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U.S. Department of Energy
Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and
Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Programs
Participating DOE Research Programs:
Office of Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation Office of Environmental
Management
Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability Office of Fossil
Energy
Office Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Office of Nuclear Energy
Topics
FY 2012
Phase I
(Release 2)
Ver. 1
November 1, 2011
Please Note: the Following Important Dates Pertaining to these Topics
and the FY 2012 SBIR/STTR Phase I (Release 2) Funding Opportunity
Announcement (FOA). All dates are preliminary and subject to change.
· Topics Released: November 1, 2011
· FOA Issued: November 28, 2011
· Letter of Intent Due Date: December 20, 2011, 11:59 PM EST
· Application Due Date: January 31, 2012, 11:59 PM EST
· Award Notification Date: May 2012
· Start of Grant Budget Period: June 2012
(p. 28)
10. SELECTED RENEWABLE ENERGY TECHNOLOGIES
The U.S. Department of Energy is seeking the development of innovative
technologies for: (a) Low emission, high-efficiency biomass cook stoves;
(b) Process intensification of biochemical and thermochemical conversion
pathways for fuels and chemicals from biomass; (c) Innovative technologies
(not conventional Rankine or Binary cycle) for electricity generation from
geothermal heat and fluid resources; (d) Manufacturing tools for
reliability testing in PV module manufacturing environments; (e) PV module
and system manufacturing metrology, diagnostics, and process control; (f)
Mooring Technologies for Floating Offshore Wind systems; and (g) Advanced
electrical grid interfaces for Marine Devices.
Grant applications submitted in response to this topic must: (1) include a
review of the state-of-the art of the technology and application being
targeted; (2) provide a detailed evaluation of the proposed technology and
place it in the context of the current state-of-the-art in terms of
performance, lifecycle cost, reliability, and/or other key attributes; (3)
analyze the proposed technology development process, the pathway to
commercialization, the large potential markets it will serve, and the
attendant potential public benefits that would accrue; and (4) address the
ease of implementation of the new technology.
Phase I should complete (1) a preliminary design, (2) a characterization
of laboratory devices using the best measurements available, including a
description of the measurement methods, and (3) the preparation of a road
map with major milestones, that would lead to a production model of a
system that would be built in Phase II. In Phase II, devices suitable for
near-commercial applications must be built and tested, and issues
associated with manufacturing the units in large volumes at a competitive
price must be addressed.
Grant applications are sought in the following subtopics:
a. Clean Biomass Cook Stove Technologies
An estimated 2.5 billion people, or about one-third of the world’s
population, rely on biomass fuel for cooking. Improved cook stoves can
increase access to clean energy, enhance indoor air quality, personal
health, livelihoods, and the environment. Progress has been made in
designing and disseminating cook stoves with reduced emissions and
increased efficiency, but further reductions in emissions are needed to
meet WHO guidelines for indoor air quality (IAQ),1 to achieve significant
health benefits, and to limit GHG emissions like black carbon.
As part of the U.S. government’s commitment through the Global Alliance
for Clean Cook stoves, DOE is interested in supporting research to develop
low-emission, high-efficiency biomass cook stoves. The Alliance has set a
goal of disseminating 100 million clean cook stoves by 2020 that provide
significant health, energy, and climate benefits. To achieve this goal,
these stoves must have significantly reduced emissions and higher
efficiencies, they must address user preferences and needs, and they must
be widely available and affordable.2 To verify stove performance in the
field, lower-cost, more user-friendly, and long-lasting data logging
instruments with wireless capability have been identified as an important
need.3 Improved field performance data can also provide feedback for the
stove development process. Small businesses developing cook stove
technologies can drive innovation in the U.S. for international markets as
well as domestic markets where the technologies are applicable.
Grant applications are sought for the development of innovative affordable
biomass cook stoves that reduce emissions by at least 90% and reduce fuel
use by at least 50% compared to traditional biomass-fueled cook stoves.
Controls, sensors, or fans that lead to significant performance
improvements and/or cost reductions also fall under this area.3 Proposed
technologies should address local conditions and use locally available
biomass fuels. All stages of research and product design should be
integrated with laboratory and field validation of stove performance,4, 5
user acceptance, and ease of maintenance. By the end of Phase I, projects
should benchmark the performance of existing technologies, establish user
preferences and needs, and demonstrate that prototype designs can reduce
emissions by at least 90% and fuel use by at least 50% from existing
technologies in laboratory studies. During Phase II, projects should
conduct field studies that demonstrate at least 90% emissions reductions
and 50% fuel use reductions in conjunction with laboratory studies,
improve stove design to increase performance and usability in the field,
and reduce costs to a level that is affordable by households in the
geographic region.
Grant applications are also sought for instruments to improve field
testing and monitoring of stove
performance and usage. Instruments should be affordable, reliable,
durable, and user-friendly, while providing real-time measurements of
stove use, efficiency, emissions, and/or exposures. By the end of Phase I,
projects should have evaluated the feasibility of the monitoring
technology. During Phase II, projects should evaluate the reliability and
accuracy of the monitoring technology and develop analysis methods and
software to facilitate the widespread use of the technology. Questions –
contact: Travis Tempel, <[email protected]>
(p. 32)
References
Subtopic a:
1. World Health Organization (2010). “WHO Guidelines for Indoor Air
Quality: Selected Pollutants.” ISBN: 9879289002134
http://www.euro.who.int/__data/assets/pdf_file/0009/128169/e94535.pdf
2. Ruiz-Mercado, I., Masera, O., Zamora, H., Smith, K.R. (2011). “Adoption
and sustained use of improved cookstoves.” Energy Policy, in press.
http://ehs.sph.berkeley.edu/krsmith/publications/2011/ruiz_adoption.pdf
3. Department of Energy (2011) “Biomass Cookstoves Technical Meeting:
Summary Report.”
http://cleancookstoves.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/DOE-cookstove-meetingsummary.pdf
4. Roden, C.A., Bond, T.C., Conway, S., Pinel, A.B.O., MacCarty, N.,
Still, D. (2009). “Laboratory and field investigations of particulate and
carbon monoxide emissions from traditional and improved cookstoves” Anibal
Benjamin Osorto Pinel Atmospheric Environment, 43(6): 1170-1181.
http://www.cocinasmejoradasperu.org.pe/documentacion/laboratory%20and%20field%20investigations-of-emissions.pdf
5. Johnson M, Edwards R, Berrueta V, Masera O. (2010). “New approaches to
performance testing of improved cookstoves.” Environ Sci Technol.,
44(1):368-374.
http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/es9013294
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