Funding Number: Request for Information (RFI): DE-FOA-0001676
EERE Office: Advanced Manufacturing Office
Description
The Advanced Manufacturing Office (AMO) has issued a Request for Information (RFI) on technologies that if successfully advanced, could impact the cost-effective and energy efficient availability of clean water processed from a variety of sources, including: surface water, ground water, brackish water, seawater, and wastewater.
One method for producing clean water is desalination. To date, desalination technologies have largely been pressure driven, but solar thermal applications also have the potential to efficiently produce clean water with additional analysis and design advancements. The office is seeking feedback on technologies, like desalination, with the potential for early-stage research that optimize the use of renewable energy sources and have a range of applications including municipal drinking water, agricultural uses, and industrial needs.
The purpose of this RFI is to solicit feedback and comments from industry, academia, research laboratories, government agencies, and other stakeholders on opportunities for the research, and development of technologies with the potential to make clean water processing and production more efficient. Results from this research would help to lower the costs of processed clean water and ensure an abundant supply of clean water throughout United States.
View the full list of questions in the RFI here.
Additional Information
The official request also includes submission instructions, which detail the technical focus areas and response guidelines. Responses to this RFI must be submitted electronically to AMOCleanWater@ee.doe.gov no later than 5:00 pm (ET) on July 28, 2017.
Note, this RFI is not a Funding Opportunity Announcement and EERE is not accepting applications at this time. EERE may issue a FOA in the future based on or related to the content and responses to this RFI; however, EERE may also elect not to issue a FOA. EERE will not respond to individual submissions or publish publicly a compendium of responses. A response to this RFI will not be viewed as a binding commitment to develop or pursue the project or ideas discussed.
Download the RFI to learn more about the solicitation.
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