NSF Engineering Research Center for Advancing Sustainable and Distributed Fertilizer Production (CASFER)

NSF 促进可持续和分布式肥料生产工程研究中心 (CASFER)

• 批准号: 2133576
• 负责人: Gerardine Botte
• 金额: $ 2600万
• 依托单位: Texas Tech University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Cooperative Agreement
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-09-01 至 2027-08-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2133576&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: NSF; Engineering; Research; Center; Advancing

The NSF Engineering Research Center for Advancing Sustainable and Distributed Fertilizer Production (CASFER) will strive to solve one of the most pressing problems facing humankind: how do we feed the growing world population while protecting and sustaining our environment? By 2050, the world population will exceed 10.5 billion, increasing the demand for food by 70%, with only an additional 10% land available for agriculture. To meet this demand, nitrogen-based fertilizers (NBFs) are required for the formation of plant proteins. Currently, more than 50% of the world population is supported by synthetic NBFs, produced via the Haber-Bosch process (HB) a carbon intensive process, however, the high volatility of prices remains a challenge in the US and developing countries. Furthermore, only 20% of NBFs produced translate into food with 80% lost to the environment creating significant environmental, health, and socioeconomic impact. Therefore, society requires new cost effective, resilient, and secure ways to produce NBFs with minimum environmental and socioeconomic impacts. CASFER will enable resilient and sustainable food production by developing next generation, modular, distributed, and efficient technology for capturing, recycling, and producing decarbonized NBFs. CASFER will create a transformative engineered system that takes the US from nitrogen cycle pollution to a Nitrogen Circular Economy (NCE), from a linear economy to a circular economy with multidimensional social, environmental, and economic growth. CASFER will capture and recycle nitrogen from waste to reach over 50% of the US NBF consumption. Instead of expending resources, energy, and money to deactivate diluted reactive nitrogen from waste streams, nitrogen from waste will be captured and recycled for crop production. CASFER brings together a diverse leadership and the convergence of a multidisciplinary team drawn from Texas Tech University, Florida A&M University, Georgia Institute of Technology, Case Western Reserve University, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. CASFER convergence research will advance modeling, monitoring and distributed control; capture and recycling; and modular and distributed production and delivery of NBFs. CASFER will enable an organic but synthetic approach to NBF production, with ingredients, predictability, and reliability designed to stimulate plant growth. CASFER technologies will integrate nanotechnology, electrochemical science, and data science for modularity, synthesis, and separations, and resolve economic pressures, logistics issues, public and industry acceptance, regulatory, and safety issues. CASFER will advance fundamental knowledge in key areas of interfacial processes, separations, catalysis and electrocatalysis, and properties of materials to tolerate heterogenous and harsh environments to enable synthetic chemistry pathways to convert waste into NBF. CASFER will lead to advances in sensor science and multiscale modeling to deliver NBF near point of use by farmers. CASFER Innovation Ecosystem will bring together key industry members, agriculture cooperatives, facilitators, investors, regulatory advisory boards, and Society Visionary Champions to commercialize CASFER research discoveries and maximize benefits to society. CASFER will train the next generation of engineers and technical workforce at the intersection of engineering, agricultural sciences, and environmental science with the skills to advance the NCE. CASFER will empower agents of change and influencers to promote the NCE targeting formal and informal education along the K-gray spectrum. CASFER will engage a diverse range of communities underrepresented in STEM through the NCE by acknowledging the varied backgrounds and experiences of each participant and facilitating their engagement in engineering through multimodal, multilevel entry points and cut across socioeconomic and cultural boundaries. CASFER will establish a fully sustainable innovation ecosystem to expand fundamental knowledge and leverage CASFER platform technologies to recover phosphorous, nutrients, and other resources from waste streams. Through all these activities, CASFER will lead the US toward a Nitrogen Circular Economy, fertilizer independence, an affordable and resilient price range for NBF, while sustaining and preserving the environment.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.

NSF工程研究中心推进可持续和分布式肥料生产（CASFER）将努力解决人类面临的最紧迫的问题之一：我们如何在保护和维持我们的环境的同时，如何养活不断增长的世界人口？到2050年，世界人口将超过105亿，将食品的需求增加了70％，只有10％的土地可用于农业。为了满足这一需求，形成植物蛋白需要基于氮的肥料（NBF）。目前，通过Haber-Bosch流程（HB）生产的合成NBF支持了全球50％以上的人口，但是，在美国和发展中国家，价格的高波动性仍然是一个挑战。此外，只有20％的NBF转化为食物，其中80％损失了环境，从而产生了重大的环境，健康和社会经济影响。因此，社会需要新的成本有效，有弹性和安全的方法来生产具有最小环境和社会经济影响的NBF。 Casfer将通过开发下一代，模块化，分布式和高效的技术来捕获，回收和生产脱碳的NBF来实现韧性和可持续的粮食生产。卡斯弗（Casfer）将创建一个变革性的工程系统，将美国从氮周期污染带到氮循环经济（NCE），从线性经济到具有多维社会，环境和经济增长的循环经济。 Casfer将从废物中捕获和回收氮，从而达到美国NBF消费量的50％以上。与其花费资源，能量和金钱来停用废物流的稀释反应性氮，不如将废物产生的氮被捕获并回收以进行农作物生产。卡斯弗（Casfer）汇集了从得克萨斯州科技大学，佛罗里达州A＆M大学，佐治亚理工学院，凯斯西部储备大学和马萨诸塞州理工学院的多元学科团队汇集的多元学科团队。 Casfer Convergence Research将推动建模，监测和分布式控制；捕获和回收；以及NBF的模块化和分布式生产和交付。 Casfer将通过旨在刺激植物生长的成分，可预测性和可靠性来实现有机但合成的NBF生产方法。 Casfer Technologies将在模块化，合成和分离中整合纳米技术，电化学科学和数据科学，并解决经济压力，物流问题，公共和行业接受，监管和安全问题。 Casfer将在界面过程，分离，催化和电催化的关键领域以及材料的特性中促进基本知识，以耐受异源和严酷的环境，以使合成化学途径能够将废物转化为NBF。 Casfer将导致传感器科学和多尺度建模的进步，从而为农民提供NBF近乎使用点。 Casfer Innovation Inovation生态系统将汇集主要行业成员，农业合作社，促进者，投资者，监管咨询委员会和社会有远见的拥护者，以商业化Casfer研究发现并最大程度地利用社会利益。卡斯弗将在工程，农业科学和环境科学的交集中培训下一代工程师和技术劳动力，并培训了推进NCE的技能。卡斯弗（Casfer）将赋予变革的代理商和影响者的能力，以促进针对K-Gray频谱的正规和非正式教育的NCE。 Casfer通过承认每个参与者的不同背景和经验，并通过多模式，多层次的入口点和跨越社会经济和文化界限的范围来促进他们在工程上的各种背景和经验，从而使STEM的代表性不足。卡斯弗（Casfer）将建立一个完全可持续的创新生态系统，以扩大基本知识并利用casfer平台技术，以从废物流中回收磷，营养和其他资源。通过所有这些活动，卡斯弗将带领美国迈向氮循环经济，肥料独立性，负担得起且有弹性的NBF的价格范围，同时维持和维护环境。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是通过基金会的知识分子和更广泛的影响来通过评估来获得的支持，并被认为是值得的。

项目成果

PdCu Electrocatalysts for Selective Nitrate and Nitrite Reduction to Nitrogen

• DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.2c04841
• 发表时间: 2023-01-06
• 期刊: ACS CATALYSIS
• 影响因子: 12.9
• 作者: Lim, Jeonghoon;Chen, Yu;Hatzell, Marta C.
• 通讯作者: Hatzell, Marta C.

Energy Demand of Nitrogen and Phosphorus Based Fertilizers and Approaches to Circularity

• DOI: 10.1021/acsenergylett.2c02627
• 发表时间: 2023-02-17
• 期刊: ACS ENERGY LETTERS
• 影响因子: 22
• 作者: Daramola, Damilola A.;Hatzell, Marta C.
• 通讯作者: Hatzell, Marta C.

Impact of Local Microenvironments on the Selectivity of Electrocatalytic Nitrate Reduction in a BPM‐MEA System

• DOI: 10.1002/aenm.202304202
• 发表时间: 2024-02
• 期刊: Advanced Energy Materials
• 影响因子: 27.8
• 作者: Po-Wei Huang;Hakhyeon Song;Jaeyoung Yoo;Danae A. Chipoco Haro;Hyuck Mo Lee;Andrew J. Medford;Marta C. Hatzell