Cooperative Agreement DEEE0009129

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...

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...

Via Separations Inc. will develop an advanced version of their graphene oxide membrane modules under a $9.75 million cooperative agreement award from the Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E). Specifically, Via Separations will work to improve the selectivity and throughput performance of their graphene oxide membrane technology while increasing the yield of the membrane preparation process. The overall goal of ARPA-E's Advanced Research Projects Agency -...

This $500,000 Project Grant award from the Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) under CFDA 81.135 will support the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) in developing a highly energy-efficient desalination system using solar thermal energy and multi-stage distillation. The key innovation is a phase change process at the liquid-solid-vapor interface to efficiently transport and utilize energy, which aims to significantly reduce energy consumption compared to industrial...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations (OCED) under the Clean Energy Demonstrations program (CFDA 81.255) aims to demonstrate the viability and positive impacts of an innovative mechanical vapor recompression steam-generating heat pump (MVR SGHP) technology. The $15,316,593 project, awarded to Skyven Technologies, Inc., seeks to address the standardization and economy-of-scale challenges that have prevented broad adoption...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP) program (CFDA 47.084) will develop a novel membrane separation technology to address the energy-efficient separation of small molecules from industrial process streams for a range of industries. The $275,000 award to Avanpore LLC, a for-profit limited liability company located in Woburn, MA, will run from October 1, 2024 to March 31, 2025. The project aims to create functionalized...

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,...

The New Jersey Institute of Technology received a $100,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation to develop a vacuum distillation technology for extracting condensable liquids from wastewater. Under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program (CFDA 47.084), NJIT will conduct an I-Corps project to further the core innovation of using spray flash vaporization with active-vacuum extraction. This membrane-free process could allow for an intensified vaporization in a...

This EAGER (Early-concept Grants for Exploratory Research) project, awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems under CFDA Program 47.041 Engineering, will explore the mechanisms underlying the performance of a two-dimensional interfacial evaporator that uses microcapillaries and metal surfaces to enable highly efficient water evaporation through solar-thermal interfacial evaporation. The total award amount is...

The Department of Energy Office of Science awarded Media and Process Technology Inc. a $400,000 project grant under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to support research on Advanced Inorganic Membranes for Fuel Separation and Recycle in the Fusion Fuel Cycle. This project aims to develop advanced inorganic membrane technologies for separating and recycling tritium in the fusion fuel cycle, with work taking place in Blawnox, PA from June 2022 through March 2023. The...