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| Name and Address of Awardee | Title of SBIR Project | Phase I Award | Phase II Award | Total | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Contract Number | RFA FY | $ | Contract Number | RFA FY | $ | |||
| Air Monitoring and Remote Sensing | ||||||||
| Name: Aerodyne Research Inc. State: MA City: Billerica Zip: 1821 |
A Sensitive and Affordable Compact Ammonia Monitor | EPD08015 Final Report |
2008 | $70,000 | EPD09039 | 2009 | $345,000 | $415,000 |
| Name: Agiltron Inc. State: MA City: Woburn Zip: 1801 |
Low Cost Imager for Pollutant Gas Leak Detection | EPD08017 Final Report |
2008 | $69,952 | EPD09041 | 2009 | $344,910 | $414,862 |
| Biofuels and Vehicle Emissions Reduction | ||||||||
| Name: Gevo, Inc. State: CO City: Englewood Zip: 80112 |
Second-Generation Isobutanol Producing Biocatalyst | EPD09023 Final Report |
2009 | $70,000 | $70,000 | |||
| Name: Mountain Creek Enterprises State: GA City: Monroe Zip: 30655 |
Feasibility Study to Produce Biodiesel from Low Cost Oils and New Catalysts Derived from Agricultural & Forestry Residues | EPD09031 Final Report |
2009 | $70,000 | $70,000 | |||
| Control of Air Pollution | ||||||||
| Name: Johansson Industries Inc. State: MA City: Beverly Zip: 1915 |
Plasma Discharge Electrode for Electrostatic Precipitators | EPD08037 Final Report |
2008 | $70,000 | EPD09043 | 2009 | $345,000 | $415,000 |
| Drinking Water and Water Monitoring | ||||||||
| Name: Constellation Technology Corporation State: FL City: Largo Zip: 33777 |
Online Water Monitoring Utilizing an Automated Microarray Biosensor Instrument | EPD09016 Final Report |
2009 | $70,000 | $70,000 | |||
| Name: Electronic Bio Sciences, LLC State: CA City: San Diego Zip: 92121 |
Rapid Detection of Algal Toxins | EPD09019 Final Report |
2009 | $69,988 | $69,988 | |||
| Name: KWJ Engineering, Inc. State: CA City: Newark Zip: 94560 |
Reagentless Field-Usable Fixed-Site and Portable Analyzer for Trihalomethane (THM) Concentrations in Drinking Water | EPD09028 Final Report |
2009 | $70,000 | $70,000 | |||
| Name: Scientific Methods, Inc. State: IN City: Granger Zip: 46530 |
Rapid Concentration of Viruses from Water | EPD09032 | 2009 | $70,000 | $70,000 | |||
| Engine and Vehicle Emissions Reduction | ||||||||
| Name: TDA Research Inc. State: CO City: Wheat Ridge Zip: 80033 |
Process-intensified Low-Cost Biodiesel Production using Meat Rendering Waste, Greases, and Food Wastes | EPD08043 Final Report |
2008 | $70,000 | EPD09047 | 2009 | $345,000 | $415,000 |
| Green Buildings | ||||||||
| Name: Ecovative Design, LLC State: NY City: Troy Zip: 12180 |
Testing the Viability of Agricultural Byproducts as a Replacement for Mineral Particles in a Novel, Low Embodied Energy, Construction Material | EPD09018 Final Report |
2009 | $70,000 | $70,000 | |||
| Name: Sol-gel Solutions, LLC State: FL City: Gainesville Zip: 32608 |
Indoor Air Purification via Low-Energy, In-situ Regenerated Silica-Titania Composites | EPD09034 Final Report |
2009 | $69,795 | $69,795 | |||
| Homeland Security | ||||||||
| Name: Agave BioSystems, Inc. State: TX City: Austin Zip: 78708 |
Organophosphate Degrading Enzymes | EPD09013 | 2009 | $70,000 | $70,000 | |||
| Name: TDA Research Inc. State: CO City: Wheat Ridge Zip: 80033 |
A Portable Microreactor System to Synthesize Hydrogen Peroxide | EPD09035 | 2009 | $70,000 | $70,000 | |||
| Name: EIC Laboratories Inc. State: MA City: Norwood Zip: 2062 |
Water Security Monitoring Using Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy | EPD08028 | 2008 | $70,000 | EPD09042 | 2009 | $344,977 | $414,977 |
| Innovation in Manufacturing | ||||||||
| Name: Faraday Technology Inc. State: OH City: Dayton Zip: 45420 |
Enabling Commercialization of a Lead-Free Coating Manufacturing Process | EPD09021 Final Report |
2009 | $69,982 | $69,982 | |||
| Name: Integran Technologies USA, Inc. State: PA City: Pittsburgh Zip: 15241 |
Amorphous Alloy Surface Coatings for Hard Chromium Replacement | EPD09027 Final Report |
2009 | $69,787 | $69,787 | |||
| Name: Light Curable Coatings State: OH City: Valley View Zip: 44125 |
Chromium-Free Corrosion-Resistant Hybrid UV Coatings | EPD09029 Final Report |
2009 | $69,997 | $69,997 | |||
| Name: MER Corporation State: AZ City: Tucson Zip: 85706 |
A New Innovative Low Cost Manufacturing Process to Produce Titanium | EPD08038 Final Report |
2008 | $70,000 | EPD09044 | 2009 | $345,000 | $415,000 |
| Monitoring and Control of Air Pollution | ||||||||
| Name: Active Spectrum, Inc. State: CA City: San Carlos Zip: 94070 |
Sensor for Monitoring of Particulate Emissions in Diesel Exhaust Gases | EPD09012 | 2009 | $69,807 | $69,807 | |||
| Name: Applied Sciences, Inc. State: OH City: Cedarville Zip: 45314 |
Nano-Enhanced Composite Electrodesfor Electrostatic Precipitators | EPD09014 | 2009 | $69,955 | $69,955 | |||
| Name: Bridger Photonics, Inc. State: MT City: Bozeman Zip: 59715 |
Hand-Held Sensor for Remotely Mapping Carbon Dioxide Pollution Sources | EPD09015 Final Report |
2009 | $70,000 | $70,000 | |||
| Name: Innova Tech, Inc. State: NC City: Research Triangle Park Zip: 27709 |
Retrofit Air Pollution Control Filter for Restaurant Underfired Charbroilers | EPD09026 Final Report |
2009 | $70,000 | $70,000 | |||
| Nanotechnology | ||||||||
| Name: Senspex, Inc. State: NM City: Rio Rancho Zip: 87124 |
Nanostructured Planar Waveguide Device for Molecular Identification of Hazardous Compounds in Water by Evanescent Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy | EPD09033 | 2009 | $69,994 | $69,994 | |||
| Technology for Villages and Small Communities | ||||||||
| Name: Reactive Innovations, LLC State: MA City: Littleton Zip: 1460 |
Inexpensive Drinking Water Chlorination Unit for Small Communities | EPD08041 | 2008 | $69,990 | EPD09046 | 2009 | $344,984 | $414,974 |
| Waste Management and Monitoring | ||||||||
| Name: Eon Research Corporation State: CA City: Davis Zip: 95616 |
Next Generation Sediment Toxicity Testing via DNA Microarrays | EPD09020 | 2009 | $70,000 | $70,000 | |||
| Name: Ion Signature Technology, Inc. State: RI City: N. Smithfield Zip: 2896 |
Development of an In Situ Thermal Extraction Detection System (TEDS) for Rapid, Accurate, Quantitative Analysis of Environmental Pollutants in the Subsurface | EPD09025 | 2009 | $69,989 | $69,989 | |||
| Name: Membrane Technology and Research Inc. State: CA City: Menlo Park Zip: 94025 |
High Flux Membranes to Upgrade Biogas from Anaerobic Digesters | EPD09030 | 2009 | $70,000 | $70,000 | |||
| Name: National Recovery Technologies Inc. State: TN City: Nashville Zip: 37228 |
Automated Removal of Brominated Flame Retardant Material From a Mixed E-Waste Plastics Recycling Stream | EPD08039 Final Report |
2008 | $70,000 | EPD09045 | 2009 | $345,000 | $415,000 |
| Water Infrastructure Rehabilitation | ||||||||
| Name: DC Instruments State: CA City: Thousand Oaks Zip: 91362 |
Leak Detection and Wireless Telemetry for Water Distribution and Sewerage Systems | EPD09017 Final Report |
2009 | $69,987 | $69,987 | |||
| Name: Fuss & O’Neill State: CT City: Manchester Zip: 6040 |
Electricity Generation From Anaerobic Wastewater Treatment in Microbial Fuel Cells (MFCs) | EPD09022 Final Report |
2009 | $70,000 | $70,000 | |||