DOE ARPA-E: Realize Energy-rich Compound Opportunities Valorizing Extraction from Refuse waters (RECOVER) – Concept Papers Due 12/31

Opportunity Title:

Realize Energy-rich Compound Opportunities Valorizing Extraction from Refuse waters (RECOVER)

Funder/Agency:

DOE ARPA-E

Opportunity Number:

DE-FOA-0003510 and DE-FOA-0003511 (SBIR-specific)

Description:

The Realize Energy-rich Compound Opportunities Valorizing Extraction from Refuse waters (RECOVER) program will strengthen American access to ammonia and critical metals by creating new ways to extract materials from domestic wastewater. The program will target ammonia, a crucial ingredient for fertilizer, and critical metals that are important for key energy technologies. Most ammonia applied to agricultural fields ends up in wastewater, and the majority of critical metals used in U.S. technologies are imported from overseas. Yet domestic wastewater from agriculture, mining, and oil and gas production contains enough ammonia and critical metals to displace all or much of U.S. imports.

Technologies supported by the RECOVER program will focus on developing new materials and processes to make extraction of ammonia and critical metals from wastewater energy-efficient, selective, and durable. Project teams will reduce the number of recovery steps compared to conventional approaches, and tailor their technologies to work within existing or new wastewater facilities. The goal of the program is to replace 50% of domestic ammonia supplies, and 100% of key critical metal supplies, by recovery from wastewater sources. Crucially, the new wastewater processes must recover these materials at a competitive market price.

The three waste stream types are:

• Municipal/animal feedlot waste stream: High total organic carbon (TOC), low salinity, recoverable ammonia, Mg, and P;
• Produced water waste stream: Low TOC, moderate to high salinity, recoverable critical metals possibly including REEs; and
• Mining waste stream: Low TOC, low to moderate salinity, recoverable critical metals including REEs.

Eligibility:

Individuals, domestic for-profit entities, educational institutions, nonprofits

Award Details:

Total Amount Available:

$36,000,000

Maximum Award:

$4,000,000

Minimum Award:

$1,500,000

Deadline:

Concept Papers Due December 31, 2024

Full Applications Due on a TBD date in February, 2025

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