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| | Clemson Univesrity | Debora F. Rodrigues | Professor and Dept. Chair |
Academic
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Bioenergy
| Dr. Rodrigues' group specializes in biomining for the recovery of critical minerals. She also has extensive experience in water and wastewater treatment.
She has unique expertise in using fungi and bacteria as agents for biomining and recovery of critical minerals. |
| SC |
| | T2M Advisors, LLC | Gregg Cremer | Partner |
Small Business
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Other Energy Technologies
| T2M Advisors exists to help you turn your breakthrough technologies into commercially successful products. We’ve been in your shoes: our founding team includes a deeptech CEO who has raised millions in public and private funding and a former ARPA-E Tech-to-Market Advisor and SCALEUP Program Director. We know exactly what investors, reviewers, and corporate partners look for – because we’ve sat on every side of the table. Connect with us to learn how we can accelerate your technology’s commercialization. |
| CA |
| | Johnston Engineering | Andy Johnston | President, Principal Engineer |
Small Business
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Other Energy Technologies
| Johnston Engineering (JE) is a mechanical engineering firm specializing in mechanical design, analysis, integration, build, and testing of first-of-a-kind systems, equipment, and machines. In operation since 2015, JE brings over 300 years of combined experience across 20 engineers with specialized expertise in product development and advanced engineering solutions. Our experience spans multiple industries, with a primary focus on energy and clean technology, including projects in carbon capture, hydrogen, nuclear, and energy storage. In addition, we support work in circular materials, chemical and refining, industrial machinery and equipment, aerospace, consumer electronics, and biotechnology.
Johnston Engineering's advantage is an “Analysis-Driven Design” approach, meaning that we have a closely integrated mechanical design with physics-based simulations of thermal, structural, and fluid-flow analysis to optimize and validate designs before anything gets built – ensuring product performance and avoiding part failures. Utilizing SolidWorks 3D CAD and ANSYS analysis software, we excel in component modeling, analysis, and system integration. Our expertise includes performing Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) and Thermal and Structural Finite Element Analysis (FEA) to simulate the performance of mechanical hardware systems, considering forces, pressures, torques, temperature, and flow geometry. We then iterate design and analysis simulations until desired performance outcomes are achieved leading to successful hardware development and testing.
Johnston Engineering President, Andy Johnston, P.E., leads the team and provides subject matter expertise in structural, thermal, and fluid analysis with over 20 years of experience in clean energy, military, and aerospace research, design, analysis, build, and testing of first-of-a-kind systems. Johnston Engineering has completed over 150 projects, designing custom components and full systems, including containerized Direct Air Capture (DAC) and Point Source Carbon Capture systems, hydrogen systems, advanced nuclear, circular materials, and Long Duration Energy Storage (LDES). Our clients include National Labs as well as small and large companies working on research, development and commercialization of their innovative technologies. |
| WA |
| | Lila Sciences | John Gregoire | SVP Physical Sciences |
Small Business
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Other Energy Technologies
| Lila Sciences is the world’s first Scientific Superintelligence and Autonomous Science Platform for life, chemistry, and materials science.
Our core strength lies in our AI-driven discovery platform, which integrates computational modeling with high-throughput robotic synthesis and testing to design, validate, and optimize novel materials at unprecedented speeds.
John Gregoire will be serving the role of Principal Investigator. Prior to Lila, Dr. Gregoire pioneered AI-enabled high-throughput material screening at Caltech. Dr. Gregoire is supported by a team of academic and industrial experts, ready to bridge the valley of death between research and commercialization. |
| MA |
| | CSIR National Metallurgical Laboratory, INDIA | Abhilash | Dr |
Government Owned and Operated (GOGO)
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Other Energy Technologies
| I work on recycling to extract or replenish lost metals from industrial and anthropogenic wastes. |
| Jharkhand |
| | InterGemm LLC | Bassirou Goumbane | Founder & CEO |
Large Business
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Power Generation and Energy Production: Liquid and Gaseous Fuels/Nuclear
| InterGemm is a precision CNC and laser manufacturing company with active development in AI-integrated fabrication, prototyping, and materials recovery solutions. We bring real-world expertise in metals processing, thermal extraction, and industrial laser systems, and are launching a grant-focused public-good platform, GrantMatch AI+, to foster collaboration. We welcome partnerships with research institutions, national labs, and solution innovators. |
| NC |
| | Dottir Labs | Nili Persits | CEO |
Small Business
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Other Energy Technologies
| Dottir Labs is developing a real-time chemical sensing platform based on Swept-Source Raman Spectroscopy (SSRS). Our patented system uses a centralized tunable laser and compact fiber-coupled sensors to detect multiple chemical species from a single probe, without the need for spectrometers, reagents, or manual sampling.
We are seeking partners developing technologies to extract high energy-value materials from wastewater, such as nitrogen compounds, phosphorus, organics, or minerals to provide in-line, quantitative feedback on extraction performance. Our system enables continuous monitoring of analytes including nitrate, ammonium, sulfate, phosphate, bicarbonate, and various ions, offering a reliable way to track removal efficiency and system stability.
Designed for modular integration, our sensors can be deployed upstream and downstream of treatment processes to validate recovery in real time and support closed-loop control. We’re now looking to collaborate with extraction-focused teams to validate our system in dynamic wastewater environments and benchmark process performance.
Our team brings deep expertise in optics, spectroscopy, and chemical sensing, and we’re actively seeking collaborators interested in embedding robust sensing into resource recovery workflows. |
| MA |
| | Xamtek LLC | Jacob Motanya | Chief Technology Officer |
Small Business
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Other Energy Technologies
| Xamtek LLC is a Minnesota-based technology company specializing in advanced materials, critical mineral sourcing, and blockchain-driven finance solutions. We develop innovative systems that intersect materials science, decentralized technologies, and sustainable development, with a strategic focus on national security and industrial competitiveness.
Core Competencies
-Advanced Materials: R&D of high-performance alloys, ceramics, and polymers for renewable energy, aerospace, and medical sectors.
-Blockchain & Tokenization: Development of scalable blockchain platforms to tokenize assets including carbon credits, real estate, and intellectual property.
-Critical Minerals: Secure sourcing and supply chain development for critical minerals like lithium, cobalt, and tantalum, aligned with U.S. priorities under Executive Order 13817.
-Energy Systems: Partnerships in hydrogen fuel cell and battery component research for electric and hydrogen-powered vehicles.
-Blockchain Finance: DeFi and digital ledger-based financial tools to improve capital flow and inclusion.
Differentiators
-Deep domain expertise in materials science and secure blockchain applications.
-Active collaborations with leading research institutions for commercial-grade innovations.
-Strategic alignment with U.S. government supply chain security initiatives.
-Scalable systems tailored for industrial and governmental growth.
Past Performance
-Delivered blockchain tokenization platforms across various asset classes.
-Managed critical mineral operations in Africa and Asia.
-Collaborated on hydrogen cell R&D with global manufacturing partners.
Certifications (In Progress)
-ISO 9001:2015 – Quality Management Systems
-ISO 14001:2015 – Environmental Management Systems
NAICS Codes
-541715: R&D in Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences
-541611: Management Consulting
-541512: Computer Systems Design
-212399: Other Nonmetallic Mineral Mining |
| MN |
| | Applied Plasma Technologies, LLC | Dr. Igor Matveev | President |
Small Business
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Other Energy Technologies
| Applied Plasma Technologies specializes in advanced plasma-based solutions for sustainable waste conversion and resource recovery. Leveraging proprietary plasma gasification technology, APT processes diverse feedstocks—including municipal wastewater sludge, industrial liquid waste, and solid residues—into valuable syngas and high-purity byproducts. Our scalable plasma reactors operate under elevated pressure and temperature conditions, enabling efficient decomposition and molecular restructuring of complex waste streams. APT’s innovations support circular economy goals by transforming challenging waste into clean energy carriers and reusable materials, reducing landfill dependency, and minimizing environmental impact. Our technology is uniquely positioned to integrate with existing water and waste infrastructure for enhanced operational efficiency and environmental compliance. |
| VA |
| | University of Tennessee | Sarah Donaher | Assistant Professor |
Academic
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Other Energy Technologies
| The Donaher Lab specializes in the metal & radionuclide interactions in aquatic and marine environments. Our particular interest for this NOFO is the development of a mussel-inspired recovery system for critical materials such as uranium, rare earth elements, and lithium. We are interested in partnering with experts in analytical chemistry or biologically-inspired materials separation. |
| TN |
| | Guild Associates, Inc. | Phil Kester | Senior Chemical Engineer |
Small Business
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Power Generation: Renewable
| Guild Associates, Inc., is a small business enterprise that specializes in the development of inorganic materials, gas separations, and systems engineering. Guild designs and manufactures biogas processing equipment using the Molecular GateTM technology to remove inert gases and impurities to produce biomethane. Guild also manufactures BSR-050 media, an adsorbent that removes H2S from landfill gas with an industry-leading capacity, resulting in significantly longer lifetimes before replacement. Guild provides custom process design and support to its customers using these technologies.
Inorganic materials used by Guild in these processes also have applications in rare earth element and critical mineral separation and purification. Separations of interest include bulk removal of rare earth elements from dilute aqueous matrices and lithium purification. Guild is actively working on identifying alternative materials and process intensification methods to perform these and related separations for rare earth element and critical mineral recovery. Guild has existing capabilities to synthesize, characterize, and test these materials under environmentally relevant conditions, as well as design and construct custom systems that use these materials for relevant separations.
Guild is interested in teaming with government, commercial, and academic partners to further improve its capabilities in rare earth element and critical mineral separation, especially entities with expertise in wastewater treatment processes and ancillary process equipment. |
| OH |
| | Triangle Environmental Health Initiative | Dr. Aaron Forbis-Stokes | Research and Development Manager |
Small Business
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Other Energy Technologies
| Triangle Environmental (TE), founded in 2016, is a North Carolina based small business focused on the development of technologies and services related to onsite wastewater treatment. TE partners with research institutions and private companies to accelerate novel technologies from concept to pilot, navigating the development “valley of death”. Prior work includes research and development (R&D) and implementation consulting and execution services for Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation funded technologies with deployment of 25+ prototypes in 14 countries. These technologies ranged from “Reinvented Toilets” (Research Triangle Institute & Duke University, North Carolina), to improved pit latrine emptying devices (North Carolina State University), mobile septage treatment technologies (WASH Institute, India; Crane Engineering, Wisconsin), and community-scale treatment systems (Biomass Controls, Massachusetts). TE has also primed a $3M USAID program working with local organizations, NGOs, and universities to improve solid waste service provision in three cities across Cambodia. Since 2019, TE has focused on developing innovative onsite wastewater treatment technologies for the US market. TE received three consecutive Phase I and Phase II EPA SBIR awards for three new domestic wastewater technologies to provide closed-loop sanitation with zero waste products. Working with established commercial partners, TE is targeting a rollout of multiple of these products in 2025-2026.
TE’s newest technology, currently funded through an NSF Phase I SBIR award, is the Selective Ion Separation and Recovery (SISR) system. SISR (patent pending) is used to improve efficiencies of water reuse technologies by selectively separating and concentrating target species into distinct product streams, enabling the recovery of valuable by-products or the removal of hazardous materials from various wastewaters. Additionally, SISR is low-energy, modular, and allows for facile retrofits onto existing treatment systems. TE is currently demonstrating a lab scale SISR unit with multiple potential wastewaters from the agriculture, textile, and domestic wastewater industries. TE is looking for partnerships to scale SISR for these industries and other wastewater’s of interest. |
| NC |
| | Czero, Inc. | Guy Babbitt | CEO |
Small Business
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Other Energy Technologies
| Czero, Inc., is a specialized professional engineering services (PES) company specializing in helping clients advance their early-stage (typically TRL 4-7) technologies in the energy conversion, use, and storage fields. Czero has completed over 400 projects (including 14+ DOE ARPA-E projects and many other grant-based programs) with Czero supporting the prime contractor by leveraging sophisticated design, analysis, and controls expertise, combined with in-house fabrication and testing facilities. Czero focuses on providing analytical solutions using engineering first principles and detailed modeling and simulation tools such as dynamic system modeling (Simulink), FEA, CFD, MIL/SIL/HIL, control algorithm development, electronic controls, and performing fundamental design and documentation, using 3D solid modeling (CAD), and print development, including GD&T. Select prior projects include the development and testing of a solid oxide fuel cell/ gas turbine hybrid system, high-temperature petrochemical reactor, multiple high-temperature thermochemical energy storage systems, MW scale containerized hybrid power generation, robotic crop phenotyping, wave energy converters, algae biosystems, compressed air energy storage, high-pressure hydrogen compression, DAC and cryogenic carbon capture, planar electro-synthesizers, and pyrolysis systems among many others. |
| CO |
| | Re:Build Manufacturing | Paul Beaulieu | Solar Thesis & Business Development Leader |
Large Business
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Other Energy Technologies
| Re:Build Manufacturing is helping commercialize new energy technologies and revitalize US manufacturing by applying advanced engineering services and manufacturing capabilities to help clients commercialize new physics- and chemistry-intensive technologies, design & manufacture advanced materials for aerospace, defense, and renewable energy, and provide secure domestic battery solutions. In our engineering services, we work with clients across all TRLs, meeting them wherever they are, always ones with an eye toward overall techno-economic optimization and scalability. We've worked with ARPA-e award recipients in the past with much mutual success, including collaboration on ARPA-e funding applications where our experience and engineering subject matter expertise are often strong complements to the primary applicant's team. |
| NH |
| | Carver Water Technology | Travis Ingraham | Engineer |
Small Business
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Bioenergy
| Carver Water Technology, a pioneer in water and wastewater treatment, leverages innovative technologies to enhance sustainability and efficiency in resource recovery. Our expertise in bioenergy, combined with a robust R&D focus, positions us uniquely to address the challenges of recovering high energy-value materials from wastewater.
We are particularly interested in the ARPA-E's initiative to develop and integrate technologies that can efficiently extract critical minerals and ammonia-based products from diverse wastewater sources. This aligns with our commitment to advancing sustainable infrastructure and reducing environmental impact through technology.
Our capabilities include advanced bioenergy solutions that utilize microbial and electrochemical technologies for nutrient recovery and energy production. We have successfully implemented these in various scales of municipal and industrial settings, demonstrating scalability and adaptability. Our ongoing projects focus on maximizing recovery efficiencies and minimizing operational costs, aiming to surpass the 90% recovery efficiency threshold.
Carver Water is keen on collaborating with cross-sector partners to drive technological innovation and commercial viability in the U.S. market. We believe that through this program, we can contribute significantly to reducing reliance on foreign materials and enhancing the sustainability of domestic energy resources. |
| FL |
| | Southwest Research Institute | Andrew Earls | Research Engineer |
Non-Profit
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Other Energy Technologies
| Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) is an independent non-profit research institute focusing on applied R&D. Founded in 1947, SwRI's 3,000 staff members perform science and engineering research for commercial clients and partners across many industries on a 1,500-acre facility with over 300 laboratories and office buildings. SwRI has developed advanced energy technologies for over 60 years and our research experience encompasses all aspects of technology development from thermodynamic and technoeconomic system evaluations to component, prototype, and pilot-scale system design, fabrication, and operation in labs with capabilities from the kW-scale to 10+ MW.
The Chemical Engineering Department has extensive experience in water and wastewater treatment, particularly with regards to water/wastewater chemistry, ion exchange separations, adsorption separations, process simulation and technology development, and techno-economic assessment. We value being technology agnostic and are considered a "one-stop shop" for addressing our customer's process development needs. SwRI is known for bridging the gap between fundamental research and commercial adoption and can assist in any of your needs. |
| TX |
| | Clear Water Scrubbers LLC | Josh Johnson | President |
Small Business
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Other Energy Technologies
| Algal biomass growth
Recovery of rare earth elements thru algal biomass
Vertical algal reactors |
| KS |
| | Re:Build Manufacturing | Kim Blair | VP Business Development |
Large Business
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Other Energy Technologies
| Across the United States, Re:Build Manufacturing is a family of engineering and manufacturing businesses whose combined experience creates an industrial powerhouse that is greater than the sum of its parts. Re:Build has over 900,000 sq. ft. of design, engineering and manufacturing footprint with over 1100 employees, of which over 400 are engineers/technicians. Our expertise in operations management, product manufacturing, technical and engineering proficiency, and full product lifecycle management is changing the way industrial America does business. Close collaboration yields more value for the good of all—our customers, our employees, and the community—for the very long term.
Re:Build offers our partners a new model of American industrialization. We have combined a deliberate set of capabilities to enable local, and competitive, manufacturing for our customers. These capabilities are strengthened by our focused and ongoing deployment of continuous improvement, proprietary software and digital tools, and intense collaboration within the Re:Build ecosystem. Starting with concept development and product engineering, we work closely with our customers to develop a highly flexible manufacturing process to provide their most critical components and systems.
Re:Build has extensive experience in engineering and manufacturing process control systems. This experience includes process reactors, separation systems, anode and cathode materials manufacturing, membrane manufacturing, and materials separation systems. We design and build full manufacturing systems that include both traditional and new technologies. We support this development at any scale, from the lab to pilot to full-scale plants or rate production of small-scale plants. |
| MA |
| | Columbia University | Ngai Yin Yip | Associate Professor |
Academic
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Other Energy Technologies
| The Yip Lab's research focus is on advancing physicochemical innovations for critical separations at the nexus of energy, water, and the environment. Projects include decentralized and autonomous nutrient recovery (N and P) from urine, recovery of energy materials from unconventional streams, e.g., Li from geothermal brines, desalination, zero liquid discharge, and energy and thermodynamic analyses. |
| NY |
| | Columbia University | Kartik Chandran | Professor of Earth and Environmetal Engineering |
Academic
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Bioenergy
| Kartik Chandran is a global leader in sustainable wastewater treatment and engineered resource recovery. Chandran’s work is enabled through understanding and harnessing the biochemical potential and metabolism of microbial communities and developing appropriate technologies towards addressing global environmental and societal needs.
Research Interests
Engineered systems for resource recovery, microbial N- cycling, sustainable sanitation and wastewater treatment, global climate impacts of engineered wastewater treatment practice, microbial ecology of engineered biological waste and water treatment, reactors, novel molecular based biokinetic estimation tools, elucidation of microbial biochemical degradation pathways , bioprocess modeling and parameter identification for complex biotransformations.
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His fundamental work has focused on elucidating the molecular mechanisms and pathways of the microbial nitrogen cycle and its links to the global carbon, water and energy cycles. His applied work ranges from large-scale centralized wastewater treatment systems to community scale decentralized resource recovery systems and technologies across the globe.
The key insight of Chandran’s research and applications thereof is that certain combinations of mixed microbial communities, similar to those that occur naturally, can be used to mitigate the harmful environmental impacts of wastewater and to extract useful products. This approach also involves reduced chemical and energy inputs relative to traditional treatments and has the added benefit of preventing algal blooms downstream by maximizing nitrogen removal. More recently, using ammonia-oxidizing bacteria, Chandran has enabled the transformation of bio-generated methane gas into methanol, a chemical that is both easily transported and widely useful in industry (including in the wastewater industry). |
| NY |
| | AquaNova LLC | Vladimir Novotny | Professor Emeritus, Consultant |
Small Business
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Power Generation: Renewable
| Vladimir Novotny, PhD, P.E., BCEE, Professor Emeritus at Northeastern University, Boston (MA) and Marquette University, Milwaukee (WI), also Partner at AquaNova LLC.
Since 1973 till 2002 I was Professor at Marquette University teaching and guiding undergraduate and graduate students and founded Institute for Urban Environmental Risk Management. In 2002 I became a CDM-Smith Chair Professor at Northeastern University and founded the Center for Urban Environmental Studies. In 2012 I became Emeritus Professor, devoting my time to professional consulting at AquaNova LLC, Fulbright sponsored visiting professorships in Italy and Czechia, writing books and articles, and family.
In 2006 I received grants from the NSF and Johnson Foundation to organize an international workshop on Cities of the Future in the Wright designed Wingspread conference center in Wisconsin gave impetus to the IWA’s “Cities of the Future (COF)” initiatives. Between 2009 and 2013 I was a Member of the IWA Steering Committee for COF. Through AquaNovaLLC and as a licensed engineer I have consulted to clients in US, Italy and Czechia, published textbooks, nationwide manuals and edited proceedings, 180 refereed journal and proceedings articles. My latest books Water Centric Sustainable Communities (2010) and Integrated Sustainable Urban Water, Energy and Solids Management (2020) and recent six journal publications and two research reports are pertinent to this proposed DoE funded project.
After my university retirement I devoted my research and writing to studying and developing a concept of total urban decarbonated water, energy and waste solids (including plastics and tires) management system, including also landscape. The systems described in 2022 Inter. Journal of Hydrogen Energy and literature focused on sequestering emitted CO2 and biogas burning to producing hydrogen, renewable energy and resources such as clean water, solid carbon (graphene), concentrated CO2, O2 and NH3, phosphorus, acetates, possibly rare metals with zero GHG emissions. My research and publishing also suggested onsite conversion of extracted fossil gas into hydrogen, energy and by adding Haber -Bosh producing ammonium from extracted CH4 converted to H2 and from concentrated flue air N2 described in https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydene.2022.01.085; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydene.2022.11.095. This planned decarbonization requires textbooks and guidelines which would be the product of our activities. |
| MA |
| | Xylem Inc. | Amanda Lounsbury | Early-Stage Research Strategist |
Large Business
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Other Energy Technologies
| Xylem Inc. is a large American based water technology provider across public utility, residential, commercial, agricultural, and industrial sectors with technologies that range from smart metering and sensing, to pumps, to treatment technologies and processes, and more. Xylem Inc. does business in more than 150 countries globally. Xylem is interested in collaborating with innovation partners in multiple capacities and areas of interest in regards to this NOFO. |
| DC |
| | Washington University in St. Louis | Young-Shin Jun | Professor |
Academic
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| I am interested in nutrient recovery (ammonia and phosphate) and critical element recovery (cobalt, nickel, REE, and lithium) from wastewater. My group's expertise lies in high-resolution nanoscale interfacial processes and solid nucleation, which are key to controlling recovery processes. We examine and investigate these systems using chemical principles with a focus on nanoscale control.
Our approaches include:
(1) High-resolution in situ characterization of solids, liquids, and interfaces during resource recovery;
(2) Development of new materials for effective recovery;
(3) Development of novel processes, such as hydrogel or supercritical fluid extraction, combined with controlled solid nucleation. |
| MO |
| | Cetogenix (NZ) Ltd | Dr Daniel Gapes | Chief Science Officer |
Small Business
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Bioenergy
| Cetogenix is a cleantech company that has developed a Hydrothermal Oxidation (HTO) based technology – Ceto-Boost™ - for the conversion of wet organic waste streams (such as sewage sludge) into renewable energy and materials. Unlike most other advanced thermal conversion processes, Ceto-Boost™ is targeting the deconstruction of these wastes rather than the destruction, using moderate process conditions to maximise efficiency and recoverable resources such as ammonia.
When applied to sewage sludges and other wet organic wastes (e.g. manures), Ceto-Boost™ breaks down the organic solids into simple components such as acetic acid and ammonia, generating a highly recoverable product stream. This results in >100% increases in available ammonia (both quantity and concentration) able to be recovered from wastewater treatment sludge streams. Further, metals tend to be retained within the particulate fraction, facilitating easy separation from the bulk liquid phase.
The Cetogenix team has had >20 years of R&D experience in the application of HTO and has developed a deep understanding of how to optimise the process conditions. The Ceto-Boost™ modular HTO system is currently at TRL5 stage of development, with a large-scale prototype and extensive laboratory facilities in place.
We see opportunities for our technology to provide an enhanced ammonia yield, and a simplified aqueous matrix for subsequent extraction of ammonia and valuable metals from the originally complex wet organic sludge resources. |
| Bay of Plenty |
| | University of British Columbia | Steven Hallam | Professor |
Academic
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Bioenergy
| We operate state-of-the-art biobanking and automation facilities useful in the collection, processing and screening of microbial biomass from natural and engineered environments. We have leveraged this infrastructure in the design of time-series bioprocess optimization experiments associated with municipal and agricultural bioenergy facilities and in the large-scale mapping of microbiomes for strategic metal recovery from mine influenced waters and tailings. We design, build, and test functional screening paradigms and computational workflows useful in the recovery of biological parts from environmental genomes as well as in the deployment of these parts in engineered strains for specific bioprocess applications, and we have developed new technology for high-throughput screening of photosynthetic microorganisms in plate-based formats useful in the recovery of optimized microbial cell factories for wastewater treatment and bioproduction. Recent research activities in the lab include the development of cell surface display systems for strategic metal recovery, isolation of new microalgae strains and enrichment cultures with biotechnological potential, and the creation of synthetic microbial consortia combining various host chassis with fungal mycelium to produce engineered living materials with applications in waste resource recovery, sustainable architecture, and food security.
We are interested in being part of a team effort to recover value from various municipal and industrial waste streams based on the practical application of ecological design principles embedded in microbial operating systems at the individual, population, and community levels of biological organization. We see enormous potential in harnessing these microbial biotechnologies to create new climate positive value cycles and in decreasing the carbon footprint of current operations with the goal of entering a new post-waste era. Our experience working with the bioenergy and mining sectors has given us practical wisdom related to the needs and operating specifications of relevant bioprocesses for waste resource recovery and we are committed to seeking foundational advances related to this use inspired research. We would like to bring our facilities, chassis and parts collections, screening platforms, and highly qualified personnel into a collaborative scientific ecosystem that directly contributes to scalable biotechnology innovations with near term impacts. |
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