Project Grant W911NF2510189

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems (CBET) under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports research on the combustion behavior of new sustainable and environmentally friendly fuels, including ammonia and dimethyl ether (DME) blends. The $345,000 award to Wayne State University aims to investigate the "autoignition-assisted flame regime" of these fuel mixtures, focusing on...

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) was awarded a $200,000 Project Grant from the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory to develop ionic liquids as safe, energy-dense electrochemical fuels from July 1, 2021 through December 31, 2022. This award supports research under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800), which aims to maintain Air Force technological superiority through scientific research relevant to its needs. Specifically, MIT...

This $193,395 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) will fund research by the Regents of the University of Idaho to develop a comprehensive understanding of the combustion kinetics of hydrogen-rich fuels for gas-phase and catalytic combustion. The project will investigate the combustion chemistry and kinetics of pure hydrogen, ammonia, methane, and their binary blends using a rapid compression expansion machine and a...

This Project Grant award of $300,000 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports research by Purdue University to optimize the electrochemical production of net-zero fuels. The principal investigators will combine computational and experimental approaches to study instabilities in electrochemical reactors that can reduce efficiency and cause safety concerns. The goal is to develop a mathematical framework to describe the physical interplay between...

Auburn University received a five-year, $459,780 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Engineering Education and Centers under the Engineering (47.041) federal grant program. The award will support research into low-temperature plasma assisted combustion of oxygenated fuels to enable cleaner and more sustainable mobility solutions. Specifically, Auburn University researchers will investigate plasma-chemical effects on the low-temperature combustion reaction...

This $171,593 National Science Foundation project grant will fund research to indirectly measure combustion reaction rates through laminar flame speed measurements. The NSF Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems awarded this funding under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041). California State University, Los Angeles will utilize a meso-scale diverging channel to measure laminar flame speeds of rich ethylene flames. These measurements taken at atmospheric...

This $299,977 Early-Concept Grant for Exploratory Research (EAGER) award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) is funding research at the University of Wisconsin - Madison to explore the use of liquid ammonia as an electrolyte in ammonia fuel cells. The goal of the project is to elucidate the technical feasibility, as well as the economic, social, and environmental sustainability, of employing liquid ammonia as both the fuel and electrolyte medium in...

This federal Project Grant award of $1,500,000 from the Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) program (CFDA 81.135) was granted to Giner Inc. on July 22, 2024. Giner Inc., a Boston-based R&D firm, will develop a high-impact project to make a significant contribution to the rapid deployment of polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cell technology in aviation. The project aims to power fuel cells using "PowerPaste", a safe, stable, and non-flammable...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program, CFDA 47.084, provides $550,000 to develop an advanced membrane-contact reactor system for fuel alcohol production from distributed biomass and natural gas resources. The awardee, Power Environmental Energy Research Institute of Covina, California, will design a highly efficient methanol production process using a sweep liquid-facilitated membrane contact reactor. This integrated reactor...

The National Science Foundation awarded Re-Synth International, Corp. a $245,692 Project Grant under the Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.041) to develop continuous water-in-fuel emulsification technology. The technology aims to decrease fuel consumption and increase thermal efficiency in diesel engines for maritime applications. Specifically, the awardee will develop an inline system to produce a homogeneous water-in-fuel emulsion that can efficiently ignite inside diesel engines. The...