Marine Bio-Ore Mining of Rare Earth Elements

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Program:
Exploratory Topics
Award:
TBD
Location:
TBD
Status:
Selected
Project Term:
TBD

Technology Description:

Umaro Foods is leveraging advancements in chelator technology to efficiently extract rare earth elements and platinum group metals from seaweeds. They will be applying advanced metal chelator molecules to selectively extract metals in a non-destructive manner from process streams producing valuable food-grade seaweed proteins and commodities such as agar, alginate, and carrageenan. Combined with these co-commodities, the development of a sustainable and efficient extraction process from seaweed could bring about an independent, sustainable, and strategically resilient supply of rare earth elements located within the United States.

Contact

ARPA-E Program Director:
Dr. Simon Freeman
Project Contact:
Dr. Timofey Arapov
Press and General Inquiries Email:
ARPA-E-Comms@hq.doe.gov
Project Contact Email:
tarapov@umarofoods.com

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