SBIR/STTR Research Award
Conversion of Agricultural Waste into High Quality Insulation for Energy Conservation
Award amount
$80,000Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2009Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Agriculture
- Branch
- Not reported
- Recipient company
- MAYATERIALS, INC
- Proposal award date
- Not reported
- Contract end date
- Not reported
- UEI
- RCU3GU7HZJL7
- Solicitation number
- Not reported
- Topic code
- Not reported
Research abstract
Agricultural products used as alternative energy sources can generate considerable waste. This waste will be enriched in plant extracted inorganics including high surface area silica. Mayaterials has already developed proprietary techniques to synthesize several useful chemicals (including several epoxy resins) from these wastes and proposes to use it to develop a new generation of highly efficient vacuum insulation panels cheap enough to be used for housing, thus providing added value to the biofuels synthesis process and increasing energy conservation.
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.
- SBIR Phase I: Production of alkoxysilanes directly from biogenic silica
- Conversion of Agricultural Waste into High Quality Insulation for Energy Conversion
- SBIR Phase I: NSF 09-541 NM N2: Cubic Silsesquioxanes as Green, Novel, Nano-engineered Materials for Hard, Thermally Stable and Hydrophobic Coatings
- Transparent Glass Fiber Reinforced Armor
- SBIR Phase I: Solar Grade Silicon from Agricutlural Byproducts
Research funding history
10 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2003–2016). Reported award amounts total $2,639,080. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, National Science Foundation, Department of Agriculture