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The goal of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Solar Energy Technologies Office (SETO) is to accelerate the development and deployment of solar technology to support an equitable transition to a decarbonized electricity system by 2035 and decarbonized energy sector by 2050. The cost of solar electricity is driven by global economies of scale, materials innovation at the cell level, and disruptive ...

To eliminate the release of ventilation air methane (VAM) associated with coal production, the core challenge is how to oxidize methane given the low concentrations. Precision Combustion, Inc. (PCI) proposes an innovative modular array combining three key elements: (1) short contact time, low thermal mass reactor design to achieve maximal total conversion in a small volume, (2) catalyst formulati ...

Biomimetic CO2 to Fuel Enabled by Scalable Catalyst Development and Synthetic Electrochemistry Methane is a primary source of national energy, often in the form of liquid natural gas (LNG), accounting for up to 30% of all energy produced in the United States. Further, LNG boasts a number of benefits over other chemical energy storage methods: it has a higher volumetric energy density than alternat ...

Proton exchange membrane electrolyzers (PEMs) are an integral technology for driving the transition to a renewable energy economy. For water splitting and the production of green hydrogen, PEMs are the industry standard due to their relatively high efficiency and flexible operating conditions. Water splitting PEMs operate under acidic conditions, and typically rely on Pt catalysts at the cathode w ...

Approximately 21 billion barrels of produced water are generated each year in the United States. A lot of produced waters contain significant concentrations of sodium, magnesium, calcium, and other cations. A sufficient treatment will not only harvest the metals, but also provide freshwater for irrigation, municipal demands, mining, livestock, and manufacturing. The currently mature technologies f ...

In order to accelerate widespread electric vehicle adoption, improving battery energy densities, charge rates, manufacturing costs, and safety is imperative. Herein, we propose a scalable manufacturing process to improve LIB cell design using 3-D electrode architectures which will minimize inactive material (30% decrease) leading to a 15% increase in cell energy density (330 Wh/kg) and a 10% decre ...

This project will develop and prototype a new class of lightweight, high-performance wave energy converters for short-duration deployment and installation in smaller-scale applications. It is anticipated that the size of the wave energy converter will be in meter or submeter scale, the weight is in kilogram level or less, while the output power will be 5~10 W/m3 or 50~100 mW/kg. The novel energy h ...

Distributed acoustic sensing (DAS) systems produce data at very high throughputs (~100 MB/s) that quickly accumulate to unmanageable data volumes (~10 TB/day). These data throughputs lead to difficulty in establishing a distributed seismic observatory integrating DAS nodes at the network edge because data cannot be transferred and interpreted in a real-time fashion. The problem can be addressed by ...

C56-37a-272608More stringent challenges, as required by future high energy physics experiments, require higher radiation tolerance and higher granularity to the silicon detectors. Recently developed precision timing detector technology based on silicon Low Gain Avalanche Diode (LGAD) although exhibits excellent timing performance, cannot attain 10 µm position resolution needed for advanced 4D det ...

First-generation noble gas detection systems currently used by the International Monitoring System (IMS) operate in a similar manner: air is pumped into an activated carbon sieve bed where the radioxenon is isolated. Contaminants are removed, including water, carbon dioxide, and dust. As a result, the sorbent has concentrated xenon, both naturally abundant isotopes and radioactive isotopes, from t ...