Project Grant DESC0018906

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program will support research by the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology (New Mexico Tech) to develop a sustainable vertiport system and autonomous drone swarm for methane emission monitoring over orphaned oil and gas wells. The $149,999 grant will fund three technical objectives: (1) a low-cost, portable, and sustainable vertiport to enable precision...

The Department of Energy's Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management awarded a $6,702,516 Cooperative Agreement to Radical Combustion Technologies NG, LLC under the Fossil Energy Research and Development program (CFDA 81.089) on January 15, 2025. The primary objective of this project is to deploy RCTClean across a range of natural gas-fueled compressor engines to demonstrate significant reductions in methane slip (35-60% or more) and nitrogen oxides emissions (80-90%), while also reducing...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) awarded a $649,989 Project Grant to Aether LLC, a small business located in Lovettsville, VA, under the SBIR/STTR Program (CFDA 10.212). The award funds the development of a commercially viable technology that can monitor methane emissions from various sources, including livestock farms, rice paddies, landfills, and oil and gas infrastructure. The proposed solution will provide real-time air pollution data...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $795,932 to the Regents of the University of California at Riverside (UC Riverside) to develop a smart robotic system for comprehensive diagnosis of abnormal tissues in the abdominal cavity. The key products and services to be delivered under this 4-year award include: 1) integrating flexible endoscopy, ultrasound imaging, and Raman spectroscopy into a multimodal instrument for...

The National Science Foundation awarded Juggernaut Life Sciences LLC a $256,000 Project Grant under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program (CFDA 47.084) to develop a smart, semi-autonomous fluid drainage system for surgical procedures. The one-year project will create a prototype robotic device with integrated ultrasound probe, anesthetic syringe, scalpel, and aspiration needle to demonstrate the feasibility of semi-autonomously performing paracentesis procedures to drain...

The U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Fossil Energy awarded a $7,477,863 Cooperative Agreement to Baker Hughes Energy Transition LLC, doing business as Baker Hughes Business Support Services, to demonstrate and deploy an integrated methane emissions reduction system for upstream flares. The project aims to develop a cost-effective, retrofittable solution that can be flexibly deployed across diverse flare configurations to minimize methane release. This award is part of the Fossil Energy...

Robot Nose Corp received a $205,545 project grant award from the Department of Energy Office of Science under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to support work on ION MOBILITY - MASS SPECTROMETRY RAPID IMAGING OF SPECIAL NUCLEAR MATERIALS. The grant period runs from June 28, 2021 through July 29, 2022 at the place of performance location in Lemont, Illinois. Through this funding, Robot Nose Corp will develop and apply ion mobility-mass spectrometry techniques to...

This $1,038,171 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) supports research into methane efflux from river-influenced coastal marine sediments in the Gulf of Mexico. The Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium will measure methane fluxes from coastal sediments into Gulf waters using an in situ lander to collect benthic flux measurements of oxygen and methane. Sediment microprofiles of oxygen and sulfide will also be analyzed. Naturally occurring...

This $256,000 National Science Foundation project grant supports the development of an automated chest tube to prevent clotting. Circulatech LLC will design and prototype a novel chest tube that proactively manages fluid flow within the catheter lumen to flush and drain the tube, reducing blood clot formation. Through a process called "dilutional coagulopathy," the tube will use sterile saline or anticoagulants to reduce thrombosis in the drainage space rather than relying on...

This Project Grant award from the Environmental Protection Agency's Hydrofluorocarbon (HFC) Reclaim and Innovative Destruction Grants program (CFDA 66.047) provides $1,500,000 to Texas A&M University Engineering Experiment Center (Tees) to develop and validate technologies to reduce the time and cost of reclaiming HFC refrigerants in the U.S. The key products and services to be delivered under this 5-year award include: Designing and testing an intensified modular unit capable of...