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Green Chemistry Institute Receives $500,000 Federal Grant

Sustainability: Advanced manufacturing project aims to boost development of environmentally friendly separation processes

by Linda Wang
May 12, 2015

A $500,000 federal government grant for a project to propel the design of more energy efficient separation processes has been awarded to the American Chemical Society’s Green Chemistry Institute (ACS GCI).

The ACS GCI project is one of 16 to receive funding from the National Institute of Standards & Technology’s Advanced Manufacturing Technology Consortia program to help accelerate the growth of advanced manufacturing in the U.S.

“This grant provides an opportunity to chart a path for a series of technology innovations around separations,” says David Constable, director of ACS GCI. “It’s a completely different approach that industry can use to do common separations that now require a lot of energy. It’s potentially opening up new avenues for research.” The NIST grants support industry-driven consortia in developing research plans and charting collaborative actions to solve high-priority technology challenges. Projects range from next-generation gas turbines and aerospace manufacturing to hybridized semiconductor and synthetic biology devices and glass manufacturing.

The ACS GCI project received funding for two years. The institute will collaborate with the American Institute of Chemical Engineers Separations Division, the Computational Molecular Science & Engineering Forum, the Industrial Fluid Properties Simulation Challenge, the Pine Chemicals Association, and several ACS GCI Industrial Roundtable member companies.

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