Project Grant SNEAAC16GR1062

The U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs (CFDA 19.600) awarded a $500,000 Project Grant to the Middle East Desalination Research Center on March 20, 2024 to support the center's operations. This grant funding will enable the center to continue its work on desalination research and technologies that support U.S. foreign policy objectives in the Near East region. The Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs' grant program focuses on a variety of initiatives in the region, including...

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...

The U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Reclamation awarded a $235,400 Cooperative Agreement under the Water Desalination Research and Development program (CFDA 15.506) to Mickley & Associates LLC, a for-profit limited liability company, to identify and gather detailed information on 50-70 U.S. municipal desalination facilities built since 2017 or planned through 2025. The project will document the facilities' concentrate disposal practices, treatment processes, source water,...

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:...

The Department of State Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs awarded a $643,838 project grant to Ben Gurion University of the Negev to assess the potential use of saline groundwater from the Mediterranean coastal aquifer as feed for desalination in Gaza Strip and Israel. With a completion date of April 4, 2025, this award supports the goals of the Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs Federal Grant Program (CFDA 19.600) to advance foreign assistance objectives in the region as outlined in the annual...

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...

This $500,000 Project Grant award from the Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) under CFDA 81.135 will support the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) in developing a highly energy-efficient desalination system using solar thermal energy and multi-stage distillation. The key innovation is a phase change process at the liquid-solid-vapor interface to efficiently transport and utilize energy, which aims to significantly reduce energy consumption compared to industrial...

The Desert Research Center will receive $592k under a four-year Project Grant from the U.S. Department of State Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs. The grant supports the "Dromedary Camels for Sustainable Development in the Middle East and North Africa" project under the Bureau's Middle East Research Cooperation Program (MERC) CFDA #19.600. The project aims to advance the sustainable use of dromedary camels in the MENA region from September 2023 to September 2027. Camels are an important...

The Department of the Interior Bureau of Reclamation awarded a $300,360 Cooperative Agreement to the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology under the SECURE Water Act – Research Agreements program (CFDA 15.560). The award will fund a pilot-scale validation of a novel Janus hollow fiber membrane-based direct contact membrane distillation process for high-salinity produced water desalination utilizing waste heat from September 1, 2021 through March 31, 2024. The research activities aim to...

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...