Elimination of airborne volatile compounds through incorporation of advanced 3D nanostructured catalytic coatings in adsorption/decomposition air purification systems
Ended Project Grant Awarded Last action
- Award ID
- R44ES031893
- Recipient
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Metalmark Innovations, PBC UEI QM59PPYMLDP3
- Awarding agency
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National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services
- Obligated
- $3,909,363
Award facts
- Assistance listing
- 93.113 Environmental Health
- Completion date
- Originally
- Place of performance
- Massachusetts, USA
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Description
- Abstract
- Every year, eight million premature deaths and $5 trillion of societal costs are linked to air pollution. According to the US EPA, indoor air quality (IAQ) is often two to VE times worse than outdoor air, which is especially alarming since we spend 90% of our time indoors. In fact, poor IAQ accounts for 48% of air pollution-related deaths. Submicron-scale pollutants, particularly volatile organic compounds (vocs), cause serious chronic illnesses, ranging from cancer to pulmonary diseases, and reduce worker productivity and student concentration. Existing technologies rely on pollutant capturing, trapping, and sometimes destruction, but are all known to have problems from desorption to byproduct creation and ozone generation. Metalmark innovations, INC. Is developing an advanced hybrid sorption-catalyst air purication system to capture and destroy such pollutants in an e cient and byproduct-free manner. The air purier relies on metalmark's proprietary 3D nanostructured thermal catalytic materials that are uniquely suited for IAQ applications, due to their signicantly enhanced activity, reduced operating temperatures and associated reduction in energy consumption, exceptional catalyst stability (no nanoparticle sintering), and reduced cost compared to their commercially available counterparts. Vocs are captured in a sorbent module and intermittently released to the catalyst for complete destruction without release of byproducts. In this phase II project, we will source and improve sorbent materials, design the metalmark catalysts, optimize the sorbent-catalyst system, produce three generations of air purier prototypes through an iterative learning process, and perform at least one pilot study using the NAL prototype. Overcoming the technological challenges posed in this sbir phase II project will propel this innovative indoor VOC treatment system towards a commercial product for improving the safety of indoor air of o CES, hotels, schools, homes, and other indoor or in-cabin spaces.
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Who received award R44ES031893?
R44ES031893 was awarded to Metalmark Innovations, PBC by National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (National Institutes of Health) on February 1, 2022.
How much is award R44ES031893 worth?
$3,909,363 has been obligated on R44ES031893.
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