OpportunityTitle: Process Scale-Up and Optimization/Efficiency Improvements for Rare Earth Elements (REE) and Critical Materials (CM) Recovery from United States Coal-Based Resources
AdditionalInformationOnEligibility: Foreign entities, whether for-profit or otherwise, are not eligible to apply for funding as a Prime Recipient or be proposed as a Subrecipient under this Funding Opportunity Announcement.  See Section III of the Funding Opportunity Announcement for specific eligibility information.
Description: The objective of the Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to solicit applications to further develop/scale novel Rare Earth Elements (REE) and Critical Materials (CM) extraction and separation concepts (i.e., a technology that is not currently available to deploy for REE/CM separation/extraction) to produce REEs and CMs from U.S. coal-based resources in bench-scale facilities. The FOA also seeks to solicit applications to further develop/scale bench-scale, conventional, REE recovery processes (i.e., a technology that may have been commercially deployed for another application, but not for REE/CM separation/extraction) to produce REEs and CMs from U.S. coal-based resources in pilot-scale facilities as well as address process optimization and efficiency improvements for the design, construction, and operation of pilot-scale research extraction/separation facilities, for recovery of REEs and CMs. This FOA consists of two (2) Areas of Interest (AOI). AOI 1 concerns the production of REEs and CMs; transitioning, scale-up and validation of novel extraction/separation concept development into bench-scale facility REE/CM production. AOI 2 concerns the production of REEs and CMs; transitioning, scale-up and validation of conventional extraction/separation processes from bench-scale to pilot-scale facility REE/CM production.
GrantorContactEmailDescription: Contract Specialist Email Address
GrantorContactText: Contract Specialist Nicholas J. Anderson 412-386-5536&lt;br/&gt;nicholas.anderson@netl.doe.gov