DOE Awards $5M Agreement to Mississippi State for HEPA Filter Research

The Department of Energy yesterday awarded a $5 million cooperative agreement to Mississippi State University’s Institute for Clean Energy Technology to evaluate High-Efficiency Particulate Air Filters and related nuclear cleanup technologies, according to a DOE release. The five-year agreement will run from Jan. 20, 2015, until Jan. 19, 2020.

 

The activities under the new agreement will be a continuation of research already underway into how HEPA filters perform under various conditions and obtain information for nuclear applications, according to a DOE statement.  “This new cooperative agreement award will also fund research for new technology developments to support cleanup of contaminated sites as well as address emerging needs of the air treatment industry as a whole, for more robust HEPA filtration technologies,” according to DOE. “This research will provide data to support development of more reliable and robust filtration technologies, codes and standards that could ultimately reduce exposure to contaminants of the public, the workers, and the environment.”