Project Grant DESC0019622

This Cooperative Agreement awarded by the U.S. Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) program provides $3,784,848 in funding to the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) to demonstrate a 5kW prototype system for renewable propane production using dynamic CO2 electrolysis. The multi-institutional collaboration also includes GTI Energy, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, Propane Education and Research Council, and SHV Energy. The project aims to achieve 97%...

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...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems awarded a $474,379 Project Grant to the Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (Tees), a government entity and state institution of higher learning, to conduct research on the intensification of catalytic hydrogenation of CO2 to produce hydrocarbons. The project will develop cooperative tandem catalysts that promote sequences of chemical reactions, which could enable new process...

This $400,311 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports the development of advanced computational methods and a systematic framework for designing optimal, intensified, and highly operable bulk chemical processes based on modular process intensification principles. The research, led by the Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (Tees), aims to create a phenomena-based representation and design strategy to identify the...

This Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (CFDA 47.041 - Engineering) supports research to improve the sustainability and efficiency of industrial propylene production processes. The $428,182 grant awarded on January 1, 2025 to the University of California, Irvine will investigate the use of induction heating and magnetic fields to enhance the propane dehydrogenation reaction that produces propylene, a key industrial chemical. The project aims to: (1) determine the effects of...

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 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $469,833 to the University of Florida to develop two-dimensional polymer membranes with precisely engineered gas-selective nanocavities. The goal is to create an energy-efficient, cost-competitive solution for separating gas molecules in industrial applications like carbon dioxide capture and petrochemical purification. The research will focus on designing macrocycle-based membranes that...

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...

This National Science Foundation Project Grant award of $382,376 supports research at Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station to develop synthetic methane fixation cascades based on engineered membrane vesicles for biofuel cell applications. The three-year award under the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) will fund the creation of artificial enzyme cascades to completely oxidize methane to carbon dioxide, generating electrons that can power fuel cells. Researchers aim to conjugate...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP) program (CFDA 47.084) will develop a novel membrane separation technology to address the energy-efficient separation of small molecules from industrial process streams for a range of industries. The $275,000 award to Avanpore LLC, a for-profit limited liability company located in Woburn, MA, will run from October 1, 2024 to March 31, 2025. The project aims to create functionalized...