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Document Type:
Grants Notice
Funding Opportunity Number:
DE-FOA-0000784
Opportunity Category:
Discretionary
Posted Date:
Feb 15, 2013
Creation Date:
Feb 15, 2013
Original Closing Date for Applications:
Apr 22, 2013
Current Closing Date for Applications:
Apr 22, 2013
Archive Date:
Aug 01, 2013
Funding Instrument Type:
Cooperative Agreement
Category of Funding Activity:
Energy
Science and Technology and other Research and Development
Category Explanation:
Expected Number of Awards:
5
Estimated Total Program Funding:
$13,000,000
Award Ceiling:
$0
Award Floor:
$0
CFDA Number(s):
81.089
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Fossil Energy Research and Development
Cost Sharing or Matching Requirement:
Yes
Eligible Applicants
Unrestricted (i.e., open to any type of entity above), subject to any clarification in text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility"
Additional Information on Eligibility:
All types of entities, including DOE National Laboratory Contractors, are eligible to apply, except other Federal agencies, non-DOE Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) Contractors, and nonprofit organizations described in section 501(c)(4) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 that engaged in lobbying activities after December 31, 1995.
Agency Name
National Energy Technology Laboratory
Description
Gasification is used to convert a solid feedstock?such as coal, petcoke or biomass?into a gaseous form, referred to as syngas, which is composed primarily of hydrogen and carbon monoxide (CO). With gasification-based technologies, pollutants can be easily captured and then disposed of or converted to useful products. In the Department of Energy?s vision for clean power using gasification, steam is added to syngas in a water-gas shift (WGS) reactor to convert the CO to carbon dioxide (CO2) and to produce additional hydrogen. The hydrogen and CO2 are separated?the hydrogen is combusted to make power and the CO2 is captured and sent to storage, converted to useful product, or used for enhanced oil recovery (EOR).
The Gasification Systems Technology Area takes full advantage of the flexibility inherent in gasification. For instance, technologies designed to clean syngas to chemical production standards also clean syngas for power production (i.e., integrated gasification combined cycle [IGCC]), often with significantly lower contaminant levels than the Environmental Protection Agency?s (EPA) criteria for power plant emissions. Technologies that lower the cost of producing high-hydrogen syngas for fuels or chemical production will also reduce the carbon footprint of IGCC. Advanced technologies being developed under the Gasification Systems Technology Area will provide a more efficient and economical platform for the capture and utilization of CO2.
In addition to efficiently producing electric power, a wide range of liquids and/or high-value chemicals and fuels (especially diesel and gasoline) can be produced from cleaned, high-hydrogen syngas, thereby providing flexibility capable of capitalizing on a range of dynamic changes to either domestic energy markets or global economic conditions. Continued advances in gasification-based technology will enable the conversion of our Nation?s abundant coal reserves into energy resources (power and liquid fuels) needed to support the national economy with unprecedented environmental performance.
