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C55-01b-270667-AbstractThe world has started to transition to using hybrid-energy systems. As this transition progresses, many companies have started to re-purpose existing, aging assets. This re-purposing of aging assets can be prominently seen in the areas of biofuels processing and in hydrogen and carbon dioxide transmission pipelines. A core issue with repurposing aging assets lies in the ofte ...

Air quality data from top-of-the-line platforms, such as satellites, are difficult to obtain without a high- level of technical knowledge. For this reason, local air quality patterns and trends are often inaccessible to disadvantaged communities (DACs). Many technologies that will be used for deep decarbonization of industrial and power facilities have the added co-benefit of reducing non-CO2 poll ...

C53-22c-271119Meeting climate-stabilizing energy transition goals requires using hybrid-energy CO2 capture systems like Direct Air Capture (DAC) to remove billions of tonnes of CO2 from the atmosphere. Deploying this capacity will be difficult because it is complex and energy intensive infrastructure, and there must also be buy- in from communities living in locations best suited for it. The chall ...

C47-20a-271162Next generation molten salt reactor systems require the development of scalable processes to apply bimetallic structures of corrosion-resistant materials onto boiler and pressure vessels. This will improve the corrosion resistance, reliability, and lifetime of components in liquid-fuel and liquid-cooled reactors. Molten salts enable economical operation due to higher temperatures (>6 ...

C53-02a-271265Efficiently parallelizing algebraic solvers such as PETSc would vastly improve the performance of many critical scientific end applications. The major challenge in harnessing GPU systems for such algebraic solvers is simultaneously using all hardware resources via an optimized MPI environment, specifically instruction scheduling (i.e., kernel launches), computation, and communication ...

C47-31d-271361Nuclear physics has a need for new enabling materials and technologies for next-generation detectors at DOE particle accelerator research facilities. Improvements are needed in high-performance scintillator materials for detecting and counting charged particles in real-time over a wide range of energies and beam intensities. Integrated Sensors, LLC has demonstrated two new types of h ...

Need: Safe, efficient nuclear power is a zero-carbon energy source. Small, modular Molten salt reactors are being commercially developed by a number of companies that can resolve much of the nuclear waste (by high burn-up and burning waste fuels), proliferation (use thorium or natural uranium), and safety (not pressurized, not susceptible to reaction with air, fail-safe failure modes) issues preve ...

Statement of the problem being addressed: The notable increase in the global average surface temperature relative to pre-industrial levels has motivated enhanced efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Although emissions of both carbon dioxide and methane have contributed to the problem, emissions of methane are especially concerning due to their much larger global warming potential. Therefore ...

Deployment of wind turbines with longer blades and high hub heights is a critical path towards improving the economics of wind energy. These large wind turbines use carbon fiber composites in order to improve performance and reduce total mass, ultimately lowering the cost of wind energy. Despite these potential benefits, the poor recyclability of carbon fiber composites as well the high environmen ...

Emissions of carbon dioxide from burning of fossil fuels and industrial processes has wide-spread public effects, leading to global climate change and acidification of the oceans. Climate change in turn increases the occurrence of droughts and wildfires and influences food production, which causes human suffering. Carbon conversion and long-term storage technologies are important components of ach ...