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EPA Announces $400,000 in Funding for Faraday Technology, Inc. in Englewood, Ohio

06/03/2020
Contact Information: 
Joshua Singer (singer.joshua@epa.gov)
312-353-5069

Nationwide, 9 Small Businesses Receiving $3 Million to Develop Environmental Technologies

ENGLEWOOD, OHIO (June 3, 2020) - Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced $3 million in funding for nine small businesses, including Faraday Technology, Inc., in Englewood, Ohio, to further develop and commercialize technologies to protect the environment. The funded technologies are focused on clean and safe water, air quality monitoring, land revitalization, sustainable materials management, and safer chemicals.

"We must meet our country’s most pressing environmental concerns with innovative solutions," said EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler. "The funding provided by EPA will allow these small businesses to pursue solutions to environmental challenges, including removing PFAS from water and soil and monitoring air quality during wildfires."

“We are proud to have a business such as Faraday Technology in our region, using innovative technology to help protect the environment and public health,” said EPA Region 5 Administrator Kurt Thiede. “We are pleased to help Faraday Technology, Inc., achieve its goals and to remediate PFAS contamination through this funding award.”

“Faraday Technology Inc. and our collaborators are excited to receive these awards from the EPA regarding the destruction of PFAS. PFAS represent a serious challenge to maintaining a sustainable ecosystem,” said Dr. E.J. Taylor, Faraday’s founder and chief technology officer. “The FARADAYIC ElectroCatalytic PFAS destruction technology represents an important addition to Faraday’s process and apparatus intellectual property portfolio.”

Faraday is using funding from EPA's Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program to develop electrochemical extraction and remediation of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in soils and to develop electrochemical pretreatment of PFAS-contaminated wastewater and landfill leachate streams.

Nationwide, a total of nine small businesses are receiving Phase II funding of up to $400,000. These companies were previously awarded a Phase I contract of $100,000 to develop innovative environmental technologies and are now receiving a Phase II award to further advance and commercialize the technology. This year’s other SBIR Phase II recipients include:

  • framergy, Inc., College Station, Texas, to develop a novel water treatment technology to break down and mineralize PFAS. 

  • Intellisense Systems, Inc., Torrance, Calif., to develop a portable, easy-to-use air quality monitoring device to measure and track wildland fire pollutants.

  • KWJ Engineering, Inc., Newark, Calif., to assemble and field-test a sensor package that monitors air quality and pollution from wildland fires.

  • microAeth Corporation dba AethLabs, San Francisco, Calif., to develop an integrated black carbon and carbon dioxide sensor platform for real-time identification and analysis of emissions from wildland fires.

  • Polykala Technologies, LLC, San Antonio, Texas, to develop ‘smart’ polymer nanofiber mats for selective and efficient removal of PFAS from wastewater.

  • Sporian Microsystems, Inc., Lafayette, Colo., to develop a low-cost system to identify harmful components in construction and demolition materials.

  • TDA Research, Inc., Wheat Ridge, Colo., to develop a non-toxic paint stripper that is methylene chloride-free.

  • 2WiTech, LLC, San Diego, Calif., to develop a low-cost portable sensing technology for detecting trace amounts of PFOA and PFOS in water.

EPA’s SBIR funding promotes local economies by empowering small businesses across the country to create jobs while developing novel environmental technologies. Phase II funding is specifically aimed at supporting these companies to bring their technologies to the marketplace. Since 1982, EPA’s SBIR program has provided over $189 million to 635 small businesses to develop technologies to solve the most pressing environmental problems. Approximately 29% of funded projects reported a growth in sales that exceeded five times the initial EPA funding.

EPA is one of 11 federal agencies that participate in the SBIR program, a competitive award-based program that supports small businesses to explore technological solutions with the ultimate goal of successful commercialization of those innovations. This program stimulates the economy while meeting the country’s research and development needs.

For more information on EPA's SBIR Phase II recipients, visit: https://cfpub.epa.gov/ncer_abstracts/index.cfm/fuseaction/recipients.display/rfa_id/665/records_per_page/ALL

Learn more about EPA’s SBIR program: https://19january2021snapshot.epa.gov/sbir

Learn more about the Federal SBIR Program: www.SBIR.gov

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