Project Grant 1831087

Solve Technology and Research, Inc. was awarded a $256,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program (CFDA 47.084) to develop an Integrated Chemical and Supercritical Carbon Dioxide Energy Storage technology. The one-year award running from April 1, 2023 to March 31, 2024 will support a Small Business Technology Transfer Phase I project to address energy storage innovation. The proposed solution aims to combine mechanical...

The Southwest Research Institute received a $250,000 Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management to complete a conceptual design and optimization study of a commercial-scale Liquid Air Combined Cycle system integrated with a natural gas combustion turbine. The study will be carried out in collaboration with sub-awardee Pintail Power LLC. The award supports the Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management's Fossil Energy Research...

This $250,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) will fund research conducted by Louisiana State University (LSU) to enhance hydrogen hydrate storage capacity. The project aims to improve hydrogen storage by trapping hydrogen gas nanobubbles within solid hydrate structures, which could exceed the Department of Energy's hydrogen storage target. Using large-scale molecular dynamics simulations and experimental validation, the researchers...

The Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) awarded a $1,336,102 Cooperative Agreement on July 10, 2024, to Washington University for a project titled "Li-Air Redox Flow Battery Using Ionic Liquids" (CFDA 81.135). The project aims to develop a scalable lithium-air flow battery design utilizing liquid electrolytes based on room temperature ionic liquids. Key objectives include demonstrating 1,000 Wh/kg and 1,000 Wh/L energy density, as well as...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E), under the Department of Energy's 81.135 Federal Grant Program, provides $900,000 in funding to Solid Energies Inc. to develop a new generation of ultra-safe, high-energy/power-density, long-cycle-life solid-state lithium-air batteries (SSLABs) for aircraft applications. The project aims to create a novel class of polymer composite solid-state electrolytes (SSEs) that can be produced via scalable...

South 8 Technologies, Inc. received a $3.15 million cooperative agreement award from the Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy to support research on liquefied gas electrolytes for next-generation electric vehicle batteries over a three-year period from May 2023 to May 2026. Through this award made under the Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy federal grant program (CFDA #81.135), South 8 Technologies will develop electrolyte technologies with the aim of enabling...

This $1 million cooperative agreement from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports the development of composite solid-state electrolytes for next-generation lithium batteries by Nextgen Battery Technologies, LLC from March 2022 to February 2024. The award aims to advance rechargeable battery safety and energy density through the creation of non-flammable, high conductivity composite materials that enable lithium ion diffusion along multiple pathways while...

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...

P H Matter LLC will receive $500,000 from the Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) to design an electrolysis stack prototype capable of withstanding ultra-high pressures under the agency's Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy program (CFDA #81.135). The 24-month project grant aims to advance electrolysis technologies for producing hydrogen and oxygen at higher pressures safely using vessel-aided electrochemical compression methods. The prototype...

The U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) awarded a $3,037,399 Cooperative Agreement under the Renewable Energy Research and Development program (CFDA 81.087) to General Electric Company's GE Research Division. The goal of this 12-month project is to design, manufacture, and test a 20 kg composite liquid hydrogen (LH2) storage tank that is scalable to larger capacities of 60-120 kg for heavy trucks and 200-1000 kg for aircraft. The project will...