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| | SoftInWay, Inc. | Vlad Goldenberg | Engineering Manager: PPG and Innovation Lead |
Small Business
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Integrated Strategies
| Topic Area 2: sCO2 Turbomachinery | SoftInWay, Inc. is an advanced R&D and engineering consultancy company that started in turbomachinery and power generation and now leverages expertise in power, propulsion, refrigeration, cryogenics, and other advanced technologies and system level analyses. SoftInWay releases software products focused on computer aided engineering (CAE) for next-gen industries, focusing on systems level analysis, optimization, and rotating equipment design and analysis. In addition to software products, we also operate as an engineering services and R&D service organization, successfully helping hundreds of clients worldwide solve challenges in clean energy and other advanced technologies.
Our interest in this solicitation is in Topic Area 2: Scalable sCO2 Turbomachinery. We are specifically interested in developing and evaluating novel concepts in turbomachinery that enables advancements in state-of-the-art in terms of performance, operability, safety, and cost. We have full-scope engineering design and analysis capabilities that includes flow path, structure and mechanical design, rotordynamics and bearing selection, and system integration. It is anticipate that technological novelty as solicited by this FOA will be required to enable commercializable sCO2 CSP systems. |
| MA |
| | NDTL Propulsion and Power | Josh Cameron | Director |
Academic
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Renewable Energy Integration (REI)
| Renewable Energy Power Management Systems | The Notre Dame Turbomachinery Laboratory (NDTL) Propulsion & Power is a research and development organization focused on the execution of large-scale, high-energy, high-complexity testing supported by leading-edge computational and analysis capabilities. Located in a 25,000 square foot facility in downtown South Bend’s Ignition Park, NDTL partners with industry and government in the development of advanced technologies required for conventional and high Mach air-breathing propulsion, energy generation, advanced thermal management, and energy storage solutions. |
Website: ndtl.nd.edu
Email: ndtl@nd.edu
Phone: 574-631-7781
Address: Ignition Park, Catalyst II, 1165 Franklin Street, Suite 200, South Bend, IN, 46601, United States
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| | Planet A Energy | Brad Hines | CEO |
Small Business
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Solar
| Solar Thermal Collection System with Built-In Long Duration Storage | Planet A Energy manufactures a new type of modular solar collection and storage system.
We seek EPC and project partners for the subject FOA.
In one form, our product looks like an intermodal shipping container with a glass cover. Concentrating solar collectors beneath the cover deliver 750x concentrated sunlight to a bed of black sand inside the highly insulated container. The system is capable of temperatures of up to 1000C and can store energy for weeks to months.
In utility-scale form, the system looks like a large warehouse with a glass roof, with 25,000 tons of storage material inside each "warehouse".
When energy delivery is desired, air is flowed through the system to deliver heat to a process heat user or for electricity generation. (Air is a relatively poor heat transfer fluid, but the massive surface area of our thermal bed makes it more than sufficient.)
Our company delivers collection and storage hardware. We are looking to partner with an energy end user, and with partners to help with siting, integration, energy conversion (if needed), civil works, and so on. |
| CA |
| | Reaction Engines Inc. | James Greenbaum | Advanced Programs Lead |
Small Business
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Cross-Cutting
| Thermal Management | Reaction Engines has been developing microtube thermal management technology since it's inception in 1989 out of the necessity to pre-cool air for hypersonic flight. They have since led the technology and manufacturing maturation of microtube (mm and sub-mm scale tube diameters) and developed commercial heat exchangers for aerospace, motorsport and sCO2 energy applications. They offer both orthogonal and curved/annular tube geometries to maximize thermal area within a given footprint and have extensive experience with nickel alloys for high temp applications. Reaction engines has developed and patented their own vacuum brazing process necessary for manufacturing at scale. They have been manufacturing in the UK for the past 30 years and recently opened a US office in 2017 (Denver, CO). Their first DOE award was announced in early 2024 for the DOE Industrial Decarb project, partnered with Echogen.
Reaction Engines is interested in developing microtube modules (arrays) towards the CSP application of transferring heat from a molten particulate to sCO2. Microtube has the inherent benefit of offering high UA per unit mass or volume, while minimizing the amount of metal used due to relatively thin tube wall thicknesses. |
| CO |
| | GE Vernova Advanced Research | Jason Mortzheim | sCO2 Platform Leader |
Large Business
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Cross-Cutting
| sCO2 Turbomachinery | Over 10 years of experience in sCO2 Power cycles for multiple energy systems including: waste heat recovery, geothermal, nuclear, energy storage and concentrated solar power. Capabilities extend from full cycle design, advanced high performance heat exchangers, and sCO2 turbomachinery. In parallel access to advanced material capabilities, advanced manufacturing techniques including AM and NNS HIP, advanced high speed generators with power electronics and advanced component technologies: bearings: process lubricated and magnetic, high temperature, high pressure seals low leakage seals, sCO2 thermal barrier coatings.
Capability to leverage our businesses 125 year history in power generation equipment. |
| NY |
| | Southwest Research Institute | Tim Allison | Director |
Non-Profit
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Cross-Cutting
| sCO2 Power Systems | SwRI is one of the oldest and largest independent non-profit applied research and development organizations in the United States, and has over 3000 employees operating with over two million square feet of lab space and testing facilities on-site in San Antonio. SwRI has a broad set of laboratories focused on energy-related technologies that support this FOA, including the 10 MWe STEP sCO2 pilot plant, multiple 1-3 MW loops with sCO2 compressors pumps, heaters, recuperators, and expanders, sCO2 test rigs for high-temperature dry gas seal development, and gas and magnetic bearing test rigs. These facilities can accommodate testing needs up to 10 MW electric and 70 MW thermal power inputs. In addition to these sCO2 test facilities, SwRI has a thermal energy storage demonstration facility, a turbomachinery laboratory for power cycle component development, large-scale hydrogen storage, and chemical engineering laboratories. Beyond facilities, SwRI has applied analytical/design experience and capabilities for turbomachinery, power system design/integration/packaging, novel solar heliostats, and high-temperature heat exchangers. |
| TX |
| | BrightSource Energy | Yaniv Binyamin | Sr. Director |
Large Business
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Solar
| CSP | Sr. Director, Head of Engineering, Production & QA/QC at BrightSource Energy, CSP technology provider
- Leading worldwide production of Electronics, Gears, Mechanical, Materials and Software: Metrology/ QC/Production / Field installation/ O&M.
- Leading Company Heliostats Product Engineering
- Leading Company R&D From initial stages, technology transfer to final stages of the product life cycle.
- Participating and leading several international collaborations with US & EU Institutes |
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