ARI-R2: Renovation of the Physical Sciences Laboratory Building

ARI-R2：物理科学实验楼改造

• 批准号: 0963395
• 负责人: John Cable
• 金额: $ 198.56万
• 依托单位: Bowling Green State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-09-15 至 2013-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0963395&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: ARI; R2; Renovation; Physical; Sciences

This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).This proposal requests partial support for the renovation of the Physical Sciences Laboratory Building (PSLB) at Bowling Green State University of Ohio. This is the main research facility of the Department of Chemistry and Center for Photochemical Sciences at Bowling Green State University, and houses several research groups that have received external funding from several agencies. The research productivity of these groups has been affected by an inadequate and antiquated heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) system in PSLB. This building now suffers from excessive temperature extremes and large thermal fluctuations, particularly in the summer. The building also has problems with vibration from the supply and exhaust fans, which are beyond their original service life. These problems result in a significant amount of instrument downtime and unsafe working conditions. Significant renovations will be made to the building's air handling systems in order to increase cooling capacity, improve filtration, provide new supply and exhaust air valves, retrofit existing fans to variable speed drive, and improved electronic controls. Other upgrades will include replacing the existing pneumatic controls on the heating and cooling plants, and the first phase of a fume hood replacement program that will replace 66 existing fume hoods with energy efficient variable volume fume hoods. The renovation is expected to improve the conditions for research on materials and devices for fast detection of explosives using luminescent microporous materials, programmable photophysics in metal-organic chromophores, low-power photoluminescence and photochemical upconversion, single-molecule protein dynamics and interfacial electron transfer dynamics, metal-peptide nanoassemblies, and real-time monitoring of photoinduced rearrangement and energy flow in small polyatomic molecules in solution. This renovation will also reduce energy consumption on campus, which will have indirect benefits for research and education.

该奖项是根据2009年《美国复苏和再投资法案》(公法111-5)提供资金的。这项提议要求对俄亥俄州鲍灵格林州立大学物理科学实验室大楼(PSLB)的翻新提供部分支持。这是鲍林格林州立大学化学系和光化学科学中心的主要研究设施，容纳了几个研究小组，这些小组得到了几个机构的外部资助。这些群体的研究效率受到了PSLB供暖、通风和空调(HVAC)系统不足和陈旧的影响。这座建筑现在遭受着极端温度和巨大的温度波动，特别是在夏天。该建筑还存在供气和排气风扇的振动问题，这些问题超出了原来的使用寿命。这些问题导致大量的仪器停机和不安全的工作条件。大楼的空气处理系统将进行重大翻新，以增加冷却能力，改善过滤，提供新的送风阀和排气阀，将现有风扇改造为变速驱动，并改进电子控制。其他升级将包括更换供暖和冷却工厂现有的气动控制器，以及通风柜更换计划的第一阶段，该计划将用节能的可变容量通风柜取代66个现有的通风柜。这一创新有望改善利用发光微孔材料快速检测爆炸物的材料和设备的研究条件，金属-有机发色团的可编程光物理，低功率光致发光和光化学上转换，单分子蛋白质动力学和界面电子转移动力学，金属-多肽纳米组装，以及对溶液中多原子小分子的光致重排和能量流动的实时监测。这一改造还将减少校园内的能源消耗，这将为研究和教育带来间接好处。