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Seawater contains about 3 parts per billion of uranium. With a total ocean volume of approximately 1.3109 km3, there is at least 4.5 billion tons of uranium in seawater which is about 1000 times the amount of uranium known to exist in terrestrial ores. Mining uranium from seawater is economically feasibility if an efficient, reusable and low-cost adsorbent could be developed. In the past year, ...

There is a clear and unmet need for technologies to improve power generation flexibility to enable cost effective and reliable high renewable energy fractions in modern grids. Specifically, gas turbine generator turndown ratio may be improved by extending combustion lean flammability limits. This project will deliver a prototype plasma reformer system integrated with gas turbine combustors to allo ...

Upcoming HEP projects require physical and electrical bonds between opposite points of thin parallel circuit faces which areless than 50 microns in pitch, but current methods, such as bump-soldering and anisotropic conductive adhesives (ACA) and films (ACF) cannot reach these resolution limits and furthermore require heat and pressure that damage delicate circuitry. SunRay ZTACH™ is an anisotrop ...

This proposal addresses the challenge of measuring the hydrogeologic response of geologic formations in-situ and at high-resolution to determine flow and storage parameters governing groundwater availability, contaminant fate, and other dynamic subsurface processes. How this problem is being addressed: We will develop direct-push and borehole instrumentation and methods for efficiently acquiring h ...

Development of high performance downhole components and materials is necessary to enable geothermal exploration and production capabilities in high pressure and high temperature applications. Conventional well materials are poorly suited for corrosive environments. Steel casing, screens, and other wellbore components are susceptible to corrosion in extreme geothermal conditions. An ideal replaceme ...

A significant problem in automotive, defense, and other industries is the complexity of setting up and running simulations for various aspects of a design to ensure accuracy, assess failings, and predetermine fatal and non-fatal errors. A high-prole and increasingly important type of simulation is the modeling of crash phenomena, where today's best methods require millions of dollars of manual lab ...

Orora Design Technologies proposes to develop electronic design automation (EDA) tools employing minimally invasive circuit design-based methods to mitigate single event effects (SEEs) for next generation Ultra-DSM CMOS (

A HYBRID POWER PLANT, CONSISTING OF A DIESEL GENERATOR, A BATTERY FOR ENERGY STORAGE, A PHOTO-VOLTAIC ARRAY OR OTHER RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCE, AND AN INVERTER/BATTERY CHARGER, WILL BE ECONOMICALLY FEASIBLE IN THE NEAR FUTURE BOTH WITHIN THE UNITED STATES AND THROUGHOUT THE DEVELOPING WORLD WHERE RURAL AREAS ARE STARVING FOR QUALITY POWER. AT PRESENT DIESEL GENERATORS RUN CONTINUOUSLY; THE NEW HYBR ...

THE EVER INCREASING NEED TO PROCESS LARGE QUANTITIES OF SOLID FUELS LIKE COAL PROVIDES STRONG MOTIVATION TO STUDY THE DYNAMICS OF FLOWING GRANULAR MATERIALS. LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS ARE HAMPERED BY THE LACK OF ADEQUATE DIAGNOSTIC TOOLS AND MEANS TO CONTROL THE FLOWS. FIELD EXPERIMENTS ARE VERY EXPENSIVE AS WELL. ALSO, SCALE DEPENDENCE IMPLIES THAT RESULTS OF LABORATORY OF SEMI-INDUSTRIAL SCALE E ...

THE CONVERSION OF INFRARED (IR) ENERGY BY MEANS OF PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS, KNOWN AS THERMOPHOTOVOLTAICS (TPV), WAS SUGGESTED IN THE EARLY 1970S AND HAS BEEN RESEARCHED BY MANY WORKERS SINCE THEN. THE RECENT DEVELOPMENTS OF LOW-BANDGAP PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS AND IR BANDPASS FILTERS HAVE FINALLY MADE THE PROMISE OF HIGH EFFICIENCY THERMOPHOTOVOLTAIC ENERGY CONVERSION A REALITY. THIS PROJECT SEEKS TO DEVEL ...