A Research Agenda for a New Era in Separations Science

分离科学新时代的研究议程

• 批准号: 1823190
• 负责人: Teresa Fryberger
• 金额: $ 21.8万
• 依托单位: National Academy of Sciences
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2018-09-15 至 2020-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1823190&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Research; Agenda; New; Era; Separations

Separations are important activities in trace chemical analysis, which is central to the chemical, biological, medical, environmental, and related sciences. In addition, separations processes are essential in the oil and gas, chemical, paper manufacturing, pharmaceutical, water treatment, and recycling industries. In these industries, chemical separations are expensive and consume large amounts of energy. Developing more efficient separation processes could reduce energy usage and have significant economic benefits to the U.S. economy. This award provides partial support for a National Academies of Sciences (NAS) study to develop an agenda for fundamental research in chemical separations science. The study is being conducted by an ad hoc committee with a range of expertise across academe, and the private sector. This study provides a comprehensive overview of advances made over the last three decades in the field of separation science and engineering, an assessment of the state of the field today, and a vision for future research directions. The study is focused on a molecular scale, with a cross-disciplinary view of the fundamental science that is common to both analytical chemistry and industrial-level separations. The study will result in a publicly accessible report that outlines a strategy for the next era of understanding and innovation in fundamental separations research, impacting applications in chemical analysis, energy production, waste management, water treatment, chemical manufacturing, recovery of critical resources, mining, and paper production. It is anticipated that the report may facilitate transdisciplinary research involving chemistry, physics, materials, and engineering. This project is co-funded by the Molecular Separations Program in the Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental and Transport Systems, and the Special Projects Program in the Division of Chemistry.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

分离是痕量化学分析中的重要活动，痕量化学分析是化学、生物、医学、环境和相关科学的核心。此外，分离过程在石油和天然气、化工、造纸、制药、水处理和回收行业中也是必不可少的。在这些行业中，化学分离是昂贵的，并且消耗大量的能量。开发更有效的分离工艺可以减少能源使用，并对美国经济产生重大的经济效益。 该奖项为美国国家科学院（NAS）的一项研究提供部分支持，以制定化学分离科学基础研究的议程。这项研究是由一个特设委员会进行的，该委员会具有跨企业和私营部门的一系列专业知识。这项研究提供了一个全面的概述，在分离科学和工程领域的进展，在过去的三十年中，该领域的今天的状态的评估，并对未来的研究方向的愿景。该研究的重点是分子尺度，具有分析化学和工业级分离共同的基础科学的跨学科观点。该研究将产生一份可公开访问的报告，概述了基础分离研究的下一个理解和创新时代的战略，影响化学分析，能源生产，废物管理，水处理，化学制造，关键资源回收，采矿和造纸生产中的应用。 预计该报告可能会促进涉及化学，物理，材料和工程的跨学科研究。 该项目由化学、生物工程、环境和运输系统部的分子分离项目和化学部的特别项目共同资助。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。