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| | University of Wyoming | Mr JonathonBenson | |
Academic
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Other Energy Technologies
| Mr Jonathon Benson
Cheif Executive Officer
Wyoming Technology Business Center
University of Wyoming Campus
Laramie WY 82071 |
Website: N/A
Email: jbenson@uwyo.edu
Phone: 307 766 2030
Address: Univesity of Wyoming Campus 82071
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| | Mississippi State University | Fei Yu | |
Academic
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Bioenergy
| As a member of the Sustainable Energy Research Center (SERC), Dr. Fei Yu leads the biofuels production activities in Mississippi State and collaborates extensively with other faculties in the university. The SERC team includes biomass feedstock physiologists with expertise in crop growth and engineers from agriculture, chemical, and industrial system fields; especially expertise in fast pyrolysis, gasification, syngas cleaning, methane reforming, catalytic conversion. The SERC team is looking forward to collaborate with both university and industry partners with expertise in renewable energy production and economic analysis. |
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| | Ceramatec | Dolly Chitta | |
Small Business
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Power Generation and Energy Production: Liquid and Gaseous Fuels/Nuclear
| My name is Dolly Chitta. I am the PI on ARPA-E funded program for “Natural gas to Chemicals”. I worked with several ARPA-E PD’s Dr. Boysen, Dr. Lemmon, Dr. Cheryl Martin (former) and Dr. Mumme (current) T2M advisor. I have successfully transitioned the program from TRL 1-5 to private funding (Multimillion in 2 years) wherein CoorsTek has taken over the technology scale up effort beyond ARPA_E funding. I have a PhD with background in Chemical engg. I was part of a team for spinning off new start-ups as well as license the technologies to other companies. I work closely with a number of Fortune 500, privately held large companies, universities and VC firms for T2M (ex. Air Products, Chevron, Hunt Oil, CoorsTek, SABIC, BP, Grace Davison, Albemarle, Western H2 and ExxonMobil, UC Berkeley and Harvard U, UNC, Northwestern, ANL). I understand the ecosystem of technology transition for energy projects from early stage to ultimate commercialization and believe I can add value to ARPA-E teams. |
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| | Georgia Southern University | Valentin Soloiu, Prof. Dr. Distinguished Chair of Renewable Energy | |
Academic
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Transportation
| Dr. Soloiu's research directions are in renewable and sustainable first and second generation biofuels, with emphasis on new advanced combustion technologies, heat transfer and emissions, spray dynamics, and mixture formation, smart-engine control strategies, and engine tribology all with biofuels.
The 2M$ state of the art Biofuels Combustion laboratory has 20 undergraduate students and 4 graduate students working in biofuels research.In the Renewable Energy and Engine Combustion and Automotive Laboratories multiple disciplines and faculty address the production requirements for a viable energy substitute for petroleum fuels.
Main Research Topics
1) Reactivity Controlled Compression Ignition/ Low Temperature Combustion of Biofuels
2) Alternative fuels combustion & emissions in IC engines and gas turbine: poultry fat, peanuts, JP8, ethanol, butanol, Sasol
3) Mie scattering sprays analysis and Tribology with biofuels |
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| | TeselaGen | Michael Fero | |
Small Business
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Bioenergy
| At TeselaGen, we are building a bioCAD/CAM rapid prototyping system for biology. Our mission is to provide a design-build-test-evolve platform for automated combinatorial DNA assembly, meeting our customer's need for well managed, scalable, and very low-cost DNA construction and assembly. Our customers use our technology for plant modification, development of biologics and industrial microbe development. Our platform is based on technology licensed from the Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI). |
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| | Farmatic Inc. | Michael R. Schuppenhauer, Ph.D. | |
Small Business
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Bioenergy
| Farmatic Inc. engineers, designs, and builds anaerobic digester for the conversion of organic waste and feedstocks to biogas, a feedstock for the conversion to renewable CNG or LNG, a biofuel. We have build more than 300 plants worldwide and have integrated the CNG upgrading into many plants and are looking to partner with other value chain members to implement applications in the US, especially using US typical feedstocks as substrate for biogas. We have active DOE funded research efforts in this area underway. |
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| | Wisconsin Institute for Sustainable Technology | Eric Singsaas | |
Academic
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Bioenergy
| Dr. Singsaas received his PhD in botany and biochemistry at the University of Wisconsin – Madison where he studied isoprene production and heat tolerance in oak and kudzu leaves. His research encompasses photosyntheses, heat stress, global change effects on plants and ecosystems as well as applications of plant biochemistry to develop new generations of bio-based products. He has five patents in renewable fuel and bio-based products technologies and has founded two startup companies to commercialize these new processes. He has expertise in gas exchange, photosynthesis modeling, chlorophyll fluorescence, leaf reflectance, photosynthetic radiation measurement, eddy covariance, stem flow, hydraulic conductance and other physiological measurements. Dr Singsaas also has experience in organosolv pulping, steam explosion, algal production, carbohydrate analysis, lignin analysis, and extraction of bio-based chemicals from plant biomass. |
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| | E2SOL LLC | Anthony Baro | |
Small Business
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Power Generation: Renewable
| E2SOL LLC (Efficient Energy Solutions), a Rhode Island based Limited Liability Company, innovates renewable energy technologies, develops sustainable project solutions and offer products designed to maximize Customer’s energy efficiency needs.
E2SOL offers Sustainable Design and Engineering Services designed to deliver Energy Efficient Developments to achieve Low Energy, Net-Zero Power, and/or Plus Energy Generation. Our project teams comprised of Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Accredited, Professional Registered Architects and Engineers, integrate sustainable design practices to optimize the use of a project site’s available natural assets to maximize energy efficiency, reduce cost of operation and environmental impact of new developments.
- United States Government Small Business Contractor – DUNS # 032587890 |
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| | Oklahoma State University | Vijaya Gopal Kakani | |
Academic
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Bioenergy
| As a member of the Biobased Products and Energy Center (BioPEC), Gopal Kakani leads the bioenergy crop production activities in Oklahoma and collaborates extensively.
The BioPEC team includes crop physiologists with expertise in rapid field phenotyping and crop modeling; engineers from agriculture, aerospace, industrial and robotics fields; sensing specialists in areas of by-plant analysis and biomass composition; expertise in functional genomics, proteomics, and metabolomics; plant breeders with expertise in biomass enhancement; expertise in visualization and machine learning; expertise in NGS, GWAS and machine learning; facilities include cloud computing, HPC, petabyte storage, 100Gbit Ethernet connection, Wifi ready irrigated field facilities with security to host GFE.
The BioPEC team is looking forward to collaborate with industry partners with expertise in sensor integration and marketing and research facilities with rapid greenhouse phenotyping capabilities. |
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| | Photon Systems Instruments | Dr. Stephen Hunt | |
Small Business
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Other Energy Technologies
| Photon Systems Instruments (PSI) manufactures plant phenotyping equipment customised to the user's precise requirements. The PlantScreen line includes systems for laboratory, growth room and field applications, and may be used with samples that range from Arabidopsis seedlings at emergence to mature sugar cane plants. PSI is the only company to incorporate PAM technology for chlorophyll fluorescence imaging in a plant phenotyping platform. PSI also provides technology for RGB and morphometric analysis, thermal imaging, hyperspectral imaging (VNIR and SWIR), as well as rhizotrons for root imaging. PSI's conveyor-based systems allow for plant randomisation in the growth space as well as delivery to imaging cabinets. Automated watering and weighing allow the user to program protocols for implementation of drought or flooding. All Plantscreens are supplied with comprehensive software for system control, data analysis and data base management. PSI is known for innovative technology. |
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| | MagnaKar INC Global Preservation Society | Jason Shira | |
Individual
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Bioenergy
| I have a college degree for computer Science, and I am a very deep and innovative thinker of new untapped inventions. Getting into the Renewable energy and Biotechnology for medicine and global preservation. Looking for people to connect with to help me with grant and research etc. I am a fighter and not afraid to work as hard as it takes to get something done. I am very quick on solution based ideas for any subject. I am setting goals and looking for a mentor to get me where I need to be. I just want to help. I am also a professional musician and a space/NASA geek wanting to become a NASA employee... |
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| | Power Resource Group | Rich Deming | |
Small Business
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Bioenergy
| We are located at ReVenture Park (www.reventurepark.com), a 670 acre former superfund site, now in the North Carolina Brownfield program. We have significant agricultural capabilities at the site--an excellent and well equipped land manager with staff to do a wide variety of plantings, and excellent ability to document the process and yields. We also have two bioenergy technologies on site--pyrolysis and cellulosic ethanol, which are available for research participation.
We are looking to collaborate with scientists who wish to do research under this RFI---we can handle the agricultural component in a cost effective manner and from unique perspectives----bioenergy with remediation of polluted soil, browndfield use for bioenergy, greenfield (our site is roughly divided between both) production, and use of utility easements for bioenergy crop production. |
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| | CSIRO | Scott Chapman | |
Government Owned and Operated (GOGO)
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Bioenergy
| CSIRO, the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, is Australia's national science agency. Key research areas include crop improvement; farming systems for productivity and sustainability; global food security and development; and wireless sensing and autonomous robotics. The High Resolution Plant Phenomics Centre (HRPPC), is developing next generation research tools to probe plant function and performance both under controlled conditions and in the field. Advances in robotics, imaging and computing are used in applying these technologies and scaling them for analysing single plants to an entire ecosystem. Via the HRPPC and with input of plant scientists working in wheat, rice, maize & sugarcane CSIRO is undertaking research projects related to remote sensing and estimation of biomass production and other traits. Robotics scientists are developing autonomous systems (ground and aerial) to apply these sensors in plant science research. |
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| | Dioxide Materials | Rich masel | |
Small Business
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Other Energy Technologies
| CO2 monitoring is an important part of the Terra program, but existing CO2 monitors are too expensive to be used widely in agriculture. Dioxide Materials has developed some very inexpensive CO2 sensors using spin-off technology from an existing ARPA-E program. The sensors are small enough to put on a leaf and be powered by a solar cell. Presently, the sensors are designed to be used within buildings, but they could be adapted for use in field tests. Dioxide Materials would like to be the go-to group for CO2 sensors for the Terra program. We have a good relationship with ARPA-E through our existing ARPA-E program, and our CEO, Professor Rich Masel, is a well know researcher, who is listed in highlycited.com as doing the work that has had some of the most impact since 2000. |
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| | Cornell University | Larry Smart | |
Academic
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Bioenergy
| My lab is actively engaged in breeding, genetics, and genomics of shrub willow as a bioenergy crop. We have worked on a team that included JCVI, JGI and ORNL to sequence the Salix purpurea genome, which is now available on Phytozome. We maintain a large and diverse collection of shrub willow accessions and are currently phenotyping an association panel of Salix purpurea on three sites, as well as an F2 mapping population with 500 progeny. Both of these have been genotyped by GBS. We have used high-resolution thermogravimetric analysis as a tool to characterize wood composition. We think there are tremendous opportunities to employ high-throughput phenotyping together with genomics to leverage the wide phenotypic diversity of Salix in linking phenotype to genotype. |
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| | Arvegenix | Vijay Chauhan | |
Small Business
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Bioenergy
| Arvegenix LLC is a renewable energy crop development, production and marketing company developing Pennycress as an oilseed crop producing oil for the US renewable fuels (biodiesel and renewable jet fuel) market.
The company has assembled a strong team of executives with experience in startups, agriculture-seed businesses with deep expertise in breeding, genomics, agronomics and crop development R&D, farming systems, business management, sales and marketing of crops to farmers, IP, oilseed and animal feed development experience.
Arvegenix has assembled the largest germplasm collection, sequenced the genome of its collection, begun field based phenotyping-genotyping mapping program to drive its marker assisted breeding program. The company has already completed a complete planting-harvesting-crushing cycle at commercial scale.
The company is executing its crop R&D program in collaboration with the Danforth Plant Sciences Center leveraging its research team and facilities. |
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| | LemnaTec Corporation | Dr. Edwin Reidel | |
Small Business
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Other Energy Technologies
| LemnaTec’s team of engineers and scientists develops hardware and software solutions for Plant Phenotyping, as well as high-throughput and high-content screening of seedlings, insects and other organisms. LemnaTec’s range of instruments can make measurements in test formats ranging from 96-well plates to field plots, utilizing robotics and sophisticated image processing algorithms to analyze thousands of images daily. |
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| | National Institute of Standards and Technology | David Allen | |
Government Owned and Operated (GOGO)
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Other Energy Technologies
| NIST is the United States National Metrology Institute. NIST establishes and maintains scales of physical units (e.g., light, temperature, humidity). The Sensor Science Division (SSD) of NIST excels in enabling research partners in making accurate and repeatable measurements in challenging environments. The SSD is leading efforts to support the emerging use of hyperspectral sensors for a range of applications. This effort includes the implementation of standards for scales of reflectance and radiance, sensor calibration, sensor integration, and data analysis with emphasis on accuracy and SI traceability to internationally recognized units of measurement. Other unique imaging modalities NIST has expertise in includes confocal hyperspectral imaging, optical coherent tomography, photoacoustic tomography, and gas phase sensing LIDAR. As a federal agency, NIST often assumes a supporting role in serving to enable advanced sensing and measurement technology. |
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| | Benson Hill Biosystems, Inc. | Ben Gray | |
Small Business
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Other Energy Technologies
| Benson Hill Biosystems is an agricultural biotechnology company that is focused on increasing crop yield, primarily by manipulating and optimizing photosynthesis. The company has expertise in the integration of phenotypic, biochemical, and molecular data, including large, 'omics-scale datasets, in order to draw meaningful conclusions. Benson Hill can provide the expertise to connect photosynthetic measurements with plant growth and biomass accumulation. A particular focus of the company's research efforts is on optimizing C4 photosynthetic efficiency for improved yield. This focus will be directly applicable to efforts aimed at increasing yield in bioenergy crops including sorghum and perennial C4 grasses. |
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| | Big Mountain Robotics, LLC | Pierre Stoermer | |
Small Business
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Other Energy Technologies
| Big Mountain Robotics, LLC offers a software-as-a-service, URL: dronemapper.com, that generates precision geo-referenced orthomosaics, digital elevation models (DEMs) and 3-D point clouds for precision agriculture and other uses. We have or currently are supporting phenotyping of various research crops with these products which include radiometrically corrected NDVIs. The majority of clients served worldwide utilize UAVs and low-cost sensors for their imagery collects; providing a knowledge base on what works. We have expertise in photogrammetry, GIS, cloud computing, BigData, algorithm development and application specific software/hardware development. We are highly interested in joining a team to respond to the upcoming TERRA solicitation. |
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| | University of North Texas | Stevens M. Brumbley | |
Academic
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Other Energy Technologies
| Dr. Stevens Brumbley joined the faculty at the University of North Texas (UNT) Department of Biological Sciences as an Associate Professor in January 2011. He has an adjunct appointment in the Department of Material Science and Engineering. He is part of a new research cluster on bioproducts based at UNT. He is also a Principle Research Fellow at the Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology. Dr. Brumbley received a BA in Biology from the University of Oregon in 1985 and a PhD in Plant Pathology at the University of Georgia in 1991. His PhD studies focused on molecular plant-microbe interactions. From 1994 to 2006 Dr. Brumbley was employed by BSES Limited (the R&D arm of the Australian sugarcane industry) in Indooroopilly, Queensland, Australia where he initiated the work on developing sugarcane as a biofactory for production of bioplastics (various polyhydroxyalkanoates) and bioplastic precursors (p-hydroxybenzoic acid or crotonic acid). |
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| | QAAFI, The University of Queensland | Professor Graeme Hammer | |
Academic
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Other Energy Technologies
| The Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation (QAAFI) is a research institute of The University of Queensland (UQ), Australia. QAAFI incorporates the UQ link to the APSIM (Agricultural Production systems SIMulator) Initiative, which oversees the ongoing development of the APSIM crop and cropping system modelling software platform in conjunction with partners from CSIRO and Qld Government. A particular focus relevant to TERRA has been development of gene-to-phenotype crop modelling capability in sorghum. An advanced model is now available and integrated with phenotyping and plant breeding programs in Australia and elsewhere to help enhance rate of genetic gain for complex traits. This activity is linked with research programs in Europe, USA, India, and Africa. The group involved has advanced technical expertise in plant/crop physiology, crop modelling, breeding, genetics, genomics, bioinformatics, computational systems, data analytics, and phenotyping technologies. |
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| | UC Berkeley | Avideh Zakhor | |
Academic
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None of the above
| Video and Image processing Lab at UC Berkeley has been active on mobile mapping, sensors, and robotics platforms for the past 15 years. The 3D outdoor mapping technology developed in this lab from 2000 to 2007 was licensed by Google and used in the 3D Google Earth product. Since 2007, we have developed an ambulatory mobile mapping platform consisting of a suite of sensors for 3D modeling of building interiors, and building energy modeling.
For this project, we plan to (a) design cheap mobile data acquisition platforms made of multi-modal sensors (b) develop automated processing algorithms to extract useful information relevant to genetic improvement of the yield of bioenergy crops. |
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| | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | Stephen Moose | |
Academic
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Bioenergy
| Team of plant biologists, geneticists, computational scientists working on improvement of current or potential bioenergy grasses: sorghum, maize, Miscanthus, switchgrass, Setaria. Established infrastructure for advanced phenotyping of field trials, genomic analysis, and data integration. |
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| | USDA-ARS/Cornell Univ | Edward Buckler | |
Academic
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Bioenergy
| The Buckler group is a leader in genomic analysis and the quantitative genetics of complex crop traits. Our group has lead some of the largest public projects to study maize field performance and genetics. We also developed statistical models for the accelerated breeding of crops. We developed genomic profiles for maize, sorghum, switchgrass, and dozens of other species.
Additionally, our group has substantial expertise in working with large genomic datasets, and has experience in software engineering of application and databases. Our most popular genetics software has 8000 users around the globe.
Our group is most interested in collaborating with engineering efforts that will permit the daily field measurement of growth and starch production, so that detailed models of crop adaptation and interactions with environment can be unraveled. |
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