SBIR/STTR Research Award
AFFF Disposal
Award amount
$749,994Program and phase
STTR · Phase IIAward year
2018Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Air Force
- Recipient company
- Liquid Carbonic L.L.C.
- Proposal award date
- 2018-09-20
- Contract end date
- 2020-09-20
- UEI
- EB5UTLNUG8C1
- Solicitation number
- 2017.0
- Topic code
- AF17B-T001
Research abstract
The Air Force and other government and private entities must safely dispose of Aqueous Film-Forming Foam Waste (AFFF).The waste is problematic due to a high fluorine content.The thermal decomposition of AFFF by supercritical water oxidation (SCWO) was accomplished in a continuous flow reactor during Phase I demonstrating >99% AFFF conversion efficiency.Phase II will build on the bench-scale work by characterizing the decomposition reaction kinetics in order to develop design equations for scaling the process. Additional work focuses on alternative reactor designs to minimize technical problems related to the corrosive environment produced by SCWO. These tasks will be completed in conjunction with the overall effort directed towards the design, construction and operation of a pilot scale system.
Technology keywords
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Research funding history
3 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2018–2019). Reported award amounts total $1,124,987. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, National Science Foundation