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| | Johnson Matthey | Scott Cauffman | Development Manager |
Large Business
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Hydrogen and Fuel Cells
| | Johnson Matthey (JM) brings more than 200 years of experience in transforming scientific innovation into commercially successful technologies. Built on a foundation of world-class materials science, JM has extensive expertise in the development of advanced functional materials, coatings, catalysts, electrochemical components, and engineered systems. The company combines deep scientific knowledge with robust engineering capabilities spanning process design, modeling, simulation, advanced analytics, and technology optimization.
JM's integrated approach enables rapid progression from concept development and laboratory validation through pilot-scale demonstration and full-scale manufacturing. The company has a long history of successfully scaling complex technologies by leveraging multidisciplinary teams of scientists, engineers, modelers, and manufacturing specialists. This includes expertise in materials characterization, coating technologies, reaction and process engineering, digital tools, data-driven development, and advanced manufacturing techniques.
With global R&D, engineering, and production capabilities, Johnson Matthey is uniquely positioned to support the development, scale-up, and commercialization of innovative technologies. The company’s proven track record of combining scientific innovation with industrial execution makes JM a strong partner for accelerating the deployment of next-generation technologies that strengthen domestic manufacturing, improve competitiveness, and create long-term economic value. |
| PA |
| | Global Algae innovations | David Hazlebeck | CEO |
Small Business
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Bioenergy
| Topic Area 1 or 2 | Global Algae has developed a full suite of technology for open raceway micro algae cultivation, harvesting, and processing.
We can to provide raw algal biomass or components of the biomass like algal oil.
We are also interested in partners who convert of fatty acids or vegetable oil to products. |
| CA |
| | Precision Combusiton, Inc. | Jeffrey G. Weissman | Senior Principal Scientist |
Small Business
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Hydrogen and Fuel Cells
| Topic Area 1 | Precision Combustion, Inc. (PCI) offers bench-scale to pilot scale chemical reactor and systems in-house design, build and operations with full turn-key systems capabilities. Our unique proprietary compact modular reactor designs and systems are known for:
- High intensity, short contact time capabilities;
- Reduction or elimination of thermal gradients and hotspots;
- Significantly enhanced rates of thermal and mass transport;
- Excellent mixing in laminar flow regimes with elimination of flow stratification or streamlining;
- Controlled temperature behavior in endothermic or exothermic operations;
- Employ a wide range of catalyst compositions on structured supports;
- Improve energy and operational efficiencies.
These advantages lead to improved reactant conversions and product selectivities for a wide range of reaction classes including: selective alkene or alkyne hydrogenations, phenyl or pyridyl alkylations, C3-C8 paraffin alkylations and partial oxidations.
PCI commercial-intent reactors and systems include forward/reverse water gas shift and fuel flexible liquid or gas fed steam or autothermal reforming. We offer solid-oxide electrolytic production of carbon monoxide, CO, and hydrogen, H2, as single or mixed product streams.
In Topic Area 1 our focus will be on 1b, Bench Scale and Unit Operation Pre-Piloting, for reactions and pilot system development for production of chemicals from alternate feedstocks. This will include production of:
- Foundational chemicals including hydrogen, carbon monoxide, ethylene and benzene
- Intermediate chemicals including propylene, butene and other alkenes
- Final products including alkyl substituted benzene or phenyls, and bio-derived substituted alkanes and aromatics.
As part of this effort we expect to develop multiple pilot-scale level processes that integrate into a fully contained chemical refinery to produce a range bio-based C2-C20 chemicals and fuels.
We seek partners for: industrial applications, economic analysis, catalyst characterization and process integration for pilot to commercial scale multiple unit operations.
We will partner as prime or sub for development of catalysts, catalytic or non-catalytic processes, bench-scale to pilot scale reactors and systems, and supporting services including process modeling, reactive computational fluid dynamics modeling, and testing. |
| CT |
| | Ohio University | David Quiroz | Assistant Professor |
Academic
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Bioenergy
| | Dr. David Quiroz is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Ohio University. His research applies process modeling with concurrent techno-economic analysis (TEA) and life cycle assessment (LCA) to accelerate technology development and scale-up. He has prior experience evaluating the economic viability and environmental impacts of biorefining, algal biotechnology, and waste-to-energy systems.
Interested in providing integrated process modeling, TEA, and LCA support for ASPECT Topic Area 1 or 2 project teams, helping evaluate proposed conversion pathways against conventional benchmarks and identify key cost and environmental performance drivers to inform scale-up decisions.
Capabilities: life cycle assessment databases (ecoinvent, GREET); LCA software (SimaPro, openLCA); process modeling and simulation software (Aspen Plus, IDAES); custom techno-economic and dynamic process models developed in Python/MATLAB; GIS and prospective TEA/LCA methods. |
| OH |
| | Tern Industries LLC dba Mixing Tanks USA | Thad Fisco | CEO |
Small Business
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Bioenergy
| Topic 1b; Topic 2a; Topic 2b | Tern Industries LLC, doing business as Mixing Tanks USA, together with its affiliated U.S. manufacturing operation Portland Kettle Works, designs, fabricates, integrates, and commissions modular process equipment for emerging chemical, biotechnology, alternative-feedstock, and advanced-material manufacturing applications.
We are seeking to participate as the industrial equipment, process-skid integration, and pre-pilot manufacturing partner for ASPECT Topic Areas 1b, 2a, and 2b. Our role is to help technology developers move from laboratory apparatus to operable, instrumented pre-pilot equipment.
Capabilities include custom stainless-steel process vessels; agitated and high-shear mixing systems; heated and cooled reactors; sanitary and industrial piping; pumps; load cells; temperature, pressure, flow, and level instrumentation; automated controls; VFDs; control panels; modular skid fabrication; utility integration; FAT/SAT documentation; and installation and commissioning support.
Our OPTIMIZED™ modular-skid approach consolidates vessels, pumps, mixers, instrumentation, controls, piping, and utility interfaces into factory-built systems intended to reduce field installation time and scale-up risk. We can support equipment definition, preliminary layouts, P&IDs, equipment sizing, detailed mechanical design, fabrication, controls integration, factory acceptance testing, installation planning, commissioning, and operating-data collection.
We are interested in partnering with technology developers, universities, national laboratories, feedstock owners, chemical manufacturers, process-engineering firms, and pilot facilities developing conventional or bio-advantaged chemicals from domestic alternative and waste feedstocks. We are available as a for-profit industry subrecipient, equipment-development partner, system integrator, or commercial equipment supplier. |
| UT |
| | Oxylus Energy | Conor Rooney | CTO and Cofounder |
Small Business
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Hydrogen and Fuel Cells
| 2 | Oxylus Energy converts captured CO2, water, and renewable power into green methanol at fossil-competitive cost. Our proprietary electrolyzer turns CO2 into carbon monoxide, then into methanol, using about a third less hydrogen than conventional routes and following intermittent renewable energy loads. We will apply to topic area 2a or 2b and we're seeking teaming partners with concentrated and/or biogenic CO2 streams (industrial or waste sources) as well as offtakers who want green CO, syngas, or methanol for fuels and chemicals. |
| CT |
| | University of Virginia | William Epling | Professor |
Academic
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| Area 1, Bench (catalyst deactivation research) | Our area of specialization is in understanding how and when catalysts deactivate, such that those conditions can be minimized or regeneration strategies explored. We perform sulfur poisoning and thermal degradation studies regularly. We explore how these impact/change the catalyst surface and structure. The sulfur poisoning studies in particular will be relevant to exploring new catalysts for biomass upgrading, and stranded or waste gas valorization. |
| VA |
| | Southwest Research Institute | Eloy Flores III | Director R&D |
Non-Profit
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Bioenergy
| Scale up and Process Integration Testing | At Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) we are R&D problem solvers providing independent, premier services to government and industry clients. Our multidisciplinary nature allows us to rapidly assemble diverse teams to tackle problems from multiple directions. We develop innovative solutions that advance the state of the art and improve human health and safety. SwRI is an independent non-profit research institute focusing on applied R&D. We have over 3,000 staff members, 1,500-acres of land, and more than 300 laboratories with millions of square footage of lab and office space.
The Chemical Engineering Department has extensive experience in developing and scaling a variety of chemical processes and transformational energy technologies. Bridging the gap between fundamental research and commercial adoption aligns with our focus on applied research. We can accommodate projects from lab to demonstration scale and have experience with high pressures, high temperatures, and hazardous materials. We are interested in participating in potential projects as a partner and can help with technical expertise in design, fabrication, construction, and operation of novel processes and technologies, utilizing existing sites and utilities that takes advantage of existing cooling towers, electricity (all phases), nitrogen, flares, a thermal oxider, and scrubbers. This enables us to offer our clients shortened project timelines without sacrificing quality. |
| TX |
| | Washington State University | Guiyan Zang | Associate Professor |
Academic
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Hydrogen and Fuel Cells
| TEA and LCA | Guiyan Zang is an associate professor at Washington State University, who has worked for Argonne Nationnal Laboratory and MIT before to lead group conducting work on process scale up, Techno-economic analysis (TEA), life cycle analysis (LCA), and supply chain analysis. She is open for collaboration on the accelerating scale-up and pre-piloting of emerging chemical technology to help the group design industrial-scale processes, evaluate cost, emissions, and supply chain optimization |
| WA |
| | Liberate Minerals Limited | Richard Simons | Chief Executive Officer |
Small Business
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Hydrogen and Fuel Cells
| Critical Mineral Processing | Liberate has developed a globally unique, 21st century mineral processing and refining technology specifically focussed on critical minerals and rare earths. Our solution, the "Resource Maximisation Process" (RMP) is a sustainable, cost effective, multi-commodity chemical refining solution. The RMP enables critical mineral and rare earth ores to be refined in the country in which they are mined.
Our multi-commodity hydrometallurgical process is delivering lithium carbonate, high purity silica, rubidium, caesium, tantalum, niobium and aluminum compounds all from the one source of spodumene concentrate and tailings. In addition, the process can also deliver high purity natural graphite and rare earth compounds from relevant ores.
We have tested the process with over a dozen miners from Australia, Saudi Arabia and now expanding into North America, producing multiple high value compounds from a single source of concentrate or tailings.
The RMP processing technology has a broad application and we are now beginning to test on beryl, germanium and vanadium ores and waste material.
We are interested to partner with miners, processors, refiners who have ore bodies, concentrates, process tailings or other waste material that contains high value critical minerals.
Liberate is a member of the Defense Industrial Base Consortium |
| New South Wales |
| | Los Alamos National Laboratory | Xiaokun (Claire) Yang | Scientist |
Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC)
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Bioenergy
| | Chemical engineer with more than 16 years of experience in catalytic materials design, synthesis, and application, including over 13 years of expertise in liquid-phase biomass conversion to hydrocarbon fuels and value-added chemicals, such as surfactants, resins, polymer monomers, organic acids, and other specialty products.
I lead a multidisciplinary team across the full research and development lifecycle, from catalyst design and bench-scale experimentation to batch and continuous-flow process intensification, scale-up, and techno-economic assessment.
Our laboratory capabilities include batch and flow reactors, catalyst synthesis equipment, product characterization and property-testing instruments, and automated robotic platforms. We collaborate extensively with industry, universities, and other national laboratories and are passionate about addressing technical barriers, accelerating process development, and advancing promising technologies toward commercialization. |
| NM |
| | Liberty Ion LLC | Evan M. Erickson | Ceo & Founder |
Small Business
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Hydrogen and Fuel Cells
| | Let Liberty Ion handle your grant application for you! Liberty Ion helps applicants draft grant proposals from start to finish, including building the right team, shaping a strong project narrative, developing a credible and competitive budget, calculating fringe and indirect rates, aligning key personnel, and handling the required application paperwork.
The firm’s founder is a chemistry PhD that previously founded and funded a battery cathode manufacturing company as CEO through DOE and DOD grants & a Series A fundraise, leading the company for nearly five years, bringing direct experience in material production, scale-up, and commercialization. Today, Liberty Ion works with technology companies to secure nondilutive funding, strengthen market positioning, and move projects towards completion. We have fundamental technical experience in chemicals, fuel cells, electrocatalysis, lithium-ion batteries, materials science along with the practicality of having founded and successfully exited a technology company, with a suite of proposal writers, project managers and technical experts to help get your proposal across the finish line in as painless way as possible. Let Liberty Ion take care of the annoying grant writing for you, so your team can focus on mission! Schedule a free, no obligation meeting today to discuss how Liberty Ion can help you: https://calendly.com/d/cyhh-k3f-xw9/liberty-ion-introduction |
| TX |
| | Ecovaleric | Roberta Leão | ceo |
Small Business
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Bioenergy
| | Ecovaleric is developing an electrified manufacturing platform for domestic production of biomass-derived foundational chemicals and high-value chemical intermediates. The company’s electrochemical process intensifies chemical manufacturing by converting renewable feedstocks into strategic chemicals with improved production efficiency, lower manufacturing costs, and reduced environmental impacts. Its first product, gamma-valerolactone (GVL), is a bio-advantaged dipolar aprotic solvent and versatile platform chemical that can replace imported petrochemical solvents while serving as a precursor to advanced materials, polymers, fuels, and specialty chemicals. Ecovaleric’s modular manufacturing technology strengthens U.S. chemical supply chains by enabling scalable, distributed production of strategically important chemicals from domestic biomass resources. |
| CO |
| | Saint-Gobain NorPro | Marissa Reigel | Director of R&D |
Large Business
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Bioenergy
| catalyst carriers | Saint-Gobain NorPro specializes in engineering catalyst carriers that enable a variety of applications including biofuels and other chemical processes. We are the largest supplier of merchant catalyst carriers in the world. It’s not products, but solutions, that our customers have come to expect. We have a profound understanding of catalysis and catalytic applications and a definitive knowledge of catalyst carriers. We deliver products that deliver improved Catalysts with ever improved Selectivity, Activity and Extended Life.
We have a co-development model with our partners/customers that allows tailoring of surface area, porosity, surface acidity, and mechanical properties. While our products are generally loaded with a catalyst, our products can be used as the catalyst itself depending on surface chemistry and other properties. We have hydrothermally stable carriers that are essential for many bioenergy processes.
We can make alumina, zirconia, silica, and many other ceramic carriers in a variety of shapes and sizes for static bed, fluidized bed, or other reactor types. If a unique ceramic is needed, we can discuss how we can shape it for the specific need. In addition to the catalyst carriers, we provide filtration media to clean the feed stream as well as inert bed support and bed topping media. |
| OH |
| | Shale Land and Mineral LLC | David P. Cercone | Professional Geologist / NOFO Advisor |
Individual
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Hydrogen and Fuel Cells
| Rare Earth Elements and Critical Minerals | DOE NOFO Expert: I am a Pennsylvania licensed geologist that has worked in a myriad of industries/roles including academia (Penn State), coal mining (CONSOL Energy), oil and gas (CNX Gas) and most recently the US DOE as a Federal Project Manager (Retired). I have been a coal mine hydrogeologist and developed new and innovative water control systems underground and at refuse disposal areas. Due to restrictions imposed on recent retirees from government service, I am only allowed to work in an advisory capacity on NOFO applications. I wish to assist applicants for Federal Financial Assistance by reviewing applications and advising them on the complete NOFO process so that technologies that I feel are going to advance American interests succeed in the scoring process. I have been involved in every technical aspect of the NOFO process that was in place during my federal employment including concept development, merit review chairperson, scoring evaluator and award negotiations. I am available to advise your organization in many of the aspects of preparing an application package as long as it is compliant with my status as a federal retiree.
My company is fully registered as a US DOE eligible applicant.
If your organization has never submitted an application, there are several steps that need to be taken well ahead of the submission deadline. Time must be allocated to these pre-application steps so that when final application documents are to be uploaded there are no surprises to the applicant or the DOE. Heed the advice of DOE that final application documents should be uploaded well in advance of the submittal date and time. There is a hard, clock-determined rigid shutoff time for uploading final documents. In the best-case scenario expect an upload time of 40 minutes for your documents. |
| PA |
| | University of Connecticut | Jeffrey McCutcheon | Professor |
Academic
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Bioenergy
| Separations | Membrane separations (Gas, liquid, ions) - The Connecticut Center for Applied Separations Technology offers comprehensive membrane testing and characterization capabilities for liquid, gas, and electro membrane processes. |
| CT |
| | Biosortia, Inc | Ross Youngs | CEO |
Small Business
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Bioenergy
| Topic Area 1 (Bench-Scale Process Intensification) | Organization Profile-Biosortia is an advanced biotechnology company operating a proprietary Microbiome Mining factory capable of processing complex, wild microbial and algal biomass into high-value chemical products. Backed by previous ARPA-E validation ($6M award) for our aquatic harvesting technology, Biosortia has established a zero-input, environmentally remediating supply chain. We specialize in isolating bulk commodities and ultra-rare specialty chemicals from domestic eutrophic waters, transforming ecological liabilities into secure alternative feedstocks for U.S. chemical manufacturing.
Core Capabilities & Technology Biosortia’s core innovation lies in our physical, multi-level extraction and high-resolution fractionation platform. Currently operating at a physical baseline of 1 kg dry weight per 20-day cycle, our facility processes wild biomass harvested from inland Ohio lakes and the Great Lakes. Our unit operations execute sequential liquid-liquid and mechanical separations to resolve complex biological matrices into three distinct product streams: bulk industrial lipids, functional proteins, and highly complex small molecules.
Crucially, Biosortia employs a techno-economic "value plug" model to overcome the "valley of death" in bio-commodity scale-up. Because bulk lipid extraction is economically prohibitive at early bench scales (~$100k/ton), we leverage our high-resolution pipeline to isolate and commercialize ultra-rare small molecules as highly characterized analytical standards and research data. This high-margin revenue subsidizes the processing of bulk biomass, providing immediate commercial viability while unit operations are intensified to drive down overall per-ton processing costs.
ASPECT Topic Area 1 (Bench-Scale Process Intensification). We offer our physical extraction pipeline and direct feedstock access as a foundational baseline for engineering partners to optimize, automate, and scale. Our milestone is to reduce current processing costs by >50%, bridging the gap toward continuous pre-piloting.
Teaming Opportunities What Biosortia Provides to a Team: A continuous, zero-input domestic alternative feedstock (wild eutrophic microbial biomass) that actively remediates U.S. waterways; a functional bench-scale multi-level extraction and fractionation facility ready for process intensification; a validated commercialization pathway that immediately monetizes high-value rare molecules to subsidize bulk commodity production. |
| OH |
| | Johnston Engineering | Andy Johnston | President, Principal Engineer |
Small Business
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Hydrogen and Fuel Cells
| Topic Areas 1 and 2 | Johnston Engineering (JE) is a mechanical engineering firm specializing in mechanical design, analysis, integration, build, and testing of first-of-a-kind systems, equipment, and machines. In operation since 2015, JE brings over 300 years of combined experience across 20 engineers with specialized expertise in product development and advanced engineering solutions. Our experience spans multiple industries, with a primary focus on energy and clean technology, including projects in carbon capture, hydrogen, nuclear, and energy storage. In addition, we support work in circular materials, chemicals and refining, industrial machinery and equipment, aerospace, consumer electronics, and biotechnology.
Johnston Engineering's advantage is an “Analysis-Driven Design” approach, meaning that we have a closely integrated mechanical design with physics-based simulations of thermal, structural, and fluid-flow analysis to optimize and validate designs before anything gets built – ensuring product performance and avoiding part failures. Utilizing SolidWorks 3D CAD and ANSYS analysis software, we excel in component modeling, analysis, and system integration. Our expertise includes performing Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) and Thermal and Structural Finite Element Analysis (FEA) to simulate the performance of mechanical hardware systems, considering forces, pressures, torques, temperature, and flow geometry. We then iterate design and analysis simulations until desired performance outcomes are achieved leading to successful hardware development and testing.
Johnston Engineering President, Andy Johnston, P.E., leads the team and provides subject matter expertise in structural, thermal, and fluid analysis with over 20 years of experience in clean energy, military, and aerospace research, design, analysis, build, and testing of first-of-a-kind systems. Johnston Engineering has completed over 150 projects, designing custom components and full systems, including containerized Direct Air Capture (DAC) and Point Source Carbon Capture systems, hydrogen systems, advanced nuclear, circular materials, and Long Duration Energy Storage (LDES). Our clients include National Labs as well as small and large companies working on research, development and commercialization of their innovative technologies. |
| WA |
| | Czero | Guy Babbitt | CEO |
Small Business
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Hydrogen and Fuel Cells
| | Czero is a hardtech systems integrator providing advanced engineering services and contract R&D for complex energy technologies. Founded in 2007, we have completed 450+ projects spanning mechanical design, modeling & simulation, control systems and software, prototype fabrication, and structured testing—bringing integrated, end-to-end execution from concept through validated hardware. Czero has been involved in over a dozen ARPA-E projects.
Interest in DOE ASPECT Program:
We are interested in taking a support role in projects developing emerging chemical production technologies through analysis-led engineering, design, prototype development, and systems integration. We have a long track record of supporting a wide variety of technologies in the energy space, including chemical reactors and electrochemical systems, through the core technical capabilities listed below. Czero often takes responsibility for balance of plant, allowing the prime to focus on their core chemistry or process expertise.
Core Technical Capabilities
Modeling & Simulation: Physics-based and multi-physics simulation, including MATLAB/Simulink dynamic system modeling; process modeling; reacting flow and mass transfer modeling; FEA; CFD; thermodynamic analysis; heat transfer; and custom tool development.
Control Systems: Embedded and industrial controls; model-based control design; hardware integration; instrumentation, sensor integration, and data acquisition; real-time implementation and hardware-in-the-loop.
Prototype Build & Test: In-house machining and fabrication to build reactor and process prototypes and test hardware; controls panel build capability; custom test system design; instrumentation; structured test protocols with clear documentation.
Systems Integration: Cross-disciplinary coordination across mechanical, electrical, controls, and test domains, including balance-of-plant integration for reactor and stack-based systems.
Collaboration Model: We support teams, scaling from discrete workscopes (modeling, controls, test system design) to integrated full scale design-build-test programs with close collaboration across partner organizations. |
| CO |
| | University of Washington (UW) | Rachel Woods-Robinson | Senior Staff Scientist; LCA Hub |
Academic
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Hydrogen and Fuel Cells
| Cross-cutting: life cycle assessment of emerging chemicals, emerging materials, emerging processes, energy technology; bench, pre-pilot, pilot (Areas 1 and 2) | I lead life cycle assessment (LCA) to guide impact-aware R&D of emerging chemicals and energy technologies at UW's Testbeds facility. With over a decade of cross-cutting research spanning computational materials design, physical and chemical synthesis, device prototyping, and scale-up, my approach is grounded in both fundamental thermodynamics and how materials and processes are developed, manufactured, and deployed—enabling modeling that connects lab-scale design choices to system-level impacts.
We focus on prospective, decision-oriented LCA of emerging systems to inform R&D from the earliest stages, when material selection, synthesis routes, process parameters, and supply chain configurations are still flexible. We work across pre-commercial technology readiness levels (TRL 1–8) to identify environmental, resource, energy, water, and supply chain hotspots early enough to actually influence design, rather than reporting impacts after scale-up.
Our prior work has helped partners across chemical sectors make decisions about process redesign and scale-up, identifying dominant impact drivers and enabling lower-impact pathways. These results have directly helped partners win grants.
The Testbeds provides an open-access environment, free of IP-entanglement with UW, where LCA is embedded alongside fabrication and process development. We combine open-source tools with proprietary databases, developing transparent models, datasets, and workflows. We also build custom, physics-informed process and life cycle inventory (LCI) models for novel materials and chemical systems where no data exists.
What sets us apart:
-Focus on low TRL: emerging chemicals, processes & technologies
-Chemistry-grounded impact analysis
-Focus on critical materials, secondary markets & domestic supply chain resilience
-Iterative, experimentally-integrated tiered LCA
-System-level hotspot tracing, scenario analysis & design tradeoff evaluation
-R&D decision-making support under uncertainty
-Transparent, reproducible workflows with open-access data
We are interested in partnering on projects across the US involving novel materials and chemicals, novel processing routes, energy technologies (generation and storage), critical minerals, recycling and reuse, and circular systems—where early-stage analysis informs R&D decisions before impacts are locked in, guiding lower-impact, lower-cost, and more resilient supply chain pathways. Reach out for a free consult: rwoodsr@uw.edu |
| WA |
| | ONB Engineering Research and Technical Services LLC | Omar M. Basha | Principal Engineer and Managing Director |
Small Business
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Bioenergy
| Topic Areas 1b and 2a | ONB Engineering Research and Technical Services LLC is a U.S.-based specialty R&D and process engineering firm focused on moving emerging chemical technologies from laboratory proof-of-concept through bench, pre-pilot, pilot, and commercial design. We have completed 25+ R&D and scale-up projects for chemical, energy, advanced-materials, manufacturing, university, government, and technology-developer clients. Relevant experience includes catalytic conversion and specialty chemicals, bio-derived feedstocks, CO2/C1 conversion, gasification and pyrolysis, syngas upgrading, separations/recycle, electrochemical processes, and advanced-carbon pathways.
ONB Engineering is interested in serving as an industry scale-up, process-development, or engineering partner across ASPECT Topic Areas 1 and 2, with particularly strong alignment to process development, optimization, scale-up, unit-operation pre-piloting and integrated pre-pilot development. We seek teams producing conventional or bio-advantaged chemicals from domestic alternative and waste feedstocks.
Capabilities include:
• Reaction engineering, kinetic modeling, parameter estimation, catalyst/reactor assessment, and scale-up;
• Aspen Plus/HYSYS flowsheets, mass and energy balances, separations, recycle, heat integration, and optimization;
• CFD/CPFD and transport analysis for fluidized beds, bubble columns, slurry reactors, packed beds, and other multiphase systems;
• bench/pre-pilot test planning, design of experiments, model calibration, uncertainty analysis, and validation;
• equipment sizing/specification, vendor/fabricator coordination, process controls, operability, safety, and solids handling;
• FEL-1/FEL-2 packages, PFDs, preliminary P&IDs, equipment lists, utilities, layouts, risk registers, and start-up planning;
• TEA, LCA, carbon intensity, supply-chain, market, and commercialization analysis.
ONB combines Ph.D.-level reaction/process expertise, licensed Professional Engineer leadership, and advanced computational resources. We can participate as a subrecipient, for-profit industry partner, or specialty engineering lead from bench optimization through pre-pilot design, construction support, operation, data reconciliation, and scale-up planning. We seek technology developers, universities, laboratories, manufacturers, feedstock owners, pilot facilities, fabricators, and commercialization partners with complementary IP, experimental capability, feedstock access, or deployment sites. |
| VA |
| | Shell International Exploration & Production | Kun Zhang | Grant Manager |
Large Business
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Hydrogen and Fuel Cells
| | interested in participating in applications for R&D, and technology scale-up for biofuel / chemical production from alternative and waste feedstocks |
| TX |
| | Dakota BioWorx | Neal C Connors | CSO |
Non-Profit
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Bioenergy
| Bioprocess Development, Scale-up, and Piloting | Dakota BioWorx was built to close the growing precision fermentation pilot-facility availability gap that is increasing as the global bioeconomy grows through bioproduct innovation. As a fee-for-service CDMO, we offer technical expertise and lab-scale through 3000-L pilot-scale precision fermentation and downstream processing services to produce enzymes, proteins, and biomass for companies of all sizes and stages of maturity, supporting industrial biotech innovators on their journey to commercial success. |
| SD |
| | Zeolite Maxing | Francisco Sauceda | Scaling Zeolite for Livestock Use |
Individual
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Bioenergy
| Manufacturing and Chemical Processing | Interested in scaling Zeolite processing for increased agricultural, livestock, and farming yield. |
| TX |
| | Forest Concepts | David Lanning | Vice President |
Small Business
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Bioenergy
| | Forest Concepts is a biomass supply chain technology and systems company with more than twenty-five years of experience in the forest, urban, and agricultural biomass feedstock arena. We work throughout the supply chain from sources to the throat of reactors or industrial manufacturing processes. Our engineers actively engage with academic and research communities as well as technical societies.
Our small company is based in HUB zone in Auburn, Washington – just south of Seattle. We provide products and services globally.
Our capabilities are delivered by three overlapping teams. FC Analytics develops biomass characterization methods, laboratory equipment, and mathematical simulations/models that inform design and operation of biomass processing facilities. The FC Biomaterials biomass processing and production unit processes FC or client-supplied raw biomass of all types (woody, herbaceous, other) through our custom milling, screening, and drying equipment systems to produce reactor/conversion-ready industrial and renewable energy feedstocks. The Forest Concepts systems development and professional services team conducts contract research and provides advisory/planning services spanning biomass supply chains from source to reactor and beyond. A key benefit to clients is that we live in both the development and commercial space. Our experienced development team has earned 31 patents across these technology areas.
Our approximately ten full-time team members leverage the expertise of a broad network of universities, labs, and others. More recently, in partnership with a cadre of third-party vendors we have ramped-up equipment manufacturing and fully integrated plug-and-play multi-brand pre-processing systems at pilot through commercial scale.
FC Analytics: Feedstock characterization to deliver engineering data, operational functional characteristics, and other physical/mechanical properties data.
FC Biomass Processing: Our processing facility features its patented Crumbler® size reduction technology, orbital screening and an advanced moving bed dryer, amongst other standard processing equipment. The system can produce a variety of sizes of uniform, flowable particles down to 1mm from high moisture biomass without drying or before drying.
FC Systems Development: We developed an innovative Simulation of Processing Systems for Techno-Economic Analysis (SiPS TEA) software to rapidly analyze multiple processing facility permutations. |
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