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Septic systems, widely used by >25% of U.S. households, represent a 6-billion-dollar market with a 5-7% projected growth rate. There is growing interest in non-potable reuse of septic tank effluent, yet existing disinfection methods are either costly (e.g., UV) or require households to handle hazardous chemicals (e.g., chlorine tablets). This project will validate a promising septic tank technolog ...

Microplastics are environmental pollutants ubiquitous in marine and freshwater environments and have been established to have deleterious impacts on aquatic life and human health. Preventing Microplastics from getting into waterways or removing it once it is there, is the mission of EPA’s Trash Free Waters program and, as the production of plastics continues to grow, EPA is looking for innovativ ...

VISIMO’s ML Toolkit for Grey Literature Screening will reduce bias in, and improve accuracy of, systematic reviews (SRs) for chemical risk assessment. Grey literature is notoriously difficult to screen and tag, and despite its importance, researchers often exclude grey literature from their SRs due to necessity. VISIMO’s Toolkit will enable researchers to filter full documents of all types and ...

CleanRobotics has developed a robotic, artificial intelligence (AI) powered system, called TrashBot, for sorting and auditing recycling, landfill, and compost from facilities with transient populations. Our system has the unique capability of ensuring proper waste sorting of up to four waste streams with the added cost reduction of eliminating user intervention. Discarding waste becomes an educati ...

Materials Research & Design, Inc. (MR&D) and their program partners propose a research and development (R&D) effort to identify, develop, and demonstrate a class of high-temperature resistant TPS materials and production processes which seek to increase domestic production capacity, affordability, and supply chain resiliency. Under the effort proposed herein, MR&D will work closely with the Nation ...

BRM will weave and supply material to Sandia National Laboratory for characterization. Sandia National Laboratory has experience with nose tip applications, and they are currently working to redesign sounding rocket leading edges. BRM and Sandia National Laboratory shall characterize the continuously woven preforms for the sounding rocket leading edge, but this work will also feed into the charact ...

The loom developed by the BRM team is the most advanced and versatile loom ever built by BRM. The servo control of all movements in the weaving operation, combined with BRM’s experience of weaving novel structures is a true game changer, advancing BRM’s ability to supply woven preforms which were unobtainable until now. Now that the loom is built and a proof of concept has been woven on the lo ...

Automating the transfer of nodular aluminum powder within a plant by using compressors or blowers can bring several benefits: Increased Efficiency: Automation will eliminate the need for manual labor, reducing the time and effort required for powder transfer. Compressors or blowers will move the powder quickly and consistently, improving overall efficiency. Cost Savings: By replacing manual labor ...

DeVal Life Cycle Support, LLC is proposing to improve product availability and increase competition through the development of a Source Approval Requests (SAR) for NSN 5210-01-519-1548 – Box, Adapter.​​​​​​​ DeVal Life Cycle Support, LLC will conduct relevant research and reverse engineering resulting in the development of the technical data package (TDP) as well as a SAR. The in ...

Standard Missile 3 (SM-3) employs a divert and attitude control system (DACS) to guide the kinetic weapon (KW) in a hit-to-kill maneuver.  The DACS motors employ C/SiC composite throats and pintles to control the hot gas thrust and thereby guide the KW during the final maneuver.  Existing DACS hardware are made using needled carbon fiber preforms purchased from France.  The supplier has decided ...