On December 14, 2019, the US Department of Energy (DOE) announced up to $3 million for projects that address barriers to modular chemical process intensification to enable development of breakthrough technologies that can boost energy productivity and energy efficiency in industries such as oil and gas, pulp and paper and chemical manufacturing.

DOE's Rapid Advancement in Process Intensification Deployment (RAPID) manufacturing institute will fund up to six research and development projects that align with RAPID's research focus areas in chemical and commodity processing, natural gas upgrading, renewable bioproducts, intensified process fundamentals, modeling and simulation and module manufacturing.

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