Project Grant R43ES031495

The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) awarded a $586,190 Project Grant (CFDA 93.113 - Environmental Health) to Ondavia, Inc. to develop a prototype in-line, autonomous system for monitoring hexavalent chromium concentrations in drinking and ground water. The Phase II SBIR project aims to convert Ondavia's successful feasibility study into a commercial-ready platform using Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy (SERS) technology. The proposed system consists of consumable...

The University of Illinois received a two-year, $248,988 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Earth Sciences under the Geosciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.050) to conduct research on chromium isotope fractionation during oxidation of trivalent chromium by birnessite at near-neutral pH. The University will advance understanding of chromium geochemistry in modern and past environments by applying specialized, highly precise measurements of chromium stable...

The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) awarded a $138,738 Project Grant under the Superfund Hazardous Substances Basic Research and Education program (CFDA 93.143) to Chemfinity Technologies, Inc., a minority-owned small disadvantaged business located in Brooklyn, New York. The grant supports the development of a novel membrane-based separation process, Ion-Capture Electrodialysis (IC-ED), for the remediation of acid mine drainage (AMD) water. The project aims to...

This $262,158 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems (CBET) will fund research at the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology to develop advanced oxidation processes for controlling the formation of iodinated disinfection byproducts (I-DBPs) in drinking water treatment. The key objectives are to: 1) investigate the use of advanced oxidation processes like ferrate, ozone, and UV to optimize the...

This $499,995 project grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems under CFDA Program 47.041 - Engineering, aims to develop an integrated treatment system to remove, reduce, and detoxify selenium contamination in wastewater. The principal investigators at the University of Alabama will test the integration of a flow-electrode capacitive deionization (FCDI) ion separation process with a bioelectrochemical...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems awarded a 3-year, $300,000 Project Grant to the Georgia Tech Research Corporation (Georgia Tech) to conduct fundamental research on the use of novel krypton chloride excimer lamps (KrCl* excilamps) emitting UV radiation at 222 nm for the degradation and mineralization of organic micropollutants in water and wastewater. The key objectives are to: 1) measure photolysis properties of...

This $136,638 two-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083) will support the development of mixed microbial communities and membrane biofilm reactors to optimize biotransformation processes for metal and metalloid bioremediation and biorecovery from waste streams. Specifically, the awardee, Montana State University, will establish fungal-bacterial biofilms with relevant environmental microorganisms, develop membrane biofilm reactors to...

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 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems (CFDA 47.041 - Engineering) supports research at South Dakota State University to develop advanced oxidation processes (AOPs) for controlling iodinated disinfection byproducts (I-DBPs) in drinking water. The $209,472 award will fund a 3-year collaborative effort to investigate the use of oxidants like ferrate, ozone, and UV photolysis to efficiently...

This $500,000 federal Project Grant award from the Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) program (CFDA 81.135) supports Chemfinity Technologies, Inc., a minority-owned small disadvantaged business located in Brooklyn, NY, to develop an adsorption-based column process for the selective recovery of critical minerals and materials from waste streams. Chemfinity's innovative porous polymer network materials have demonstrated high selectivity, capacity, and...