ACS Petroleum Research Fund

How to Apply: 

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.

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 Committee feels are a logical extension of an investigator’s previous research may be denied as “not a new direction.”

Since the first ACS PRF grants were approved in 1953, several grant programs have evolved to serve segments of the scientific community, including “new investigator” grants and grants to support researchers in departments that do not award doctoral degrees.

Scope of the Fund

Proposals must be for fundamental research in “the petroleum field,” which is defined in our founding document as “petroleum, natural gas, coal, shale, tar sands and like materials.” Fundamental research encompasses the properties of these materials, whereas the petroleum industry undertakes “applied research,” which is outside the scope of ACS PRF.

The next submission window will be from Monday, February 14, 2022 to Friday, March 11, 2022 and the submitted proposals will be considered at the October 2022 ACS PRF Committee Meeting.

  •  Please contact Jill Sherman, International Research Facilitator, if this opportunity is of interest at intl.research@lakeheadu.ca
External Deadline: 
Friday, March 11, 2022
Funding Source: 
External
Funding Level: 
Research