Project Grant 1843390

This Project Grant award, provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program, supports the development of a light-based, energy-generating carbon removal process. The $274,094 award to Banyu Carbon Inc. aims to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by sequestering or reusing captured carbon dioxide. Key objectives include improving the resistance of the proprietary photoacid catalyst to degradation and replacing expensive...

This $250,000 Project Grant was awarded on July 10, 2023 by the Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to Media And Process Technology Inc., a minority-owned, for-profit manufacturer. The funding supports the company's research and development of reactive carbon capture processes to produce on-site green chemicals, through absorbent recycling. Specific efforts include bench-scale testing of ceramic membranes, modules,...

The Department of Energy's Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management awarded Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated $1.722 million under the Fossil Energy Research and Development program (CFDA #81.089) for the project "Tunable Rapid-Uptake Aminopolymer Aerogel Sorbent for Direct Air Capture of CO2 (TRAPS)." Through this cooperative agreement awarded February 16, 2021 and set to be completed by March 31, 2023, Palo Alto Research Center will develop tunable rapid-uptake...

Precision Combustion, Inc. was awarded a $255,819 Project Grant from the Department of Energy Office of Science under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to support the CAPTURE OF ATMOSPHERIC CO2 project. The project aims to capture atmospheric carbon dioxide through June 2023. The Office of Science's mission is to advance scientific understanding and energy technologies, such as carbon capture, to transform the energy sector and benefit national security. The...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $274,724 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I grant to Mantel Capture, Inc. to optimize the composition of novel molten alkali metal borates for carbon dioxide capture. The goal of this project is to develop a molten salt-based carbon capture system that can be applied to hard-to-abate industries such as industrial heat, cement, steel, and hydrogen production. The research aims to reduce the melting point and working temperature of the...

This Project Grant award from the Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) provides $206,497.00 to CF Technologies, Inc. to conduct research and development on chromatographic separation of rare earth elements. CF Technologies, a for-profit manufacturer and small disadvantaged business, specializes in CO2 extraction, fractionation, separation and chromatography. Through this one-year grant awarded on July 10, 2023, the company will research and...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program provides $272,488.00 to Victory Over Carbon, Inc. to develop a novel direct air carbon capture technology. The project aims to address key challenges in achieving gigaton-scale direct air carbon capture, which could enable a trillion-dollar industry and 3 million jobs in the U.S. The proposed system utilizes a centrifuge design to reduce infrastructure and...

TDA Research, Inc. received a $200,000 project grant award from the Department of Energy Office of Science on June 28, 2021 to support development of a new hybrid cryogenic process for a transformational carbon capture process. The project aims to deliver this new carbon capture technology for reducing greenhouse gas emissions from industrial sources such as power plants and manufacturing facilities. The funding is provided through the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083) provides $300,000 to the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) to collaborate with NASA Ames Research Center on developing new porous sorbents for low-pressure carbon dioxide (CO2) capture. The goal is to engineer defects in metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) to increase their CO2 adsorption capacity at low pressures, which will enable more effective CO2 capture and storage...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) awarded a $199,786 Project Grant to the Florida Institute of Technology Inc. (Florida TECH) on May 1, 2024. The grant supports the development of a waste heat-driven adsorption-based carbon dioxide (CO2) separation technique using adsorbent-coated microchannels. Key objectives include comprehensively evaluating how hot liquid water can effectively remove adsorbed CO2, and developing a fundamental understanding of the complex...