The National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) awarded a $598,638 project grant to The Pennsylvania State University, doing business as Penn State, to study plasma-enhanced catalysis for converting CO2 into higher hydrocarbons. The project aims to elucidate the relationship between plasma characteristics and catalyst bed configuration/composition, understand how plasma affects gas-phase radical reactions, and clarify the role of catalyst active sites in plasma-catalyst...
This $600,000 National Science Foundation award through the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) funds research at the University of Minnesota from January 2023 through December 2025. The project will develop an understanding of plasma-catalyzed reactions in confined spaces to enable near ambient temperature NOx reduction for automotive cold start emissions. Researchers will examine reaction and transport phenomena impacting the coupling of plasma and catalytic chemistry within capillary...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) supports collaborative research between North Carolina State University, Clarkson University, and Texas A&M University to explore non-oxidative chemical reaction pathways in low-temperature atmospheric plasmas. The $161,518 award, effective July 1, 2023 through June 30, 2026, aims to elucidate the mechanisms of plasma-generated photons, metastables, radicals,...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant under the Engineering Program (CFDA 47.041) provides $124,955 in funding to the University of Massachusetts Lowell to conduct research on plasma-catalytic pyrolysis of methane to produce carbon-free hydrogen and carbon fibers. The project aims to develop an electricity-driven plasma-catalytic process using microwave excitation to enable the selective production of hydrogen as a clean energy carrier, while also creating valuable solid carbon...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $999,999 Project Grant under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to the University of Houston System to conduct research on plasma-assisted catalysis for clean energy technologies. This interdisciplinary effort spanning materials science, electrical engineering, machine learning, and data analytics aims to advance the fundamental understanding of plasma-assisted chemical reactions and develop new methods for catalyst discovery and reactor design....
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $175,000 in funding to the Regents of the University of Minnesota to conduct research on plasma-catalytic pyrolysis of methane for producing carbon-free hydrogen. The project aims to leverage plasma reactions and catalytic processes to enable efficient methane conversion into hydrogen and valuable carbon fibers, without carbon dioxide emissions. The research will integrate in-situ...
This $433,612 National Science Foundation project grant supports research at Colorado State University and the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology to advance understanding of plasma-assisted ammonia reforming for carbon-free fuel applications. The grant is funded through the NSF's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), which aims to improve engineering innovation and research. Under the three-year award beginning December 2022, the researchers will experimentally validate ammonia plasma...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports a collaborative research project on plasma-assisted dehalogenation of persistent halogen-containing waste streams. The $422,719 award to Clarkson University, spanning September 2023 through August 2027, aims to develop innovative plasma-based processes for recycling or fully mineralizing halogenated waste components like chlorofluorocarbons, per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $914,174 project grant to the University of Illinois under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to develop spectroscopic techniques for characterizing chemical reactions at the plasma-liquid interface. Specifically, the award will support research from August 2022 through July 2025 to gain mechanistic insights into activating dinitrogen and producing ammonia through an atmospheric-pressure plasma-liquid process. Key activities include using optical...
This $185,080 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports collaborative research between the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse and Purdue University to develop porous bi-layer catalysts for converting carbon dioxide into valuable products like ethylene at industrially relevant rates. The researchers will engineer novel layered catalyst structures combining specific metal/metal oxide heterostructures to reduce reaction overpotential and...