SBIR Phase I: Low-Frequency Sonochemistry -- A Cutting Edge Industrial Processing Technology

这个小型企业创新研究第一阶段项目建议展示共振-声波技术增强和/或实现均相和非均相化学过程的能力，并建立导致观察到的化学反应增强的共振-声波操作条件。该项目将描述共振-声波机器的设计和操作特点，以及在第二阶段继续开发的相关工艺，在该阶段，将在中等规模上演示共振-声波工艺在一个具有商业重要性的化学工艺上的应用。这项技术已经在实验室中得到了验证，可以在液体和浆液中以低频率产生高能量的空化。它可以应用于工业规模的均相和多相处理，并有可能极大地提高反应速度，降低反应温度和压力，和/或降低试剂浓度，以影响广泛的化学反应。这项技术的市场潜力是巨大的，包括纸浆、食品、石化、化工、废物处理、制造、采矿和金属精炼行业。该技术可大大降低工业规模多相化工过程的成本和环境影响。该奖项由小企业创新研究计划和激励竞争研究的实验计划(EPSCoR)支持。

This Small Business Innovation Research Phase I project proposes to demonstrate the capability for resonant-sonic technology to enhance and/or enable homogeneous and heterogeneous chemical processes and establish the resonant-sonic operating conditions that cause the observed chemical reaction enhancements. The project will characterize resonant-sonic machine design and operational features, as well as associated process(es) for continued development in Phase II, where the application of a resonant-sonic process on one commercially important chemical process will be demonstrated at intermediate scale. The technology has already been demonstrated in the laboratory to produce highly energetic cavitation in liquids and slurries at low frequencies. It can be applied for industrial scale homogeneous and multiphase processing, and has the potential to greatly increase reaction rates, decrease reaction temperatures and pressures and/or reduce reagent concentrations to affect a wide range of chemical reactions. The market potential for this technology is immense, and includes the pulp, food, petrochemical, chemical, waste processing, manufacturing, mining, and metals refining industries. The technology can be used to greatly reduce the cost and environmental impact of industrial scale heterogeneous chemical processes. This award is supported by the Small Business Innovation Research Program and the Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR).