SBIR/STTR Research Award
Efficient, Environmentally-Compatible Recovery Technologies for Rhenium and Other Strategic Critical Materials
Award amount
$100,000Program and phase
STTR · Phase IAward year
2013Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Navy
- Recipient company
- CHEMTOR, L.P.
- Proposal award date
- 2013-03-11
- Contract end date
- 2013-08-11
- UEI
- Not reported
- Solicitation number
- 2012.B
- Topic code
- OSD12-T04
Research abstract
Rhenium (Re) was the last natural element to be identified and is the rarest of metals. The most concentrated ore contains only about 1800 ppm Re. It has a very high melting point, which leads to uses in high temperature resistant applications like cataly
Technology keywords
Not reported
Awards with the same topic code
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- Recovery of Rhenium from Superalloy Scrap
- Transformational and Environmentally Efficient Electrochemical and Hydrometallurgy Recovery of Rhenium from Secondary Sources
- Recovery of Rhenium from Superalloy Scrap