Cooperative Agreement DEAR0000372

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation will support the development of a novel hollow-fiber membrane technology tailored for use in a liquid desiccant air conditioning system. Awarded on May 15, 2023 for $255,965 under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program, the grant aims to demonstrate a customized membrane design and quantify its impact on the proposed system's efficiency, size, and cost. The recipient, Zephyr Innovations Inc., plans to conduct a series of...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project grant, awarded under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program (CFDA 47.084), focuses on the development of retrofit dehumidification systems for air conditioning (AC) units. The $274,921 award to Helix Earth Technologies Inc. aims to enable greater than 50% energy savings for AC systems by eliminating latent loads through a novel liquid desiccant-based retrofit dehumidification...

Federal Cooperative Agreement Summary Helix Earth Technologies Inc. received a $1.25M Cooperative Agreement award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP) program (CFDA 47.084), effective July 1, 2025 through June 30, 2027. The company is developing high-efficiency retrofit dehumidification systems designed to significantly reduce energy consumption in commercial air conditioning (AC) units. The technology leverages a novel liquid desiccant...

This $100,000 three-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems and Engineering Directorate (CFDA 47.041) supports the development of predictive modeling and next-generation materials for capturing atmospheric water vapor. Led by North Carolina State University, an international research team including groups from the University of Limerick and Queen's University Belfast will take an innovative approach to...

Media & Process Technology Inc. was awarded a $500,000 Project Grant from the Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (CFDA 81.135) to demonstrate the technical feasibility and energy savings potential of a non-evaporative substrate drying process using supercritical carbon dioxide extraction combined with ceramic membrane ultrafiltration. The two-year award, issued on September 9, 2022, will support development of a process to dewater wet substrates without...

Advanced Cooling Technologies Inc., doing business as Act, was awarded a $195,369.97 Project Grant from the Department of Energy Office of Science on February 22, 2021 to complete work by November 21, 2021. The grant was awarded under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to support Act's research into supercritical carbon dioxide dewatering enhanced by cosolvent and surfactant formulations. Specifically, Act will work to develop techniques using supercritical CO2,...

This $535,830 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) aims to develop sustainable technology for efficient atmospheric water harvesting (AWH) systems. The University of Maryland, College Park (UMD) will research novel materials and system designs to extract drinking water from the air, addressing the critical issue of global water scarcity. Specifically, the project will investigate the synergistic effects of water vapor sorbents,...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $304,996 Project Grant under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program to Aeris Water Technologies, LLC in Duluth, GA. The grant funding aims to develop an atmospheric water extraction (AWE) device that can efficiently produce potable water and enable energy-efficient humidity management for domestic, commercial, and industrial applications. The key project objectives are to create an optimized heat transfer model,...

This $100,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program will support the development of passive solar desalination technology for produced water from oil and gas extraction sites. The Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station will modify existing solar evaporation ponds using hierarchical nanstructured hydrogel materials to increase evaporation rates and superhydrophobic coatings to enhance water droplet departure on glass...

Impact Cooling Inc. was awarded a $500,000 Project Grant from the Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) to develop a novel high-density data center cooling solution. The two-year award, made under Funding Opportunity Announcement DE-FOA-0001954 on September 30, 2022, will support Impact Cooling's proposed use of jet impingement cooling technology to achieve dramatically improved heat transfer efficiency using only air. If successful, this technology could...