SBIR/STTR Research Award
Kiln Phosphoric Acid Process
Award amount
$79,720Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2004Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Agriculture
- Branch
- Not reported
- Recipient company
- JDC, Inc.
- Proposal award date
- Not reported
- Contract end date
- Not reported
- UEI
- Not reported
- Solicitation number
- Not reported
- Topic code
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Research abstract
The production of phosphoric acid for fertilizer is expensive, make impure acid, and has a large enviromental footprint. This phase I program involves a laboratory program to determine basic chemical and physical data to assess the viability of a process called the KPA process, to produce phosphoric acid (now a ten billion dollar market) for manufacturing fertilizer and detergents. The new process is projected from demonstration tests and preliminary engineering studies to produce phosphoric acid at much higher purity, at substantially lower cost, and with a significantly smaller environmental footprint. It may also allow processing of ores not suitable in the current wet phosphoric acid processes
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