by Jbs051210 b3 — May 19, 2010—The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and its Industrial Technologies Program recently announced that 48 research and development projects across the country have been selected as award winners of the Industrial Energy Efficiency Grand Challenge.
The grantees will receive a total of $13 million to fund the development of industrial processes and technologies that can significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions throughout the industrial sector. The funding will be matched by more than $5 million in private industry funding to support a total of $18 million in projects expected to enhance America’s energy security and strengthen the economy.
DOE is providing cost-shared funding for concept-definition research and development studies in four main topic areas:
- Next Generation Manufacturing Concepts—to reduce the energy intensity or greenhouse gas emissions of industrial systems by a minimum of 25 percent;
- Energy Intensive Processes—specific technology areas (reactions and separations; high-temperature processing; waste heat minimization and recovery; and sustainable manufacturing) that are expected to generate large energy-saving benefits across a variety of industries and transform the way major manufacturing processes use energy;
- Advanced Materials—focusing on thermal and degradation resistant materials and materials for energy systems; and
- Industrial Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reduction—transformational technologies that offer not only carbon intensity reductions, but also absolute carbon reductions.
