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(AGENPARL) – ven 25 ottobre 2024 Issued: Oct 25, 2024 (11:00am EDT)
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EPA Awards $2.8 Million to Small Businesses for Developing Environmental
Technologies
WASHINGTON – Today, October 25, 2024, the U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency announced $2.8 million in funding to seven small businesses to further
develop and commercialize their environmental technologies. With these awards
from EPA’s Small Business Innovation Research program, businesses will be
tackling complex challenges including destroying PFAS, cleaning indoor air
during wildfires, enhancing recycling systems, reducing food waste, and
improving disaster response.
“Congratulations to these small businesses for continuing to pursue
innovative solutions to some of our most pressing environmental
challenges,” said Maureen Gwinn, Acting Assistant Administrator for EPA’s
Office of Research and Development. “EPA is proud to invest in these small
businesses as they work to help protect human health and the environment
across many sectors and help grow the American economy.”
For over 40 years, EPA’s SBIR program has funded small businesses as they
create environmental technologies and bring them to the marketplace. SBIR
projects are funded in a phased approach. For Phase I, EPA awards contracts of
up to $100,000 for six months for “proof of concept” of the proposed
technology. Small businesses that have received a Phase I award can compete
for a Phase II award of $400,000 to further develop and commercialize the
technology.
The following businesses are receiving about $400,000 each in SBIR Phase II
awards for these projects:
DiPole Materials, Inc., Baltimore, Maryland, to design a biodegradable
filter made of electro-spun nanofibers to clean indoor air during
wildfires.
Fourth State LLC, Ann Arbor, Michigan, for a plasma treatment technology to
destroy PFAS in complex water matrices.
GreenLife Tech Corporation, Banner Elk, North Carolina, for an autonomous
system that controls oxygen levels in refrigerators to preserve produce for a
longer time.
Holochip Corporation, Torrance, California, to build an artificial
intelligence application to map sites to improve the safety and efficacy of
disaster response.
KLAW Industries LLC, Binghamton, New York, to produce a rapidly deployable,
autonomous robotic sorting system to improve recycling facilities in
disadvantaged communities.
Valis Insights, Inc., Worcester, Massachusetts, to develop an automated and
AI-driven technology that helps optimize the sorting process for metals
recycling.
Water Illumination, Inc., Riverside, California, to create a novel
chemical-free UV based PFAS destruction technology for saline wastewater
treatment.
Learn more about the winning projects.
Learn more about EPA’s SBIR program.
Learn more about SBIR
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