SBIR Phase I: Novel Utilization of Fly Ash using a Sustainable Process

SBIR 第一阶段：采用可持续工艺对粉煤灰进行新利用

• 批准号: 1345490
• 负责人: Jia Liu
• 金额: $ 15万
• 依托单位: Novoreach Technologies LLC
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2014-01-01 至 2014-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1345490&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SBIR; Phase; Novel; Utilization; Fly

This Small Business Innovation Research Phase I project will develop a novel and sustainable process to utilize industrial waste materials and energy to prepare high value commercial structural materials. Fly ash from coal power plants will be formulated and reacted with flue gas to develop proppant materials for hydraulic fracturing in oil and gas exploration. The use of fly ash will not only reduce the environmental impact of fly ash disposal but also eliminate the need to mine and transport a large quantity of ceramic raw materials to proppant production plants. Utilization of waste energy from flue gas will also enable a sustainable process to produce proppants without the need of high temperature ceramic processing. Therefore, the combined use of fly ash and flue gas will enable the production of low-cost and high-strength proppants for oil and gas exploration.The broader impacts/commercial potential will be the potential to provide a sustainable and low-cost process to utilize coal power plant wastes to produce high strength structural materials. These high strength materials can be used as proppants for hydraulic fracturing in oil and gas exploration. The global proppant market for oil and gas exploration is expected to reach $7 billion by 2017 with a 10.75% compound annual growth rate. The success of the proposed work could significantly reduce the landfill requirements for disposal of fly ash, and the resulting impact on the environment. Finally, the utilization of flue gas treatment to replace traditional high-temperature ceramic material processing will reduce the level of global greenhouse gas emissions.

该小型企业创新研究第一阶段项目将开发一种新颖的可持续工艺，利用工业废料和能源制备高价值的商业结构材料。燃煤电厂的粉煤灰将与烟道气进行配制和反应，以开发用于石油和天然气勘探的水力压裂的支撑剂材料。粉煤灰的使用不仅将减少粉煤灰处置对环境的影响，而且还消除了开采和将大量陶瓷原料运输到支撑剂生产厂的需要。来自烟道气的废能的利用还将使得能够实现在不需要高温陶瓷加工的情况下生产支撑剂的可持续工艺。 因此，飞灰和烟道气的组合使用将能够生产用于石油和天然气勘探的低成本和高强度的支撑剂，更广泛的影响/商业潜力将是提供一种可持续的和低成本的工艺来利用燃煤电厂废物生产高强度的结构材料的潜力。这些高强度材料可用作石油和天然气勘探中水力压裂的支撑剂。全球石油和天然气勘探支撑剂市场预计到2017年将达到70亿美元，复合年增长率为10.75%。拟议工作的成功可以大大减少处置粉煤灰的填埋要求，以及对环境造成的影响。最后，利用烟气处理替代传统的陶瓷材料高温加工，将降低全球温室气体排放水平。