Project Grant DESC0018591

Integrated Lipid Biofuels LLC was awarded a $650,000 Project Grant from the US Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program. The two-year award will support the company's efforts to develop a process for converting organic waste into biopolymers by synergizing anaerobic digestion and synthetic biology techniques. The SBIR Program aims to stimulate technological innovation through the investment of federal...

The National Science Foundation awarded Re-Synth International, Corp. a $245,692 Project Grant under the Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.041) to develop continuous water-in-fuel emulsification technology. The technology aims to decrease fuel consumption and increase thermal efficiency in diesel engines for maritime applications. Specifically, the awardee will develop an inline system to produce a homogeneous water-in-fuel emulsion that can efficiently ignite inside diesel engines. The...

The U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science awarded a $200,000 Project Grant to Makel Engineering, Inc., a small business located in Chico, California, to develop a "BIO-GAUGE, Low Cost Biodiesel Fuel Fraction Sensor." This grant, awarded on July 22, 2024 under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049), supports the company's research and development of an innovative sensor system capable of accurately measuring the composition of biodiesel fuel. Makel...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) has awarded a $168,289 Project Grant to Catapower Inc., a cleantech chemical company, under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program (CFDA 10.212). The funding will support the basic chemical engineering R&D required to translate Catapower's prior lab-scale successes into a pilot-scale demonstration of its proprietary catalytic technology that converts glycerol waste from the biodiesel...

This Project Grant award from the Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) provides $206,497.00 to CF Technologies, Inc. to conduct research and development on chromatographic separation of rare earth elements. CF Technologies, a for-profit manufacturer and small disadvantaged business, specializes in CO2 extraction, fractionation, separation and chromatography. Through this one-year grant awarded on July 10, 2023, the company will research and...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) awarded a $175,000 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program / Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Program grant to Via Biofuels Inc. (UEI: DHPAKR2LXGE9) on September 1, 2025. The project aims to transform dairy industry waste, specifically whey permeate, into 3-methylanisole (3-MA), a versatile biofuel and chemical feedstock. The funded activities include developing a genetically...

This $393,055 project grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (CFDA 47.041 - Engineering) to the University of Iowa aims to develop covalent organic framework (COF) membranes that can separate fatty acids and esters derived from vegetable oils into high-purity individual components. The research will yield fundamental insights into separating similarly-sized and shaped organic chemicals using COFs. The project will actively involve graduate, undergraduate, and high school students,...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems awarded a 3-year, $245,000 Project Grant to the Old Dominion University Research Foundation (Odurf) under the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041). The project aims to advance the conversion of food waste into mesoporous carbon materials for use in supercapacitors and energy storage applications. Key objectives include: 1) investigating the mechanistic formation of hydrochar from...

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 Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture will support development of bioproducts from food and agricultural wastes through the Bioproduct Pilot Program (CFDA 10.236). The University of Illinois will receive $2,530,926 to operate a one ton per day continuous plug-flow hydrothermal liquefaction pilot reactor system. This system will process food waste and swine manure to produce biocrude and post-HTL wastewater. The biocrude will then...