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How Glass SCMs Solve the Market Need. The process of producing cement has remained unchanged since the industrial revolution. Concrete producers need a new high performing cement alternative to lower their concrete products' cost and embodied carbon. Otherwise, we will be building our future communities using a process with the environmental and financial costs of 1820s technology. This project wi ...

Off target pesticide spray drift is an economically and environmentally significant problem. Off target drift can damage susceptible crops, orchards, and apiaries, induce herbicide resistant weed development, damage native pollinator habitats, create human-health related pesticide exposure hazards, and create social and legal strife as a result of adjudicating exposure incidents. SprayCast uses ma ...

The goal of the proposed effort is to develop polychlorinated biphenyls (PCB)-free pigments and synthetic pathways that do not unintentionally generate PCB as byproducts. This effort will harness Kebotix’s existing AI-powered platform, which includes a workflow that controls high-throughput computational modeling of molecules and materials, proprietary machine learning methods for process contro ...

Trace organic compounds are a major challenge for water reuse. N-nitrosamines and NDMA in particular are of concern because they occur in treated wastewaters at levels closest to those of potential human health concern. These are formed as a disinfection byproducts (DBPs) in treatment processes used in water recycling. NDMA limits and monitoring requirements are included in most permitting require ...

The Zero-Waste (ZeWa) system is an onsite black- and greywater treatment technology that maximizes the chemical energy potential contained in wastewater to produce zero-waste and three valuable reuse output streams: A) clean water for non-potable reuse, B) concentrated fertilizer for local nutrient supply, and C) Class A biosolids for local soil amendment. Over the course of Phase I, a lab-scale Z ...

Ultrasound generated by polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) transducers effectively reduced membrane fouling in Pure Blue Tech Inc.'s EPA SBIR Phase I project. This innovation is of paramount importance to all membrane separations applications because fouling is the chief problem and managing it is the dominant focus of membrane operators. Reducing membrane fouling by integrated ultrasound can shift me ...

In this Small Business Innovation Research effort, Nikira Labs Inc. proposes to develop a sensitive (

Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) have been used extensively since the 1940s due to their chemical stability and unique thermophysical properties. Those same properties make PFAS extremely recalcitrant environmental pollutants and bioaccumulative toxins. The most significant PFAS issues are a direct result of the discharge of aqueous film-forming foam (AFFF), both for firefighter training ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has evidenced the pressing and substantial need for sustainable and more effective solutions to prevent the transmission and spreading of pathogens of public health concern, including the SARS-CoV-2. Imminent challenges for the US Nation include emerging pathogens resulting from disease outbreaks or manufactured and released by terrorists. In this regard, high-touch surfaces ...

Plastic Ocean Waste (POW) is accumulating in our oceans and on our beaches at an accelerating rate. Eight million metric tons (8M MT) of plastic is entering the world's oceans each year at a rate of one ton per minute. Alaska represents 53% of the U.S. coastline. During Phase I, we estimated the amount of POW accumulating on Alaska's shorelines at 34,500 to 51,700 MT/yr at a rate of three ton per ...