Project Grant DESC0025636

This Project Grant award from the Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) provides $206,497.00 to CF Technologies, Inc. to conduct research and development on chromatographic separation of rare earth elements. CF Technologies, a for-profit manufacturer and small disadvantaged business, specializes in CO2 extraction, fractionation, separation and chromatography. Through this one-year grant awarded on July 10, 2023, the company will research and...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $650,000 over 4 years to the University of Illinois for research on developing sustainable strategies for separating and recovering rare-earth elements (REEs) and platinum group metals (PGMs) from waste streams. The project aims to create new electrically-driven separation systems using conductive polymer and carbon nanotube-based electrode materials that can selectively and...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems awarded a $175,000 Project Grant to The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York to support research under the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041). The project aims to advance a sustainable chemistry-based approach for extracting lithium ions from hypersaline aqueous brines, which have lower lithium-ion concentrations compared to other alkali metal cations. The...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I award to Reegen Inc. for $275,000 will support the development of a clean, biological system for extracting and purifying rare earth elements (REEs) from various waste and end-of-life sources. The project aims to reduce the negative environmental impacts of REE production and decrease U.S. dependence on imported REEs, which are critical for manufacturing modern electronics and sustainable energy...

TDA Research, Inc. received a $250,000 project grant award from the Department of Energy Office of Science under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to support work on "IONIC LIQUID-BASED ELECTROWINNING FOR REFINING OF RARE EARTH OXIDES/SALTS." The project aims to develop ionic liquid-based electrochemical processes for refining rare earth oxides and salts into purified individual rare earth elements. The Office of Science Financial Assistance Program...

This $200,000 Cooperative Agreement awarded by the U.S. Department of the Interior's Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement (OSMRE) under the Science and Technology Projects Related to Coal Mining and Reclamation program (CFDA 15.255) aims to develop and demonstrate an integrated, pilot-scale solid-phase extraction process for the recovery of critical minerals from acid mine drainage (AMD). The project team at West Virginia University Research Corporation will fundamentally...

Liquid Ion Solutions LLC received a $254,749 Project Grant award from the Department of Energy Office of Science on June 27, 2022 to fund the "QUANTIFICATION OF ANCILLARY ENVIRONMENTAL BENEFITS OF TRANSFORMATIONAL WATER-LEAN SOLVENT TECHNOLOGY" project through March 26, 2023. The award is being administered under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA #81.049), which supports basic research to transform understanding of nature and advance U.S. energy security and...

This $289,851 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Integrative Activities (IA) program supports research at the University of Delaware that aims to develop new pathways for the recovery and recycling of rare-earth elements (REEs). The project focuses on investigating the formation and properties of high-temperature REE-sulfate liquids, with the goal of advancing alternative REE extraction and separation technologies that could enable more circular manufacturing...

The National Science Foundation awarded a $275,000 Project Grant to Reqyrd Inc. under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program (CFDA 47.084) to develop separations of critical materials from lithium-ion battery black mass. The one-year project aims to establish domestic recyclability for energy materials like cobalt, lithium, manganese, carbon, and nickel that are currently reliant on imports. Through the exploitation of solubilities using sulfites, the grantee will determine...

This Cooperative Agreement, awarded by the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management (CFDA 81.089 - Fossil Energy Research and Development), plans to conduct pilot testing to obtain aqueous solutions rich in mixed rare earth elements, critical minerals, and materials such as manganese, cobalt, nickel, and strontium, as well as a lithium-containing raffinate. The total funding amount is $6,390,593, with a performance period from September 1, 2024 to August 31,...