SBIR Phase I: Low-cost Ceramic Membranes for Drinking Water Treatment

SBIR 第一阶段：用于饮用水处理的低成本陶瓷膜

• 批准号: 0611153
• 负责人: Christopher Hoffman
• 金额: $ 10万
• 依托单位: CeraMem Corporation
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2006
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2006-07-01 至 2006-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0611153&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SBIR; Phase; Low; cost; Ceramic

This Small Business Innovation Research Phase I project will demonstrate the feasibilty of a novel approach to the fabrication of ceramic membranes that could result in an 80% reduction in membrane fabrication costs. Membrane filtration is becoming an important aspect in the removal of particulates and contaminates from drinking water. Recent developments in ceramic membrane modules that offset the high manufacturing costs have allowed ceramics to be competitive with polymerics in some markets. By developing the novel fabrication technique, the cost of ceramic membranes modules will be significantly reduced, giving ceramics an advantage over the currently employed polymeric membranes. Increased membrane usage in water treatment will lead to safer drinking water for the 90% of Americans that receive their water from community water systems. For the water systems that employ ceramic membranes, there will be less cost, less maintenance and fewer concerns of system integrity failures. In addition, the technology developed in this program would be applicable to potentially all ceramic microfiltration and ultrafiltration membranes for all food, beverage, chemicals, pharmaceutical, energy, wastewater, and water applications.

这个小型企业创新研究第一阶段项目将展示一种新型陶瓷膜制造方法的可行性，该方法可以使膜制造成本降低 80%。膜过滤正在成为去除饮用水中的颗粒和污染物的一个重要方面。陶瓷膜组件的最新发展抵消了高制造成本，使得陶瓷在一些市场上能够与聚合物竞争。通过开发新型制造技术，陶瓷膜组件的成本将显着降低，使陶瓷比目前使用的聚合物膜更具优势。在水处理中增加膜的使用将为 90% 从社区供水系统获取水的美国人带来更安全的饮用水。对于采用陶瓷膜的水系统来说，成本更低，维护更少，系统完整性故障的担忧也更少。此外，该项目开发的技术将适用于所有食品、饮料、化学品、制药、能源、废水和水应用的陶瓷微滤和超滤膜。