Funding will support the project team's small-scale research and development of fermentation technology based on a microbial co-culture approach to efficiently produce biofuels from various single-carbon (C1) feedstocks.
Funding will support the project team's small-scale research and development of a 3D radially additive diamond (RAD) printer designed to produce diamond-metal composite materials for use in plasma-facing structures capable of surviving the intense environment of fusion energy machines, plasma processing, and aerospace.
Funding will support the project team's small-scale research and development of solvent-free methods for manufacturing high-selectivity flow battery membranes using chemical vapor deposition, which could reduce costs and improve performance of redox flow batteries for utility scale grid storage and potential applications for metals separation and desalination.
Funding will support the project team's small-scale research and development of solvent- and heat-resistance carbon-doped titanium oxide (CDTO) membranes for organic solvent recovery which would offer a transformative solution for cleaner, more cost-effective chemical production.
Funding will support the project team's small-scale research and development of a desalination system based on air gap diffusion distillation (AGDD) that combines brine concentration and crystallization into one component, thus allowing for greater than 95 percent water recovery with a slurry byproduct containing concentrated minerals.
This Amended Determination follows the approval of additional funding, period of performance, and new project milestones to support the project team's small-scale research and development activities to finalize their software to model and simulate construction performance using as-planned Building Information Modeling (BIM) and as-built point clouds of off-site components by employing automated data collection solutions for capturing as-built conditions of pre-fabricated components using robotics and visual sensors.
The Technologies to Emend and Obviate SYnthetic Nitrogen’s Toll on Emissions (TEOSYNTE) program supports projects that focus on plant and microbial bio-design strategies that reduce the need to apply synthetic nitrogen fertilizer on corn and sorghum fields while maintaining crop yields.
The Realize Energy-rich Compound Opportunities Valorizing Extraction from Refuse waters - (RECOVER) program seeks to create new ways to extract critical metals and ammonia from domestic wastewater.
The Nuclear Energy Waste Transmutation Optimized Now (NEWTON) program will support the research and development of technologies that enable the transmutation of used nuclear fuel to reduce the impact of storage in permanent disposal facilities.
Corpus Christi Liquefaction, LLC, CCL Midscale 8–9, LLC, and Cheniere Marketing, LLC (collectively, CCL) jointly filed an application (Application) with the Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management (FECM) (now known as the Hydrocarbons and Geothermal Energy Office (HGEO)) on April 6, 2023.