Project Grant 83601801

The Research Foundation For The State University of New York, doing business as SUNY ESF, was awarded a $324,218 project grant from the National Science Foundation under the Engineering program to conduct collaborative research on photoelectrosynthetic aminoxyl catalyzed alcohol oxidation of lignocellulosic biomass from June 1, 2023 to May 31, 2026. The research aims to study how a dye-sensitized photoanode can selectively oxidize lignin with a suitable catalyst as the first step toward a...

The U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) awarded a $399,997 Cooperative Agreement to the Colorado School of Mines under the Renewable Energy Research and Development program (CFDA 81.087). The award will support the design and fabrication of catalyst particles for stream and dry reforming processes to meet the requirements of a solar fluidized bed reactor. The project includes the design and fabrication of a lab-scale solar fluidized bed reactor,...

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...

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 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 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083) provides $204,819 to the University of Kansas Center for Research Inc. to investigate how CO2-tunable media can enhance the catalytic conversion of waste polyolefins, such as polyethylene, into valuable hydrocarbon fuels. The primary objectives are to study the effects of CO2-tunable media on the transport properties of polyethylene melt and determine the impact on catalytic...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083) provides $278,606 to the University of Delaware to advance the fundamental understanding of biomass conversion using electrocatalysis. The award supports an early-career principal investigator (PI) in establishing a multidisciplinary research program that will develop efficient, selective, and stable catalysts for the electro-conversion of furanic compounds. The research will...

This three-year, $360,000 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems will support research at the University of Minnesota exploring alkali metal-based selective combustion catalysts. The goal is to develop an improved process for converting light hydrocarbon alkanes to olefins, key building blocks for polymer materials production. The University of Minnesota team will systematically study the structural and...

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...

This National Science Foundation Project Grant award of $467,552 will fund research into understanding biomass-derived deep eutectic solvents for sustainable biorefinery strategies under the Engineering (47.041) program. The awardee, the Research Foundation for the State University of New York on behalf of the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry in Syracuse, New York, will pursue a new approach to biomass fractionation using biomass-derived deep eutectic...