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Automobiles (cars and trucks for instance) are the predominant mode of transportation in the United States. These vehicles are powered by internal combustion engines that consume fossil fuels such as gasoline. Improving the efficiency of internal combustion engines is an ongoing challenge of enormous impact to energy consumption in the world. In order to improve engine efficiency and thus fuel eco ...

Cyber hacking of critical infrastructure is a concern for our national security, especially in the power/electric utility sector where utilities loose $13.2M per attack. Given the vulnerabilities within the value-chain of electric delivery, the distribution network is an enormous blind-spot and highly susceptible to cyber intrusion. This project looks to address this issue, as sought by the DoE, b ...

Rural areas in the United States have under-developed solar power capabilities relative to urban areas due to challenges matching energy demand centers with underutilized land and consequent cost challenges related to smaller installations that lack economies of scale. This project addresses these problems by proposing solar installations that operate synergistically with livestock production oper ...

The primary challenges for creating renewable fuels are the ability to process inexpensive non-food feedstocks into biofuels that meet all quality specification, perform indistinguishably from petroleum-based fuels and are compatible with current infrastructure.Our Phase I project demonstrated the feasibility of producing biofuels from waste greases using a novel hydrothermal, continuous-flow cata ...

In topic 11.b, Dispatchable Geothermal Operations, DOE seeks to enable more widespread deployment of geothermal as a dispatchable energy source.TerraCOH’s CO2 Plume Geothermal (CPG™) and Earth Battery™ technologies are ideally suited to meet DOE’s needs.Conventional geothermal power technology has generally been limited to use as a baseload power source, but with increasing penetration of ...

This proposal would develop the next generation of interconnects and assembly technology by making use of Quilt Packing® (QP) interconnects for the integration of semiconductor chips to extend systems into the third dimension. Quilt Packaging is a unique and versatile edge- interconnect technology that utilizes “nodule” structures extending out from the vertical facets along the edges of QP-p ...

This project will develop an efficient and unique numerical modeling tool for engineering an Enhanced Geothermal System (EGS) that incorporates both the capability of modeling thermo-hydro-mechanical processes and explicitly representing realistic discrete fracture networks with thousands of fractures. Through transformative science and technology solutions and by improving predictive analysis, de ...

For several decades photomultiplier tubes (PMTs) have been the main technology for sensitive and low noise detection of photons in many high energy physics experiments. However, compared to solid-state photodetectors, PMTs are bulky, fragile, expensive, and need to be shielded from high magnetic fields and high pressures, which severely limit their application for future DOE projects. Hence, there ...

As magnetically confined plasmas progress towards ignition and very long pulse experiments, the physics of the pedestal and diverter regions have become increasingly important. Measurements of electron density, electron temperature, fluctuation levels, impurity content in the plasma edge, and heat loads on plasma facing components in the diverter are readily obtained with a variety of diagnostics. ...

This proposal addresses a pressing need in the detector development community within experimental High Energy Physics (HEP), namely the ability to produce high density interconnect detectors that can survive the environments of the modern and future experiments. The HEP community has been involved in the development of highly segmented and miniaturized detection elements ever since silicon strip d ...