Title
Clean Energy Manufacturing Innovation Institute for Reducing EMbodied-energy And Decreasing Emissions (REMADE) in Materials Manufacturing
Agencies
United States Department of Energy (DOE)
Description
Department of Energy (DOE)
Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE)
Reducing EMbodied-energy And Decreasing Emissions (REMADE) in Materials Manufacturing is the topic of this Manufacturing Innovation Institute. As the consumption of materials grows, the embodied energy and greenhouse gas emissions footprint associated with the production of these materials is becoming increasingly important. Most of the energy consumption within the energy-intensive subsectors of manufacturing is used in converting raw materials for ultimate use in end products.26,27,28 Analysis demonstrates that significant energy, cost and materials resources could be saved through technologies that drive improvements in the efficiency of materials re-use during the manufacturing process. Technologies to enable the recycling, reuse and remanufacturing of materials would recover the embodied energy of end-of-life (EOL) and waste materials and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The energy needed to economically reprocess materials into secondary feedstock must be at a minimum less than the energy required to produce primary feedstock in order to realize net-energy savings. Materials-efficient processes and secondary/recycled feedstocks must be cost-competitive with current manufacturing approaches to enable private sector adoption– and should be targeted at multiple stages within the lifecycle of materials.
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Specifically, the technologies to be developed in a REMADE Institute are expected to provide significant and quantifiable benefits to commercially relevant materials manufacturing, through:
• Improved embodied-energy efficiency (% change in BTU/kg of product)
• Improved material efficiency (% material loss)
• Reduction in operating expense ($/kg of product)
• Reduction in capital expense ($/kg of product per day)
• Reduction in primary material (kg of primary feedstock/kg of product)
• Waste reduction (% loss of feedstock throughout process)
More Information
https://eere-exchange.energy.gov/default.aspx#FoaIda1ab41d9-cb57-4413-a9da-fbfb23bc5c73
Submission Limits
An entity may only submit one Concept Paper and one Full Application for consideration under this FOA. For example, EERE will only consider one Concept Paper and one Full Application per university for this FOA (not one submission per each college or school under the university). This limitation does not prohibit an Applicant from collaborating on other applications (e.g., as a potential Subrecipient or partner) so long as the entity is only listed as the Prime Applicant on one Concept Paper and Full Application submitted under this FOA.
Cost Sharing:
The cost share must be at least 50% of the total allowable costs under the award (i.e., the sum of the Government share, including FFRDC costs if applicable, and the recipient share of allowable costs equals the total allowable cost of the project) and must come from non-Federal sources unless otherwise allowed by law. (See 2 CFR 200.306 and 2 CFR 910.130 for the applicable cost sharing requirements.)
Deadlines
| Internal Notice of Intent |
Jun 30, 2016 |
| Notification of Internal Competition |
Jul 1, 2016 |
| Internal Pre-proposal |
Jul 8, 2016 |
| Results of Internal Competition |
Jul 15, 2016 |
| Agency Notice of Intent/Pre-proposal |
N/A |
| Agency Proposal |
Jul 28, 2016
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Office of the Vice President for Research
