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| | Grand Summit Group, LLC | Peter Ciulla | Principal |
Small Business
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Other Energy Technologies
| Grand Summit Group is available to support costing analysis for the creation of Techno Economic Analysis (TEA). We are a registered small business providing Subject Matter Expertise (SME) and technical feasibility assessment and development of renewable energy and other cleantech technologies. These services help evaluate the fit of specific technologies to proposed applications, assess their overall efficacy and risk, and also provide expertise to further develop and commercialize these technologies. The company principal is Peter Ciulla, who has over 20 years of experience developing and scaling cleantech. He also has a master’s degree in mechanical engineering from the University of California, San Diego. |
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| | Washington University in St. Louis | Jeffrey G. Catalano | Professor and Director of Environmental Studies |
Academic
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Other Energy Technologies
| I am an environmental biogeochemist with substantial expertise in the behavior of nickel in soil systems, including the mineral hosts and the role of common plant root exudates in mobilizing nickel. Past research conducted by my group has demonstrated that root exudates can mobilize nickel from insoluble soil minerals, such as iron oxides. We have also used spectroscopic methods to probe the chemistry of nickel in soils at the lowest concentrations achieved by any group to date. In addition, we have developed nickel isotopic tracer methods for assessing bioaccessible nickel levels since substantial portions of nickel in soils are either inaccessible to plant or slow to be mobilized. My team and I bring more than 25 years of experience in the application of synchrotron-based X-ray spectroscopy and imaging methods to the study of soil trace metals. In addition, we are knowledgeable in laboratory analytical methods for assessing nickel and plant root exudate concentrations, the application of isotopic tracers for biogeochemical processes involving trace metals, and the characterization of soil minerals and organic matter hosts of nickel. Finally, we have developed expertise in the soil mineralogy that forms on ultramafic rocks, settings with the greatest soil nickel contents most suitable for extraction by hyperaccumulators. |
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| | Anglo American | Ishaq Ahmad | Principal, Decarbonisation Ventures |
Large Business
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Other Energy Technologies
| Decarbonisation Ventures team supports climate positive innovations for rapid and sustainable decarbonisation through investments and global commercial partnerships. With more than a decade of corporate venturing experience, we are committed to making a positive impact beyond the immediate remit of our operations, unlocking the potential of innovation and collaboration to reduce the emissions of our broader value chain.
Focus for this FOA is on working with startups and or technology innovators around the TEA for phytomining and determining market fit within the ecosystem of sustainable mining solutions. |
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| | University of Massachusetts Amherst | Om Parkash Dhankher | Professor |
Academic
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Bioenergy
| My research focuses on phytoextraction and pohytoremediation of heavy metals and metalloids; developing strategies for lowering toxic metals accumulation in food crops for food safety; metabolic engineering of oilseed crops for increasing oil and seed yield for biofuel potential; changing lipid compositions for industrial needs; nanomaterials for sustainable agriculture; developing climate resilient crops, etc. |
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| | Otherlab | Catherine Ember | EIR |
Small Business
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Other Energy Technologies
| Otherlab is a hardware R&D studio that specializes in climate and robotics. Catherine has explored commercialization pathways for phytomining in depth. Catherine's expertise is in go-to-market approaches for climate technologies. She has an MBA from Stanford and an environmental engineering degree from Berkeley. Please reach out to explore partnerships. |
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| | Georgia Institute of Technology | Yuanzhi Tang | Professor |
Academic
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Other Energy Technologies
| I'm a biogeochemist interested in the fundamnetals and applications of heavy metal speciation, fate, and transport in natural and engineered systems. My group applies advanced microscopy and spectroscopy techniques to understand the molecular scale biogeochemical reactions at mineral-water interfaces. Relevant experience and expertise include: (1) synchrotron X-ray microscopy and spectroscopy characterization of metal speciation and distribution at soil-plant interface and upon plant updake, and (2) intensified resource extraction from biological wastes. |
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| | University of Nevada, Reno | Chuck Coronella | Professor, Chemical Engineering |
Academic
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Power Generation: Renewable
| I am a professor of chemical engineering, with long-term interests in alternative and renewable energy. My academic home is at the University of Nevada, Reno, where I’ve cultivated extensive collaborations with the mining industry on various technical challenges and workforce development. My current research expertise focuses on transforming wastes to value-added products. Most recently, I have been acquiring expertise in application of life cycle assessment (LCA) to diverse emerging systems. LCA is combined with the technoeconomic analysis, a powerful tool I am well familiar with, to identify promising directions of research. I expect to use these two engineering tools to provide environmental and economic perspectives for research directions and policy. My current goal is to apply these analytical tools to phyto mining. |
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| | University of Florida | John K. Schueller | Professor |
Academic
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Other Energy Technologies
| I am very interested in developing the machines and systems for performing these activities. I have worked for many years on agricultural equipment, precision agriculture, and manufacturing. This summer I will be the sole recipient of the McCormick-Case gold medal for "exceptional and meritorious engineering achievement in agriculture that has resulted in new concepts, products, processes or methods that advanced the development of agriculture" for my work in that area. I have already begun study of this situation. Achieving practical and economic success in crop establishment, crop growth promotion and protection, crop harvesting, efficient transport, and processing of these unique plants in a hostile agricultural environment is not an easy task. But I believe it can be done and would like to join a winning team in that project.
One of my bio paragraphs:
Dr. John K. Schueller, P.E., is a professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering and an affiliate professor of agricultural engineering at the University of Florida. He holds the rank of fellow in the Society of Automotive Engineers, the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers, and the International Academy of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineers. His awards include the McCormick-Case, Kishida, Teetor, Pinckney, Vasey, Magoon and others for research in manufacturing, agricultural equipment, and precision agriculture, international activities, and teaching. Prof. Schueller has taught thirty-five different university courses at UF, Texas A&M, and Purdue, concentrating on controls, manufacturing, and design, and has served on over four hundred fifty graduate supervisory committees in a dozen different majors. Prof. Schueller is the sole Honorary Editor-in-Chief of Computers and Electronics in Agriculture and the sole non-European Founder Member of the European Society of Agricultural Engineers. His over three hundred diverse publications include both editions of a machine design textbook that was adopted by such universities as Florida, Purdue, Penn State, and Iowa State. He has had professional activities in forty countries, including formal employment at universities in Germany, Japan, and Malaysia and domestic employment by Caterpillar and a lawn-and-garden equipment manufacturer. |
| FL |
| | WT Partners, LLC | William Thai | Managing Director |
Small Business
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Grid
| WT Partners, LLC (WTP) was founded in 2018 and is a U.S. certified Minority Business Enterprise (MBE) consultancy based in Florida. WTP provides technical, advisory, strategy, grant/proposal writing, and management services solely to the Power, Energy, and Utilities ecosystem. Our former and current clients include academia, government, industry organizations, utilities, startups, and venture capital/private equity. |
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| | SRI International | Krishnan Thyagarajan | Associate Director |
Non-Profit
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Bioenergy
| SRI International has interest and expertise in developing field-deployable sensors for interrogating and measuring agriculture-relevant parameters including chemical composition, spectral analysis, and gas sensing. In particular, we have developed real-world expertise through the years, in deploying wide area networks of low-power sensors with edge detection and computing, making it easy to track measurements from any remote location over commercial or bandwidth-limited communication channels. We are current performers on several ARPA-E, DOE, DoD and DARPA projects dealing with relevant topics including metal extraction and recycling, gas sensing, ocean sensing and optical sensing. We are looking to provide support to teams developing novel hyperaccumulators by helping develop tools to enable rapid phenotyping of crops, monitoring of soil and crop health and intelligent data analysis across commercial off the shelf and custom-built sensors. |
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