Project Grant 83933001

This $223,282 Project Grant awarded by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the Environmental Information Exchange Network Grant Program (CFDA 66.608) supports the Oklahoma Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) in building a system management tool for public water systems in the state. The project aims to provide a centralized, web-based platform for public water supply systems in Oklahoma to enter, manage, track, and store their daily monitoring and maintenance reporting...

This federal Cooperative Agreement award, funded by the Department of Energy's Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management under the Fossil Energy Research and Development program (CFDA 81.089), aims to develop a process to economically treat oil and gas produced water for beneficial use outside of the oil and gas industries. The $1,875,000 project, awarded to Ohio University with a start date of Sep 1, 2024 and end date of Aug 31, 2025, will: 1) characterize produced water from specific...

The University of Oklahoma, through its Office of Research Administration, was awarded a $525,141 Cooperative Agreement from the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (CFDA 81.087 Renewable Energy Research and Development program) to design, implement, and evaluate the performance of a solar-geothermal district heating and cooling (Sol-GDHC) system in Shawnee, Oklahoma. The project aims to gain a better understanding of the financial and environmental...

The University of Tulsa's Office of Research and Sponsored Programs has been awarded a $1,500,000 Project Grant from the U.S. Department of Energy's Conservation Research and Development program (CFDA 81.086) for the project "UNIVERSITY OF TULSA PRODUCED WATER TREATMENT USING COMPACT SEPARATOR SYSTEM". The project aims to conduct research and development on innovative produced water treatment technologies, with a focus on utilizing compact separator systems. The award has an initial...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems award of $566,667 aims to develop an integrated technology platform that captures and transforms nitrate, a major water pollutant, into useful products. The four-year project, titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: ECO-CBET: A PHOTOCAPACITIVE/ELECTROLYTIC REACTOR FOR CARBON NEUTRAL PRODUCTION OF CLEAN WATER AND VALUE-ADDED PRODUCTS FROM NITRATE CONTAMINATED WATERS", will be led by...

The National Science Foundation awarded a $419,999 project grant to the Missouri University of Science and Technology under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) from October 1, 2022 to September 30, 2025. The grant will support research to advance solutions for reducing aeration energy requirements in activated sludge wastewater treatment processes. Specifically, the university will conduct experimental and modeling work to characterize the physico-chemical and biological factors influencing...

This $1.5 million Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Office of International Science and Engineering (NSF OISE) will fund the development of a climate-resilient and sustainable food production system utilizing controlled environment hydroponic agriculture with novel wastewater treatment and reuse technologies. Led by Clemson University in collaboration with universities in South Korea, the award will support five key activities over a two-year period from January 2023 to December...

This $248,000 U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 6 Formula Grant under the Water Quality Management Planning program (CFDA 66.454) funds the Oklahoma Secretary of Energy and Environment to conduct water quality management planning activities in the state. The key products and services to be delivered include: Developing a eutrophication/harmful algal bloom fact sheet Updating a groundwater model to evaluate drought scenarios for the cities of Norman and Noble Enhancing water...

This $100,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program will support the development of passive solar desalination technology for produced water from oil and gas extraction sites. The Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station will modify existing solar evaporation ponds using hierarchical nanstructured hydrogel materials to increase evaporation rates and superhydrophobic coatings to enhance water droplet departure on glass...

The U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management, awarded a $2,013,151 Cooperative Agreement to the Texas Tech University System for the "Strategic Management and Resource Recovery Transformation (SMAR2T): Recovery of Water and Elements of Interest from Produced Water using Intensified Membrane Distillation and Metal Extraction" project under the Fossil Energy Research and Development (CFDA 81.089) federal grant program. The project objective is to develop a...