SBIR/STTR Research Award
IN-PROCESS RECYCLING OF ACETIC ACID FROM DILUTE AQUEOUS WASTE STREAMS
Award amount
$50,000Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
1993Award details
- Awarding agency
- Environmental Protection Agency
- Branch
- Not reported
- Recipient company
- MEMBRANE TECHNOLOGY AND RESEARCH, INC.
- Proposal award date
- Not reported
- Contract end date
- Not reported
- UEI
- JZ1RVB5TNLX9
- Solicitation number
- Not reported
- Topic code
- Not reported
Research abstract
DILUTE ACETIC ACID WASTEWATER STREAMS ARE PRODUCED IN LARGE QUANTITIES BY THE SYNTHETIC ORGANIC CHEMICAL INDUSTRY, FOR EXAMPLE, IN THE SYNTHESIS OF TEREPHALATE. RECOVERY OF ACETIC ACID FROM THESE WASTEWATERS FOR IN-PROCESS RECYCLING OF THE ACID WOULD REDUCE WASTE AND SAVE VALUABLE RESOURCES. THIS PROPOSAL DESCRIBES THE DEVELOPMENT OF A POROCESS THAT COMBINES SELECTIVE DIALYSIS FOLLOWED BY BIPOLAR-MEMBRANE ELECTROLYSIS TO RECOVER AND CONCENTRATE THIS ACID. ALTHOUGH THE PROGRAM FOCUSES ON ACETIC ACID RECOVERY, THE TECHNOLOGY COULD BE APPLIED TO RECOVERY AND RECYCLING OF OTHER WEAK ACIDS SUCH AS ACRYLIC ACID, LACTIC ACID, AND PHENOLS.
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.
- STTR Phase II: New Perfluorodioxolane- and Perfluorodioxane-based Copolymer Membranes for Gas Separations
- STTR Phase I: New Perfluorodioxolane- and Perfluorodioxane-based Copolymer Membranes for Gas Separations
- SBIR Phase I: Hybrid Membranes with Metal-Organic Frameworks for Carbon Dioxide Removal from Natural Gas
- Membrane Process for solvent Reclamation and Reuse
- SBIR Phase II: Carbon-Ceramic Composite Membranes for Olefin-Paraffin Separations
Research funding history
191 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1983–2016). Reported award amounts total $31,990,487. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Energy, Environmental Protection Agency, National Science Foundation, Department of Defense, Department of Agriculture, National Aeronautics and Space Administration