Grantee Research Project Results
Research Centers
National Center for Clean Industrial and Treatment Technologies (CenCITT)
Michigan Technological University
CenCITT is a research consortium dedicated to advancing science, engineering, and pollution prevention. It was established in 1992 through a base grant from EPA's Centers Program. Its founding members included Michigan Technological University (MTU); the University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW); and the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities (UM). Since its establishment CenCITT has initiated 57 projects involving 51 principal investigators, 57 companies, 33 governmental and other organizations, and well over 100 students. Targeted industry sectors have included chemical processing, metals, manufacturing, energy, forest products, and others. Participating disciplines have included environmental, chemical, civil, mechanical, metallurgical and geological engineering, as well as chemistry, biology, social science, business and forestry.
CenCITT's mission is to assist industry in pollution prevention by devising clean technologies and process design tools, and by pursing promising leads in treatment, beneficiation, and reuse where prevention is not feasible. CenCITT's goal is to help create industrial facilities in which waste is minimized through economically sound, combined optimization of manufacturing processes, treatment operations and reuse. CenCITT has strategic alliances with the Center for Waste Reduction Technologies (CWRT) of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers and the National Center for Manufacturing Sciences (NCMS).
Center Publications:
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Main Center Abstract and Reports:
Development of Environmental Indicators of Condition,Integrity, and Sustainability in the Coastal Regions of the US Great Lakes Basin
National Center for Clean Industrial and Treatment Technologies (CenCITT)
Southern California Particle Center (SCPC)
Rochester PM Center: Source-Specific Health Effects of Ultrafine/Fine Particles
- Original Abstract
- 2006 Progress Report
- 2007 Progress Report
- 2008 Progress Report
- 2009 Progress Report
- 2010 Progress Report
- Final Report
Center for Integrating Statistical and Environmental Science
- Original Abstract
- 2006 Progress Report
- 2007 Progress Report
- 2008 Progress Report
- 2009 Progress Report
- 2010 Progress Report
- 2011 Progress Report
- Final Report
Human Models for Analysis of Pathways (H MAPs) Center
Center Research Projects:
R825370C032 - Means for Producing an Entirely New Generation of Lignin-Based Plastics
- Original Abstract
- 1996 Progress Report
- 1997 Progress Report
- 1998 Progress Report
- 1999 Progress Report
R825370C042 - Environmentally Conscious Design for Construction
R825370C046 - Clean Process Advisory System (CPAS) Core Activities
R825370C048 - Investigation of the Partial Oxidation of Methane to Methanol in a Simulated Countercurrent Moving Bed Reactor
R825370C054 - Predictive Tool for Ultrafiltration Performance
R825370C055 - Heuristic Reactor Design for Clean Synthesis and Processing - Separative Reactors
R825370C056 - Characterization of Selective Solid Acid Catalysts Towards the Rational Design of Catalytic Reactions
R825370C057 - Environmentally Conscious Manufacturing: Prediction of Processing Waste Streams for Discrete Products
R825370C064 - The Physical Properties Management System (PPMS™): A P2 Engineering Aid to Support Process Design and Analysis
R825370C065 - Development and Testing of Pollution Prevention Design Aids for Process Analysis and Decision Making
R825370C066 - Design Tools for Chemical Process Safety: Accident Probability
R825370C067 - Environmentally Conscious Manufacturing: Design for Disassembly (DFD) in De-Manufacturing of Products
R825370C068 - An Economic Comparison of Wet and Dry Machining
R825370C069 - In-Line Copper Recovery Technology
R825370C070 - Selective Catalytic Hydrogenation of Lactic Acid
R825370C071 - Biosynthesis of Polyhydroxyalkanoate Polymers from Industrial Wastewater
R825370C072 - Tin Zeolites for Partial Oxidation Catalysis
R825370C073 - Development of a High Performance Photocatalytic Reactor System for the Production of Methanol from Methane in the Gas Phase
R825370C074 - Recovery of Waste Polymer Generated by Lost Foam Technology in the Metal Casting Industry
R825370C075 - Industrial Implementation of the P2 Framework
R825370C076 - Establishing Automated Linkages Between Existing P2-Related Software Design Tools
R825370C077 - Integrated Applications of the Clean Process Advisory System to P2-Conscious Process Analysis and Improvement
R825370C078 - Development of Environmental Indices for Green Chemical Production and Use
The perspectives, information and conclusions conveyed in research project abstracts, progress reports, final reports, journal abstracts and journal publications convey the viewpoints of the principal investigator and may not represent the views and policies of ORD and EPA. Conclusions drawn by the principal investigators have not been reviewed by the Agency.