Award Number: DE-EE0008677 CX(s) Applied: A9, B3.6 Building Technologies Office Location(s): AL Office(s): Golden Field Office
Office of NEPA Policy and Compliance
April 15, 2019
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Award Number: DE-EE0008677
CX(s) Applied: A9, B3.6
Building Technologies Office
Location(s): AL
Office(s): Golden Field Office
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is proposing to provide federal funding to the University of Alabama (UA) for the development of a fire-retardant phase-change material (PCM) packaging technology and the subsequent design, development, simulation, fabrication, and laboratory testing of a thermally activated building envelope system (TES) that uses the developed PCM packaging technology integrated with hydronic capillary loops as a heat transfer mechanism. Performance of the new system would be characterized to verify energy savings and support of renewable energy sources. Project work would occur within laboratories at UA and Sutterlin Technologies in Alabama as well as Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee. Any work proposed to be conducted at a federal facility may be subject to additional NEPA review by the cognizant federal official and must meet the applicable health and safety requirements of the facility.