SBIR/STTR Research Award
Recovery Act - Process Intensification by Enhanced Performance of Multi-Effect Evaporators and Crystallizers
Award amount
$141,476Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2010Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Energy
- Branch
- Not reported
- Recipient company
- E3TECSERVICE, LLC
- Proposal award date
- Not reported
- Contract end date
- 2010-06-06
- UEI
- XTM6FANACYE6
- Solicitation number
- DE-PS02-09ER09-27
- Topic code
- 10 a
Research abstract
Currently enhanced tubes are not used in MEE evaporators and crystallizers and monitoring-based fouling mitigation is not practiced. Thermal separation processes are capital intensive and the industry is unlikely to replace the existing process equipment in working conditions just for energy savings. It was concluded in the ITP Sponsored AIChE Panel on Separations that in 2020 and beyond the industry will be using the process equipment installed in 2000 and before. Therefore, the developments to improve the energy efficiency should focus on retrofitting multi-effect evaporators and crystallizers with enhanced tubes and industry-wide application of mechanical vapor recompression (MVR) heat pumps. This proposal follows a similar path forward for multi-effect evaporation and crystallization process units. This transformational change in design of evaporators and crystallizers will have tangible energy efficiency improvements to achieve the DOE
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.
- Renewable Ocean Thermal Energy for Low-Pressure Desalination of Seawater with Co-Production of Ammonia
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- Conversion of CO2 to Alkyl Carbonates using Ethylene Oxide as Feedstock
- Conversion of CO2 to Alkyl Carbonates using Ethylene Oxide as Feedstock
Awards with the same topic code
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- Improved Method for the Production of Tetrahydrofuran from Biomass
- Safe and Renewable Plasticizers from Cellulose
- Platform for Integrated Cookstove Assessment (PICA)
- Improved Biomass Cooking Stoves and Improved Stove Emission Equipment
Research funding history
9 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2010–2022). Reported award amounts total $3,867,484. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Energy, Department of Agriculture