Project Grant 2046660

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $304,950 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I Project Grant to Dayzero Water LLC to develop an effective, affordable, and adaptable ultraviolet (UV) water treatment technology for addressing microbiologically contaminated drinking water. The project aims to design and test an instrumented UV appliance in the form of a simple, pitcher-shaped, countertop household device that can operate on electricity or rechargeable battery power. This...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $500,000 to the University of California - Riverside to develop an efficient short-wavelength UV-driven water photolysis (SHARP) process for destroying per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in membrane desalination brine. The project aims to investigate using short-wavelength UV light to catalyze the water photolysis process, which can produce highly reactive species to degrade PFAS...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems awarded a 3-year, $300,000 Project Grant to the Georgia Tech Research Corporation (Georgia Tech) to conduct fundamental research on the use of novel krypton chloride excimer lamps (KrCl* excilamps) emitting UV radiation at 222 nm for the degradation and mineralization of organic micropollutants in water and wastewater. The key objectives are to: 1) measure photolysis properties of...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) aims to significantly improve the efficiency of ultraviolet (UV) light-emitting diodes (LEDs). The objective is to develop a new class of flexible, lattice-engineered substrates that can address strain-related issues and enhance light extraction for UV emitters, resulting in up to a 10-fold efficiency improvement over current solutions. The $549,999 award to the University of Wisconsin...

The National Science Foundation has awarded a $275,000 Project Grant to Water Illumination Inc., a small minority-owned business, to develop a tunable deep ultraviolet (UV)-based technology for the destruction of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in drinking water. This grant, funded under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program, aims to create a cost-effective, chemical-free water treatment system capable of nearly complete PFAS elimination without...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems awarded a $200,000 Project Grant to North Dakota State University (NDSU) to conduct collaborative research on enhanced photolysis and advanced oxidation processes using novel krypton chloride (KrCl*) excimer lamps that emit ultraviolet (UV) light at 222 nm. The objective is to systematically investigate the use of KrCl* excilamps for photolysis and UV-based advanced oxidation...

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 U.S. Bureau of Reclamation awarded a $391,660.68 Cooperative Agreement to the Regents of the University of California, Riverside (UC Riverside) under the Water Desalination Research and Development program (CFDA 15.506). The goal of this 2-year project is to test a novel vacuum ultraviolet (VUV) light-driven photochemical process for treating nitrate and perfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) from inland desalination brine. The project will develop an innovative VUV system to overcome...

This $400,000 three-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems will fund research at Georgia Tech Research Corporation to investigate electrode materials for locally enhanced electric field treatment (LEEFT) water disinfection systems. The principal investigators will fabricate and characterize new nanowire-functionalized LEEFT electrodes, and systematically study their durability under different...

This Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (USDA NIFA) under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program provides $175,000 to Eden Park Illumination, Inc. to develop a compact, high-performance dual-wavelength (222 nm/405 nm) UV-C module for effective food decontamination. The project aims to leverage FDA-approved far-UV-C (222 nm) light and 405 nm LED light to enhance disinfection safety, speed, range, and...