Cooperative Agreement 01FC810740

The U.S. Department of the Interior Bureau of Reclamation awarded a $600,493.97 Cooperative Agreement to Pure Blue TECH Inc., doing business as Pure Blue, under the SECURE Water Act - Research Agreements program (CFDA 15.560). The funding supports the manufacturing and field piloting of novel anti-fouling nanopatterned ultrasonic reverse osmosis (RO) membrane elements for efficient, high-recovery desalination of brackish water and purification of surface water. The key innovation is the...

The U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Reclamation awarded a $407,404.90 Cooperative Agreement to Trustees of Tufts College, doing business as Tufts University, on September 14, 2023. This award is funded under the Desalination and Water Purification Research (DWPR) program (CFDA 15.506), which supports research to augment the nation's usable water supply through advanced treatment technologies. The objective of this project is to develop and demonstrate ultrafiltration pretreatment...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award, under the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), will fund research to elucidate the interplay between inorganic scaling and organic fouling in reverse osmosis (RO) desalination. The $170,314 grant, awarded to Arizona State University, aims to advance understanding of how organic foulants impact mineral scaling at the membrane-water interface in RO systems. The research will integrate experimental measurements with computational...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of the Interior Bureau of Reclamation, under the Water Desalination Research and Development Program (CFDA 15.506), aims to demonstrate a continuous pilot photobioreactor operation using sunlight to remove scaling compounds from reverse osmosis concentrate. The project team at Texas State University has developed a new photobiological process that utilizes brackish diatoms and natural sunlight to remove scalants such as silica, phosphate,...

This Cooperative Agreement award of $419,450.08 from the U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Reclamation under the Water Desalination Research and Development Program (CFDA 15.506) is focused on developing a chemical-free solution using gas nanobubbles to control scaling and biofouling during brackish water desalination. The project, led by Professor Sergio Garcia-Segura at Arizona State University, aims to address critical research gaps by evaluating the impact of water composition on...

This $303,707 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to Auburn University aims to investigate the structure-function relationships of polyamide reverse osmosis (RO) membranes for desalination. The research will explore how weak intermolecular interactions affect the performance of polyamide RO membranes, with the goal of developing a new type of RO membrane that maintains high salt rejection while improving resistance to chlorine-based...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of the Interior Bureau of Reclamation under the Desalination and Water Purification Research (DWPR) program (CFDA 15.506) is funding the development of a novel batch-operated reverse osmosis desalination process called "batch counterflow reverse osmosis." The $490,305.48 award to Purdue University aims to create the first experimental lab-scale demonstration of this technology and develop a fundamental understanding of its...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) Phase I SBIR award provides $295,000 to Tanda Biotech Corporation to validate an innovative filter flow channel design for tubular membrane filters used in large-scale bioproduction. The project aims to enhance resource efficiency, expedite cleaning and regeneration processes, and significantly boost filtration system capacities by one or two orders of magnitude. The advancements are expected to...

The Bureau of Reclamation awarded a $483,623.40 Cooperative Agreement (R24AC00493) to the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) under the Water Desalination Research and Development Program (CFDA 15.506). The project aims to optimize coagulation and flocculation processes for the removal of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) from water and wastewater. The research proposes to utilize hydrophobic ion-pairing as a pretreatment to enhance the removal of both short-chain and long-chain...

This federal Cooperative Agreement award from the Bureau of Reclamation, under the Water Desalination Research and Development program (CFDA 15.506), provides $713,865.71 to the Regents of the University of Colorado for a research and development project to improve reverse osmosis desalination technology. The key objectives are to integrate a smart scaling precursor detection system with a reverse osmosis demonstration unit to minimize operational issues, and to test a novel concentrate recovery...