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"This SBIR Phase I project will develop an affordable, sensitive, fast-response solution to real-time monitoring of Elemental Carbon (EC). EcoChem will employ a proven sensor technology, the photoemission aerosol sensor (PAS) to detect EC. The PAS photoionizes carbonaceous aerosols with a unique excimer lamp [Burtscher, 1992] whose wavelength is chosen to selectively ionize EX and polycyclic aro ...

RADON DAUGHTERS IN INDOOR AIR REPRESENT A GREATER RADIOLO LOGICAL HAZARD TO THE POPULATION THAN ANY OTHER NATURALLY OCCURRING OR MAN-MADE RADIATION SOURCE. A SYSTEM TO DETECT THE ALPHA PARTICLES EMITTED BY THESE RADIOLOGICALLY ACTIVE RADON DAUGHTERS IS PROPOSED. A KEY ELEMENT OF THIS WORK IS TO PROVIDE A SUITABLE CALIBRATION BETWEEN DETECTED ALPH A ENERGY AND INDOOR RADIOLOGICAL HAZARD. THE INSTRU ...

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"At 2.7 million miles of paved roads, the United States has the largest network of roads in the world. The mainstream approach to pavement rehabilitation has been to mill the deteriorated asphalt and replace with new asphalt mix. The hot in-place pavement recycling process has the potential of replacing the milling and resurfacing process with substantial financial and environmental savings. Ho ...

"Operational Technology Corporation (OpTech) proposes to couple the ultrasensitivity of fluorescence-based detection with the high selectivity of synthetic DNA aptamers as replacements for antibodies to detect chemical and biological (CB) terrorism threats in 10 minutes or less from a variety of swabbed surfaces and liquid matrices. OpTech has previously provided strong proof-of-concept for a rap ...

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"As part of its mission to protect human health and the environment, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is dedicated to developing and promoting innovative cleanup strategies that restore contaminated sites to productive use, reduce associated costs, and promote environmental stewardship. However, in adopting this strategy there will be an increasing need to implement a more cost effective, ...

AN INNOVATIVE , COMBUSTION METHOD USING A COAL-MELT ATOMIZERIS PROPOSED. THIS COMBUSTION METHOD MAKES IT POSSIBLE FOR COMPLETE CARBON UTILIZATION AND SIMULTANEOUS CONTROL OF NOX,SO2, AND PARTICULATE MATTER FOR NEW UNITS AND RETROFIT SIT UATIONS FOR REPLACING OIL AND GAS IN EXISTING UNITS. MANAGEMENT AND TECHNICAL CONSULTANTS INC. (MTCI) PROPOSES TO USE A PULSE BURNER TO WHICH MELTED COAL WILL BE F ...

A HIGH RATE DOWNFLOW SPARGED BIOLOGICAL FIXED FILM REACTOR DESIGN HAS BEEN PROPOSED. THIS SYSTEM OFFERS AN IMPROVEMENT OVER PREVIOUS DESIGNS IN THAT INSTEAD OF CONSTANT AIR S SPARGING, THE AIR SPARGING TO THE PACKED SEED IS PULSED TO OFFER MORE EFFICIENT OXYGEN UTILIZATION. ANOTHER IMPROVEMENTIS THAT BECAUSE OF THE PULSING AIR, THE AIR HEADER SUPPLY C CAN BE LOCATED BELOW THE MEDIA TO PERMIT FULL ...

The Phase II project will be dedicated to the design, creation and full-scale testing of a functional multi­-specific sensor prototype for real-time environmental water monitoring. The sensor will be miniature, portable, robust, easy-to-use and completely field-deployable. The utilized competitive displacement detection scheme guarantees high specificity as was shown in Phase I, while bright fluo ...