FOA-Desalination
and Water Purification Research Program Pitch to Pilot for Fiscal Year 2020;
June 17, 2020
Agency
Department
of the Interior
Description
Reclamation
is interested in research where the benefits are widespread but where
private-sector entities are not able to make the full investment and assume all
the risks. Reclamation is also interested in research that has a national
significance—where the issues are of large-scale concern and the benefits
accrue to a large sector of the public. The goal of the Desalination and Water
Purification Research (DWPR) program is to address the need to reduce the
costs, energy requirements, and environmental impacts of treating impaired and
unusable water. DWPR program activities further support multiple Administration
initiatives, including the 2018 Presidential Memorandum Promoting the Reliable
Supply and Delivery of Water in the West as well as the 2020 National Water
Reuse Action Plan.
Eligible
projects are pilot-scale technologies or processes that incorporate or are
innovative and disruptive technologies involving flow rates above one gallon per
minute and that need to be tested using natural water sources rather than
synthetic or laboratory-made feed water. These projects are typically used to
determine the technical, practical, and/or economic feasibility of a process.
Preliminary costs can be developed for capital and operation and maintenance
costs. The description of the technology or process should identify the
uniqueness and the disruptive nature of the technology or process itself and/or
the testing of it.
The
objectives of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) are to develop
innovative and disruptive new technologies or processes:
·
To
treat brackish groundwater in a less energy-intensive way than current
processes and technologies
·
Manage
reverse osmosis/nanofiltration concentrate by
reducing cost, energy, and/or environmental impacts
·
Improve
efficiency of water treatment processes—either by improvements to
pre-treatment, post-treatment, monitoring, sensors, or other innovative
process/technology
·
To
address costs, energy usage, and/or environmental impacts of seawater
desalination, including intakes and/or outfalls
·
To
reduce the costs, energy requirements, and/or environmental impacts of treating
impaired and unusable water to standards necessary for an identified beneficial
use
Announcement
Number:
BOR-DO-20-F014
Closing
Date:
June
17, 2020
Link
to Full Announcement
https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=326759
Contact
Information
Matthew
D Reichert
(303)-445-3865