The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is soliciting research for data, methods, and systems that lead to actionable, scalable change toward chemistry, chemicals, and products that support sustainable chemistry.
Donor Name: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 05/29/2024
Size of the Grant: More than $1 million
Grant Duration: 3 Years
Details:
Sustainable chemistry produces compounds or materials with intentional design, manufacture, use, and end-of-life management. Across their lifecycle, sustainable chemicals promote circularity, meet societal needs, and contribute to economic resilience. The introduction of more sustainable chemical products, processes, and technologies are needed to address emerging and growing challenges and opportunities for the economy, climate action, and environmental justice.
The Four E’s: Energy, Efficiency, Economy, and Environment A sustainable chemistry strategy should offer a broad multi-disciplinary approach that strives to balance considerations of the four E’s: Energy, Efficiency, Economy, and Environment.
- Energy
- In moving toward advancing sustainable chemistry, it is important to consider both the energy source and efficiency for pretreatment, chemical reactivity, separation, and purification operations as well as a holistic accounting of the energetic and environmental impacts of process(es).
- Efficiency
- Sustainable chemistry can increase efficient use of energy and natural resources during processing and manufacturing. The efficiency of the reaction/process provides insight into the magnitude of sustainability achieved on the chemical level.
- Economy
- Economic considerations around supply chains and trade are a major barrier to the implementation of more sustainable chemistries.
- Environment
- Advancements in sustainable chemistry, including new and improved methods, chemical products and processes, will reduce adverse impacts on air, soil, and water quality; reduce releases of greenhouse gases or other ozone-depleting substances; mitigate climate change effects; decrease production of toxic products or byproducts; and make progress toward net-zero emissions.
Funding Information
- Estimated Total Program Funding: $6,000,000
- Award Ceiling: $1,500,000
Project Period
3 years
Eligibility Criteria
- Public and private nonprofit institutions/organizations, public and private institutions of higher education (IHEs), and hospitals located in the U.S. and its territories or possessions; state and local governments; Federally Recognized Indian Tribal Governments; and U.S. territories or possessions are eligible to apply. Profit-making firms and individuals are not eligible to apply.
- The term nonprofit organization means any corporation, trust, association, cooperative, or other organization that is operated mainly for scientific, educational, service, charitable, or similar purpose in the public interest and is not organized primarily for profit; and uses net proceeds to maintain, improve, or expand the operation of the organization.
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