Project Grant DESC0023790

The U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) awarded a $1,951,361 Cooperative Agreement to Magrathea Metals Inc. under the Conservation Research and Development (CFDA 81.086) federal grant program. The objective of the project is to develop next-generation advanced electrolyte systems that can enable radical cost-reduction of magnesium metal production from seawater and brine feedstocks. The project aims to discover electrolyte compositions that allow...

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 two-year, $250,000 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) will support the development of an innovative low-temperature approach to convert captured carbon dioxide emissions into calcium and magnesium carbonates using a vortex-flow driven process. Specifically, Cornell University will advance the fundamental aspects of reactor engineering and tuning of multiphase chemical interactions to chemically regenerate carbon dioxide-loaded solvents,...

Molten Industries Inc. received a $256,000 National Science Foundation Project Grant under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program to develop a novel method for tuning the production of high-quality solid carbon using methane pyrolysis. The company will conduct research to better understand carbon precipitation and formation in methane pyrolysis reactors. This will include developing an improved thermo-chemical model and reactor design to enable better control over producing...

The Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) awarded Johns Hopkins University a $1.76 million cooperative agreement from January 2023 to January 2026. The award aims to develop carbon-negative mining of critical elements like manganese, cobalt, nickel and copper from low-grade gangue minerals through energy-efficient electrosynthesis of acid and base using renewable electricity. Johns Hopkins will produce hydrochloric acid via salt splitting to leach targeted...

The Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations (OCED) awarded a $86,907,197 Cooperative Agreement to Sublime Systems, Inc., a woman-owned small business, to construct the first commercial-scale electrochemical cement manufacturing facility in Holyoke, Massachusetts. This project, funded under the DOE's Clean Energy Demonstrations program (CFDA 81.255), aims to demonstrate a transformational cement production process that replaces carbon-intensive limestone with abundant...

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) awarded a $189M Cooperative Agreement under the Clean Energy Demonstrations program (CFDA 81.255) to Brimstone Commercial, LLC. Brimstone will construct and operate a new plant to commercialize a deeply decarbonized process for making Ordinary Portland Cement (OPC) and co-products, including Supplementary Cementitious Materials (SCM) and Smelter-Grade Alumina (SGA). The project will develop a transformative chemical-based cement production process that...

Molten Industries Inc. received a $499,866 two-year Project Grant award from the Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) federal grant program. The grant will support Molten's development of a new reactor technology to directly convert biogas into carbon-negative syngas for producing $500K sustainable aviation fuels and renewable diesel. ARPA-E aims to advance high-potential, high-impact energy technologies that are too early for private-sector investment. This...

Phoenix Tailings, Inc. will provide carbon dioxide gasification of lateritic ore to extract nickel as part of a $1.275 million cooperative agreement award from the Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E). Through its "CO2 Gone - CO2 Gasification of Ore for Nickel Extraction" project, Phoenix Tailings proposes using a carbon-negative mining process that employs carbon dioxide to extract nickel from lateritic ore. The two-year award beginning April...

This National Science Foundation Small Business Innovation Research Phase I Project Grant of $273,920 was awarded to American Magnet Company, LLC on April 1, 2023 for completion by March 31, 2024. The grant is being used to demonstrate the feasibility of producing reduced-carbon emissions steel using super-pure iron ore powder and hydrogen under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program (CFDA 47.084). Specifically, the company is developing a process to directly reduce...