This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP) program (CFDA 47.084) provides $275,000 to Rushnu Inc., a for-profit small business, to adapt a single-step carbon capture and mineralization process into a commercially viable continuous operation system. The project aims to increase carbon dioxide (CO2) capture and mineralization rates while optimizing solvent recovery for reuse. This will help enable cost-effective...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program provides $272,488.00 to Victory Over Carbon, Inc. to develop a novel direct air carbon capture technology. The project aims to address key challenges in achieving gigaton-scale direct air carbon capture, which could enable a trillion-dollar industry and 3 million jobs in the U.S. The proposed system utilizes a centrifuge design to reduce infrastructure and...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) awarded a $199,786 Project Grant to the Florida Institute of Technology Inc. (Florida TECH) on May 1, 2024. The grant supports the development of a waste heat-driven adsorption-based carbon dioxide (CO2) separation technique using adsorbent-coated microchannels. Key objectives include comprehensively evaluating how hot liquid water can effectively remove adsorbed CO2, and developing a fundamental understanding of the complex...
This Project Grant award, provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program, supports the development of a light-based, energy-generating carbon removal process. The $274,094 award to Banyu Carbon Inc. aims to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by sequestering or reusing captured carbon dioxide. Key objectives include improving the resistance of the proprietary photoacid catalyst to degradation and replacing expensive...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP) program (CFDA 47.084) Project Grant award of $275,000 to Triangle Environmental Health Initiative LLC (Tri-Ehi) aims to develop a selective ion separation and recovery technology for wastewater treatment. The project focuses on optimizing technical design for maximum solute selectivity and concentration, evaluating separation performance with representative wastewaters, and scaling up the system for future...
This $274,916 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program supports the development of an innovative, scalable ocean carbon sensing grid by Subtidal, Inc. The goal is to enhance measurement, reporting, and verification (MRV) capabilities for ocean-based carbon dioxide removal (CDR) strategies, which have the potential to extract up to 5 gigatons of CO2 annually from the atmosphere. The research objectives include...
This Project Grant award, worth $295,000, was issued by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under its Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP) program (CFDA 47.084). The grant was awarded to Geofinancial Analytics Inc., a for-profit organization based in Sausalito, CA, to develop a computationally efficient, tiered multi-satellite monitoring system that tracks daily-to-weekly methane emissions from oil and gas assets globally. The system integrates satellite observations, deep learning...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems awarded a $299,980 Project Grant to the University of Southern California (USC) for the period of August 1, 2023 to July 31, 2026. The purpose of this grant is to investigate mass and energy transfer mechanisms in stimuli-responsive "smart" sorbent materials for direct air capture of carbon dioxide (CO2). The research aims to develop new sorbent materials that can release...
This $300,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083) supports the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) in collaborating with NASA Ames Research Center to develop new porous sorbents for carbon dioxide (CO2) capture at low pressures. The project aims to engineer defects in metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) to enhance their CO2 adsorption capacity and selectivity, providing fundamental knowledge to improve the performance of...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP) program (CFDA 47.084) is for the development of a novel plasma-based pollution remediation device to remove diesel soot particulate matter (PM) emissions. The $550,000 award will fund the integration of an electrostatic precipitator (ESP) with a diesel particulate filter (DPF) to create a system capable of significantly reducing harmful PM emissions from large (>600 kW)...