In August 2022, Texas Tech University received its largest-ever federal grant to create
the Center for Advancing Sustainable and Distributed Fertilizer Production (CASFER).
CASFER, headquartered at Texas Tech, received a $26 million grant from the NSF for
an initial five-year period, with the possibility of renewing the grant for five more
years and another $25 million.
Texas Tech leads the collaboration, and is joined by Florida Agricultural and Mechanical
(A&M) University, Georgia Institute of Technology, Case Western Reserve University
and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The team is charged with developing
next-generation, modular, distributed and efficient technologies for capturing, recycling
and producing decarbonized nitrogen-based fertilizers (NBFs).
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This research center will put Texas Tech on the cutting edge of fertilizer research
to feed the future of America.
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This research center will put Texas Tech on the cutting edge of fertilizer research
to feed the future of America.
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