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Congratulations to #NYUTandon Donald F. Othmer Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering & Director of the Sustainable Engineering Initiative Miguel Modestino 's and Assistant Professor of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering Dharik Mallapragada 's research team on receiving a $1M ARPA-E award from the GREENWELLS program for their project "The Renewthanol Process: CO2-Derived Ethanol Production via Tandem Electro- and Thermo-Catalytic Conversions." This team is developing an electrocatalytic system designed to efficiently transform carbon dioxide, water, and variable renewable electricity into ethanol. Partnering with Argonne National Laboratory, the team’s approach uses a dynamically operated carbon dioxide electrolyzer equipped with copper-based electrocatalysts that can deliver carbon products efficiently and variable pulse sequence to stabilize the output stream as the input energy varies. U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)’s Moonshot Factory, the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E), will manage these projects through its Grid-free Renewable Energy Enabling New Ways to Economical Liquids and Long-term Storage (GREENWELLS) program. GREENWELLS is the first time ARPA-E is supporting RtL approaches to create liquid fuels. Its objective is to develop systems that can economically store at least 50% of incoming intermittent electrical energy in carbon-containing liquids. Click the link to learn more about this program. #NYUTandonMade https://lnkd.in/dZjsw2rJ