DEAR0001946
Cooperative Agreement
Overview
Grant Description
Control #: 3234-1556
New award to the Regents of the University of California, Los Angeles
DE-FOA-0003234: Grid-free renewable energy enabling new ways to economical liquids and long-term storage (Greenwells)
Project title: E-CO2 LUMN: The dynamic CO2 electrolyzer column
Description: ''Storing renewable electricity into liquid fuel is a major objective for the energy transition.
Current CO2 electrolyzer designs are limited to low CO2 one-pass conversions and highly diluted product streams that require energy intensive downstream separations.
The project develops a novel design of a CO2 electrolyzer prototype producing a high concentration liquid fuel with a much lower energy requirement for separation and purification than current electrolyzers.
The control of the reactor is dynamic, with machine-learning based predictive control systems that we have developed at UCLA.
The catalyst composition will be designed and optimized to suppress the competing hydrogen evolution reaction.
The proposed team is highly complementary, bringing all methods required for the success of the project: electrocatalysis, catalysts design, reactor design, separation, process control, process simulation.
The proposed design also has a potential disruptive impact on the marketplace.
From its modular design and dynamic operation capabilities, the proposed process is extremely well suited to intermittent renewable energy (wind and solar) and proposes a technology for long and medium term storage of these energies into liquid fuels, without injection of electrical energy in the grid.
The project hence clearly addresses the program objectives in order to increase the deployment of renewable energy and bypass the wait time for interconnection to the electric grid.
The project will therefore bring a competitive advantage to the United States, by providing a novel and unique technology for electrical energy storage into liquid fuel, which is a key requirement for the development of renewable energies.''
New award to the Regents of the University of California, Los Angeles
DE-FOA-0003234: Grid-free renewable energy enabling new ways to economical liquids and long-term storage (Greenwells)
Project title: E-CO2 LUMN: The dynamic CO2 electrolyzer column
Description: ''Storing renewable electricity into liquid fuel is a major objective for the energy transition.
Current CO2 electrolyzer designs are limited to low CO2 one-pass conversions and highly diluted product streams that require energy intensive downstream separations.
The project develops a novel design of a CO2 electrolyzer prototype producing a high concentration liquid fuel with a much lower energy requirement for separation and purification than current electrolyzers.
The control of the reactor is dynamic, with machine-learning based predictive control systems that we have developed at UCLA.
The catalyst composition will be designed and optimized to suppress the competing hydrogen evolution reaction.
The proposed team is highly complementary, bringing all methods required for the success of the project: electrocatalysis, catalysts design, reactor design, separation, process control, process simulation.
The proposed design also has a potential disruptive impact on the marketplace.
From its modular design and dynamic operation capabilities, the proposed process is extremely well suited to intermittent renewable energy (wind and solar) and proposes a technology for long and medium term storage of these energies into liquid fuels, without injection of electrical energy in the grid.
The project hence clearly addresses the program objectives in order to increase the deployment of renewable energy and bypass the wait time for interconnection to the electric grid.
The project will therefore bring a competitive advantage to the United States, by providing a novel and unique technology for electrical energy storage into liquid fuel, which is a key requirement for the development of renewable energies.''
Grant Program (CFDA)
Awarding / Funding Agency
Place of Performance
Los Angeles,
California
United States
Geographic Scope
City-Wide
Los Angeles University Of California was awarded
Dynamic CO2 Electrolyzer for Renewable Energy Storage
Cooperative Agreement DEAR0001946
worth $3,076,000
from Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy in October 2024 with work to be completed primarily in Los Angeles California United States.
The grant
has a duration of 2 years 5 months and
was awarded through assistance program 81.135 Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy.
The Cooperative Agreement was awarded through grant opportunity Grid-free Renewable Energy Enabling New Ways to Economical Liquids and Long-term Storage (GREENWELLS).
Status
(Ongoing)
Last Modified 9/3/24
Period of Performance
10/1/24
Start Date
3/30/27
End Date
Funding Split
$3.1M
Federal Obligation
$0.0
Non-Federal Obligation
$3.1M
Total Obligated
Activity Timeline
Additional Detail
Award ID FAIN
DEAR0001946
SAI Number
None
Award ID URI
SAI EXEMPT
Awardee Classifications
Public/State Controlled Institution Of Higher Education
Awarding Office
897030 ADVANCED RSRCH PROJ AGENCY ARPA-E
Funding Office
897002 ADVANCED RSRCH PROJ AGENCY ARPA-E
Awardee UEI
RN64EPNH8JC6
Awardee CAGE
4B557
Performance District
CA-36
Senators
Dianne Feinstein
Alejandro Padilla
Alejandro Padilla
Modified: 9/3/24