Project Grant 1951190

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 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 $1,875,339 to Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University (Virginia Tech) to develop an integrative process for achieving three beneficial uses of produced water: valuable mineral recovery, carbon fixation, and irrigation water generation. The project will involve bench-scale testing and optimization of key...

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 federal Cooperative Agreement award, provided by the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy under the Renewable Energy Research and Development program (CFDA 81.087), supports the development of an integrated cascaded heat exchanger system. The $812,500 award aims to demonstrate advanced manufacturing techniques to meet both power generation and industrial process heat demands. Key objectives include improving particle-side convective heat transfer,...

This $269,334 National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) Phase I Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant was awarded to Hplus Inc., a small disadvantaged business located in Santa Barbara, CA. The funding supports the development of an advanced porous transport layer (PTL) design for proton exchange membrane water electrolyzers to produce low-cost, energy-efficient green hydrogen. Key objectives include: (1) developing a numerical model to...

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) 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...

The Department of the Interior Bureau of Reclamation awarded a $500,027 cooperative agreement to the Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (Tees) to develop a novel thermal desalination process for treating high salinity produced water. The goal is to reduce fresh water utilization for oil and gas operations while creating a higher quality water source. The work will be carried out in College Station, Texas through December 2024 under the Water Desalination Research and Development...

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,...