Project Grant DESC0017220

The $255,963 National Science Foundation grant to Teverra LLC will support the development of an innovative downhole tool for direct measurement of in-situ rock stresses in deep well environments. Funded through the NSF Engineering Directorate's $47.041 million CFDA program, the Phase I project aims to design, model, and prepare prototypes for a modular stress measurement tool applicable to vertical, deviated, and horizontal wells. Key objectives include analytical and numerical solutions to...

This $256,000 National Science Foundation Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships Project Grant to Itomography Corporation supports the development of dual-modality tomography core scanning technology for oil saturation estimation at wellsites. The Phase I project will demonstrate the feasibility of determining three-dimensional hydrocarbon distribution throughout large-diameter cores with high spatial resolution of 10 cubic millimeters, 95% accuracy, and a throughput of 1 meter per hour...

Alien Sandbox LLC was awarded a $200,000 Project Grant from the Department of Energy Office of Science on June 28, 2021 to develop intelligent proppants for hydraulic fracture diagnostics. The project aims to deliver new proppant technologies to improve characterization of hydraulic fractures for enhanced oil and gas recovery. Work will be performed in Austin, Texas through October 31, 2022 under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA No. 81.049). This program supports...

This $450,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports research by the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) to investigate the elastic properties of fluids confined in nanoporous materials and their impact on wave propagation. The project aims to develop a molecular theory to quantify the effects of fluid confinement on elastic properties like compressibility, and apply this to improve models of wave propagation in...

This $360,000 three-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems, under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), will support the development of coherent processing techniques for passive localization of RF-silent mobile objects using bandwidth-rich wireless signals. The grantee, The Trustees of The Stevens Institute of Technology, will pursue three research thrusts. Thrust A will develop passive localization and mapping...

The National Science Foundation awarded a $500,000 Project Grant to Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station to support research titled "CAREER: AN INTEGRATED EXPERIMENTAL-THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK FOR UNDERSTANDING THE MULTISCALE MECHANICAL RESPONSE OF ROCK-REACTIVE BRINE INTERACTIONS." The award was made under the Engineering (47.041) program on February 1, 2021 for a five-year period concluding January 31, 2026. The grant funding will support the development of an integrated...

Dr. Jeremy R. Patterson was awarded a $180,000 National Science Foundation Earth Sciences Postdoctoral Fellowship to research dynamic flow channeling through complex fracture networks under oscillatory flow conditions at Rice University from October 1, 2022 to September 30, 2024. This Project Grant, funded through NSF's Geosciences program under the CFDA number 47.050, will support the development of new methods to better understand how subsurface flows are concentrated through interconnected...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports fundamental research and development at the University of Tulsa to advance the modeling and analysis of CO2 transport in porous media for geological carbon sequestration. The $157,471 award, effective July 1, 2024 through March 31, 2025, aims to develop computationally efficient data-driven models to predict and analyze the complex flow behavior of CO2 in geological formations. The...

This $592,223 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) will fund the development of an ultrasonic diffuse wave field method to enable volumetric characterization of microstructures in engineering metals. Led by The Pennsylvania State University, researchers will design experimental transduction mechanisms and signal processing techniques to extract quantitative data on properties like diffusivity, attenuation, and scattering from ultrasonic...

This $130,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) will support planning activities for a proposed national testbed facility focused on fiber-based ground motion and deformation sensing. The key objectives are to: Develop the technical framework and feasibility plan for an "Internet Sensor Network" (Internet-S) testbed that would leverage modifications to existing internet...