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GreensulateTM is an affordable, biodegradable replacement for polystyrene/polyurethane foam building products, poised to replace petrol-foams in the rigid board insulation market.  This patent pending technology uses the vegetative growth stage of a benign fungus (mycelium: P.ostreatus, I.obliquus, F.formentarius A.arvensis) to bond loose particles into a cohesive whole.  The fungus operate ...

The proposed program will demonstrate the ability of a detector based on measuring the conductance of nicotinic acetylcholine receptor (nAChR) ion channels to detect and quantify anatoxin-a contamination in drinking water systems.  The nAChR is extremely sensitive to the presence of anatoxin-a.  Electronic Bio Sciences has already made extensive progress in the development of a robust ion c ...

Environmental Protection Agency rules stipulate that corrective action be taken for drinking water distribution systems that exceed the maximum contaminant level (MCL) for total Trihalomethanes (TTHMs) 80μg/L.  Real-time, or even periodic, monitoring of drinking water is not economically feasible.  Current methods use gas chromatography, and are expensive and plagued with long time delays ...

According to the study EPA 2000 Community Water System Survey Data on Pipe Assets, the infrastructure for water distribution and sewerage systems is aging and requires replacement.  In addition, in EPA’s September 2002 report Clean Water and Drinking Water Infrastructure Gap Analysis, the funding gap for replacing aging pipes was estimated to be $27 billion a year for the next 20 years. A ...

The current SBIR solicitation states that the EPA is seeking “better sampling, analysis, and monitoring technologies” to improve hazardous waste management.  Development of new methods for testing contaminated sediments is an area of particular concern because many industrial chemical such as pesticides, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, chlorinated hydrocarbons, and heavy metals accumul ...

Despite the general decrease in total methane emissions since 1990, methane emissions from manure management increased by 33% from 1.5 Tg in 1990 to 2.0 Tg in 2006. The majority of this increase was due to general changes in methods of manure management. It is reasonable to expect that methane emissions from manure management will increase if there is no effective way to collect and utilize this ...

A compact and affordable microchip-based system for the automated, in situ analysis of inorganic ions in atmospheric aerosols will be develop and verified against traditional, filter-based methods. Aerosol Dynamics, Inc., will combine two new technologies: (1) a growth tube impactor for particle collection, and (2) lab-on-a-chip (LOC) analysis of sulfates and nitrates. The growth ...

The design, construction, and feasibility testing of X-ray fluorescence (XRF) based instrumentation capable of detecting the presence of atomic species within ambient particulate matter (PM) on a near real-time basis has been completed successfully. The XRF analysis is made feasible for hourly ambient PM samples through the implementation of novel high-volume flow impaction and post-im ...

Air particulates have been identified as a source of primary and secondary health risks. Even small, short-term increases in the amount of air particulate contamination in the atmosphere can produce significant increases in both mortality and morbidity from respiratory and cardiovascular diseases. For example, recent studies show that just two hours of breathing fine particles in a city from sou ...

Photon Systems, Inc., will develop a unique, online, in situ autonomous monitoring and process control system that will improve the reliability and performance of wastewater treatment systems designed to remove nitrogen through simultaneous nitrification and denitrification. A key technology component of this innovative process control system will be an analytical instrument based on deep ultravio ...