Project Grant DESC0024148

The U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) awarded a $5,500,231 Cooperative Agreement under the Renewable Energy Research and Development program (CFDA 81.087) to Clemson University, Southern Methodist University, the University of Oklahoma, Michigan State University, and Los Alamos National Laboratory. The project aims to design, develop, prototype, and validate a novel AI-enabled, photoacoustic imaging (PAI) based well-logging tool for comprehensive...

The US Geological Survey, through its Assistance to State Water Resources Research Institutes program, awarded Purdue University $300,000 in Cooperative Agreement funding from August 1, 2023 through July 31, 2025. The award will support Purdue University's development of borehole tools to measure three-dimensional groundwater flow direction and velocity during long-term deployment. Key deliverables include a minimum of four working prototypes of a borehole sensor that uses temperature...

This Cooperative Agreement award, provided by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) under the USGS Research and Data Collection program (CFDA 15.808), supports the development of a multiphysics model to simulate flow and thermal processes of a novel 3D heat pulse groundwater flowmeter. The $110,800 award to the Desert Research Institute (DRI) of the Nevada System of Higher Education will fund activities to: 1) provide modeling support for the design of a flow tank to evaluate and validate the 3D...

Intelligent Fiber Optic Systems Corp. (IFOS) received a $199,955 Project Grant from the Department of Energy Office of Science under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to develop a high-resolution fiber-optic sensing system for geothermal fracture imaging. The system will utilize fiber optic sensor technologies to map subsurface fractures for geothermal energy exploration and development. Mapping fractures is important for locating geothermal reservoirs and managing...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) provides $1,354,056 to the University of California San Diego Scripps Institution of Oceanography to jointly implement a new measurement technique called distributed acoustic sensing. This technique will generate high-resolution (10 m in space, minutes in time) images of ocean temperature and current velocity fields above a 34-km cable laid on the seafloor off the Azores islands. The goal is to...

This Project Grant from the Department of Energy Office of Science provided $249,966 to Global Technologies Corp of Atlanta, GA from June 2021 through March 2022. The grant supported development of seismic AI technology for real-time analysis of drilling and fracking operations under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049). The Office of Science aims to transform understanding of nature and advance U.S. energy security and economics through scientific discoveries and...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070), provides $650,869 to Georgia Tech Research Corporation from August 1, 2022 to July 31, 2025. The funding supports research and development of a seismic monitoring methodology for underground carbon dioxide storage reservoirs. Specifically, the awardee will develop a system combining time-lapse seismic imaging, physical...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) provides $400,000 over 3 years to the Regents of the University of Michigan to develop a novel self-powered multimodal MEMS sensor system that can simultaneously detect pH, pressure, and temperature in marine environments. The researchers aim to create an innovative, highly sensitive, and energy-efficient sensor to support marine carbon dioxide removal (MCDR) efforts by providing uninterrupted,...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) SBIR Phase I award of $275,000 to Imperium Technologies, Inc. is funding the development of an innovative Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) electromechanical steam trap system. The project aims to address the issue of undetectable steam trap failures, which contribute to significant energy losses and greenhouse gas emissions across diverse industries that rely on steam generation. The new steam trap design will incorporate electronic sensors to monitor...

The Department of the Interior U.S. Geological Survey awarded a $259,359 Cooperative Agreement to the Regents of the University of Idaho under the Assistance to State Water Resources Research Institutes program (CFDA 15.805). The project aims to develop and validate a heat-pulse groundwater flowmeter that can measure all three velocity components with hourly time resolution, enabling long-term deployments in groundwater monitoring wells. The University of Idaho will collaborate with Rapid...