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Millions of dollars are spent every year in generating the tons of data that are necessary for addressing nuclear physics grand challenge problems at DOE facilities- Due to inherent technical and financial limitations at the “last- mile” of the data delivery pipeline, only a small fraction of these expensive Peta bytes of data is available for immediate access by end-users at any given time- T ...

The chemical industry is seeking new domestic feedstocks that are independent of imported oil- Waste CO2 is an abundant and low-cost domestic source of carbon for making chemicals but there is a need for new technologies to cost-effectively capture and convert CO2 into useful materials- The objective of this project will be to develop an economically viable process that converts waste CO2 from sou ...

As the United States aging fleet of nuclear reactors approach the end other their lifetimes, a new generation of nuclear reactors (Generation IV) are being developed to ensure national energy security without emissions or pollutants as a byproduct- However, there are many technological hurdles associated with the extreme corrosive environments required by many of the reactor designs- This presents ...

For the foreseeable future, the Nation’s energy demand will continue to come largely from indigenous fossil energy resources and hydrocarbon fuels- Specifically waste coal plus other opportunity fuels need to be utilized as a feedstock to eliminate a waste stream and optimized to maximize energy yield and cleanly minimize pollutant emissions- Modular equipment is needed for installation in coal ...

Scintillating plastic optical fibers have increasingly been used as radiation detectors in nuclear and high energy physics research since they were first made in 1965- It is proposed to make fibers which are at least a factor of 2 brighter and thereby improve detection efficiency, spatial resolution and energy resolution- When radiation strikes existing plastic scintillator only the singlet excite ...

microwave power sources (such as klystrons) offering an increased efficiency (80% or above) are needed for various applications- Of a particular interest is a source at 952-6 MHz delivering 50kW (continuous) CW for the RF systems for ion acceleration in the Energy Electron Ion Collider EIC being developed at Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility- A novel tube (klystron) concept with effic ...

A positron production target design is required to convert 100 kW or more of electron beam average power to produce positrons with good beam quality and possibly high polarization- Conventional high power positron targets usually rely on mechanically rotating the target to distribute the heat load- Mechanical complications for a rotating target include limited cooling water flow, vibration, eddy c ...

Through use excess or off-peak solar and wind electric power our integrated process will enable conversion of CO2 and H2O into drop-in liquid fuel products while exceeding DOE cost and CO2 efficiency goals; this excess power would otherwise result in power curtailment or waste- A major challenge for any process employing variably generation power is its intermittent nature- Wind is much more abund ...

Use of our advanced adsorption technology with newly developed sorbents has the potential to disrupt ethylene manufacturing, reducing significantly the manufacturing energy requirements by replacing current state of the art cryogenic ethylene separation and purification with our sorption technology- Implementation of a two-stage module can achieve 99-5%, or better, pure ethylene from a mixed hydro ...

The number of air travelers is expected to grow an annual 3-7% rate and double in the next 20 years, which means 7-2 billion passengers will make use of airport facilities in 2035- Current airport infrastructures are not able to cope with this growth, and concourse expansions are increasingly difficult due to political, economic and environmental costs- A solution that seeks a better use of existi ...