NSF Org:	TI Translational Impacts
Recipient:
Initial Amendment Date:	December 11, 2008
Latest Amendment Date:	December 11, 2008
Award Number:	0839594
Award Instrument:	Standard Grant
Program Manager:	Gregory T. Baxter TI  Translational Impacts TIP  Directorate for Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships
Start Date:	January 1, 2009
End Date:	June 30, 2009 (Estimated)
Total Intended Award Amount:	$99,967.00
Total Awarded Amount to Date:	$99,967.00
Funds Obligated to Date:	FY 2009 = $99,967.00
History of Investigator:	Michael Kimble (Principal Investigator) mkimble@reactive-innovations.com
Recipient Sponsored Research Office:	Reactive Innovations, LLC 2 Park Drive, Unit 4 Westford MA  US  01886-0000 (978)692-4664
Sponsor Congressional District:	03
Primary Place of Performance:	Reactive Innovations, LLC 2 Park Drive, Unit 4 Westford MA  US  01886-0000
Primary Place of Performance Congressional District:	03
Unique Entity Identifier (UEI):
Parent UEI:
NSF Program(s):	SBIR Phase I
Primary Program Source:	01000910DB NSF RESEARCH & RELATED ACTIVIT
Program Reference Code(s):	1179, 9104, BIOT
Program Element Code(s):	537100
Award Agency Code:	4900
Fund Agency Code:	4900
Assistance Listing Number(s):	47.084

ABSTRACT

This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project will develop an electrochemical ozone generator to treat water for drinking and industrial processing. In the US, 85% of all public water systems serve fewer than 3,300 people. For providing these small unit drinking water systems, three congressional findings highlight the challenges. First, the small communities typically have a low tax basis making affordability a challenge unless the system is low in cost. Secondly, the small communities typically do not have technical experts to manage the water disinfection system thus posing a challenge that the system must be simple to operate. Third, the popular chlorine based systems will be outlawed in 2015 for drinking water systems according to the EPA Stage 2 Safe Drinking Water Act. To this end, Reactive Innovations, LLC is proposing to develop an electrochemical ozone generation system that produces ozone directly into a process flow stream using only ambient air and DC electrical power.

The broader impacts of this research are a robust reactor platform is obtained that can be used for small and large scale water treatment processing. The US drinking water equipment market was $115M in 2005 growing at a compound annual rate of 5%. In addition to producing ozone for water and wastewater disinfection, the proposed electrochemical ozone generator may also be applied toward purifying water systems for semiconductor manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, food processing, and pulp/paper processing. These applications represent a worldwide water treatment market projected to be worth $11B by the year 2015.

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