The Grid Optimization (GO) Competition Challenge 3 program will support the research and development of software management solutions focused on the security-constrained optimal power flow (SCOPF) problem, part of a continuing effort of GO Challenges 1 and 2, to successfully discover, develop, and test innovative and disruptive software solutions for critical energy challenges and to overcome existing barriers.
Funding will support the project team's small-scale research and development of a technology approach to large-scale, dynamic energy transport by using electrochemical processes and existing logistics infrastructure by leveraging globally abundant, non-critical metals to serve as energy carriers and innovative metal-air fuel cells and low temperature metal electrolyzers for energy conversion.
Funding will support the project team's small-scale research and development of a high-temperature sliding sleeve to increase energy recovery in enhanced geothermal systems (EGS) by 200 percent to 500 percent by increasing the contact area between the connected fracture system and the reservoir rock matrix.
CX-270842: The MITRE Corporation - All-Optical Chiplets for Energy-Efficient Artificial Intelligence
Funding will support the project team's small-scale research and development of computer chiplets based on photonic integrated circuits that use light instead of electricity for computation.
Funding will support the project team's small-scale research and development of an electrochemically catalyzed graphitization process using molten salts, operating at much lower temperatures (approx. 850°Celsius) and in shorter timescales (3-6 hours) to produce high-purity synthetic graphite.
Funding will support the project team's small-scale research and development of a technology to enhance the power delivery system for laser drivers by leveraging efficient microwave sources in combination with electron beams to energize excimer gas lasers used in generating laser-based inertial fusion energy.
Funding will support the project team's small-scale research and development of a process to capture helium from U.S. well sites by leveraging greenhouse gas (GHG)-free combustion of co-extracted geologic hydrogen to power a novel separation process.
Funding will support the project team's small-scale research and development of a long-distance wireless power transfer (WPT) 4 meter (m) phased array antenna with over 1 kilowatt of radio frequency power transmitting 200m to a 4m receiving antenna array with minimum 70 percent end-to-end efficiency from source to delivered direct current (DC) for the purpose of connecting energy generation with demand.
Funding will support the project team's small-scale research and development of a new catalytic graphitization technology for producing high-value graphite from various grades of petroleum coke at a lower temperature (1500 °C) and with a shortened process time (hours rather than days), compared with conventional processes.
Funding will support the project team's small-scale research and development of a Quantum Enhanced Photonic Radio Frequency Imaging Technology to map the structural integrity of rock formations, identify fault zones, and detect fluid-filled fractures for more accurate geothermal assessments and production management.