Project Grant DESC0013233

The Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy awarded Giner Inc. a $3,750,000 Cooperative Agreement under the Conservation Research and Development (CFDA 81.086) federal grant program. The goal of this 1-year project is to develop a dual-recycle carbon dioxide (CO2) conversion platform tailored for the exclusive conversion of CO2 into ethylene (C2H4). The project aims to achieve high carbon efficiency, energy efficiency, C2H4 selectivity and productivity, and...

This $275,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (CFDA 47.084 - NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program) to Encore CO2 LLC supports the development of scalable technology to convert CO2 into high-value products, starting with ethanol production. The project aims to advance sustainable manufacturing by using renewable energy to transform CO2 and water into common products like ethanol, which can be used in beverages, sanitizers, and consumer goods. The...

The Department of Energy Office of Science awarded Dioxide Materials, Inc. a $200,000 Project Grant under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to develop fluorine-free membranes for proton exchange membrane (PEM) electrolyzers. The project aims to create new chemical value chains using carbon dioxide feedstock and renewable energy to obtain high-value fuels and chemicals. This award will support Dioxide Materials' research and development of technologies related to...

This Cooperative Agreement, awarded by the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) under the 81.135 Federal Grant Program, provides $4,275,642.00 to Columbia University for the development of a membrane-free electrochemical reactor ("electrolyzer") that can efficiently convert carbon dioxide into energy-dense liquid ethanol fuel. The key objectives of this 3-year project are to: 1) Develop a novel electrode assembly and state-of-the-art cathode catalysts to enable the...

This $250,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports a collaborative research effort to investigate the use of CO2-H2O mixtures as a tunable media to improve the chemical recycling of poly(ethylene) terephthalate (PET) plastic waste. The primary objectives are to (1) elucidate the impact of CO2 on PET polymer morphology, phase behavior, and reagent transport during acid-catalyzed hydrolysis, and (2) understand the...

The Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations (OCED) awarded a $95,000,000 cooperative agreement to The Dow Chemical Company (Dow) under the Clean Energy Demonstrations program (CFDA 81.255). Through this award, Dow will capture 50% to 90% of byproduct carbon dioxide (CO2) from its purified ethylene oxide (PEO) operations in Freeport, Texas. The captured CO2 will be used to produce high-purity electrolyte solvents required for domestic electric vehicle (EV) lithium-ion...

The U.S. Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) awarded a $2,073,897 Cooperative Agreement to the Georgia Institute of Technology, in partnership with the University of California, Berkeley, and Princeton University, to develop a transformative modular chemical manufacturing process that efficiently converts carbon dioxide (CO2) and intermittent electricity and hydrogen (H2) into a liquid hydrocarbon/low-oxygen organic mixture. The overall goal is to create a...

This three-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems, under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), provides $273,000 to Purdue University to develop porous bi-layer catalysts for converting carbon dioxide into valuable C2+ products like ethylene at industrially relevant rates. A collaborative team from Purdue University and University of Wisconsin-La Crosse will engineer novel layered catalyst structures...

Dioxide Materials, Inc. was awarded a $1,306,482 Project Grant from the Department of Energy Office of Science under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to develop high-performance alkaline membranes for solar driven carbon dioxide electrolyzers. The three-year award running from February 2021 through April 2024 will support Dioxide's efforts to design and test advanced membrane technologies optimized for electrolytic carbon dioxide reduction using solar power. The...

This $185,080 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports collaborative research between the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse and Purdue University to develop porous bi-layer catalysts for converting carbon dioxide into valuable products like ethylene at industrially relevant rates. The researchers will engineer novel layered catalyst structures combining specific metal/metal oxide heterostructures to reduce reaction overpotential and...