SBIR/STTR Research Award
Bench to pilot scale prototype for electrospinning biorenewable chitin sorbents for uranium from seawater: Process development, cost, and environmental analysis
Award amount
$1,498,846Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IIAward year
2014Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Energy
- Branch
- Not reported
- Recipient company
- 525 Solutions, Inc.
- Proposal award date
- 2014-07-28
- Contract end date
- 2016-07-27
- UEI
- C9RUXURX4B18
- Solicitation number
- DE-FOA-0001072
- Topic code
- 19g
Research abstract
525 Solutions will manufacture highly economical and biodegradable uranium-from-seawater sorbents from fishing industry waste, and provide them to government-designated mining companies, at the same time leveraging the governmental funds to create a sustainable chitin products business, enabling economic growth and job creation in both the chitin products and fishing industries.
Technology keywords
Not reported
Other awards by this recipient
Verified by the same UEI. These are other public SBIR/STTR award pages, not a merged company record.
- Waste biomass valorization through strategic partnerships
- Designing a mini-pilot scale unit for extraction and electrospinning of chitin as an adsorbent for uranium from seawater
- SBIR Phase I: New Chitin/Alginate Biocomposites by Homogeneous Processing in Ionic Liquids: Disruptive Technology for Wound Care Application
- Catalytic Fractionation of Biomass in Ionic Liquids
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Development of Iron Phosphate Waste Forms for Fission Products Waste Streams
- Development of Iron Phosphate Wasteforms for Fission Products Waste Streams
- Wavelength Dispersive X-ray Fluorescence Analysis of Actinides in Dissolved Nuclear Fuels
- Self Powered Krypton-85 Wireless Sensor for Fuel Cycle Gas Emissions
Research funding history
5 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2010–2021). Reported award amounts total $2,098,844. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Energy, National Science Foundation