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According to the Environmental Protection Agency, federal, state and local governments and private industry will spend billions of dollars annually over the next several decades to clean up groundwater sites contaminated with hazardous waste and petroleum products from a variety of sources. As many as 350,000 contaminated sites, including many sites operated by DOE, could require cleanup over the ...

Shape analysis of pulses collected from arrays of fast particle detectors used in nuclear physics experiments requires data processing systems with fast (>500 Ms/s) sampling rates, in order to preserve the pulse shape information. Existing systems rely on multi-channel analog-to-digital converters with a single-in/single-out architecture, 8-12 bit accuracy, sampling rate below 250MS/s, low compon ...

Current ultra high­speed networks carry massive aggregate data ¿ows that must be monitored and pro­cessed to detect and counteract intrusions. The problem is further compounded by the sheer number and complexity of attacks. As a result, the challenges of intrusion detection in ultra-high-­speed networks are outstripping our ability to de­tect, track, fuse, and interpret them. This project ...

Emerging distributed science applications are expected to generate petabytes of data that must be transferred to geographically distributed tera-scale computing facilities. Ultra-high bandwidth will be needed to achieve this transfer. While the bandwidth is available in network link technology, transport architectural inefficiencies severely limit the throughput attainable over such links. This ...

The number of genes in the genome of higher organisms is relatively small; however, the protein complexity arising from these genes has been shown to be much higher. In part, this is due to alternative splice variants that are created during the processing of gene transcripts. The formation of gene splice variants has implications for human disease (for example, in cancer susceptibility) and als ...

The conversion of corn and other biomass to fuel grade ethanol not only would reduce U.S. dependence on foreign energy sources but also would be a major industrial application for agricultural products. However, the process of drying the ethanol to fuel grade consumes significant amounts of energy, incurring costs that continue to increase as cost of natural gas increases. This project will deve ...

The need for natural gas continues to grow, and recent increases in petroleum prices have been paralleled by large increases in the price of natural gas. However, natural gas at the source often has high concentrations of carbon dioxide and hydrogen sulfide, which must be removed. Although existing commercial polymeric membranes (e.g. cellulose acetate and polysulfone) do a good job of sweetenin ...

The DOE¿s Office of Fusion Energy Sciences has initiated the development of high-density, high-mach-number plasma jets for a variety of critical fusion applications, including fueling, driving rotation, and disruption mitigation in magnetic fusion devices. A numerical tool, that can comprehend and optimize the plasma in the plasma accelerator gun, is critically required to support this research. ...

The proposed International Linear Collider (ILC), a tool for future high energy physics research, places unprecedented demands on the high-power radio frequency (RF) system used to drive the accelerator structures. Even small improvements in system cost, power efficiency, or reliability could lead to dramatic cost savings over the life of such a collider facility. This project will design an in ...

The design of advanced accelerator components increasingly relies upon sophisticated electromagnetic field software tools, and new tools have been developed that provide the designer with exceptional capabilities. However, utilizing the electromagnetic field information in particle optics codes remains a cumbersome task, and a reliable and accurate method of creating particle optics transfer maps ...