This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award, under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), provides $330,130 to North Carolina State University (NC State) from January 1, 2025 to December 31, 2027 to develop new data-driven methodologies for modeling, analyzing, and controlling nonlinear chemical processes. The project aims to create innovative state-space models and machine learning-based techniques to: 1) reconstruct hidden process states from input/output data, 2) analyze...
This Project Grant award, valued at $192,700 and spanning from September 1, 2023 to August 31, 2026, was provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems under the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041). The award supports collaborative research at Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (Tees) to develop a paradigm shift in process safety management by integrating online monitoring, model-based abnormality...
The University of Houston received a $499,999 National Science Foundation Project Grant under the NSF Directorate for Engineering program to conduct kinetic and scale-up studies on modular ethene production through high pressure autothermal operation from September 1, 2021 through August 31, 2024. The University will leverage the funding to advance research on developing modular production methods for ethylene gas through high-pressure reactions and autonomous thermal control, aiming to...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems awarded a $474,379 Project Grant to the Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (Tees), a government entity and state institution of higher learning, to conduct research on the intensification of catalytic hydrogenation of CO2 to produce hydrocarbons. The project will develop cooperative tandem catalysts that promote sequences of chemical reactions, which could enable new process...
The Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (Tees) received a $403,940 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems to develop process diagnostics and event-driven control technologies for safety-critical chemical processes and plants from November 1, 2021 to October 31, 2024. Under the NSF Directorate for Engineering's Engineering program (CFDA #47.041), which seeks to improve quality of life and economic...
This $485,752 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports collaborative research to develop a data-driven approach to microreaction engineering guided by autonomous robotic experimentation. Key products and services include the creation of an interdisciplinary knowledge framework to accelerate mechanistic reaction studies and synthesis process development for emerging materials and molecules with multi-stage chemistries. Researchers will...
This $335,964 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) is funding a collaborative research project at Louisiana Tech University to study the stability and coke-resistance of platinum (Pt) nanolayer catalysts supported on molybdenum-titanium-carbon (MXene) materials. The goal is to advance the basic science of heterogeneous catalysis and provide insights to improve catalyst formulations and designs for the energy-intensive process of...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports a $337,663 research project at the University of Oklahoma from August 1, 2024 to July 31, 2027. The project aims to develop a revolutionary approach to synthesizing materials and chemicals under high-pressure conditions using porous materials. It proposes leveraging the high pressures observed within adsorbed fluid or solid films on solid substrates as an alternative to traditional,...
This $150,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Chemistry, under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), will fund research at Penn State University to develop microfluidic platforms that harness energy from chemical reactions to enable autonomous fluid transport. Specifically, the award will examine the effects of molecular-scale chemistry on microscale confined fluid flow, and vice versa, to uncover new modes of chemically induced motion and...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $561,518 to develop new computational modeling tools that integrate quantum chemistry and classical molecular dynamics methods. The project aims to examine electrocatalytic reactions relevant to clean energy applications such as hydrogen fuel cells, water electrolysis, and electrochemical carbon dioxide conversion. The research team will create simulation tools to predict how changes...