Planning Grant: Engineering Research Center for Innovative Built and Regenerative Environments for Advancing Timeless Habitability and Equity (I-BREATHE)

规划拨款：创新建筑和再生环境工程研究中心，促进永恒的宜居性和公平性（I-BREATHE）

• 批准号: 2124284
• 负责人: Elham Fini
• 金额: $ 10万
• 依托单位: Arizona State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-09-01 至 2024-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2124284&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Planning; Grant; Engineering; Research; Center

I-BREATHE will revolutionize the built environment to actively remove harmful gases in outdoor and indoor environments, thereby contributing to the wellbeing of occupants, the environment, and the community while enhancing the durability of the built environment. Buildings and civil infrastructure are in direct contact with the atmosphere and therefore can play a revolutionary supporting role to trees in removing particulate matter and gaseous compounds. As people spend a significant amount of their time indoors, buildings and civil infrastructure also have the potential to serve as barriers that block air pollutants from reaching their users. This planning grant activities will help develop an impactful community-centered vision for I BREATHE followed by a well-thought-out proposal to pursue establishment of the center with NSF ERC funding and the support of partners and stakeholders. As part of the planning grant, workshops would be set up for co-creation of new knowledge between university researchers and the community stakeholders. It would go beyond gathering information into co-creation. This helps the university researchers to gain more knowledge on the experiences and gaps faced by the community/industrial partners and similarly the community partners contribute to the knowledge generation by the university researchers. Such planning meetings allow us to identify societal and community challenges that can be addressed as part of this proposal and further provide opportunities to work with scholars from social science disciplines (e.g., economics, management, and psychology) to further refine the scope and research activities to maximize social gains. The meeting outcomes will help develop strategies for collecting and integrating inputs while creating advocacy groups and networks around the shared vision of simultaneous solutions for air quality and a resilient built environment.The Center will develop regenerative adsorptive materials to collect gaseous emissions and convert them into valuable products. Successful collection and conversion of gasses requires advancing the science of engineering carbon dots, mineralization, and photocatalytic materials, as well as advancing the knowledge of metal–organic frameworks and electrochemical conversion. To bridge the gap between the collection and conversion of gases, the adsorbing surfaces need to be regenerated by activation or desorption such that noxious gases, particulates, and CO2 are removed and can be used in the conversion process. Here, we explore the role of carbon dots and photoactive materials for the active remediation process, while taking advantage of solar thermal heating and solar photovoltaics combined with enhanced heat and mass transfer within/near the adsorbents to distribute the desorbed gases to desired endpoints. We also explore how shape and topology optimization can help increase the exposure of the built environment to the surrounding air, thereby increasing the efficiency of the adsorbents. With the help of our multifaceted plan for education and workforce development, we aim to bring the concept of breathing buildings to every household, so that every individual could benefit from the new role of the built environment in human health, environmental wellbeing, social equity, and community resilience. The Center will further revolutionize students' experience by centering it on use-inspired research. This in turn will produce globally aware scientists that will serve as junior ambassadors of the breathing building concept.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.

I-Break将对建筑环境进行革命性的改造，积极去除室外和室内环境中的有害气体，从而在提高建筑环境耐用性的同时，为居住者、环境和社区的福祉做出贡献。建筑物和民用基础设施与大气直接接触，因此可以在去除颗粒物和气体化合物方面对树木起到革命性的支持作用。随着人们在室内花费大量时间，建筑物和民用基础设施也有可能成为阻挡空气污染物到达用户手中的屏障。这一规划拨款活动将有助于为我呼吸制定一个有影响力的以社区为中心的愿景，并随后提出一个深思熟虑的建议，利用NSF ERC的资金以及合作伙伴和利益相关者的支持来建立该中心。作为规划补助金的一部分，将设立工作坊，让大学研究人员和社区利益攸关方共同创造新知识。它将不仅仅是收集信息，而是共同创造。这有助于大学研究人员更多地了解社区/产业合作伙伴面临的经验和差距，同样，社区合作伙伴也为大学研究人员的知识生成做出了贡献。这样的规划会议使我们能够确定可以作为该提案的一部分来解决的社会和社区挑战，并进一步提供机会，与社会科学学科(如经济学、管理学和心理学)的学者合作，进一步细化范围和研究活动，以最大限度地提高社会效益。会议成果将有助于制定收集和整合投入的战略，同时围绕同时解决空气质量和弹性建筑环境的共同愿景创建倡导团体和网络。该中心将开发可再生吸附材料来收集气体排放并将其转化为有价值的产品。气体的成功收集和转化需要推进工程碳点、矿化和光催化材料的科学，以及推进金属-有机骨架和电化学转化的知识。为了弥合气体收集和转化之间的差距，吸附表面需要通过活化或解吸进行再生，以便去除有毒气体、颗粒物和二氧化碳，并可在转化过程中使用。在这里，我们探索了碳点和光活性材料在主动修复过程中的作用，同时利用太阳能热加热和太阳能光伏结合吸附剂内部/附近的强化传热和传质，将解吸的气体分配到所需的终点。我们还探讨了形状和拓扑优化如何帮助增加建筑环境对周围空气的暴露，从而提高吸附剂的效率。通过我们多方面的教育和劳动力发展计划，我们的目标是将呼吸建筑的概念带到每个家庭，让每个人都能从建筑环境在人类健康、环境福祉、社会公平和社区韧性方面的新角色中受益。该中心将进一步革新学生的体验，将其集中在受使用启发的研究上。这反过来将培养出具有全球意识的科学家，他们将担任呼吸建筑概念的初级大使。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。