Cooperative Agreement DEFE0032155

This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of Energy's Fossil Energy Research and Development (CFDA 81.089) program aims to comprehensively characterize produced water from the Permian and San Juan Basins in New Mexico and develop a scalable membrane distillation-crystallization and adsorption (MDCRA) process for simultaneous water and critical elements recovery from produced water. The total award is $1,874,952.00 with a performance period from August 16, 2024 to June 30, 2026....

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 $6,941,566 to Aris Water Solutions, Inc. to advance research on the beneficial reuse of produced water in the Permian Basin. The project aims to develop cost-effective treatment and valorization of resources in produced water, generate data to support regulation, reduce volumes of water injected in disposal wells,...

This Project Grant award, valued at $2,100,000.00, was provided by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Office of Water under the Surveys, Studies, Investigations, Demonstrations, and Training Grants program (CFDA 66.424). The purpose of the award is to provide training and expand the capabilities of state and tribal Underground Injection Control (UIC) and Source Water Protection (SWP) programs. Key activities include: Providing leadership and support to states and tribes on...

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,...

The U.S. Department of the Interior Bureau of Reclamation awarded a $557,406.76 Cooperative Agreement to William Marsh Rice University under the SECURE Water Act - Research Agreements program (CFDA 15.560). The goal of this 18-month project, with an estimated completion date of September 2025, is to further evaluate the effectiveness of boron nitride-based photocatalytic materials for the destruction of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in brackish groundwater and reverse osmosis...

The Department of the Interior Bureau of Reclamation awarded a $300,360 Cooperative Agreement to the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology under the SECURE Water Act – Research Agreements program (CFDA 15.560). The award will fund a pilot-scale validation of a novel Janus hollow fiber membrane-based direct contact membrane distillation process for high-salinity produced water desalination utilizing waste heat from September 1, 2021 through March 31, 2024. The research activities aim to...

The New Mexico State University will conduct a risk and toxicology assessment of innovative produced water treatment technologies under a $309,992 cooperative agreement from the Department of the Interior Bureau of Reclamation. The assessment is part of the Bureau's Water Desalination Research and Development program, which seeks to augment usable water supplies and understand environmental impacts. Specifically, New Mexico State University will evaluate the efficiency of a membrane distillation...

This Cooperative Agreement award, provided by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) under the USGS Research and Data Collection program (CFDA 15.808), supports the development of a multiphysics model to simulate flow and thermal processes of a novel 3D heat pulse groundwater flowmeter. The $110,800 award to the Desert Research Institute (DRI) of the Nevada System of Higher Education will fund activities to: 1) provide modeling support for the design of a flow tank to evaluate and validate the 3D...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of the Interior Bureau of Reclamation under the SECURE Water Act - Research Agreements program (CFDA 15.560) provides $1,086,960 to the State Engineer, New Mexico Office of the (Interstate Stream Commission) to fund a variety of initiatives to enhance drought resilience and water management in the Rio Grande Project area. Key products and services under this award include: Rapid assessment of existing stormwater infrastructure (dams,...

The U.S. Department of the Interior Bureau of Reclamation awarded a $377,502 Project Grant under its Applied Science Grants program (CFDA 15.557) to the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology (New Mexico Tech) to develop the next generation of three water and data management tools to improve access to water resources data for the Roswell Artesian Basin. The project, conducted in partnership with the Pecos Valley Artesian Conservancy District, aims to enhance data integration, the Next...