SOLICITATION NOTICE
A -- Science and Technology in Water Desalination and Purification
- Notice Date
- 12/29/2004
- Notice Type
- Solicitation Notice
- NAICS
- 541710
— Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences
- Contracting Office
- Department of the Navy, Office of Naval Research, ONR, CODE ONR-02 800 N. QUINCY ST. Rm 704, Arlington, VA, 22217
- ZIP Code
- 22217
- Solicitation Number
- BAA05-005
- Response Due
- 3/31/2005
- Archive Date
- 4/15/2005
- Description
- The Office of Naval Research is soliciting white papers and proposals in the topic areas described below within the Expeditionary Unit Water Purification (EUWP) System Enhancement Program and the Human System Research and Technology (HSRT) Development Program of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). The ONR?s EUWP Program is seeking innovative solutions to identify and evaluate approaches that may significantly reduce the costs, energetics, and footprint for desalination processes. Some of the approaches to desalination would also be applicable in water purification for high carbon and nitrogen laden wastes. These will have ramifications to both NASA and the ONR in developing technology solutions for their respective missions. The HSRT Program is chartered to provide capabilities and technologies for regenerative closed-loop life-support systems that will be essential to enable human planetary exploration. Efforts are currently focused on missions ranging from a return to the Moon and through an initial Mars mission, including using the International Space Station as a test bed for research and technology validation. These future life-support systems must be able to provide additional mass balance closure (to maximize and maintain a high level of pure water recovery) to further reduce logistics requirements, and to promote self-sufficiency. Some of the requirements include safe operability in micro- and partial-gravity, ambient and reduced-pressure environments, high reliability, minimal use of expendables, ease of maintenance, and low-system volume, mass, and power. Recovery of useful resources from liquid and solid wastes will be essential. Innovative, efficient, practical concepts are needed in all areas of resource recovery processes, providing the basic life-support functions of water reclamation. Topic areas that are considered relevant to this announcement are described below with desired Technology Readiness Levels (TRL) defined as: TRL 1: Basic principles observed and reported TRL 2: Technology concept and/or application formulated TRL 3: Analytical and experimental critical function and/or characteristic proof-of-concept TRL 4: Component and/or breadboard validation in laboratory environment TRL 5: Component and/or breadboard validation in relevant environment
- Record
- SN00727861-W 20041231/041229211902 (fbodaily.com)
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