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Over 820 million Indians, about 65% of its population, cook on polluting open fires, causing ~1 million premature deaths annually. Fifty million households have no electricity. The Power Stove is a household energy solution combining clean cooking and reliable, ondemand power. Clean combustion and thermoelectric power technology, make it a high performance, user desirable solution based on low cos ...

Discharging nutrients such as phosphorus and ammonia to surface waters can have far reaching health and environmental impacts, including the formation of toxic algae blooms, eutrophication, and loss of water_x000D_ quality. The wastewater industry has a significant need for high-efficiency nutrient removal technologies. However, current nutrient removal treatment technologies can be costly and in ...

Innovative process development is needed to reliably deposit superconducting niobium films possessing performance capabilities near those of bulk niobium on less costly copper accelerator component structures such as cavities, complex couplers, and nosecones as an alternative to solid bulk niobium. Unlike bulk or thick-film niobium, most thin-film coatings do not afford practical post-coating surf ...

Detection and concentration measurement of rare earth elements (REE) in a sample allows REEs reclaim processes to be used cost-effectively by only processing coal containing a sufficiently high concentration of REEs. Adelphi Technology proposes to develop a field deployed commercial prototype instrument capable of non-destructively determining the elemental composition of nearly any sample using n ...

The commercial nuclear fleet in the United States is striving for plant life extension and reduced operating and maintenance costs as part of the “Delivering the Nuclear Promise” initiative. Wireless technology plays a key role in achieving these goals by facilitating a more mobile workforce and enabling wireless equipment condition monitoring for predictive maintenance. However, there are mul ...

Rare Earth Elements (REE) are critical to the United States, utilized in wind turbines, batteries, catalysts, communications, hybrid engines, magnets, advanced defense systems and other devices. The global demand for REE is increasing and the US is at a disadvantage in not having REE mining or stockpiles; China controls about 90 percent of the world's output for REE. New sources of REE must be es ...

To protect molten salt pump impellers against aggressive molten chloride salts corrosion and blade tip erosion at high temperatures (≥ 700ºC) in a way that reduces overall equipment cost thereby increasing the efficiency of the Concentrating Solar Power (CSP) systems. Applied Thermal Coatings (ATC) Incorporation will develop an advanced low cost intermetallic coatings for molten salt pump impel ...

The Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration Office of Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation is tasked with detection and identification of new and emerging sources of illicit production and transportation of nuclear-related materials and technology. A variety of sensor modalities providing data at various spatial, spectral, and temporal resolutions exist to aid the detection o ...

This SBIR develops novel long-range passive Electromagnetic (EM) tag based on millimeter waves (mmW). EM mm waves can go through fabrics, plastics, wood, and other occlusions for addressing covert target tracking. The mmW spectrum offers an attractive middle ground between radio and optical wavelengths, having unique advantages for long range (> 1 km) RFID-like tags. The mmW bands have many of the ...

Catastrophic natural events can damage the electrical power grid, resulting in outages that put public health and safety at risk. The U.S. Department of Energy is working to develop methods that will hasten restoration of electrical service and reduce these risks. Such methods will shorten the duration of power outages by providing enhanced capabilities for rapidly identifying damage, without exp ...