Project Grant DESC0020888

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program provides $689,738 to Clemson University from August 2022 through July 2025 to research sustainable recycling methods for agricultural and plastic waste via organosulfur chemistry. Professor Rhett Smith and students will study reaction pathways between elemental sulfur and functional groups in waste plastics like polyethylene terephthalate and polycarbonates, as well as lignin, to facilitate...

Integrated Lipid Biofuels LLC was awarded a $650,000 Project Grant from the US Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program. The two-year award will support the company's efforts to develop a process for converting organic waste into biopolymers by synergizing anaerobic digestion and synthetic biology techniques. The SBIR Program aims to stimulate technological innovation through the investment of federal...

The Exxon Mobil Baytown Olefins Plant Carbon Reduction Project is a $331,885,548 cooperative agreement awarded by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) under the Clean Energy Demonstrations program (CFDA 81.255). The project aims to enable the use of hydrogen in place of natural gas across high heat-fired equipment for chemical and fuel production at the Baytown Olefins Plant, Chemical Plant, and Refinery. It represents the first large-scale commercial implementation of newly developed,...

This federal Cooperative Agreement award, provided by the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management under the Fossil Energy Research and Development (CFDA 81.089) program, will support the development of a process to treat oil and gas produced water for beneficial use outside of the oil and gas industries. The $1,875,000 award to Ohio University, with sub-awards to Exergy Systems, Inc. and Giner Inc., aims to: Characterize produced water from specific sites,...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $275,000 Project Grant to Redshift Energy, Inc., a small disadvantaged business, under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program. The funding supports the development of a plasma technology for the dissociation of hydrogen sulfide (H2S) to produce carbon-free hydrogen and recover sulfur. Key innovations include: 1) a high-speed vortex flow design to achieve high energy efficiency, 2) a gas-dynamic and chemical-kinetic...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) has awarded a $168,289 Project Grant to Catapower Inc., a cleantech chemical company, under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program (CFDA 10.212). The funding will support the basic chemical engineering R&D required to translate Catapower's prior lab-scale successes into a pilot-scale demonstration of its proprietary catalytic technology that converts glycerol waste from the biodiesel...

The Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) awarded a $500,000 Project Grant to Peregrine Hydrogen, Inc. on July 18, 2024. The purpose of this 2-year award is to develop sulfur-depolarized electrolysis (SDE) technology to generate low-cost green hydrogen and sulfuric acid for decarbonizing industrial processes such as ammonia, iron, and cement production. The SDE approach aims to achieve the energy intensity of conventional water electrolysis while producing...

This $393,055 project grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (CFDA 47.041 - Engineering) to the University of Iowa aims to develop covalent organic framework (COF) membranes that can separate fatty acids and esters derived from vegetable oils into high-purity individual components. The research will yield fundamental insights into separating similarly-sized and shaped organic chemicals using COFs. The project will actively involve graduate, undergraduate, and high school students,...

This $7,500,000 Cooperative Agreement awarded by the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management (CFDA 81.089 - Fossil Energy Research and Development) is intended to demonstrate at-scale, electrically heated methane oxidation catalysts for robust and efficient exhaust methane abatement on natural gas-fired engines. The project aims to develop a catalyst system that can maintain high conversion efficiencies and sulfur tolerance, overcoming challenges traditionally...

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...