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.

该小型企业创新研究 (SBIR) 第一阶段项目旨在减少空气污染，特别是温室气体甲烷、有毒/致癌有机化合物和气味的排放，减少这些排放可改善人类健康和福祉，从而符合公共利益。和环境，并符合 NSF 的使命，即推广造福社会的未经证实的创新技术。这些减排将通过开发一种新型空气污染控制技术来实现，该技术可以经济高效地应用于小型排放源。那不能这些小型排放源数量众多，而且在某些情况下位于敏感或负担过重的社区附近，因此排放控制的成本效益和简单性的提高将产生越来越严格的影响。节省监管合规成本，释放人力和资本资源，用于其他领域的生产性用途。该 SBIR 项目将支持可燃气体空气污染控制技术的研发 (R&D)，该技术采用新颖的、正在申请专利的连续热再生技术系统启用这项工作将集中于研究本发明的基本传热、流体动力学和材料科学，以及全尺寸原型的构建和测试，以提高耐用性并降低性能。这种连续、再生、热氧化系统与任何现有的污染控制技术不同，与传统技术相比，该系统将能够大规模生产，与定制的现有系统不同。减小尺寸、降低复杂性，并且大规模生产应该会导致成本大幅降低。新系统还具有其他优点，例如减少预热时间、更大的应用灵活性和更高的安全性。该奖项是 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用评估被认为值得支持。基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准。