Project Grant 20193361029772

This $1.5 million Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Office of International Science and Engineering (NSF OISE) will fund the development of a climate-resilient and sustainable food production system utilizing controlled environment hydroponic agriculture with novel wastewater treatment and reuse technologies. Led by Clemson University in collaboration with universities in South Korea, the award will support five key activities over a two-year period from January 2023 to December...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems award of $566,667 aims to develop an integrated technology platform that captures and transforms nitrate, a major water pollutant, into useful products. The four-year project, titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: ECO-CBET: A PHOTOCAPACITIVE/ELECTROLYTIC REACTOR FOR CARBON NEUTRAL PRODUCTION OF CLEAN WATER AND VALUE-ADDED PRODUCTS FROM NITRATE CONTAMINATED WATERS", will be led by...

The $180,000 Project Grant from the Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) will fund research at the University of California, Riverside to develop controlled environmental agriculture techniques that reduce costs and environmental impacts. Specifically, the grant will support experiments with mixotrophic plant growth using both light and chemical energy sources like fermented wastewater. The research aims...

This Project Grant award, issued by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI, CFDA 10.310), aims to address the challenge of assuring the quality of agricultural return flows and reclaimed water for irrigation. The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM) is the prime awardee, receiving $648,952 to (i) develop carbon-60 probes to identify waterborne pathogens, (ii) create and validate...

This three-year, $750,000 Project Grant from the US Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI, CFDA 10.310) will fund the development of intensified and scalable activated ferrate(VI) treatment systems for water reuse in agroecosystems. Led by Montclair State University, the project teams will conduct laboratory and greenhouse studies to investigate ferrate(VI) reactions with secondary effluents, characterize...

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,...

The Regents of the University of California at Riverside was awarded a $750,000 project grant from the United States Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative competitive grants program. The four-year project aims to develop strategies to minimize the accumulation of chemicals of environmental concern in edible plant tissues when using treated wastewater for agricultural irrigation. Through field experiments on row...

This federal Project Grant award, provided by the United States Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (CFDA 10.310), is funding the development of a new decentralized system that integrates wastewater treatment with hydroponic farming. The $875,000 award to the Georgia Tech Research Corporation aims to produce vegetables efficiently using minimal resources and energy, by implementing advanced methods for...

This $650,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program (CFDA 47.084) supports the development of engineered microbial sensors for assessing water quality. The primary objective is to create new low-cost sensing systems that can detect chemicals in water throughout the water cycle, including wastewater treatment, drinking water, industrial use, and stormwater discharges. The project employs a convergence research...

This $300,000 Project Grant awarded by the USDA's Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (CFDA 10.310) aims to demonstrate the feasibility of producing chirally pure (R)-3-hydroxybutyrate (R-3HB) from plant waste materials, such as wood and crop leftovers, by modifying Clostridium pathways. The research will create and test two different R-3HB production pathways in Clostridium, then combine and further optimize the approaches to boost R-3HB yields in the bacterium. If successful, this work...