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Selectee | Location (city, state) | Project Title | Federal Share |
Topic Area 1: Cultivation Intensification Processes for Algae | |||
Los Alamos, NM | Optimizing Selection Pressures and Pest Management to Maximize Algal Biomass Yield (OSPREY) | $4,999,475 | |
San Diego, CA | Innovations in Algae Cultivation | $4,500,000 | |
Golden, CO | Algal Productivity Enhancements by Rapid Screening and Selection of Improved Biomass and Lipid Producing Phototrophs (APEX) | $3,936,302 | |
Champaign, IL | Improving the Productivity and Performance of Large-Scale Integrated Algal Systems for Wastewater Treatment and Biofuel Production | $3,011,601 | |
Tempe, AZ | Decision-Model Supported Algal Cultivation Process Enhancement | $3,500,000 | |
Topic Area 2: Biomass Component Variability and Feedstock Conversion Interface | |||
Bozeman, MT | Enhanced Feedstock Characterization and Modeling to Facilitate Optimal Preprocessing and Deconstruction of Corn Stover | $1,300,000 | |
Madison, WI | WIFT: Single-pass, Weather Independent Fractionation Technology for Improved Property Control of Corn Stover Feedstock | $1,248,748 | |
Lexington, KY | Sulfur Profiling in Pine Residues and Its Impact on Thermochemical Conversion | $1,641,922 | |
North Charleston, SC | Polymer Products from Lignin Through De-aromatization and COOH Functionalization | $879,000 | |
West Lafayette, IN | Modeling Feedstock Performance and Conversion Operations | $1,378,384 | |
Athens, GA | Machine Learning Based Modeling Framework to Relate Biomass Tissue Properties With Handling And Conversion Performances | $1,451,342 | |
University Park, PA | Characterization of Mechanical Biomass Particle-Particle and Particle-Wall Interactions | $707,323 | |
Topic Area 3: Efficient Wood Heaters | |||
Baltimore, MD | Swirl Stove: Swirling Combustion for Efficient Wood Burning | $998,937 | |
South Bend, IL | Automated Wood Stove UFEC23 | $1,019,252 | |
Baltimore, MD | Fire MAPS - Secure Performance Monitoring and User Alerts System | $989,644 | |
Topic Area 4: Systems Research of Advanced Hydrocarbon Biofuel Technologies | |||
Pinellas Park, FL | TRIFTS Catalytic Conversion of Biogas to Drop-in Renewable Diesel Fuel | $2,327,759 | |
North Salt Lake, UT | Production of Liquid Hydrocarbons from Biomass Generated Carbon Dioxide | $1,995,389 | |
Research Triangle Park, NC | Integrated Reactive Catalytic Fast Pyrolysis System for Advanced Hydrocarbon Biofuels | $2,400,000 | |
Des Plaines, IL | Integration of IH2 with the Cool H2 Reformer for the Conversion of Cellulosic Biomass to Drop in Fuel | $1,276,852 | |
Topic Area 5: Optimization of Bio-Derived Jet Fuel Blends | |||
West Lafayette, IN | Higher Energy-content Jet Blending Components Derived from Ethanol | $1,774,214 | |
Boulder, CO | Cellulosic Derived Advantaged Jet Fuel | $1,791,048 | |
Irvine, CA | Production Of Renewable Cycloalkanes From Ethanol For Blending With Jet Fuel To Enhance Energy Density And Material Compatibility And Reduce Particulate Emissions | $1,434,738 | |
Topic Area 6: Renewable Energy from Urban and Suburban Wastes | |||
Fort Collins, CO | Electro-Enhanced Conversion of Wet Waste to Products Beyond Methane | $5,067,538 | |
Topic Area 7: Advanced Bioprocessing and Agile BioFoundry | |||
Berkeley, CA | Tightly Regulated Separation of Growth and Production in a Contamination-Resistant Two-Chamber System for Robust Continuous Bioprocessing | $2,468,821 | |
Rolling Hills Estates, CA | Towards Economical Cell-free Isobutanol Production | $2,078,605 | |
Berkeley, CA | Accelerating Polyketide Synthase Engineering for High TRY Production of Biofuels and Bioproducts | $2,500,000 | |
Seattle, WA | Developing Multi-Gene CRISPRa/i Programs to Accelerate DBTL Cycles in ABF Hosts Engineered for Chemical Production | $1,815,906 | |
Topic Area 8: Plastics in the Circular Carbon Economy | |||
Evanston, IL | ResIn: Responsible Innovation for Highly Recyclable Plastics | $2,499,999 | |
Goleta, CA | Recyclable Thermoset Polymers from Lignin Derived Phenols | $2,000,000 | |
Lowell, MA | Bioconversion of Heterogeneous Polyester Wastes to High-Value Chemical Products | $1,500,814 | |
Pullman, WA | Upcycling of CFRP Waste: Viable Eco-friendly Chemical Recycling and Manufacturing of Novel Repairable and Recyclable Composites | $1,609,883 | |
Topic Area 9: Rethinking Anaerobic Digestion | |||
Albany, NY | Novel and Viable Technologies for Converting Wet Organic Waste Streams to High Value Products | $2,698,542 | |
Pullman, WA | An Advanced Pretreatment/Anaerobic Digestion (APAD) Technology for Increased Conversion of Sewage Sludge to Bio-Natural Gas in Small-Scale Wastewater Plants of Less Than Five Dry Ton Sewage Sludge/Day | $2,428,281 | |
Topic Area 10: Reducing Water, Energy, and Emissions in Bioenergy | |||
Berkeley, CA | Multi-Input, Multi-Output Biorefineries to Reduce Greenhouse Gas and Air Pollutant Emissions | $1,000,000 | |
Fort Collins, CO | Agent-based Modeling for the Multi-objective Optimization of Energy Production Pathways | $1,000,000 | |