SBIR/STTR Research Award
SBIR/STTR Phase I: The ResonantSonic Enhanced Mixer and Coalescer (RSEMC) as an Advanced Solvent Extraction Technology
Award amount
$100,000Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2002Award details
- Awarding agency
- National Science Foundation
- Branch
- Not reported
- Recipient company
- RESODYN CORP
- Proposal award date
- Not reported
- Contract end date
- Not reported
- UEI
- NUT8PKD37ZH3
- Solicitation number
- Not reported
- Topic code
- Not reported
Research abstract
This Small Business Innovation and Research (SBIR) Phase I project will demonstrate the feasibility of using an agitation device based on a resonating elastic member for dispersing and coalescing immiscible liquids. This will have a significant impact in the liquid processing for solvent extraction of metals. The proposed technology offers a mixing regime that promotes high mass transfer, yet easy disengagement between immiscible liquids by forming uniform droplet dispersions and creating interfacial activity that increases mass transport. The post-contact phase disengagement can be further enhanced by applying higher frequency energy.
The near term commercial application would be presented by the changing technological landscape of the international mining and metals industries. The shift to leaching technology has created a need for advanced solvent extraction equipment. Applications also exist in the pharmaceutical industry, where solvent extraction is an entrenched and accepted approach to recovering products from microbial fermentation broths.
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.
- Resonant Acoustic Continuous Crystallizer for Safe and Tunable Recrystallization of Nitramines
- Continuous Synthesis of High-Value Critical Defense Materials with Continuous Acoustic Reactor System
- Alternative Mixing Technologies for High-Energy, Solid Materials for Large Gas Generator Propellant
- Resonant Acoustic Continuous Crystallizer for Safe and Tunable Recrystallization of Nitramines
- External Drum Dynamometer Runway Texture Coating
Research funding history
120 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1993–2023). Reported award amounts total $31,803,873. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II, Phase II – Direct to Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, National Science Foundation, Department of Health and Human Services, Department of Energy, Environmental Protection Agency, Department of Agriculture