SBIR/STTR Research Award
REMOVAL OF AIR TOXIC METALS EMISSIONS FROM FOSSIL-FUEL COMBUSTION SOURCES
Award amount
$49,888Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
1992Award details
- Awarding agency
- Environmental Protection Agency
- Branch
- Not reported
- Recipient company
- ADA TECHNOLOGIES LLC
- Proposal award date
- Not reported
- Contract end date
- Not reported
- UEI
- NQEGVMEYYRT9
- Solicitation number
- Not reported
- Topic code
- Not reported
Research abstract
AIR TOXIC METALS AND THEIR COMPOUNDS ARE PRODUCED FROM THE COMBUSTION OF FOSSIL-FUELS. THE COMBUSTION OF COAL AND FUEL OIL REPRESENTS AN EXTREMELY LARGE CATEGORY OF SOURCE EMISSIONS. RESEARCH IS PROPOSED THAT WILL PROVIDE A MEANS FOR REMOVING THE VOLATILE METAL CONTENT OF FLUE GAS GENERATED FROM POWER AND STEAM GENERATING PLANTS USING ZEOLITIC OR CARBONACEOUS ADSORBENTS. A LABORATORY-SCALE FIXTURE WILL BE USED TO EVALUATE THE CAPABILITY OF SEVERAL ADSORBENTS IN REMOVING MERCURY VAPOR FROM A SIMULATED FLUE GAS. THE TECHNOLOGY IS DESIGNED TO BE APPLIED AS A LOW-COST RETROFIT TO EXISTING EQUIPMENT USING COMMERCIALLY AVAILABLE REAGENTS. ADSORBENTS FOR TOXIC METALS CONTROL COULD CONCEIVABLY BE INCORPORATED INTO A COMBINED TECHNOLOGY WHERE SO2, NOX, AND PARTICULATE MATTER ARE ALSO CONTROLLED. THE PRIMARY OBJECTIVE OF THE PHASE I PROGRAM IS TO DETERMINE THE TECHNICAL FEASIBILITY OF USING SORBENTS IN A AIR TOXICS REMOVAL PROCESS. FAVORABLE RESULTS WILL BE USED TO SET UP A PHASE II SITE EVALUATION OF THE TECHNOLOGY.
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.
- Family of High Voltage Standard Batteries for Army Ground Vehicle Applications
- Safe, Wide-temperature Range, Long Life 0V Storage-capable Batteries for Army Ground Vehicle Applications
- Conformable High Energy Density LiS Battery as Power Source for Unmanned Air Vehicles and Directed Energy Weapons
- Conformable High Energy Density LiS Battery as Power Source for Avionics & Sensors in Hypersonic Platforms
- Safe, Wide-temperature Range, Long Life 0V Storage-capable Batteries for Army Ground Vehicle Applications
Research funding history
274 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1985–2025). Reported award amounts total $89,993,036. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II, Phase II – Direct to Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, Department of Energy, Department of Health and Human Services, Environmental Protection Agency, National Science Foundation, National Aeronautics and Space Administration