I&I Program Announces FY 2002 Awards for Energy-Saving Inventions

June 5, 2002

A total of 18 new projects will receive over $2.9 million in grant funding from the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, Inventions and Innovation (I&I) Program in fiscal year 2002. The energy-related technologies were selected through a competitive solicitation process. At the close of the solicitation, I&I had received 181 proposals, of which 18 received funding.

The I&I Program provides two levels of funding: Category 1 projects can receive up to $40,000 in funding for conducting early development and establishing technical performance of innovative energy saving ideas and inventions; Category 2 projects can receive up to $200,000 for more well-developed inventions moving toward prototype development or commercialization.

FY 2002 I&I Category 1 Grantees

EERE/IOF Area	Invention Title	Organization	Funding
Aluminum	Non-Invasive Estimation of Dissolved Alumina Concentration in Hall-Heroult Reduction Cells	Mr. David Bell	$29,200
Glass	Selective Batching for Improved Commercial Glass Melting	Alfred University	$40,000
Glass	Monitoring of Refractory Wall Recession Using Radar Techniques	University of Missouri - Rolla	$40,000
Glass	Monitoring of Refractory Wall Recession Using High Temperature Impact-Echo Instrumentation	The University of Dayton	$39,939

FY 2002 I&I Category 2 Grantees

EE/IOF Area	Invention Title	Organization	Funding
Power	High Energy-Density Double-Layer Capacitor Energy Storage for Photovoltaic Systems	Heliocentric	$200,000
Power	Testing a New Type of Fixed Bed Biomass Gasifier	Gazogen, Inc.	$175,000
Transportation	Lightweight and Cost- Effective Cast Aluminum Diesel Engine Head with Localized Reinforcement	Foster-Miller, Incorporated	$200,000
Transportation	Fuel Preprocessor (FPP) for a Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Auxiliary Power Unit	Altex Technologies Corporation	$200,000
Buildings	Development of Variable Speed, High Efficiency, Integrated Electronic Motor for Use in Residential HVAC Systems	DynaMotors, Incorporated	$200,000
Buildings	Visible Spectrum Incandescent Selective Emitter	Sonsight, Incorporated	$200,000
Buildings	High Energy Efficiency Air Conditioning	Nimitz, Incorporated dba ETEC	$199,971
Agriculture	Separation of Zein from Bioethanol Process Streams	Membrane Technology & Research, Incorporated	$200,000
Agriculture	Completing Pre-Pilot Tasks to Scale Up Biomass Fractionation Pretreatment Apparatus from Batch to Continuous Process	PureVision Technology, Incorporated	$200,000
Glass	Enabling Tool for Innovative Glass Applications	Michigan Technological University	$200,000
Metal Casting	A New irect PourIn-Mold(DPI) Technology for Producing Ductile and Compacted Graphite Iron Castings	Comanche Technologies, LLC	$200,000
Steel	Clean Production of Coke from Carbonaceous Fines	Combustion Resources, LLC	$200,000
Cross-cut	Fiber Sizing Sensor/Controller for Optimizing Glass and Polymer Fiber Manufacturing Processes	Powerscope, Incorporated	$199,260
Cross-cut	Remote Temperature Measurement in Hostile Industrial Environments with Microwave Radiometry	Southwest Texas State University	$199,990