NTRD FY2005 Projects Selected for Funding (RFGA #582-5-70807)
FY 2005 Funding Period
Request for Grant Applications
Solicitation No. 582-5-70807
Issued May 26, 2004—Closed July 7, 2004
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Application Number |
Entity Name |
Entity Contact |
Grant Project Description |
Grant Amount |
Project Reports |
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2004-1-034N |
Gas Technology Institute |
Fred M. Vitalo |
One program objective is the development and demonstration of onsite hydrogen fueling stations in Texas using practical and cost-effective natural gas and liquefied petroleum gas as primary fuel choices. The second program objective is the development of hydrogen fuel cell vehicles. GTI will work with BAF Technologies of Dallas, Texas. |
$1,164,707.55 |
Sept 2005 Oct 2005 Nov 2005 Dec 2005 Jan 2006 Feb 2006 March 2006 April 2006 May 2006 June 2006 July 2006 Aug 2006 Sept 2006 Oct 2006 Nov 2006 Final Report |
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2004-1-039N |
County of El Paso |
Dolores Briones |
The El Paso County Hybrid (Hydraulic Launch Assist / Liquefied Natural Gas) Transit Bus Project proposes the integration of one new and one existing technology onto a new low-floor Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) compliant transit bus that can be used throughout El Paso County. As part of the project, the bus with the HLA/LNG equipment will be placed in service in El Paso County for a year to test the durability of the systems, establish a drive cycle, and accumulate in use fuel and emissions data. |
$986,604.17 |
April - July 2005 Aug 2005 Sept 2005 Oct 2005 Nov 2005 Dec 2005 Jan 2006 Feb 2006 March 2006 April 2006 May 2006 June 2006 July 2006 Aug 2006 Oct 2006 Nov 2006 Task 2 Task 3 Task 4 Task 5, 6, 7, Final Report |
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2004-1-044N |
Railway Equipment Corporation |
Brian T. Williams |
New industrial locomotive: battery powered; radio remote controlled; can be equipped with On-Board Charging if so desired, in order to operate without the need to charge at a stationary charging location. Railway Equipment Corporation proposes to assemble a 40 ton fully battery-electric locomotive for demonstration and additional R&D as required to service the Texas switching rail market. |
$452,700.00 |
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2004-1-047N |
Baytech Corporation |
Rebecca Royer |
This project will develop, emissions test, and certify a Low NOx Liquified Petroleum Gas (LPG) and a Low NOx Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) fueling system for General Motors heavy duty 8.1L and 6.0L engines. |
$212,422.80 |
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2004-1-069N |
Teledyne Energy Systems, Inc. |
Gilbert S. Bass |
Teledyne Energy Systems has developed a Proton Exchange Membrane (PEM) fuel cell stack that, combined with a Clean Fuel Generation propane reformer, is designed to withstand the rigors of 18-wheeler diesel trucks and produce equivalent cab comfort to drivers. This grant is for system optimization and prototype development. Teledyne proposes the optimization of the propane reformer [bulk sulphur removal system, propane delivery system (steam generator and delivery device) and the purification component] to deliver hydrogen for Teledyne’s 5 kilowatt fuel cell stack. |
$407,385.74 |
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2004-1-070N |
Railroad Commission of Texas |
Kathy Pyka |
One key strategy in the Railroad Commission of Texas’ proposed Forklift Rebate program is to retrofit these lifts with an electronic control system and exhaust system catalyst. To date, there is only one Carl Moyer–approved retrofit system, applicable to a small number of the existing forklift engines. This project will expand the number of engines eligible for retrofit. |
$124,954.00 |
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2005-1-001N |
Lamar University |
Mike Ferguson Jr. |
The proposed project is to develop a cost-effective microwave-assisted cyclone-adsorption-destruction technology for the simultaneous control of NOx, VOC and soot emissions from such emission sources. The ojectives for this work are: The construction of adsorptive filter prototypes for demonstrating simultaneous NOx, VOC and soot emissions control from stationary diesel generators; The experimental evaluation of adsorption efficiency of NOx/VOC and filtration efficiency of soot for the constructed units; The corresponding evaluation of destruction efficiency of NOx/VOC and soot upon microwave irradiation. |
$127,040.00 |
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2005-1-008N |
Clean Air Worldwide GP, Inc. |
Tom C. Barra |
Clean Air Group is seeking verification of the Dragon Fire 2010 (DF2010). The DF2010 is a computer-controlled diesel fuel injection system designed as a “bolt on” kit for application to medium and heavy-duty trucks, urban buses, marine and power generation markets. |
$229,800.00 |
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2005-1-011N |
The University of Texas, Center for Space Research |
Bobby C. McQuiston |
New methodologies will be developed to allow the direct incorporation of measurements made by satellite remote sensing technologies into the biogenic emissions and photochemical grid models currently used by TCEQ. |
$414,056.57 |
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2005-1-012N |
WOW Energy, Inc. |
Daniel H. Stinger |
Project consists of building a pilot plant that will be used to demonstrate the technology to reduce/eliminate vaporized heavy metal pollutants and removal of SOx, NOx, PM2.5 and PM10 from the flue gas streams at the AES co-generation plant and the Holcim cement plant. |
$1,379,714.48 |
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2005-1-018N |
Rolling Frito-Lay Sales, LP |
Pete Silva |
Conduct emissions and fuel efficiency testing to determine the most cost effective solution to deliver a significant reduction in emissions. Trucks will be tested on a fixed route as well as a variety of actual routes delivering products to market. In addition to conventional and durability testing, data recorders will be placed on the vehicles to measure various emissions and fuel efficiency under these “real-time” scenarios. |
$1,215,486.00 |
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2005-1-021N |
Railpower Hybrid Technologies Corporation |
Gary Eelman |
This project will extend the application of the Green Goat diesel-battery-electric hybrid switch locomotive technology to include “road-switching” applications such as local and branch line service. This project includes EPA certification of the new hybrid locomotive. |
$1,411,000.00 |
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2005-1-022N |
Biofriendly Corporation |
Robert W. Carroll |
Biofriendly wishes to undertake full EPA verification of its product, Green Plus, in both on-road and non-road diesel engines. Green Plus is a fuel additive that reduces NOx emission from diesel engines. |
$518,990.00 |
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2005-1-033N |
Texas A&M Research Foundation, John W. Nielson-Gammon |
Jane Zuber |
This project will install and instrument a 66' tower in a protected oak woodland approximately 80 mi northwest of Houston. The site is along the Houston-Dallas transport corridor and is far from local NOx sources. Texas A&M University is providing the tower itself. Overall project costs include site preparation, preliminary site testing, infrastructure, and basic meteorological and chemical instrumentation. The tower will be available for use by any interested scientists during the TexAQS II field program in 2005–2006, and is part of a planned three-tower rural network surrounding Houston (this site, the UH Coastal site, and a proposed site in the Sam Houston National Forest). |
$81,284.10 |
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2005-1-034N |
Valparaiso University |
Charley Gillispie |
Valparaiso will launch ozonesondes from the campus of Rice University in Houston, Texas, and other sites in East Texas. The ozonesondes will provide measurements of temperature, pressure, relative humidity, and ozone from the surface to about 130,000 ft with 1 Hz sampling. The important meteorological information will be invaluable to modelers. This project will complement activities of TexAQS 2000 and will be of value to participants in TexAQS 2005. |
$107,436.75 |
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2005-1-039N |
GE Rail of General Electric Company |
Leonard Hill |
The final development and certification of a low NOx retrofit system to be deployed on switcher and road locomotives equipped with EMD 645 and EMD 710 turbo-charged engines will be performed. |
$997,840.00 |
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2005-1-043N |
Gas Technology Institute |
Fred M. Vitalo |
This project will develop a small scale natural gas liquefaction facility that can be replicated for use in transportation fleets across Texas. |
$346,670.83 |
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2005-1-046N |
Sonoma Technology, Inc. |
Paul T. Roberts, Ph.D. |
STI will provide, install, and operate a radar wind profiler (RWP), a Radio Acoustic Sounding System (RASS), a mini-Sodar, and a surface meteorological station at one offshore oil platform site in the Gulf of Mexico from April 1 through August 21, 2005. The objective of the project is to obtain hourly boundary layer wind data (from near the platform surface to about 4000 m), virtual temperature data (Tv) (from near the platform surface to about 2000 m), and reflectivity (turbulence) data over the Gulf of Mexico offshore of Houston-Galveston. |
$251,261.38 |
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2005-1-053N |
OceanAir Environmental, LLC |
Mahesh Talwar |
OceanAir Environmental (OAE) and Rail Systems, Inc. (RSI) has developed a commercial retrofit package to bring switcher locomotive in compliance with Tier II standards. This project will seek verification on this retrofit package. |
$450,000.00 |
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2005-1-055N |
Clean Air Power |
Frits Tan |
This project will seek EPA ETV verification and demonstrate that the SCR/DPX system will achieve 85 percent reduction of PM and a minimum of 80 percent reduction of NOx simultaneously. |
$441,863.64 |
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2005-1-058N |
Combustion Components Associates |
R. Gifford Broderick |
To obtain EPA Environmental Technology Verification Program (ETV) verification of its Mobile Diesel SCR System (ELIM-NOx) and commercialize the technology heavy-duty, Class 8 diesel vehicles. |
$174,200.00 |
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