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| | Raysnflow@gmail.com | Donny Ray Grantham | Owner |
Individual
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Power Generation and Energy Production: Liquid and Gaseous Fuels/Nuclear
| Comprehensive | ### **Background, Interest, and Capabilities**
**Organization Overview & Technical Mission:**
Raysnflow LLC is an emerging technology developer focused on modular, high-efficiency geothermal energy integration and sustainable subsurface critical mineral extraction. Our primary objective is to transform legacy, underutilized, or abandoned oil and gas infrastructure into productive, dual-revenue clean energy assets. By leveraging historical geological datasets and non-invasive wellbore repurposing strategies, we eliminate high upfront exploratory drilling costs while accelerating deployment timelines for baseload energy and mineral recovery.
**Core Capabilities & Technological Innovations:**
1. **Closed-Loop Geothermal Integration:** We design deep-wellbore heat-exchange systems optimized for closed-loop thermal harvesting. To overcome downhole thermal loss in low-permeability or variable-temperature formations, our architecture incorporates aerospace-grade aerogel insulation cartridges to maintain high fluid temperatures and maximize enthalpy extraction to the surface.
2. **Acoustic Cavitation Mineral Recovery:** Our process integrates advanced acoustic cavitation downhole and inline at the surface to enhance the release and separation of high-value critical minerals—such as lithium and platinum group metals (PGMs)—from hyper-saline brines and sedimentary drill matrices without severe chemical inputs.
3. **Subsurface Data & Asset Repurposing:** We specialize in hydrostratigraphic modeling, core sample chemical analysis, and regulatory framework navigation for repurposing legacy well assets. Our work utilizes existing subsurface cores and physical well logs to map thermal gradients and mineralized brine reservoirs across targeted regional formations.
**Teaming & Partnership Goals:**
Raysnflow LLC seeks to collaborate with interdisciplinary partners under **RFI-0000095 (Category B: Geothermal & Critical Minerals)**, including:
* **Field Site & Asset Owners:** Oil and gas operators, geothermal developers, or brine asset holders with candidate wellbores for field testing and validation.
* **Geochemical & Modeling Experts:** Research institutions or laboratory partners specializing in advanced reservoir simulation, downhole fluid dynamics, or thermodynamic modeling.
* **Sensors & |
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| | Award Advisors | Dan Durst | Principal |
Small Business
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Other Energy Technologies
| | Winning a federal award requires more than a strong idea. It requires a proposal that clearly aligns your mission, technical approach, budget, compliance structure, and measurable outcomes with the priorities of the funding agency. Award Advisors helps aspiring federal grantees turn promising concepts into fundable, defensible proposals—and then build the systems needed to manage the award successfully.
Our team brings experience in federal grants, contracts, cost principles, internal controls, budgeting, indirect costs, procurement, subrecipient monitoring, reporting, and audit readiness. We help clients interpret the funding opportunity, identify the strongest competitive positioning, develop a compliant budget, strengthen the narrative, address evaluation criteria, and eliminate the technical and administrative weaknesses that often cause good proposals to lose.
That support does not end when the award is issued. In many cases, winning the grant is only the beginning of the risk. Federal funding brings significant responsibilities under the Uniform Guidance, agency-specific terms and conditions, and the award agreement itself. Award Advisors helps clients establish practical policies, procedures, financial controls, timekeeping practices, procurement standards, reporting processes, and documentation systems so they can focus on delivering results without creating unnecessary compliance exposure.
This integrated approach is especially valuable for organizations that have strong technical expertise but limited experience navigating federal requirements. Rather than hiring one advisor to help write the proposal and another to repair compliance problems later, clients can work with a single team that understands the full award lifecycle—from opportunity strategy and application development through implementation, reporting, monitoring, closeout, and audit support.
Most recently, Award Advisors supported a client in its pursuit of federal funding and is now helping the organization navigate the responsibilities that come with the award. That experience reflects the practical value we bring: helping innovative organizations not only compete more effectively, but also prepare to manage federal funds with confidence.
For organizations serious about winning federal funding and protecting the award once received, Award Advisors provides the strategic, technical, and compliance support needed to move from applicant to successful federal grantee. |
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| | Tungsten LLC | Jessica Ehinger | Managing Partner |
Small Business
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Other Energy Technologies
| | Tungsten LLC is a Miami-based U.S. small business holding the license to commercialize Umbra in the United States, a 100% biodegradable crude oil viscosity-reducing additive. The additive is formulated from renewable biological raw materials and operates through a dual mechanism: disrupting paraffin crystal formation and reducing intermolecular friction in crude oil across a temperature range of -30°C to 80°C. Critically, the additive does not require separation from crude oil before refining, which reduces process complexity and total cost of use compared to all conventional synthetic alternatives.
The technology has been independently validated in controlled laboratory conditions and confirmed in a real field deployment at a heavy crude sand formation at 300 meters depth in Central Asia, where it enabled extraction from a previously non-viable well. Biodegradability has been confirmed to water hazard class 1 in Europe, with 96% removal of hydrocarbons from contaminated soil demonstrated in remediation testing.
Tungsten LLC seeks to join a project team as a commercial deployment and technology access partner. Our contributions would include the licensed biodegradable additive chemistry as a candidate enhanced recovery agent for Category A shale and tight oil formations; financial and technoeconomic analysis capabilities in support of cost and deployment pathway modeling; and active pursuit of U.S. laboratory partnerships and oilfield operator relationships to support field validation activities under this program. |
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| | toluai | Tosin Joel | Geologists (ceo) |
Small Business
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Power Generation and Energy Production: Liquid and Gaseous Fuels/Nuclear
| | Tosin Joel is a geoscientist, and CEO of Toluai (www.toluai.com), an AI-native energy technology company leveraging proprietary predictive intelligence to help energy operators maximize production uplift, identify upsides, book higher volumes, mitigate capital risk, and optimize asset performance. With deep roots in geosciences and advanced AI, machine learning, and deep learning modeling, Tosin specializes in turning operational uncertainty into a competitive edge.
Over the past 15+ years, Tosin has led over $60B in large CAPEX projects globally. Her execution experience spans the full energy spectrum. In oil and gas, she spearheaded the E&P campaign for historic first $6B LNG project and led complex E&P campaigns, subsurface modeling, and de-risking efforts that unlocked 4 billion barrels and 3.3 TCF, alongside 350 million barrels. In renewables, she directed $148B in grid-scale solar and wind technology developments at the world's largest producer of wind and solar energy.
Our AI-native platform ‘Peridot’ is helping operators in the Williston and Permian basins (unconventional & conventional) with production uplift, exploration, and development activities.
Our proprietary models performs diagnostic and forecasting with reinforcement learning, this will be useful to step up operators’ production, and book more volumes:
1. Production Intelligence: This provides smart AI insights to guide decision-making for production and EOR uplift.
2. Exploration Intelligence: Fast-tracks near-field, infield, and brownfield drilling (in-place volume evaluation), development, and infill drilling optimization of reservoir targets and sweet spots flagging.
EOR focus: to enhance project development strategies and candidate wells selection.
EOR performance monitoring, predictive forecasting, parent-child monitoring, subsurface derisking, development strategies, and production uplift.
An MIT Sloan Fellow and Stanford GSB LEAD alumna, Tosin sits at the exact intersection of operational reality and technological innovation. She focuses on bridging the gap between advanced AI capabilities and scalable commercial value, forging the cross-industry partnerships required to build a technology-enabled energy future. |
Website: www.toluai.com
Email: Tosin@toluai.com
Phone: 8578560410
Address: 169 Madison Ave. New York, NY 10016, Manhattan, New York, NY, 10016, United States
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| | BATTELLE | Marlon McKoy | Project Manager |
Non-Profit
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Other Energy Technologies
| | Founded in 1929, Battelle is one of the world’s largest independent nonprofit research and development organizations, operating at the intersection of science, engineering, and large‑scale technology deployment. Our expertise spans national security, energy, materials science, environmental technologies, and advanced manufacturing. Battelle’s core capability lies in translating scientific discovery into operational technology—moving innovations from laboratory research through prototyping, validation, and real‑world deployment.
Advanced materials science is one of Battelle’s foundational strengths. Researchers develop coatings that improve corrosion resistance, reduce friction, enhance thermal protection, and provide chemical stability. These technologies extend the operational life of pipelines, drilling equipment, and industrial machinery. Battelle’s researchers work on the entire lifecycle of materials innovation: computational design, synthesis, processing, characterization, product deployment, and performance validation.
Oil and gas technologies, and operations represent other longstanding domains of Battelle expertise. For over four decades research addressing exploration, drilling, production, transportation, and environmental protection has supported the petroleum industry. Battelle’s work spans upstream, midstream, and downstream operations, integrating materials science, geoscience, chemical engineering, petroleum engineering, and advanced sensing technologies. Battelle developed technologies that improve reservoir characterization, drilling performance, advanced sensors, imaging techniques, and data analytics helping operators better understand subsurface formations. Battelle’s oil and gas subsurface geology and modeling experience also supports CCS projects.
Battelle also contributes to rare earth element development across several stages of the value chain. Battelle conducts research on extraction technologies, separation chemistry, materials processing, and recycling strategies. Our scientists developed improved methods for recovering rare earth elements from both conventional mineral deposits and unconventional resources such as coal byproducts, mining waste, and industrial residues.
Battelle frequently partners with government agencies such as U.S. Department of Energy, energy companies, universities, international partners, and technology startups to scale innovations from laboratory concepts to field deployment. |
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| | HybriMet LLC | Joe Hensel | Sr Program Mgr |
Small Business
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Other Energy Technologies
| | Core Competency: Ultra-high temperature, corrosion-resistant and wear-resistant Metal Matrix Ceramic Composites (MMCs) for extreme molten salt environments.
1. Technology Overview & Capability
HybriMet LLC designs and manufactures proprietary Metal Matrix Ceramic Composites (MMCs) engineered specifically for hard wear surfaces, rotating machinery, and bearing assemblies operating in extreme environments. Our structural composites are engineered to maintain mechanical integrity, extreme hardness, and dimensional stability at continuous operating temperatures up to 750°C.
2. Technical Specifications & Validated Data
Unlike theoretical material concepts, HybriMet’s composite materials have been empirically validated in active, extreme conditions. We possess existing static corrosion and wear data demonstrating exceptional survivability and low degradation rates in both:
• Chloride Salt Environments (Critical for next-generation Concentrating Solar Power (CSP) and industrial thermal storage systems).
• Fluoride Salt Environments (Critical for Gen IV Molten Salt Reactors (MSRs) and nuclear fuel recycling loops).
3. Target Component Applications
Our material formulation directly solves the most frequent mechanical failure points in high-temperature liquid metal and salt loops, including:
• High-temperature journal bearings
• Pump foot bearings, shaft wear sleeves and guide bearings
• Dynamic valve seats, seals for flow control applications
4. Partnering Objectives
HybriMet LLC is actively seeking to join consortiums or prime proposals for current ARPA-E (HORNIG, IGNIITE 2026) and DOE Office of Nuclear Energy / Solar Energy Technologies Office solicitations. We are equipped and flexible to participate as either:
• Subcontractor / Sub-tier Vendor: Providing custom-machined MMC components, bearings, or custom wear-coatings tailored to a prime contractor’s primary system design.
• Joint-Venturer / Co-Prime: Collaborating with national laboratories or system integrators to scale dynamic component testing from benchtop to operational pilot loops. |
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| | Terra Watts Inc. | Kaitlyn Suarez | Dr. |
Small Business
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Other Energy Technologies
| | Underground wireless power and data transmission for buried sensor networks to increase resource recovery |
| TN |
| | MantleIQ Incorporated | RJ McIntosh | Founder & CEO |
Small Business
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Other Energy Technologies
| | MantleIQ is developing an AI-powered Subsurface Characterization and Geological Intelligence platform that integrates geological, geophysical, environmental, infrastructure, and regulatory datasets into decision-ready intelligence for complex subsurface energy systems.
The platform supports reservoir characterization, site screening, resource system evaluation, and development planning through advanced data integration, machine learning, geospatial analytics, and predictive modeling. MantleIQ combines geological surveys, well logs, gravity and magnetic data, seismic interpretation support, remote sensing, environmental information, and infrastructure intelligence within a unified analytical environment.
Core capabilities include subsurface characterization, reservoir intelligence, geological data harmonization, numerical modeling support, knowledge graph development, AI/ML-enabled decision support, and multi-source data fusion. The platform is designed to reduce uncertainty, accelerate technical assessments, and improve decision-making across multidisciplinary teams working in low-permeability subsurface environments.
MantleIQ seeks collaboration opportunities supporting reservoir characterization, stimulation technologies, enhanced recovery programs, monitoring and verification systems, geothermal development, carbon storage, natural hydrogen assessment, and related subsurface energy applications.
The company has partnered with the National Laboratory of the Rockies (NLR) under a CRADA pursuit and is further interested in teaming with national laboratories, universities, reservoir engineering organizations, geomechanics specialists, sensor developers, modeling and simulation teams, and energy technology developers. |
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| | Frosch Advanced Technologies | Matthew Frosch | CEO |
Small Business
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Other Energy Technologies
| | Extraction and purification of REE from industrial process byproduct with focus on recovery and purification (6N) of gallium. |
| AZ |
| | University of Houston | Harish S Krishnamoorthy | Associate Professor |
Academic
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Other Energy Technologies
| | ARPA-E Open 2021 Awardee: Mini-PulPS project. Specific interests on this possible FoA are as follows.
- High temperature (>>150 degC) electronics and critical power system design
- Pulsed power supplies for electrical stimulation and plasma drilling
- In-situ Prognostic Health Management (PHM) and reliability enhancement
- https://pemsec.ece.uh.edu/researchprojects/ |
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| | Idaho National Laboratory | Ram Kumar | Staff Scientist |
Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC)
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Other Energy Technologies
| | Idaho National Laboratory (INL), a DOE national laboratory with deep experience in subsurface modeling, geochemistry, instrumentation, and field‑scale technology deployment, is well aligned with ARPA‑E’s emphasis on interdisciplinary collaboration for advanced stimulation and enhanced recovery technologies. INL is interested in teaming under this opportunity, which encourages cross‑sector partnerships to achieve breakthroughs in low‑permeability resource recovery using laboratory and field‑validated approaches. The lab brings strong capabilities in reservoir engineering, numerical modeling, sensors, and technoeconomic analysis—areas specifically highlighted as useful for this program. INL is also seeking operators or industry partners who can host Phase 1 testing and support scale‑up and deployment into Phase 2 field validations to accelerate real‑world impact. |
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| | The University of Texas at Austin, Bureau of Economic Geology | Shuvajit Bhattacharya | Research Associate Professor |
Academic
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Other Energy Technologies
| | Expertise and Interests in Unconventional O&G, Next-generation geothermal (EGS, Closed-loop, and Energy Storage), High P/T lab tests, Fracture Imaging and Analysis, and Completions Optimization. I lead the HotRock consortium at the Bureau of Economic Geology at UT Austin, focusing on geothermal resource assessment and recovery, integrating geosciences, engineering, lab experiments, and techno-economics. We have developed workflows and tools for accurate targeting and advanced recovery of resources from shale formations across the US and geothermal (granites and sedimentary rocks).
Looking for an industry partner for collaboration.
Established in 1909, the Bureau of Economic Geology is the oldest research unit of The University of Texas at Austin. The Bureau is the State Geological Survey of Texas and has been an integral part of the development of the state’s economic success through the years. Our mission is to serve society by conducting objective, impactful, and integrated geoscience research on relevant energy, environmental, and economic issues. Our vision is to be a trusted scientific voice to academia, industry, government, and the public, whom we serve. |
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| | Loyola University Chicago | Gilbert Michaud | Assistant Professor |
Academic
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Power Generation: Renewable
| | I am a faculty member at Loyola University Chicago and lead the Michaud Energy Policy Research Group (MEPRG) within the School of Environmental Sustainability. My research focuses on the policy, planning, economic, and workforce implications of renewable and advanced energy deployment, with a particular expertise in solar and wind energy. While much of our work is centered in Chicago and the Midwest, we maintain collaborations and projects across the US and internationally.
Our group has extensive experience conducting economic impact analyses and workforce-related assessments for large-scale solar and other renewable energy developments nationwide. This includes evaluating job creation, regional supply chain effects, tax revenue impacts, local economic spillovers, and broader community and policy implications associated with clean energy investments. We have worked with utilities, nonprofit organizations, economic development entities, and public agencies on applied research projects related to the energy transition.
We have completed funded projects for organizations including American Electric Power (AEP), Dayton Power & Light, Chambers for Innovation and Clean Energy, Solar United Neighbors, the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), and several other regional development organizations. Additional applied research projects have been supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, the U.S. Economic Development Administration, and other federal and state agencies.
As a DOE teaming partner, I am particularly interested in collaborations focused on clean energy workforce development, regional economic analysis, energy planning, and the economic impacts of renewable and advanced energy technologies. Our group brings capabilities in mixed-methods policy research, stakeholder engagement, economic impact modeling, survey research, and program evaluation. |
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| | SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory | Mohamed Othman | Staff Scientist |
Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC)
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Other Energy Technologies
| | We have extensive expertise in three-dimensional finite-element electromagnetic simulation using SLAC’s ACE3P code suite on DOE leadership computing facilities, encompassing eigenmode, driven-response, time-domain, and particle-in-cell solvers for complex multi-physics problems across a broad range of frequencies and geometries. This high-fidelity simulation capability is paired with a mature machine learning and data-driven modeling infrastructure, including Graph Neural Network surrogates trained on large parametric FEM ensembles for fast and accurate forward evaluation, Gaussian Process surrogate models with calibrated uncertainty quantification, and Bayesian Optimization frameworks for data-efficient exploration of high-dimensional design spaces. The team is interested in applying these tools to geophysical inversion, coupling physics-accurate EM forward models to Bayesian inversion pipelines that return full posterior probability distributions over subsurface material properties enabling principled uncertainty quantification in applications ranging from rf sensing to subsurface critical mineral mapping and groundwater detection. |
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| | Uplift Geosystems | Han Zong | Lead Chemical Engineer |
Small Business
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Other Energy Technologies
| | Uplift Geosystems is developing advanced electrodialysis devices that reduce cost, minimize waste, and improve safety in metallurgical processes. We use cutting-edge bipolar membranes and innovative reactor designs to deliver electrodialysis devices that provide best-in-class output acid concentrations and energy efficiency. Our technology enables regeneration of acids and bases across a wide range of leaching and separation applications, including those for rare earth elements (REE), nickel, and magnesium. |
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| | Greater Offshore LLC | Dr. Nimi Abili | Founder & CEO |
Small Business
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Other Energy Technologies
| | Greater Offshore is an Energy and Digital Solutions Company. Dr Abili is Accomplished Globally, Experienced Digital Solutions and Technology Development Leader for over 25 years track record of delivering optimal outcomes in Techno-Economic Strategies, Digital Engineering, Manufacturing 4.0, Decarbonization, New Energies, Clean Technology, Electrification, Offshore Wind, LNG, and Execution of Capital Development Projects in Energy verticals, including with Shell, Eni, ExxonMobil, and Schlumberger. Strong Functional Expertise in Digital Engineering, Cloud/Edge Computing, Hybrid-Cloud Architecture, Agentic AI, Subsea, Marine Digital, Smart factory, Smart Grid, Battery Storage, Operations and Maintenance, Asset Risk Management, Early Engineering, Subsea Systems, Controls Systems, Productivity Improvements and Operational intelligence. Highly skilled in Program Management, Project Economics, Solutions Architect, Industry 4.0, HMI, PLC, ERP, MES, OEE, CMMS, AI, ML, Data Analytic, IT/OT, Automation, Digital Twin, IoT, Robotics, Edge Computing, SecOT, having overseen multiple CAPEX projects valued at over $12 billion in growth opportunities and cash flows.
Interest covers Fluid Dynamics Simulations, Subsea Processing for Enhanced Recovery, AI-Enabled Platform for Efficiency, Autonomous Self-Optimizing Energy Systems, Obsolescence Management.
Capabilities and accomplishment include:
(1) The first to develop an AI numerical subsea fluid sampling model to complement the physical fluid sampling and multiphase flow meter measurements, to reduce the operational cost of subsea intervention;
(2) Explored the application of mechanistic model to validate meter performance and to predict reliable reservoir performance to guarantee production volume is sustained in the life of field;
(3) The first to create a subsea concept strategy “Install-Produce-Retrieve-Refurbish” (IPRR) which can be applied to producing a group of marginal fields economically in the offshore industry;
(4) Established a proactive obsolescence management strategy, to leverage from the defense, aerospace and the tech industries to bridge technology gaps in the deep offshore industry;
(5) The first to bridge the gaps on subsea electronic components, by introducing a modular plug and play system, as the subsea industry is not a significant player in the electronic industry, where the electronic life cycle (5 years) is much shorter than the subsea control system life cycle (20 years). |
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| | Greyhorse Engineering and Technology, LLC | Robert Lestz | President |
Small Business
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Power Generation and Energy Production: Liquid and Gaseous Fuels/Nuclear
| | Area of interest and expertise is innovations to upstream oil and gas including research, development, engineering for purpose (economical, safe, practical, and environmental sound), and ongoing operations. I have numerous patents in this field including ones commercialized and a company built to execute the technologies - a non-aqueous fracturing fluid.
I have been an early adaptor (including serial number 1) of technology for new tools, techniques, and technologies. One such was working with Pinnacle Technologies, run by Chris Wright, and the application of tiltmeters to identify fracture orientation and interactions with faults.
I have successfully managed large intellectually diverse and multifunctional teams from multiple national labs and universities to solve the largest challenges. I pride my company in bringing together highly competent experts and challenging them to develop alternative approaches to standard solutions in order to achieve disruptive breakthroughs. I also recognize the value in off ramps to technology development that will solve challenges outside the primary research as well as pulling in solutions from other industries and engineering them to solve our challenges. |
Website: NA
Email: rslestz@gmail.com
Phone: 2817950155
Address: 2910 Bluegrass Court, Missouri City, TX, 77459, United States
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| | Cortix Tech | Valmor F. de Almeida | Technical Lead |
Small Business
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Other Energy Technologies
| | Cortix Tech is an R&D company that provides technical support, integration, and simulation on top of the Cortix platform. We model complex systems, run scalable studies, and provide AI-ready scientific data for training and user consumption.
Areas of interest:
(Nuclear) chemical engineering (network modeling and simulation)
Social sciences
Training and Certification |
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| | ARI | Manoj Valluri | Vice President |
Small Business
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Other Energy Technologies
| | ARI is a globally renowned consulting and engineering firm with over 35 years of experience in enhanced oil and gas recovery, unconventional reservoirs, coalbed methane, tight reservoirs, chemically enhanced oil recovery, and CO2 utilization and storage. ARI has been at the forefront of pioneering industry innovation through sponsored research from the U.S. Department of Energy since early 2000s. ARI's experts have consulted on enhanced hydrocarbon recovery, CCUS, and critical minerals projects in all major continents across a clientele that ranges from small independents to multinational corporations. Our staff have consulted on or managed drilling, stimulation, and production campaigns for over 300 wells across varying geographies and geologies.
ARI produced the "World Shale Gas and Shale Oil Resource Assessment" report for the US DOE/Energy Information Administration that includes 42 countries, 95 individual shale basins with 137 individual shale gas and shale oil formations. ARI also conducts an annual survey of active CO₂ EOR projects in the U.S. This survey is provided as a public resource to tally the number of active CO₂ EOR projects, calculate total incremental oil production, and track CO₂ utilization.
ARI has over 20 years of experience serving as the primary contractor and a subrecipient on U.S. DOE-sponsored projects with deep contacts in industry and academia. We are interesting in teaming up with project developers, operators, service providers, or academic institutions and bring our deep expertise in managing DOE-sponsored research, development, and pilot projects in the hydrocarbon and critical minerals space. |
| VA |
| | Subsurface Energy Recovery and Storage (SERS) Center - Penn State | Hamid Emami-Meybodi | Director/Associate Professor |
Academic
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Other Energy Technologies
| | Our research program advances subsurface energy technologies that increase recovery, improve storage performance, and reduce the environmental footprint of geo-energy systems. We bring expertise in shale reservoirs, cyclic gas injection, CO₂ enhanced oil recovery (EOR), and multicomponent, multiphase transport in porous media. This expertise aligns with ARPA-E’s mission to support high-risk, high-impact energy innovation.
The Center for Subsurface Energy Recovery and Storage (SERS) at Penn State provides an industry-engaged platform focused on energy recovery from geological reservoirs, improved hydrocarbon recovery, and geo-storage of hydrogen and carbon dioxide. The Center integrates analytical, experimental, and numerical approaches across EOR, unconventional reservoirs, CO₂ and hydrogen storage, and geothermal energy. Through the SERS Joint Industry Partnership, we work with industry members to identify barriers, develop solutions, and train graduate students.
A key capability of our group is predictive modeling of complex subsurface processes. We developed PennShale+, an in-house, multi-scale, multi-component, multiphase compositional simulator for primary recovery and cyclic gas huff’n’puff in ultratight reservoirs. PennShale+ enables investigation of partially miscible transport, phase behavior, and diffusion-dominated mass transfer in nanoporous shale systems, supporting design and evaluation of gas-injection and CO₂-utilization strategies.
The Center has access to the Enhanced Recovery Laboratory (ERL), which supports fluid-property and phase-behavior measurements relevant to gas flooding, CO₂ EOR, and chemical EOR. ERL capabilities include high-pressure PVT testing, high-accuracy temperature control, viscosity measurement, and phase-behavior analysis. These resources allow us to calibrate and validate models under reservoir-relevant conditions and connect theory, simulation, and deployable technology.
Our interest in this ARPA-E proposal is to combine physics-based modeling, targeted laboratory measurements, and industry-informed problem selection to accelerate transformative subsurface energy solutions. We have a proven record of research funding, publications, graduate mentoring, and practical software development. This combination of technical expertise, laboratory infrastructure, computational capability, and industry engagement positions the Center to contribute effectively to the proposed effort. |
| PA |
| | BW&CO | Robert Wegner | CRO |
Small Business
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Other Energy Technologies
| | BW&CO Consulting helps emerging technology companies secure and execute non-dilutive funding from federal agencies, state programs, foundations, and strategic public-sector partners. BW&CO supports clients across the full funding lifecycle, including opportunity identification, funding strategy, proposal development, stakeholder outreach, submission support, and post-award positioning.
BW&CO brings a systematic, data-informed approach. Rather than relying only on individual consultant experience, BW&CO applies lessons learned from 3,000+ funded proposals representing $3B+ in awards. This gives clients pattern recognition across agencies, technical domains, review criteria, and award pathways.
Services include identifying and prioritizing funding opportunities; proposal writing, review, and editing; technical and commercialization positioning; budget and milestone support; stakeholder outreach strategy; and monitoring across funding sources.
Key Differentiators
1. Unmatched Funding Experience
BW&CO applies lessons learned from 3,000+ funded proposals and $3B+ awarded to every engagement. While traditional consultants often rely on limited individual experience, BW&CO brings insight from thousands of successful funding efforts. One client with former senior defense leaders relies on BW&CO because the firm provides funding intelligence and competitive positioning they cannot replicate.
2. Front Door + Back Door Approach
Traditional consultants often focus only on the published solicitation. BW&CO also analyzes underlying funding dynamics, including agency priorities, stakeholder interests, direct outreach opportunities, and non-obvious pathways to award. This helped one client uncover a non-public fast-track pathway.
3. Broad Opportunity Coverage
Many firms focus narrowly on one funding stream. BW&CO monitors hundreds of opportunities daily and identifies pathways across agencies, programs, and strategic partners. This helped one client find an opportunity they did not know existed, leading to their first federal defense contract. |
| TX |
| | University of Michigan, Ann Arbor | Bryan R Goldsmith | Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering |
Academic
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Power Generation and Energy Production: Liquid and Gaseous Fuels/Nuclear
| | Goldsmith’s research group specializes in atomistic modeling and machine learning to design catalysts and materials (e.g., oxides or membranes) for fuel production and energy technologies. He serves as an Associate Editor of npj Computational Materials. He has published over 70 peer-reviewed articles on these topics. (https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=VAAnVN8AAAAJ&hl=en). He is also a co-author of Elements of Chemical Reaction Engineering (7th ed., Pearson Education), regarded as one of the most influential textbooks in the field of chemical reaction engineering. |
| MI |
| | Texas Tech University | James Sheng | Professor |
Academic
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Power Generation and Energy Production: Liquid and Gaseous Fuels/Nuclear
| | Shale EOR: Initiated and developed huff-n-puff gas injection EOR with 80+ papers, 5 US patents; One shale EOR book.
Chemical EOR: published one chemical EOR book and have chemical EOR project database.
Fracturing fluid: chemical additive design, CO2 pre-pad fracturing.
Modeling studies: Petrel geologic modeling and CMG (Eclipse) reservoir flow modeling.
Clean energy: CCUS, geothermal energy development, and hydrogen generation modeling.
Publication: 350+ papers, Google citations 17600+, h-index 65, i10-index 232, ranked 10,747th (Career) and 2735th (in Year 2024) in Stanford top 2% of global researchers in 2025.
Experimental and Test Facilities: On-site field-scale testing facilities, CT-core scanning, GC to measure hydrocarbon components, slimtube to measure MMP, Pulse decay permeameter, PoroMaster to measure pore size distribution, HPHT core flooding apparatus, Accererating Rate Calorimeter (ARC) to study combustion, Gemini Rheometer, micro-fludic device, imbibition cell, tensiometer to measure ultra-low IFT, etc. |
| TX |
| | Baker Hughes | Dr. Maruthi Devarakonda | Senior Technical Leader - Research and Technology |
Large Business
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Power Generation and Energy Production: Liquid and Gaseous Fuels/Nuclear
| | Baker Hughes’ Oilfield and Industrial Chemicals (OIC) organization has a long history of innovation in the development and deployment of specialty chemistries for energy and industrial markets. Program specific technologies include proppants, liquid chemistries for stimulation, corroborated by modeling, sensing and AI based Leucipa capabilities. On the proppants side, SORB is a solid media delivery platform that enables the impregnation and controlled release of Baker Hughes’ most effective chemical technologies directly within the formation or fracture network. By embedding proven chemistries into engineered solid substrates, SORB allows long term, targeted treatment at the point where flow assurance, recovery, or extraction challenges originate. The platform’s flexibility allows tailoring of both the solid media and the embedded chemistry to specific reservoir, mineralogy, and operational requirements, enabling step change performance rather than incremental improvement. The liquid chemistries for stimualtion technologies integrates next generation microemulsion technologies that deliver ultra low interfacial tension, enabling spontaneous cleaning of organic and inorganic deposits and restoration of water wet surfaces. These chemistries penetrate the near wellbore region without mechanical energy, breaking emulsions, dispersing solids, and reversing wettability alterations that restrict flow. By combining proven stimulation practice with modern microemulsion science, the liquid chemistries stimulation technology has repeatedly demonstrated significant and sustained production increases across mature and unconventional assets. Baker Hughes brings integrated modeling, sensing, and digital execution capabilities through physics based subsurface modeling (e.g., JewelSuite™), advanced field sensing, and the Leucipa™ automated field production platform, Baker Hughes enables closed loop workflows that link real time measurements with validated digital twins and AI assisted decision making. Leucipa has been deployed across large, complex field portfolios to integrate data, predict system behavior, and optimize performance using a combination of domain physics and machine learning. Baker Hughes has extensive experience and expertise in H2S scavengers, corrosion inhibitors, and flow assurance chemicals for enhanced production, safety and assets management. |
| TX |
| | Eva Garland Consulting | Dr. Eva Garland | CEO |
Small Business
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Other Energy Technologies
| | Eva Garland Consulting (EGC) was established by Dr. Eva Garland in 2013 with a mission to advance science. Over the past decade, EGC has emerged as a global leader in securing non-dilutive funding and providing comprehensive accounting, compliance, tax, and advisory services.
EGC has successfully assisted clients in securing and managing hundreds of grants and contracts, including large DOE awards, totaling over $2 billion. EGC’s 3,000+ clients, spanning 50 states and 5 continents, include universities, startups, large companies, and government agencies. EGC is proud to have supported our clients in progressing technologies from concept to commercialization, contributing new tools to tackle some of the world’s most pressing challenges.
Built on our principle of Excellence, EGC adopts a tailored and thorough strategy to assist every client in achieving their fundraising objectives.
Through our Proposal Support Services, clients collaborate directly with EGC’s Scientific Grants Experts, all of whom hold Ph.D.s and have deep experience securing funding from numerous government agencies and private foundations. Our services include:
• Writing and submitting proposals
• Support with registrations and budget preparation
• Critical scientific review and editing
• Strategies to increase the competitiveness of the grant applications
Our Experts also craft Strategic Non-Dilutive Funding Plans to meet the specific needs of each of our clients, which include:
• Identification and prioritization of non-dilutive funding opportunities
• Gantt chart of proposal preparation, submission, and funding timelines
• Resources required to support grant submissions
• Strategies to increase competitiveness of grant submissions
Our team’s expertise spans over 100 federal and state agencies and private foundations, which collectively provide over $1 trillion in funding opportunities each year |
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