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High performance computing (HPC) infrastructure and software scanning methods and tools vary broadly across the industry. Various requirements for organizations and networks are often not aligned which can lead to gaps in cybersecurity, oversights resulting in the need for re-architecture, astronomical expenses, amongst other issues. The tool solves these issues as it provides an automated, full-s ...

RF sources for accelerator applications are dominated by expensive klystron technologies. Life cycle costs require replacement of the entire microwave tube at the end of life. End-of-life for the RF source is a combination of the power supply design and microwave tube design with failures the result of a combination of these two expensive components where the microwave tube is the fuse. GENERAL ST ...

Neutron scattering experiments provide unparalleled contributions to physical, chemical, and materials science. At present, the US Government through DOE-BES operates two premier neutron scattering centers These facilities serve a broad and growing user community whose expanding needs require improved operational efficiency and capacity at those facilities. The automation of sample alignment proce ...

The Department of Energy is interested in technologies that support the sustainable production of fuels, chemicals, and other bioproducts from plant biomass, to offset the nation’s reliance on fossil resources. The plant cell wall of energy crops provides the largest reservoir of raw materials for bioproducts. However, the widespread use of plant cell walls is hampered by their complexity and re ...

Structural failure can be predicted by sensing ultrasonic acoustic emissions, spontaneously created when stress energy is released as metals fatigue due to a cyclic load. However, conventional piezoelectric sensors suffer rapid performance degradation when exposed to extreme temperatures and neutron radiation, limiting their ability to monitor the health of nuclear infrastructure. We will develop ...

Municipal solid waste companies in the United States have been shipping their plastic waste overseas in recent decades but are no longer able to due to import restrictions. Mechanical recycling is now the only option to recover the energy and value invested in plastic materials. The high costs of recycling plastic waste are due to the numerous steps necessary to process the materials, including wa ...

The emergence of big data gathering experiments in microscopy has created new challenges in maintaining standards for scientific integrity and reproducibility. The diversity of data, available microscope modalities, and larger number of collaborators increase the complexity of scientific asset management for evolving experiments. Recently developed scientific asset management software addresses th ...

Over the past two decades, there has been a drastic advance in the sensing technologies and data acquisition systems. These technologies have been deployed in carbon sequestration to continuously monitor CO2 migration and location during and after injection. A complex network of surface and underground sensors is often installed generating large volume of intricate datasets. These datasets require ...

Although phosphate is a critical nutrient involved in estuarine productivity, it is also a well-known contaminant of surface and ground water. This contamination can have significant effects in sensitive areas such as the terrestrial aquatic interfaces (TAIs) where the flux of nutrients can change over a relatively short period of time leading to hypoxia and the formation of harmful algal blooms. ...

75602-Nitric acid production is currently the largest source of nitrous oxide emissions in the chemical industry. Reductions in these emissions are urgently required because nitrous oxide is both a strong greenhouse gas and an ozone layer depleter. Although measures exist to eliminate nitrous oxide emissions from adipic acid plants, they cannot be applied to eliminate nitrous oxide emissions fro ...