Carbon Storage Structures, NREL Set To Receive $5.4 Million in Funding To Research Turning Buildings Into Carbon Storage Structures
The National Renewable Energy Laboratory has been selected to receive over $5.4 million from the U.S. Department of Energy Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy for the development of technologies that can transform buildings into carbon storage structures. The funding is part of ARPA-E’s, which aims to address barriers to designing and constructing carbon-storing buildings.
A team led by Robbin Garber-Slaght at NREL and co-principal investigator Philippe Amstislavski at the University of Alaska Anchorage received nearly $2.5 million in HESTIA funding to develop cost-effective, bio-based insulation materials. The project, “Celium: Cellulose-Mycelium Composites for Carbon Negative Buildings/Construction,” will create carbon-negative insulation by combining foamed cellulose with mycelium—the root network of fungi.
“For this technology, I’m the end user,” said Garber-Slaght, who lives and works in Fairbanks, Alaska. “Buildings in Alaska are incredibly inefficient, and trying to bring them up to any level of efficiency is very difficult. Our goal is to develop modular, portable fabrication units, so that we can harvest local trees or cellulose and develop insulation on site. Coming up with something that doesn’t have to be shipped represents a huge savings, both costwise and energywise.
In addition to the University of Alaska Anchorage, the NREL team has been working with the VTT Technical Research Center of Finland and the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Forest Products Laboratory as collaborators. Although Garber-Slaght is based in Alaska, the team has a robust collaboration with NREL’s Golden, Colorado, office. Key NREL contributors include Peter Ciesielski, Mike Himmel, Gokulram Paranjothi, and Ryan Tinsley.
In addition to developing concrete with a lower carbon footprint, the team also hopes to demonstrate improved strength and increased thermal insulation.
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