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Advancing Water Purification Solutions for a Resilient America
Award Year: 2024
UEI: UHKJDHDTQ1V4
HUBZone Owned: No
Woman Owned: No
Socially and Economically Disadvantaged: No
Congressional District: 25
Tagged as:
SBIR
Phase I
Awarding Agency
DOC
Branch: NOAA
Total Award Amount: $174,769
Contract Number: NA24OARX021G0014
Agency Tracking Number: 3217524
Solicitation Topic Code: 9.4
Solicitation Number: NOAA-OAR-TPO-2024-2008184
Abstract
Water reuse is gaining support as a local, resilient solution. Wastewater recycling conserves resources by substituting treated effluent for potable sources in non-potable uses like irrigation and industrial processes. A key obstacle is the potential health risks from chemical contaminants that persist through treatment and pathogens that could evade disinfection. Recent contaminants of concern include pharmaceuticals, personal care product chemicals, and Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS). Conventional water treatment methods have limitations in removing emerging contaminants and can have high operational costs and environmental impacts. While advanced technologies address more contaminants, they are energy-intensive and expensive providing limited options to address the current challenge of increasing accessibility to freshwater supplies. Pure Spun Innovations (PSI) is proposing a new methodology and technology to address the problem of water contamination by PFAS via an efficient and effective phase-change system. PSI’s novel phase-change water/fluid purification technology uses a NASA-validated vapor compression distillation (VCD) unit, uniquely coupled with parallel concentric rotary-boilers/condensers. VCD systems and are scalable from portable hand-carried purifiers up to industrial sized configurations to fulfill a critical unmet need in wastewater PFAS removal.
Award Schedule
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2024
Solicitation Year -
2024
Award Year -
August 1, 2024
Award Start Date -
January 31, 2025
Award End Date
Principal Investigator
Name: Steve Bitterly
Phone: 8183886168
Email: steve@PureSpunInnovations.com
Business Contact
Name: Steve Bitterly
Phone: 8183886168
Email: steve@PureSpunInnovations.com
Research Institution
Name: N/A