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Lead in household paint and dust is a serious health hazard, as low-level lead exposure can result in a number of adverse health effects, especially in children. Onsite and real-time detection and quantification of lead in paint/dust are very important to homeowners and certified lead-based paint removal professionals. Toward this end, both field-portable equipment (such as X-ray fluorescenc ...

Particulate emissions are one of the main air quality concerns in poultry farms and other animal feeding operations (AFO) and especially are significant in poultry AFOs. It can cause health damage to the AFO worker, become a nuisance to the neighborhoods, and result in violations of the Clean Air Act. This Phase I study focuses on an innovative particulate control technology utili ...

Polymer composites are used widely for automotive body panels to save weight, increase fuel efficiency, and eliminate corrosion. Unlike metals, however, structural polymers are not conductive electrically; thus, they are not amenable to the industry standard technique of electrostatic spray painting (ESP). Current methods for adapting polymers to ESP pose serious environmental and ec ...

The objectives of this Phase I project are to demonstrate the production of potentially very low-cost nano/metastructured thermal spray powders using recycled scrap tools or very low-cost ceramic powders and to demonstrate superior materials properties of the metastructured coating when applied using thermal spray. The result would be a new class of very low-cost, nanostructured cement coatings th ...

Perchlorate is a widely used component of solid fuel, missile and rocket propellants, explosives, and pyrotechnics. It has been shown to reduce iodide uptake into the thyroid gland. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has found perchlorate contamination in 18 states and believes contamination may exist in as many as 39 states. In early January 2005, the National Academy of Science ...

Polymer composites are widely used for automotive body panels to save weight, increase fuel efficiency, and eliminate corrosion. However, unlike metals, structural polymers are not electrically conductive; thus, they are not amenable to the industry standard technique of electrostatic spray painting (ESP). Current methods for adapting polymers to ESP pose serious environmental and economic chall ...

Lead in household paint and dust is a serious health hazard as low level lead exposure can result in a number o adverse health effects, especially in children. On-site and real-time detection and quantification of lead in the paint/dust is very important to homeowners and certified lead-based paint removal professionals. Toward this end, both field-portable equipment (such as x-ray fluorescence ...

The present state of the art for superconducting accelerating structures, needed for the International Linear Collider (ILC), has achieved a gradient of 35 MV/m. This project will design, develop, and demonstrate the Superconducting Traveling Wave Accelerating (STWA) Structure to further increase the gradient by a factor of 1.20-1.40. The STWA structure will operate at the same surface magnetic ...

This project will develop a diamond-based, cylindrical, dielectric accelerating (DLA) structure that can sustaining a record accelerating gradient greater than 600 MV/m, significantly in exess of the limits for conventional accelerating structures. The results will be applied to the development of next-generation accelerators with high efficiency and to the technology of cylindrical diamond eleme ...

This project will develop a broadband coupling section for the high-gradient dielectric loaded accelerator (DLA). The coaxial-type, DLA coupler design will avoid vacuum gaps between the dielectric sections and thus eliminate any points for potential radio frequency (RF) breakdown. It will allow the construction of a new type of dielectric-based accelerator structure that provides accelerating gr ...