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JULY 10, 2022

The money will help projects further develop their greenhouse gas removal technologies, which include a machine that can pull carbon dioxide out of the air, a plant to convert household waste into hydrogen for use in the transport industry, and a system to remove carbon dioxide from seawater. Biohydrogen Greenhouse Gas Removal Demonstration”.

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MARCH 4, 2015

These technologies have now matured to commercial scale, with five plants having started operations in the last 24 months. This industry ultimately has the potential to provide fermentation processes with low-cost sugars derived from abundant resources. into fermentable sugars.

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MAY 25, 2017

Production of C 5 hydrocarbons from waste biomass. Obtaining sustainable sources of chemicals and processing organic waste in an environmentally responsible manner remains a challenge. This project focuses on the development and US manufacturing of a new battery membrane that enables low-cost and long-lived Li-ion batteries.

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AUGUST 20, 2009

an environmental services and waste recycling company with operations in both China and Australia, is the founding commercial partner to the AFC and has the right to commercialize the technology for China. Flinders Partners is the commercialization agent for the AFC. Sancon Resources Recovery Inc.,

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

Joule has developed a highly modular system using highly engineered photosynthetic organisms to catalyze the conversion of sunlight and CO 2 directly to liquid hydrocarbons and ethanol ( earlier post ). —William J. Sims, President and CEO of Joule. gallon without subsidies. gallon without subsidies.

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MAY 16, 2018

has started site construction for Phase 2 of its first waste-to-fuels project, the Sierra BioFuels Plant (Sierra). Sierra will be the nation’s first commercial-scale plant converting a municipal solid waste (MSW) feedstock—i.e., Fulcrum BioEnergy, Inc. —Jim Macias, Fulcrum’s President and CEO.

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JANUARY 27, 2023

Made from widely available domestic feedstocks and advanced refining technologies, energy-dense biofuels provide a pathway for low-carbon fuels that can lower greenhouse gas emissions throughout the transportation sector and accelerate the bioeconomy.

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APRIL 22, 2013

The pilot-scale biorefinery projects selected today will use a variety of non-food biomass feedstocks, waste-based materials, and algae in innovative conversion processes. Several organizations are participating in this consortium led by Mercurius Biorefining, including Purdue University, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, and Incitor.

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DECEMBER 15, 2016

Isobutene is also used to manufacture a wide variety of materials and chemicals such as rubbers, plastics, organic glass, paints and cosmetics. Micro-organisms do not naturally produce isobutene.

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JUNE 19, 2013

If the collaboration results in the successful commercialization of this new technology, the cost to produce Ingeo would be structurally lowered, and the wide range of Ingeo based consumer and industrial products could be produced from an even broader set of carbon-based feedstocks, complementary to what is already in use by NatureWorks.

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Building Energy Asia Waste 170

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AUGUST 18, 2016

The work will build on synergies of differentiated technologies, including novel materials and processes that allow flexible pre-pregs (Fiberflex) combined with Rapid Fabric Formation (RFF) technology to provide customizable fiber orientations via thermal bonding to significantly improve cycle time, cost, and waste.

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JULY 22, 2018

The goal of the pilot facility is to test the technical and economic feasibility of scaling-up the technology to commercialize the separation and extraction process. Conventional rare-earth recovery methods require an expensive, difficult and messy extraction process that generates large volumes of contaminated waste.

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AUGUST 26, 2016

DOE’s Office of Fossil Energy is seeking these projects as part of the Department’s Carbon Storage program, which has the goal of developing and advancing technologies to improve the effectiveness of carbon storage, reduce the cost of implementation, and be ready for widespread commercial deployment in the 2025–2035 timeframe.

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AUGUST 4, 2017

The PEM system uses heating from electrically conducting gas (a plasma) to convert the feedstock (usually waste) to valuable products. The PEM system is environmentally attractive based on its minimal environmental impact and ability to provide near-total destruction of organic materials (providing large volume and weight reduction).

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

The Maverick Oasis factory-built Gas-to-Liquids (GTL) methanol plants are modular, and can be rapidly deployed onsite to produce thousands of gallons per day of methanol from natural gas or methane-rich waste gas. The plants are designed to be low-cost, highly efficient facilities optimized to generate an attractive project rate of return.

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AUGUST 1, 2010

Further, the project will demonstrate the commercial viability of the desalination technology that also reduces the capital and operating costs of water purification. The process is very robust and requires no sterility, which significantly lowers capital costs.

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Texas Water Waste Gasoline 210

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MAY 16, 2016

Novomer is commercializing a proprietary catalyst system that transforms waste CO 2 into high performance, low-cost polymers for a variety of applications, including foam and plastic that are easily recyclable. Low Finished Polymer Cost. Among these companies is Novomer.

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Ford Polymer CO2 Vehicles 150

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NOVEMBER 16, 2015

The US Department of Energy has announced the 2016 Small Business Innovation Research and Small Business Technology Transfer (SBIR/STTR) Phase I Release 2 Topics, covering eight DOE research program organizations. DOE plans to issue the full Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) on 30 November 2015. Electric drive vehicle batteries.

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OCTOBER 13, 2009

AFC Energy PLC, the UK-based developer of low-cost alkaline fuel cells, successfully completed a field test of its first-generation, non-platinum electrodes at AkzoNobel’s chlor–alkali plant in Bitterfeld, Germany.

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Waste Hydrogen Low Cost Grid 186

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JUNE 1, 2012

In addition to reducing greenhouse gas emissions, as these projects become commercial they have the potential to create more than 600 jobs by 2015. million as a share of the cost to install 101 new E85 (ethanol) fueling facilities at existing gas fueling stations statewide. Propel Biofuels, Inc. will receive $10.1

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California Transportation Green Energy 240

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MAY 26, 2015

Global Bioenergies, founded in 2008, has developed a synthetic isobutene pathway that, when implanted in a micro-organism, enables the organism to convert sugars (e.g., The addition of Global Bioenergies’ synthetic isobutene pathways into the LanzaTech organisms would presumably offer another end product for the LanzaTech process.

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Audi Renewable Solar Fuel 150

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

The acquisition combines the fiber preparation and pretreatment technologies of SBI and the consolidated bioprocessing (CBP) technology of Mascoma, to create a company with comprehensive capabilities for converting non-food cellulose (wood chips, energy crops and organic solid waste) into ethanol and high value co-products.

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MAY 28, 2015

Small businesses that win awards in these programs keep the rights to any technology developed and are encouraged to commercialize the technology. While the original charter of the program focused on technological innovation, the current programs have evolved to have a greater focus on commercialization. Organization.

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APRIL 30, 2010

Today’s technologies for making biofuels all rely on photosynthesis—either indirectly by converting plants to fuels or directly by harnessing photosynthetic organisms such as algae. Electrofuels approaches will use organisms able to extract energy from other sources, such as solar-derived electricity or hydrogen or earth-abundant metal ions.

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MARCH 16, 2021

Life cycle analysis showed up to 165% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions relative to fossil jet if the food waste is diverted from landfills to produce VFA-SAF. Techno-economic analysis evaluated the major catalytic process cost-drivers, determining the minimum fuel selling price as a function of VFA production costs.

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Waste Fuel Carbon Renewable 243

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DECEMBER 7, 2009

Most of the methods currently under development involve converting biomass or waste, while there are also approaches to directly produce liquid transportation fuels from sunlight and carbon dioxide, typically using photosynthesis. Batteries for Electrical Energy Storage in Transportation (BEEST).

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Carbon Plug-in Energy Fuel 199

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JANUARY 18, 2014

VTO is seeking projects that address the major challenges to developing and commercializing batteries for plug?in As described in multiple DOE reports, the main barriers to widespread PEV commercialization are the cost; performance and life; and abuse tolerance of high?energy Specifically: the current cost of high?

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DECEMBER 16, 2010

The goal of this AOI is to support advanced fuels and lubricants technologies that will enable optimal performance of advanced combustion engines for passenger and commercial vehicle applications. Such fuels should be currently available, or have the potential to become, commercially practical within the next 10 years.

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Li-ion Carbon Fiber Vehicles Low Cost 231

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MARCH 10, 2016

However, generating these required intermediates requires high-energy reagents (such as highly reducing metals or strong organic bases), carbon–heteroatom bonds or relatively acidic carbon–hydrogen (C–H) bonds. Despite the many desirable attributes of PEF, the plastics industry has yet to find a low-cost way to manufacture it at scale.

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Molten Salt Carbon CO2 Fuel 150

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APRIL 5, 2016

coal, biomass, or waste—is heated in the absence of molecular oxygen to produce a solid containing char and ash and volatile gases. lower cost) and gasification/F-T processes (e.g., In a patent application published 1 December 2015, Altex described the basic approach for its synthetic fuels processes. —US 9199889.

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JULY 10, 2010

The purpose of this Phase III program is for the grantee to pursue commercial applications of work that derives from, extends, or logically concludes effort(s) performed under prior (Phase I/II) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) or Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) funding agreements. Buildings Technologies.

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Fuel Motor Motors Motoring 210

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APRIL 5, 2010

Included in the 34 FY2010 SBIR Phase I awards are the following biofuel and emissions-reduction projects: Technology Specialists, “Thermochemical Biofuels Production from Biomass Waste Materials”, $70,000. This project will develop and evaluate a new process for converting biomass waste into diesel fuel.

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DECEMBER 20, 2013

VTO divided the areas of interest in its upcoming FY 2014 solicitation into two main categories: technologies to meet the EV Everywhere Grand Challenge, and technology to reduce petroleum consumption through fuel efficiency improvements in passenger and commercial vehicles. lb saved for the chassis. Beyond Li-on. Tire efficiency.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

will prepare an initial engineering design study to use commercial-scale membrane CO 2 capture technology at the CEMEX Balcones cement plant in New Braunfels, TX. Praxair will complete an initial engineering design study for a Linde-BASF CO 2 capture system at a commercial steam methane reforming (SMR) hydrogen plant in Convent, LA.

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OCTOBER 15, 2020

Cyclonatix, Inc is developing an industrial-sized motor/controller to operate with either DC or AC power sources, for applications in electric vehicles, solar-powered pumps, HVAC&R, gas compressors, and other commercial and industrial machines which require high efficiency, variable speed/torque, and low cost.

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AUGUST 19, 2023

plans to develop a novel membrane system from Osmoses’ proprietary polymer composition that can produce enriched oxygen from air for integration into modular gasification systems for low-cost hydrogen production. megawatt hours to form 50 metric tons of oxygen.

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MAY 4, 2018

This FOA addresses gaps in current research and development (R&D) which hinder better utilizing waste streams (e.g. The high costs associated with these processes are one of several issues that plague the commercial viability of biofuels and bioproducts. model host organisms with industrially?relevant coli and S.

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