Cooperative Agreement DEEE0009508

This $300,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program will support a collaborative research project at the University of California, Riverside (UC Riverside). The project aims to develop a user-interactive approach to water management for sustainable data centers. Key objectives include: Designing a fair and accurate water accounting system to track water footprints at both the user and facility levels....

This $200,000 National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation project grant, awarded to Purdue University, aims to develop approaches for the joint operation of coupled municipal drinking water and electric power distribution networks. The key products and services to be delivered through this 3-year project include: Developing operational planning and real-time control strategies for these coupled water-power networks under uncertainty. Designing...

This $483,305 National Science Foundation project grant will fund the development of innovative control and estimation approaches for smart water management systems at the University of California, San Diego through July 2025. Specifically, the grantee will work to quantify distributed sediment profiles in water channels using measurements from gate locations, and develop flow control strategies using continuum models of density gradients induced by moving sediment. An experimental setup will...

Carollo Engineers Inc. will receive $1,470,078 from the Department of the Interior Bureau of Reclamation under the Water Desalination Research and Development program (CFDA 15.506) from September 2022 through September 2025. Under this cooperative agreement, Carollo Engineers will develop advanced fault detection and process control methods for water reuse systems using reverse osmosis. In year one, the company will evaluate cutting-edge machine learning and statistical methodologies through...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management (CFDA 81.089 - Fossil Energy Research and Development) provides $1,875,339 to Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University (Virginia Tech) to develop an integrative process for achieving three beneficial uses of produced water: valuable mineral recovery, carbon fixation, and irrigation water generation. The project will involve bench-scale testing and optimization of key...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program provides $300,000 to Arizona State University (ASU) to investigate technologies for maximizing the use of water as a resource and extracting resources found in water. The project examines efforts to make wastewater usable through membrane-based filtration technologies and retrofittable fermenters, and explores the social and environmental implications of these...

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...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program awarded a $299,957 project grant to the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA) to develop a user-interactive approach to water management for sustainable data centers. The 3-year project, which began on Sep 15, 2023, aims to: Create a fair and accurate water accounting system for data centers at both the user and facility levels; Develop a scalable user-interactive resource management approach...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under CFDA 47.041 Engineering program provides $1,235,696 to Arizona State University (ASU) to develop cost- and energy-efficient brine treatment technologies that enable decarbonized brackish water desalination (BWD) for climate-adaptive water supply. The 4-year project aims to: 1) create a novel nanofiltration and reverse osmosis process to reduce brine volume; 2) design an innovative interface-enhanced crystallizer for...

The Bureau of Reclamation, through its Desalination and Water Purification Research (DWPR) program (CFDA 15.506), awarded a $500,972 cooperative agreement to Temple University on Sep 13, 2023. The goal of this 2-year effort is to develop an energy-neutral desalination system by integrating electroactive forward osmosis (EFO) and microbial desalination cells (MDCs). The EFO process will recover clean water from wastewater, producing concentrated wastewater and diluted seawater. The concentrated...