Project Grant R43HL158345

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (CFDA 47.084 - NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program) provides $274,274 to X-Cor Therapeutics Inc., a minority-owned small disadvantaged business in Washington, DC, to develop a novel respiratory dialysis system for treating chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) patients. The project aims to optimize a prototype that can efficiently remove excess carbon dioxide from the blood of COPD patients, with the goal of...

This $150,000 federal grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083) supports collaborative research between Brown University and the University of Connecticut to develop an innovative system for direct air capture and electrochemical conversion of CO2 to ethanol and other liquid fuels. The project aims to create a novel cellulose-based membrane system integrated with cobalt nanosheet catalysts on graphene to efficiently capture CO2 from air...

Compact Membrane Systems Inc. received a $250,000 Project Grant award from the Department of Energy Office of Science on June 28, 2021 to develop low cost membranes for carbon capture. The award is part of the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049), which aims to deliver scientific discoveries and tools to transform understanding of nature and advance U.S. energy security and economic competitiveness. Under the one-year award concluding on June 26, 2022, Compact Membrane...

This $8.7 million project grant from the Department of the Army Medical Command, under the Military Medical Research and Development program (CFDA 12.420), supports the development of patient care technologies for permanent ambulatory artificial lung support from May 2022 to April 2026. Carnegie Mellon University is the primary awardee and will develop technologies to transition a pulmonary assist system to long-term support of chronic lung disease patients. Vanderbilt University Medical...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Industrial Innovation, under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), provides $256,000 to Colabs, Inc. to develop an automated airway and ventilator system that eliminates human operator variability during cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR). The system aims to reliably place an airway tube for ventilation, synchronize air delivery with chest compressions, and enable cardiac defibrillation at lower voltages through an electrode...

This federal Cooperative Agreement award, issued by the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management under the Fossil Energy Research and Development program (CFDA 81.089), provides $6,250,000 in funding to The Ohio State University to conduct engineering-scale testing of its transformational membrane technology for carbon dioxide capture from natural gas combined cycle flue gas. The key objectives are to: 1) repurpose and modify an existing 5 tonne per day...

Creare LLC was awarded a $769,822 cooperative agreement from the Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) to develop a novel air contractor design for direct removal of carbon dioxide from ambient air under Topic P of funding opportunity announcement DE-FOA-0001954. The project will create low pressure drop contactors for direct air capture using amine-based sorbent coated plates. Research Triangle Institute (RTI) will provide the sorbent coated plates as a...

Precision Combustion, Inc. was awarded a $255,819 Project Grant from the Department of Energy Office of Science under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to support the CAPTURE OF ATMOSPHERIC CO2 project. The project aims to capture atmospheric carbon dioxide through June 2023. The Office of Science's mission is to advance scientific understanding and energy technologies, such as carbon capture, to transform the energy sector and benefit national security. The...

The U.S. Department of Defense's Military Medical Research and Development program (CFDA 12.420) awarded a $1,164,194 project grant to The Johns Hopkins University on September 30, 2023. The grant funds a 4-year collaborative research project between Johns Hopkins and X-Cor Therapeutics Inc. to develop a "dual carbon capture" device capable of highly efficient extracorporeal carbon dioxide removal for treating hypercapnic respiratory failure. Core device development work will be...

This $250,000 Project Grant was awarded on July 10, 2023 by the Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to Media And Process Technology Inc., a minority-owned, for-profit manufacturer. The funding supports the company's research and development of reactive carbon capture processes to produce on-site green chemicals, through absorbent recycling. Specific efforts include bench-scale testing of ceramic membranes, modules,...