CCS) project at a site in Carbon County, Wyoming. The project will gather data, apply for required permits, build a modeling framework, and assess risks and mitigation plans for a potential commercial-scale CCS...
The University of Illinois received a $1,300,004 Project Grant award from the Department of the Interior US Geological Survey under the National Geological and Geophysical Data Preservation program (CFDA 15.814). The award will fund three priorities over the 2-year project period from August 1, 2023 to July 31, 2025: Moving and re-curating the StratPAL paleontology collection, including digitizing specimens and updating the collection's metadata in online databases. This will benefit researchers...
The University of Hawaii at Manoa was awarded a $1,000,000 Cooperative Agreement from the U.S. Department of Energy's Fossil Energy Research and Development program (CFDA 81.089) on June 29, 2023. The 2-year project seeks to assess the potential of Hawaii Island's subsurface basalt formations to store large amounts of carbon dioxide (CO2) through mineralization. Key activities include field well testing, laboratory experiments, and reaction modeling to evaluate the CO2 injection and...
This $11,996,227 Cooperative Agreement, awarded 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), aims to de-risk the development of a carbon storage complex in Miami-Dade County, Florida. The key objectives include acquiring geologic and subsurface data, developing a regulatory-compliant operating and monitoring system for a future underground injection control (UIC) Class VI permit, and...
The Department of the Interior U.S. Geological Survey awarded a $660,000 Cooperative Agreement under the Earth Mapping Resources Initiative (CFDA 15.073) to the University of Illinois. The purpose of the project is for the Illinois State Geological Survey, in collaboration with the Iowa, Indiana, and Kentucky State Geological Surveys, to collect new geochemical data on critical mineral concentrations in Devonian black shales across the Illinois Basin. The data will help evaluate ore mineralizing...
This Cooperative Agreement awarded by the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management (CFDA 81.089 - Fossil Energy Research and Development) will provide $31,262,296 to Projeo Corp to demonstrate the feasibility of converting a mature oil and gas field in the Permian Basin into a dedicated carbon dioxide (CO2) storage facility. The key objectives of this project are to: Validate subsurface characterization, storage capacity, and injectivity for long-term CO2...
This Cooperative Agreement award, with a total funding amount of $3,909,166.00, is provided by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) under the Conservation Research and Development program (CFDA 81.086). The overall objective is to complete a feasibility study for a regional Direct Air Capture (DAC) hub encompassing Illinois, Indiana, and Kentucky. The study will be executed in two phases: Phase 0A to complete a pre-feasibility study, and Phase 0B to complete the full feasibility study. Key...