{"id":1764,"date":"2016-10-09T13:18:29","date_gmt":"2016-10-09T13:18:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.grant4free.com\/?p=1764"},"modified":"2016-10-15T13:40:58","modified_gmt":"2016-10-15T13:40:58","slug":"acs-petroleum-research-fund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.grant4free.com\/acs-petroleum-research-fund\/","title":{"rendered":"ACS Petroleum Research Fund"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Petroleum Research Fund is an endowed fund, managed by the American Chemical Society that supports fundamental research directly related to petroleum or fossil fuels at nonprofit institutions (generally colleges and universities) in the United States and other countries.<\/p>\n

ACS Petroleum Research Fund (ACS PRF) grants are intended as seed money, to enable an investigator to initiate a new research direction. The investigator should not have published or received financial support from another funding agency for the proposed research. Also, proposals that the ACS PRF Advisory Board feels are a logical extension of an investigator\u2019s previous research may be denied as \u201cnot a new direction.\u201d<\/p>\n

Since the first ACS PRF grants were approved in 1953, several grant programs have evolved to serve segments of the scientific community, including \u201cnew investigator\u201d grants and grants to support researchers in departments that do not award doctoral degrees.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Scope of the Fund<\/b>
\nProposals must be for fundamental research in \u201cthe petroleum field,\u201d which is defined in our founding document as \u201cpetroleum, natural gas, coal, shale, tar sands and like materials.\u201d Fundamental research encompasses the properties of these materials, whereas the petroleum industry undertakes \u201capplied research,\u201d which is outside the scope of ACS PRF. See our list of Research Topics<\/a> that are supported and not supported by ACS PRF.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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