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Low Altitude Sensing Helmet -(LASH) is to provide for pilot night vision when using small non-military planes to operate using unimproved landing areas around the globe. LASH will use SWIR (Short Wave IR) and LWIR (Long Wave IR) technology sensors to provide improved night vision in specified conditions.

Ibis’ baseline design balances the competing demands of low cost and high performance. The proposed baseline allows for the incorporation of high-rate production technologies which also provide the most functional shapes, minimizing cost and maximizing performance. Ibis’ layout features a streamlined fuselage, high aspect ratio swept wings and non-foldable tail-planes which sum up to ...

In an x-ray free-electron lasers (XFEL), a high quality relativistic electron beam from a linear accelerator traverses an array of undulator magnets to generate a high power x-ray beam by allowing the FEL to reach saturation. In many XFELs, phase shifters haven’t been commonly used or included in their designs. The importance of the phase shifter was recognized only recently. A phase shifter can ...

The Department of Energy Office of Biological and Environmental Research (DOE BER) Mesoscale to Molecules Bioimaging Technology Program aims to develop new imaging and measurement technology to enable in situ and dynamic imaging across a range of spatial and temporal scales. Various imaging modalities are required to span the complete spatiotemporal landscape for bioenergy and environmental bioima ...

Dry methane reforming consumes two greenhouse gases (carbon dioxide and methane) and coverts them to syngas that can be used to produce liquid fuels and other chemicals. Using catalysts, this reaction occurs at temperatures of 600-900oC, yet conversion has been limited and carbon-forming reactions that deactivate catalysts are often a problem. In this Phase I study, we propose an innovative approa ...

Improving our current ability to measure the shape of x-ray focusing mirrors is necessary to advance our knowledge of the atomic structure of many types of materials, especially for the latest diffraction-limited light sources within the DOE. X-ray studies at DOE national laboratories of the atomic structure of new materials, biological molecules, etc. are limited by the quality of the x-ray spot ...

Direct fired supercritical CO2 (sCO2) cycles are gaining interest because of their potential as a zero emission power source that operates at high efficiency. The oxy-combustors in these systems operate at high supercritical pressures and current simulation tools to support design evaluation are deficient in this regime. Our proposed work here addresses this deficiency. The proposed program seeks ...

The polymer electrolyte membrane (PEM) remains one of the most significant cost components of the fuel cell (FC) stack. Development of a low-cost PEM suitable for rapid commercialization of FCs, with a wide range of desired characteristics meeting the DOE performance targets is the subject of this project. This Small Business Innovation Research Phase I project aims to design, develop, and produce ...

The DOE Office of Nuclear Energy (NE) has created an extensive set of advanced modeling and simulation tools for nuclear engineering analysis. The advanced capabilities of these newer analysis codes require more in-depth training, skills, and knowledge in order to effectively utilize them for the design, analysis, and licensing of advanced nuclear systems and experiments. A high learning curve for ...

An increasingly developed global populations necessitates an increased demand for inexpensive, renewable commercial building blocks and feedstocks in order to preserve human standards of living. Lignocellulosic biomass valorization has emerged as an attractive alternative source for feedstocks, with a more sustainable long-term future. Lignocellulosic biomasses can be hydrolyzed to produce cellulo ...