SBIR/STTR Research Award
STTR Phase I: Novel Membrane Reactors for Biosynthesis
Award amount
$150,000Program and phase
STTR · Phase IAward year
2007Award details
- Awarding agency
- National Science Foundation
- Branch
- Not reported
- Recipient company
- COMPACT MEMBRANE SYSTEMS, INC.
- Proposal award date
- Not reported
- Contract end date
- Not reported
- UEI
- JDNRH32DML47
- Solicitation number
- NSF 06-553
- Topic code
- MI
Research abstract
This Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Phase I project is to develop a reactor for the processing of vegetable oils or their resulting fatty acids to sugar esters. The membrane reactor system is envisioned to be permeable to small molecules, hydrogen and water. The esterification of fatty acids and sugars will occur in a non-aqueous environment and the water level in the reactor will be controlled by membrane properties and transmembrane pressure. It is expected that high conversion to sugar esters can be obtained at low enzyme concentrations. Moreover, continuous operation of the reactor can result in high productivity.
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.
- Low Cost Membranes for Carbon Capture
- Universal Membrane Dehydrator for Dewatering Pharmaceutical Solvents
- Integrated Catalytic Membrane System for Modular Manufacturing Of On-Purpose Propylene at Shale Gas Sites
- Ethylene Permeation in Control of Fruit Ripening
- Integrated Membrane Reactor for Enhancing Thermal & Chemical Reactors
Research funding history
218 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1993–2021). Reported award amounts total $55,705,610. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Energy, Department of Health and Human Services, Environmental Protection Agency, Department of Agriculture, National Science Foundation, Department of Defense