Project Grant DESC0022810

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) Program grant award provides $275,000 to Encore CO2 LLC, a small business located in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, to advance sustainable manufacturing by developing scalable technology to convert CO2 into high-value products, starting with ethanol production. The key objectives of this 17-month project are to design new electrolyzer systems and high-performance electrocatalysts to maximize CO2 conversion...

The Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) awarded a $3,750,000 Cooperative Agreement under the Conservation Research and Development (CFDA 81.086) program to Giner Inc., a small business R&D firm in Auburndale, MA. The goal of this 1-year project is to develop a dual-recycle carbon dioxide (CO2) conversion platform to exclusively convert CO2 into ethylene (C2H4) with high carbon efficiency, energy efficiency, C2H4 selectivity and productivity,...

This $736,200 Cooperative Agreement award from the Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) program, with a performance period from September 2024 to March 2026, supports Northeastern University's research and development project titled "Modular Electrochemical Ethanol Production Using Intermittent Power (Electricity)". The key objectives of this project are: 1) To demonstrate over 60% conversion efficiency (Faradaic efficiency) in producing ethanol...

This federal Cooperative Agreement award, totaling $4,275,642.00, was granted by the Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) under the ARPA-E program (CFDA 81.135). The award supports a multi-year project led by Columbia University to develop a membrane-free electrochemical reactor ("electrolyzer") for converting carbon dioxide into energy-dense liquid ethanol fuel. The key objectives of this project are to incorporate the developed membraneless...

The Department of Energy (DOE) awarded a $200,000,000 Cooperative Agreement under the Clean Energy Demonstrations program (CFDA 81.255) to Technip Energies USA, Inc. to execute the Sustainable Ethylene from CO2 Utilization with Renewable Energy (SECURE) project. The project aims to demonstrate an integrated process that utilizes captured carbon dioxide from ethylene production to create clean ethanol and ethylene using LanzaTech's gas fermentation technology and green hydrogen. The project...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E), under the Department of Energy's CFDA Program 81.135, provides $700,000.00 to New York University for a research and development project titled "The RenewEthanol Process: CO2-Derived Ethanol Production via Tandem Electro- and Thermo-Catalytic Conversions." The project aims to demonstrate stable production of ethanol powered directly by variable renewable energy, leveraging innovations in...

Lanzatech, Inc. was awarded a $3.71 million cooperative agreement from the Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) to develop a carbon-negative chemical production platform. Under the three-year award beginning October 2021, Lanzatech will engineer a non-traditional host strain to maximize stable ethanol production from high hydrogen-to-carbon monoxide gas uptake ratios, enabling a single-step, direct carbon dioxide gas fermentation process integrated with...

This $150,000 federal grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083) supports collaborative research between Brown University and the University of Connecticut to develop an innovative system for direct air capture and electrochemical conversion of CO2 to ethanol and other liquid fuels. The project aims to create a novel cellulose-based membrane system integrated with cobalt nanosheet catalysts on graphene to efficiently capture CO2 from air...

The American Center for Mobility (ACM), a non-profit organization in Ypsilanti, Michigan, was awarded a $1,529,629 Cooperative Agreement from the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E), under the 81.135 Federal Grant Program. The award aims to: Demonstrate the conversion of dilute carbon dioxide (400 ppm) to ethanol with at least 60% selectivity (faradaic efficiency) at a maximum cell voltage of 2V, targeting a fuel cost of $0.03/MJ. Develop and integrate a new anion exchange membrane...

The Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (DOE EERE) awarded a $4.68M Cooperative Agreement under the Conservation Research and Development program (CFDA 81.086) to Echogen Power Systems (Delaware), Inc., a for-profit company headquartered in Akron, Ohio. The funding supports the development of a CO2 high-temperature heat pump (HTHP) system, a key technology for advancing energy efficiency and decarbonization across various sectors. Echogen Power Systems, an...