Project Grant DESC0010152

The Department of Energy Office of Science awarded NCO Technologies LLC a $200,000 Project Grant under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to develop hydrophilically reinforced amidoxime based fiber for selective uranium recovery from seawater. The goal of the February 22, 2021 through February 21, 2022 award is to produce materials that can selectively extract uranium from seawater in support of the Office of Science's mission to deliver transformational...

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...

Sunchem LLC was awarded a $256,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program (CFDA 47.084) to develop nanoscale filters for selective gold extraction. The award period is from May 15, 2022 to April 30, 2023. Under this award, Sunchem will synthesize and optimize hybrid nanoporous materials to implement in continuous flow filter devices. Initial batch experiments will assess the materials' gold adsorption performance. Follow-on flow...

This federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (CFDA 47.041 - Engineering) provides $315,000 in funding to the University of Texas at Austin to develop polymeric membranes for use in low-cost filtration-type processes to improve the recovery of critical minerals from aqueous waste and process streams. The project aims to precisely control and measure the sizes of pores and voids in these membranes, and use computations and experiments to determine how suitable pore sizes...

This $499,988 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) seeks to develop and validate an integrated sorption-photocatalytic process for the ex-situ treatment and remediation of groundwater contaminated by mixtures of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) and chlorinated solvents like trichloroethylene (TCE) and tetrachloroethylene (PCE). The principal investigator and research team at Southern Illinois University Carbondale will...

The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) awarded Chemfinity Technologies, Inc., a minority-owned small disadvantaged business in Brooklyn, NY, a $138,738 project grant under the NIEHS Superfund Hazardous Substances Basic Research and Education program (CFDA 93.143). The goal of the project is to develop and demonstrate the feasibility of Chemfinity's patented membrane-based ion-capture electrodialysis (IC-ED) technology for the remediation of acid mine drainage (AMD)...

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...

This $750,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program (CFDA 47.084) supports research at Oregon State University toward developing a circular economy model for mining green hydrogen and critical materials from seawater. The award period is from December 15, 2022 through November 30, 2023. Oregon State University will lead a consortium including Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station, Mempro USA LTD, and Espiku LLC to converge...

This $199,998 Project Grant from the Environmental Protection Agency's Office of Research and Development to The University of North Carolina at Charlotte will support the development of a regenerable, low-cost cellulose nanofiber membrane system for point-of-use water purification cartridges. The goals of the project are to optimize functionalization of cellulose nanofibers to create novel materials for incorporation into residential water purification cartridges similar to commercially...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems (CBET) Project Grant award of $359,636 to the University of Washington is focused on developing and evaluating novel ferrate-coated sand media for simultaneous oxidation of organic contaminants and adsorption of trace metals in water treatment applications. The key objectives are to: 1) synthesize and characterize the covalent ferrate-sand composite media; 2) investigate the media...