This federal Cooperative Agreement award, funded by the Department of Energy's Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management under the Fossil Energy Research and Development program (CFDA 81.089), aims to develop a process to economically treat oil and gas produced water for beneficial use outside of the oil and gas industries. The $1,875,000 project, awarded to Ohio University with a start date of Sep 1, 2024 and end date of Aug 31, 2025, will: 1) characterize produced water from specific...
This Cooperative Agreement, awarded by the U.S. Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) under CFDA 81.135, provides $634,168 in funding to Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University (Virginia Tech) to conduct research and development on innovative energy technologies. The project's focus is to obtain a copy of the Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) and then apply through the ARPA-E Exchange portal. The award incorporates changes to the FOA,...
The U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management, awarded a $2,013,151 Cooperative Agreement to the Texas Tech University System for the "Strategic Management and Resource Recovery Transformation (SMAR2T): Recovery of Water and Elements of Interest from Produced Water using Intensified Membrane Distillation and Metal Extraction" project under the Fossil Energy Research and Development (CFDA 81.089) federal grant program. The project objective is to develop a...
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) was awarded a $400,000 project grant from the Department of Energy's Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management to develop a data-driven framework for identifying and remediating soil contaminated by leached metals near coal ash impoundments. The three-year award, made on October 1, 2022 under the Fossil Energy Research and Development program (CFDA #81.089), will support Virginia Tech's efforts to minimize environmental...
This federal Cooperative Agreement award, totaling $1,874,952.00 and provided by the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management (CFDA 81.089 Fossil Energy Research and Development), aims to comprehensively characterize produced water from the Permian and San Juan Basins in New Mexico and develop a scalable and highly efficient membrane distillation-crystallization and adsorption (MDCRA) process for simultaneous water and critical elements recovery from produced...
The Department of Energy's Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management awarded a $6,941,566 Cooperative Agreement under the Fossil Energy Research and Development (CFDA 81.089) program to Aris Water Solutions, Inc. for the project "Desalinated Produced Water as Irrigation Source for Non-Consumptive Agriculture and Adjacencies for Ammonia Mining and Carbon Sequestration Field Trials." The project aims to advance research on the beneficial reuse of produced water in the Permian...
This $1,073,000 Project Grant awarded by the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) supports research by Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University to develop rigid polynorbornenes prepared by vinyl addition polymerization for gas separation membranes. The award has an effective date of August 1, 2024 and a target completion date of October 31, 2025. As a leading public research university, Virginia Tech will leverage its extensive...
The U.S. Department of the Interior's Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement (OSMRE) awarded a $200,000 Cooperative Agreement to Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University (Virginia Tech) under the "Science and Technology Projects Related to Coal Mining and Reclamation" CFDA program. The objective is to develop and verify a novel phytomining-based process that enables simultaneous rare earth element (REE) recovery and solid waste reclamation from coal mine...
This $325,000 cooperative agreement from the Department of Energy's Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management supports research under the Fossil Energy Research and Development program (CFDA 81.089) to extract, separate, and produce high purity rare earth elements and critical minerals from coal-based and related resources. The University of Utah is the primary awardee and will conduct the technical work from January 2022 through April 2023. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State...
The Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement awarded Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University $200,000 under the Science and Technology Projects Related to Coal Mining and Reclamation federal grant program (CFDA 15.255) from July 1, 2023 to June 30, 2025. The award will support Virginia Tech's development, optimization, and validation of an innovative acid mine drainage sludge dewatering process circuit consisting of lime neutralization, precipitate flotation, and...