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THE AERATED FLOW COMBUSTOR (AFC) IS A NEW, ADVANCED CONCEPT OF COMBUSTOR DESIGN, APPLICABLE TO THE HIGH EFFICIENCY, CLEAN, DIRECT COMBUSTION OF COAL, COAL SLURRIES, MOST SOLID AND LIQUID FUELS, AND HAZARDOUS WASTES. AFC IS BASED UPON AN ADVANCED, INTEGRATED, INTERDISCIPLINARY COMBINATION OF TECHNOLOGIES, INCLUDING FLUIDIZED BED COMBUSTION, AERATED FLOW OF SOLIDS, AND CIRCULATION-LOOP GAS-SOLIDS CA ...

TYPICALLY, A COGENERATION SYSTEM DESIGNER MUST CHOOSE BETWEEN A RECIPROCATING ENGINE, WHICH YIELDS EXCELLENT ELECTRICAL EFFICIENCY BUT LOW USEFUL THERMAL OUTPUT OR A GASTURBINE, WHICH YIELDS A LARGE THERMAL OUTPUT BUT LESS ELECTRICITY. THE PROPOSED IMPROVEMENT, WHEN APPLIED TO A RECIPROCATING ENGINE COGENERATION SYSTEM, INCREASES THE USEFUL THERMAL OUTPUT BY ABOUT 50% WITHOUT DECREASING THE ELECTR ...

BRAZING GRAPHITE TO GRAPHITE OR TO OTHER MATERIALS IS DIFFICULT SINCE GRAPHITE IS NOT READILY WET BY MOST CONVENTIONAL BRAZE FILLER METALS. BECAUSE THE BONDING MECHANISM DEPENDS ON CARBIDE FORMATION, THE FILLER METALS USED FOR JOINING GRAPHITE TO GRAPHITE OR OTHER METALS MUST CONTAIN AN ELEMENT THAT HAS A STRONG TENDENCY TO FORM CARBIDES WITH THE GRAPHITE. THIS PROJECT INVOLVES BRAZING GRAPHITE AN ...

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PRESENT TECHNIQUES FOR OBTAINING INFORMATION FROM SEQUENCED ELECTROPHORESIS GELS RELY HEAVILY ON X-RAY FILM AS THE RECORDING MEDIUM. SUCH FILM SUFFERS FROM LIMITED DYNAMIC RANGE, NONLINEAR RESPONSIVITY, AND TIME-CONSUMING DEVELOPMENT TECHNIQUES. THIS PROJECT INVOLVES NEW RECORDINGMEDIA FOR AN AUTOMATED GENOME MAPPING SYSTEM. THE MEDIA AREDIFFERENT FORMULATIONS OF PROPRIETARY ELECTRON TRAPPING MATE ...

Project Abstract Concordance Health Solutions (CHS) is an Indiana company with a mission to improve patient medication adherence in partnership with pharmacists and other healthcare providers. With this SBIR grant, CHS will develop and test an innovative product, the SMARxT Med Reminder (SMR) Plus system, which will extend the capability of the inexpensive SMARxT Med Reminder cap developed with a ...

DESCRIPTION: There is a growing consensus that protection against HIV infection will require BOTH antiviral antibody responses as well as polyfunctional CD4+ and CD8+ T cells with potent lytic activity. To stimulate the breadth, potency, and rate of response required, Profectus Biosciences intends to utilize its platform technologies based on electroporation of DNA vaccines combined with genetic a ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Recent advances in countercurrent chromatography (CCC) have created novel spiral-design separation columns that hold a very high stationary phase of all the solvent systems, such that now all molecules of any size and water solubility can be successfully separated in high-speed countercurrent chromatography. With spiral CCC there is inherent versatility, more t ...