Project Grant 2502824
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) in the amount of $419,999 supports research on the fate of norovirus, the virus that causes the "stomach flu," in water and wastewater treatment operations. The project will use a newly developed laboratory method to measure infectious norovirus and investigate how it is removed through various water treatment processes, including chlorine and UV disinfection, membrane filtration,...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $425,000 Project Grant under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to Regents of the University of Michigan (University of Michigan) to develop innovative plasma-assisted dehalogenation processes for recycling or fully mineralizing halogen-containing waste streams, with a focus on PFAS and PVC. This convergent research project will leverage the university's expertise in chemical reaction engineering, plasma science, and environmental engineering to...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $221,627 Project Grant under its Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to the Regents of the University of Minnesota to conduct research on the transformation mechanisms and products of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) during drinking water disinfection processes. The 3-year project, beginning August 1, 2024, will investigate how PFAS compounds react with common disinfectants like chlorine and ozone. This research aims to improve...
- This $349,044 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports collaborative research to compare the concentrations and toxicity contributions of different classes of disinfection byproducts (DBPs) formed during drinking water treatment. The key objectives are to: 1) Compare DBP formation and toxicity between chlorine/chloramine disinfection and granular activated carbon treatment followed by chlorination; 2) Assess how water source, age,...
- This Project Grant award of $419,275.00 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) is funding a research project titled "Identifying Novel High-Molecular Weight Disinfection Byproducts in Engineered Water Systems." The project, awarded to the University of Wisconsin System's University of Wisconsin-Madison campus, aims to use state-of-the-art mass spectrometry techniques to study and identify high molecular weight disinfection byproducts (DBPs)...
- 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 $216,478 National Science Foundation project grant through the Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083) will fund research at New Mexico State University in collaboration with the United States Environmental Protection Agency to investigate the pathogenicity of bacteria surviving water disinfection processes. The two-year project beginning February 1, 2023 will explore the impact of chlorine water treatment on bacterial pathogens using advanced cellular assays and metatranscriptomics....
- This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under CFDA 47.041, Engineering, provides $241,750 to the University of Missouri System to research the transformation mechanisms and products of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) during water disinfection processes. The 3-year project, running from August 2024 to July 2027, aims to determine how PFAS and their precursors react with common disinfectants like chlorine and ozone during drinking water treatment. The research...
- This National Science Foundation project grant award of $299,989 provides funding from September 1, 2022 through August 31, 2025 to investigate mechanisms of virus inactivation by chemical oxidants. Specifically, the Principal Investigator at the University at Buffalo will integrate proteomic analysis, structural analysis, and data mining to characterize viral protein degradation and identify structural features that drive virus inactivation when treated with chlorine and chlorine dioxide. The...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) has awarded a $482,351 Project Grant to the University of Pittsburgh to conduct research on the impacts of drinking water treatment and distribution processes on the survival and pathogenesis of water-associated pathogens, such as nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM). The project aims to investigate how different drinking water treatment train configurations and associated chemical oxidant stressors influence the functional...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $349,600.00 to the Regents of the University of Michigan to investigate the impact of increasing chloride and bromide concentrations, and associated halogenating agents, on viral inactivation mechanisms in drinking water treatment. The 3-year project, running from August 2025 to July 2028, aims to: 1) determine the reaction kinetics between halogenating agents and viral biomolecular targets like nucleic acids and amino acids, 2) develop novel mass spectrometry-based methods to characterize these reactions, and 3) optimize viral disinfection practices in water treatment. Successful completion of this research will benefit society by improving drinking water safety and treatment practices to address the growing concern over elevated halide levels in water supplies.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $349.6k | 7/21/25 |