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The nuclear power industry continues to depend largely on antiquated methods and hands-on maintenance for its instrumentation, for plant-aging management, and health monitoring. This project will develop on-line monitoring technology that will help establish the accuracy and reliability of nuclear power plant instrumentation and also will help in the management of aging critical plant equipment. ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The proposed Universal Fingerprinting Chips (UFCs) are microarrays of thousands of oligonucleotide probes designed to interrogate the "sequence space" occupied by essentially any genome or transcriptome. The probe sequences are selected according to specific criteria tailored to the particular application. For example, the probe length will depend on the geneti ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Project Summary - A new syndrome-based diagnostic system for rapid detection and identification of category B and C priority pathogens is proposed. Phase 1 will focus on V. cholerae genes and genes from similar pathogens. The technique relies upon a helicase-driven iterative primer extension reaction (HDIE) that uses isothermal, multiplexed target amplification ...

Although good textbooks on food mycology are available, a clear need exists for simpler and more visual identification systems. Because of ease of manufacture and use, interactive potential and ability to display color pictures, the CD is the ideal medium for such a system. However nothing of this sort is available. The proposed project aims to produce an interactive CD for the identification of f ...

This proposed project will attempt to develop a data analysis system for structural health monitoring on space structures. The data analysis software will be a key component in space vehicle health management system and can be used to in vehicle life prediction. The sensor data analysis algorithm is aimed at providing a modeling and simulation tool for data collected from a network of distributed ...

Structural damage from termite infestation causes over $2 Billion in damage yearly within the U.S. In addition, current treatment methods are labor intensive and provide little feedback as to effectiveness. This effort will develop a prototype system for remote monitoring and detection of termites.

Since the 1990's, applications requiring high power (>1 KW) millimeter wave energy have relied on either gyrotrons or multiple gryotwystron amplifiers. While the gryotwystron approach offers bandwidth and single point failure benefits, it is inherently more complex and larger than that of the single gyrotron. The gyrotron however requires a superconducting magnet to create the 3.7 Tesla field ne ...

The databases and software tools developed for the electrical distribution system do not interoperate. As a result, electric utilities incur a number of problems: increased costs for training and database maintenance; delays in completing engineering studies and other functions; and, often, a decreased quality of output from software systems. For software providers, this situation leads to mark ...

Many good load-estimation algorithms for the electricity distribution system have arisen from research activities, but they often are difficult for utilities to implement. This project will develop a customizable load estimation system, using OSIsoft's Historian with extensions to the IEEE Power Quality Data Interchange Format (PQDIF) standard, to collect and manage the data. In Phase I, the OSI ...

This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project intends to develop low cost activated carbon nanofiber based ultracapacitor electrode material with ability to store large energy and power density. Polymer precursor nanofibers from polyacrylonitrile, pitch, phenolic, and lignin will be produced using an electrospinning process. These nanofibers will be converted to activated carbon n ...