DOE Announces Three Projects to Receive $18.6 Million to Improve Industrial Demonstration Practices

Today, the Office of Technology Transitions and the Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations, in collaboration with the Industrial Efficiency & Decarbonization Office and the Office of Manufacturing and Energy Supply Chains, announced $18.6 million for three projects that will work to implement best practices in adoption of novel industrial technologies across three key sectors: chemicals and refining, concrete and cement, and metals. 

Congratulations to the selected projects: 

•  Decarbonization Alliance for the U.S. Chemical and Refining Industries (DACRI): Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) will create forums where participants in the supply and value chains of the U.S. chemicals and refining sectors can converge to address challenges hindering the adoption of decarbonization technologies. ORNL will work in collaboration with Idaho National Laboratory (INL), Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Lawrence Berkely National Laboratory (LBNL), National Energy Technology Laboratory (NREL), Sandia National Laboratoriesy (SNL), Savanah River National Laboratory (SNRL), and industry partners. 

• Cement & Concrete Emissions Mitigation with Emerging and New Technologies (C2EMENT) Consortium: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) will address adoption hurdles of low-carbon cement technology and materials including but not limited to measurement, reporting and verification of carbon sequestration, procurement models, and alternative feedstocks for low-carbon cement production. PNNL will work in collaboration with Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), LBNL, SNL, Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), NETL, LANL, and industry partners. 

• National Consortium for the Decarbonization of the Metals Industry: NREL will accelerate the adoption of low-carbon technologies in the metals industry by developing consensus standards, best practices, and decision-support tools, aligning efforts across industry and regulatory bodies. NREL will work in collaboration with SNL, LBNL, and industry partners.
  

The selected national laboratories will work closely with industry partners to design and implement solutions that will support the implementation of industrial technologies in hard-to-abate sectors and identify and begin to address related adoption hurdles.  [Read more]