$33 Million in Funding Available to Advance Smart Manufacturing Technologies to Help Accelerate a Clean Energy Economy

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• FOA Quantity: DE-FOA-0003329
• Funding Quantity: $33 million
• Deadline for Idea Papers: Aug. 21, 2024, at 5 pm ET

Matters Embrace Good Manufacturing for a Round Economic system, Sustainable Transportation, Excessive-Efficiency Supplies, and Home Mining

The U.S. Division of Vitality’s (DOE) Advanced Materials and Manufacturing Technologies Office (AMMTO) launched a $33 million funding alternative to speed up the development of good manufacturing applied sciences and processes essential to develop and deploy the progressive applied sciences and supplies wanted for the nation’s clear vitality transition. Good manufacturing is the usage of superior applied sciences and processes—together with digitalization and synthetic intelligence—to enhance the technical efficiency, productiveness, high quality assurance, and safety of the manufacturing sector.

“Smart manufacturing solutions are critical to domestically manufacture next generation clean energy technologies more economically, more efficiently, and at the higher quality and scale we need to be globally competitive,” stated AMMTO Director Christopher Saldaña. “This funding opportunity offers developers a chance to have an incredible impact on the future trajectory of our nation’s manufacturing sector and elevate our nation’s most promising technological advancements in the process.”

Recipients of funding from this chance will assist analysis to develop good manufacturing applied sciences that enhance the effectivity and economics of round provide chains; advance sustainable transportation manufacturing; speed up the event of high-performance supplies for the clear vitality transition; and create extra sustainable, secure, and aggressive mining in the US.

Matter 1: Good Manufacturing for a Round Economic system

This subject focuses on good manufacturing options that enhance the viability of round provide chains (Re-X pathways), akin to recycling, repairing, remanufacturing, and reuse, by enhancing their effectivity and economics. This contains:

• Space of Curiosity 1: Good Manufacturing Applied sciences for Improved Sorting and Characterization. Enhancing the flexibility to establish, kind, and characterize supplies to facilitate restoration and recycling of those supplies into new merchandise.
• Space of Curiosity 2: Interoperable and Open Provide Chains for Expanded Re-X. Fostering extra interoperable and open provide chains to assist restore or remanufacturing merchandise not initially designed for Re-X (reuse, restore, refurbish, remanufacture, or repurpose).
• Space of Curiosity 3. Improved Knowledge Transparency for Correct Lifecycle Assessments. Enhancing the supply and transparency of information important to bolstering market acceptance of secondary supplies.

Matter 2: Good Manufacturing of Tooling and Tools for Sustainable Transportation

This subject focuses on good manufacturing applied sciences that make tooling and tools for sustainable autos quicker and extra economically, whereas decreasing element defects and enabling new functionalities. Within the context of this FOA, sustainable transportation refers to electrical autos (based mostly on both batteries or gas cells throughout all car sorts from cars to fleets to all truck courses). This contains:

• Space of Curiosity 1: Automation. Integrating {hardware} and software program methods into manufacturing tooling and tools to enhance element productiveness.
• Space of Curiosity 2: Manufacturing Asset Administration for Enhancing System Efficiency. Enhancing the efficiency (value, high quality, and throughput) of the tooling and tools, industrial controls, and automation community.

Matter 3: Good Manufacturing for Excessive-Efficiency Supplies

This subject focuses on growing, validating, and prototyping new high-performance supplies (HPMs) and their manufacturing processes. Of specific curiosity are manufacturing processes and fabrication strategies for HPMs for the clear vitality transition, akin to high-conductivity supplies and supplies for harsh service situations. This contains:

• Space of Curiosity 1: Excessive-Efficiency Supplies and Course of Discovery. Growing excessive throughput methods for conductivity-enhanced and harsh atmosphere supplies synthesis/testing, used along side computational instruments.
• Space of Curiosity 2: Excessive-Efficiency Supplies Manufacturing, Meeting and Scaleup. Creating aggressive manufacturing and meeting approaches that make the most of a wide range of good manufacturing instruments in supplies manufacturing.

Matter 4: Good Applied sciences for Sustainable and Aggressive U.S. Mining

This subject focuses on growing novel good manufacturing applied sciences that may be utilized to create extra sustainable, secure, and aggressive mining in the US. Fostering developments in mining will allow a extra resilient, numerous, and safe home provide of important minerals and supplies. This contains:

• Space of Curiosity 1: Sustainable and Aggressive Home Mining. Establishing good manufacturing applied sciences akin to sensors, controls, and automation that may present well being, security, environmental, and financial advantages to mining operations.
• Space of Curiosity 2: Sensing, Analytics, and Knowledge-Pushed Choice Making in Mining. Advancing new and transformative mining applied sciences that supply important advantages over the present commercially accessible state-of-the-art analytical devices and sensors and are extra accessible and reasonably priced.

Who Can Apply

Please discuss with the funding opportunity announcement for subject particular eligibility necessities.

Candidates should submit a concept paper by 5 p.m. ET on Aug. 21, 2024to be eligible to submit a full utility. Extra particulars under on the timeline.

Key Dates

Extra Data

Announcement from US DOE.