Planning Grant: Engineering Research Center for Carbon Dioxide Utilization (CarbonUSE)

规划资助：二氧化碳利用工程研究中心（CarbonUSE）

• 批准号: 1840567
• 负责人: Gaurav Sant
• 金额: $ 10万
• 依托单位: University of California-Los Angeles
• 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: 2018-09-01 至 2023-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1840567&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Planning; Grant; Engineering; Research; Center

The Planning Grants for Engineering Research Centers competition was run as a pilot solicitation within the ERC program. Planning grants are not required as part of the full ERC competition, but intended to build capacity among teams to plan for convergent, center-scale engineering research. This planning grant will develop well-formulated plans for a future Engineering Research Center for Carbon Dioxide Utilization by: (a) enabling face? to-face interactions among diverse academic experts and industry leaders at planning workshops, (b) building industrial alliances, and (c) achieving deeper and more closely integrated convergence across disciplines. The in-person workshops will establish cohesive/coordinated interactions among team members, both at a personal and professional level, thereby enabling organic collaborations within and across disciplinary domains to fulfill a unified vision and goals. The provision of dedicated planning resources will create momentum within the team, helping to create an ascending and compelling agenda. This will cohere and motivate the team to develop grand solutions to the grand challenges of C02 management.This project has the potential to advance knowledge in (a) molecular-level interactions of CO2 with sorbents, membranes, and catalysts to exploit attributes such as defects, disorder, interfaces, and heterogeneity to control and enhance reaction rates, and (b) how cooperative phenomena (e.g., based on structural transitions) can reduce the extrinsic energy needs of CO2 capture and conversion processes, thereby improving process efficiencies. These advances will allow exploitation of complex electronic and atomic correlations to design and control materials, and the fabrication of hierarchical structures toward a common goal: the cost-effective capture and conversion of CO2. The project will allow for upcycling (beneficial utilization) of CO2 emissions at the gigaton scale and will position the U.S. as the world leader in this emerging domain. The institution of such disruptive offtake pathways for CO2 is a prerequisite for empowering the creation and success of the carbon-to-value economy and retarding the rate at which the climate is changing.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.

工程研究中心规划拨款竞赛是ERC项目的试点征集。规划补助金不需要作为ERC竞赛的一部分，但它旨在在团队之间建立能力，以规划聚合的、中心规模的工程研究。这项规划拨款将通过以下方式为未来的二氧化碳利用工程研究中心制定完善的计划：在规划研讨会上，不同的学术专家和行业领袖之间进行面对面的互动，(b)建立产业联盟，(c)实现更深入、更紧密的跨学科整合融合。面对面的研讨会将在团队成员之间建立凝聚力/协调的互动，无论是在个人层面还是在专业层面，从而实现学科领域内部和跨学科领域的有机合作，以实现统一的愿景和目标。提供专门的计划资源将在团队中创造动力，帮助创建一个上升的和引人注目的议程。这将凝聚和激励团队为二氧化碳管理的巨大挑战制定宏伟的解决方案。该项目有潜力推进以下方面的知识：(a)二氧化碳与吸附剂、膜和催化剂的分子水平相互作用，以利用缺陷、无序、界面和非均质等属性来控制和提高反应速率；(b)合作现象（例如，基于结构转变）如何减少二氧化碳捕获和转化过程的外部能量需求，从而提高过程效率。这些进步将允许利用复杂的电子和原子相关性来设计和控制材料，并为实现一个共同目标而制造层次结构：经济有效地捕获和转换二氧化碳。该项目将允许在千兆吨规模上对二氧化碳排放进行升级回收（有益利用），并将使美国成为这一新兴领域的全球领导者。建立这种破坏性的二氧化碳吸收途径，是促进碳价值经济的创造和成功，以及减缓气候变化速度的先决条件。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，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。