Environmental/Sustainability Technologies
BossiRainbow
Jaleesa Wells, PhD
The development of an art material made from renewable and/or recyclable raw materials. The goal is to reduce or remove the reliance of artists and art practices on art materials that contribute to harming the environment by developing an renewable or recyclable art material that is familiar in its properties and functions.
Environmental Tech | Spring 2023 UAccel 6, I-Corps
CO2 Capture Packing Material
Bradley Irvin
Acoustic driven packing material can increase the absorption rate of liquid-gas chemical absorption process, such as CO2 capture, by up to 40 percent. This can substantially reduce the initial capital costs of certain chemical processes and make the adoption of CO2 capture technologies more feasible for affected industries.
Environmental Tech | Fall 2021 UAccel
Copper Catalyst
Aron Huckaba, PhD
A novel copper catalyst for performing the copper-catalyzed azide-alkyne cycloaddition, which is used across the world in research labs to study biochemical problems and systems.
Environmental Tech | Fall 2023 UAccel
DART
Sujit Sinha, PhD candidate
DART is data-driven, adaptive, and real-time precision metrology. Employing a retrospective cost adaptation algorithm along with a numerical weather simulation model to improve precision, sub 1 kilometer, meteorology. The algorithm uses a data driven approach to force the weather model to actual observations, which thereby improves the forecast.
Environmental Tech | UAccel QS (Pilot), I-Corps (Pilot)
Digital Twins
Hala Nassereddine, PhD; Amin Khoshkenar, PhD
Developing digital twins for the construction industry to create a scalable and flexible solution for contractors, owners, and facility managers.
Environmental/Sustainability Tech | Summer 2024 UAccel
Earth Deep
Bakhyt Alipova-Turner, PhD
An electronic technology for engineers to provide a better way to build underground structures and observe the movements of the earth's crust. It is also useful in the construction of underground structures, gas and oil storage facilities, subways, mines, etc.
Environmental Tech | UAccel QS (Pilot), I-Corps (Pilot)
Energy Harvester
Anindita Paul, PhD
Creation of an energy harvester to charge a power bank to energize rechargeable batteries.
Environmental/Sustainability Tech | Summer 2024 UAccel
LIBs Metal Recovery Method
Ahamed Ullah, PhD; Yuxuan Zhang
A new type of hydrophobic ternary deep eutectic solvent (htDES) and a methodology to extract and recover critical metals from spent battery cathodes.
Environmental Tech | Summer 2023 UAccel, I-Corps
ORB Technologies
Ginger Watkins
ORB Technologies’ Biomie is a plant-based, insulating block that is structurally durable, carbon-storing, and non-toxic from cradle to grave. It enables professional and nonprofessional builders to achieve a superior thermal envelope with hand-liftable components, a quick dry-in process, and a predictable cost and schedule.
Environmental Tech | UAccel QS (Pilot), I-Corps (Pilot)
Plastic Extraction
Jameson Hunter
Hydrophobic natural deep eutectic solvents (NADES) are a cheap, non-toxic, and easy to synthesize class of solvent that has shown to be effective in extracting micro-and nano-plastic particles from water. This could be utilized by micro-and nano-plastic researchers to detect plastic in water samples more efficiently or to separate plastic from other contaminants.
Environmental Tech | Fall 2021 UAccel
REE Recycling
Marcelo Guzman, PhD; David Atwood, PhD
An apparatus for trace gas detection that includes unmanned aerial vehicles and a ground station all adapted for monitoring ambient environmental parameters and trace gas detection.
Environmental Tech | Fall 2023 UAccel
State Agency Water Data Platform
John Blair
A platform to address data management inefficiencies in State agency daily operations, focusing is the centralization of data, forms, and reports while streamlining the most common tasks. The goal is to significantly reduce the time of data management and research tasks, allowing agents greater opportunity to perform other critical job functions.
Environmental Tech, Software | Fall 2021 UAccel
Earthquake Research
Thomas Goebel, PhD
A new, large-scale effort for the recording and analysis of seismic data using a combination of novel instrumentation and artificial intelligence.