Cooperative Agreement DEEE0008406

The National Science Foundation awarded a $249,551 Project Grant to the University of Kansas Center for Research Inc. under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships federal grant program (CFDA 47.084). The grant funds the development of a pilot-scale process using extractive distillation and an ionic liquid entrainer to separate the azeotropic refrigerant mixture R-410A into its pure component gases. R-410A, composed of 50% difluoromethane and 50% pentafluoroethane, is a widely used...

This Project Grant award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) through the Hydrofluorocarbon (HFC) Reclaim and Innovative Destruction Grants program (CFDA 66.047) provides $2,295,005 in funding to the Air-Conditioning, Heating and Refrigeration Technology Institute, Inc. (AHRTI) to develop an innovative technology to chemically destroy HFCs, which are potent greenhouse gases. The project involves engaging with industry stakeholders, designing and constructing a...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $7,775,000 Cooperative Agreement under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to the University of Kansas Center for Research Inc. to establish the Environmentally Applied Refrigerant Technology Hub (EARTH). The overarching goal is to develop sustainable, accessible, and equitable refrigerant technologies and practices through research, education, and innovation. Key focus areas include lowering HFC emissions, creating safe replacement refrigerants,...

This Project Grant award, funded by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the Hydrofluorocarbon (HFC) Reclaim and Innovative Destruction Grants program (CFDA 66.047), provides $1,500,000.00 to Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (Tees) to develop and test advanced technologies to reduce the time and cost of reclaiming HFC refrigerants in the United States. The key objectives are to: 1) Design and validate an intensified modular unit capable of separating complex...

The Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture awarded Energy Concepts Company, LLC $175,000 under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program/Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Program to develop an innovative refrigeration cycle for small-scale refrigeration. Energy Concepts will modify an existing propane-fired diffusion absorption chiller to enable operation using heat from renewable energy sources like solar thermal, geothermal, waste heat,...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) Project Grant award of $275,000 to Mimic Systems Inc. aims to develop a refrigerant-free heat pump technology using high-performance thermoelectric materials and methods. The project seeks to increase the efficiency and cost-effectiveness of traditional solid-state heat pumps by leveraging new thermoelectric materials and manufacturing processes. The goal is to surpass the performance of traditional...

This two-year, $297,189 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Materials Research aims to develop new approaches for ultra-low temperature refrigeration without reliance on rare helium isotopes. Specifically, researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute will investigate using electrically-tunable spin-orbit interactions in Rashba materials to achieve refrigeration through adiabatic electrification, with a goal of reaching temperatures as low as 0.01 K. If successful,...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) project grant under the Engineering (CFDA 47.041) program, awarded to Georgia TECH Research Corp, aims to develop a deep understanding of the behavior and interactions of novel multicomponent fluid mixtures for enhanced heat transfer in electronic and industrial systems. The $499,232 award, spanning from August 1, 2024 to July 31, 2027, will investigate the stability and properties of phase change material (PCM) particles suspended in liquid gallium alloys,...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), through its Hydrofluorocarbon (HFC) Reclaim and Innovative Destruction Grants program (CFDA 66.047), awarded a $3,180,000 Project Grant to the Regents of the University of California at Riverside (UC Riverside). The grant funds research and development to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from HFCs, commonly used in refrigeration and air conditioning. Key objectives include developing efficient metal oxide catalysts to facilitate HFC hydrolysis,...

The National Science Foundation awarded $275,000 under the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships federal grant program (CFDA 47.084) to Kazadi Enterprises LTD to develop a Hydrologic Open Cooling System. The project aims to create a renewable, closed container cooling system incorporating rechargeable vacuum insulation and a novel two-stage heat pump. The system is designed to maintain cooling chamber temperatures between 1.5-5 degrees Celsius using 10% or less of the electrical power of...