PFI-TT: Pilot-scale demonstration of an advanced biotechnology to treat toxic wastewater produced in the biofuel industry

PFI-TT：先进生物技术的中试规模示范，用于处理生物燃料行业产生的有毒废水

• 批准号: 2234562
• 负责人: Zhiwu Wang
• 金额: $ 25万
• 依托单位: Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-03-15 至 2025-02-28
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2234562&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: PFI; TT; Pilot; scale; demonstration

The broader impact/commercial potential of this Partnerships for Innovation - Technology Translation (PFI-TT) project is to address the challenge - of cleaning toxic wastewater produced during biofuel production. In recent years, the production of transportation fuels from wet biomass has received increasing attention due to its promising potential to shift society’s dependence away from petroleum to renewable resources for the development of a sustainable industrial society, which is also an effective way to manage the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions. The technology demonstrates with the potential to enable biofuel commercialization and position U.S. renewable energy at the global forefront. This technology will advance scientific discovery of a transformative platform to enable sustainable bioenergy production, train the next generation of entrepreneurs, scientists, and engineers in bioenergy engineering, and environmental engineering/science. Such an industry-university collaborative project will deliver research outcomes useful for industrial partners to adopt in practice, offer complementary student (graduate, undergraduate, and K-12 students) trainings in entrepreneurship, and student internships. The proposed project seeks to demonstrate an innovative biotechnology pilot treatment specifically tailored for the valorization of wastewater generated during the biofuel production. A bottleneck that limits the economic and technical scalability of biorefineries is the production of toxic wastewater that cannot be reclaimed by conventional wastewater treatment systems. The team’s prior bench-scale study has shown that a special type of marine microorganism can be used an innovative bioprocess to reduce or remove the toxins in this wastewater. However, the scalability of the technology remains to be evaluated. To this end, the objectives of this project are to: 1) deliver a pilot-scale bioprocess specifically tailored for the marine microorganism; 2) optimize the productivity of this bioprocess; and 3) assess the economic viability of the technology. It is expected that the outcome from this project will overcome difficulties impeding the commercialization of the biofuel production.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.

这种创新合作伙伴关系的更广泛的影响/商业潜力 - 技术翻译（PFI -TT）项目是应对生产生产过程中生产的有毒有毒废水的挑战。近年来，湿生物质的运输燃料的生产受到了越来越多的关注，因为它有望将社会的依赖从石油转移到可再生资源，以发展可持续的工业社会，这也是管理减少温室气体排放的有效方法。该技术证明，有可能实现生物燃料商业化并将美国可再生能源定位在全球最前沿。这项技术将推进一个变革性平台的科学发现，以实现可持续的生物能源生产，培训生物能源工程领域的下一代企业家，科学家和工程师，以及环境工程/科学。这样的行业大学合作项目将为工业合作伙伴提供有用的研究成果，可以在实践中采用，提供完整的学生（研究生，本科生和K-12学生）企业家培训以及学生实习。拟议的项目旨在展示一种专门针对生物燃料生产过程中产生的废水的创新生物技术试验治疗。限制生物精炼经济和技术可扩展性的瓶颈是有毒废水的生产，而传统的废水处理系统无法再生。该团队先前的台式研究表明，一种特殊类型的海洋微生物可以使用创新的生物程序来减少或去除该废水中的毒素。但是，该技术的可伸缩性仍有待评估。为此，该项目的目标是：1）提供专门针对海洋微生物量身定制的飞行员规模的生物处理； 2）优化该生物处理的生产率； 3）评估技术的经济可行性。预计该项目的结果将克服困难，从而阻碍生物燃料生产的商业化。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是通过基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响评估标准来通过评估来获得的支持。