STTR Phase I: Refrigerant Ionic liquid Separation

STTR 第一阶段：制冷剂离子液体分离

• 批准号: 2232475
• 负责人: Kalin Baca
• 金额: $ 27.5万
• 依托单位: ICONIUM ENGINEERING COMPANY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-04-01 至 2024-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2232475&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: STTR; Phase; Refrigerant; Ionic; liquid

The broader impact/commercial potential of this Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Phase I project will be to provide the refrigerant industry with the first commercial designs for separating complex, multi-component, azeotropic refrigerant mixtures for economical recycling. The American Innovation and Manufacturing Act authorizes the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to phase down production and consumption of refrigerants causing global warming by 85 percent over 15 years. The societal, economical, and environmental benefits are estimated to create thousands of jobs and increase manufacturing by billions of dollars in the U.S. while reducing venting and incineration, and subsequently global temperature rise. There are millions of metric tons of mixed refrigerants that cannot be reclaimed using current fractional distillation technology. The proposed ionic liquid extractive distillation technology will make possible the separation and reuse of these complex refrigerant mixtures. The startup company funded through this project will provide a novel separation technology to the refrigerant industry that is of strategic national interest. Outreach activities, especially toward the inclusion of women and underrepresented minorities will be supported through this project.This STTR Phase I project proposes to demonstrate that complex, multi-component, azeotropic refrigerant mixtures can be separated using ionic liquids, and that the products can meet industry standard specifications. Refrigerant mixture R-404A, used broadly throughout the commercial refrigeration industry (e.g., grocery stores) is a complex, ternary azeotropic mixture containing HFC-143a (1,1,1-trifluoroethane), which has a high global warming potential. HFC-143a will be one of the first refrigerants to be reused in new low global warming blends containing hydrofluoroolefins if the HFC-143a can be economically separated. Over 100 complex, multicomponent refrigerant mixtures exist in the market. This project will enable the development of processes, technologies, and systems designs required for industry to meet and exceed the phase down goals. The program objectives include the separation of R-404A into components, the creation of a process model, and testing of recovered R-404A from industry to understand the effects of impurities. The results will be used to develop a technoeconomic model and commercial scale designs that the team will build and/or license to the refrigerant industry.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.

该小型企业技术转让 (STTR) 第一阶段项目的更广泛影响/商业潜力将为制冷剂行业提供第一个商业设计，用于分离复杂、多组分、共沸制冷剂混合物，以实现经济回收。 《美国创新与制造法案》授权环境保护署 (EPA) 在 15 年内逐步减少导致全球变暖 85% 的制冷剂的生产和消费。据估计，其社会、经济和环境效益将为美国创造数千个就业机会，并使制造业增加数十亿美元，同时减少排放和焚烧，以及随后的全球气温上升。使用当前的分馏技术无法回收数百万吨的混合制冷剂。所提出的离子液体萃取蒸馏技术将使这些复杂的制冷剂混合物的分离和再利用成为可能。通过该项目资助的初创公司将为具有国家战略利益的制冷剂行业提供新颖的分离技术。该项目将支持外展活动，特别是针对女性和代表性不足的少数族裔的包容性。该 STTR 第一阶段项目旨在证明可以使用离子液体分离复杂的多组分共沸制冷剂混合物，并且产品能够满足行业标准规范。广泛用于整个商业制冷行业（例如杂货店）的制冷剂混合物 R-404A 是一种复杂的三元共沸混合物，含有 HFC-143a（1,1,1-三氟乙烷），具有较高的全球变暖潜力。如果能够经济地分离 HFC-143a，HFC-143a 将成为首批在含有氢氟烯烃的新型低全球变暖混合物中重复使用的制冷剂之一。市场上存在 100 多种复杂的多组分制冷剂混合物。该项目将促进行业所需的流程、技术和系统设计的开发，以达到并超越逐步淘汰的目标。该计划的目标包括将 R-404A 分离成组分、创建工艺模型以及测试从工业中回收的 R-404A 以了解杂质的影响。研究结果将用于开发技术经济模型和商业规模设计，团队将构建这些模型和/或向制冷剂行业授予许可。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的评估进行评估，被认为值得支持。影响审查标准。