Project Grant 2533046
- This $274,042 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program supports the development and demonstration of a bench-scale reactor for a high-temperature reverse water-gas shift (RWGS) process. The project aims to improve the materials and design of the RWGS reactor, which can produce electrofuels (e-fuels) from electricity, carbon dioxide, and hydrogen as a low-carbon alternative to fossil fuels,...
- This $256,000 Project Grant was awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program. The award to Terragia Biofuel Inc., a for-profit organization, aims to develop innovative bioprocessing technologies for converting lignocellulosic biomass into hydrocarbon fuels and products. Specifically, the project is focused on demonstrating the feasibility of a technique called Continuous Evolution with Multiplex Natural Transformation...
- This $245,300 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program aims to use synthetic biology methods to improve the production of volatile organic chemicals, primarily ethanol and acetone, by a hyperthermophile microbe. The project seeks to engineer a high-temperature microbe strain that can be feasibly used for large-scale biomanufacturing. Successful implementation of this technology has the potential to...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) aims to advance fundamental knowledge for the electrification and decarbonization of current chemical manufacturing processes. The $1,200,000 award to Iowa State University of Science and Technology will fund an interdisciplinary research project to explore an electro-manufacturing platform for sustainable production of ethylene and ammonia. Key focus areas include bicarbonate concentration, green...
- This $508,888 project grant, awarded by the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), will enable the University of Alabama to conduct research on the design of bifunctional zeolite catalysts for upgrading ethanol to sustainable aviation fuel. The project aims to improve the selectivity of these rare earth element-based catalysts to enable low-cost production of sustainable aviation fuels from renewable feedstocks like corn stover. Key research activities include...
- This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program, CFDA 47.084, provides $550,000 to develop an advanced membrane-contact reactor system for fuel alcohol production from distributed biomass and natural gas resources. The awardee, Power Environmental Energy Research Institute of Covina, California, will design a highly efficient methanol production process using a sweep liquid-facilitated membrane contact reactor. This integrated reactor...
- This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) is providing $165,802 to Iowa State University to study the stability of a novel platinum nanolayer catalyst supported on molybdenum-titanium-carbon (MXene) materials. The research aims to advance fundamental understanding of how this catalyst system resists deactivation from carbon buildup ("coking") and particle agglomeration, which are key limitations of current catalysts used...
- This $990,754 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports research at Arizona State University to advance the science and technology of converting carbon dioxide into biofuels. The key products and services to be delivered include: Developing a fundamental understanding of how nanomaterial-based photocatalysts can be used to efficiently reduce CO2 into carbon monoxide, which can then be converted into longer-chain biofuel compounds by...
- This Project Grant award, valued at $250,000.00 and provided by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), aims to develop fundamental knowledge and technologies for converting carbon dioxide (CO2) into sustainable liquid fuels. The project, led by the Trustees of the Colorado School of Mines, will design and demonstrate an electrified catalytic process to produce hydrocarbon fuels from CO2 and water, using renewable electricity as the primary energy source. The...
- This Project Grant award of $300,000 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports research by Purdue University to optimize the electrochemical production of net-zero fuels. The principal investigators will combine computational and experimental approaches to study instabilities in electrochemical reactors that can reduce efficiency and cause safety concerns. The goal is to develop a mathematical framework to describe the physical interplay between...
This Project Grant award, titled "BIOMADE: INTEGRATED TAYLOR VORTEX REACTOR SYSTEM FOR THE PRODUCTION OF COST-EFFECTIVE SUSTAINABLE AVIATION FUELS", is funded by the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041). The $450,000 award to Iowa State University will develop a novel bio-electrocatalytic Taylor vortex reactor (BETR) system to integrate microbial fermentation and electrochemical hydrogenation for the production of 3-methylanisole (3-MA) and its upgrading into methylcyclohexane (MCH), a high-energy-density hydrocarbon suitable for sustainable aviation fuel. The project will leverage high-throughput microbial phenotyping, biosensors, and machine learning to optimize yeast strains for 3-MA production, while also screening electrocatalysts and electrolyte formulations to establish optimal conditions for selective hydrogenation. This integrated process aims to enable cost-effective and scalable distributed biomanufacturing capabilities.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $450.0k | 8/18/25 |