Cooperative Agreement DEFE0032399

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...

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 two-year, $250,000 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) will support the development of an innovative low-temperature approach to convert captured carbon dioxide emissions into calcium and magnesium carbonates using a vortex-flow driven process. Specifically, Cornell University will advance the fundamental aspects of reactor engineering and tuning of multiphase chemical interactions to chemically regenerate carbon dioxide-loaded solvents,...

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 National Science Foundation awarded a $100,000 Project Grant under the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program to the University of Wisconsin-Madison to develop a direct air capture technology for carbon dioxide sequestration. The university will utilize industrial waste materials and a two-step mineral carbonation method to directly capture CO2 from the atmosphere and store it as a stable mineral. This has the potential to offer a low-cost solution for permanent CO2 removal on a...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), under the Conservation Research and Development (CFDA 81.086) federal grant program, provides $5,296,800.00 to fund the development of a new and innovative method for mineralizing CO2 with processed recycled concrete. The goal is to use the carbonated paste as a supplementary cementitious material (SCM) in blended cement formulations, in order to decrease the embodied...

The Department of Energy (DOE) awarded a $500,000,000 Cooperative Agreement under the Clean Energy Demonstrations program (CFDA 81.255) 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 replace a portion of the plant's fossil fuel use with locally sourced biomass, produce limestone calcined clay cement (LC3) to reduce the average clinker content of...

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 Roanoke Cement Company, LLC (RCC) was awarded a $61,700,000 Cooperative Agreement from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) under the Clean Energy Demonstrations program (CFDA 81.255). The project aims to construct and operate a first-of-its-kind calcined clay production line in the United States to manufacture Limestone Calcined Clay Cement (LC3) using a flash calciner technology. The calcined clay will replace a significant portion of the cement clinker, reducing the carbon intensity of the...

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...