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2024 was a critical year for U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)’s Industrial Efficiency and Decarbonization Office (IEDO), as we continued to invest in transformational technologies and foster meaningful relationships to help U.S. industry thrive. Since January 2023, IEDO has invested more than $350 million in #industrial #innovation! Check out what those investments led to and IEDO’s accomplishments from this last year: https://lnkd.in/emqJTwMv

We're looking forward to EPIXC's own Dr. Maria Curry-Nkansah, MBA contributing her experience and expertise to this panel on what's next for manufacturing over the next two decades. She'll be speaking at SXSW in Austin on March 10! #FutureFactoriesSXSW #EPIXCatSXSW #FutureManufacturing #AdvancedManufacturing #EPIXC #FactoriesOfTheFuture

Breaking news: ASU has been selected as the home and partner for a CHIPS and Science Act-funded national facility for semiconductor advanced packaging. The Department of Commerce and Natcast announced Arizona State University’s Research Park as the home for the third flagship CHIPS for America research and development facility. The facility is expected to host the world’s first 300mm front-end semiconductor manufacturing and advanced packaging research facility. Through the past two presidential administrations, and with bipartisan congressional support, U.S. leadership has made the strategic decision to return not only research and development but also manufacturing supremacy in digital electronics to the United States, where these technologies were invented and initiated. ASU President Michael Crow shared that ASU is proud to host this transformative initiative that “will take our state and our country to a new level in the advancement of digital technology.” To read more about how Arizona State University is helping shape the future of our nation’s microelectronics, read the story at the link below. https://ow.ly/oqXn50UAu1I

Last week, EPIXC CEO, Sridhar Seetharaman sat down with Ashlee DeMartino and ABC15 Arizona to share how "decarbonization requires an entire ecosystem" to achieve the goal of reducing carbon emissions across the industrial sector. With initial projects focused on creating greener cement and decarbonizing iron and steel manufacturing, the EPIXC institute is developing alternatives to replace fossil-based heating technology that will play a vital role in energy transformation. Click ?? to watch and learn more.

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Tune in Now! Hear Sridhar Seetharaman delivering the energy keynote at the Carbon Summit hosted at Arizona State University. In case 'now' doesn't quite fit in your schedule, please visit the link when you can. Understanding the role decarbonization plays in our environment doesn't have an expiration.

If you're looking to learn more about the role EPIXC is taking with energy transition and the innovative technology needed to drive that change, please join our CTO, Michael Baldea next week in San Diego. Registration is still open! https://lnkd.in/eDMjR6FU

With funding from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), through the Electrified Processes for Industry without Carbon (EPIXC) Institute, Texas A&M Energy Institute researchers will conduct a two-year project devoted to innovative electrified heating technologies for propane dehydrogenation. https://lnkd.in/gPkiQbaG

Today, Electrified Processes for Industry Without Carbon, or EPIXC, took its first steps toward that ambitious goal and announced its first volley of efforts targeting industrial greenhouse gas emissions. EPIXC’s projects are part of a $43 million investment from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)to drive industrial decarbonization. EPIXC, a multi-institution initiative funded by the DOE, is one of seven Clean Energy Manufacturing Innovation Institutes. EPIXC is tasked with studying and developing cost-effective technologies to replace fossil fuel-based industrial process heating — the thermal energy used to prepare materials and produce manufactured goods — with clean electricity while developing a robust and diverse workforce. “The use of heat is interwoven into processes across the nation’s industrial sector and accounts for almost half of the sector’s emissions,” said Avi Shultz, director of DOE’s Industrial Efficiency and Decarbonization Office, which manages EPIXC. “Tackling emissions from industrial heat presents one of our biggest challenges to industrial decarbonization, and EPIXC is uniquely positioned to mobilize partners and unlock the innovations we’ll need to overcome it.” The first five jump-start projects intend to advance such innovations by integrating new technologies and processes into existing facilities designed around fossil fuel heating. “The way I see it, there currently exists all the needed technical solutions to electrify industrial process heating — but in a piecemeal manner,” said Sridhar Seetharaman, chief executive officer of EPIXC. “These projects provide a physical or digital test bed to connect all the existing technical solutions to show they can work as a systems-level solution. We hope to close the critical knowledge gaps and help industrial investments for deployment of these cost-effective solutions further on.” Collectively, the projects represent $11.8 million in total investment, and the research will be executed at Arizona State University, Missouri University of Science and Technology, Texas A&M University and the The University of Texas at Austin. EPIXC plans to announce additional funding opportunities for more electrified industrial process heating research and development projects in the future. Michael Baldea, chief technology officer of EPIXC, said these projects were selected because they involve industrial sectors that are among the top contributors to greenhouse gas emissions in the U.S. “We’re also focusing on applications that would be relevant to multiple sectors,” said Baldea, Kenneth A. Kobe Professor of Chemical Engineering at UT Austin. “This way we leverage our investments in a way that makes the best use of our federal and private funding.” Read more here: https://ow.ly/BITH50THasF #EPIXC #CleanEnergy #Innovation #AlternativeEnergy

For those attending the MS&T24 Technical Meeting and Exhibition in Pittsburgh, please don't miss tomorrow's keynote session as part of the technical program. Sridhar Seetharaman will be discussing the challenges and opportunities of the electrification of heavy industry. On site details: Tuesday, October 8, 2024 @ 2:00 PM Location: David L. Lawrence Convention Center, Room 404 #CleanEnergy #Innovation #alternativeenergy