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National Center for Clean Industrial and Treatment Technologies (CenCITT)

Michigan Technological University

CenCITT is a research consortium dedicated to advancing science, engineering, and pollution prevention. It was established in 1992 through a base grant from EPA's Centers Program. Its founding members included Michigan Technological University (MTU); the University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW); and the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities (UM). Since its establishment CenCITT has initiated 57 projects involving 51 principal investigators, 57 companies, 33 governmental and other organizations, and well over 100 students. Targeted industry sectors have included chemical processing, metals, manufacturing, energy, forest products, and others. Participating disciplines have included environmental, chemical, civil, mechanical, metallurgical and geological engineering, as well as chemistry, biology, social science, business and forestry.

CenCITT's mission is to assist industry in pollution prevention by devising clean technologies and process design tools, and by pursing promising leads in treatment, beneficiation, and reuse where prevention is not feasible. CenCITT's goal is to help create industrial facilities in which waste is minimized through economically sound, combined optimization of manufacturing processes, treatment operations and reuse. CenCITT has strategic alliances with the Center for Waste Reduction Technologies (CWRT) of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers and the National Center for Manufacturing Sciences (NCMS).

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National Center for Clean Industrial and Treatment Technologies (CenCITT)

Center Research Projects:

R825370C001 - Exploratory Research on the Cleaner Manufacture of Olefins and Predicting the Formation and Buildup of Trace Contaminants in Industrial Catalytic Processing

R825370C002 - Field Testing of A Solar Assisted System for Detoxification of Water

R825370C003 - Physical Property Data Needs in Clean Manufacturing Designs

R825370C004 - Process Simulation and Control for Waste Minimization

R825370C005 - Integrating Models for Predicting Pollution Treatment with Models for the Manufacturing Process

R825370C006 - Pollution Prevention Process Simulator

R825370C007 - Clean Manufacturing in Foundry Mold and Core Processing

R825370C008 - Agglomeration of Granular and Fine Particulate Industrial Wastes

R825370C009 - Recycling Lead and Base Metals from Metal Wastes of Brass Foundries

R825370C010 - Gaseous Emissions and Ash Characterization from Combustion of Manufactured Wood Products

R825370C011 - Reuse of Granular and Fine Particulate Industrial and Post-Consumer Residuals

R825370C012 - Clean Technologies for a Prosperous Michigan

R825370C013 - Environmental Aspects of Polymer Formulations

R825370C014 - Membrane Module Design for the Pervaporation of Acetic Acid

R825370C015 - Mass Transfer Behavior of Unconfined Membranes

R825370C016 - Development of Self-Supporting Microporous Ceramic Membranes for Use in Ultrafiltration, Reverse Osmosis, and Adsorption Processes

R825370C017 - Process Air Purification by Biofiltration

R825370C018 - Environmental Impact Comparison of Solvent and Kraft Wood Pulping Processes

R825370C019 - Selection of Processes to Support Environmentally Conscious Design and Manufacturing

R825370C020 - Industrial Design for Environment Via Design for Disassembly - An Automotive Focus

R825370C021 - Pollution Prevention Research Opportunities

R825370C022 - Assessment of an In-Line Copper Recovery Technology as a Waste Reduction Strategy for the Metal Finishing Industry

R825370C023 - Amphophilic Solvents for Pollution Prevention

R825370C024 - Membrane Module Design for the Pervaporation of Acetic Acid

R825370C025 - Efficient Materials Utilization Assessment

R825370C026 - The Mass Transfer Behavior of Unconfined Membranes

R825370C027 - Exploratory Studies on the Reuse of Gypsum and Recovery of Sulfur Products from Scrubber Residues from Utility Coal Combustion

R825370C028 - Control of Mercury Emissions from Coal Fired Power Plants Using Fly-Ash-Derived Carbon

R825370C029 - Agglomeration of Granular and Fine Particulate Industrial Wastes

R825370C030 - Recycle of Lead and Base Metals from Metal Wastes of Brass Foundries

R825370C031 - Clean Combustion of Manufacturing Residues in the Forest Products and Photographic Industries

R825370C032 - Means for Producing an Entirely New Generation of Lignin-Based Plastics

R825370C033 - Oil Recovery From Cutting Fluids

R825370C034 - Pollution Prevention Assessment of an Electrodeposition Coating and Pre-treatment System

R825370C035 - Process Simulation and Control for Waste Minimization

R825370C036 - The Design Option Ranking Tool

R825370C037 - Process Safety and Risk Evaluation Tool

R825370C038 - Reactive Chemistry Screening Tool

R825370C039 - Recovery of Organics from Fluid Streams Using Adsorption and Distillation

R825370C040 - Development of the Environmental Technologies Design Options Tool (ETDOT) for the Clean Process Advisory System (CPAS)

R825370C041 - Chemical Properties Tool (StEPP)

R825370C042 - Environmentally Conscious Design for Construction

R825370C043 - Physical Property Predictive Driver

R825370C044 - Environmental Fate and Risk Assessment Tool (EFRAT)

R825370C045 - Data for Waste Inventory Factors

R825370C046 - Clean Process Advisory System (CPAS) Core Activities

R825370C047 - Chemical Reaction Pathways for Clean Production of Environmentally Benign Fluorochemicals

R825370C048 - Investigation of the Partial Oxidation of Methane to Methanol in a Simulated Countercurrent Moving Bed Reactor

R825370C049 - Pollution Prevention and Remediation through Photocatalytic Oxidation Processes

R825370C050 - Clean Chemicals Manufacturing Integrated Synthesis and Processing of Chemicals

R825370C051 - Chemical Industry Planning System (CIPS) Phase I Prototype

R825370C052 - Chemical Reaction Pathways for the Reactions of Isobutane over Supported Platinum (Pt), Platinum/Tin (Sn), and Platinum/Tin/Alkali Catalysts

R825370C053 - Microbial Catalysis for the Conversion of Sugars and Other Renewable Materials to Propanediols

R825370C054 - Predictive Tool for Ultrafiltration Performance

R825370C055 - Heuristic Reactor Design for Clean Synthesis and Processing - Separative Reactors

R825370C056 - Characterization of Selective Solid Acid Catalysts Towards the Rational Design of Catalytic Reactions

R825370C057 - Environmentally Conscious Manufacturing: Prediction of Processing Waste Streams for Discrete Products

R825370C059 - Environmental Fate and Risk Assessment Tool (EFRAT)

R825370C060 - Assessment of an In-Line Copper Recovery Technology as a Waste Reduction Strategy for the Metal Finishing Industry

R825370C061 - Environmental Impact Comparison of Solvent and Kraft Wood Pulping Processes

R825370C062 - Environmental Aspects of Polymer Formulations

R825370C063 - Clean Technologies for a Prosperous Michigan

R825370C064 - The Physical Properties Management System (PPMS™): A P2 Engineering Aid to Support Process Design and Analysis

R825370C065 - Development and Testing of Pollution Prevention Design Aids for Process Analysis and Decision Making

R825370C066 - Design Tools for Chemical Process Safety: Accident Probability

R825370C067 - Environmentally Conscious Manufacturing: Design for Disassembly (DFD) in De-Manufacturing of Products

R825370C068 - An Economic Comparison of Wet and Dry Machining

R825370C069 - In-Line Copper Recovery Technology

R825370C070 - Selective Catalytic Hydrogenation of Lactic Acid

R825370C071 - Biosynthesis of Polyhydroxyalkanoate Polymers from Industrial Wastewater

R825370C072 - Tin Zeolites for Partial Oxidation Catalysis

R825370C073 - Development of a High Performance Photocatalytic Reactor System for the Production of Methanol from Methane in the Gas Phase

R825370C074 - Recovery of Waste Polymer Generated by Lost Foam Technology in the Metal Casting Industry

R825370C075 - Industrial Implementation of the P2 Framework

R825370C076 - Establishing Automated Linkages Between Existing P2-Related Software Design Tools

R825370C077 - Integrated Applications of the Clean Process Advisory System to P2-Conscious Process Analysis and Improvement

R825370C078 - Development of Environmental Indices for Green Chemical Production and Use

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