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Selectee | Location (city, state) | Project Title | Federal Share |
BioEnergy Engineering for Products Synthesis | |||
Topic Area 1: ChemCatBio Industry Partnerships | |||
Tampa, FL | Intensified biogas conversion to value-added fuels and chemicals | $1,836,459 | |
Topic Area 2: Agile BioFoundry Industry Partnership Initiative | |||
Berkeley, CA | Accelerating engineered microbe optimization through machine learning and multiomics datasets | $2,000,000 | |
Castro Valley, CA | Development of Bacillus as an industrial host for the microbial production of biopolymers | $1,321,381 | |
San Diego, CA | Conversion of cellulosic sugars to high-quality polyurethane foams using synthetic biology and machine learning on algae | $2,000,000 | |
Topic Area 3 : Performance Advantaged Bioproducts | |||
Ames, IA | Identifying Performance Advantaged Biobased Chemicals Utilizing Bioprivileged Molecules | $2,500,000 | |
Berkeley, CA | Design and development of bio-advantaged vitrimers as closed-loop bioproducts | $1,997,861 | |
Atlanta, GA | Cellulose-Chitin Composites for Performance Advantaged Barrier Packaging Bioproducts | $1,015,501 | |
Seattle, WA | Fermentative production of Tulipalin A: a next-generation, sustainable monomer that drastically improves the Performance of pMMA | $1,997,854 | |
Topic Area 4: Biofuels and Bioproducts from Wet Organic Waste Streams | |||
Berkeley, CA | Integrated Biorefinery for Chemicals and Fuels Production from Waste Biomass | $1,999,333 | |
Madison, WI | Biodiesel and higher value products from stillage fiber | $1,040,426 | |
Raleigh, NC | Catalytic Upgrading of Carbohydrates in Waste Streams to Hydrocarbons | $2,475,807 | |
Topic Area 5: Rewiring Carbon Utilization | |||
Bozeman, MT | Development of a scalable, robust electrocatalytic technology for conversion of CO2 to formic acid via microstructured materials | $1,483,983 | |
Skokie, IL | Production of bioproducts from electrochemically-generated C1 intermediates | $1,500,000 | |
Baltimore, MD | Integrating Chemical Catalysis and Biological Conversion of Carbon Intermediates for Deriving Value Added Products from Carbon Dioxide | $951,367 | |
Topic Area 6: Lignin Valorization | |||
Clemson, SC | Lignin Fractionation and Valorization: Focusing on both Value and Quality | $1,795,216 | |
Thousand Oaks, CA | SPERLU Selective Process for Efficient Removal of Lignin and Upgrading | $1,613,457 | |
Efficient Carbon Utilization in Algal Systems | |||
Topic Area 1: Carbon Dioxide (CO2) Utilization Improvement | |||
Fort Collins, CO | Integrating an Industrial Source and Commercial Algae Farm with Innovative CO2 Transfer Membrane and Improved Strain Technologies | $2,145,600 | |
Tempe, AZ | Multi-pronged Approach of Improved Biological and Physicochemical Systems to Improving Carbon Utilization by Cyanobacterial Cultures | $2,500,000 | |
San Diego, CA | Algae Cultivation from Flue Gas with High CO2 Utilization Efficiency | $2,500,000 | |
Tempe, AZ | Membrane Carbonation for 100% Efficient Delivery of Industrial CO2 Gases | $1,992,766 | |
Durham, NC | Carbon Utilization Efficiency in Marine Algae Biofuel Production Systems Through Loss Minimization and Carbonate Chemistry Modification | $1,511,515 | |
Topic Area 2: Direct Air Capture Systems | |||
San Luis Obispo, CA | Air Carbon for Algae Production - AirCAP | $2,260,880 | |
Atlanta, GA | Direct Air Capture of CO2 and Delivery to Photobioreactors for Algal Biofuel Production | $1,983,452 | |
Process Development for Advanced Biofuels and Biopower | |||
Topic Area 1: Drop-in Renewable Jet Fuel Blendstocks | |||
Salt Lake City, UT | Novel Method for Biomass Conversion to Renewable Jet Fuel Blend | $2,500,000 | |
Pullman, WA | Hybrid HEFA-HDCJ Process for the Production of Jet Fuel Blendstocks | $2,762,484 | |
Panama City, FL | Drop-in Renewable Jet Fuel from Brown Grease via the Biofuels ISOCONVERSION Process | $2,360,703 | |
Des Plaines, IL | Cool GTL® for the Production of Jet Fuel from Biogas | $2,986,033 | |
Topic Area 2: Drop-in Renewable Diesel Fuel Blendstocks | |||
Durham, NC | Bio-crude Production and Upgrading to Renewable Diesel | $2,553,924 | |
Skokie, IL | Ultra-low Sulfur Winterized Diesel | $2,500,000 | |
Woodland, CA | Agricultural and Woody Biomass to Diesel Fuel with Bio-oil Intermediate | $2,200,000 | |
Topic Area 3: Biomass, Biosolids, and Municipal Solid Waste to Energy | |||
Berkeley, CA | High-efficiency Process for RNG Production from Biogas using MOF-based Solid Adsorbents | $1,419,686 | |
Champaign, IL | Maximizing Bio-Renewable Energy from Wet Wastes (M-BREWW) | $1,585,115 | |
Worcester, MA | A Catalytic Process to Convert Municipal Solid Waste Components to Energy | $1,995,199 | |
Affordable and Sustainable Energy Crops | |||
Champaign, IL | Next-Generation Feedstocks for the Emerging Bioeconomy | $5,000,000 | |
College Station, TX | Sustainable Herbaceous Energy Crop Production in the Southeast United States | $4,999,539 | |
Raleigh, NC | Next Generation Miscanthus: Hybrid Performance Evaluation and Enhanced, Sustainable Feedstock Production and Supply in the Southeast U.S. for Biofuels and Bioproducts | $4,627,161 | |