The Center for Advancing Sustainable and Distributed Fertilizer Production (CASFER) is a National Science Foundation Engineering Research Center. CASFER brings together expert leadership and the convergence of a multidisciplinary team drawn from Texas Tech University, Florida A&M University, Georgia Institute of Technology, Case Western Reserve University, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The Center is headquarted, here, at Texas Tech University under the Institute for Sustainability and Circular Economy in the Maddox Engineering Research Center. 

CASFER's Vision

CASFER's vision is to enable resilient and sustainable food production by developing next-generation, modular, distributed, and efficient technologies for capturing, recycling, and producing electrified nitrogen-based fertilizers (NBFs) and other plant macronutrients.

​CASFER will also leverage its platform technologies to optimize the recovery of phosphorous (phosphorous-based fertilizers, PBF), nutrients and other resources from waste streams while maximizing N circularity.

CASFER's Mission

 Feeding the World for Generations to Come​​

The CASFER mission is to transform the U.S. to a Nitrogen Circular Economy by optimizing waste stream recycling and reimagining value creation through secure, efficient infrastructure networks that drive market advantage and establish new revenue streams in the domestic nitrogen market.

CASFER aims to capture and recycle nitrogen from waste streams to reach more than 50% of the US NBF consumption. Instead of expending resources, energy, and money to deactivate diluted reactive nitrogen from waste streams, nitrogen from waste will be captured and recycled for crop production.

The CASFER team bridges fundamental academic research and commercial innovation in the U.S. fertilizer industry. By integrating advances in nanotechnology, electrochemistry, and data science, CASFER develops transformative technologies ready for market adoption. This mission is achieved through NCE, where engineers, scientists, systems integrators, economists, legislators, and policy makers collaborate to ensure research outcomes translate into practical, industry-ready solutions.

 

Contact CASFER

CASFER Website: casfer.us

CASFER Email: casfer@ttu.edu 

CASFER Address: 

Maddox Engineering Research Center

Office 209

1010 Boston Ave, Lubbock, TX 79409