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Warehouse injuries and accidents are occurring much too frequently and resulting in devastating consequences and implications for the involved facility. Although the recent emergence of low-cost and unobtrusive sensor technologies have flooded nearly every market to improve health and safety, the warehousing and manufacturing markets have remained largely unpenetrated. Aptima plans to fill this ga ...

Technology Solutions Experts, Inc. (TSE) is proposing to develop the Property Reuse and Disposition Tool, a mobile app that will significantly expedite and facilitate the way in which the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) catalogs excess property for its reuse.The DLA's current process of cataloging excess property is cumbersome and tedious--with the advent and proliferation of mobile technologies, t ...

Statement of the Problem: Ambient aerosol particles play a significant role in adversely affecting human health, in altering the chemistry and the radiative balance of the Earth’s atmosphere, and in reducing visibility. However, there are significant uncertainties in the sources and chemical transformations of particulate matter and how they relate to climate forcing. Organic aerosol is a key co ...

As computational density for high-performance computing and big-data services continues to scale, performance scalability of next generation computing systems is becoming increasingly constrained by limitations in memory access, power dissipation and chip packaging. The processor-memory communication bottleneck, a major challenge in current multicore processors due to limited pin-out and power bud ...

In order to support further advances in Nuclear Physics, experiments using Cherenkov radiation and fast scintillators in calorimetry & dual calorimetry, would require new optical detectors with enhanced spectral response to blue and UV wavelengths, low timing jitter, high energy resolution, dynamic range and operation in high radiation and magnetic fields. SiPM silicon-based solid-state photo-mult ...

For nuclear physics research, thin film isotopic specialty targets are often requested for the use and in charged-particle-induced experiments. There are also tens of radioisotopes that are of interest for medical imaging, industrial and R&D uses. The targets of interest include B, O, Si, and Cr; isotopes of refractory metals, such as Re, Os, Ir are good examples. However, many of the isotopes can ...

The primary objective of the proposed project is to develop and validate turbulence and combustion models for high-fidelity simulation of combustion under supercritical conditions relevant to direct-fired supercritical CO2 power cycles. Supercritical CO2 cycles have gained much interest recently because of their potential for increased efficiency over the traditional power cycles. Direct-fired cyc ...

There exists a need to obtain near-real-time information in a wireless tool configuration to be used in dynamic geothermal well conditions, such as when drilling is in progress. A tool which can provide this near real-time information from sensors located near the bit of the drill string will help reduce the hazards and costs associated with geothermal well development by allow ...

The proposed program provides a new biomass conversion technology to produce FDCA, 2,5- furandicarboxylic acid, to replace hydrocarbon chemicals for production of plasticizers and polyester polymers. FDCA is currently produced from hexose carbohydrates, such as sucrose or high fructose corn syrup. Recent trends in global petroleum pricing have greatly reduced biomass raw material cost ...

Liquid fuel production from biomass in anaerobic membrane bioreactors has the potential to sup- ply the United States and the world with a large fraction of its liquid fuels from renewable biomass. The high cost and negative energy balance of such systems, however, makes the wide-spread adoption of this technology unfeasible to address energy needs. Biofouling of the membranes is at the root of th ...