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American Energy Technologies Co., a woman-owned small business concern of Illinois will partner with Lockheed Martin Corp"s Missions Systems and Sensors and with Analog Devices, in order to develop and demonstrate a new and improved primary battery capable of delivering up to two thirds of the energy density of gasoline as employed in an internal combustion engine, and up to 6.5 times the specific ...

The objective of this project is to build on the successful feasibility studies of Phase I to develop and to start commercialization of a new FE/MBS software that allows for the integration of computational geometry methods. This code will be designed to meet DOD and industry needs for the simulation of complex engineering and physics systems including vehicle system models with significant detail ...

The majority of the US petrochemicals industry is dependent upon petroleum crude or natural gas as raw materials. The excessive dependence on foreign energy resources poses a threat to the energy security of the nation. Materials produced from fossil sources also have a negative impact on the environment. Nylon (Nylon 6 and Nylon 6,6) is a major product of the petrochemical industry. The total Nyl ...

This work will address the problem of deviations of unmanned vehicle convoy followers by developing a method to estimate the parameters of the disturbances that cause lateral deviations from the desired vehicle trajectory. These parameters will be estimated each time a vehicle passes over a section of terrain. These spatially dependent estimates of the disturbance parameters will then be passed to ...

Existing sensors and algorithms have the potential for protecting Unmanned Ground Vehicles (UGVs) from impending collisions, rollovers, and loss of control and for warning and assisting drivers of manned vehicles of these same potential occurrences. However, more effort is needed to develop, refine, and combine existing methods so they are reliable and run in real-time on real hardware. In this ph ...

The Haber-Bosch process is the dominant industrial method for nitrogen fixation in the world, with production exceeding 140MM tons in 2009. This process of converting nitrogen and hydrogen to ammonia is one of the great scientific achievements in the modern world. However, Haber-Bosch process is energy intensive requiring pressures >150 bar and temperatures >400 C to achieve 8-15% efficiency. I ...

Two-electron reduced-density-matrix (2-RDM) methods represent all of the electrons in any molecule or material with only two electrons by replacing the wave function by the 2-RDM as the basic variable for quantum many-electron theory. The 2-RDM methods, developed by David Mazziotti at The University of Chicago with support from the Army Research Office, have polynomial scaling with system size, al ...

A team at EP Purification has performed research for the development and commercialization of low-cost microchannel plasma reactor modules capable of efficiently producing ozone for water treatment and other environmental applications in a slim form factor and size. The conservation of water resources for human consumption is a growing national priority. Ozone is a unique purification agent as it ...

A reliable 20-year shelf life power source is needed to activate advanced smaller munitions. Most of the current batteries and other power sources do not have such a long shelf life and reliability. The only battery chemistry proven for such a long life and reliability has been used only for very low power applications due to limited ionic conductivity of the electrolyte. Materials & Systems Re ...

Rapid prediction of convection heat transfer requires the solution to a problem that is too complicated to model analytically and too time consuming to model using traditional computational fluid dynamics (CFD) capabilities. These limitations have a significant affect on vehicle survivability assessments, which require accurate convective thermal modeling in order to reach goals associated to ther ...