Opportunity Notice for Partners to Assist NETL in Adapting CCSI Tool Set | OPPORTUNITY NOTICE

Opportunity Information: Apply for OPPORTUNITY NOTICE

The National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) issued an opportunity notice seeking partners to help adapt and extend the Carbon Capture Simulation Initiative (CCSI) Toolset, a suite of computational tools and multi-scale modeling techniques originally developed to speed up the design and commercialization of post-combustion carbon capture systems. The notice is centered on a practical problem in carbon capture research: most work focuses on three main technology pathways, adsorption, absorption, and membranes, and each pathway comes with its own energy penalties and techno-economic tradeoffs. NETL is pointing out that the best-performing real-world solution may not be any single one of these approaches on its own, but rather a hybrid process that integrates multiple capture technologies into one combined system that can potentially be more energy efficient and lower cost than conventional designs.

A key motivation behind the opportunity is that hybrid systems are difficult to develop and evaluate because they require multiple rigorous sub-models to be integrated into a single modeling framework. In other words, to sensibly design a process that blends adsorption with membranes, or absorption with another separation step, you need high-fidelity component models that can talk to each other inside one simulation environment so that engineers can compare options, run sensitivities, and optimize the overall configuration. NETL emphasizes its expertise in building rigorous process models and using advanced modeling to accelerate technology maturation, and it positions the CCSI Toolset as the platform where this integration and evaluation work can happen.

While carbon capture is the immediate application area, NETL also highlights that the CCSI Toolset is broadly applicable beyond carbon capture. The same modeling approaches can be used for other process industries where integrated, optimized flowsheets matter, including chemicals production, petroleum refining, natural gas processing, and biofuel production. This framing suggests that NETL is interested in partners who can help make the toolset more adaptable, reusable, or interoperable so it can support a wider range of process modeling challenges and enable faster translation from research models to deployable process designs.

Administratively, the listing describes this as a discretionary opportunity under an energy-related activity category, issued by NETL. Eligible applicants are listed as unrestricted, meaning the notice does not limit participation to a narrow applicant class in the summary provided. The posting references the full opportunity notice hosted on the NETL business solicitations page for complete requirements, expectations, and response instructions. The opportunity was created on May 25, 2017, with an original closing date of June 21, 2017. The award ceiling is shown as 0 and expected awards is left blank in the provided data, which typically indicates that funding details are not specified in the summary record and that the definitive information would be contained in the full text of the opportunity notice itself.

Overall, the opportunity is best read as NETL recruiting external collaborators to strengthen and adapt a sophisticated simulation and modeling ecosystem so that complex, hybrid carbon capture process concepts can be built, tested, and optimized in a unified framework, with the added benefit that improvements to the toolset can carry over to a wide range of industrial process design and optimization problems.

• The National Energy Technology Laboratory in the energy sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Opportunity Notice for Partners to Assist NETL in Adapting CCSI Tool Set" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 00.000.
• This funding opportunity was created on 2017-05-25.
• Applicants must submit their applications by 2017-06-21. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
• Eligible applicants include: Unrestricted.

Apply for OPPORTUNITY NOTICE

[Watch] Creating a grant proposal using the step-by-step wizard inside the applicant portal: