SBIR Phase I: CAS: Advanced Thermal Oxidizer to Cost-effectively Control Greenhouse Emissions from Small Sources

SBIR 第一阶段：CAS：先进的热氧化器，可经济高效地控制小源温室气体排放

• 批准号: 2326861
• 负责人: Joseph Klobucar
• 金额: $ 25.67万
• 依托单位: ROTOHEATER LLC
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2024
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2024-02-15 至 2025-01-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2326861&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SBIR; Phase; CAS; Advanced; Thermal

This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project seeks to reduce air pollution, specifically emissions of the greenhouse gas methane, toxic/carcinogenic organic compounds, and odors. Reduction in these emissions serves the public interest by improving human health, well-being, and the environment and is in alignment with NSF’s mission to promote innovative unproven technologies that can benefit society. These emission reductions will be accomplished through the development of a new type of air pollution control technology that can be cost-effectively applied to small emission sources that cannot be effectively controlled using existing technologies. These small emission sources are numerous, and in some cases, located near sensitive or overburdened communities, so the emissions control will have a large impact. The improved cost effectiveness and simplicity of this technology should reduce increasingly more stringent regulatory compliance costs, freeing up both human and capital resources for productive use in other areas.This SBIR project will support research and development (R&D) into an air pollution control technology for combustible gases that uses a novel, patent-pending, continuous heat regeneration system to enable re-use of thermal energy in a thermal oxidizer. The effort will focus on investigating the fundamental heat transfer, fluid dynamics, and material science of the invention as well as construction and testing of full-scale prototypes to increase the durability and reduce the performance risk. This continuous, regenerative, thermal oxidizer system is unlike any existing pollution control technology and will enable a significant reduction in size and complexity compared to conventional technologies. The system will be mass-produced, unlike existing systems that are custom built. The combination of reduced size, reduced complexity, and mass-production should result in a large reduction in cost. The new system has other advantages such as reduced warm-up time, greater flexibility in applications, and greater safety.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.

这项小型企业创新研究（SBIR）I期项目旨在减少空气污染，特别是温室气甲烷，有毒/致癌的有机化合物和气味的排放。这些排放的减少通过改善人类健康，福祉和环境来促进公共利益，并与NSF的使命保持一致，该使命是促进可以使社会受益的创新未经证实的技术。这些排放量的减少将通过开发新型的空气污染控制技术来实现，该技术可以成本效益地应用于无法使用现有技术有效控制的小型排放源。这些小型排放源很多，在某些情况下，位于敏感或负担过重的社区附近，因此排放控制将产生很大的影响。这项技术的成本效益和简单性的提高应降低越来越严格的监管合规成本，释放了其他领域的人类和资本资源以用于产品使用。该SBIR项目将支持研究与开发（R＆D）进入一种空气污染控制技术，用于使用新颖的，专利的，专利的，连续的热量再生系统的混合气体，以启用热氧化热氧化热氧化热能。这项工作将着重于研究本发明的基本传热，流体动力学和材料科学，以及对完整原型的构建和测试，以提高耐用性并降低性能风险。这种连续的，再生的热氧化剂系统与任何现有的污染控制技术不同，与传统技术相比，大小和复杂性将大大降低。与现有的自定义系统不同，该系统将是大量生产的。减小的大小，降低的复杂性和质量产生的结合应大大降低成本。新系统具有其他优势，例如减少热身时间，更大的应用灵活性以及更大的安全性。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并通过使用基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响来评估审查标准，被认为是珍贵的支持。