SBIR Phase I: Nanoremediation of oily waste waters from spills and discharges

SBIR 第一阶段：溢出和排放含油废水的纳米修复

• 批准号: 2036258
• 负责人: Paul Vecchiarelli
• 金额: $ 25.59万
• 依托单位: GEOMAT, LLC
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-02-01 至 2022-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2036258&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SBIR; Phase; Nanoremediation; oily; waste

The broader impacts of this Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project address oil pollution in Alaskan waters by reducing costs associated with oil cleanup projects. In Alaska, the challenges of remoteness and cold raise oil cleanup costs by 100 times compared with other areas. The technology is a magnetic nanoparticle, 80,000 times smaller than the width of a human hair, that can completely remove oil from water. To become competitive with current oil cleanup methods, it will undergo improvements for large scale production. The project also includes design, building, and testing a new prototype device for the technology. The technology will make spill cleanup faster and reduce environmental harm. In Alaska alone, oil spills cost $150 million to clean up annually. This Phase I project is a cost-effective, environmentally-benign nanoparticle technology that can quantitatively remove oil from contaminated water. Alaska has been targeted as a testbed due to limitations posed by cold and geographical remoteness that raise oil cleanup costs 100-fold compared to less remote regions. The goal of the project is to develop an oil removal device that can be deployed to remote regions with low cost and effort, reducing the length and cost of a spill response. The first aim of the project will optimize the nanoparticle synthesis to minimize costs and maximize active yield at commercial scales. A laboratory-scale, prototype oil removal device will be designed, built, and validated to enable pilots with larger volumes of contaminated water. The initial application will be to dewater oil recovered from the environment within the holds of barges; this can exceed 80% water. Dewatering reduces waste volumes and transportation costs, reducing environmental exposure and subsequent environmental health impacts from oil pollution.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

小企业创新研究 (SBIR) 第一阶段项目的更广泛影响是通过降低与石油清理项目相关的成本来解决阿拉斯加水域的石油污染问题。在阿拉斯加，由于地处偏远和寒冷，石油清理成本比其他地区高出 100 倍。该技术是一种磁性纳米粒子，比人类头发丝的宽度小80,000倍，可以完全去除水中的油脂。为了与现有的石油净化方法相比具有竞争力，它将进行大规模生产的改进。该项目还包括设计、构建和测试该技术的新原型设备。该技术将使泄漏清理更快并减少环境危害。仅在阿拉斯加，每年清理石油泄漏的费用就高达 1.5 亿美元。该一期项目是一项经济高效、环境友好的纳米颗粒技术，可以定量去除污染水中的石油。由于寒冷和地理偏远造成的限制，阿拉斯加已成为试验平台，与不太偏远的地区相比，石油清理成本增加了 100 倍。该项目的目标是开发一种除油装置，可以以低成本和低工作量部署到偏远地区，从而缩短泄漏响应的时间和成本。该项目的首要目标是优化纳米颗粒合成，以最大限度地降低成本并最大限度地提高商业规模的活性产量。将设计、建造和验证实验室规模的原型除油装置，以便飞行员能够处理大量的污染水。最初的应用是对驳船货舱内环境中回收的石油进行脱水；这可能超过 80% 的水。脱水减少了废物量和运输成本，减少了石油污染对环境的暴露和随后的环境健康影响。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优点和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。