Project Grant 1647820

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 $100,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program will support the development of passive solar desalination technology for produced water from oil and gas extraction sites. The Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station will modify existing solar evaporation ponds using hierarchical nanstructured hydrogel materials to increase evaporation rates and superhydrophobic coatings to enhance water droplet departure on glass...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program provides $1,525,915.00 in funding to Osmopure Technologies, Inc., a small disadvantaged business located in Boulder, Colorado. The award supports the development and scaling of a novel pressure-driven distillation membrane technology to improve the efficiency and reliability of water purification processes, particularly for the semiconductor industry. The...

The National Science Foundation awarded a $256,000 Project Grant to Solmem LLC through the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships federal grant program (CFDA 47.084) to support the SBIR PHASE I: LOW-COST HIGH-EFFICIENCY SOLAR DESALINATION project. The grant, awarded April 1, 2021 with a completion date of September 30, 2022, will fund the development of products and services focused on advancing science and engineering research and innovation leading to breakthrough technologies as well as...

North Carolina State University (NC State) was awarded a $452,293 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems (CFDA 47.041 - Engineering) to develop improved distillation membranes for saltwater desalination. The grant aims to design and produce highly porous, thin membrane materials that can efficiently desalinate seawater using low-grade heat sources, such as industrial waste heat or solar energy. The...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $161,241 to Arizona State University (ASU) to design and fabricate biomimetic membrane distillation (MD) membranes for efficient and cost-effective treatment of high-salinity industrial brines. The key products and services to be delivered under this award include: Elucidating design criteria for supracolloidal structures that can impart wetting resistance to MD membranes without...

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 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...

This STTR Phase II Cooperative Agreement awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program provides $1,212,800 in funding to Mespilus Inc. to develop a third-generation capacitive deionization technology for affordable and high-quality water purification. The key products and services to be delivered include: 1) Optimizing a bench-scale electrode coating formulation to reduce particle shedding and electrical leakage, 2)...

Colorado School of Mines was awarded a $408,664 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems under the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to develop an advanced membrane distillation process for desalinating and recycling complex wastewaters. Through computational fluid dynamics modeling and bench-scale experiments, the School will work to harness buoyancy-driven instabilities to improve mixing within membrane...