Request For Information (RFI) on Accelerating the Catalyst Development Cycle for Net Zero Applications
Closed Posted
- Opportunity number
- DE-FOA-0003375
- Agency
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Advanced Research Projects Agency
Department of Energy
- Applications due
- Award size
- Not on record
Opportunity facts
- Assistance listings
- Funding instrument
- Cooperative Agreement
- Categories
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- Opportunity Zone Benefits
- Science and Technology and other Research and Development
- Eligible applicants
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- Unrestricted
- Full announcement
Opportunity details come from Grants.gov. Updated .
About this opportunity
This is a Request for Information (RFI) issued by the U.S. Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) to solicit input for a potential future program focused on accelerating the heterogeneous catalyst development cycle for applications relevant to the U.S. 2050 net zero emissions goals. ARPA-E is interested in decreasing the typical decades-long catalyst development cycle to months while achieving significant energy efficiency, emissions reductions, and/or precious metal reductions. Key areas of interest include advancements in hardware, software, tightly coupled experimentation and theory, and success metrics. Responses are limited to 10 pages and should address questions across catalyst synthesis, composite structuring, device testing, data science, and integrated modeling approaches. This is an RFI only - no funding opportunity exists at this time, but ARPA-E may contact respondents for clarification or additional information.
As this is an RFI and not a funding opportunity, there are no details provided on award values, budget ranges, quantities of goods, or timelines for services. The place of performance is unspecified.
Synopsis
This is a Request for Information (RFI) only. This RFI is not accepting applications for financial assistance. The purpose of this RFI is solely to solicit input for ARPA-E consideration to inform the possible formulation of future programs. The purpose of this Request for Information (RFI) is to solicit input for a potential ARPA-E program focused on accelerating the heterogeneous catalyst development cycle for incorporation into reactors, devices, equipment, unit operations, and process technology applications relevant to the U.S. 2050 net zero goals. These material development cycles can take decades to complete, starting from the discovery scale at milligram quantities and finishing at the development scale with kilogram quantities. ARPA-E is interested in decreasing the length of development cycles (Figure 1) to months while capturing significant energy efficiency increases, emissions reductions, and/or precious metal reductions. Major bottlenecks in the process include inefficient discovery, irreproducible multi-scale synthesis, laborious characterization, narrow design space optimization, irrelevant performance evaluation, and impractical integration (i.e., not "drop-in") of heterogeneous catalysts into emerging technologies. To view the RFI in its entirety, please visit https://arpa-e-foa.energy.gov.
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