The National Science Foundation (NSF) is offering $100,000 for one to three years of research on process and reaction engineering. Proposals requesting a significantly higher amount may be returned without review.
The program supports fundamental and applied research on:
- Rates and mechanisms of important classes of catalyzed and uncatalyzed chemical reactions as they relate to the design, production, and application of catalysts, chemical processes, biochemical processes, and specialized materials
- Chemical and biochemical phenomena occurring at or near solid surfaces and interfaces
- Electrochemical and photochemical processes of engineering significance or with commercial potential
- Design and optimization of complex chemical and biochemical processes
- Dynamic modeling and control of process systems and individual process units
- Reactive processing of polymers, ceramics, and thin films
- Interactions between chemical reactions and transport processes in reactive systems, and the use of this information in the design of complex chemical and biochemical reactors
The three broad areas the program funds are chemical reaction engineering, process design and control and reactive polymer processing.
The full proposal window is August 15, 2012-September 18, 2012. The program will run around the same time next year. For more details (especially on the three broad categories), click on the link below:
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=13361&WT.mc_id=USNSF_39&WT.mc_ev=click%29