DEADLINE APPROACHING: Feedback for Potential Focus Areas for Early Stage Research and Development of Processed Clean Water – July 28
Advanced Manufacturing & Industrial Decarbonization
July 12, 2017
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Top Stories:
- DEADLINE APPROACHING: Feedback for Potential Focus Areas for Early Stage Research and Development of Processed Clean Water
- How AMO’s Cyclotron Road is Bridging the Innovator Gap
- Superior Energy Performance 2017 Program Update Webinar
- Saint-Gobain Takes Advantage of New Better Plants-Diagnostic Equipment Program
- The Critical Materials Institute Designs Rare-earth Extractants with the Help of New Software
- AMO’s Institute for Advanced Composites Manufacturing Innovation Welcomes 10+ New Members!
- From Afghanistan to Advanced Manufacturing: Meet Matt Sallas
DEADLINE APPROACHING: Feedback for Potential Focus Areas for Early Stage Research and Development of Processed Clean Water – July 28
The Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), on behalf of its Advanced Manufacturing Office, seeks feedback on technologies with the potential for early stage research and development (R&D) that if successfully advanced could impact the cost-effective and energy efficient availability of clean water. This request for information (RFI) targets R&D for processing technologies used to create clean water from a variety of sources such as surface water, ground water, brackish water, seawater, wastewater and produced water for a range of applications including municipal drinking water, agricultural uses, and industrial needs.
This is solely a request for information and not a Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA). EERE is not accepting applications. Responses to this RFI must be submitted electronically no later than 5:00 PM EST on July 28, 2017.
How AMO’s Cyclotron Road is Bridging the Innovator Gap
The Advanced Manufacturing Office’s Cyclotron Road, a post-doctoral research program, supports entrepreneurially-minded scientists for research on fresh-ideas in fields like materials science, chemistry, biology, and physics relevant to energy and manufacturing.
Learn more about how Cyclotron Road helps science innovators investigate early-stage energy technologies with potential for positive and lasting impact on the national, economic, and energy security of the United States.
Attend an informational webinar, meet other interested applicants, and ask questions to the program team on Wednesday, July 19, 2017 at 1:00 p.m. PST. The webinar is limited to 50 participants, so register today.
Superior Energy Performance 2017 Program Update Webinar
AMO’s Superior Energy Performance® (SEP™) certification program recently hosted a one-hour webinar to describe the SEP 2017 program updates in more detail. In case you missed it, you can access the recording here.
Saint-Gobain Takes Advantage of New Better Plants-Diagnostic Equipment Program
Last year, The Advanced Manufacturing Office’s Better Plants Program launched the Field Validation and Diagnostic Equipment Program (DEP) to help partners obtain accurate, reliable measurements of operating data to measure their energy consumption. Saint-Gobain Corporation, a Better Plants Challenge Partner, was one of the first to leverage the new program’s resources, which enabled it to uncover as much as $20,000 in potential annual energy savings.
Learn how Saint-Gobain utilized this Better Plants’ program to obtain significant energy savings.
The Critical Materials Institute Designs Rare-earth Extractants with the Help of New Software
The U.S. Department of Energy’s Critical Materials Institute (CMI) developed a computer program, called ParFit that can vastly reduce the amount of time spent identifying promising chemical compounds used in rare-earth processing methods. ParFit uses traditional and advanced methods to train the classical mechanical model to fit quantum mechanical information from a training set. These classical models can then be used to predict the shape of new extractants and how they bind to metals.
More information about this software can be found here.
AMO’s Institute for Advanced Composites Manufacturing Innovation Welcomes 10+ New Members!
The Advanced Manufacturing Office’s Institute for Advanced Composites Manufacturing Innovation (IACMI) welcomed 13 new members since March 2017. Read IACMI’s latest newsletter to catch up on the newest members, IACMI CEO Bryan Dods' conversation with CompositesWorld, and to learn more about our members' latest achievements.
From Afghanistan to Advanced Manufacturing: Meet Matt Sallas
After serving in Kandahar, Afghanistan, U.S. Navy construction mechanic Matthew Sallas returned to Knoxville, Tennessee where he began working at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Manufacturing Demonstration Facility (MDF) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL).
