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The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced it would provide $5.2 million in funding to 13 projects through its High Performance Computer for Energy Innovation (HPC4EI) program to advance performance, efficiency, and vitality of the U.S. manufacturing sector and drive economy-wide decarbonization. These short-term, collaborative projects between industry members and DOE’s National Energy Labs will apply…
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Technology Transitions (OTT), in collaboration with the Offices of Clean Energy Demonstrations (OCED), Fossil Energy and Carbon Management (FECM), and Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), today announced 111 entities to receive support in advancing their clean energy technologies, valued at $9.8M. The in-kind commercialization support will be…
The U.S. Department of Energy’s Vehicle Technology Office has selected Big Blue Technologies for a $2 million award under its FY-2023 Funding Opportunity Announcement. BBT will participate in Area of Interest 8 – Domestic Magnesium Production Research. With this funding, BBT aims to profile various material feedstock sources and demonstrate the full process chain from…
Big Blue Technologies, Inc. is pleased to announce the closing of its Series Seed Financing round led by UHV Technologies with participation from Novelis, Inc., Ecosphere Ventures, and others including the founders and pre-seed investors. The investment round secures BBT’s ambitions to transition from pilot scale operation to a commercial demonstration plant.
Under the direction of Dr. Boris Chubukov, liquid capture of magnesium metal was successfully demonstrated for aluminothermic reduction (ATR). The pilot campaign emphasizes safe operation above all else with an end goal of fully continuous production in a ‘no-man-on-the-floor’ automated configuration. With this step completed and the onboarding two new teammates, BBT is excited to…
Is it commercially and environmentally viable to make magnesium metal from serpentine? This was the question posed and answered during the BBT & WHY-R’s joint presentation at the International Magnesium Association’s flagship event. (TL:DR – Yes it is!).
UPDATE: April 30, 2023: Three successful test runs produced a total of 50 lbs of Mg metal and over 100 lbs of magnesium aluminate spinel. ORIGINAL: March 21, 2023 Big Blue Technologies is pleased to announce the start-up operation of its innovative pilot-scale aluminothermic reduction (ATR) system for producing pure magnesium. Today represents the beginning…
The BBT team was represented at the TMS conference in San Diego this year. We were honored to be included within the Keynote Session in the Magnesium Technology division. The presentations included: Andrew Sherman of Terves, Inc. “Sustainable Domestic Manufacturing and Protecting IP in a Post-AIA World” Norbert Hort of Helmoltz-Zentron Hereon, “Metastable – Stable”…