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The U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science awarded a $200,000 Project Grant to Makel Engineering, Inc., a small business located in Chico, California, to develop a "BIO-GAUGE, Low Cost Biodiesel Fuel Fraction Sensor." This grant, awarded on July 22, 2024 under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049), supports the company's research and development of an innovative sensor system capable of accurately measuring the composition of biodiesel fuel. Makel...

Integrated Lipid Biofuels LLC was awarded a $650,000 Project Grant from the US Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program. The two-year award will support the company's efforts to develop a process for converting organic waste into biopolymers by synergizing anaerobic digestion and synthetic biology techniques. The SBIR Program aims to stimulate technological innovation through the investment of federal...

This National Science Foundation Project Grant award of $510,734 supports research at the University of Wyoming to develop genetically engineered bacterial systems for enhanced biodiesel production from lignocellulosic feedstocks. The goal is to program bacterial cells to produce high quantities of triacylglycerol (TAG), a commodity chemical that can be converted to biodiesel and industrial solvents. Specifically, the award will fund work to transform Rhodococcus strains into multicellular...

This $1,250,000 Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management (CFDA 81.089 - Fossil Energy Research and Development) is funding Global Algae Innovations, Inc., a small disadvantaged business, to develop and demonstrate an integrated process for producing algal-based polyurethane consumer products from flue gas carbon dioxide. The key objectives include: 1) scaling up algal oil extraction and fatty acid separation, 2) optimizing the...

The National Science Foundation awarded Re-Synth International, Corp. a $245,692 Project Grant under the Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.041) to develop continuous water-in-fuel emulsification technology. The technology aims to decrease fuel consumption and increase thermal efficiency in diesel engines for maritime applications. Specifically, the awardee will develop an inline system to produce a homogeneous water-in-fuel emulsion that can efficiently ignite inside diesel engines. The...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) provides $250,000 to Professor Abu-Omar of the University of California, Santa Barbara through July 2024 to develop catalytic processes for upgrading biomass-derived chemicals into renewable feedstocks. Specifically, the funding supports research designing metal oxide catalysts to selectively transform mixtures of molecules from biomass deconstruction into important monomers. It...

The U.S. Department of Energy's Fossil Energy Research and Development (CFDA 81.089) program awarded a $7,523,134 project grant to the County Sanitation District No. 2 of Los Angeles County to construct, install, operate, and maintain a biogas conditioning system (BCS). The BCS will be capable of upgrading up to 1,440 standard cubic feet per minute (SCFM) of biomethane to approximately 860 SCFM, making it suitable for injection into a natural gas pipeline system owned by Southern California...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) provides $369,297 to San Francisco State University (SFSU) to develop a synthetic transhydrogenation module to enhance the production of valuable chemicals using engineered organisms. The key objectives are to: Elucidate the structural mechanisms underlying the autoregulation of the GltAB-GudB enzyme complex in Bacillus subtilis, which regulates glutamate metabolism and impacts...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) award of $150,000 to The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York provides funding for a collaborative research project to investigate using hydrogen peroxide, a cellular waste product, as an alternative energy source for efficient biofuel and biochemical production. The key objectives of the project are to: 1) develop an E. coli strain platform to control and monitor hydrogen peroxide production, 2) create...

The U.S. Department of Energy's Fossil Energy Research and Development (CFDA 81.089) program has awarded a $7,500,000 Cooperative Agreement to the Regents of the University of California at Riverside. The objective of this project is to dramatically improve the catalytic activity and stability of palladium-based catalysts for methane oxidation in natural gas generators at gas wells, with the goal of achieving "near zero emissions" of methane. The project will use high-temperature shock...