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Current Water Management R&D Portfolio

Projects grouped by generic technical solutions

Novel condenser designs or coatings
Prime performer Agreement number* Project title Total award value
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) FWP-FP6315 Enhancing Steam-Side Heat Transfer via Microdroplet Ejection $235,000
Nelumbo Inc. FE0031675 Enhancing Steam-Side Heat Transfer via Microdroplet Ejection using Inorganic Coatings $704,747
Interphase Materials, Inc. FE0031561 Application of Heat Transfer Enhancement (HTE) System for Improved Efficiency of Power Plant Condensers $961,915
Massachusetts Institute of Technology FE0031677 Capillary-Driven Condensation for Heat Transfer Enhancement in Steam Power Plants $937,989
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University FE0031556 Novel Patterned Surfaces for Improved Condenser Performance in Power Plants $938,470
Novel cooling tower designs or technologies
Prime performer Agreement number* Project title Total award value
Gas Technology Institute (GTI) FE0031833 Enhanced Cooling Tower Technology for Power Plant Efficiency Increase and Operating Flexibility $1,537,798
Technologies for reuse of internal water sources
Prime performer Agreement number* Project title Total award value
NETL FWP-1022428 Task 4 Concentrating Wastewater Effluent Streams $418,215
SRI International FE0031552 Development of a High Efficient Membrane-Based Wastewater Management System for Thermal Power Plants $799,949
University of Illinois FE0031551 Energy Efficient Waste Heat Coupled Forward Osmosis for Effluent Water Management at Coal-Fired Power Plants $929,617
Water recovery by plume abatement
Prime performer Agreement number* Project title Total award value
Infinite Cooling, Inc. FE0031828 Water Recovery from Cooling Tower Plumes $1,875,000
Systems level analysis of water use
Prime performer Agreement number* Project title Total award value
Sandia National Laboratories (SNL) FWP-18-021409 Water Atlas Extension $700,000
NETL FWP-1022428 Task 5 Impact of Water Use of Power Systems $95,670
Wastewater treatment technologies
Prime performer Agreement number* Project title Total award value
NETL FWP-1022428 Task 2 Guiding R&D for Treatment of Coal Power Plant Effluent Streams $639,623
NETL FWP-1022428 Task 3 Selective Removal of Heavy Metals for Effluent Streams $341,679
NETL FWP-1022428 Task 6 Biological treatment of FGD effluent streams $103,870
NETL FWP-1022428 Task 7 Characterization of FGD Effluent Streams $215,941
Electric Power Research Institute, Inc. FE0031678 Demonstrations of Holistic, Lower Cost/Energy Effluent Water Management Approaches for Coal-Fired Energy Plants $922,989
ES Engineering Services, LLC FE0031676 Flue-Gas Desulfurization Effluent Management Using an Innovative Low-Energy Biosorption Treatment System to Remove Key Contaminants $941,206
West Virginia State University FE0027893 Dev. Cost-Effective Biological Removal Technology for Selenium & Nitrate from Flue Gas Desulfurization Wastewater from Existing Power Generating Facility $249,999
*Links to Project Landing Pages provided, where available