Federal grant · project grant (b)

New Mexico State University

The Food Industry Remains One of the Most Energy-intensive Sectors in the U.s., Leading to High Operational Costs and Significant Environmental Impact. This Project Proposes a Breakthrough Solution: a New Evaporation Technology That Uses Guided Sound Waves to Reduce Energy Use During Food Processing. Unlike Conventional Approaches, This Method Efficiently Delivers Energy Along Heating Surfaces, Enabling More Effective Water Removal With Less Waste. the Project Includes Designing and Testing a Scalable Prototype, Evaluating Its Performance With Real Food Products, and Assessing Its Cost-effectiveness and Sustainability. by Advancing This Innovative Technology, We Aim to Support a More Energy-efficient, Climate-resilient, and Economically Viable Food Industry.

Committed

$745,210

Paid out
$19.6K
3%
Committed, not yet paid
$725.6K
97%

How to read these numbers

One award, start to finish: Everything here is this single award's whole record — signed, amended, paid — not a fiscal-year slice. The by-year charts elsewhere split an award across the years it was committed; this page keeps it whole.
Committed vs. ceiling: Committed is what the government has legally promised on this award so far. Contracts can also carry a ceiling — the maximum if every option is exercised. Unspent ceiling is headroom, not money owed.
Paid out: The cash actually disbursed against this award. The gap from committed is the disbursement pipeline: promised, not yet cashed.
The ledger: Each transaction is a signing event — an action that created or changed the award, dated the day it was signed — not a payment. Negative amounts are real: money de-committed at closeout or renegotiation.
The money bar: One bar, the award’s whole arithmetic: paid out, then committed, not yet paid, then .

Source

This award on USAspending.gov ↗