{"71378":{"#nid":"71378","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Georgia Tech Researcher Receives KAUST Investigator Grant","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EWilliam J. Koros, Roberto C. Goizueta Chair and Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar in Membranes in the School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology, has been selected to receive one of 12  research grants awarded by the Global Research Partnership of the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST). The grant is valued at $2 million per year for five years.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EKoros\u0027 proposal, entitled \u0027Advanced Membranes and Sorbents for More Sustainable Hydrocarbon Utilization,\u0027 is designed to develop better methods to purify oil and natural gas hydrocarbons. These improved methods will reduce cost, pollution and energy consumption for all large-scale separation and purification processes, not just oil and gas. Improved biofuel processes are also expected to result from the work.  \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022We are delighted that Bill Koros has received this prestigious award,\u0022 said Georgia Tech Provost Gary Schuster.  \u0022His ability to compete successfully with top engineers from around the world is indicative of the excellence of his work and the global reputation of Georgia Tech.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EUnder the terms of the grant, the research will be conducted on the Georgia Tech campus.  Koros will spend three weeks each year at KAUST, where he will interact with students, faculty and other researchers from around the world.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EKoros\u0027 research will focus on separation processes that use pressure to force materials through a membrane that retains some substances on one side and allows others to pass to the other side. This process is best known under the name \u0027reverse osmosis\u0027 (RO) for its use in desalination (removing salt from sea water to make fresh water), but it can be used for gases as well.  \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EKoros will be working to develop advanced membranes and sorbents (designed to purify gases and to capture CO2 for sequestration) capable of 10 times finer filtering than conventional membranes. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Relatively speaking, it\u0027s like going from filtering particles the size of bowling balls away from ping pong balls for RO to filtering ping pong balls away from tennis balls for gas purification,\u0022 Koros said.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"William J. Koros, Roberto C. Goizueta Chair and Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar in Membranes at the Georgia Institute of Technology, has been selected to receive one of 12 research grants awarded by the Global Research Partnership of the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST).","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Research will center on fuel purification, cleaner fuels"}],"uid":"27281","created_gmt":"2008-03-13 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:02:18","author":"Lisa Grovenstein","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2008-03-13T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2008-03-13T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"2175","name":"KAUST"},{"id":"2176","name":"Koros"},{"id":"2177","name":"membranes"},{"id":"2178","name":"reverse osmosis"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cstrong\u003ELisa Grovenstein\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECommunications \u0026amp; Marketing\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:lisa.grovenstein@comm.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EContact Lisa Grovenstein\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404-894-8835\u003C\/strong\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["lisa.grovenstein@comm.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}