Project Grant 31310023M0005

The Environmental Protection Agency Office of Research and Development awarded a $749,999 Project Grant to the Georgia Tech Research Corporation to develop a new approach methodology based on high-throughput in vitro air-blood barrier arrays to predict respiratory tract inflammation risk. Funded under the Science to Achieve Results Research Program, the three-year award beginning September 1, 2022 aims to produce defined polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon and secondary organic aerosol component and...

This $449,999 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports research at the University of Houston System to advance reactor design and catalyst development for partial oxidation reactions. The key objectives are to: Investigate dynamic reactor performance by combining catalyst synthesis/characterization, transient kinetic studies, and reactor modeling to understand the impact of oxygen speciation and reactivity on reactor performance....

The Department of Energy (DOE) awarded a $900,000 Project Grant under the Nuclear Energy Research, Development and Demonstration program (CFDA 81.121) to North Carolina State University (NC State). The award, with a performance period from August 1, 2024 to September 30, 2027, supports a research project titled "Hi-Fidelity Characterization of Molten Salt - Graphite Pore Interactions through Experiments and Embedded Modeling." The project involves experimental and modeling work to...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences, under the Geosciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.050), provides $214,924 to Aerodyne Research Inc. to develop a field-deployable Oxidation Flow Reactor and conduct associated laboratory and field studies. The Reactor will be used to better understand nighttime chemistry in the atmosphere, specifically the relative contributions of hydroxyl and nitrate radicals to the formation of oxidized...

This $157,232 National Science Foundation project grant under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) will fund the development of a unified numerical model for bubble nucleation and growth in volcanic systems. Lafayette College will work with international collaborators to conduct targeted experiments and develop theoretically grounded formulations to capture homogeneous and heterogeneous nucleation processes. Researchers will also create an ensemble bubble growth model to track evolving bubble...

Georgia Tech Research Corporation will receive $1.395 million from the Department of Homeland Security under the National Nuclear Forensics Expertise Development Program to develop computational tools and experimental characterization methods for predicting material phase changes in actinide alloys due to oxidation, hydriding, corrosion, irradiation, and radiation damage from May 2023 through April 2026. The award will support the development of atomistic and mesoscale modeling augmented with...

This three-year, $619,592 National Science Foundation project grant will fund the development of a multiscale model to predict the evolution of atmospheric soot particles through restructuring processes. Awarded under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), the grant supports basic research to advance modeling of how soot particle properties change after emission via contact with trace gases and water vapor in the atmosphere. The grantee, New Jersey Institute of Technology, will develop a...

The Department of Energy's Office of Science awarded Aerosol Dynamics Inc., a small research and development company, a $242,869 Project Grant to measure atmospheric sulfuric acid concentration using a water-based condensation particle counter. The grant was awarded on February 12, 2024 under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049), which funds fundamental research and development projects to advance scientific understanding and technologies aligned with DOE's...

This Cooperative Agreement, awarded by the U.S. Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E, CFDA 81.135), provides $3,648,906 to SRI International to develop a "Printed Microreactor for Renewable Energy Enabled Fuel Production (PRIME-FUEL)." This advanced microreactor system will convert carbon dioxide to methanol using intermittent renewable energy while maintaining high yields through more isothermal operation. SRI International is collaborating with...

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) awarded New York University $400,000 under the Science to Achieve Results (STAR) Research Program for a three-year project grant concluding in August 2025. The goal of the research is to develop and validate novel passive sampling designs that can measure a diverse suite of air toxics and contaminants of emerging concern in ambient urban air at low detection limits. Activities include refining polyethylene films for passive air sampling of hazardous...