CX-100837 Categorical Exclusion Determination

Rapid Advancement in Process Intensification Deployment (RAPID)
Award Number: DE-EE0007888
CX(s) Applied: A11, B1.31, B3.6, B3.15
Advanced Manufacturing Office
Date: 3/16/2017
Location(s): NY
Office(s): Golden Field Office

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is proposing to provide federal funding to the American Institute of Chemical Engineers to establish the Rapid Advancement in Process Intensification Deployment (RAPID) Institute. The Institute is planned as a consortium established under a Cooperative Agreement with the DOE with participation from sub-recipients of the award, large and small private companies, universities, as well national laboratories, and non-governmental organizations. Focus Area Leaders would be formed primarily by educational organizations and national laboratories as leaders or co-leaders overseeing each Focus Area. The 12 Focus Area Leaders/Co-Leaders would be formed under the RAPID Institute with an emphasis on the following topics: chemicals and commodity processes; natural gas upgrading; renewable bioproducts; intensified process fundamentals; modeling and simulation; and module manufacturing.

RAPID would lead a national effort to research, develop and demonstrate high-impact modular chemical process intensification solutions for U.S. Manufacturing. This would enable improvements in energy efficiency, capital and operating cost factors, environmental emissions, commercial project execution and market penetration thus enhancing U.S. competitiveness and growth. RAPID would also establish a technical education and workforce development program.