Today, the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) announced more than $20.1 million in federal funding for 58 projects supported by DOE’s Office of Technology Transitions Technology Commercialization Fund (TCF). The projects are a part of a larger Department-wide TCF effort, in which 82 projects will receive more than $33 million in federal funding and more than $36 million in matching funds from the private sector.
TCF projects require a 50% match of nonfederal funds. A list of the EERE-funded projects and lab partnerships follows.
Ames Laboratory
* Mechanically Robust High Magnetic Performance Sm-Co Sintered Magnets, $250,000
** Electron Energy Corporation (Landisville, PA)
Argonne National Laboratory
* A Comprehensive Validation Methodology For Benchmarking Wide Bandgap Power Devices for Aerospace Application and Improving Manufacturing Process, $250,000
** Boeing (El Segundo, CA)
** Kyma Tech (Raleigh, NC)
* Advanced Drivetrain Lubricants for Enhanced Reliability in Harsh Conditions, $1,000,000
** Exxon Mobil (Annandale, NJ)
** GE Renewable Energy (Schenectady, NY)
** National Renewable Energy Laboratory (Golden, CO)
** Pixelligent Technologies (Baltimore, MD)
** University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA)
* Binder Jet Additive Manufacturing of Nickel Alloy Based Low-Cost Heat Exchangers for Harsh Environments, $250,000
** ExOne Company (St Clairsville, OH)
* Demonstration of Ceramicrete® as a Robust Geothermal Well Cement, $250,000
* Dual-Fuel Technology for Diesel Combustion Engines, $650,000
** Progress Rail, A Caterpillar company (La Grange, IL)
* Preparing Large Area of Thermochromic Nanocomposite Films for Smart Window Application, $250,000
Brookhaven National Laboratory
* Surface Modification of Graphite Anodes Enabling Fast Charging of Li-ion Batteries, $250,000
** State University of New York, Stony Brook (Stony Brook, NY)
* Sustainable Well Cement for Geothermal, Thermal Recovery and Carbon Storage Wells, $249,999
** HERO (Seattle, WA)
** Imerys (Chesapeake, VA)
** Resource Cementing (Rio Vista, CA)
** Trabits Group (Wasilla, AK)
Idaho National Laboratory
* A Longitudinal Finned Heat Exchanger for Thermal Energy Storage and Recovery, $100,000
** Rapid Cutting, LLP (Maumelle, AR)
* Fractionation of Lignocellulosic Biomass into High-Value Products, $120,000
** Golden Leaf Energy (New Orleans, LA)
** Oak Ridge National Laboratory (Oak Ridge, TN)
* Operational Integration and Scalable Deployment of Microgrid Control Algorithms into Nanogrid Inverter+PV+Storage Applications, $220,000
** Inergy Holdings, LLC (Pocatello, ID)
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
* Adaptation of CRAGE for Clostridium Strains To Enable Rapid Strain Engineering for Production of Biofuels and Bioproducts from Low-Cost Gas Feedstock, $250,000
** LanzaTech Inc. (Skokie, IL)
* Nanosegregated Bimetallic Oxide Anode Catalyst For Proton Exchange Membrane Electrolyzer, $300,000
** IRD Fuel Cells (Albuquerque, NM)
** Pajarito Powder (Albuquerque, NM)
** Proton OnSite/NEL (Wallingford, CT)
* Production of a New Aviation Biofuel Precursor from Cellulosic Biomass Using an Engineered Strain of Novozymes’ C5/C6 Sugar Consuming Yeast, $250,000
** Novozymes North America Inc. (Franklinton, NC)
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
* Materials Design Simulator: A Practical Tool for Advanced Alloys Development, $250,000
** MolyWorks (Cloverdale, CA)
* Micro-liter Fuel Ignition Tester for Accelerated Discovery of Advanced Combustion Fuels, $100,000
* System Integration of Rationally Designed Dilute Alloy Catalysts for Energy-Efficient Electrochemical CO2-to-Fuel Conversion, $250,000
** Opus-12 (Berkeley, CA)
** TOTAL American Services Inc. (Hopkinton, MA)
* Zero-Order Reaction Kinetics: Enabling the Use of Detailed Chemical Kinetics in Combustion Simulations, $545,000
** Convergent Science (Madison, WI)
** Gamma Technologies, LLC (Westmont, IL)
National Energy Technology Laboratory
* Catalyst Development for Automotive Exhaust Treatment, $101,146
** Pyrochem Catalyst Company (Louisville, KY)
National Renewable Energy Laboratory
* 3D-Printed Desiccant Wheel with Thermo-Responsive Desiccants for Energy Efficiency and Thermal Comfort in Buildings, $250,000
** Blue Mountain Energy (Las Vegas, NV)
** Gas Technology Institute (Woodland Hills, CA)
** TCPoly Inc. (Atlanta, GA)
* A Customizable Metric to Quantify the Quality of Mobility, $438,149
** Street Light Data (San Francisco, CA)
* Carbon Free Data Center Control and Assessment, $150,000
** Daimler AG (Stuttgart, Germany)
** Hewlett Packard Enterprise (Spokane, WA)
** Power Innovations (Highland, UT)
* Commercialization of Fully Renewable Non-Isocyanate Polyurethanes, $729,918
** Algix (Meridian, MS)
** Honda R&D Americas (Raymond, OH)
** Patagonia (Ventura, CA)
* Commercializing Biographite for Lithium Ion Batteries, $100,062
** Ensyn (Ontario, Canada)
* Cracked Film Lithography For Metal Grids in CdTe Modules, $250,000
** First Solar (San Francisco, CA)
* Full Area Quality Control for Advanced Membrane R2R Fabrication Lines By In-Line, High Resolution, Multilayer Thickness Mapping, $124,986
** Middleton Spectral Vision (Middleton, WI)
* Geothermal Resource Portfolio Optimization and Reporting Technique, $112,500
** CanGEA (Calgary, Canada)
** Hungarian Geological Survey (Budapest, Hungary)
** International Geothermal Association (Bonn, Germany)
** Jacobs Engineering Inc. (Auckland, New Zealand)
** Reykjavik Energy (Reykjavik, Iceland)
* High Fidelity Modeling Toolkit for Wind Farm Development, $850,000
** GE Global Research (Niskayuna, NY)
** GE Renewable Energy (Schenectady, NY)
** Sandia National Laboratories (Albuquerque, NM)
* Impacts of Hydrogen Blending in Natural Gas Networks, $175,000
** Encoord, LLC (Edgewater, CO)
** Institute of Gas Innovation and Technology (Stony Brook, NY)
** Southern California Gas Company (Los Angeles, CA)
* Improving the Accuracy of Building Energy Models used in the Design Process, $1,000,000
** Autodesk (Boston, MA)
** Cedar Stack (Seattle, WA)
* Passivated Contacts for Direct Wafers, $149,905
** 1366 Technologies (Bedford, MA)
* Scribe and Interface Modification for Stable Halide Perovskite Modules, $450,000
** Tandem PV Inc. (Santa Clara, CA)
* Surface Modified Electrolyzer Components for Corrosion Resistance and Electrical Conductivity, $124,900
** Treadstone Technologies Inc. (Princeton, NJ)
* Technical and Commercial Assessment of a Newly Developed Secondary Reflector Design for Linear Fresnel Technology, $600,000
** Hyperlight Energy (Lakeside, CA)
* Urban Algal Forests to Capture Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide and Wastewater Nutrients: Algal Strain Development to Enhance Efficiencies, $240,000
** Gross-Wen Technologies (Ames, IA)
** MWRD Chicago (Chicago, IL)
* Wet Waste for High-Performance Sustainable Aviation Fuels, $249,660
** ALD Nanosolutions (Broomfield, CO)
** Earth Energy Renewables (Bryan, TX)
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
* 3D Printing Catalysts for Improved Efficiency and Selectivity: Converting Waste to Jet Fuel, $150,000
** Honeywell UOP (McCook, IL)
* 3D Reality Energy Modeling Software, $100,000
** Bentley Systems (Washington, DC)
* Expansion of Atmospheric CO2 Plasma Conversion Coatings on Lightweight Magnesium Alloys, $120,000
* Misalignment Tolerant Three-Phase Wireless Fast Charging System for Electric Vehicles, $750,000
** FCA US LLC (Auburn Hills, MI)
* Primer-Less Self-Healing Sealant for Building Envelopes, $100,000
* Recovery of Lithium from Geothermal Brine with Lithium-Aluminum Layered Double Hydroxide Chloride Sorbents, $500,000
** All American Lithium (Brawley, CA)
** Idaho National Laboratory (Idaho Falls, ID)
* Self-Healing Films for Vacuum Insulation Panels and Air/Vapor Barrier Membranes, $200,000
** FLEXcon Industrial Park (Spencer, MA)
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
* Deep Learning for Fish Identification from Sonar Data, $489,000
** Electric Power Research Institute (Palo Alto, CA)
** Great Lakes Fishery Commission (Traverse City, MI)
** SOUND METRICS (Bellevue, WA)
** The Eel Passage Research Center (Palo Alto, CA)
** The Technical University of Munich (Munich, Germany)
** USGS, Great Lakes Science Center (Millersburg, MI)
* Electrolyte Development for Fast-Charging High-Energy-Density Lithium Batteries, $250,000
** American Lithium Energy Corporation (ALEC) (Carlsbad, CA)
** Navitas Advanced Solutions Group (Navitas) (Ann Arbor, MI)
* Manufacturing Hybrid Copper- Aluminum Rotors for High Power Induction and Permanent Magnet Electric Motors, $200,000
** General Motors Research and Development (Warren, MI)
* Multipurpose Advanced Coatings for Protection of High Temperature Alloys in Harsh Industrial Processes, $600,000
** Praxair Inc. (Tonawanda, NY)
* Optimization and Commercialization of the Juvenile Eel/Lamprey Acoustic Transmitter and Micro-battery, $600,000
** Advanced Telemetry Systems (Isanti, MN)
** Innovasea (Bedford, Canada)
** MicroBatt Technologies Inc. (Bellevue, WA)
* Optimize the Autonomous Sensor Fish Device for Understanding Interactions of Aquatic Animals with Marine and Hydrokinetic and Hydro Systems, $600,000
** Advanced Telemetry Systems (Isanti, MN)
** Electric Power Research Institute (Palo Alto, CA)
** Natel Energy Inc. (Alameda, CA)
** University of Alaska Fairbanks (Fairbanks, AK)
** University of Washington (Seattle, WA)
* Production of High-Pressure Hydrogen from the Decomposition of Formic Acid, $700,000
** OCO Chem (Blue River, OR)
* Retro-Commissioning Sensor Suitcase for Energy Efficiency, $250,000
** BC Hydro (Vancouver, Canada)
** GreenPath Energy Solutions (Windermere, FL)
** Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley, CA)
** Sacramento Municipal Utility District (Sacramento, CA)
** University of Idaho (Boise, ID)
** Zepher (Bingen, WA)
* Smart Building Start (SBS), $250,000
** Verdicity (Newton, MA)
* Smart Monitoring and Diagnostic System (SMDS) for Packaged Air Conditioners and Heat Pumps for Small/Medium Commercial Buildings: Preparation for Commercialization, $250,000
** JouleSmart Solutions Inc. (Portland, OR)
Sandia National Laboratories
* Continuous Interoperability for Distributed Energy, $500,000
** SunSpec Alliance (San Jose, CA)
* Development of Microfabricated Sensor Solutions for Petrochemical Applications, $469,406
** Honeywell PMT UOP HPS (Des Plaines, IL)
* Heliostat Observation System Commercial Qualification, $300,000
** Heliogen (Pasadena, CA)
* High-Temperature, Self-Healing Advanced Superalloy Components for High-Performance Reactors, $1,500,000
** Dynetics (Huntsville, AL)
** University of New Mexico (Albuquerque, NM)
** Westwind Computer Products (Albuquerque, NM)
Source: U.S. Dept. of Energy, Office of Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy
