Cooperative Agreement R21AC10513

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 $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...

This $109,767 National Science Foundation project grant in the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) funds research at Worcester Polytechnic Institute from September 2022 to August 2025. The project aims to develop and validate new mathematical and computational models to optimize the operation of hollow fiber ultrafiltration membrane systems used in wastewater reclamation plants. Researchers will conduct experimental and modeling work to better understand how membrane module geometry, fiber packing...

This $550,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to the South Dakota School of Mines & Technology (SDSM&T) will develop data-driven strategies to prioritize and control disinfection byproducts (DBPs) in drinking water. The project aims to (1) create a comprehensive database of regulated and unregulated DBPs, addressing gaps in occurrence and toxicity data, (2) prioritize high-risk DBPs based on their potential health...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Engineering (CFDA 47.041) awarded a $372,500 project grant to the Regents of the University of Minnesota to develop AI-enabled automated algorithms for solving complex mathematical optimization problems in chemical engineering. The 3-year research program will leverage state-of-the-art artificial intelligence and machine learning methods to automate the selection and configuration of optimization algorithms for problems arising in chemical...

Liquid Ion Solutions LLC received a $254,749 Project Grant award from the Department of Energy Office of Science on June 27, 2022 to fund the "QUANTIFICATION OF ANCILLARY ENVIRONMENTAL BENEFITS OF TRANSFORMATIONAL WATER-LEAN SOLVENT TECHNOLOGY" project through March 26, 2023. The award is being administered under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA #81.049), which supports basic research to transform understanding of nature and advance U.S. energy security and...

This three-year $109,380 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems, under the Engineering (47.041) program, will fund research at Florida State University to develop validated mathematical and computational models to optimize the operation of hollow fiber ultrafiltration membrane systems used in wastewater reclamation plants. The models aim to maximize water production while reducing energy consumption. The...

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...

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...