SBIR Phase I: Novel Utilization of Fly Ash using a Sustainable Process

SBIR 第一阶段：采用可持续工艺对粉煤灰进行新利用

• 批准号: 1345490
• 负责人: Jia Liu
• 金额: $ 15万
• 依托单位: Novoreach Technologies LLC
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2014-01-01 至 2014-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1345490&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SBIR; Phase; Novel; Utilization; Fly

This Small Business Innovation Research Phase I project will develop a novel and sustainable process to utilize industrial waste materials and energy to prepare high value commercial structural materials. Fly ash from coal power plants will be formulated and reacted with flue gas to develop proppant materials for hydraulic fracturing in oil and gas exploration. The use of fly ash will not only reduce the environmental impact of fly ash disposal but also eliminate the need to mine and transport a large quantity of ceramic raw materials to proppant production plants. Utilization of waste energy from flue gas will also enable a sustainable process to produce proppants without the need of high temperature ceramic processing. Therefore, the combined use of fly ash and flue gas will enable the production of low-cost and high-strength proppants for oil and gas exploration.The broader impacts/commercial potential will be the potential to provide a sustainable and low-cost process to utilize coal power plant wastes to produce high strength structural materials. These high strength materials can be used as proppants for hydraulic fracturing in oil and gas exploration. The global proppant market for oil and gas exploration is expected to reach $7 billion by 2017 with a 10.75% compound annual growth rate. The success of the proposed work could significantly reduce the landfill requirements for disposal of fly ash, and the resulting impact on the environment. Finally, the utilization of flue gas treatment to replace traditional high-temperature ceramic material processing will reduce the level of global greenhouse gas emissions.

这个小型企业创新研究阶段I项目将开发一种新颖而可持续的过程，以利用工业废料和能源来准备高价值的商业结构材料。煤炭发电厂的粉煤灰将被配制并与烟道气体反应，以开发用于在油气勘探中进行液压破裂的支撑剂材料。使用粉煤灰不仅会减少粉煤灰处置的环境影响，而且还消除了挖掘和运输大量陶瓷原材料的需求。从烟气气体中利用废物的废物也将使可持续的过程无需高温陶瓷加工而产生支撑剂。 因此，粉煤灰和烟气的综合使用将使用于石油和天然气勘探的低成本和高强度支撑剂的生产。更广泛的影响/商业潜力将有可能提供可持续的低成本工艺来利用煤炭发电厂废物生产高强度结构材料。这些高强度材料可以用作油气勘探中液压压裂的支撑剂。预计到2017年，全球石油和天然气勘探市场预计将达到70亿美元，复合年增长率为10.75％。拟议的工作的成功可以大大减少垃圾填埋场的垃圾填埋场要求，并对环境产生影响。最后，利用烟气处理来替代传统的高温陶瓷材料加工将降低全球温室气体排放的水平。