This $603,670 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program will fund research at the Missouri University of Science and Technology to design efficient electrocatalysts for the selective reduction of carbon dioxide to carbon-rich products. The three-year award beginning October 1, 2021 supports the university's work to advance understanding and development of technologies for converting CO2 emissions into useful chemical feedstocks and fuels....
This $150,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) will support the Regents of the University of Minnesota in developing long-term socio-technical research programs with electric cooperatives. Over a one-year period ending August 2023, the University will build new partnerships between researchers, university extension services, and rural electric cooperatives. The goal is to advance collective innovation and...
This $500,000 National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER award, under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), aims to improve the computational efficiency of economics-driven transmission planning for electric power systems by up to three orders of magnitude. The project, awarded to the University of Missouri System's Missouri University of Science & Technology, will develop a multi-faceted framework that integrates innovations in modeling, simulation, computing, and design to transform lengthy...
This $242,520 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) supports research examining the impacts of electricity market regulation on energy transitions and environmental justice. Over a three-year period ending in February 2025, researchers at Columbia University will develop structural economic models to evaluate how rate-of-return regulation historically influenced shifts from coal to natural gas generation and may...
The University of Missouri System, through its Missouri University of Science & Technology (Missouri S&T) campus, received a $638,977 Project Grant award from the Department of Energy's Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to conduct research on "Harnessing Recycled Aluminum for Enhanced Alloy Performance: Primary Intermetallic Phase Control Through Rapid Solidification." The research project will run from February 1, 2025 to January 31, 2026, with the...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $250,000 Project Grant to the University of Missouri System under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program (CFDA 47.084) for the period of July 15, 2022 to June 30, 2024. The grant funds research to develop a carbon-negative process for converting municipal solid waste incineration ashes into high-value blended supplementary cementitious materials using carbon dioxide from flue gases. These carbon-negative supplementary cementitious...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $287,495 Project Grant to the University of Michigan under the Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.041) to support research titled "CAS-CLIMATE: COUPLING DECARBONIZATION OF THE POWER SYSTEM WITH ADVANCE PLANNING FOR INTEGRATING NEGATIVE EMISSION TECHNOLOGIES." This two-year award, effective May 1, 2022 through April 30, 2024, will fund research examining strategies for decarbonizing the electric power system through greater integration...
This $425,000 federal Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Engineering (CFDA 47.041) program will fund a collaborative research project between Michigan State University and Leipzig University. The project aims to develop a robust testing platform for in-situ monitoring of carbon dioxide (CO2) diffusion and carbon capture performance in mesoporous substrate-supported polyamine systems (MSPAS). The research team will use a combination of experiments and...
This five-year, $455,004 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) will support research and education activities aimed at developing a robust decision-making framework to achieve decarbonized, cost-effective and reliable electric power systems under climate change. The awardee, the Regents of the University of Michigan, will conduct modeling and analysis to understand how power systems can reduce carbon emissions while maintaining reliability as...
The University of Missouri was awarded a $304,724 Project Grant from the Department of Energy Office of Nuclear Energy under the Nuclear Energy Research, Development and Demonstration program (CFDA #81.121) for the period of October 1, 2021 through September 30, 2022. The grant funding will support the University's scientific infrastructure through the Nuclear Energy University Programs for research resolving technical and safety issues related to nuclear energy. As part of DOE's program to...