Project Grant DESC0020003

The Department of Energy's Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) awarded a $250,000 Project Grant to TDA Research, Inc. to develop a "Regeneratable Salt Vapor and Chlorine Gas Dual Cartridge Sorbent System for Molten Salts Nuclear Reactors." The award was made on February 12, 2024, with a target completion date of November 11, 2024. Under this grant, TDA Research will collaborate with Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) to design and test functional...

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...

Precast Systems Engineering, LLC received a $274,956 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program (CFDA 47.084). The award will fund the development of an innovative, bio-inspired, ultra-high performance concrete foundation system to support offshore wind turbines through December 2023. The proposed foundation system aims to provide technical and cost improvements over foundations currently used for offshore wind energy...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) EAGER (Early-concept Grants for Exploratory Research) project grant, awarded under CFDA 47.041 - Engineering, provides $300,000 in funding from November 1, 2024 to October 31, 2026 to the University of Illinois to develop lock-in infrared thermography capabilities for measuring thermal resistances in 3D integrated circuits. The key objectives of this project are to advance the science and engineering of thermal property measurement and develop a metrology...

The Department of Energy Office of Science awarded a $199,992 Project Grant to Advanced Cooling Technologies Inc. (Act) under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to develop a "Thermally Enhanced Obstructed Flow Board for Hot Spot Mitigation". The project aims to design and produce advanced thermal management solutions such as heat pipes, cold plates, and cooling systems for aerospace, defense, and energy applications. Act, a for-profit manufacturer of...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $274,724 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I grant to Mantel Capture, Inc. to optimize the composition of novel molten alkali metal borates for carbon dioxide capture. The goal of this project is to develop a molten salt-based carbon capture system that can be applied to hard-to-abate industries such as industrial heat, cement, steel, and hydrogen production. The research aims to reduce the melting point and working temperature of the...

This $450,000 National Science Foundation project grant will fund research into ion transport and selectivity in salt-rejecting polymer membranes operating under elevated salinities and pressures. The grant was awarded on August 1, 2022 to The Regents of the University of Colorado, with completion scheduled for July 31, 2025. The project aims to investigate using polymer membranes to treat extremely salty wastewaters from desalination and oil/gas production in a way that uses less than 10% of...

Cryodesalination LLC received a $255,997 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation on August 15, 2021 to develop a novel cryodesalination system. The grant is part of the NSF's Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program (CFDA 47.084), which seeks to advance science and engineering research and innovation leading to breakthrough technologies and solutions to national challenges. Under this award, Cryodesalination will develop a new cryodesalination system to desalinate water,...

The Department of Energy's Office of Science awarded a $249,987 Project Grant to Advanced Cooling Technologies Inc. (ACT), a small business manufacturer based in Neffsville, Pennsylvania. The grant, funded under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049), supports the development of long-range marine transport carbon capture with seawater sequestration technology. ACT, a key supplier of cutting-edge thermal management solutions, will leverage its expertise in designing,...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) project grant under the Engineering (CFDA 47.041) program, awarded to Georgia TECH Research Corp, aims to develop a deep understanding of the behavior and interactions of novel multicomponent fluid mixtures for enhanced heat transfer in electronic and industrial systems. The $499,232 award, spanning from August 1, 2024 to July 31, 2027, will investigate the stability and properties of phase change material (PCM) particles suspended in liquid gallium alloys,...