Project Grant 1214808

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $275,000 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project grant to Fourth Power, Inc., a minority-owned small business, to develop an energy storage technology that stores electricity as heat and converts it back to electricity using thermophotovoltaics (TPV). The goal is to create a low-cost battery system that can decouple power and energy, enabling discharge durations between 1-100 hours, which is not currently achievable with other...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program totaling $255,966 will support Powersilo Inc.'s development of updraft tower technology for geothermal power generation and cogeneration. The SBIR Phase I project aims to develop software models to analyze critical technology functions and optimize parameters for efficient power production from geothermal hot dry rock energy sources. Models will specifically examine air intake velocity...

This Project Grant award, funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP) program (CFDA 47.084), supports research and development by Casimir, Inc. to demonstrate the technical feasibility of continuous power generation from the quantum field for terrestrial and space applications. The $274,920 award aims to validate numerical analysis design tools that will enable optimization of custom power cells, with the goal of commercializing...

This SBIR Phase I project awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program aims to advance the development of oxide dispersion-strengthened superalloys for use in hydrogen-fueled gas turbines. The $275,000 award to Top Grain Technologies, Inc. will fund the fabrication and testing of additively manufactured alloy specimens to assess their suitability for high-temperature, hydrogen-rich environments. The key objectives...

Marel Power Solutions Inc. received a $256,000 Small Business Innovation Research Phase I Project Grant from the National Science Foundation on November 15, 2021 to complete work by December 31, 2022. The grant was awarded under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program (CFDA 47.084) to support development of a compact power-stack and packaged power module. The NSF TIP program seeks to advance science and engineering research leading to breakthrough technologies and solutions to...

This Cooperative Agreement, awarded by the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) under the Renewable Energy Research and Development program (CFDA 81.087), aims to develop an integrated approach to meet both power generation and industrial process heat demands using a cascaded heat exchanger design. The $812,500 project, with a performance period from January 1, 2025 to December 31, 2025, will focus on improving the particle-side convective heat...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I award to Windward Engineering, L.C. provides $272,019 to develop an ultra-low-cost, highly-efficient distributed wind turbine (DWT) prototype. The project aims to address the declining U.S. DWT market by creating a new wind power technology that is 40% less expensive than current DWT solutions. The key technical objectives include creating an aeroelastic model, detailed 3D design, and finite element analyses...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) Project Grant award provides $274,723 to Earthen Energy Inc. for the development of a Packed Bed Thermal Energy Storage (PB-TES) system using supercritical carbon dioxide (sCO2) as the heat transfer fluid. The project aims to create a scalable, cost-effective energy storage solution to improve grid stability and enable greater integration of renewable energy sources like wind and solar. Key objectives...

This $7,460,680 Cooperative Agreement awarded by the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy under the Conservation Research and Development program (CFDA 81.086) aims to demonstrate the emissions, performance, and cost characteristics of Noble Thermodynamic Systems' Argon Power Cycle (APC) as a hydrogen-fueled flexible combined heat and power (CHP) system. The project will assess the APC's ability to maintain excellent efficiency, flexibility, and zero-NOx...

The National Science Foundation awarded Activecharge LLC a $256,000 Project Grant under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program (CFDA 47.084) to develop an integrated, self-powered sensor node for wind turbine blade monitoring. The one-year project will address technical hurdles such as lack of reliable energy sources and logistical challenges replacing batteries inside blades. Activecharge will prototype a sensor node that reliably harvests electrical voltage from blade...