CL CHEMICAL COMPANY — National Science Foundation STTR Phase II: CT
CL CHEMICAL COMPANY — STTR Phase II award from National Science Foundation.
Phase II STTR prototype / development signal
- Phase II is where National Science Foundation funds deeper R&D after feasibility. Incumbents with Phase II history are serious competitors on adjacent topics.
- Use this award as past-performance context and to map customer organizations for STRATFI/TACFI-style transition planning.
- Obligated amount $951,530 is consistent with substantial Phase II-scale effort; compare to related awards from the same agency.
- Topic code CT links this award to a solicitation family — search the same topic stem for incumbents and recompete timing.
- Amount
- $951,530
- Agency
- National Science Foundation
- Program / Phase
- STTR · Phase II
- Topic
- CT
- Solicitation
- NSF 21-566
- NAICS
- —
- Place of performance
- FL
- Period
- 2023-09-01 → 2025-08-31
Description
The broader impact/commercial potential of this Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Phase II project is to advance dynamic chemical reactor systems that repurposes waste gases (primarily carbon dioxide (CO2)) for use as fuels and as chemicals. This effort can have substantial commercial and market impacts as its output is compatible with existing infrastructure. This project leverages significant recent investments into carbon capture, renewable energy generation, and green hydrogen. A particularly interesting application of this technology is the production of chemical feedstocks that are used to make plastics and other commodity chemicals from living organisms.This is inherently a step towards carbon negative manufacturing. _x000D_ _x000D_ The proposed project aims to re-purpose pollutants to a feedstock for fuels and chemicals. Although renewable energy sources are increasing and becoming cheaper, these technologies are not ready for heavy-duty transportation and chemical sectors. No commercial scale operation is in existence in which CO2 is captured from the air or flue gas and converted to value-added fuels despite much fundamental research effort. The research objectives are to scale up the materials and system from the Phase I results and conduct a design and analysis of a full-scale system. The main advance is to achieve dynamic chemical reactor modules that achieve high reactant conversions. These results will permit analysis of a pilot-scale facility as well as translation of the benefits of this sustainable chemical reaction toward industrial scale production of clean and green hydrocarbon fuels and chemicals._x000D_ _x000D_ 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.