This $9,509,202 cooperative agreement, awarded by the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy under the Conservation Research and Development (CFDA 81.086) program, supports Sublime Systems, Inc., a woman-owned small business, in developing an advanced electrolytic cement production process that utilizes alternative calcium sources to reduce energy use and lower carbon emissions in cement manufacturing. The project aims to demonstrate transformational...
This $86,907,197 Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) under the Clean Energy Demonstrations program (CFDA 81.255) supports Sublime Systems, Inc., a woman-owned small business, in building the first commercial-scale electrochemical cement manufacturing facility in Holyoke, Massachusetts. The project aims to demonstrate a transformational cement production process that replaces carbon-intensive limestone with abundant calcium silicate-based feedstocks, resulting...
The federal Cooperative Agreement award DEFE0032504, funded by the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management under the Fossil Energy Research and Development program (CFDA 81.089), supports a $312,500 project to perform the conceptual design of an oxy-fuel combustion system for retrofitting existing rotary lime kilns. The objective is to enhance the energy efficiency and reduce the carbon dioxide emissions associated with lime production. The prime awardee...
This $950,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation, under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), will fund research at Arizona State University to develop carbon-neutral cement manufacturing technologies. The goal is to enable production of Portland cement and other lime-based cements in an energy-efficient and carbon-neutral manner through technological innovations, including a low-temperature process to decompose...
This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) under the Clean Energy Demonstrations program (CFDA 81.255) provides $189,000,000 to Brimstone Commercial, LLC to construct and operate a new plant that will commercialize a deeply decarbonized process for making ordinary Portland cement (OPC) and co-products, including supplementary cementitious materials (SCM) and smelter-grade alumina (SGA). The project aims to develop a transformative technology that eliminates process...
Solidia Technologies Inc. received a $3.2 million cooperative agreement award from the Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy on July 1, 2021 to support development of an innovative process for the direct utilization of carbon dioxide in solid synthetic pozzolan production. The goal of the project aligns with the Conservation Research and Development program's objective to conduct long-term research in advanced materials and manufacturing technologies that can...
This federal Project Grant award of $499,320 was provided by the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E), CFDA 81.135, to Lithios Inc. located in Medford, MA. The funding supports the development of "Advanced Lithium Extraction (ALE)", a new electrochemical technology to selectively extract lithium from difficult feedstocks with high purity. The goal is to help overcome limitations in current lithium extraction methods and support more sustainable and domestic lithium...
This $14,500,000.00 Cooperative Agreement was awarded by the Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E), under the CFDA program 81.135 Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy. The award is to Queens Carbon, Inc. for the project "Cement Decarbonization via Engineered SCM Production". The goal is to scale up the Q-System to a pilot plant capable of producing 5-10 tonnes of SCM (Supplementary Cementitious Material) per day. This will demonstrate the economic and...
This $2,500,694 Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (CFDA 81.086 Conservation Research and Development program) aims to enhance resources for low-carbon concrete binder commercialization. The project, led by Lehigh University, will focus on five key objectives: 1) researching ultrasonication processing for clay beneficiation, 2) producing calcined clays at scale for analysis and concrete batching, 3)...
The Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) awarded a $5,000,000 Cooperative Agreement to Kalbacher Associates LLC on October 1, 2023 under the Conservation Research and Development program (CFDA 81.086). The goal of the project is to conduct research and development on a simplified process for direct lithium hydroxide production from Salton Sea brines in Puerto Rico. The effort aims to advance technologies for industrial decarbonization and support the...