Project Grant DESC0018755

This Cooperative Agreement award from 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) provides $425,309 to the University of Dayton Research Institute to develop scalable performance and optimization tools for narrow-channel designs in particle-to-SCO2 heat exchangers and for commercial-scale trough designs in multi-stage falling particle receivers for concentrating solar power (CSP)...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP) program (CFDA 47.084) provides $274,880 to Sakura Software Solutions, LLC to develop a digital engineering tool for integrated software and hardware reliability analysis. The project aims to create a cloud-based Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platform that employs advanced data analytics and automation to revolutionize system reliability assessment across industries such...

This $12,286,600 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 a nationwide collaboration between industry and academia to pioneer an industrial-scale demonstration of alternative injectant refining and electromagnetic stirring (EMS) electric arc furnace (EAF) operation in the U.S. The project aims to enable complete decarbonization of the EAF...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the Department of Energy's Office of Cybersecurity, Energy Security, and Emergency Response (CESER) program (CFDA 81.008) provides $5,583,698.00 to the Electric Power Research Institute Inc. (EPRI) to develop an integrated, automated system to identify third-party and potential zero-day vulnerabilities, verify their exploitability dynamically, and create a feedback loop for rapid enhancement of static analysis capabilities. The objectives of this 3-year...

The University of Florida received a $3,070,919 Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) program (CFDA 81.135) to develop technologies for a 3.3kV/200A 70kHz half-bridge silicon carbide (SiC) power module. The goal is to create an advanced interdisciplinary solution for SiC power modules with low electromagnetic interference (EMI), low power loss, good thermal management, and high reliability. Key aspects include EMI...

The Department of Energy awarded a $123,557,512 Project Grant through the Grid Infrastructure Deployment and Resilience (CFDA 81.254) program to Pacificorp, doing business as Rocky Mountain Power, to implement a holistic technological ecosystem integrating innovative smart grid technologies. The project aims to enhance situational awareness and reduce or mitigate wildfire occurrences, while improving grid reliability, flexibility, and resiliency. Key components include advanced relays, a...

The Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy awarded Wayne State University $999,479 under the Renewable Energy Research and Development program (CFDA 81.087) to develop the Data-Driven Community-Centered Resilient Assessment and Planning Toolkit for Nexus of Energy and Water (DCRAPT-NEW). The two-year cooperative agreement beginning May 1, 2023 will support creation of an open-source, data-driven distributed energy resource planning tool to enhance urban community...

Criticality Sciences, Inc. will develop the NetResilience software tool under a $200,000 Cooperative Agreement from the Department of Commerce National Institute of Standards and Technology. The award falls under NIST's Science, Technology, Business and/or Education Outreach program (CFDA 11.620), which aims to stimulate technological innovation. NetResilience will provide scalable, cost-informed resilience metrics and mitigation guidance for networked infrastructure against catastrophic...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure, under the CFDA program "Computer and Information Science and Engineering", provides $277,539 to Michigan State University to develop an open-source battery electrode simulation toolkit using the MFEM solver library. The toolkit, named BESFEM, will enable rapid simulation of electrochemical processes in complex electrode microstructures, accelerating battery development for the U.S....

This Project Grant award of $300,000 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083) aims to advance the capability of metal additive manufacturing (AM) technologies to develop single-phase concentrated solid-solution alloys (SP-CSAs) with superior radiation tolerance. The key objectives of this 2-year project are to: (i) synthesize SP-CSAs with varying compositions, structures, and defects using laser-directed energy deposition AM; (ii) investigate...