Cooperative Agreement DEEE0009495

This Project Grant award of $420,000 from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) will support research by the University of Massachusetts to develop an affordable and energy-efficient technology for removing nitrogen and phosphorus from municipal wastewater. The project will explore the use of oxygenic photogranules (OPGs) - dense, naturally forming clusters of algae and bacteria that can remove nutrients from wastewater through photosynthesis and microbial...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems award of $566,667 aims to develop an integrated technology platform that captures and transforms nitrate, a major water pollutant, into useful products. The four-year project, titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: ECO-CBET: A PHOTOCAPACITIVE/ELECTROLYTIC REACTOR FOR CARBON NEUTRAL PRODUCTION OF CLEAN WATER AND VALUE-ADDED PRODUCTS FROM NITRATE CONTAMINATED WATERS", will be led by...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $650,000 Project Grant under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program to the Regents of the University of Michigan to develop a scalable plan for a circular approach to wastewater management through source separation. The project, titled "Advancing Equitable and Circular Water Solutions Through Source Separation," aims to create a system to capture valuable nutrients like nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium...

This $200,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) aims to develop new algorithms and solution approaches to optimize demand response strategies for wastewater treatment plant operators. The project, titled "OPTIMAL DEMAND RESPONSE STRATEGIES USING BIOGAS FROM WASTEWATER TREATMENT", focuses on leveraging biogas generated from anaerobic digestion at wastewater treatment plants to provide demand response and improve power grid...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $360,222 to Georgia Tech Research Corp to advance novel biological treatment strategies that leverage comammox and anammox bacteria for sustainable nitrogen removal in wastewater treatment. The research objectives include evaluating the synergy between these specialized bacteria, determining the impact of dissolved oxygen on nitrite provision for anammox bacteria, and conducting pilot-scale...

This $205,767 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports the development of a novel hydrothermal carbonization (HTC) technology to efficiently recover nutrients from animal manure into liquid fertilizer, while also producing value-added engineered carbon materials. The project aims to optimize nutrient recovery, improve resource utilization, and create new products to enhance the agricultural sector's sustainability and reduce...

This $1.5 million Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Office of International Science and Engineering (NSF OISE) will fund the development of a climate-resilient and sustainable food production system utilizing controlled environment hydroponic agriculture with novel wastewater treatment and reuse technologies. Led by Clemson University in collaboration with universities in South Korea, the award will support five key activities over a two-year period from January 2023 to December...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) Project Grant award of $275,000 provides funding to Circularity Fuels, Inc., a small business located in Redwood City, CA, to develop a sorbent-enhanced catalytic process for upgrading biogas from wastewater treatment facilities into renewable natural gas (RNG). The project aims to increase the yield of RNG production by converting the carbon dioxide in the biogas into additional methane, while also...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $650,000 Project Grant under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program (CFDA 47.084) to the University of South Florida (USF) to develop innovative decentralized wastewater management technologies and strategies for U.S. Pacific islands. The project, titled "Towards Resilient, Equitable, Safe and Sustainable Water for Islands (RESSI-H2O)", assembles a multi-disciplinary team from USF, the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa,...

The U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Reclamation awarded a $467,200.43 Cooperative Agreement under the SECURE Water Act - Research Agreements program (CFDA 15.560) to Pani Clean Inc., a woman-owned small business, to pilot-test a photovoltaic-powered electrochemical denitrification system. The project aims to demonstrate a modular, off-grid solar-powered unit that can treat nitrate-contaminated water sources, such as effluents from wastewater plants and public water supply wells, to...