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Industrial Microbes is developing a green fermentation platform to replace carbon-emitting petrochemical production with newer methods that build chemicals out of methane and carbon dioxide.Chemical production is a major source of carbon pollution, responsible for 18% of direct industrialemissions. Our innovation is an engineered microbe that can consume carbon dioxide and methane and produce a ch ...

Over 50 million Indian households cook on a bio-mass fire and have unreliable or no electricity but are anxious to purchase an affordable power stove which will provide on-demand power and lighting to their homes. Annually, projected sales of the power stove could save sixteen million trees, reduce cooking fire particulates by 90%, reduce the two million premature deaths caused from indoor air pol ...

Discharge of nutrients (e.g. phosphorus and ammonia) to surface waters can cause eutrophication and the formation of toxic algal blooms, threatening human health and the environment. However, current phosphorus treatment technologies such as chemical precipitation and conventional biological systems can be costly and ineffective to reliably achieve impending effluent regulatory limits of

TIAX has developed a technology that meets the EPA' s need for decontamination of biological material in railway and subway cars. It provides simultaneous encapsulation and killing of biological contaminants with the added capability for decontamination of chemical and radiological hazards. Current technologies are manpower intensive involving separate steps for site preparation; decontamination; ...

San Diego Composites, Inc. (SDC) is developing the Reinforced Additively Manufactured Compression Assisted Molding (RAMCAM) pod to produce on-demand, corrosion resistant, aluminum and stainless steel equivalent parts in less than three days. RAMCAM combines the advantageous 2 day lead time of custom parts produced by 3D printing with the 1 day forging of structural parts via composite compression ...

The efficient modeling of acoustic interaction between wake generated by lifting and control surfaces, with a propulsive flowfield of a pusher propeller configuration forms the focus of this proposed SBIR project. Modeling these effects involves complex, high fidelity, and high performance computing simulations that tend to be cumbersome and time consuming. Multiple realizations of coupled respons ...

Back-up power equipment, such as engine-driven generator systems, undergo performance degradation over time that can prevent them from functioning properly in critical situations. Ensuring the reliability of back-up power systems during power outages not only allows for the continuation of normal operations, but also can mitigate potential threats to national security. Improved diagnostic and prog ...

This Phase I STTR project will develop a platform to demonstrate high-quality, multi-modal acquisition of neurophysiological signals, including EEG, heart rate/blood oxygenation via photoplethysmography (PPG), electrodermal (EDA) activity, temperature plus environmental factors such as ambient light and sound in a simple, wearable headband. The hardware will be coupled with the development of a cl ...

SensorMetrix proposes to develop and test a prototype Non-contact Hit Sensor system for use in Live Fire Training. The proposed system will provide real-time detection of incoming munitions and determine the location of penetration on a specified 2D surface area with better than 10 mm accuracy for detection areas of up to 10 meters in lateral extent. In addition, the system will determine the cali ...

Feeding troops in the field is arguably the most critical component of force sustainment.The Army has been engaged in a multi-year effort to improve the fuel-fired appliances used in field kitchens for preparing UGR-A ration menus.This effort is primarily intended to improve the energy efficiency and environmental conditions of field kitchens.A range of different appliances are provided in field k ...