Project Grant 1853220

The Department of Energy Office of Science awarded a $199,992 Project Grant to Advanced Cooling Technologies Inc. (Act) under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to develop a "Thermally Enhanced Obstructed Flow Board for Hot Spot Mitigation". The project aims to design and produce advanced thermal management solutions such as heat pipes, cold plates, and cooling systems for aerospace, defense, and energy applications. Act, a for-profit manufacturer of...

The Department of Energy Office of Science awarded $200,000 to Ntre TECH LLC through its Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to support the PULSED FLUIDIZED BED DESIGN FOR HIGH-TEMPERATURE, SOLIDS TO SCO2, HEAT EXCHANGE FOR CONCENTRATED SOLAR APPLICATIONS project. This Project Grant funding will allow Ntre TECH LLC to develop a pulsed fluidized bed design to enable high-temperature heat exchange between solids and supercritical carbon dioxide for use in concentrated...

Under this $425,309 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), the University of Dayton Research Institute will produce scalable performance and optimization tools for narrow-channel designs in particle-to-supercritical CO2 heat exchangers and for commercial-scale trough designs in multi-stage falling particle receivers. The project aims to...

Harvest Thermal, Inc. was awarded a $1,000,000 cooperative agreement from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program to develop a low-emissions heating and hot water system. The 24-month project will address technical risks to enable large-scale deployment of residential heating and hot water load shifting using highly efficient heat pump systems. Harvest Thermal will systematically test system performance, reliability, and failure modes to...

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...

The University of Tennessee received a $812,500 Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (CFDA 81.087 - Renewable Energy Research and Development) to develop an integrated cascaded heat exchanger system. The system is designed to enhance electricity generation through a supercritical carbon dioxide (sCO2) Brayton cycle as well as provide high-temperature (300°C) steam and pressurized water (150°C) for industrial process...

The Department of Energy Office of Science awarded Makai Ocean Engineering Inc. a $199,441 Project Grant under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to develop a compact heat exchanger for next-generation concentrating solar power systems. The heat exchanger is intended to withstand the stringent operating conditions of Gen3 CSP technologies. Work on this project was conducted from June 2021 through March 2022 in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii. The Office of Science aims to...

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) was awarded a $2,328,897 cooperative agreement from the Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) to develop a Multiscale Porous High-Temperature Heat Exchanger Using Ceramic Co-Extrusion. The goal of the project is to design a novel ceramic heat exchanger capable of operating over 1,200°C for aerospace applications. MIT will work with sub-awardees General Electric Company and Purdue University to develop a high...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems awarded a $105,194 EAGER (EArly-concept Grants for Exploratory Research) grant to the University of Pittsburgh to develop a novel semiconductor-metal-semiconductor (S-M-S) multilayer film as an interconnect for perovskite-silicon tandem solar cells. The project aims to design an interconnect with high electrical conductivity and optical transparency to enhance the performance of these tandem solar...

This federal Project Grant award, with a total funding amount of $199,999.00, was provided by the Department of Energy's Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to Advanced Cooling Technologies Inc. (ACT) for the development of a "LOW-COST THERMAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FOR HIGH POWER X-RAY OPTICS". The funding will support ACT's research and development efforts to design, manufacture, and test advanced cooling solutions for high-power X-ray optics applications. As a...