Cooperative Agreement DEFE0031676

This $499,988 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) seeks to develop and validate an integrated sorption-photocatalytic process for the ex-situ treatment and remediation of groundwater contaminated by mixtures of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) and chlorinated solvents like trichloroethylene (TCE) and tetrachloroethylene (PCE). The principal investigator and research team at Southern Illinois University Carbondale will...

This Project Grant award from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 4, under the Geographic Programs - South Florida Geographic Initiatives Program (CFDA 66.484), provides $499,998 in funding to the Florida Institute of Technology (Florida TECH) to support a project addressing modified biochar technology for simultaneous red tide mitigation, nutrient reduction, and carbon sequestration. The key activities include synthesis and characterization of modified biochar, analysis of toxin...

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 federal Cooperative Agreement award, provided by the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management under the Fossil Energy Research and Development (CFDA 81.089) program, will support the development of a process to treat oil and gas produced water for beneficial use outside of the oil and gas industries. The $1,875,000 award to Ohio University, with sub-awards to Exergy Systems, Inc. and Giner Inc., aims to: Characterize produced water from specific sites,...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering Program project grant, titled "ERASE-PFAS: UNDERSTANDING THE SURFACE-ACTIVE PROPERTIES OF PFAS FOR ENHANCED REMOVAL BY BUBBLING-ASSISTED WATER TREATMENT PROCESSES", aims to develop an air bubble-assisted water treatment process to efficiently capture and remove per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) from contaminated water. The $334,185 award to the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) will fund research to: 1) characterize...

This $300,000 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program aims to identify promising treatment technologies for phosphorus (P) mitigation in the Everglades ecosystem of South Florida. The University of Florida (UF) is the prime awardee and will engage with stakeholders to understand their technological needs and perspectives, evaluate existing and emerging P-sorbing products and technologies, and develop...

This $499,995 project grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems under CFDA Program 47.041 - Engineering, aims to develop an integrated treatment system to remove, reduce, and detoxify selenium contamination in wastewater. The principal investigators at the University of Alabama will test the integration of a flow-electrode capacitive deionization (FCDI) ion separation process with a bioelectrochemical...

This National Science Foundation Project Grant of $236,645 awarded on March 15, 2022 supports research and development of an advanced electrochemical system for degradation of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in water. The awardee, Elateq, Inc. of Amherst, MA, will design and test a novel cathodic treatment prototype employing reductive and oxidative electrodes and catalyst-coating materials to break down PFAS contaminants in water through electrochemically-induced reduction and...

This Project Grant award for $420,000.00, provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), will develop a novel photochemical system to degrade per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in water. The research aims to (1) investigate the working mechanisms of the new reaction system, (2) examine its performance in degrading various PFAS, (3) characterize PFAS degradation pathways and products, and (4) evaluate and improve the system's performance...

This Project Grant award of $350,000 from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports a collaborative research project at the University of Missouri System (Missouri S&T) to discover enzymatic pathways that can break carbon-fluorine bonds in perfluorinated carboxylic acids (PFAS). PFAS are a group of costly-to-remove chemicals that do not naturally break down in the environment due to their strong carbon-fluorine bonds. The goal of this 3-year project is to...