News & Events
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DOE Announces Funding for Separations Research to Reduce Transportation Emissions
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced over $64 million in funding for 22 projects focused on developing technologies and processes that produce low-cost and low-carbon biofuels. This includes more than $8.8 million for 3 projects that focus on separations to enable biomass conversion… Read More
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FY21 Funding Opportunity Announcement
The US Department of Energy (DOE) Bioenergy Technologies Office (BETO) has issued a Funding Opportunity Announcement (DE-FOA-0002396) to support high-impact technology research, development, demonstration, and deployment (RDD&D) to accelerate the bioeconomy. BETO is focusing on applied RDD&D to improve the performance and reduce cost of… Read More
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Bioprocessing Separations Consortium Participates in 2021 BETO Peer Review
The U.S. Department of Energy’s Bioenergy Technologies Office (BETO) hosted the virtual 2021 Project Peer Review from March 8-12; March 15‒16; and March 22‒26, 2021. Projects in BETO’s research and development portfolio were presented to the public and reviewed by external subject-matter experts from… Read More
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Separations Consortium Publishes Three-Year Overview of Technical Advances, Process Economics Influence, and State of the Science
Separations Consortium researchers publish a report detailing the Consortium’s advancement of science and technology related to bioprocessing separations from 2016-2019. The Consortium’s research and development leveraged three core capabilities: i) materials development and evaluation, ii) process development, and iii) analysis and computation to address four… Read More
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Separations Consortium Researchers Demonstrate Method to Promote Water-Splitting in Electrochemical Separations
Electrochemical separations offer competitive advantages for the recovery of bio-based fuel and chemical precursors via selective extraction. Electrodeionization (EDI) is a hybrid technology that combines electrodialysis and ion-exchange technologies into a single unit operation using ion-exchange phenomena and an applied electric field to drive… Read More