Project Grant R43GM135149

Media & Process Technology Inc. was awarded a $500,000 Project Grant from the Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (CFDA 81.135) to demonstrate the technical feasibility and energy savings potential of a non-evaporative substrate drying process using supercritical carbon dioxide extraction combined with ceramic membrane ultrafiltration. The two-year award, issued on September 9, 2022, will support development of a process to dewater wet substrates without...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP) program (CFDA 47.084) will develop a novel membrane separation technology to address the energy-efficient separation of small molecules from industrial process streams for a range of industries. The $275,000 award to Avanpore LLC, a for-profit limited liability company located in Woburn, MA, will run from October 1, 2024 to March 31, 2025. The project aims to create functionalized...

The U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Reclamation awarded a $407,404.90 Cooperative Agreement to Trustees of Tufts College, doing business as Tufts University, on September 14, 2023. This award is funded under the Desalination and Water Purification Research (DWPR) program (CFDA 15.506), which supports research to augment the nation's usable water supply through advanced treatment technologies. The objective of this project is to develop and demonstrate ultrafiltration pretreatment...

The U.S. Department of the Interior Bureau of Reclamation, under its Desalination and Water Purification Research (DWPR) program (CFDA 15.506), awarded a $610,056 Cooperative Agreement to Pacifica Water Solutions LLC on Sep 21, 2023. The project aims to conduct extended field testing of innovative electrically conducting desalination membranes against commercial membranes over two consecutive 3-month trials. The testing will demonstrate the performance of this technology in two applications:...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation will support the development of a novel hollow-fiber membrane technology tailored for use in a liquid desiccant air conditioning system. Awarded on May 15, 2023 for $255,965 under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program, the grant aims to demonstrate a customized membrane design and quantify its impact on the proposed system's efficiency, size, and cost. The recipient, Zephyr Innovations Inc., plans to conduct a series of...

The Bureau of Reclamation awarded a $396,545.92 Cooperative Agreement to the Regents of the University of Colorado on November 21, 2023 through the Water Desalination Research and Development program (CFDA 15.506). This project aims to develop scalable, robust, surface-patterned microporous membranes designed for a membrane distillation process to treat highly concentrated brines. Key objectives include: (1) developing a roll-to-roll manufacturing method for 8-inch wide surface-patterned...

Triton Systems, Inc. was awarded a $199,990 Project Grant from the Department of Energy Office of Science under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to develop 3D printed membranes for desalination. The award period was from June 28, 2021 through March 27, 2022, with the place of performance in Chelmsford, Massachusetts. Under this award, Triton Systems leveraged additive manufacturing techniques to produce membrane structures tailored for water purification through...

The Bureau of Reclamation, through its Desalination and Water Purification Research (DWPR) program (CFDA 15.506), awarded a $500,972 cooperative agreement to Temple University on Sep 13, 2023. The goal of this 2-year effort is to develop an energy-neutral desalination system by integrating electroactive forward osmosis (EFO) and microbial desalination cells (MDCs). The EFO process will recover clean water from wastewater, producing concentrated wastewater and diluted seawater. The concentrated...

The University of Alabama was awarded a $499,945.50 Cooperative Agreement from the U.S. Department of the Interior Bureau of Reclamation under the Water Desalination Research and Development program (CFDA 15.506). The goal of this 2-year project is to improve solvent performance in temperature swing solvent extraction for brine desalination. The University will utilize experimental and computational techniques to design glycerol-based solvents that can dissolve 10% water, have a solubility of...

The U.S. Department of the Interior Bureau of Reclamation awarded a $351,572.23 Cooperative Agreement to William Marsh Rice University under the Water Desalination Research and Development program (CFDA 15.506). The goal of this 21-month project, with a completion date of September 30, 2025, is to develop ion exchange membranes with tunable ion permeability and permselectivity to enhance water recovery while ensuring product water quality in electrodialysis desalination processes. This...