The National Science Foundation Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems awarded a $350,000 Project Grant to The Research Foundation For The State University Of New York for the period of August 1, 2021 through July 31, 2024. The grant supports collaborative research titled "ERASE-PFAS: Remediation of Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances in Wastewater Using Anaerobic Membrane Bioreactors." The research will be conducted in Buffalo, NY under the NSF...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $400,000 Project Grant to The Trustees of Princeton University under the Engineering (47.041) federal grant program. The three-year award running from June 2021 through May 2024 will support research titled "ERASE-PFAS: Microbial Electrochemical Defluorination of PFAS Using Bioaugmented Acidmicrobium sp. Strain A6." Conducted at Princeton University in Princeton, New Jersey, the research aims to develop a microbial process for removing per- and...
This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems provides $150,000 to support the development of quantitative tools to assess the mechanisms and potential of UV-activated persulfate radicals for treating per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in water. With a completion date of July 31, 2024, this award under the Engineering (47.041) federal grant program will fund research at the California State...
The University of Maryland Baltimore County received a $152,017 National Science Foundation Project Grant under the Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.041) to support research titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: ERASE-PFAS: A CONCENTRATE-AND-DESTROY TECHNOLOGY FOR TREATING PER- AND POLYFLUOROALKYL SUBSTANCES USING A NEW CLASS OF ADSORPTIVE PHOTOCATALYSTS." The three-year award, issued on July 15, 2021 with completion scheduled for June 30, 2024, will fund the development of an...
This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems Engineering Directorate provides $419,999 to Rice University from October 1, 2022 to August 31, 2025. The funding supports research to develop synthetic membranes for filtering per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) from water to below 70 parts-per-trillion, as well as education and training. Specifically, the awardee will design recognition sites for anionic...
This $199,999 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) will fund research to elucidate the performance and mechanisms of nanofiltration (NF) for removing short-chain per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) from contaminated water. The research aims to evaluate NF removal of diverse (ultra)short-chain PFAS, establish structure-property-performance relationships using machine learning, and investigate PFAS interactions with NF...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $499,997 Project Grant under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to the Regents of the University of Michigan to fund research aimed at advancing the use of persulfate and powdered activated carbon for in situ capture and destruction of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) contaminating groundwater. The 3-year project will: 1) evaluate reaction kinetics for PFAS degradation using the persulfate/activated carbon treatment process, 2)...
This National Science Foundation Project Grant of $312,596 awarded on October 1, 2022 will support research at San Diego State University to develop an innovative "trap and destroy" water treatment technology for per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS). The university will work to optimize adsorptive photocatalysts that can selectively absorb PFAS from water and then destroy the compounds using ultraviolet or solar light. Key deliverables under the 24-month award include...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) project grant, awarded to Arizona State University for $227,460, aims to elucidate the performance and mechanisms of nanofiltration (NF) for removing (ultra)short-chain per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) from contaminated water. The 3-year project, starting Sep 1, 2024, will combine experimental studies and computational modeling to investigate NF's effectiveness in removing diverse PFAS, especially short-chain...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) EAGER (Early-Concept Grants for Exploratory Research) project grant, awarded under the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), focuses on developing new fundamental understanding and early-stage technology for energy- and cost-effective aqueous defluorination of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) using sustainable solar-assisted electrocatalysis. The $299,987 award, effective July 1, 2024 through June 30, 2026, will support research at the University...