Project Grant DESC0024858

The Department of Energy Office of Science awarded a $199,992 Project Grant to Advanced Cooling Technologies Inc. (Act) under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to develop a "Thermally Enhanced Obstructed Flow Board for Hot Spot Mitigation". The project aims to design and produce advanced thermal management solutions such as heat pipes, cold plates, and cooling systems for aerospace, defense, and energy applications. Act, a for-profit manufacturer of...

Impact Cooling Inc. was awarded a $500,000 Project Grant from the Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) to develop a novel high-density data center cooling solution. The two-year award, made under Funding Opportunity Announcement DE-FOA-0001954 on September 30, 2022, will support Impact Cooling's proposed use of jet impingement cooling technology to achieve dramatically improved heat transfer efficiency using only air. If successful, this technology could...

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) was awarded a $2,328,897 cooperative agreement from the Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) to develop a Multiscale Porous High-Temperature Heat Exchanger Using Ceramic Co-Extrusion. The goal of the project is to design a novel ceramic heat exchanger capable of operating over 1,200°C for aerospace applications. MIT will work with sub-awardees General Electric Company and Purdue University to develop a high...

Euclid Beamlabs LLC received a $196,567 Project Grant award from the Department of Energy Office of Science on February 22, 2021 to develop an ultra-low vibration closed-cycle cryostat for X-ray applications. The cryostat was intended to support the Office of Science's mission of delivering scientific discoveries and tools that transform understanding of nature and advance U.S. energy and economic security. Specifically, the cryostat was designed to enable new X-ray experiments by maintaining...

The Department of Energy's Office of Science awarded a $199,997 Project Grant to Advanced Cooling Technologies Inc. (ACT), a small business manufacturer based in Neffsville, Pennsylvania. The grant, awarded under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049), will fund a research project to extend the lifetime and reliability of distribution transformers through passive thermal management technologies. The project aims to develop innovative cooling solutions that can improve...

The Department of Energy's Office of Science awarded a $199,998 Project Grant to Advanced Cooling Technologies Inc. (ACT), a small business manufacturer in Neffsville, Pennsylvania, for the development of a "Passive Two-Phase Microreactor Transportation Cooling System." This grant, provided under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049), supports fundamental scientific research to advance U.S. energy, economic, and national security priorities through...

This two-year, $297,189 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Materials Research aims to develop new approaches for ultra-low temperature refrigeration without reliance on rare helium isotopes. Specifically, researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute will investigate using electrically-tunable spin-orbit interactions in Rashba materials to achieve refrigeration through adiabatic electrification, with a goal of reaching temperatures as low as 0.01 K. If successful,...

This $300,000 National Science Foundation project grant supports the development of a new sub-kelvin refrigerator using superfluid helium vortex cooling. Funded under the Engineering (47.041) program, Yale University will analyze, design, build a prototype, and benchmark a two-stage cooling system combining a superfluid vortex cooler and Joule-Thomson precooler. The system aims to achieve high-capacity cooling below 1K without using helium-3, addressing stockpile depletion issues. By...

The Department of Energy Office of Science has awarded a $249,997 Project Grant to Advanced Cooling Technologies Inc. (ACT) through the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to develop a "Cost Effective Swiss-Roll Reformer for Methane Mitigation and Utilization". The grant is intended to support ACT's research and development of an advanced thermal management technology to enable more efficient and cost-effective methane reforming for applications in energy...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) provides $999,926 to RTX Corporation to mature the technology developed under a previous ARPA-E award on additive manufacturing for high-temperature, high-pressure heat exchangers. Under this new award, RTX Corporation will verify a large-scale build and field test of an additive precooler heat exchanger for aircraft thermal management. The project aims to advance this...