Abby L. Harvey
GHG Monitor
8/28/2015
The U.S. Department of Energy recently announced tens of millions of dollars in funding for crosscutting research, carbon storage, and transformational carbon capture technologies. Funding is being provided through DOE and National Energy Technology Laboratory funding programs.
Twelve projects have been awarded funding through the NETL’s Crosscutting Research Program’s Transitional Technology Development to Enable Highly Efficient Power Systems with Carbon Management Initiative. The funding awards are: $750,000 for Energy Industries of Ohio, $749,999 to General Electric, $696,416 to Alstom, $749,058 to the Electric Power Research Institute, $750,000 to Siemens, $750,000 to the Ohio State University, $695,000 to Process Systems Enterprise Ltd., $750,000 to Arizona State University, $656,898 to the Regents of the University of Colorado, $750,000 to Ohio University, an additional $749,322 to General Electric for a separate project, and $750,000 to RTI International.
Funding for nine projects with a focus on CO2 storage technologies devoted to intelligent monitoring systems and advanced well integrity and mitigation approaches will be provided through DOE’s carbon storage program. Funding awards under this program encompass $2.5 million to the University of North Dakota, $1.3 million to the University of Texas at Austin, $2.9 million to Archer Daniels Midland, $1 million to Los Alamos National Security LLC, $1.1 million to Battelle Memorial Institute, $2 million to Montana State University, $2 million to C-Crete Technologies, $1 million to the University of Colorado, and $609,639 to the University of Virginia.
NETL’s carbon capture program announced funding for 16 transformational carbon capture technology projects. Projects being funded fall under five areas: lab-scale post-combustion capture, lab-scale pre-combustion capture, bench-scale post-combustion capture, bench-scale pre-combustion capture, and biological CO2 use/conversion.
Funding announcements for lab-scale post-combustion carbon capture projects under the NETL’s carbon capture program consist of: $2 million to researchers at the Gas Technology Institute, $2 million to researchers at the Georgia Tech Research Corp., $1.9 million to researchers at Liquid Ion Solutions, $1.2 million to researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, $1.6 million to RTI International, $1.4 million to a research team at Texas A&M University, $2 million to researchers at the University of Illinois, and $2 million to a collaboration of the University of Notre Dame and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
Lab-scale pre-combustion carbon capture projects receiving funding are $1.9 million to researchers at the University of Buffalo, $2 million to Southern Research, and $1.5 million to researchers at the University of Southern California.
Bench-scale post-combustion projects receiving funding are $3 million to researchers at American Air Liquide and $2.7 million to RTI International.
Researchers at Arizona State University will receive $2.3 million for bench-scale pre-combustion carbon research.
Two projects will receive funding in the biological CO2 use/conversion area of the funding announcement. The research team at University of Kentucky Research Foundation will receive $990,480. MicroBio Engineering Inc. will receive $863,327 in funding.
