The Texas A&M University System Health Science Center was awarded a $227,270 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation to conduct research on synergistic actions of peroxy acids and metals for advanced water treatment from September 1, 2021 to August 31, 2024. This award falls under the NSF's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), which aims to advance scientific knowledge and understanding in these fields. Through this funding, researchers at Texas A&M will...
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...
Louisiana State University received a $448,297 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems on May 15, 2021 to support research titled "CAREER: ACCELERATING SUSTAINABLE WATER TREATMENT USING SMART ULTRAVIOLET LIGHT EMITTING DIODES." The award period runs through April 30, 2026. The grant supports research under the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to develop smart ultraviolet light emitting...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems awarded a $310,868 Project Grant under the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to the University of Wisconsin - Madison to conduct collaborative research on the photodegradation of synthetic organic pollutants in aquatic systems. The goal of this 3-year project is to advance the fundamental understanding of how sunlight-induced photochemical degradation processes impact the fate...
This $440,135 National Science Foundation Project Grant supports research at The Johns Hopkins University to develop a novel approach for identifying toxic byproducts and their precursors in drinking water treated with chemical oxidants. Funded under the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), the five-year award will support the principal investigator's research objectives to create a microbead-based reactivity-directed analysis assay for detecting organic electrophiles in water matrices 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 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...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems awarded a $117,303 Project Grant under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota. The grant supports collaborative research to advance the fundamental understanding of how sunlight-induced photochemical degradation processes impact the fate of synthetic organic pollutants like pesticides and pharmaceuticals in surface water systems...
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 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems (CFDA 47.041 - Engineering) supports research at South Dakota State University to develop advanced oxidation processes (AOPs) for controlling iodinated disinfection byproducts (I-DBPs) in drinking water. The $209,472 award will fund a 3-year collaborative effort to investigate the use of oxidants like ferrate, ozone, and UV photolysis to efficiently...