Wednesday, July 11, 2012

Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy (ARPA-E) Energy Innovation Summit

1366 Technologies (1366 Direct Wafer)
3M Company (Building Energy Efficient Daylighting Designs Enabled by Infra-Red Mirror Films which Increase Solar Flux onto Solar Cells)
ABB, Inc. (Superconducting Magnet Energy Storage System with Direct Power Electronics Interface)
Abengoa Solar, Inc. (High Efficiency Solar-Electric Conversion Power Tower)
ADI Solar Corp. (24/7 Solar Storage Solution)
ADMA Products, Inc. (High-Efficiency, on-Line Membrane Air Dehumidifier Enabling Sensible Cooling for Warm and Humid Climates)
Agrivida, Inc. (Engineering Energy Crops for Low-Cost Bioproducts Production)
Algaeventure Systems (Solid-Liquid Separation)
Altech Controls Corporation (Increased Efficiency in Heat Pumps by Utilizing Thermally Isolated Adiabatic Liquid Cooling Process)
Altumaxis Technologies (Adaptive Intelligent Energy Management and Control for the Next Generation Smart Buildings)
Applied Materials
Arcadia Biosciences (Vegetative production of oil)
Architectural Applications (Innovative Buiding-Integrated Heat & Moisture Exchange)
Argonne National Laboratory
Argonne National Laboratory (Soft-Core/Hard-Shell Nanocomposite Exchange-Spring Magnets for Motor and Generator Applications)
Arizona State University (Cyanobacteria Designed for Solar-Powered Highly Efficient Production of Biofuels)
Arizona State University (Designer Organisms for Solar-Powered Production of Petroleum Substitutes)
Arkansas Power Electronics International, Inc. (Low-Cost, Highly-Integrated Silicon Carbide Multichip Power Modules for Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicles)
Arkema (Waterborne Fluoropolymers for Lithium Ion Cells)
Astronautics Corporation of America (An Efficient, Green, Compact Cooling System Using Magnetic Refrigeration)
ATK-GASL (A HIGH EFFICIENCY INERTIAL CO2 EXTRACTION SYSTEM - ICES)
Autogrid (Demand Response Optimization & Management System for Real-Time Integration of Renewable Generation)
Ballistic Breaker Corporation (Ballistic Breakers™: Arc-free CB for MVDC to HVDC Applications)
Battelle
Beacon Power Corporation (DEVELOPMENT OF A 100 KWH/100 KW FLYWHEEL ENERGY STORAGE MODULE)
Bio Architecture Lab, Inc. (Synthetic Biology for renewable Fuels and Chemicals Production from Seaweed)
Boeing (Low-Cost, High-Energy Density Flywheel Storage Demonstration)
Boron Specialties, LLC (Chemical Hydrogen Storage - Ammonia borane)
Bosch
Brayton Energy, LLC (A Pathway to 60% Efficiency for Distributed Generation)
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Caitin (Adaptive Turbine Blades: Blown Wing Technology for Low-Cost Wind Power)
Case Western Reserve University
Case Western Reserve University (Electrolytic Titanium/Titanate Power Capacitors)
CEFCO Global Clean Energy, LLC (The CEFCO Process for Comprehensive Carbon Capture and Multi-Pollutant Control + Producing Pure CO2 for making Liquid Fuels)
Center for Power Electronics Systems, Virginia Tech (Power Supplies on a Chip (PSOC))
Center of Applied Energy Research, University of Kentucky (A Solvent/Membrane Hybrid Post-Combustion CO2 Capture Prpocess for Existing Coal-Fired Power Plants)
Charles River Associates (Transmission Topology Control for Infrastructure Resilience to the Integration of Renewable Generation)
Chevron
Chromatin, Inc. (Plant-Based Sesquiterpene Biofuels)
Clean Energy Research Center, University of South Florida (Thermal Energy Storage)
Clean Technology & Sustainable Industries Organization (CTSI)
Clean Urban Energy (CUE SaaS-- Turning Buildings into Batteries)
Codexis, Inc. (Low Cost Biological Catalyst to Enable Efficient Carbon Dioxide Capture)
Colorado Center for Biorefining & Biofuels
Columbia University (Biofuels from CO2 Using Ammonia-Oxidizing and Iron-Oxidizing Bacteria In a Reverse Microbial Fuel Cell)
Columbia University (Chemical & Biological Catalytic Enhancement of Weathering of Silicate Minerals as Novel Carbon Capture & Storage Technology)
Corning (Corning RedShift)
Correlated Magnetics Research, LLC (Correlated Magnetics)
Cree, Inc. (15 kV SiC IGBTs)
CUNY Energy Institute (Low-Cost Grid-Scale Electrical Storage using a Flow-Assisted Rechargeable Zinc-Manganese Dioxide Battery)
CUNY Energy Institute: Metacapacitors for LED Lighting (Metacapacitors: Technology for Better Electric Power Conversion)
Cyclone Power Technologies, Inc. (Cyclone Power Technologies’ heat-regenerative, reciprocating Rankine cycle engines)
Delphi Automotive Systems, LLC (Advanced Power Semiconductor and Packaging)
Digital Lumens (Digital Lumens Intelligent Lighting System)
Diversified Technologies, Inc. (Pulsed Electric Field Processing of Biomass)
DOC National Institute of Standards and Technology
DOE Grid Tech Team
DOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy
DOE Office of Science
DOE Tech Team-Batteries
DOE Tech Team-Carbon Capture
DOE Tech Team-SunShot
EaglePicher Technologies (Planar Na-Beta Batteries for Renewable Integration and Grid Applications)
Echogen Power Systems LLC (Echogen Thermafficient® heat engines - Recycling useable [waste] heat to emission-free power through a CO2-based power cycle.)
Electricity Storage Association
Energy Compression, Inc. (Adsorption-Enhanced Compressed Air Energy Storage)
Energy Innovation Portal
Enerize Corporation (High efficiency thin hybrid system based on PV module encapsulated with nanopolymer and solid state lithium battery)
Enphase Energy (Enphase Energy Microinverter System)
ENrG Incorporated (ENrG produces an ultrathin self-supported ceramic foil that is dynamically flexible and commercialized as Thin E-Strate®.)
Envia Systems (High Energy Lithium Batteries)
Eos Energy Storage (Novel, Inexpensive, Electrically Rechargeable Zinc Energy Storage System)
FlexEl, LLC (High capacity, low cost, flexible thin-film batteries)
FlexEnergy, Inc. (Flex Powerstation FP250 & Flex Turbine MT250)
FloDesign Wind Turbine Corp. (Next Generation Wind Turbine)
Florida International University (New Heat Engine for Concentrating Solar Power Applications/Green Air Conditioner using Air/Nitrogen as the Working Fluid)
Foro Energy (Laser-mechanical drilling of ultra-hard crystalline rock)
Fraunhofer Center for Sustainable Energy Systems (Arctic Sand Invisible Electronics: Transformative Integrated Power Solution (TIPS™) architecture for photovoltaic modules)
FSU Center for Advanced Power Systems (Power Systems Modeling, Simulation and Integration)
GE Global Research (HVDC cabling)
GE Global Research (Nanomagnetic Thick Films for Power Conversion)
GE Global Research (Resilient Multi-Terminal HVDC Networks with High-Voltage High-Frequency Electronics)
GE Global Research (Transformational Nanostructured Permanent Magnets)
General Atomics
General Atomics (Double-Sided Switched Reluctance Motor)
General Atomics (Soluble Lead Flow Battery Technology)
General Electric
General Electric (CO2 Capture Using Phase-Changing Sorbents)
General Motors Company (Lightweight Thermal Energy Recovery (LighTER) System)
GeneSiC Semiconductor, Inc. (Silicon Carbide Anode Switched Thyristors for Medium Voltage Power Conversion)
Georgia Institute of Technology (Development of Mixed-Matrix Hollow Fiber Membranes using MOFs for Carbon Dioxide Capture from Flue Gas)
Georgia Institute of Technology (Dynamic Control of Grid Assets Using Direct AC Converter Cells)
Georgia Institute of Technology (Modular Thermal Hub for Building Cooling, Heating, and Water Heating)
Georgia Institute of Technology (Nanolaminated Magnetic Cores For Ultracompact Power Converters)
Georgia Institute of Technology (Prosumer-based Autonomous Distributed Control Architecture for Electricity Internetworks)
Ginkgo BioWorks (Electrofuels)
Goodwin Procter LLP
Green Dot (Transportation) Inc. (Hands Free Conductive Charger for EV / PHEV.)
Grid Logic (Superconducting and Cryogenic Systems)
Halotechnics, Inc. (Molten Glass for Heat Transfer and Thermal Storage)
HexaTech, Inc. (Aluminium Nitride (AlN)-Based Devices for High-Voltage, High Efficiency Power Conversion)
HRL Laboratories LLC (HIGH EFFICIENCY ELECTRIC VEHICLE CHARGER)
Hyper Tech Research, Inc. (Lightweight MgB2-Based Superconducting Generator for Offshore Wind Energy Systems)
Ideal Power Converters (Light weight, low cost photovoltaic inverter)
Infinia Corporation (Stirling Air Conditioning (StAC) for Compact Cooling)
Ingersoll Rand
InvenTek Corporation (Rolled-Ribbon (RR) Battery Cell Architecture)
Ionic Research Technologies (Compact, Efficient Air Conditioning with Ionic-Liquid-Based Refrigerants)
ITN Energy Systems (Low Cost Electrochromic Film on Plastic for Net Zero Energy Building)
Johnson Controls Inc. - Power Solutions
Kiverdi (Kiverdi’s Carbon EngineeringTM platform makes oil-derived chemicals and fuels from waste carbon and syngas)
LanzaTech (LanzaTech: A highly efficient route to carbon capture and re-use producing high value chemicals and fuels)
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (FOLIUM - Installation of Hydrocarbon Accumulating Pathways in Tobacco Leaves)
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (High-Throughput Discovery of Robust Metal-Organic Frameworks for CO2 Capture)
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Microbial-Electrocatalytic Biofuel Production)
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Venkat Srinivasan)
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (Carbon Dioxide Capture Catalysts and Encapsulated Solvents)
Lehigh University (Supercapacitive swing adsorption)
Liquid Light, Inc. (Conversion of Carbon Dioxide to Chemicals and Fuels)
Liquid Metal Battery Corporation (Liquid Metal Battery)
LiquidPiston, Inc. (LiquidPiston High Efficiency Hybrid Cycle Engine)
Lockheed Martin
Los Alamos National Laboratory
MagiQ Technologies (Nanostructured Materials for Energy Efficiency)
Makani Power, Inc. (Aiborne Wind Turbine)
Massachusetts Clean Energy Center
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Bioprocess and microbe Engineering for Total Carbon Utilization in Biofuel Production)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Electrochemically Mediated Separation for Post-Combustion Capture of Carbon Dioxide)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Hybrid Nanostructures for High Energy Density Solar Thermal Fuels)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (PowerChip: Advanced Technologies for Integrated Power Electronics)
MaxOut Renewables, Inc. (An Economical Power-Optimizing Balancer for Photovoltaic (PV) Modules)
May-Ruben Technologies (Binary Fluid Ejector)
MDB Capital Group
Michigan State University (Wave Disk Engine/Generator)
Missouri University of Science and Technology (Hybrid Lithium-Air Battery)
Mohawk Innovative Technology, Inc. (Oil-Free Compression Technology for Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Renewable Energy)
Nanocomp Technologies, Inc. (Carbon nanotube sheets and yarn for cutting edge energy applications.)
Nanoptek Corporation (Nanoptek SHG300 Hybrid Solar Hydrogen Generator Panel)
National Renewable Energy Laboratory
NAVITASMAX (Novel Tuning of Critical Fluctuations for Advanced Thermal Energy Storage)
NIST/CNST
NorTech
North Carolina State University (Camelina sativa to Jet Fuel: A Systems Approach)
North Carolina State University (Electrofuels)
NovaTorque Inc (High efficiency, non-rare earth permanent magnet electric motor)
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Oak Ridge National Laboratory (High Performance CO2 Scrubbing Based on Hollow Fiber-Supported Designer Ionic Liquid Sponges)
OPX Biotechnologies, Inc. (Novel Biological Conversion Of Hydrogen And Carbon Dioxide Into Diesel)
Oscilla Power, Inc. (iMEC™ Magnetostrictive Power Generation for Utility-Scale Wave Energy, Downhole Power Generation, and Other Applications)
OSEMI, Inc. (David Braddock)
Otherlab (Mesoscale Fluidic Heliotropes)
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (Reversible Metal Hydride Thermal Storage for High Temperature Power Generation Systems)
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory – BEETIT/HEATS (Electric-Powered Adsorption Heat Pump for Electric Vehicles)
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory – REACTS (Manganese Based Permanent Magnet With 40 MGOe at 200°C)
PARC, A Xerox Company
Pellion Technologies (High-energy Rechargeable Magnesium Batteries)
Penn State University (Penn State ARPA-E Rhodobacter Hydrocarbon)
Penn State University Applied Research Lab (Sonic Machines: Helium-based cooling and power generation)
Phononic Devices (Advanced Semiconductor Materials for High Efficiency Thermoelectric Devices)
PolyPlus Battery Company (High Energy Density Lithium-Air, Lithium-Water and Lithium-Sulfur Batteries Based on Protected Lithium Electrodes)
Porifera, Inc. (Carbon Nanotube Membranes)
Potter Drilling Inc. (Geothermal Well Enhancement via Hydrothermal Spallation)
Power Partners, Inc. (High Efficiency Adsorption Chillers Using Novel Metal Organic Heat Carriers)
Prieto Battery, Inc. (Prieto Battery, Inc.)
Proton Energy Systems (d/b/a Proton OnSite) (Low Cost Regenerative Fuel Cells (RFCs) for Energy Storage from Pure Water)
Purdue University Discovery Park Energy Center
QM Power, Inc. (Parallel Path Magnetic Technology)
Quallion LLC (ZeroVolt™ technology & Matrix technology)
Ramot at Tel Aviv University (Solar Energy Harvesting using Nanoantennas)
RCT Systems, Inc. (Hybrid Energy Storage System)
ReactWell, L.L.C. (Underground Thermochemical Aqueous Phase Oil Extraction & Biomass Conversion)
Recapping Inc. (High Energy Density Capacitors)
Replex Plastics (Wavelength Selective Polymeric Solar Mirrors for PV Module Augmentation and Concentrating PV Applications)
Research Corporation for Science Advancement
ReVolt Technology (ZFAB Metal-Air Battery System for EV’s)
RTI International (Catalytic Bio-crude Production in a Novel,Short-Contact Time Reactor)
RTI International (Non-aqueous Solvent CO2 Capture Process)
S-RAM Dynamics (S-RAM: Revolutionary Power Conversion)
Sandia National Laboratories
Satcon Technology Corporation (Agile Direct Connect Medium Voltage Inverter Using Wide Band Gap Devices)
Scuderi Engine (Scuderi Split-Cycle (SSC) Engine)
SERDP/ESTCP
Sheetak, Inc. (Solid State Energy Converters)
Sheetak, Inc. (Thermoelectric Reactors for Efficient Automotive Thermal Storage (TREATS™))
Shell GameChanger
SiC Systems, Inc. (Bulk cubic silicon carbide (3C-SiC)substrate manufacturer)
Siemens
SiEnergy Systems, LLC (Scalable Nanometric Thin Film Solid Oxide Fuel Cells)
Smart Wire Grid, Inc. (Distributed Power Flow Control Using Smart Wires for Energy Routing)
SRI International
Stanford University (The Stanford ARPAe Sensor and Behavior Initiative)
Sturman Industries, Inc. (Sturman Digital Engine Controls)
Sun Catalytix (Hydrogen generation from sunlight and water)
Sustainable Energy Solutions, LLC (Cryogenic Carbon Capture)
Teledyne Scientific & Imaging, LLC (Optofluidic Solar Trackers (OFST) for a concentrated photovoltaic (CPV) rooftop application)
Texas A&M University (Autotrophic Hydrocarbon Production for Fuels and Chemicals)
Texas A&M University (Stimuli Responsive Metal-Organic Frameworks for Energy Efficient Post-Combustion CO2 Capture)
The Dow Chemical Company
The Ohio State University (Bioconversion of Carbon Dioxide to Biofuels by Facultatively Autotrophic Hydrogen Bacteria)
The Ohio State University (Pilot Scale Testing of Carbon Negative, Product Flexible Syngas Chemical Looping)
The Pew Charitable Trusts
Tour Engine, Inc. (TourEngine: an Ultra-efficient Internal Combustion Engine)
Transphorm, Inc. (Gallium Nitride based compact, high efficiency power conversion)
U.S. Air Force
U.S. Army Research, Development Engineering Command
U.S. Navy Energy and Environmental Readiness Programs
U.S. Small Business Administration
UCLA / JPL (Thermal Energy Storage with Supercritical Fluids)
UMERC - University of Maryland Energy Research Center (Low Temperature Solid Oxide Fuel Cells; A Transformational Energy Conversion Technology)
United Silicon Carbide (Silicon Carbide wideband semiconductors)
United Technologies Research Center (Liquid Desiccant Membrane-Based Dehumidification)
United Technologies Research Center (Thermal Storage Using Hybrid Vapor Compression Adsorption System)
United Technologies Research Center (Transformational Flow Battery System)
University of California, Los Angeles (Electro-Autotrophic Synthesis of Higher Alcohols)
University of California, Los Angeles, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering (Energy Plant: High Efficiency Photosynthetic Organisms)
University of Delaware (Hydroxide exchange membrane fuel cells)
University of Florida (Commercial Production of Terpene Biofuels in Pine)
University of Florida (Nanoengineered Membrane-based Absorption Refrigeration System (ARS))
University of Florida (Solar Fuel Reactor)
University of Illinois (Makining sugarcane and sweet sorghum efficient oil producers)
University of Illinois, Chicago (to be presented jointly with Cree, Inc.) (Photonically-Switched High-Voltage and Single-Bias Integrated High-Frequency SiC Thyristor)
University of Maryland (Thermoelastic Cooling)
University of Massachusetts (DEVELOPMENT OF A DEDICATED, HIGH-VALUE BIOFUELS CROP)
University of Massachusetts (Microbial Electrosynthesis)
University of Minnesota (Shewanella as an Ideal Platform for Producing Hydrocarbon Fuels)
University of Minnesota (Solar fuels via partial redox cycles with heat recovery)
University of Pittsburgh (Nano-composite Magnet Technology for High Frequency MW Scale Power Converters)
University of Texas at Austin (Thermal Batteries for Electric Vehicles)
University of Utah (New Generation High Density Thermal Battery Based on Advanced Metal Hydrides)
US Synthetic Corporation a Dover Company (Diamond bearings for use in renewable energy)
USDA
UTC/United Technologies Research Center
Varentec (Compact Dynamic Phase Angle Regulators for Transmission Power Routing)
Vorbeck Materials Corp. (Vor-x Graphene: A multi-functional material with real-world product adoption)
Waveberg Development Ltd. (Waveberg ocean wave energy converter)
Wildcat Discovery Technologies (High Throughput Materials Discovery)
Wisconsin Institute for Sustainable Technology (Light to liquid: Comprehensive engineering for fuel from plants)
WiTricity Corporation (Efficient Transmission of Wireless Power using Magnetic Resonators)
Wyss Institute, Harvard University (Bacterial reverse fuel cell)
Xergy, Inc. - Refrigeration & Cooling (Electrochemical “Kuel-cell” Refrigeration Compressor Technology)
Xtreme Power (Dynamic Power Resource)
zNano LLC (zNano Membranes for Osmotic Water Purification, Energy Storage, and Power Generation)

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