The Department of Energy Office of Science awarded KSE Inc. a $250,000 Project Grant under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to evaluate technologies for the pre-treatment and enzymatic breakdown of lignocellulosic feedstocks for the manufacture of 2,5 furandicarboxylic acid. The Office of Science aims to advance scientific understanding and energy technologies through its broad and balanced portfolio, and this award will support KSE Inc.'s work developing...
The Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science has awarded a $199,459.00 Project Grant to Enexor Energy, LLC (doing business as Enexor Bioenergy LLC) under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049). The grant, awarded on July 22, 2024, supports the development of a modular biomass preprocessing system. This project aligns with the DOE Office of Science's mission to advance U.S. energy, economic, and national security priorities through transformative scientific...
The Department of Energy's Office of Science awarded a $200,000 Project Grant under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to Exelus Inc., a minority-owned small disadvantaged business located in Fairfield, NJ. The award, effective July 22, 2024 and scheduled for completion by April 21, 2025, is for a project titled "LOW-COST ROUTE TO GLYCOLS FROM LIGNOCELLULOSIC BIOMASS." The research aims to develop innovative approaches to produce glycols, important...
The Department of Energy's Office of Science, through its Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049), awarded Innosense Corporation a $206,500 Project Grant on July 22, 2024. The grant supports the development of a nanomaterials-enabled biodiesel composition detector. Innosense Corporation, a small disadvantaged, woman-owned business located in Torrance, California, specializes in advanced materials research and innovative sensor technologies. The project aims to create cutting-edge...
The U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science awarded a $200,000 Project Grant to Forest Concepts LLC, a for-profit limited liability company based in Auburn, Washington. The grant, titled "PARTICLE-LEVEL DENSIFICATION OF BULK BIOMASS MATERIALS TO REPLACE PELLETIZED FUELS AND FEEDSTOCKS," aims to support research and development into advanced biomass densification technologies. The project, which will run from July 22, 2024, to March 21, 2025, seeks to transform bulk biomass...
The $200,000 Project Grant from the Department of Energy Office of Science, under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049), funded waste biomass valorization through strategic partnerships by 525 Solutions, Inc. in Tuscaloosa, AL from June 2021 through March 2022. The Office of Science aims to transform understanding of nature and advance U.S. energy and economic security through scientific discoveries and tools. This award supported 525 Solutions' work valorizing waste...
The Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science awarded a $250,000 Project Grant to Verinomics, Inc. in Hamden, CT under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049). The grant, awarded on February 12, 2024, will support the development of a transgene-free gene editing platform for bioenergy crops. This project aims to advance scientific understanding and innovative technologies aligned with DOE's mission of delivering scientific discoveries and tools to transform energy,...
Visolis, Inc. received a $256,500 project grant award from the Department of Energy Office of Science on February 22, 2021 to support production of renewable aromatic compounds from lignocellulosic feedstocks. The project was conducted in Hayward, California under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA #81.049), which aims to transform understanding of nature and advance U.S. energy and economic security through scientific discoveries and tools. Specifically, the award funded...
This Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) provides $199,722.00 to Bluestem Biosciences Inc. on July 10, 2023. The funding will support the company's work to develop commercial-scale anaerobic fermentation processes to biosynthesize 3-hydroxypropionate, a valuable chemical building block. This aligns with the Office of Science's mission to advance scientific understanding and technological innovation, particularly in...
This National Science Foundation Project Grant of $198,114 supports collaborative research at Michigan State University to develop a low-energy tandem process for fractionating and reversibly preserving lignocellulose using multifunctional aldehyde sulfonic acids. The research will test the hypothesis that aldehyde sulfonic acids can more effectively and selectively fractionate lignocellulose than current mineral/organic acid and aldehyde combinations under mild conditions. It aims to maximize...