Cooperative Agreement R21AC10241

This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of the Interior Bureau of Reclamation under the Water Desalination Research and Development Program (CFDA 15.506) provides $733,555.62 to support field testing of advanced reverse osmosis water treatment technologies. The project aims to demonstrate the performance of "batch reverse osmosis" and "active reverse osmosis" membrane systems in treating high total dissolved solids brackish groundwater with mineral scaling...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of the Interior Bureau of Reclamation under the Desalination and Water Purification Research (DWPR) program (CFDA 15.506) is funding the development of a novel batch-operated reverse osmosis desalination process called "batch counterflow reverse osmosis." The $490,305.48 award to Purdue University aims to create the first experimental lab-scale demonstration of this technology and develop a fundamental understanding of its...

This $1,257,873 cooperative agreement from the Department of the Interior Bureau of Reclamation will fund research at the Colorado School of Mines to improve reverse osmosis desalination technology for remote communities. Under the Water Desalination Research and Development program (CFDA 15.506), the School of Mines will augment a 20 gallon per minute, 8-element reverse osmosis unit from DuPont Water Solutions with smart scaling precursor detection and resource recovery from concentrate to...

This federal Cooperative Agreement award from the Bureau of Reclamation, under the Water Desalination Research and Development program (CFDA 15.506), provides $713,865.71 to the Regents of the University of Colorado for a research and development project to improve reverse osmosis desalination technology. The key objectives are to integrate a smart scaling precursor detection system with a reverse osmosis demonstration unit to minimize operational issues, and to test a novel concentrate recovery...

The U.S. Department of the Interior Bureau of Reclamation awarded a $600,493.97 Cooperative Agreement to Pure Blue TECH Inc., doing business as Pure Blue, under the SECURE Water Act - Research Agreements program (CFDA 15.560). The funding supports the manufacturing and field piloting of novel anti-fouling nanopatterned ultrasonic reverse osmosis (RO) membrane elements for efficient, high-recovery desalination of brackish water and purification of surface water. The key innovation is the...

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...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of the Interior Bureau of Reclamation, under the Water Desalination Research and Development Program (CFDA 15.506), aims to demonstrate a continuous pilot photobioreactor operation using sunlight to remove scaling compounds from reverse osmosis concentrate. The project team at Texas State University has developed a new photobiological process that utilizes brackish diatoms and natural sunlight to remove scalants such as silica, phosphate,...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) Project Grant award of $274,994 supports the development of an innovative, membrane-free, and chemical-free desalination technology based on ion concentration polarization. The goal is to create a scalable system that can effectively transition from a bench-scale production capacity of 10 liters per hour to a larger-scale capacity of 1,000 liters per hour. This advancement aims to make desalination more...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $1,235,696.00 to Arizona State University to develop cost- and energy-efficient brine treatment technologies that enable decarbonized brackish water desalination (BWD) for climate-adaptive water supply. The project aims to: 1) integrate nanofiltration and reverse osmosis to enable cost-effective brine volume reduction; 2) design an innovative interface-enhanced crystallizer for...

The Cooperative Agreement award R24AC00497, totaling $419,450.08, was provided by the U.S. Department of the Interior Bureau of Reclamation under the Water Desalination Research and Development Program (CFDA 15.506). The project, led by Professor Sergio Garcia-Segura at Arizona State University, aims to develop a chemical-free solution using gas nanobubbles to prevent scaling and biofouling issues in reverse osmosis desalination. The research will evaluate the impact of water composition on...