NSF Engineering Research Center for Advancing Sustainable and Distributed Fertilizer Production (CASFER)

NSF 促进可持续和分布式肥料生产工程研究中心 (CASFER)

• 批准号: 2133576
• 负责人: Gerardine Botte
• 金额: $ 2600万
• 依托单位: Texas Tech University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Cooperative Agreement
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-09-01 至 2027-08-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2133576&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: NSF; Engineering; Research; Center; Advancing

The NSF Engineering Research Center for Advancing Sustainable and Distributed Fertilizer Production (CASFER) will strive to solve one of the most pressing problems facing humankind: how do we feed the growing world population while protecting and sustaining our environment? By 2050, the world population will exceed 10.5 billion, increasing the demand for food by 70%, with only an additional 10% land available for agriculture. To meet this demand, nitrogen-based fertilizers (NBFs) are required for the formation of plant proteins. Currently, more than 50% of the world population is supported by synthetic NBFs, produced via the Haber-Bosch process (HB) a carbon intensive process, however, the high volatility of prices remains a challenge in the US and developing countries. Furthermore, only 20% of NBFs produced translate into food with 80% lost to the environment creating significant environmental, health, and socioeconomic impact. Therefore, society requires new cost effective, resilient, and secure ways to produce NBFs with minimum environmental and socioeconomic impacts. CASFER will enable resilient and sustainable food production by developing next generation, modular, distributed, and efficient technology for capturing, recycling, and producing decarbonized NBFs. CASFER will create a transformative engineered system that takes the US from nitrogen cycle pollution to a Nitrogen Circular Economy (NCE), from a linear economy to a circular economy with multidimensional social, environmental, and economic growth. CASFER will capture and recycle nitrogen from waste to reach over 50% of the US NBF consumption. Instead of expending resources, energy, and money to deactivate diluted reactive nitrogen from waste streams, nitrogen from waste will be captured and recycled for crop production. CASFER brings together a diverse leadership and the convergence of a multidisciplinary team drawn from Texas Tech University, Florida A&M University, Georgia Institute of Technology, Case Western Reserve University, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. CASFER convergence research will advance modeling, monitoring and distributed control; capture and recycling; and modular and distributed production and delivery of NBFs. CASFER will enable an organic but synthetic approach to NBF production, with ingredients, predictability, and reliability designed to stimulate plant growth. CASFER technologies will integrate nanotechnology, electrochemical science, and data science for modularity, synthesis, and separations, and resolve economic pressures, logistics issues, public and industry acceptance, regulatory, and safety issues. CASFER will advance fundamental knowledge in key areas of interfacial processes, separations, catalysis and electrocatalysis, and properties of materials to tolerate heterogenous and harsh environments to enable synthetic chemistry pathways to convert waste into NBF. CASFER will lead to advances in sensor science and multiscale modeling to deliver NBF near point of use by farmers. CASFER Innovation Ecosystem will bring together key industry members, agriculture cooperatives, facilitators, investors, regulatory advisory boards, and Society Visionary Champions to commercialize CASFER research discoveries and maximize benefits to society. CASFER will train the next generation of engineers and technical workforce at the intersection of engineering, agricultural sciences, and environmental science with the skills to advance the NCE. CASFER will empower agents of change and influencers to promote the NCE targeting formal and informal education along the K-gray spectrum. CASFER will engage a diverse range of communities underrepresented in STEM through the NCE by acknowledging the varied backgrounds and experiences of each participant and facilitating their engagement in engineering through multimodal, multilevel entry points and cut across socioeconomic and cultural boundaries. CASFER will establish a fully sustainable innovation ecosystem to expand fundamental knowledge and leverage CASFER platform technologies to recover phosphorous, nutrients, and other resources from waste streams. Through all these activities, CASFER will lead the US toward a Nitrogen Circular Economy, fertilizer independence, an affordable and resilient price range for NBF, while sustaining and preserving the environment.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.

NSF推进可持续和分布式肥料生产工程研究中心(CASFER)将努力解决人类面临的最紧迫的问题之一：我们如何在保护和维持我们的环境的同时养活不断增长的世界人口？到2050年，世界人口将超过105亿，粮食需求将增加70%，可用于农业的土地仅增加10%。为了满足这一需求，需要氮基肥料(NBF)来形成植物蛋白质。目前，超过50%的世界人口由合成NBF提供支持，这些NBF是通过哈伯-博世工艺(HB)生产的，这是一个碳密集型工艺，然而，价格的高波动性在美国和发展中国家仍然是一个挑战。此外，生产的NBF中只有20%转化为食品，80%损失到环境中，造成了重大的环境、健康和社会经济影响。因此，社会需要新的成本效益、弹性和安全的方法来生产NBF，并将对环境和社会经济的影响降至最低。CASFER将通过开发下一代、模块化、分布式和高效的捕获、回收和生产脱碳NBF的技术，实现弹性和可持续的粮食生产。CASFER将创建一个变革性的工程系统，将美国从氮循环污染带到氮循环经济(NCE)，从线性经济到具有多维社会、环境和经济增长的循环经济。CASFER将从废物中捕获和回收氮，达到美国NBF消费量的50%以上。废物中的氮将被捕获并回收用于作物生产，而不是花费资源、能源和资金来停用废物中稀释的活性氮。CASFER汇聚了来自德克萨斯理工大学、佛罗里达农工大学、佐治亚理工学院、凯斯西储大学和麻省理工学院的不同领导层和多学科团队。CASFER融合研究将推动NBF的建模、监测和分布式控制；捕获和回收；以及模块化和分布式生产和交付。CASFER将实现一种有机但合成的NBF生产方法，其成分、可预测性和可靠性旨在刺激植物生长。CASFER技术将整合纳米技术、电化学科学和数据科学，以实现模块化、合成和分离，并解决经济压力、物流问题、公众和行业接受度、监管和安全问题。CASFER将推进界面过程、分离、催化和电催化等关键领域的基础知识，以及材料耐受异质和恶劣环境的性能，使合成化学途径能够将废物转化为NBF。CASFER将导致传感器科学和多尺度建模的进步，以在农民使用的地点附近提供NBF。CASFER创新生态系统将汇集主要行业成员、农业合作社、促进者、投资者、监管咨询委员会和社会远见倡导者，将CASFER研究发现商业化，并最大限度地为社会带来好处。CASFER将在工程学、农业科学和环境科学的交叉点上培养下一代工程师和技术劳动力，他们的技能将推动NCE的发展。CASFER将赋予变革推动者和影响者权力，以K-Grey谱为目标的正规和非正规教育为目标，促进NCE。CASFER将通过NCE让STEM中代表性不足的各种社区参与进来，承认每个参与者的不同背景和经验，并通过多模式、多层次的切入点促进他们参与工程，跨越社会经济和文化边界。CASFER将建立一个完全可持续的创新生态系统，以扩大基础知识，并利用CASFER平台技术从废流中回收磷、养分和其他资源。通过所有这些活动，CASFER将带领美国走向氮循环经济、化肥独立、NBF负担得起和有弹性的价格范围，同时维持和保护环境。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。

项目成果

PdCu Electrocatalysts for Selective Nitrate and Nitrite Reduction to Nitrogen

• DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.2c04841
• 发表时间: 2023-01-06
• 期刊: ACS CATALYSIS
• 影响因子: 12.9
• 作者: Lim, Jeonghoon;Chen, Yu;Hatzell, Marta C.
• 通讯作者: Hatzell, Marta C.

Energy Demand of Nitrogen and Phosphorus Based Fertilizers and Approaches to Circularity

• DOI: 10.1021/acsenergylett.2c02627
• 发表时间: 2023-02-17
• 期刊: ACS ENERGY LETTERS
• 影响因子: 22
• 作者: Daramola, Damilola A.;Hatzell, Marta C.
• 通讯作者: Hatzell, Marta C.

Impact of Local Microenvironments on the Selectivity of Electrocatalytic Nitrate Reduction in a BPM‐MEA System

• DOI: 10.1002/aenm.202304202
• 发表时间: 2024-02
• 期刊: Advanced Energy Materials
• 影响因子: 27.8
• 作者: Po-Wei Huang;Hakhyeon Song;Jaeyoung Yoo;Danae A. Chipoco Haro;Hyuck Mo Lee;Andrew J. Medford;Marta C. Hatzell