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The U.S. Department of Energy Bioenergy Technologies Office (BETO) announced $1.35 million in Phase 2 funding for three projects to accelerate wood heater innovation and develop the next generation of efficient and clean wood heaters.
Today, the U.S. Department of Energy Bioenergy Technologies Office (BETO) announced $1.35 million in Phase 2 funding for three projects to accelerate wood heater innovation and develop the next generation of efficient and clean wood heaters. Funded by BETO and administered by Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), the Wood Heater Innovation Collaboration (WHIC) will oversee the FY24 Wood Heater Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA). WHIC will leverage the expertise of national laboratories to collaborate with award recipients on developing and validating innovative wood heater technologies.
According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, millions of U.S. households use wood heater technology for home heat, and it remains a vital way to affordably heat homes with a low-carbon renewable fuel. To ensure that wood heating continues as an affordable and safe energy option, this CRADA funding will help the wood heater industry accelerate the modernization of wood heating stoves to be cleaner and more efficient, with the potential to reduce household costs associated with thermal energy.
The following projects were selected:
- Applied Ceramics will work with BNL to develop and test novel catalytic combustors for improved particulate matter reduction in woodstoves.
- ISB Marketing Inc., in conjunction with Stove Builder International, will work with LBNL to create an autonomous, low-power combustion control system for affordable wood heaters by simplifying a previously designed high-end system.
- MF Fire will work with LBNL to validate Fire MAPS, an emissions reduction technology for wood heaters that can be easily added to any of the 12 million wood heaters in the US.
Learn more about these selected projects.
WHIC is a BETO-funded consortium of National Laboratories (BNL and LBNL) dedicated to accelerating clean wood heater technologies to save consumers money and improve air quality. The goal of WHIC is to enable U.S. wood heater manufacturers and researchers to leverage WHIC partner laboratory capabilities to advance or accelerate commercial readiness of their technologies.
Featured image from MF Fire.
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