Project Grant DESC0020980

General Electric Company's GE Additive division was awarded a $1,466,390 cooperative agreement from the Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy to develop a novel additive manufacturing process for fabricating silicon carbide matrix composite heat exchangers. The objective is to utilize an advanced additive manufacturing machine and method to fabricate complex silicon carbide components and incorporate chopped fibers to enable composite properties for applications...

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...

The U.S. Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) awarded a $1,788,621 Cooperative Agreement to the University of Illinois for the "HIGH EFFICIENCY, SOLID STATE MICROWAVE-POWERED HYDROGEN PLASMAS FOR USE IN DIRECT REDUCTION OF TACONITE ORE AND ORE CONCENTRATES IN A ROTARY KILN FURNACE" project. This 3-year project, with a start date of August 15, 2024, will develop a microwave-powered hydrogen plasma rotary kiln process for directly reducing iron ore...

This EAGER (Early-Concept Grants for Exploratory Research) award from the National Science Foundation (CFDA 47.041 - Engineering) provides $300,000 to New York University (NYU) to develop a novel plasma-electrochemical approach for decarbonizing steel manufacturing. The project aims to eliminate the need for carbon-based reducing agents and fuels in steel production, which currently accounts for 20% of industrial CO2 emissions. Key activities include: 1) Establishing design principles for a...

This Cooperative Agreement award of $1,189,750.00 was provided by the Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E), CFDA 81.135, to Iowa State University of Science and Technology for the "Ferritic and Vanadium Alloys with Nanoparticle Strengthening for Fusion (FAVA-NSF)" project. The purpose is to develop novel nanoparticle-strengthened ferritic and vanadium-based alloys through an accelerated materials discovery process involving computational alloy design, rapid alloy...

Maxterial, Inc. received a $206,500 Project Grant award from the Department of Energy Office of Science on February 22, 2021 through the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049). The grant funding supports the development of a novel surface technology with a superalloy composition intended as a low-cost solution for protecting boiler tubes against failure. The Office of Science Financial Assistance Program aims to deliver scientific discoveries and tools to transform...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program (CFDA 47.084) provides $250,000 to Purdue University to develop an energy-efficient manufacturing process for producing lightweight titanium alloy sheet, foil and wire. Specifically, the award will support optimizing hybrid machining process parameters to influence material structure and properties for these thin gauge formats. The project will also characterize the new...

The Department of Energy (DOE) awarded a $75,000,000 Cooperative Agreement under the Clean Energy Demonstrations program (CFDA 81.255) to Cleveland-Cliffs Steel Corporation to construct four new induction reheat furnaces (IRFs) at its Lyndora, PA facility. The project aims to upgrade the steel slab reheating process to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and enhance the production of high-silicon grain oriented electrical steel (GOES), which is used to manufacture electrical transformers. This...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management (CFDA 81.089 - Fossil Energy Research and Development) provides $1,875,339 to Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University (Virginia Tech) to develop an integrative process for achieving three beneficial uses of produced water: valuable mineral recovery, carbon fixation, and irrigation water generation. The project will involve bench-scale testing and optimization of key...

This five-year, $641,328 National Science Foundation Project Grant supports research at the Colorado School of Mines to advance additive manufacturing of nickel-based superalloys for clean energy applications. Funded through NSF's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), the award will develop a mechanistic understanding of how wire arc additive manufacturing processing conditions influence the microstructure and high-temperature mechanical properties of Haynes 282 superalloy. The research combines...