Fuel Cell Technologies Office Fiscal Year 2018 Selections
Office of Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy
August 14, 2018
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Selectee | Location (city, state) | Project Title | Federal Share |
Topic 1 ElectroCat | |||
Northeastern University | Boston, MA | Developing Platinum Group Metal-Free Catalysts for Oxygen Reduction Reaction in Acid: Beyond the Single Metal Site | $1,000,000 |
Indiana University Purdue University | Purdue, IN | Mesoporous Carbon-based PGM-free Catalyst Cathodes | $1,002,789 |
Vanderbilt University | Nashville, TN | Fuel Cell Membrane-Electrode-Assemblies with PGM-free Nanofiber Cathodes | $880,034 |
Pajarito Powder | Albuquerque, NM | Active and Durable PGM-free Cathodic Electrocatalysts for Fuel Cell Application | $999,814 |
United Technologies Research Center | Hartford, CT | High Performance Non-PGM Transition Metal Oxide Oxygen Reduction Catalysts for Polymer Electrolyte Membrane Fuel Cells | $999,982 |
Topic 2A – Energy Production and Hydrogen Fueling | |||
Plug Power | Latham, NY | Autonomous Hydrogen Fueling Station | $1,997,216 |
Equilon Enterprises LLC (dba Shell Oil Products US) | Houston, TX | Integrated Control & Dispatch of Renewable Hydrogen Generation At Scale | $1,999,553 |
Skyre, Inc. | Hartford, CT | Electrolyzer Integrated Modular Nano-Array Monolithic Catalytic Reactors for Low Pressure/Temperature and High Flux Synthetic Fuel Production | $2,000,000 |
Giner, ELX Inc. | Newton, MA | Anode-Boosted Electrolysis | $1,744,728 |
Topic 2B – Electrolyzer Manufacturing | |||
3M Company | Maplewood, MN | Low-cost, High Performance Catalyst Coated Membranes for PEM Water Electrolyzers | $1,860,026 |
University of Tennessee Space Institute | Tullahoma, TN | Developing novel electrodes with ultralow catalyst loading for high-efficiency hydrogen production in proton exchange membrane electrolyzer cells | $2,000,000 |
University of Connecticut | Storrs, CT | Catalyst Layer Design, Manufacturing and In-line Quality Control | $2,000,000 |
Clemson University | Clemson, SC | Laser 3D Printing of Highly Compacted Protonic Ceramic Electrolyzer Stack | $1,600,000 |
Topic 2C – Infrastructure Station Footprint | |||
National Renewable Energy Laboratory | Golden, CO | Direct Cooling of Hydrogen to Decrease Energy Consumption in Hydrogen Vehicle Fueling Infrastructure | $1,200,000 |
Washington State University | Pullman, WA | Optimizing the Heisenberg Vortex Tube for Hydrogen Cooling | $1,657,757 |
Greenway Energy | Aiken, SC | Novel Metal Hydride Material Development for High Efficiency and Low-Cost Hydrogen Compressors | $2,404,600 |
Gas Technology Institute | Des Plaines, IL | Free-Piston Expander for Hydrogen Cooling | $2,500,000 |
Topic 3A – Fuel Cell Membranes | |||
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | Troy, NY | Ethylene-Norbornene based Alkaline Exchange Polymers and Reinforced Membranes | $1,000,000 |
Pennsylvania State University | State College, PA | Advanced Anion Exchange Membranes with Tunable Water Transport for High Performance, Long Lifetime and PGM-Free AEMFCs | $997,944 |
Drexel University | Philadelphia, PA | PILBCP-IL Composite Ionomers for High Current Density Performance | $993,735 |
Vanderbilt University | Nashville, TN | Composite PEMs from Electrospun Crosslinkable Poly(Phenylene Sulfonic Acid)s | $600,000 |
Xergy, Inc. | Harrington, DE | Novel non-PFSA Proton Exchange Membrane for Fuel Cell Application | $1,000,000 |
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory | Berkeley, CA | Molten Hydroxide Dual-Phase Membranes for Intermediate Temperature Anion Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells | $1,000,000 |
Topic 3B – Reversible and Liquid Fuel Cells | |||
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory | Berkeley, CA | Novel Bifunctional Electrocatalysts, Supports and Membranes for High Performing and Durable Unitized Regenerative Fuel Cells | $1,000,000 |
Northwestern University | Evanston, IL | Efficient Reversible Operation and Stability of Novel Solid Oxide Cells | $974,694 |
Giner, Inc. | Newton, MA | High-Efficiency Reversible Alkaline Membrane Fuel Cells | $999,503 |
Georgia Institute of Technology | Atlanta, GA | Durable, High-Performance Unitized Reversible Fuel Cells Based on Proton Conductors | $750,000 |
University of Kansas Center for Research, Inc. | Lawrence, KS | Stationary Direct Methanol Fuel Cells Using Pure Methanol | $999,399 |