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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 ...

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 ...

The next generation nuclear physics accelerator facility, the Electron Ion Collider EIC), will accelerate and collide spin polarized electrons and ions focused to an unprecedented density at their point of collision. To achieve the desired electron/ion density at the focal point, the technique of electron cooling will be applied. In this technique, the ion beam is temporarily accompanied by a high ...

In response to DOE’s SBIR topic 18-a, “Instrumentation and Tools for Materials Research Using Neutron Scattering: a. Advanced Sample Environments”, Advanced Cooling Technologies, Inc. ACT) proposes a novel thermal management system for improving the cooling rate of the high temperature vacuum furnaces. The proposed method is able to achieve up to 18X cooling rate comparing to the current-sta ...

Soil gas concentration data are critically importance for assessing regions of the surface and subsurface as part of developing a more accurate understanding of subsurface biogeochemical processes, production of gaseous end products, their relationship to microbe-catalyzed pathways of interest, and eventual release to the atmosphere across the subsurface-land surface interface. Mesa Photonics prop ...

The world in the midst of a quantum computing race - one that will result in groundbreaking computing power that far surpasses the performance of digital supercomputers. Quantum computing has the potential to fundamentally change commerce, intelligence, military affairs and the global balance of power. There is a great deal of investment in quantum computing research worldwide, which is producing ...

Aerosols and clouds play an important role in the Earth's global energy and solar radiation balance and hydrological cycle. However, the processes that govern cloud-aerosol interactions, drizzle formation and precipitation are poorly understood and represent major sources of uncertainty in predictive models. The DOE ARM Facilities and other global atmospheric measurement networks provide data that ...

To ensure safe and cost-effective subsurface operations - including drilling, production, stimulation, and injection - knowledge of the state of stress is essential. Specifically, in CO2 sequestration operations, characterizing the in-situ stress state in the complex storage reservoirs and cap rocks is critical for safe storage of CO2 and minimizing of predicted potential environmental hazards rel ...

Screen-out is a costly problem in hydraulic fracturing operations for stimulation of conventional and unconventional reservoirs that could potentially lead to massive downtime and increased capital spending on a well. It can happen due to either operational reasons, such as equipment malfunction, or issues related to the formation. We believe that screen-out can be potentially diagnosed ahead of t ...

We will develop robust tools that enable fully automated crystallography experiments at synchrotron beamlines using samples at ambient temperatures and under controlled humidity conditions These tools include new equipment for sample preparation, for sample transport and for robotic sample mounting onto a beamline goniometer The proposed phase 1 project will provide robust commercializable tools a ...