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This project will develop an engineered soil product and process that repurpose waste-stream glass into soil suitable for horticultural and green infrastructure projects. The project supports the EPA's goal to improve sustainable materials management. Recycling of solid waste materials, like glass, remains challenging to cities due to costs of recycling in comparison to landfill disposal. Process ...

GaNify LLC will develop 10-kV 10-A power diode prototypes for medium-voltage power electronics systems. The medium-voltage power diodes are based on a novel charge-balanced GaN super-heterojunction technology, which already demonstrated ~2X higher effective E-field, scalability to over 10 kV, and ~3X lower on-resistance over the existing wide bandgap semiconductor technology. This project will stu ...

The key objective of this proposed work is to demonstrate the technical feasibility and energy and cost savings of the proposed non-evaporative dehydration process utilizing an enhanced supercritical drying process coupled with MPT ceramic membrane technology. The unique process combines two technical improvements for supercritical CO2 (scCO2) based drying of wet substrates that together (i) dram ...

Ocean Renewable Power Company, Inc. (ORPC) is a global leader in marine renewable energy technology and a developer of eco-conscious projects that harness the power of oceans and rivers to create clean, predictable renewable energy. Since 2004, ORPC has made significant progress towards implementing high reliability systems that demonstrate innovative high reliability systems. To achieve the low c ...

Ocean Renewable Power Company, Inc. (ORPC) is a global leader in marine renewable energy technology and a developer of eco-conscious projects that harness the power of oceans and rivers to create clean, predictable renewable energy. Since 2004, ORPC has made significant progress towards implementing high reliability systems that demonstrate innovative high reliability systems. To achieve the low c ...

QuesTek Innovations, a leader in Integrated Computational Materials Engineering (ICME), will lead a strong team of experts in computational materials design, additive manufacturing, coating technology, and turbine design/manufacturing to design and develop a comprehensive solution for a next-generation turbine blade alloy and coating system capable of sustained operation at 1300°C. Concurrent des ...

Acidic metal-contaminated mine water impacts tens of thousands of miles of streams in the US. Treatment requires neutralization of acidity followed by precipitation and management of the metals. Conventional mine water treatment systems use lime (CaO) or caustic (NaOH) to generate acid-neutralizing alkalinity. The high cost of these conventional technologies has contributed to the bankruptcies of ...

Globally, carbon capture and storage technologies are being developed to prevent CO2 from entering the atmosphere. One promising version of these technologies is carbon mineralization. Carbon mineralization reacts CO2 gas with minerals containing magnesium and/or calcium. When CO2 reacts with these minerals, it forms solid carbonate which may be sold for use in building materials. One plausible so ...

New regulations and advisory levels for perfluoroalkyl substances have resulted in increased drinking water treatment costs or abandonment of drinking water sources. Treatment technologies are needed that can achieve low parts-per-trillion levels. Presently, there are insufficient treatment technologies that can destructively remove perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) and/or perfluorooctane sulfonic aci ...

Environmental Fuel Research, LLC (EFR-LLC), has demonstrated the technical feasibility of separating fats, oils, and greases (FOG) from grease trap waste (GTW) and converting FOG to biodiesel that can meet ASTM specifications. GTW is a dirty and low-value waste from the food service industry that is high in FOG and currently is treated as a liability. The EFR-LLC process uses a bubble column react ...