Advanced, Energy-Efficient Hybrid Membrane System for Industrial Water Reuse Award Number: DE-EE0005758 CX(s) Applied: A9, B3.11, B3.6 Advanced Manufacturing Office Date: 06/24/2015 Location(s): NC Office(s): Golden Field Office
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June 24, 2015
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Advanced, Energy-Efficient Hybrid Membrane System for Industrial Water Reuse
Award Number: DE-EE0005758
CX(s) Applied: A9, B3.11, B3.6
Advanced Manufacturing Office
Date: 06/24/2015
Location(s): NC
Office(s): Golden Field Office
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is proposing to provide federal funding to RTI International to increase sustainability of the advanced manufacturing sector by developing an advanced, cost-effective, hybrid membrane-based water treatment system that can improve the energy efficiency of industrial wastewater treatment by at least 50% relative to current state-of-the-art technology, while allowing at least 50% water reuse efficiency.
This award previously received a NEPA determination (GFO-0005758-001; CX-A9, CX-B3.6; 08/27/2012) for activities associated with Budget Period 1 (Tasks 2-6) which included hydrophobic ceramic membrane distillation (MD) membrane development, membrane process evaluation and optimization, preliminary techno-economic and environmental evaluations, definition of model framework and specifications, preliminary system design, and project management. BP2 (Tasks 7-11) was reviewed in November 2013 and previously established holds on the associated activities were lifted on 11/25/2013 as it was decided that the original determination applied to these tasks as well. The purpose of this NEPA determination is to review activities associated with Budget Period 3 (Tasks 12-16) including MD membrane development, hybrid process model development, performance testing of bench-scale integrated system, field testing of prototype integrated system, and final techno-economic, environmental, and manufacturability analyses.