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75990-Waste heat streams represent an enormous untapped energy resource. The smaller the quantity and temperature of the waste heat, the more difficult it is to convert it to power. Yet, the smaller waste heat streams are available in greatest number. This project will develop a new absorption cycle for converting low temperature (

72703-There is a national interest in the efficient, economical and enhanced utilization of biomass as an energy resource. Consequently, there is a need for the development of a feedstock-flexible, modular, biomass drying system that can cater to the local market drivers in an efficient, safe and environmentally responsible manner. This project will develop a pulsed combustion drying system for b ...

76201-During the next decade, upgrades to the DOE¿s two leading particle accelerators, the Continuous Electron Beam Acceleration Facility and the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), will lead to enormous increases in the rate at which data is produced. For example, at the RHIC, an anticipated increase in luminosity by a factor of about 40 will lead to a requirement to store 1000 events per s ...

75969-Some natural gas reservoirs (such as those of the Jonah field, Pinedale Anticline, or Bossier field) are composed of thin discontinuous lenticular sands ranging in length from tens to thousands of feet. Ultimately, production from these wells is controlled by the volume of sand that can be hydraulically fractured and put online. Currently, no method is available by which an operator can de ...

75742-Lighting is the largest component of worldwide energy usage, consuming 20% of the total electricity. Polymer-based Organic Light Emitting Diodes (OLED) has been recognized as an ideal source for area lighting applications due to its potential for large area production, high efficiency and unit brightness, and color rendering effects. However, in order to achieve low cost and high efficienc ...

72731-Thermoelectric power plants account for 39% of the fresh water withdrawn from streams and lakes in the United States, second only to agriculture. 3.3 billion gallons daily are lost to evaporation and 190 billion returned as warm water discharge. The link between adequate supplies of low-cost energy and freshwater is clearly recognized in President Bush¿s National Energy Policy. The dem ...

75307-Many applications, including those in Nuclear Physics research, could take greater advantage of supercomputer power if the connections between commodity systems were faster and cheaper. Current techniques for connecting computers into clusters are limited both by performance and price ¿ slow interconnects limit overall performance and expensive interconnects limit the budget for processi ...

Some bioterrorism agents cause disease at very low infective doses and their presence can be masked by the environment. Therefore, ultrasensitive detection is required for homeland defense applications. In this Phase I research project, Operational Technologies Corporation (OpTech) proposes to couple DNA aptamers made by the Systematic Evolution of Ligands by Exponential Enrichment (SE ...

Some bioterrorism agents cause disease at very low infective doses and their presence can be masked by the environment. Therefore, ultrasensitive detection is required for homeland defense applications. In this Phase I research project, Operational Technologies Corporation (OpTech) proposes to couple DNA aptamers made by the Systematic Evolution of Ligands by Exponential Enrichment (SELEX) proce ...

75007-Significant amounts of hydrocarbon are available in oil sands and oil shale within the United States; however, its recovery has been hampered by the difficulty in accurately imaging the rock formations and fluid flow. Although formation testers are now being used to sense the fine details associated with multiphase fluid distributions in thinly-bedded sandstone-shale sequences, software mod ...