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<h1 style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#45812E">Energy Department Announces New Grant Topics to Help Small Businesses Develop Clean Energy Technologies<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
<p><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The Energy Department’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) recently announced three new subtopics related to bioenergy under its Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR)
and Technology Transfer (STTR) programs:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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designs, prototype equipment, and procedures that enable continuous biomass solids handling at 10% lower cost than currently available.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3">
<strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">Low-Cost Coatings for Advanced Thermal Processes in Metal Combustors</span></strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">—Grant
applications are sought for the development of low-cost protective coatings for metal combustors. Coating approaches potentially of interest may include, but are not limited to the following: ceramic coatings, alloy coatings, aluminizing treatments, surface
modifications/reactive surface treatments, thermal spray, wash coats, vapor deposition or sputtering (if sufficiently low cost), plating, and porcelains/enamels.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3">
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separation technologies for the solid-liquid separation of algae. The applicant should consider as a minimum the following technology options for integration: vacuum filters, pressure filters, hydroclones, screens and/or sieving, and gravity tables.<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
<p><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The projects will help small businesses develop and deliver market-driven clean energy technologies. Small businesses that are selected for any EERE SBIR/STTR funding keep the rights to new
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