PIRE: Water and Commerce- Technologies to Enable Environmental Sustainability in Global Markets

PIRE：水和商业——实现全球市场环境可持续性的技术

基本信息

批准号：
1243433
负责人：
Patrick Ferguson
金额：
$ 475.04万
依托单位：
Duke University
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
Continuing Grant
财政年份：
2013
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2013-01-01 至 2019-12-31
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1243433&HistoricalAwards=false
关键词：
PIRE Water Commerce Technologies Enable

项目摘要

International maritime trade, energy production, and the manufacture and global circulation of new materials urgently require creative technological solutions to enable environmentally sustainable commerce. This interdisciplinary PIRE project Water and Commerce: Technologies to Enable Environmental Sustainability in Global Markets will perform innovative research and educate young US scientists and engineers in an international context to provide these solutions. Participating U.S. institutions are Duke University, Michigan State University, and North Carolina Central University. Foreign partners include Istanbul Technical University and Gebze Institute of Technology (Turkey), National University of Singapore and Nanyang Technological University (Singapore), and Centre Européen de Recherche et d'Enseignement des Géosciences de l'Environnement (France). The specific objectives of the Partnership are to: (i) educate students to work within and manage projects executed by international teams; (ii) perform innovative research with foreign collaborators and industrial partners to develop new technologies and methods that enable the sustainability of water resources and to carry out life cycle assessments of various energy/technology mixes, (iii) develop the awareness of global issues and sustainability, and (iv) increase the number and diversity of students entering careers in science and engineering. Research within the project is organized by international research teams that engage industrial partners to address critical elements of energy transport and production including treatment of ballast water, methods for diagnosing and fingerprinting contamination, and advanced technologies for oil-water separations. Life cycle assessments will produce a multi-level analysis of impacts and trade-offs resulting from energy production and transport scenarios and from the technological innovations developed by the PIRE team. This effort addresses fundamental advances in membrane materials design, methods for controlling the dispersion of non-indigenous and potentially invasive species in ballast water, means for decreasing the environmental footprint of the oil industry, recovering oil, and developing a suite of technologies to diagnose and mitigate the chronic and acute impacts of oil exploration and transportation. Our educational program directly addresses the need for a diverse STEM workforce with the capacity for international collaboration and leadership. The Partnership will cement collaborations between academic participants and industrial partners to form a synergistic Industry/University consortium as an integral part of education and research. Collaborations with industrial partners will help reduce technologies to practice and provide students with opportunities for internships. Students will obtain certification in a rigorous plan of study in science, engineering, management, environmental policy, and systems analysis that emphasizes environmental sustainability in commerce viewed from the perspective of materials, energy and transportation. Leveraging highly successful recruitment programs at Duke, MSU and NCCU (86.7% minority enrollment) and closely coordinating research and education activities between all partner institutions will expand opportunities for underrepresented groups of students to participate in multiple university and global learning/research activities with the goal of increasing the number of these students entering into STEM related fields. The project is funded by NSF's Office of International Science and Engineering (OISE) through the PIRE.

国际海事贸易，能源生产以及新材料的制造和全球流通急切需要创造性的技术解决方案，以实现环境可持续的贸易。这项跨学科的PIRE项目水和商业：使全球市场的环境可持续性的技术将在国际环境中进行创新的研究，并在国际环境下对年轻的美国科学家和工程师进行教育，以提供这些解决方案。参加美国机构是杜克大学，密歇根州立大学和北卡罗来纳州中央大学。外国合作伙伴包括伊斯坦布尔技术大学和盖布兹理工学院（土耳其），新加坡国立大学和南南技术大学（新加坡），以及中心欧洲欧洲大学（CenterEuropéende Recherche de Recherche et d'Enepheignement d'EneemignementdesGéosciences（法国）。合作伙伴关系的具体对象是：（i）教育学生在国内工作和管理国际团队执行的项目；（ii）与外国合作者和工业合作伙伴进行创新研究，以开发新技术和方法，使水资源的可持续性并对各种能源/技术组合进行生命周期评估，（iii）提高对全球问题和可持续性的认识，以及（IV）增加了学生在科学和工程领域的职业生涯的数量和多样性。该项目内部的研究由国际研究团队组织，这些团队与工业伙伴联系，以解决能源运输和生产的关键要素，包括对压载水的处理，诊断和指纹污染的方法以及用于油水分离的先进技术。生命周期评估将对能源生产和运输方案以及PIRE团队开发的技术创新产生的影响和权衡进行多层次分析。这项工作旨在解决膜材料设计的基本进展，控制非土著和潜在入侵物种在压载水中的分散的方法，意味着减少石油工业的环境足迹，恢复石油的环境足迹，并开发了一系列技术来诊断和减轻石油勘探和运输的慢性和急性影响。我们的教育计划直接解决了具有国际协作和领导能力的多样化STEM劳动力的需求。该合作伙伴关系将巩固学术参与者与工业伙伴之间的合作，以形成协同行业/大学控制者，作为教育和研究不可或缺的一部分。与工业合作伙伴的合作将有助于减少练习并为学生提供国际服务的机会。学生将在严格的科学，工程，管理，环境政策和系统分析方面的严格研究计划中获得认证，该计划从材料，能源和运输的角度来强调商业环境可持续性。利用杜克大学，MSU和NCCU（86.7％的少数族裔入学率）以及所有合作伙伴机构之间的研究和教育活动的高度成功的招聘计划将为多个大学和全球学习/研究活动提供的机会扩大机会，以增加这些学生进入STEM相关领域的数量。该项目由NSF的国际科学与工程办公室（OISE）资助。