Project Grant DTPH5615T00013L

The U.S. Department of Transportation's Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) awarded a $1,250,000 Cooperative Agreement under the Pipeline Safety Research Competitive Academic Agreement Program (CFDA 20.724) to the Trustees of the Stevens Institute of Technology. The award funds research to develop innovative solutions for enhancing pipeline safety and integrity, with a focus on preventing and mitigating risks of stress corrosion cracking. The project will involve...

The Department of Energy Office of Science awarded Creare LLC a $204,970.52 Project Grant under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) on June 28, 2021 to complete work by March 27, 2022. The grant funded Creare to study and evaluate the performance of dynamic pressure sensors for leak detection in a custom test chamber using a methane-hydrogen blend. Creare subcontracted with ULC Technologies LLC to conduct a study to test sensor performance for automated pipe...

The Equity Technology Group Incorporated was awarded a $249,871 Project Grant from the Department of Energy Office of Science under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to develop PIPESIGHT, a high performance computing platform for pipeline integrity management. PIPESIGHT will provide advanced computational modeling and simulation capabilities to help identify risks and inform inspection and maintenance of pipeline infrastructure. The one-year grant period runs...

The Department of Energy's Office of Science (CFDA 81.049) awarded a $199,729 project grant to FBS Inc., doing business as Guidedwave, to develop advanced high-temperature ultrasonic sensing arrays for under-lead viewing and non-destructive evaluation. This 1-year project, with an end date of July 21, 2025, aims to advance ultrasonic sensing and imaging technologies to support various industries including infrastructure, energy, and defense. Guidedwave, a small business research and...

The Gas Technology Institute (GTI) received a $383,725 Project Grant award from the Department of Transportation's Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) to conduct research and development on compact service regulators. The award was made under PHMSA's Pipeline Safety Research and Development "Other Transaction Agreements" program (CFDA 20.723) to sponsor projects that improve safety, reduce environmental impact, and enhance reliability of the nation's pipeline...

This Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) provides $205,499.00 to Sentek Instrument, LLC to develop an active sensing cable and interrogation system for subsurface magnetic field imaging. The award period runs from February 18, 2025 to November 17, 2025. Sentek Instrument, LLC is a minority-owned, small disadvantaged business located in Blacksburg, Virginia that specializes in advanced sensing technologies. The...

This $255,996 National Science Foundation Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships award to Wave Logix, Inc. supports development of an Internet of Things sensing platform to monitor civil infrastructure concrete strength. The awardee will prototype a piezoelectric concrete strength sensor integrated with customized data logging, processing, and transmission capabilities. A secure cloud-based database is also envisioned to provide contractors real-time in-place concrete strength data through...

This $500,000 Project Grant awarded by the Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) under CFDA Program 81.135 will enable FGB Innovation LLC to develop a miniaturized NMR sensor to achieve real-time composition measurement for crude oil blending applications. The award will support the application of this miniaturized NMR sensor technology to crude oils by developing an analytical model to obtain the composition of real-world crude oils. This will allow the NMR sensors to provide...

This $256,000 National Science Foundation Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships Project Grant to Itomography Corporation supports the development of dual-modality tomography core scanning technology for oil saturation estimation at wellsites. The Phase I project will demonstrate the feasibility of determining three-dimensional hydrocarbon distribution throughout large-diameter cores with high spatial resolution of 10 cubic millimeters, 95% accuracy, and a throughput of 1 meter per hour...

Luna Innovations Incorporated was awarded a $199,999 Project Grant from the Department of Energy Office of Science on June 27, 2022 to develop a fiber-optic multifunctional sensor for crack monitoring in harsh environments. The project will be completed by March 26, 2023. The award is being made under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049). The program aims to deliver scientific discoveries and tools to transform understanding of nature and advance U.S. energy...