물·바이오에너지 기술 제공업체인 캠브리안 이노베이션이 최근 미국 국방부(DOD), 국립보건원(NIH)의 또 다른 기구 두 곳과 명망 있는 계약을 체결했다. 이 계약은 물의 처리, 테스트, 정화를 극적으로 향상히시키 위한 바이오테크놀로지를 더욱 개발하기 위해 맺어졌다. 계약은 캠브리안이 물 관리를 향상시키기 위한 바이오테크놀로지를 활용하도록 도울 것이다.

국립보건원과 국방부는 캠브리안에 세 개의 1구간 계획 자금으로 45만 달러를 수여했다.

 

 

 

Cambrian Innovation, a water and bioenergy technology provider, recently won a prestigious contract from the Department of Defense (DoD) and another two from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to further develop biotechnologies to dramatically improve water treatment, testing and remediation. The contracts will allow Cambrian to harness biotechnology to improve water management.

 

The NIH and DoD awarded Cambrian $450,000 for three Phase-I contracts, bringing the total contract funding the company has received from both departments to $1.6 million to date. Upon successful completion of the first phase, the company has the opportunity to receive an additional $3 million between 2015 and 2016.

 

The DOD has set ambitious net-zero and alternative energy goals for the Army and Navy to achieve by 2020. By harnessing the renewable bioenergy released during the water treatment process, Cambrian's packaged, bio-electrochemical technology reduces the energy intensity, installation costs and footprint for wastewater treatment systems -- expanding access to clean water and reliable, independent energy sources.

 

The NIH awarded Cambrian the other two contracts for projects aimed at treating contamination in groundwater. The first will enable the company to treat contamination from the petroleum industry while simultaneously generating renewable biogas for electricity generation. The second will build on Cambrian's existing sensor platform with a rapid-response, field-capable arsenic sensor for groundwater. Current arsenic measurement technologies often require toxic substances; Cambrian's method is based on biology and does not generate any hazardous waste.

 

Cambrian's core technology has already been commercialized at industrial scale in the EcoVolt product, and these contracts will help develop the next generation of systems capable of extracting even more clean electricity from wastewater at scale. The two NIH grants are classified as the BTEX Contaminated Groundwater Remediation by Bio-Electrochemical Systems (Grant Number: R43ES024664) and the Rapid Field Testing Kit for Determining Arsenic Contamination in Groundwater (Grant Number: R43ES024628).

 

[출처 = Water World / 2014년 10월 24일]