Project Grant DTPH5616T00003

FBS Inc., doing business as Guidedwave, was awarded a $398,766 Project Grant from the Department of Energy Office of Science on June 27, 2022 to support research titled "Ultrasonic Imaging of Mechanical Degradation in Superconducting Magnets." The award will fund work through August 20, 2023 under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA #81.049). The project aims to advance ultrasonic imaging techniques to detect mechanical degradation in superconducting magnets. The...

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...

Federal Cooperative Agreement Award Summary Innovative Downhole Solutions LLC received a $2.51 million Cooperative Agreement from the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy under the Renewable Energy Research and Development program (CFDA 81.087) for the period of October 1, 2025 through September 30, 2026. The awardee will design and construct an ultrasonic measurement tool capable of operating in extreme geothermal environments at temperatures up to...

Federal Cooperative Agreement Award Summary The University of Dayton Research Institute Division was awarded a $1.26 million Cooperative Agreement on September 30, 2025, under the Pipeline Safety Research Competitive Academic Agreement Program (CAAP), CFDA 20.724, administered by the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA). The project, titled "Risk-Informed and Uncertainty-Aware Strain Capacity Prediction Model Development and Verification for Vintage...

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...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) awarded $200,000 to Lawrence Technological University (LTU) to develop integrated non-contact ultrasound generation and detection systems. The project aims to enable high-resolution, non-contact tissue functional imaging and biomechanical characterization, addressing limitations of current ultrasound imaging methods that require direct contact. The research plan focuses on integrating photoacoustic...

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 National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $406,900 Project Grant under the Engineering (CFDA 47.041) program to Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (Tees) to develop large-scale optical ultrasound transducer (OUT) arrays for high-speed and high-resolution 3D acoustic tomography. The project aims to create a new optical technology that can detect and convert acoustic wave fields into optical signals, enabling improved performance and reduced cost for 3D ultrasound imaging...

Federal Cooperative Agreement Summary The University of Pittsburgh received a $300,000 Cooperative Agreement award from the Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E, CFDA 81.135) effective July 8, 2025, through July 7, 2028, to develop and field-validate innovative hydrogen emission detection and quantification technologies. Working in partnership with the National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) and Hope Gas, the university will design and demonstrate two distinct hydrogen...

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...