SBIR/STTR Research Award
EMG System for Production of Methane From Carbon Dioxide
Award amount
$124,654Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2013Award details
- Awarding agency
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Branch
- Not reported
- Recipient company
- SKYRE, INC.
- Proposal award date
- 2013-05-23
- Contract end date
- 2013-11-23
- UEI
- JSAVQFD9WEX8
- Solicitation number
- Not reported
- Topic code
- H1.01
Research abstract
Sustainable Innovations, LLC, is developing an Electrochemical Methane Generator (EMG), which comprises a novel method of converting CO2 and H2O to hydrocarbon fuels (such as methane) and O2. When powered by a renewable energy source, such as solar or wind power, it can provide a method for producing high quality fuels in a distributed fashion. This is accomplished by harvesting CO2 from the atmosphere and processing it electrochemically to release methane fuel and water. Sustainable Innovations' EMG technology has the potential to lead to a global sustainable energy infrastructure and could also play a pivotal role in achieving both the energy and the life support needs of extraterrestrial bases. For example, the Martian atmosphere, which is predominately CO2, can be directly used as a feedstock for the production of both fuel and water. The water can then be recycled to produce breathing oxygen.
Technology keywords
Not reported
Other awards by this recipient
Verified by the same UEI. These are other public SBIR/STTR award pages, not a merged company record.
- Bifunctional Regenerative Electrochemical Air Transformation for Human Environments
- Hydrogen-Based Energy Conservation System
- Solid State Oxygen Concentrator and Compressor
- Bifunctional Regenerative Electrochemical Air Transformation for Human Environments
- Novel Sulfonated Block Copolymers for Efficient Electrochemical Hydrogen Compression
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- In-Situ Ethylene and Methane Production from CO2 as Plastic Precursors
- Extraterrestrial Metals Processing
- High Capacity Multi-Stage Scroll Compressor for Mars Atmosphere Acquisition
- ISRU CO2 Recovery
- Planetary Volatiles Extractor for In-Situ Resource Utilization
Research funding history
33 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2008–2020). Reported award amounts total $12,640,740. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Department of Energy, National Science Foundation, Environmental Protection Agency