SOLICITATION NOTICE
R -- Solvent Delivery and Waste Handling Systems
- Notice Date
- 6/20/2023 8:15:36 AM
- Notice Type
- Solicitation
- NAICS
- 541330
— Engineering Services
- Contracting Office
- ALLIANCE SUSTAINABLE ENRGY-DOECONTR Golden CO 80402 USA
- ZIP Code
- 80402
- Solicitation Number
- RFx-2023-10397
- Response Due
- 6/30/2023 4:00:00 PM
- Archive Date
- 07/15/2023
- Point of Contact
- Jacob Nofsinger
- E-Mail Address
-
jacob.nofsinger@nrel.gov
(jacob.nofsinger@nrel.gov)
- Description
- NREL is engaged in a design/build project for a pilot scale plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition (PECVD) system for producing high surface area silicon nanoparticles (Si NPs) funded by NREL General Purpose Investment and DOE in both applied (EERE-VTO) and fundamental science (SC/BES-CSGB) offices.� These Si NPs are useful as active materials in anodes for lithium-ion batteries and in photochemical conversion of light energy to fuels and chemicals.� NREL has a decade of experience in growing, handling and manipulating these Si NPs at small scale (<10 g), and the new pilot production PECVD system is capable of synthesizing 1 kg per day.� Processing this large quantity of Si NPs requires large amounts of solvent and generates significant liquid waste. For example, one process requires 60 L each toluene and hexanes per kg of Si NPs and other processes require ~10 L of toxic and corrosive solvents such as N-methyl-2-pyrrolidinone (NMP). Manual handling of this volume of solvent is potentially hazardous and time-consuming. Therefore, NREL requires new, partially automated equipment to handle and deliver chemicals at pilot-scale levels. This project will provide two dual-drum solvent dispense cabinets (for a total of four solvents), two remote dispense stations delivering solvent from the cabinets to point-of-use locations, a waste collection cabinet, and a portable waste pump cart that, together, provide adequate controls to allow the safe and expedient wet chemical processing of Si NPs at the kg-scale. Amendment 1: Extends due date for submitting technical questions to 6/16/23. Amendment 2: Q&A's. Published 6/20/23.
- Web Link
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- Place of Performance
- Address: USA
- Country: USA
- Country: USA
- Record
- SN06720350-F 20230622/230620230114 (samdaily.us)
- Source
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