The Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) is seeking applications from nonprofit institutions of higher education for Competitive Academic Agreement Program (CAAP) grant funding to research innovative solutions in three pipeline safety topic areas.
Donor Name: U.S. Department of Transportation
State: All States
County: All Counties
U.S. Territories: American Samoa, Guam, Commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands, U.S. Virgin Islands, Commonwealth of Puerto Rico
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 05/19/2023
Size of the Grant: $1,000,000
Grant Duration: 36 months
Details:
The CAAP initiative is intended to spur innovation by enabling academic research focused on high technical risk and high payoff solutions for many safety challenges. Such research will potentially deliver solutions that can be transferred to PHMSA’s Core Research Program for demonstration and deployment. The goal is to validate proof of concept for a thesis or theory along a logical path towards commercialization.
Another goal of the CAAP initiative is to expose undergraduate and graduate research students to subject matter that is common to pipeline safety challenges, encourage them to participate in these subjects, and illustrate how their engineering or technical disciplines are highly sought after in the pipeline field. The ultimate benefit would be to cultivate new talent in all aspects of the pipeline sector.
CAAP Performance Goals and Expected Outcomes
PHMSA’s Pipeline Safety R&D Program is requesting projects through the Pipeline Safety Research Competitive Academic Agreement Program that will seek to advance its mission through well-researched solutions to known integrity threats. PHMSA will make awards for projects that have clear objectives and foster increased talent in all aspects of pipelining.
Program staff will collect data on ongoing projects to ensure that projects are on track to meet PHMSA’s expectations. PHMSA staff will review data collected for indicators of variances from expected project outcomes. Furthermore, PHMSA staff will also track the number of positions sought by CAAP participants in pipeline engineering positions.
PHMSA intends to make one or more awards for each of the focus topic areas
- Topic 1: Novel Bio-Based Inhibitors for the Mitigation of Internal Corrosion in Pipelines
- Topic 2: Develop Innovative Solutions to Supplement the Current Cathodic Protection Methodologies to Assess the Effectiveness of the Pipeline Cathodic Protection System
- Topic 3: Evaluation of Passive Thermal Radiation Mitigation Measures at Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) Facilities
Funding Information
- Estimated Total Program Funding: $4,000,000
- Award Ceiling: $1,000,000
- Award Floor: $250,000
Period of Performance
PHMSA anticipates a period of performance of between 24 months and 36 months from the date of award for each agreement.
Eligible Applicants
Applicants must be nonprofit institutions of higher education located either in the U.S. or a U.S. territory or possession. PHMSA encourages applications from eligible higher education institutions that partner with other higher education institutions, including MSIs. PHMSA will also consider an application from an eligible higher education institution that partners with other eligible recipients, the pipeline industry, and/or with any private organization, so long as the cost of the proposed partnership does not exceed 40 percent of the proposed amount of federal contribution to the project (which may be up to $1,000,000).
MSIs are encouraged to submit applications on their own and/or in collaboration with others. However, no portion of this requirement will be set aside or reserved exclusively for MSIs. Applicants should state whether the project is located in a Qualified Opportunity Zone per 26 U.S.C. § 1400Z-1.
For more information, visit Grants.gov.
